Curt Doolittle

Form: Short Note

  • Testimonialism: More On Full Accounting and Parsimony

    [I] talk about Parsimony (limits) pretty often, but I don’t spend enough time and effort on the obvious moral requirement of Full Accounting(full accounting of all costs: opportunity, real, normative, institutional, genetic and ‘godly’- in the sense of man’s achievement of godhood). THE TESTS OF TRUTHFULNESS – WARRANTY OF DUE DILIGENCE

    • Identity
    • Internal Consistency
    • External Correspondence
    • Existential Possiblity
    • Parsimonious
    • Full Accounting
    • Moral

    Popper came close but he just supplied the darwinian idea. I think now that I am in the third year of work on this problem I’m getting pretty close to confidence that this list of warranties is the complete set that man is capable of providing, and is the complete set necessary for warranty against imaginary content: error, bias, wishful thinking and deceit.

  • Testimonialism: More On Full Accounting and Parsimony

    [I] talk about Parsimony (limits) pretty often, but I don’t spend enough time and effort on the obvious moral requirement of Full Accounting(full accounting of all costs: opportunity, real, normative, institutional, genetic and ‘godly’- in the sense of man’s achievement of godhood). THE TESTS OF TRUTHFULNESS – WARRANTY OF DUE DILIGENCE

    • Identity
    • Internal Consistency
    • External Correspondence
    • Existential Possiblity
    • Parsimonious
    • Full Accounting
    • Moral

    Popper came close but he just supplied the darwinian idea. I think now that I am in the third year of work on this problem I’m getting pretty close to confidence that this list of warranties is the complete set that man is capable of providing, and is the complete set necessary for warranty against imaginary content: error, bias, wishful thinking and deceit.

  • Yes, I Know That Sometimes You Need To Read, and Re-Read…

    [Y]ep. You gotta read, re-read, and think about some of the stuff I write. Sorry. I do too. Writing a proof, which is most of what I try to do, does not mean that I understand all the implications of what I write when I write it. I often go back and say “wow… I wrote that? Without the aid of hallucinogens?” At the time I wrote it I was doing what you would think of as mathematics or engineering. I don’t always see the implications of it until I review it later. The degree to which I discover things while attempting to construct proofs is not easy for others to see. But I tend to stumble upon insights I tend only to vaguely intuit, and only understand as I am writing the logical consequences. This is what Mises meant but could not articulate. I wish I could talk to him for just an hour or two. Same with Hayek.

  • Yes, I Know That Sometimes You Need To Read, and Re-Read…

    [Y]ep. You gotta read, re-read, and think about some of the stuff I write. Sorry. I do too. Writing a proof, which is most of what I try to do, does not mean that I understand all the implications of what I write when I write it. I often go back and say “wow… I wrote that? Without the aid of hallucinogens?” At the time I wrote it I was doing what you would think of as mathematics or engineering. I don’t always see the implications of it until I review it later. The degree to which I discover things while attempting to construct proofs is not easy for others to see. But I tend to stumble upon insights I tend only to vaguely intuit, and only understand as I am writing the logical consequences. This is what Mises meant but could not articulate. I wish I could talk to him for just an hour or two. Same with Hayek.

  • THE TRUTH VIRUS It’s really fascinating to watch Truth, High Trust, and various

    THE TRUTH VIRUS

    It’s really fascinating to watch Truth, High Trust, and various other ideas working their way across the web into different arguments. I hear echoes of this or that almost every day.

    We are so privileged to live in this era and participate in one of the great shifts in human history.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-02 02:33:00 UTC

  • DIARY AS PRAYER –Read Aurelius. Write a diary. Analyze your life past and life

    DIARY AS PRAYER

    –Read Aurelius. Write a diary. Analyze your life past and life future. It is very hard to lie to yourself in writing. Especially if you must re-read your words later. So, a diary it is a form of prayer. A confession before your god. So, Know Thyself. Craft yourself. Die fulfilled. Leave the world better for having lived in it. Life is an apple. Take big bites. Moderation is for monks.–

    (worth repeating)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-01 04:55:00 UTC

  • THE PSEUDOSCIENCE: OUR BRAINS ARE DIFFERENT OUR BEHAVIOR IS DIFFERENT. OUR STRAT

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_sex_differencesEND THE PSEUDOSCIENCE: OUR BRAINS ARE DIFFERENT

    OUR BEHAVIOR IS DIFFERENT. OUR STRATEGIES ARE DIFFERENT.

    (and our distribution on the solipsism <—> autism scale is dramatic.)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-01 03:06:00 UTC

  • RT @FriedrichHayek: Fall of the Double Eagle: The Battle for Galicia and the Dem

    RT @FriedrichHayek: Fall of the Double Eagle: The Battle for Galicia and the Demise of Austria-Hungary by John Schindler https://t.co/cXbxj…

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-30 11:20:40 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/671287727921475584

  • NEW NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS IN CHINA

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2015/10/22/china-shows-how-to-build-nuclear-reactors-fast-and-cheap/100 NEW NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS IN CHINA

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-30 10:35:00 UTC

  • CONDOMS AND FECES: SAN FRANCISCO Now, I am completely aware that I have a high d

    http://www.sfexaminer.com/less-needles-and-feces-found-on-sf-streets-but-other-litter-lingers/NEEDLES, CONDOMS AND FECES: SAN FRANCISCO

    Now, I am completely aware that I have a high disgust response. But I never can enjoy SF unless its from destination to car to destination.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-30 10:29:00 UTC