Curt Doolittle

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  • SCRAMBLED TEXT Unfortunately, while skilled readers can read scrambled text easi

    SCRAMBLED TEXT

    Unfortunately, while skilled readers can read scrambled text easily, this ability, can develop into a weakness. In my case, I often cannot actually ‘see’ scrambled words, misspellings, or even the letters present on the page themselves – even if I attempt to, or even if I read backwards. In most cases I ‘see’ paragraphs, or sets of paragraphs ‘whole’ just as most people see words ‘whole’ rather than as collections of words or sequences of letters. ‘Scanning’ has become the only kind of reading I’m capable of. Novels have lost their emotional appeal.

    INTERESTING TIDBIT

    Rawlinson’s paper was not accepted originally, despite his having used fairly good mathematics and evidence behind it, it has become a prominent feature of cognitive psychology.

    http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/rawlinson/

    NICK CARR TAKES IT FURTHER

    Nick’s Pulitzer Prize Candidate on our transformation from readers to scanners.

    http://www.nicholascarr.com/?page_id=16

    MY ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESIS

    Is that ‘reading’, like listening to a narrative, suspends disbelief (criticism) and creates the ability to program one another through narratives (myths). While simple pattern recognition from scanning lots of similar arguments is much closer to using judgement. So I am not sure that ‘scanning’ isn’t a superior technique for humans to make use of. Our problem was low information density, and we seem to have solved it. If we have extremely high information density, we can make far more judgements by intuitive pattern recognition (which is very good) and far fewer through our (very frail) reason. And even better, we are less subject to being victims of suspension of disbelief from the narrative.

    We will be less victims of additional lies like monotheism, pseudoscience and postmodernism.

    (Thank you as always for your assistance Johannes Meixner)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-28 03:54:00 UTC

  • I HAVE IT RIGHT Just going over Bruce Caldwell’s work on Praxeology and feeling

    I HAVE IT RIGHT

    Just going over Bruce Caldwell’s work on Praxeology and feeling very confident. Time to go see him this year. As far as I know I have rescued praxeology from the pseudoscientific fringe. Praxeology is a failed attempt at economic intuitionism / operationalism, and all sciences are consistent, and operationalism is an extension of (or as Ayelam Valentine Agaliba says, consistent with) falsification. All knowledge is theoretical. The means by which we imagine theories is irrelevant, and their survival of criticism is why they are warrantable (true). Science, if we add in both cost and morality (which haven’t been necessary for the physical sciences) is then the moral discipline of speaking truthfully, and philosophy, science, and morality are consistent and complete (synonyms). As such law, when requiring the full suite of scientific criticisms:

    And there is but one universal moral principle:

    (a) truthfully stated

    ….(i) internally consistent (logically tested)

    ….(ii) externally correspondent (evidentially tested as meaningfully predictive and/or explicative)

    ….(iii) existentially possible (operationally defined)

    ….(iiii) falsifiable and falsified (negatively tested)

    ….(v) fully informed (complete)

    (c) productive

    (d) warrantied

    (e) voluntary exchange

    (f) free of negative externality

    Outstanding issues:

    1) “calculability”: the prohibition on pooling and laundering, is the monetary equivalent of the prohibition on loading and framing. In my current conception this is

    included in operational definitions, but I think I must address numbers, money and prices specifically in order to prohibit political ‘discretion’ and ‘general funds’.

    2) Writing it out as legal construction rather than philosophy.

    Then it’s on to work on institutions. And I can leave ‘Truth’ and ‘Austrian Econ’ behind me.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-27 05:22:00 UTC

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    http://bit.ly/1vuJdlO

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-27 04:43:00 UTC

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    http://thelibertarianalliance.com/2014/12/25/hmqeii-useless-but-ours-and-10x-better-than-any-selected-president/

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-25 13:24:00 UTC

  • BTW: It’s an ordinary work day in Ukraine. Christmas isn’t celebrated until Janu

    BTW: It’s an ordinary work day in Ukraine. Christmas isn’t celebrated until January 8th over here, and New Years is the big holiday instead. They have a St Nicholas Day, which is our Santa Claus, as a separate day for children, on the 15th. So in typical slavic fashion they have WAAAAAY more holidays. lol. St Nicholas for kids, New Year’s Day for everyone, and Orthodox Christmas for the Devoted. Why have two holidays when three will do? More opportunities for food and alcohol. Lviv is much prettier than Kiev, and they have a gorgeous christmas market, that while offering little variation does show a lot of quality control. Apparently, (like the summer art market in Bellevue Washington) the Christmas market is a money-maker.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-25 07:17:00 UTC

  • FOUR CLIMATE PREDICTIONS I PUT MONEY ON: New Climate Predictions (from SSRC Pres

    FOUR CLIMATE PREDICTIONS I PUT MONEY ON:

    New Climate Predictions (from SSRC Press Release 4-2014).

    a. The Earth is about to begin a steep drop in global temperatures. The analysis of the level and variability of sunspots in the current solar cycle 24, including the warming of atmospheric temperatures between 2013 and 2014 indicates that the Earth is following a climate change path similar to solar cycle 5, during the last 206 year solar cycle driven solar hibernation.

    b. Average global atmospheric and oceanic temperatures will drop significantly beginning between 2015 and 2016.

    c. The predicted temperature decline will continue for the next fifteen years and likely will be the steepest ever recorded in human history discounting past short term volcanic events.

    d. Global average temperatures during the 2030’s will reach a level of 1-1.5°C lower than the peak year of 1998.

    FURTHERMORE

    We still have no idea if CO2, or other increases in gas concentration produce anticipated outcomes, especially given the geological record.

    HOWEVER

    The reason for increases in pollutants, decreases in competing life forms, and overconsumption is rapid increases in reproduction by the underclasses made possible by the adoption of western technology. As such the only problem the climate and the planet face, and will continue to face, is unchecked human reproduction.

    THERE IS ONLY ONE PROBLEM

    Rates of reproduction of the unproductive underclasses.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-25 06:29:00 UTC

  • I have always felt that the Austrian inter-temporal structure of the production

    I have always felt that the Austrian inter-temporal structure of the production cycle was a little old fashioned but of metaphor given that firms have evolved to multiple networks of more dynamic investment structures wherein each unit is more perishable, and where each is far less dependent upon a planned structure of production and instead is constantly shuffling portfolios of production among customers.

    And I’ve felt that the problem not just of cycles, nor of exhaustion of opportunities, nor of forming networks to exploit opportunity, but that at some point we approach the problem of having created enough consumption that people are decreasingly willing to trade increases consumption of signals for leisure, or even for doing *nothing*. ( I certainly have reached that point – the sole purpose of money is to associate with peers, and disassociate from undesirables. In that sense my consumption is primarily one of location. ) I mean, american males are exiting society and economy in droves – they can afford to.

    So while there always appears to exist possible increases in consumption, one eventually has to resort to the immigration of underclasses to continue generating consumption. This process too leads to booms and busts and social instability.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-25 03:24:00 UTC

  • RACE, DISTRIBUTIONS AND RATES OF REPRODUCTION Distributions: Its like the race t

    RACE, DISTRIBUTIONS AND RATES OF REPRODUCTION

    Distributions: Its like the race thing. The difference in average performance is determined by the distributions. And the ‘superiority’ of any group in one aspect or another is almost entirely a reflection of how good they have been at suppressing the reproduction of their underclasses. Which means circumpolar people could let lower classes die off more easily because of winters than other groups, while people from temperate climates could not. The caloric requirement for winter, not just in food, but in physical assets necessary for survival, is very different from the caloric requirement for the sun belt. As such remaining peoples in each tribe benefit from, or experience discrimination from, being identified by the demonstrated behavioral mean of their group. The more die-off you have from the lower classes the more your numbers skew and the better you will be treated as a candidate by others. Once that is in place, the higher the trust you demonstrate the better you will be treated as a candidate as well. Whites, at least in the middle ages, and Jews throughout time, had a lot of die off, and successful assortative mating. Whites now protect jews out of status and guilt. Simple. So you trade suppression of reproduction of your underclasses for material advantage for all members of your group, because you can develop higher trust norms, and a better ‘brand’. You can also not do so. I assume everyone wants a high trust society and this is a false assumption.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-24 07:01:00 UTC

  • Humans are the Most Unequal Creatures on Earth

    (interesting)

    [H]UMANS divide (a)Perception, (b)Consideration, (c)Knowledge, (d)Labor, and (e) reproduction – and we negotiate through words and provide ‘facts’ or ‘data’ through acts of voluntary exchange.

    We operate as a fascinating computational system. Just as a transistor flips to make a connection that was not previously available, and signals downstream its change in state, we signal through voluntary exchange our change in state, and in doing so we capture and distribute information about our perceptions.

    We were cognizant of the division of reproductive labor, overly obsessed with the division of labor once we discovered it, and only in the past few generations have come to understand the importance of the division of knowledge determined by intellectual ability, and now we have begun to understand the division of perception and consideration is also genetically determined.
    We got stock in the error of equality. Yet, we are perhaps one of the most unequal, if not THE MOST UNEQUAL creatures in existence – because we have greater capacity for inequality.

    Curt Doolittle
    The Propertarian Institute
    Kiev,

  • Humans are the Most Unequal Creatures on Earth

    (interesting)

    [H]UMANS divide (a)Perception, (b)Consideration, (c)Knowledge, (d)Labor, and (e) reproduction – and we negotiate through words and provide ‘facts’ or ‘data’ through acts of voluntary exchange.

    We operate as a fascinating computational system. Just as a transistor flips to make a connection that was not previously available, and signals downstream its change in state, we signal through voluntary exchange our change in state, and in doing so we capture and distribute information about our perceptions.

    We were cognizant of the division of reproductive labor, overly obsessed with the division of labor once we discovered it, and only in the past few generations have come to understand the importance of the division of knowledge determined by intellectual ability, and now we have begun to understand the division of perception and consideration is also genetically determined.
    We got stock in the error of equality. Yet, we are perhaps one of the most unequal, if not THE MOST UNEQUAL creatures in existence – because we have greater capacity for inequality.

    Curt Doolittle
    The Propertarian Institute
    Kiev,