Curt Doolittle

Form: Mini Essay

  • On external correspondence. You can justify anything. that’s why we have numerol

    On external correspondence. You can justify anything. that’s why we have numerology, astrology, monotheistic religions, marxism, keynesian ‘cherry picking’ economics, libertarian ethics, and the whole corpus of postmodernism. All the logics do not allow you to prove anything. But they do allow you to use strict grammars to FALSIFY arguments. And praxeology does not allow you to prove anything, but it does allow you to falsify arguments. The reason we use empiricism (observation) is to falsify our reasoning and force us to find alternative solutions. We tend to say an argument is true because we have falsified it and some particular variation of that argument survives. So we use that argument and claim it’s true (as far as we know). When we give others that justification we cannot claim it is true, only that we cannot falsify it and that they are welcome to try. If enough people try and cannot, the it is very hard to argue with it. However, for that to be true, we must state it inoperational language, which is also a strictly empirical grammar(and semantics) – and empirical for the same reason: to defeat the tendency of the human mind to engage in willful ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, obscurantism, fictionalism, and deceit. This is a very hard thing to understand for some reason, most likely because we think and act in moral language and moral langauge tends to be justificationary. (Unscientific) because moral codes tend to vary from very reciprocal to very NOT reciprocal)

  • THE FIFTH SECRET OF PROPERTARIANISM: WORDS THAT I USE MEAN WHAT I INTEND THEM TO

    THE FIFTH SECRET OF PROPERTARIANISM: WORDS THAT I USE MEAN WHAT I INTEND THEM TO MEAN.

    Yes I must create new terms, redefine existing terms, or clarify existing terms, or use different phrasing to prevent the falsehoods in accumulated semantics, whether fictional(fictionalisms), common(ordinary), professional (disciplinary).

    Moreover, in order to unite Religion, Philosophy (what remains of it), Ethics and Morality, Law, Economics, Science, and Logic, into a single commensurable language that gives no discipline room for deception, I must correct the many ‘fictionalisms’ that plague each of the disciplines no matter how long their traditions.

    So I choose terms from each that are the most common, and you will find that I choose economics, cognitive science, and physics wherever possible, because they are the youngest languages with the least …. traditional falsehoods. I use mathematics but I use it in operational language. Most of our intellectual history is heavily biased by fictionalisms (storytelling analogies with pretense of science, logic, or reason.)

    Words mean what I choose them to mean, and my meanings are less subject to falsehood, since that is the purpose of the deflationary grammar (and semantics) of operationism, acquisitionism, propertarianism.

    TO DEFEAT ABRAHAMISM: THE INVENTION OF LYING.

    And I have an 80K word glossary to explain them.

    Cheers

    Source date (UTC): 2018-01-28 11:36:00 UTC

  • The Fifth Secret Of Propertarianism: Words That I Use Mean What I Intend Them To Mean.

    Yes I must create new terms, redefine existing terms, or clarify existing terms, or use different phrasing to prevent the falsehoods in accumulated semantics, whether fictional(fictionalisms), common(ordinary), professional (disciplinary). Moreover, in order to unite Religion, Philosophy (what remains of it), Ethics and Morality, Law, Economics, Science, and Logic, into a single commensurable language that gives no discipline room for deception, I must correct the many ‘fictionalisms’ that plague each of the disciplines no matter how long their traditions. So I choose terms from each that are the most common, and you will find that I choose economics, cognitive science, and physics wherever possible, because they are the youngest languages with the least …. traditional falsehoods. I use mathematics but I use it in operational language. Most of our intellectual history is heavily biased by fictionalisms (storytelling analogies with pretense of science, logic, or reason.) Words mean what I choose them to mean, and my meanings are less subject to falsehood, since that is the purpose of the deflationary grammar (and semantics) of operationism, acquisitionism, propertarianism. TO DEFEAT ABRAHAMISM: THE INVENTION OF LYING. And I have an 80K word glossary to explain them. Cheers

  • The Fifth Secret Of Propertarianism: Words That I Use Mean What I Intend Them To Mean.

    Yes I must create new terms, redefine existing terms, or clarify existing terms, or use different phrasing to prevent the falsehoods in accumulated semantics, whether fictional(fictionalisms), common(ordinary), professional (disciplinary). Moreover, in order to unite Religion, Philosophy (what remains of it), Ethics and Morality, Law, Economics, Science, and Logic, into a single commensurable language that gives no discipline room for deception, I must correct the many ‘fictionalisms’ that plague each of the disciplines no matter how long their traditions. So I choose terms from each that are the most common, and you will find that I choose economics, cognitive science, and physics wherever possible, because they are the youngest languages with the least …. traditional falsehoods. I use mathematics but I use it in operational language. Most of our intellectual history is heavily biased by fictionalisms (storytelling analogies with pretense of science, logic, or reason.) Words mean what I choose them to mean, and my meanings are less subject to falsehood, since that is the purpose of the deflationary grammar (and semantics) of operationism, acquisitionism, propertarianism. TO DEFEAT ABRAHAMISM: THE INVENTION OF LYING. And I have an 80K word glossary to explain them. Cheers

  • THE FOURTH SECRET OF LEARNING PROPERTARIANISM. Reciprocity is the only rational,

    THE FOURTH SECRET OF LEARNING PROPERTARIANISM.

    Reciprocity is the only rational, ethical, moral, and evolutionarily possible, means of cooperation over the long term. Or put more honestly, it is the only means by which cooperation is preferable to predation, parasitism, enslavement.

    Where reciprocity refers to productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary exchange, free of imposition of costs upon the investments of others by externality.

    The more reciprocity, the faster cooperation, the greater the production, the more time we compress through cooperative production, the cheaper is every calorie we need not expend, and every calorie we consume.

    In other words, we make everything cheaper by removing obstacles to cooperation. This form of reasoning is called ‘via-negativa’, and is the same reasoning common law of tort. But the opposite of justificationism (excuse making).

    That is contrary to all human intuition, but it how science works: that which is false or ungood, is certain, but that which is not false and not bad, is just preference.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-01-28 11:25:00 UTC

  • The Fourth Secret Of Learning Propertarianism.

    Reciprocity is the only rational, ethical, moral, and evolutionarily possible, means of cooperation over the long term. Or put more honestly, it is the only means by which cooperation is preferable to predation, parasitism, enslavement. Where reciprocity refers to productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary exchange, free of imposition of costs upon the investments of others by externality. The more reciprocity, the faster cooperation, the greater the production, the more time we compress through cooperative production, the cheaper is every calorie we need not expend, and every calorie we consume. In other words, we make everything cheaper by removing obstacles to cooperation. This form of reasoning is called ‘via-negativa’, and is the same reasoning common law of tort. But the opposite of justificationism (excuse making). That is contrary to all human intuition, but it how science works: that which is false or ungood, is certain, but that which is not false and not bad, is just preference.

  • Why Has There Been So Much Debate Recently About Race And Iq?

    Because only Europeans and East Asians have reduced the size of their underclasses sufficiently to produce advanced civilizations – and even so, the east asians still fell prey to bureaucracy and stagnation in the absence of rule of law(empiricism), markets(empiricism), and science(empiricism) in addition to the chinese predilection for political lying (deny and delay), predilection for lying in order to preserve face, and the endemic familial corruption they still practice, and catastrophic legal system.

    The rest of the planet has not reduced the size of their underclasses.

    The size of your underclass determines group hostile to your race, subrace, cult(religion), tribe, and clan.

    The reason being that behavioral norms are determined by the median of the population.

    We rarely see criticism of the immigration of cognitive elites – all of whom practice some form of aristotelianism(empiricism), and out of necessity, adhere to rule of tort law. (although there are exceptions).

    So westerners have spent thousands of years ridding ourselves of underclass, and downward pressure from the middle classes, the young and the old to fill underclass roles, yet most ‘immigrants’ are from the underclasses, and violate our middle class norms, traditions, values – and worse, they vote for the democrats AGAINST our middle class norms, traditions, and values.

    The left has achieved through underclass immigration and the destruction of the family what it could not achieve through their ideas.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-has-there-been-so-much-debate-recently-about-race-and-IQ

  • What Kind Of Advice Would You Give To A 24 Year-old Male?

    1) When you are young you can do something that people who are older cant: work incessantly on very little income. The truth is though, that older startup guys do better at it. We just are more interested in young guys. but they have to give away a lot of the company because they can’t work like you can. So use it.

    2) Ideas are not scarce. Customers are scarce. whenever I start a business I know who I will sell the product or service to, and who I will sell the company to. I am usually wrong about the specifics but the general idea works out.

    3) Create something that a bigger company wants to buy from you, by collecting customers that they cant reach.

    4) Get into a house with other guys who do the same work, and save some money.

    5) Work at a larger company for one year so you understand the value of process. Then move to a startup so that you understand how to actually get something done – most people in large companies don’t actually do anything of much value. Everyone in a small company does.

    6) Never expand early. It is an excuse to focus on internal organizational development rather than customers, service and product. Humans possess this cognitive bias. And it is a startup killer.

    7) There isn’t anyone enough smarter than you to create a marginal difference. Don’t expect there to be. And they won’t come work for you anyway. That means you have to solve a lot of problems on your own. That desperate need to understand is what makes one an entrepreneur.

    8) take the first two basic accounting classes if you haven’t. That’s all you’ll ever need to know. but you need to know it.

    9) Your job is to sell. Sell ideas. Sell products. Sell Services. If you are doing something someone else can because it gives you a sense of accomplishment then you’re wasting your time. Nothing that produces significant returns has a short production cycle, and sales are frustrating. So spend your time on the long term, hard stuff, and get the admin folks to do the rituals.

    10) Good salespeople won’t work for you. But you can buy good marketing. The number of companies that think 300K of ad budget is out of the question yet blow twice that on non-performing people never ceases to amaze me.

    I tried for 10. Hopefully there is a gem in there somewhere.

    https://www.quora.com/What-kind-of-advice-would-you-give-to-a-24-year-old-male

  • If Quora No Longer Exists, What Website That Is Very Similar To Quora You Would Use Instead?

    Quora consists very heavily of ‘fake’ questions produced by bots, low wage workers, ‘students’ (too lazy to use google), and volunteers. Originally it was closer to Medium today. There were good people here, and it was worth answering questions – a bit like Medium is today.

    Quora does not create a ‘wikipedia’ competitor which retains good answers as a form of capital. (See Stack Overflow and it’s related sites instead).

    Wikipedia is about as biased and cultish as an organization can get. I don’t bother editing pages any longer.

    There are many startups trying to solve this problem (over-democratization produces decreasing returns on intellectual investment.) or stated otherwise, the bigger you get the dumber you need to be.

    I think most of us are choosing Medium right now – but as I understand it they’re a hobby business that is under threat. Their pricing is out of line.

    I do most of my work on facebook, and have thousands of followers there.

    Unfortunately there is no good solution YET. Although people are working on them.

    https://www.quora.com/If-Quora-no-longer-exists-what-website-that-is-very-similar-to-Quora-you-would-use-instead

  • Is Being Racist Edgy?

    You know, I have built a reputation out of answering the uncomfortable questions using the language of economics to explain human evolution, development, behavior, and thought.

    And providing uncomfortable but true information is always ‘edgy’. And working on ‘edgy’ subjects draws attention.

    Despite writing rather prolifically against racism (particularly racism against whites), I have ended up as a bit of a …. spokesman on the matter, quite by accident.

    And honestly it’s not something I care for.

    The truth is I hate the subject, I don’t care if I’m edgy, I just want to know the truth. And the truth is that every single claim of racism is just a postmodern form of ridicule, shaming, gossiping and rallying.

    The fact is that steriotypes are the most accurate measure in the social sciences.

    So what will we do to change the fact that stereotypes are profoundly accurate descriptions of behavioral distributions among people with similar features. The reason is very simple: the scale of the underclasses of warmer climates that did not undergo manorialism is larger than the scale of the underclasses of the colder climates that went through manorialism (west europe, and east asia).

    Agrarianism was a genetic meat grinder. It made a profound difference. And the plague, and hte fact that europeans hanged so significatn proportions of the population every year, and the east asians (chinese) used the axe with equal profligacy let the middle classes move downward and create higher median distributions of abilities and behaviors.

    https://www.quora.com/Is-being-racist-edgy