Curt Doolittle

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  • re:Girard. Love your references. Do you know how hard it is to find people who c

    re:Girard. Love your references. Do you know how hard it is to find people who can talk about mathematical foundations? 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-22 10:05:53 UTC

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  • This is a very hard conversation to have on twitter. 🙂 Are you asking me what s

    This is a very hard conversation to have on twitter. 🙂 Are you asking me what south africans should do?

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-20 21:02:03 UTC

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    @curtdoolittle What path should my next generation take, given that we have paid our debt in full. (white debt, apartheid debt) except hate?

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  • Not sure what you’re asking me. But I think the entire campaign against south af

    Not sure what you’re asking me. But I think the entire campaign against south africans was a mistake and catastrophe.

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    @curtdoolittle In South Africa we were subjugated through fear of white-guilt, next generation emerge with a counter hatred: Your opinion?

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  • can you point me to that? I want to look! 🙂

    can you point me to that? I want to look! 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-20 03:05:06 UTC

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  • So a problem in math is quite different from a more complex problem in economics

    So a problem in math is quite different from a more complex problem in economics.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-19 19:56:16 UTC

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  • There is a vast difference between deducibility in math and an existence proof i

    There is a vast difference between deducibility in math and an existence proof in economics. 😉

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  • I am quite familiar with the arguments. Math is just a vehicle for addressing th

    I am quite familiar with the arguments. Math is just a vehicle for addressing the problem of truth in economics. 🙂

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  • Duelling?

    —“What’s the relationship between truth-telling and dueling? Is it because you should only say something you believe to the extent that you’re willing to fight for it?”— Great question. It’s actually two different issues. You impose a cost on someone else’s reputation at the peril of your life. Especially after guns were invented. They are a great equaliser. If you speak truthfully and it imposes a restitution then that is a moral obligation to your fellow citizens. If you speak the truth in general then that is a cost to you but it is the cost of entry into the informational commons just as respect for property is a cost you must bear for entry into the market. The purpose of judicial combat was to create time to cool off and apologize, and negotiate a settlement rather than put noble families in feud. The duel degenerated into sanctioned murder. The problem is preventing duel by construction (murder). That requires a third party to judge the restitution for the insult.

  • Duelling?

    —“What’s the relationship between truth-telling and dueling? Is it because you should only say something you believe to the extent that you’re willing to fight for it?”— Great question. It’s actually two different issues. You impose a cost on someone else’s reputation at the peril of your life. Especially after guns were invented. They are a great equaliser. If you speak truthfully and it imposes a restitution then that is a moral obligation to your fellow citizens. If you speak the truth in general then that is a cost to you but it is the cost of entry into the informational commons just as respect for property is a cost you must bear for entry into the market. The purpose of judicial combat was to create time to cool off and apologize, and negotiate a settlement rather than put noble families in feud. The duel degenerated into sanctioned murder. The problem is preventing duel by construction (murder). That requires a third party to judge the restitution for the insult.

  • Q&A: Aristocracy vs Republic? It’s Criticism vs Justification.

    —“I’m a bit ignorant on this. What makes an aristocracy different from a republic. With leaders or rulers representing a population.”—

    [G]reat question. Thanks for asking it. Because you gave me the nudge I needed to write a first draft of aristocratic government that circumvents problems in libertarian thought.

    I have been working on the series: ‘obverse/revers, justification/criticism, morality/science, propertyright/prohibition, GoldenRule/SilverRule, that is the western innovative alternative to eastern static ying-and-yang. Where they match sides, we only overlap in a venn diagram. Where they have a balance of equality and necessary cooperation, we have a division of labor and voluntary cooperation. OBVERSE: Positive Government uses Justification and ascent (republic) – the objective is to do good. Concentrate all resources behind single ideas: monopoly provision of commons: the government society. But we cannot know good, or agree on good. Napoleonic law of prior restraint. Scope of Property is limited. Standing is limited. Rule is by Coercive Government (ascent). Judgements are ideological and hypothetical. And this creates opportunity for rent seeking(parasitism). At best, this strategy is useful for transitioning a failed people. REVERSE: Negative Government uses Criticism and prosecution (aristocracy) – the objective is to do no harm. Distribute all resources according to preferences of the contributors: market provision of commons: the civic society. And we can know harm. Common law of dispute resolution. Scope is Property-en-toto, Standing is universal. Rule is by prohibitionary judgement (veto). Decisions are empirical and operational. And this strategy creates no opportunity for rent seeking (parasitism). At worst, this strategy is useful for maintaining a successful people. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine (London, July 16, 2015)