Curt Doolittle

Form: Definition

  • DEFINITION Proof: A test of existential possibility using a sequence of operatio

    DEFINITION

    Proof: A test of existential possibility using a sequence of operations that demonstrate that a statement can be constructed from first principles.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-24 08:21:00 UTC

  • RIGHTS TO PROPERTY: Transitus: “Transit:Crossing (without stopping): a border-pa

    RIGHTS TO PROPERTY:

    Transitus: “Transit:Crossing (without stopping): a border-path”

    Usus: “Use: Transit and stopping: a park”

    Fructus: “Fruits: harvesting berries in a park, hunting game, or planting or grazing”

    Mancipio: “Transfer or sale of rights”

    Abusus: “Consume or Destroy: tearing down, mining, polluting.”

    Obstructio: “Obstructing view, air, water

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-22 14:12:00 UTC

  • TRIGGER WORD: “RIGHTS” “We have the right to…” Translated: “We do not violate

    TRIGGER WORD: “RIGHTS”

    “We have the right to…”

    Translated:

    “We do not violate the principle of cooperation by doing ….”

    It’s almost always false. Cooperation isn’t a question of equality, but one of incentives. If you engage in parasitism, I don’t have the incentive to cooperate with you.

    The first question of politics is: Why don’t I kill you and take your stuff? So when you say “We have the right to…”, you’re saying this won’t make you prefer to kill me and take my stuff.

    And that means that whenever the statement ‘if I have the right to…” occurs, the question is only whether the speaker is engaging in parasitism or not. If he is engaging in parasitism then he doesn’t have a right whatsoever.

    So claiming one has a right is a contrary indicator – almost always. You do not possess a right, you possess a prohibition. You are prohibited from parasitism. The other fellow has demanded a right of non-parasitism in order to rationally cooperate with you.

    So when you speak honestly, you find that the response is quite different.

    All talk of ‘rights’ is a means of deceit.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-22 01:59:00 UTC

  • Operation (action): Recipe for existential action (name) Empirical (observable)

    Operation (action): Recipe for existential action (name)

    Empirical (observable) : one’s perception of change in state (description)

    Theoretical (deductive, hypothetical, and unobservable) : allegory (general rule) independent of context

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-20 05:33:00 UTC

  • Capitalism and the Capitalist System?

    [A]ll Social, economic and political orders require: 

    (1) The suppression of predation and parasitism,
    (2) the establishment of an allocation of property,
    (3) a construction of a means of resolving disputes, and;
    (4) a means by of organization of production.

    Totalitarian: It can be organized involuntarily: the elimination of private property, planning and slavery in many of its forms.

    Capitalist: It can be organized voluntarily by the use of private property, money, and prices.

    Mixed: It can be organized by a mix of private property, money, and prices, and the totalitarian construction of commons. (Which is what we do today). 


    A market forms under any condition in which goods are constructed for the purpose of exchange. 

  • Capitalism and the Capitalist System?

    [A]ll Social, economic and political orders require: 

    (1) The suppression of predation and parasitism,
    (2) the establishment of an allocation of property,
    (3) a construction of a means of resolving disputes, and;
    (4) a means by of organization of production.

    Totalitarian: It can be organized involuntarily: the elimination of private property, planning and slavery in many of its forms.

    Capitalist: It can be organized voluntarily by the use of private property, money, and prices.

    Mixed: It can be organized by a mix of private property, money, and prices, and the totalitarian construction of commons. (Which is what we do today). 


    A market forms under any condition in which goods are constructed for the purpose of exchange. 

  • suppression of predation and parasitism, the establishment of an allocation of p

    http://www.quora.com/What-is-capitalism-and-capitalist-system-market/answer/Curt-Doolittle?share=1The suppression of predation and parasitism, the establishment of an allocation of property, a means of resolving disputes, and the organization of production must be constructed.

    Totalitarian: It can be organized involuntarily: the elimination of private property, planning and slavery in many of its forms.

    Capitalist: It can be organized voluntarily by the use of private property, money, and prices.

    Mixed: It can be organized by a mix of private property, money, and prices, and the totalitarian construction of commons. (Which is what we do today).

    A market forms under any condition in which goods are constructed for the purpose of exchange.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-10 11:01:00 UTC

  • ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION SUBTLETIES ‘The’ is pronounced in two ways, depending upon

    ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION SUBTLETIES

    ‘The’ is pronounced in two ways, depending upon the first sound of the word that follows it. It is pronounced as /tha/ when followed by a consonant sound, and as /thi/ when followed by a vowel sound. This is a rule of English pronunciation.

    Eg: He got into the(/tha/) car.

    He got into the(/thi/) auto.

    This is a wonderful example of how pronunciation evolves to eliminate the work involved in phonetic transitions. Russian is so hard for me because the pronunciation is in the top of the throat rather than the top of the mouth and center of the tongue, so strange Russian consonant transitions are comfortable for Russian speakers, and almost impossible to comprehend for english speakers. We use our tongues to transition between phonemes in precisely the opposite way.

    All of us will sound chinese in the end. That’s the laziest set of transitions we have evolved so far. From clicks and clucks to singing in 200k years.

    (first paragraph from Quora, for my ukrainian friends)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-10 06:05:00 UTC

  • AVOIDING THE PSEUDOSCIENTIFIC: NORMS The term is “Norm”. The basis of all moral

    AVOIDING THE PSEUDOSCIENTIFIC: NORMS

    The term is “Norm”.

    The basis of all moral intuition is the evolutionary requirement that cooperation is only beneficial if it is non-parasitic and mutually productive. So we prohibit free riding (parasitism) on the one hand, and mandate payment of insurance (charity) on the other, and within very near kin, we sacrifice.

    From this simple and necessary instinct, all moral (cooperative) norms evolve.

    Manners (signaling potential), ethics (interpersonal prohibitions), moral (anonymous prohibitions), Myths and Rituals (intergenerational transmission) evolve.

    Meanwhile we compete using signals. If we are successful in universalism we develop castes, if we are successful in familialism we develop families. In no case do we develop equality except within caste or family.

    We evolved cooperation. So cooperation must be more valuable than predation. It is only more valuable (for the strong) if it is non-parasitic and productive. For the weak, parasitism is a necessary evolutionary strategy. But status signals can be bought cheaply in times of asymmetric prosperity. And we can see the 20th century as an experiment in signals.

    Painful. Rational. Scientific.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-10 03:58:00 UTC

  • What Is Capitalism?

    The suppression of predation and parasitism, the establishment of an allocation of property,  a means of resolving disputes, and the organization of production must be constructed.
    1. Totalitarian: It can be organized involuntarily: the elimination of private property, planning and slavery in many of its forms.
    2. Capitalist: It can be organized voluntarily by the use of private property, money, and prices.
    3. Mixed: It can be organized by a mix of private property, money, and prices, and the totalitarian construction of commons.  (Which is what we do today). 
    A market forms under any condition in which goods are constructed for the purpose of exchange.

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-capitalism