Curt Doolittle

Form: Quote Commentary

  • Communism(Envy) And Ponzi(Greed) Schemes

    “Why Won’t The Nightmare Dream Of Communism Die?” A century of Communism achieved four main results: poverty, oppression, war, and mass death. So why does anybody still think collectivism is ‘idealistic’? Glenn Reynolds has, I think, the right answer: “For the same reason Ponzi schemes won’t stop. It’s an effective con that zeroes in on human weaknesses. Ponzi schemes capitalize on greed. Communism capitalizes on envy, which is why it’s largely sustained by intellectuals, in whose personalities envy tends to be a particularly powerful component.”

  • Communism(Envy) And Ponzi(Greed) Schemes

    “Why Won’t The Nightmare Dream Of Communism Die?” A century of Communism achieved four main results: poverty, oppression, war, and mass death. So why does anybody still think collectivism is ‘idealistic’? Glenn Reynolds has, I think, the right answer: “For the same reason Ponzi schemes won’t stop. It’s an effective con that zeroes in on human weaknesses. Ponzi schemes capitalize on greed. Communism capitalizes on envy, which is why it’s largely sustained by intellectuals, in whose personalities envy tends to be a particularly powerful component.”

  • “Yet the entire pantheon of liberal philosophy and economics admits itself to be

    —“Yet the entire pantheon of liberal philosophy and economics admits itself to be based on metaphysical unknowns, they state quite clearly that their forms aren’t empirical. So from the emergence of liberalism and capitalism what do we find? An overload of justification to why some supposed metaphysical unknowns justifies the existence of private property and the preservation of old, clearly predatory, capital.”—Gage Benson

    They are based upon actionability, voluntary reciprocity, non parasitism, contract : eugenics. in other words possible contract in testable terms as a means of defeating universal parasitism.

    They are based on the use of merit to concentrate capital.

    They mirror evolution.

    And the success of western and eastern civs is due to evolution: superior neoteny through continuous contraction of the lower margin. this process allows for an increase in the normative means.

    You presume equality by demand for certainty as a means of preserving opportunity or parasitism. they demand action in furtherance of capital concentration via reciprocity as the test of truth ( existential certainty). they accelerate to save, while you decelerate to consume. you demand consumptive opportunity, they demand retention of production from risk. they force evolution, and you force devolution.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-11-22 16:29:00 UTC

  • “Yet the entire pantheon of liberal philosophy and economics admits itself to be

    —“Yet the entire pantheon of liberal philosophy and economics admits itself to be based on metaphysical unknowns, they state quite clearly that their forms aren’t empirical. So from the emergence of liberalism and capitalism what do we find? An overload of justification to why some supposed metaphysical unknowns justifies the existence of private property and the preservation of old, clearly predatory, capital.”—Gage Benson They are based upon actionability, voluntary reciprocity, non parasitism, contract : eugenics. in other words possible contract in testable terms as a means of defeating universal parasitism. They are based on the use of merit to concentrate capital. They mirror evolution. And the success of western and eastern civs is due to evolution: superior neoteny through continuous contraction of the lower margin. this process allows for an increase in the normative means. You presume equality by demand for certainty as a means of preserving opportunity or parasitism. they demand action in furtherance of capital concentration via reciprocity as the test of truth ( existential certainty). they accelerate to save, while you decelerate to consume. you demand consumptive opportunity, they demand retention of production from risk. they force evolution, and you force devolution.

  • “Yet the entire pantheon of liberal philosophy and economics admits itself to be

    —“Yet the entire pantheon of liberal philosophy and economics admits itself to be based on metaphysical unknowns, they state quite clearly that their forms aren’t empirical. So from the emergence of liberalism and capitalism what do we find? An overload of justification to why some supposed metaphysical unknowns justifies the existence of private property and the preservation of old, clearly predatory, capital.”—Gage Benson They are based upon actionability, voluntary reciprocity, non parasitism, contract : eugenics. in other words possible contract in testable terms as a means of defeating universal parasitism. They are based on the use of merit to concentrate capital. They mirror evolution. And the success of western and eastern civs is due to evolution: superior neoteny through continuous contraction of the lower margin. this process allows for an increase in the normative means. You presume equality by demand for certainty as a means of preserving opportunity or parasitism. they demand action in furtherance of capital concentration via reciprocity as the test of truth ( existential certainty). they accelerate to save, while you decelerate to consume. you demand consumptive opportunity, they demand retention of production from risk. they force evolution, and you force devolution.

  • (from elsewhere) Prof Wildberger: I love that you’re trying to de-platonize math

    (from elsewhere)

    Prof Wildberger:

    I love that you’re trying to de-platonize mathematics, and return it to the sciences.

    Mathematical platonism uses a grammar and semantics of fiction (it’s technically a ‘Fictionalism’). And I can understand why some people have a natural tendency, out of historical bias, and out of the influence of hermeneutics (religious and scriptural interpretation) to fictionalize mathematics.

    In doing so they convert it from a science of measurement of constant relations in increasing dimensions into a linguistic ANALOGY – thereby obscuring (losing) the causal properties of mathematics (measurement of constant relations in increasing dimensions using positional naming).

    And that is the reason it’s both difficult to teach people (when it should be trivial), and forces us to rely on memorization rather than ‘understanding’. Where “understanding” means ‘in the context of existential reality, and therefore an extension of existential reality.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-11-21 11:03:00 UTC

  • (from elsewhere) Prof Wildberger: I love that you’re trying to de-platonize math

    (from elsewhere) Prof Wildberger: I love that you’re trying to de-platonize mathematics, and return it to the sciences. Mathematical platonism uses a grammar and semantics of fiction (it’s technically a ‘Fictionalism’). And I can understand why some people have a natural tendency, out of historical bias, and out of the influence of hermeneutics (religious and scriptural interpretation) to fictionalize mathematics. In doing so they convert it from a science of measurement of constant relations in increasing dimensions into a linguistic ANALOGY – thereby obscuring (losing) the causal properties of mathematics (measurement of constant relations in increasing dimensions using positional naming). And that is the reason it’s both difficult to teach people (when it should be trivial), and forces us to rely on memorization rather than ‘understanding’. Where “understanding” means ‘in the context of existential reality, and therefore an extension of existential reality.

  • (from elsewhere) Prof Wildberger: I love that you’re trying to de-platonize math

    (from elsewhere) Prof Wildberger: I love that you’re trying to de-platonize mathematics, and return it to the sciences. Mathematical platonism uses a grammar and semantics of fiction (it’s technically a ‘Fictionalism’). And I can understand why some people have a natural tendency, out of historical bias, and out of the influence of hermeneutics (religious and scriptural interpretation) to fictionalize mathematics. In doing so they convert it from a science of measurement of constant relations in increasing dimensions into a linguistic ANALOGY – thereby obscuring (losing) the causal properties of mathematics (measurement of constant relations in increasing dimensions using positional naming). And that is the reason it’s both difficult to teach people (when it should be trivial), and forces us to rely on memorization rather than ‘understanding’. Where “understanding” means ‘in the context of existential reality, and therefore an extension of existential reality.

  • “Occultism to some people seems to be an intellectual diabetes from having too m

    —“Occultism to some people seems to be an intellectual diabetes from having too much time and too little responsibility in their lives. Who has time to invest in such stupid crap? I mean, I have kids for Christ’s sake. And a job, and I’m enrolled in university courses in the meantime. My demand for practical utility and therefore empirical truth, is very noticeably higher than that of childless consumers of intellectual narcotics.”— A Friend Literature of escapism comes in many forms. ‘Philosophy’ and ‘essay’ is one of them.

  • “Occultism to some people seems to be an intellectual diabetes from having too m

    —“Occultism to some people seems to be an intellectual diabetes from having too much time and too little responsibility in their lives. Who has time to invest in such stupid crap? I mean, I have kids for Christ’s sake. And a job, and I’m enrolled in university courses in the meantime. My demand for practical utility and therefore empirical truth, is very noticeably higher than that of childless consumers of intellectual narcotics.”— A Friend Literature of escapism comes in many forms. ‘Philosophy’ and ‘essay’ is one of them.