Curt Doolittle

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  • Nassim. 1) is there any need for more precise rule than exponential dist? 2) Doe

    Nassim. 1) is there any need for more precise rule than exponential dist? 2) Does the data exist to test for a more precise rule?

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-07 15:14:25 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/850366157592952832

    Reply addressees: @nntaleb

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/849692842398281729

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    @nntaleb

    Probability Du Jour:
    The border between thin tails & fat tails resides in exponential distribution.
    Maximum entropy under MAD constraint. https://t.co/cAXWRqVzS9

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/849692842398281729

  • (from elsewhere) I’m trying to decide whether ridicule, rallying, and shaming by

    (from elsewhere)

    I’m trying to decide whether ridicule, rallying, and shaming by the peasantry, is more desirable under the rubric of ‘mystery cult’, or ‘autistics’, or ‘red flag program’. All of which have been levied at me.

    The utility of all three of these criticisms is that they obviate the speaker from creating an argument. I love this kind of criticism because it just makes my point for me: they have nothing left to argue with – I have won.

    I know how hard it is to have your favorite cult (rothbardian libertinism) cast in the sewer of pseudoscience and pseudo-rationalism, and as a follower to feel betrayed and misled. So I understand the need for psychological defense mechanisms.

    But in the end. Neocon = Rothbardian = Marxist. It’s all a false promise of salvation through separatism, and failure to pay the high cost of defense. And we can see how well that has worked out for the jews and gypsies….

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-07 08:32:00 UTC

  • ( Is the purpose of this group to give voice to left wing memes as a half hearte

    ( Is the purpose of this group to give voice to left wing memes as a half hearted attempt to counter right wing memes? I mean. I don’t allow them on my page. If you can’t make a rational argument, then you’re not holding a discussion. )

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-05 21:02:00 UTC

  • Thoughts?

    Thoughts?

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-31 16:03:00 UTC

  • EXERCISE: Fiction vs Fictionalism What separates fiction from fictionalism? Fict

    EXERCISE: Fiction vs Fictionalism

    What separates fiction from fictionalism?

    Fictionalism is constructed with at least these techniques:

    1 – pseudo-science,

    2 – pseudo-rationalism,

    3 – pseudo-history, and

    4 – pseudo-mythology(Religion).

    And each technique includes three tools:

    a) a lie

    b) an obscurantism

    c) a conflation

    Can you give an example of each technique, and the tools used to construct it?

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-27 12:04:00 UTC

  • Western Ying vs Yang = Fiction vs Law

    (profoundly important)FICTION ( possibility – opportunity – productivity ) VS LAW ( decidability – limits – parasitism ) Of the following, which is fiction, which is law? A) Golden Rule : Do unto others as you would have done unto you. B) Silver Rule: Do not unto others as you would not have done unto you. Fiction and Law serve as the western equivalent of Ying and Yang. But our western model innovates, and Ying and Yang stagnates. PETERSON: FICTIONALISM (SELLING), DOOLITTLE: LAW (TELLING)

  • Western Ying vs Yang = Fiction vs Law

    (profoundly important)FICTION ( possibility – opportunity – productivity ) VS LAW ( decidability – limits – parasitism ) Of the following, which is fiction, which is law? A) Golden Rule : Do unto others as you would have done unto you. B) Silver Rule: Do not unto others as you would not have done unto you. Fiction and Law serve as the western equivalent of Ying and Yang. But our western model innovates, and Ying and Yang stagnates. PETERSON: FICTIONALISM (SELLING), DOOLITTLE: LAW (TELLING)

  • How Do We Communicate Ideas with Fiction but Not Falsehood?

    HOW DO WE COMMUNICATE IDEAS WITH FICTION BUT NOT FALSELY? William Butchman—“We have a universe of potentiality available to us. Is potential which has not yet been called into being ‘fiction’, is it ‘false’?”— Curt Doolittle No. We can state it falsely, but we cannot state that which we can envision is yet false. no. To respect natural law we must merely not make false claims. This is the beauty of fiction (literature) vs fictionalism (religion, pseudo-rationalism, pseudoscience – the discourse of conflation) Fiction makes no truth claims, it merely spreads ideas. If it makes truth claims, (particularly ‘smear campaigns against past idols) then that is not fiction but fictionalization – conflation)

  • How Do We Communicate Ideas with Fiction but Not Falsehood?

    HOW DO WE COMMUNICATE IDEAS WITH FICTION BUT NOT FALSELY? William Butchman—“We have a universe of potentiality available to us. Is potential which has not yet been called into being ‘fiction’, is it ‘false’?”— Curt Doolittle No. We can state it falsely, but we cannot state that which we can envision is yet false. no. To respect natural law we must merely not make false claims. This is the beauty of fiction (literature) vs fictionalism (religion, pseudo-rationalism, pseudoscience – the discourse of conflation) Fiction makes no truth claims, it merely spreads ideas. If it makes truth claims, (particularly ‘smear campaigns against past idols) then that is not fiction but fictionalization – conflation)

  • Q&A: “What’s Your ‘Official’ Opinion on Trump?”

    ‘OFFICIAL’ OPINION ON TRUMP: AGREE WITH CRITICISMS? —“Do these opinions of trump resonate with any opinion at the Propertarian Institute?”— No. because I know from close personal experience what kind of shitty assholes the financial capitalist class is, what kind of shitty assholes the legal capitalist class is, how shitty and corrupt the regulatory politicians are, how dishonest, and corrupt, the construction and maintenance organizations are, how shitty and corrupt and criminal the union organizations are. And I know how hard it is to employ ‘low level workers’ in a ‘high precision customer service environment’. And Trump grew up negotiation between people who are shitty lying scumbags for a living, while employing large numbers of low level workers in high precision customer service environments and then selling that stuff to people who have enough money to pay for it – usually the upper middle class around the world. Trump is doing what he has done his whole life. He is just letting the public see what that game is really all about: We are surrounded by lying thieving scumbags that prey on the middle and working classes, who are the only morally naive people moral enough in the world to fall for such criminality. Yeah and that’s my professional opinion. I have interacted with a large number of people in one capacity or another, usually as analyst giving an opinion on some sort of technical or marketing strategy given the financial resources available. My experience is that people outside of the middle and working classes are pretty much shit human beings burning down the western commons in the equivalent of a crash and grab that has lasted a century.