Curt Doolittle

Form: Mini Essay

  • THE SIMPLE VERSION OF METAPHYSICS AS ADDICTION —“you don’t believe metaphysics

    THE SIMPLE VERSION OF METAPHYSICS AS ADDICTION

    —“you don’t believe metaphysics is anything other than imagination”—

    So you didn’t understand then. You’re another one of the mouth breathers who say “calculus is hard so it must be false”.

    Here in simple terms for simple folks:

    1. Language consists of measurements organized into transactions and sets of transactions. We cannot speak in anything other than measurements of sense-perception-auto-association.

    2. We refer to each internally consistent system of measurement as “metaphysics” if we are using platonic (imaginary) vocabulary, and “paradigm” if we are using the descriptive (existential) language paradigm.

    3. There is only one most parsimonious system of measurement of physical, natural, and evolutionary laws of action. That language is what we call the formal(logical), physical(non-sentient), and social (sentient, action) sciences.

    4. All other systems of measurement vary from that most parsimonious paradigm. Each variation from that most parsimonious paradigm produces costly consequences for the individual, those who associate with the individual, the society that is affected by them, and the polity that includes them, and under some conditions the world.

    5. People have explicable incentives for a) varying from that most parsimonious paradigm. b) choosing a fictional narrative (parables, stories, networks of parables and stories (mythologies), as means of decision (choice) making. c) habituating the degree of separation of conflation the parsimonious paradigm (real unknown), experienced (real known) from the fictional paradigm (imagined).

    7. Our brains develop our minds in a predictable hierarchy from the sensory to the physical to the interpersonal to the rational, and the impulsive, normative, and considered, at varying rates. The degree of ‘friction’ due to developmental failures in our ability to learn each step in that hierarchy determines the degree of complexity we use for our ‘resting state’. Some of us more sensory, some more physical, some more imaginary, some more social, and some more rational resting states (our normal). And we are more or less able to express agency, or vulnerable to sedation givne our lack of agency dependent upon that resting state.

    6. We are all subject to involuntary defect (psychosis, schizophrenia), voluntary defect (sedatives, psychedelics stimulants) invent and construct addiction to because cognitive agency is costly in the face of uncertainty, amplified by one’s failures to reduce costs of calculating successful actions, amplified by one’s failures of prediction of outcomes, amplified by one’s competitive failures in the familial, social, economic and political marketplaces, and by amplified others rejection and low status in those marketplaces. The solution of course is to lower one’s demands to suit one’s market value (epicureanism), and to learn to insulate one’s self from market pressures (stoicism, buddhism, christianity). The problem being that most of us maintain biological demand for social interaction and membership so that we seek means of sedation by escape, psychological construction, social construction, or changing our social circumstance, or improving our agency and market value so that we are more competitive.

    6. We differ in cognitive ability, meaning we differ in the dependence upon a) physical sense-perception and auto association b) intuitionistic auto-associative valuation and subsequent emotional response c) prediction of social (empathic/short/interpersonal) and physical (physical/long/political) permutations, d) regulation of those predictions by direction of attention to differing predicted experiences and states, e) agency in selecting which of those regulated predictions we will permute upon in order to produce a desired outcome, f) skill in calculating (imputing, calculating and computing) the means of achieving those ends. Ergo we differ in demand for mindfulness (relief from competitive pressures), and our means of obtaining mindfulness.

    7. The difference in individual family, class, and group ability is not superiority but accumulated defects due to genetic load due to survival of defects under monogamy, familism, pastoralism, agrarianism, industrialism, and lack of selection pressures, combined competing with those who continuously suppress genetic load by continuous selection pressure, which produces evolution of neotonic maturity, rational agency, and calculative ability as a consequence.

    8. We have however discovered the genes for improving heart, muscle, lungs, and remove defects from liver, kidney, and stomach. So it is possible in the future to both add innovations and remove defects. Even if man’s continues dysgenic reproduction means we cannot control negative selection pressures (increasing genetic load) we can still speciate with elites by selective breeding (classes) and by selective genetic manipulation (positive eugenics).

    That’s the simple version in bullet points for simple folks.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-03 12:22:00 UTC

  • THE CURRENT TRANSFORMATION OF FORMAL SCIENCES IN THE CONTEXT OF HISTORY The Four

    THE CURRENT TRANSFORMATION OF FORMAL SCIENCES IN THE CONTEXT OF HISTORY

    The Four Color Problem is an example of the limits of mathematics. A proof is just a test of internal consistency within the limits of mathematics. The point of mandelbrot’s work, and now wolframs, is that we are past the point of linguistic mathematics (‘statistics and sets’) and we are in the domain of computable mathematics(‘operations’).

    Or put differently – we have finally discovered the foundations of mathematics, and are in the process of falsifying the flawed project of the set foundations of mathematics and restoring operational foundations of mathematics.

    Human logical facility >

    … Operations >

    … … Counting -> Arithmetic -> Accounting

    …………………..-> Computations -> Symmetries(equilibria)

    …………………..-> Sets -> Mathematics -> Symmetries

    Or in historical terms we have restored the aristotelian-achimedian basis of mathematics and science that was lost and overtaken by greek platonism and middle eastern verbalism and pseudoscience in mathematics, that was restored to geometry by Descartes and Empiricism by the British, and undermined by the Jewish logicians and mathematicians and german and jewish philosophers, but is in the process of being restored by the present generation which is jewish-german-british-american.

    I’m kind of … sad, wolfram beat me to it. Because I would have loved to work on the problem if I had another lifetime. But I’m happy to stick with the social sciences and explain why he’s right. And to provide perhaps a better explanation of why he’s right.

    We are seeing the end of the ‘jewish century of pseudoscience’ and my argument that we have paid the cost of jewish integration into aristotelianism like we have paid the french, german, russian ,and chinese costs. But that the problem is the jews were among us rather than in their own country, so their undermining was more successful than the french, german, russian, and chinese.

    The question is whether we can correct course in the social sciences before immigration destroys our civilization and it’s ability to restore course in aristotelian-archimedian european realism, naturalism, operationalism, consistency, correspondence, sovereignty, rational choice, reciprocity, and markets in everything as the spectrum of near perfect correspondence with the universe in its physical, natural, and evolutionary laws.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-03 10:09:00 UTC

  • WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT REVOLUTIONS 1) I learned from napoleon that the best genera

    WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT REVOLUTIONS

    1) I learned from napoleon that the best general does not plan for a single strategy, but plans a strategy of seizing opportunity.

    2) I learned from Mao that the countryside can always and everywhere defeat the cities.

    3) I learned from ISIS to move move move and resource resource, and profit profit profit, because, concentration of force is difficult, and it deprives opposition of resources, and it motivates the men.

    4) I learned from the arab spring how fast revolutions spread to people with similar anxieties, and that we are in the same condition.

    5) I learned from the IRA that you always win with time, especially if you use both political and military actions.

    6) I learned from the past twenty years that americans cannot fight and win a fourth generation war.

    7) I learned from the civil rights movement that the government caves to demands rather than face chaos.

    8) I learned from the the LA, Baltimore, and KC riots – and charlottesville – that the police are only symbolically powerful – and only for as long as they aren’t outmaneuvered.

    9) I learned from strategic research that the USA cannot survive power outages and road checkpoints for more than a few weeks.

    10) I learned from the data that there are very few people capable of resisting a movement that originates in multiple places at once.

    11) I learned from the past four years that the deep state will not ‘go’ without ‘a fight’.

    12) I learned from the data that a constitutional solution will be supported by the majority of men in the military especially if accompanied by the right incentives.

    13) I learned from the evidence that left and right might align on taking out the financial sector, and gutting the state if we both agree to separate.

    14) I learned from the past thirty years that the left in all its forms is confident it can win and must be stopped permanently.

    15) I learned that it is relatively easy to restore our place in human history and lift our people again in to a renaissance if we win.

    I learned a lot more too….

    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-02 14:46:00 UTC

  • WHEN WE PERCEIVE SOMETHING WRONG – WE’RE RIGHT (The Economics of Communication)

    WHEN WE PERCEIVE SOMETHING WRONG – WE’RE RIGHT

    (The Economics of Communication)

    To profit we must exchange.

    To trade (communication) requires we discover a medium of exchange.

    To exchange we must discover coincidences of wants using the available medium of exchange.

    All language consists of measurements. Measurements within paradigms. Paradigms that serve interests. Interests that are achievable with abilities. And values that measure the degree of interests.

    So we are trying to achieve commensurability so that we can measure the value of the exchange.

    When we are frustrated it means we are seeking cooperation (exchange, trade, returns) where the transaction costs are higher than the rewards.

    When we are not frustrated it means we have divided the labor of discovering coincidences of wants, commensurable mediums of exchanges, given abilities, values, and paradigms.

    Are we frustrated that they don’t think like us or that the cost of thinking like them, or reducing our thoughts to their level of precision is too costly?

    Are we frustrated by those cost or are we frustrated that that we no longer function in an aristocratic hierarchy because under democracy our words despite our differences in ability are mispriced?

    If we were still ruled by Nindsors, Nevilles, Fitzroys, Marlboroughs, Curzons rather than the parliament of fools would we have this problem? If the anglo-dutch aristocracy and the german labor majority were not undermined by underclass immigration? If our society was organized multi dimensionally so that the martial hierarchy, the commercial hierarchy, and the informational hierarchy were mediated by the law preventing ‘putting fingers on the scale’, would this be the case?

    So my view is the over-commercialization of society, and the over-politicization of society that were the result of the windfalls of the industrial revolution, and the (((world wars))) we tolerated by not nationalizing banking, and redistributing the windfalls of interests on state credit, as we all sought to seek commercial success where the balance of military-aristocratic, comercial-noble, and intellectual-arts and knowledge, and priestly-service could compete on their own terms rather than unviersal commercialization (privatization).

    We are at the end of the windfall. And we must learn, that like the athenian discovery of the silver mine, the roman conquest of the celts, the spanish conquest of the mezzo americas, that the industrial revolution created the ability to devote our energies increasingly away from food production to innovation. And that we followed the folly of the athenians, romans, the spanish, into the false promise of endless growth and the abandonment of aristocratic martial discipline, in favor of commercial overconsumption.

    If something is’t computing without substantial friction than the computation system is ‘programmed’ with the incorrect incentives and resulting division of labor.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-02 11:07:00 UTC

  • THE ERRORS OF OUR THINKING AT BOTH BOTTOM AND TOP Dunning-Kruger overconfidence

    THE ERRORS OF OUR THINKING AT BOTH BOTTOM AND TOP

    Dunning-Kruger overconfidence expresses a lack of ability. However, educational overconfidence expresses a lack of skepticism. Half truths whether theological, philosophical, historical, scientific, or formal, are sources of ignorance by providing us with overconfidence.

    Mathiness has been the source of formal, philosophical, and scientific (physical and social) ignorance. Philosophical sophistry has been the source of most of the rest of pseudo intellectual ignorance. And of course theological – a monopoly conflating all the falsehoods plus false promise – is the most ignorance inducing of all.

    It appears that there are a very small number of fundamental laws that can be taught to everyone at the cost of suppression of the reproduction of the underclasses, and the suppression of the parasitism of the elite classes.

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    edit:

    Paragraph one – low end of the spectrum

    Paragraph two – high end of the spectrum

    Paragraph three – curing the problems of the high AND low ends of the spectrum

    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-02 10:19:00 UTC

  • THE TRANSFORMATION OF MATHEMATICS I’ve come to understand that my long standing

    THE TRANSFORMATION OF MATHEMATICS

    I’ve come to understand that my long standing frustration with mathematics and the failure of mathematics in the 20th is that mathematics is fundamentally statistical and that the sequence counting-accounting(operational measurement), programming (operational change), and mathematics (commensurability by scale independence) reverses our understanding of mathematics as the primary logic.

    As human knowledge and the scale of our inquiry increased, the ‘hand calculation’ of statistical measures (math) failed.

    The evidence that computers provided with computation was predictable, but the insights we had from mandelbrot’s fractals, conway’s ‘life’, 3d cellular automata (advanced ‘life’), and wolfram’s current physics project, is that the statistical-probabilistic revolution, and the subsequent wave-form revolution together resulting in the half-truth, half-catastrophes of keynes’ pseudo-economics and bohr’s pseudo-probability of wave forms, and the loss of a century in economics and physics for having failed to invest in the ‘right’ mathematics and apply operational on the fundamental, and limit statistics to the expression and measurement of aggregates. When the underlying problem was that these questions cannot be solved by the use of statistics (aggregates) and only by discovery of their underlying operations.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-02 09:51:00 UTC

  • TACTICS Washington DC caved to the civil rights movement in just three weeks. As

    TACTICS

    Washington DC caved to the civil rights movement in just three weeks. As soon as fires started. Why? Control is an illusion. A tiny number of people create the pretense. The state cannot tolerate the illusion of loss of control. This is why Baltimore and Kansas City and such were let go: the force necessary would result in the loss of political legitimacy and the evidence of the illusion of institutional control.

    FAILED TACTICS

    For those of us who remember the marxists and civil rights movements of the sixties and seventies, bombings were a daily if not weekly occurrence. We are reminded of a few right wing activists frequently, but we are never reminded of the fact that marxists of all sorts and the civil rights movement was a continuous campaign of ATTENTION-SEEKING violence, with as many as five bombings per day.

    Civil terrorism doesn’t work. It never works. Revolts against the institutions do work. Revolts with SPECIFIC DEMANDS work – if those demands are JUST. Self determination is just.

    FROM TIME MAGAZINE

    —“Nearly a dozen radical underground groups, dimly remembered outfits such as the Weather Underground, the New World Liberation Front and the Symbionese Liberation Army, set off hundreds of bombs during that tumultuous decade—so many, in fact, that many people all but accepted them as a part of daily life. As one woman sniffed to a New York Post reporter after an attack by a Puerto Rican independence group in 1977: “Oh, another bombing? Who is it this time?’”

    The underground groups of the 1970s were a kind of grungy, bell-bottomed coda to the protests of the 1960s; their members were mostly onetime student leftists who refused to give up the utopian dreams of 1968. While little remembered today, there was a time during the early 1970s when the U.S. government—the Nixon Administration—considered these groups a genuine threat to national security. Alarmed by a series of Weatherman attacks, Nixon told J. Edgar Hoover during a June 1970 Oval Office meeting that “revolutionary terror” represented the single greatest threat to American society. Hoover promised to do what he could, which wasn’t much.

    As paranoid as Nixon could be, it was hard to argue with his line of thinking: Bombing attacks were growing by the day. They had begun as crude, simple things, mostly Molotov cocktails college radicals hurled toward ROTC buildings during the late 1960s. The first actual bombing campaign, the work of a group of New York City radicals led by a militant named Sam Melville, featured attacks on a dozen buildings around Manhattan between August and November 1969, when Melville and most of his pals were arrested.

    Weather’s attacks began three months later, and by 1971 protest bombings had spread across the country. In a single eighteen-month period during 1971 and 1972 the FBI counted an amazing 2,500 bombings on American soil, almost five a day. Because they were typically detonated late at night, few caused serious injury, leading to a kind of grudging public acceptance. The deadliest underground attack of the decade, in fact, killed all of four people, in the January 1975 bombing of a Wall Street restaurant. News accounts rarely carried any expression or indication of public outrage.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-01 21:59:00 UTC

  • WHY DO GOVERNMENTS AND COURTS AND MARKETS AND MILITIAS EXIST? (b/c Multipliers)

    WHY DO GOVERNMENTS AND COURTS AND MARKETS AND MILITIAS EXIST? (b/c Multipliers)

    Government creates a market for central corruption in exchange for suppression of local corruption, with the dividend for the citizenry produced by reduced transaction costs and increased economic velocity, producing reduced costs. That’s what government does. That’s why we have it. That’s why it’s required.

    Conversely, the court, using law of tort, creates a market for the suppression of market corruption and government corruption as long as law is equally applied to all – except the judge of last resort (Monarch) in extreme circumstances.

    So governments use force to collect taxes, to pay for the suppression of local free riding, corruption, and crime, and external military, economic, informational, and demographic warfare.

    The only fault in this system is lack of universal standing in the prosecution of the members of the government, the court, and their agents.

    Which is why we must have the militia to demand that universal standing, and the enforcement of our law of tort.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-01 20:30:00 UTC

  • Sometimes parents must be patient with their children; spouses must be patient w

    Sometimes parents must be patient with their children; spouses must be patient with their mates; teachers must be patient with students; executives must be patient with their employees. Because we all must ‘own’ our decisions and our status-self-image system, as well as our cognitive investment in current network of ideas, plans, and habits resists pressure to adapt – except at our own speed and on our own terms. So people must own their adaptation – because they must weigh the costs and benefits and come to own their choices. Sometimes it takes minutes, sometimes hours, sometimes months, and sometimes years. So plant seeds rather than persuade, convince, or coerce. And leave the door open. And resist the call of pride in saying “I told you so”. Instead deliver the reward of “I hoped you would.”

    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-01 12:12:00 UTC

  • ALTERNATIVE GOVERNMENT I know I’ve focused on markets and decentralization but I

    ALTERNATIVE GOVERNMENT

    I know I’ve focused on markets and decentralization but I haven’t taken it as far as the ancients and medievals.

    During the pre-state, ancient and medieval periods, our tri-functionalism manifested in interesting divisions of labor.

    In the ancient period the temples and priests served as banks. Education was a private and commercial activity. The military ruled, and the law regulated military, commerce, and religion.

    In the middle ages, the church collected tithes, the state collected taxes. the commercial sector collected profits. They law was a profession of varying degrees of respect – with judges always due respect.

    In the modern period we have collapsed church, education, commerce, government, and military into a single political body: the government – A Monopoly.

    But the temporal division of labor between church-education-family, commerce-banking-finance, and miltary-strategy-infrastructure, as well as the capital each measures is different.

    What about three separately funded? 1) the military, judiciary, and sheriffs from taxes, 2) The treasury and infrastructure from income on investments; and 3) social services from ‘tithes’ (taxes). This would assist in de-politicizing the polity.

    ( I had tried very hard to discover a means to return the family: banking, education, and healthcare to the church but fundamentalists have made this impossible. )

    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-01 10:30:00 UTC