Curt Doolittle

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  • Funny thought. Teach programming first. Then logic. Then grammar. Then rhetoric.

    Funny thought.

    Teach programming first.

    Then logic.

    Then grammar.

    Then rhetoric.

    How would that play?

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-16 11:55:00 UTC

  • Will someone explain to me why alcohol eliminates my asthma?

    Will someone explain to me why alcohol eliminates my asthma?

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-15 16:52:00 UTC

  • Is it me, or is it truth that libertines are more dishonest in debate than conse

    Is it me, or is it truth that libertines are more dishonest in debate than conservatives, but less dishonest than progressives?

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-13 12:39:00 UTC

  • ROUGH PERCENTAGE OF CASES OVERTURNED? For example. With Courts of Appeals, it’s

    ROUGH PERCENTAGE OF CASES OVERTURNED?

    For example.

    With Courts of Appeals, it’s not so important that judges be approved so much as that judges are prohibited from judging after some (small) number of losses of appeal. I don’t like entry requirements, but exit prohibitions are epistemologically sound. You don’t want to be a judge on a matter that will be overturned.

    If I remember correctly, about 10% of cases are not settled and must be adjudicated. In very round numbers something like 40% of trial cases go to appeal, and something like 15% of them are overturned. So of 1000 cases, 100 cases that reach judgement, 40 go to appeal, and 6 are overturned. There are a lot of variables in there and this overstates it a bit, but for the purposes of a broad overview of the american legal process thats good enough. So if you choose to go to court, at the other end of 1000 cases, 6 get overturned. that’s half a percent.

    I would guess that if we made the law much clearer, that the number would drop to the statistically insignificant.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-11 10:29:00 UTC

  • CURT: WHAT DO YOU CALL SOMETHING YOU WISH TO OBSERVE? (apriorism does not convey

    CURT: WHAT DO YOU CALL SOMETHING YOU WISH TO OBSERVE?

    (apriorism does not convey truth, only a discount on testing)

    I would call it either existence or reality prior to my observation of it. and the mixture of existence or reality and my memory and imagination after I observe it. Hence the necessity to use discipline by performing due diligence that what I record or testify is a ‘fact’ (because it has survived testing) rather rather than a statement of error, bias, wishful thinking or deception.

    Now as a trite but possibly helpful example, lets take your use of ‘fact’ to assume that nature provides truth rather than you provide truth. Nature/Reality exists. It can’t promise. It can’t testify. It cannot create truth propositions. It can’t observe. Only we can. So we create facts, and we create truthfulness, within our promise and testimony that our observations are free of error, bias, wishful thinking, and deceit. Truth exists in the correspondence between reality and description of it. But man creates the description and when he utters it he promises it is free of error, bias, wishful thinking, and deceit.

    So in your case you did not test that your use of the term ‘fact’ was truthful (truth by necessity) rather than merely honest (truth by analogy). You may be honest but you erred.

    Likewise you did not test that the conveying truth content sufficient for persuasion of others was warrantied to be truthful rather than merely honest, and attempted to use this honesty but falsehood to persuade me by an appeal to the truth or authority of this non-fact that you claimed to be a fact.

    Truth is constructed by man and it is always open to revision. Hence all knowledge is hypothetical and subject to future criticism, and no knowledge is ever persuasive in itself. It is only persuasive because of the accumulated test for falsehood that have eliminated error. And as such we must always test all deductions, inductions, abductions, and outright guesses that result from it.

    ergo, apriorism is a means of hypothesizing not of truthfulness.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-11 02:33:00 UTC

  • Can someone help me with this: Given a population of 100,000. 51% female living

    Can someone help me with this:

    Given a population of 100,000.

    51% female living to 70, 49%male living to 65.

    Evenly distributed by age.

    IQ of 80 – 120 is normally distributed

    Random Reproduction with in 15 points within 8 years difference in age.

    70% of females have 3 children on average over 12 a year period starting at the age of 18.

    Offspring regress toward the mean of the parents.

    Random 1% of males between 16 and 30 from the lowest two quintiles are lost every year to disease.

    What is the change in population and IQ distribution every century over 1000 years?

    I’d have to write a program to do this.

    Any r-nerds that help me with this?

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-10 12:14:00 UTC

  • How much trouble will I get in if I make a video on “genetic pacification”?

    How much trouble will I get in if I make a video on “genetic pacification”?

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-10 11:38:00 UTC

  • HELP? RESEARCH QUESTION: IS THERE A CONNECTION BETWEEN VERBAL INTELLIGENCE AND W

    HELP? RESEARCH QUESTION: IS THERE A CONNECTION BETWEEN VERBAL INTELLIGENCE AND WORK CAPACITY?

    I don’t know. I would say no. Is there a connection between general intelligence and work capacity? I would also say no. I would say that that work capacity limited by impulsivity and mastery of the work so that one experiences relative successes at limited cost. I cannot do anything that requires I switch frequent context for long. I cannot do anything terribly boring for long. I can however work on my favorite subjects pretty much until I drop dead from exhaustion. But my observation of people in the workplace in both white, blue collar, and labor occupations is that if people can obtain a state of mental relaxation while doing their work, they can do it forever regardless of their intelligence. Quieting the mind is extremely important. (hence my interst in stoicism and its variants), and perhaps just as importantly, ensuring we are not lonely. Which is I think the great sense of anxiety that permeates american life.

    Thanks.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-10 03:18:00 UTC

  • QUESTION: How would our lives change if pseudoscience were prohibited from the c

    QUESTION: How would our lives change if pseudoscience were prohibited from the commons?

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-07 03:13:00 UTC

  • Why is it that brutal honesty is such an effective political weapon in a democra

    Why is it that brutal honesty is such an effective political weapon in a democracy? lol It’s not the honest man. It’s all the liars that created a vacuum by disrespecting voters.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-06 09:42:00 UTC