Curt Doolittle

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  • TRUTH AS NORMATIVE CAPITAL – CULTURAL DIFFERENCES Truth necessary for correspond

    TRUTH AS NORMATIVE CAPITAL – CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

    Truth necessary for correspondence (Europe) (universal high trust) (commitment)

    Truth necessary for fidelity (Judaism) (ingroup high – outgroup low) (pragmatic)

    Truth necessary for conformity (China) (low trust) (avoidance)

    Truth as unhelpful (everywhere else) (no trust) (ignorance)

    FIVE BOOKS

    Gotta read five books:

    1) Keegan’s A History Of Warfare

    2) Armstrong’s A History Of God

    3) Mallory’s In Search of Indo-Europeans

    4) Fukuyama’s Origins of Political Order

    5) Fukuyama’s Trust.

    Most people won’t understand the importance of the History of God (cross cultural study of the development of gods) but it’s just as important as Keegan’s history of warfare

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-15 01:40:00 UTC

  • WORK IN PROGRESS Operationalism (Action – or whatever I must end up calling it).

    WORK IN PROGRESS

    Operationalism (Action – or whatever I must end up calling it).

    Testimony (Truth) (“I can demonstrate the ethical right to make this claim”)

    – Proof (causality) Testimony to proof of operation (existence and observability).

    – Proof (internal consistency ) Testimony to consistency

    – Proof (external correspondence) Testimony to correspondence and falsification.

    – Proof (perfect parsimony) Testimony to perfect parsimony at given precision.

    Propertarianism (Moral Realism)

    — man, cooperation, morality, property

    Applications to Common Problems (Propertarianism)

    Sociology (the behavior of individuals in groups)

    Post Monopoly (Democratic) Political Institutions.

    – Voluntary membership, Reciprocal Insurance, Right of Secession

    – Militia, Regiments, Elected Generals, Private Weapons Production, Nuclear Arms

    – Constitution, Property, Common Law, Judges, Courts, (Academy/Association), Insurers. (Anarchic Government)

    – Contractual Production of Necessary Commons.

    —- Infrastructure

    – Contractual Production of Preferential Commons.

    —- Insurance

    – Contractual Production of Luxury Commons

    —- Arts and Monuments

    Aristocratic Egalitarianism (reciprocal insurance of property rights)

    🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-14 05:39:00 UTC

  • Martial Aristocratic Egalitarianism (Monarchy and Feudalism) Producer Aristocrat

    Martial Aristocratic Egalitarianism (Monarchy and Feudalism)

    Producer Aristocratic Egalitarianism (Classical Liberal Democracy)

    Consumer Equalitarianism (Mixed Economy Democracy)

    Contractual? Voluntary? Aristocratic Egalitarianism ( Voluntary Contractualism?)

    Not able to get my arms around how to describe this particular evolutionary vector.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-13 07:56:00 UTC

  • Aristocracy : A Kinship of Property Rights

    ARISTOCRATIC EGALITARIAN LIBERTARIANISM A kinship of property rights. The initiatic brotherhood of warriors. The cult of egalitarian sovereignty The origins of western exceptionalism. The only possible means of possessing liberty. The solution to the problem of creating extra-familial trust, is achieved by the extension of property rights, in exchange for the reciprocal guarantee of defending each other’s property. I didn’t invent it. I just wrote it down. For the first time in 4000 years. (And it wasn’t easy either.)

  • Aristocracy : A Kinship of Property Rights

    ARISTOCRATIC EGALITARIAN LIBERTARIANISM A kinship of property rights. The initiatic brotherhood of warriors. The cult of egalitarian sovereignty The origins of western exceptionalism. The only possible means of possessing liberty. The solution to the problem of creating extra-familial trust, is achieved by the extension of property rights, in exchange for the reciprocal guarantee of defending each other’s property. I didn’t invent it. I just wrote it down. For the first time in 4000 years. (And it wasn’t easy either.)

  • Knowledge of change in state (awareness) Knowledge of correlation between cause

    Knowledge of change in state (awareness)

    Knowledge of correlation between cause and effect (knowledge of use) (hypothesis)

    Knowledge of causality (knowledge of construction) (truth)

    Knowledge of Increases in precision (increase in parsimony and explanatory power)

    Knowledge of the limit of marginal indifference ( ultimate truth ) The point at which the question must change in order for the theory to change.

    I am aware of it.

    It’s over there somewhere.

    I can reach it today

    I’s N paces away

    It’s X feet away.

    It’s Y * 10^Zth mm away.

    It’s L light seconds away.

    Precision is determined by context, and so the theory above, of the location of whatever I am aware of, is never false.

    Achilles always passes the tortoise (marginal indifference)

    You always can get close enough moving halfway across the couch, to obtain a kiss. (marginal indifference)

    Buridan’s Ass always can make a choice (and so can we – information is always available).

    No case of infinity exists (only cases of arbitrary precision)

    Not enough ‘marginal indifference’ in math.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-29 08:42:00 UTC

  • PHILOSOPHY AND IDEOLOGY: TRUTH IS ENOUGH. The Job of Scientists, Philosophers, I

    PHILOSOPHY AND IDEOLOGY: TRUTH IS ENOUGH.

    The Job of Scientists, Philosophers, Ideologists, Activists and Priests.

    I. Science-> II. Philosophy-> III. Ideology -> IV. Religion

    Science is a purely descriptive discipline. Philosophy consists of constructing true statements that assist us in ethical action. ideology consists of inspirations to act to obtain power, and requires only the minimum truth necessary to obtain power. Religion consists of rituals and myths that bind us together pre-cognitively, and in religion, true propositions are unnecessary – and largely undesirable.

    Therefore, truth content of each discipline: science, philosophy, ideology and religion – varies significantly.

    ***Now, if we merely sought discretionary power as do most, then it wouldn’t matter if our arguments were constructed scientifically. But since we are proposing an order that lacks discretionary authority, and where discretionary authority is prohibited, and where economic prosperity is the promised common good, then ideas and actions must correspond with objective reality rather than subjective command, law must be rationally calculable, and truth (correspondence with reality) is required of us. Truth is the only ‘rule’ that we can ‘rule’ by.***

    This does put us at an ideological disadvantage: our messages are harder to convey. We promise no free rides. Offer no eternity. No certainty.

    But that said, for some minority of us, truth, liberty, prosperity, and reality are desirable enough for us to act, and act with the threat of violence, to obtain them.

    Our ideology then, consists of the truth, the promise of liberty and prosperity, the organized application of violence to obtain them, and the moral justification whereby moral men feel that their actions are morally sanctioned.

    Therefore, the job of a philosopher, like myself, is to produce the truth. The job of ideologists, is to provide moral sanction. The job of activists, is to distribute moral sanctions. The job of shamans is to bind us together through shared experience, ritual and myth.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Philosophy of Aristocracy

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine (writing from L’viv)

    🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-28 04:35:00 UTC

  • THE CONSPIRACY OF GENETIC WHISPERS 1) A cacophony of genetic whispers. 2) Intuit

    THE CONSPIRACY OF GENETIC WHISPERS

    1) A cacophony of genetic whispers.

    2) Intuition as propagandist for genes.

    3) Consciousness as the victim of propaganda.

    4) Reason and will as advocate for consciousness.

    5) Communication as negotiation for our genes.

    6) Negotiation as opportunistic cooperation in support of our genes.

    You know, academia, religion, media and advertising work by framing, then overloading: by saturating your environment with messages designed to produce a behavioral end. If there is enough saturation in the environment it becomes almost impossible to ignore the stimuli. We have difficulty compartmentalizing environmental stimuli. (Although smarter people much less so than average and below average people – in fact, smarter people have a hard time sensing saturation, and merely take advantage of the circumstances.) So framing and overloading overwhelm our skepticism and reason – especially when we perceive it as advantageous to make use of the falsehood rather than to determine whether it is true or not.

    Libertarians are interesting because we are the most moral people – the people least likely to impose costs upon others. That morality is our genes whispering to us too.

    But like all other victims of overloading by genetic whispers, we fallaciously assume that it is rational for others to adopt our genetic strategy. It is not. It is rational for others to adopt THEIR genetic strategy.

    What we have right, is that all have equal chances of pursuing their genetic strategy without harming the genetic strategy of others, if we cooperate on means, even though we cannot cooperate on ends. This will suppress the least fit genes, and expand the better, if not most fit genes (excellence doesn’t really spread as much as ‘good’.) At present we are murdering (genocide) the better genes to fund the worst genes, in the greatest consumption of genetic capital in human history.

    This cannot continue. And if it does, it will turn out that our genes were wrong.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-26 03:32:00 UTC

  • DISCIPLINES ORDERED BY CONTENT (interesting) 1) Imagination 2) Language 3) Logic

    DISCIPLINES ORDERED BY CONTENT

    (interesting)

    1) Imagination

    2) Language

    3) Logic

    4) Economics (ethics/cooperation)

    5) Physics (science)

    6) Engineering

    7) Computer science

    8) Mathematics

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-19 06:28:00 UTC

  • Different Disciplines Ordered by Their Content

    (interesting) 1) Imagination 2) Language 3) Logic 4) Economics (ethics/cooperation) 5) Physics (science) 6) Engineering 7) Computer science 8) Mathematics