Curt Doolittle

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  • DO YOU SEE THE EVOLUTION OF LYING? THE WAR ON TRUTH. 1) Pre-weasel Words : Mysti

    DO YOU SEE THE EVOLUTION OF LYING? THE WAR ON TRUTH.

    1) Pre-weasel Words : Mysticism and Scriptural “Quotation” of Prophets (vs common sense and natural religion:myth)

    2) Weasel Words: Weasel Words and Reasonableness (vs reason and philosophy)

    3) Advanced weasel words: Rationalism and Philosophy (vs natural law and law)

    4) Very and advanced weasel words: Pseudoscience and Scientism (vs science)

    5) Abandoning Pretense: Political Correctness and Postmodernism (democracy)

    OMFG. Thousands of years of lying. LYING IS A GREAT STRATEGY.

    You do know that the Romans considered the Greeks immoral liars, right?

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-18 10:22:00 UTC

  • THE SECRETS OF THE WEST!!! WHY WE WERE FASTER THAN THE REST. THE SECRETS OF THE

    THE SECRETS OF THE WEST!!! WHY WE WERE FASTER THAN THE REST.

    THE SECRETS OF THE WEST

    1) Heroism-Excellence, Sovereignty-Property-VoluntaryExchange.

    2) Truth, Reason, Rationalism, Science.

    3) Testimony, Jury, Common Law, Contract,

    4) Money, Saving, Interest, Accounting

    5) Market for Production and Consumption (investment in personal consumables), Market for Commons (Investment in group non-consumables).

    THE RESULT IS A SUPERCOMPUTER

    ***Voluntary cooperation as a means of distributed calculation of correspondence with reality in real time.***

    ***A human computing network whose test of equality is productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary transfer, free of externalities to the contrary, and whose single rule of computability is non-parasitism: objective morality.***

    (Note that It’s HEROISM not INDIVIDUALISM. (dammit!) “individualism is a free riding scam attempting to equate excellence with the ordinary. it’s a form of communism. You must choose to pay the cost of heroism, we grant you permission for individualism.)

    THE CONSEQUENCES

    From this we obtain the post-cooperative technologies of

    Ratio-empiricism or “science” – (epistemology)

    engineering, technology – (production)

    the market for goods and services (consumption)

    the market for commons (investment)

    Medicine, (maintenance)

    THE WEST WAS *FASTER* THAN THE REST

    This is the west and why we evolved faster than the rest: everything we do is a truth test. No other culture succeeded because they never could develop trust sufficiently to construct perpetual demand for truth.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-18 06:00:00 UTC

  • THE RECIPE OF OUR DESTRUCTION? 1) WEASEL WORDS + REASONABLENESS -> 2) PSEUDOSCIE

    THE RECIPE OF OUR DESTRUCTION?

    1) WEASEL WORDS + REASONABLENESS -> 2) PSEUDOSCIENCE + RATIONALISM -> 3) MYTH + MYSTICISM -> 4) LYING + PROPAGANDA.

    Not sure why I didn’t think of this earlier but Weasel Words and Reasonableness, and Pseudoscience and Rationalism make use of the same basic technology for lying.

    What technology: Analogy, Loading, Framing, Overloading, and Suggestion.

    This is how they hacked our altruism.

    Damn.

    ( I really did it. That’s it. )

    Isn’t it how women talk to each other? Through indirection and suggestion? Whereas men talk in facts? So am I right that the jews and the church and now the academy and state weaponized the female communication strategy of superior empathy as a means of suggestion?

    That’s why they distribute it through women. They’re more open to suggestion than men. OMG.

    Yep.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-17 07:33:00 UTC

  • 1 – We have evolved instincts that inform is about the demands of reality. 2 – W

    1 – We have evolved instincts that inform is about the demands of reality.

    2 – We vary in those instincts because of our class and gender demands of reality.

    3 – Like the physics of the natural world, all of our instincts are reducible to problems of existence, information, and ability.

    4 – Our instincts have an evolutionary purpose.

    5 – We do not have instincts for arbitrary reasons.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-15 07:29:00 UTC

  • Western Philosophical Hierarchy

    ===METAPHYSICAL=== ........Heroism (demonstrated excellence) ........Science (truth) ...... ........Naturalism (reality) ....... Natural Law (sovereignty) ===POLITICAL=== ........Consent, Contract, Republican(Meritocratic) Commons ........Testimony, Common Law, Judge, Jury ===MORAL==== ........Christianity (love/trust bias) ===SPIRITUAL/AESTHETIC=== .......Love of nature (animism/paganism) ===PERSONAL=== Buddhism..........Stoicism Yoga..............sport Nurturing.........Craftsmanship. Spiritual ........Political (mental?) Experiential......Actionable Feminine ........ Masculine I haven’t got the metaphysical right because they overlap and it is how they overlap that makes the west unique.

  • Western Philosophical Hierarchy

    ===METAPHYSICAL=== ........Heroism (demonstrated excellence) ........Science (truth) ...... ........Naturalism (reality) ....... Natural Law (sovereignty) ===POLITICAL=== ........Consent, Contract, Republican(Meritocratic) Commons ........Testimony, Common Law, Judge, Jury ===MORAL==== ........Christianity (love/trust bias) ===SPIRITUAL/AESTHETIC=== .......Love of nature (animism/paganism) ===PERSONAL=== Buddhism..........Stoicism Yoga..............sport Nurturing.........Craftsmanship. Spiritual ........Political (mental?) Experiential......Actionable Feminine ........ Masculine I haven’t got the metaphysical right because they overlap and it is how they overlap that makes the west unique.

  • WESTERN PHILOSOPHICAL HIERARCHY ===METAPHYSICAL=== ……..Heroism (demonstrated

    WESTERN PHILOSOPHICAL HIERARCHY

    ===METAPHYSICAL===

    ……..Heroism (demonstrated excellence)

    ……..Science (truth) ……

    ……..Naturalism (reality)

    ……. Natural Law (sovereignty)

    ===POLITICAL===

    ……..Consent, Contract, Republican(Meritocratic) Commons

    ……..Testimony, Common Law, Judge, Jury

    ===MORAL====

    ……..Christianity (love/trust bias)

    ===SPIRITUAL/AESTHETIC===

    …….Love of nature (animism/paganism)

    ===PERSONAL===

    Buddhism………Stoicism

    Yoga……………..Sport

    Nurturing……….Craftsmanship.

    Spiritual ………..Political

    Experiential……Actionable

    Feminine …….. Masculine

    I haven’t got the metaphysical right because they overlap and it is how they overlap that makes the west unique.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-13 01:34:00 UTC

  • So we have: Observation (experience) Honest Speech (untested) Truthful Testimony

    So we have:

    Observation (experience)

    Honest Speech (untested)

    Truthful Testimony (tested)

    Truthful Reconstruction from Testimony (confirmation)

    Survival from Criticism (truth candidate)

    Distribution (publication invitation to test)

    Survival from group criticism (heavily tested truth candidate.)

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-11 09:03:00 UTC

  • Very Short Introduction to the Epistemology of Testimonialism

    [B]RIEF DISCUSSION OF THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF TESTIMONIALISM 1) All non-tautological statements are incomplete, and as such no non-trivial premises are complete. Therefore all statements consist of nothing more than theoretical promises contingent upon their survival of criticism. 2) We can systematically criticize each dimension of every statement for identity, internal consistency, existential possibility, external correspondence, morality, full accounting, limits and parsimony. 3) If the statement survives this (admittedly expensive) criticism, then it remains a truth candidate that we can take risks with or not as our judgement sees fit. 4) Instead of justification providing legitimacy or support, provides a discount on later warranties, not an increase in truth content. Note: This last statement kind of threw me because I wasn’t expecting to come to that kind of conclusion. So while I wish I was done with this topic, it still behooves me to work on this problem. I still move it forward a bit at a time. The further I move it the less questions are left open and the more survivable the theory is from refutation. The hardest problem of all is parsimony, and as far as I know the only way to achieve this is through publication and social criticism. Thanks for following me on the journey.

  • Very Short Introduction to the Epistemology of Testimonialism

    [B]RIEF DISCUSSION OF THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF TESTIMONIALISM 1) All non-tautological statements are incomplete, and as such no non-trivial premises are complete. Therefore all statements consist of nothing more than theoretical promises contingent upon their survival of criticism. 2) We can systematically criticize each dimension of every statement for identity, internal consistency, existential possibility, external correspondence, morality, full accounting, limits and parsimony. 3) If the statement survives this (admittedly expensive) criticism, then it remains a truth candidate that we can take risks with or not as our judgement sees fit. 4) Instead of justification providing legitimacy or support, provides a discount on later warranties, not an increase in truth content. Note: This last statement kind of threw me because I wasn’t expecting to come to that kind of conclusion. So while I wish I was done with this topic, it still behooves me to work on this problem. I still move it forward a bit at a time. The further I move it the less questions are left open and the more survivable the theory is from refutation. The hardest problem of all is parsimony, and as far as I know the only way to achieve this is through publication and social criticism. Thanks for following me on the journey.