Curt Doolittle

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  • September 20th, 2018 7:55 AM CONFLATION. WE CAN’T HELP IT. HENCE OPERATIONALISM.

    September 20th, 2018 7:55 AM CONFLATION. WE CAN’T HELP IT. HENCE OPERATIONALISM. —“Ontological confusions:
    Both children and adults tend to confuse aspects of reality
    (i.e., “core knowledge”) in systematic ways (Lindeman,
    Svedholm-Hakkinen & Lipsanen, 2015). Any category mistake
    involving property differences between animate and
    inanimate or mental and physical, as examples, constitutes
    an ontological confusion. Consider the belief that prayers
    have the capacity to heal (i.e., spiritual healing). Such
    beliefs are taken to result from conflation of mental phenomenon,which are subjective and immaterial, and physicalphenomenon, which are objective and material (Lindeman,Svedholm-Hakkinen & Lipsanen, 2015). On a dual-processview, ontological confusions constitute a failure to reflecton and inhibit such intuitive ontological confusions (Svedholm& Lindeman, 2013). Ontological confusions may also be supported by a bias toward believing the literal truth of
    statements. Thus, ontological confusions are conceptually
    related to both detection and response bias as mechanisms
    that may underlie bullshit receptivity. As such, the propensity
    to endorse ontological confusions should be linked to
    higher levels of bullshit receptivity.”—

  • September 13th, 2018 1:22 AM by Joseph Smith —“the cognitively deficient essen

    September 13th, 2018 1:22 AM by Joseph Smith

    —“the cognitively deficient essentially unionize to overrule the dictates of the market and natural law if the capable and productive are going to allow it. If we’re totally separating morality out of it and ignoring how cancerous and destructive it is for the world and humanity as a whole, they do actively profit more so by envy and its accompanying precepts than by honest effort. Many actually don’t possess the mental tools. To tell them to just be smarter/more productive would be like telling you to be taller. They’re legitimately limited by genetics, operating on the signals and incentives available to them to gather the most resources and political influence possible under their present circumstances. I used to think they were lazy…but based on all the evidence I can surmise that they’re fundamentally limited and scared, thrashing about like a drowning man for a life jacket. We allowed the course of nature to be subverted for too long, there shouldn’t be this many and we’re headed towards a market correction on that.”—-

  • September 20th, 2018 7:55 AM CONFLATION. WE CAN’T HELP IT. HENCE OPERATIONALISM.

    September 20th, 2018 7:55 AM CONFLATION. WE CAN’T HELP IT. HENCE OPERATIONALISM. —“Ontological confusions:
    Both children and adults tend to confuse aspects of reality
    (i.e., “core knowledge”) in systematic ways (Lindeman,
    Svedholm-Hakkinen & Lipsanen, 2015). Any category mistake
    involving property differences between animate and
    inanimate or mental and physical, as examples, constitutes
    an ontological confusion. Consider the belief that prayers
    have the capacity to heal (i.e., spiritual healing). Such
    beliefs are taken to result from conflation of mental phenomenon,which are subjective and immaterial, and physicalphenomenon, which are objective and material (Lindeman,Svedholm-Hakkinen & Lipsanen, 2015). On a dual-processview, ontological confusions constitute a failure to reflecton and inhibit such intuitive ontological confusions (Svedholm& Lindeman, 2013). Ontological confusions may also be supported by a bias toward believing the literal truth of
    statements. Thus, ontological confusions are conceptually
    related to both detection and response bias as mechanisms
    that may underlie bullshit receptivity. As such, the propensity
    to endorse ontological confusions should be linked to
    higher levels of bullshit receptivity.”—

  • September 13th, 2018 1:22 AM by Joseph Smith —“the cognitively deficient essen

    September 13th, 2018 1:22 AM by Joseph Smith

    —“the cognitively deficient essentially unionize to overrule the dictates of the market and natural law if the capable and productive are going to allow it. If we’re totally separating morality out of it and ignoring how cancerous and destructive it is for the world and humanity as a whole, they do actively profit more so by envy and its accompanying precepts than by honest effort. Many actually don’t possess the mental tools. To tell them to just be smarter/more productive would be like telling you to be taller. They’re legitimately limited by genetics, operating on the signals and incentives available to them to gather the most resources and political influence possible under their present circumstances. I used to think they were lazy…but based on all the evidence I can surmise that they’re fundamentally limited and scared, thrashing about like a drowning man for a life jacket. We allowed the course of nature to be subverted for too long, there shouldn’t be this many and we’re headed towards a market correction on that.”—-

  • “The cost of parasitism has been crashing for decades.”— Richard Nikoley

    —“The cost of parasitism has been crashing for decades.”— Richard Nikoley

    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-12 20:15:32 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1039970788626051072

  • “The idea of apprenticeships was admirable: for a fixed term, usually seven year

    —“The idea of apprenticeships was admirable: for a fixed term, usually seven years, a master or mistress of a trade would train a young person so that he could earn his living at that trade. The master kept the apprentice in board, lodging and clothes, but had no duty to pay him, although many did in the final years of the term, when the apprentice had learned enough to be helpful. The system applied throughout society. Prosperous merchants, goldsmiths and bankers made tidy sums from the premiums paid by the parents of hopeful apprentices. The members of the Company of Watermen and Lightermen of the River Thames, who had a monopoly of river traffic, had 2,140 apprentices in 1858. Poor masters could profit from the unpaid labour of children taken from the parish workhouse”—-

    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-12 19:28:00 UTC

  • COMPULSORY LABOR AND COMPENSATION IN ENGLAND —`The Statute of Artificers (usua

    COMPULSORY LABOR AND COMPENSATION IN ENGLAND

    —`The Statute of Artificers (usually called the Statute of Apprentices) was passed in 1563 and remained on the Statute Book until 1819; the Poor Law Act of 1601 – which provided for much else besides poor relief – remained largely operative until the 20th c. Between them, these Acts attempted `to banish idleness, to advance husbandry and to yield to the hired person, both in times of scarcity and in times of plenty, a convenient proportion of wages’. They controlled entry into the class of skilled workmen by providing a compulsory seven years’ apprenticeship; they reserved the superior trades for the sons of the better off; they assumed a universal duty to work on all the able-bodied; and empowered justices to require unemployed artificers to work in husbandry; they required permission for a workman to transfer from one employer to another; they severely restricted the freedom of movement of the poor by enabling a person without means to be removed, by order of the justices, to his original parish or last place of settlement; and they empowered justices to fix wage rates for virtually all classes of workmen.’ —-

    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-12 19:24:00 UTC

  • September 12th, 2018 6:14 PM by Skye Stewart Dig a little most lefties don’t int

    September 12th, 2018 6:14 PM by Skye Stewart

    Dig a little most lefties don’t intuitively grasp Econ 101. So rich people qualitatively are those who have taken from others. Of course, opponents, forgetting there is no ‘pure’free market, often forget many rich people have their positions due precisely to unearned political rents to some degree. So some naturally get pissed off when they see economic inequality, and are sometimes wrong in their assumptions about its causal nature, while others do not get pissed off though they should be since it was unearned, at least economically.

  • September 12th, 2018 5:19 PM by Skye Stewart [T]he french originated socialism a

    September 12th, 2018 5:19 PM by Skye Stewart [T]he french originated socialism as national socialism. Both Marx’s international communism and international socialism are, in a sense ‘national socialism’ made international. Many on the alt-right and many conservatives who want to venerate their people and provide for them, all loathe to spread the benefits too far. But it’s the same sentiments involved. 1) Conservatives ‘narrow the circle’ to nationalism. 2) Lefties just expand the circle. 3) Vegans and Jainists push the circle further to include all sentient life. In that sense the difference is only in ‘who pays and how much?’.

  • by Skye Stewart Dig a little most lefties don’t intuitively grasp Econ 101. So r

    by Skye Stewart

    Dig a little most lefties don’t intuitively grasp Econ 101. So rich people qualitatively are those who have taken from others.

    Of course, opponents, forgetting there is no “pure” free market, often forget many rich people have their positions due precisely to unearned political rents to some degree.

    So some naturally get pissed off when they see economic inequality, and are sometimes wrong in their assumptions about its causal nature, while others do not get pissed off though they should be since it was unearned, at least economically.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-12 18:14:00 UTC