Curt Doolittle

Form: Short Note

  • (watching horror movies, at night, alone, in the dark. still works even at my ag

    (watching horror movies, at night, alone, in the dark. still works even at my age.)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-28 18:09:00 UTC

  • William L. Benge just pointed out to me that “Dennett and Hawkins” have pretty m

    William L. Benge just pointed out to me that “Dennett and Hawkins” have pretty much demonstrated the end of the Cathedral’s fallacy, and have moved beyond it.

    I think if you watch Dennett’s talk, then Haidt’s talk on moral blindness, then my talk on The Inter-temporal Division of Reproductive Labor. Then you begin to see the future : we act more like a set of hives than individually rational actors proposed by the greeks and the enlightenment.

    And when you grasp that, you will perhaps see the importance of both speaking the truth, the virtue of contracts, and the importance of prices, rather than unlimited free speech, the dream of reason, – and just about all that we have done during the democratic era under the fallacy of the rationally capable rational actor.

    Hive mind exists.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-28 17:07:00 UTC

  • Just negotiated a challenging deal in Kiev. People are more honest when violence

    Just negotiated a challenging deal in Kiev.

    People are more honest when violence is on the table.

    “If I think someone is dishonest, I will not be happy” was all I needed to say.

    I like business here.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-28 07:40:00 UTC

  • SMART MAN POROSHKENKO UKRAINIAN ANTI-corruption staffed by foreigners.!!! This i

    SMART MAN POROSHKENKO

    UKRAINIAN ANTI-corruption staffed by foreigners.!!!

    This is what it will take.

    http://www.kyivpost.com/content/kyiv-post-plus/poroshenko-wants-to-see-foreigners-heading-ukraines-fbi-fill-cabinet-positions-373315.html

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-28 05:57:00 UTC

  • think I could at this point reframe Samuelson and Mises both as a mutual failure

    http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2014/11/23/its-the-economics-that-got-small/I think I could at this point reframe Samuelson and Mises both as a mutual failure to understand the problems of general rules and arbitrary precision. Mises’ failure was to create the pseudoscientific argent instead of recognizing operationalism and intuitionism as more mature arguments.

    In this sense, Samuelson is half right in practice but meaningless in theory. While Mises was half right in theory and meaningless in practice.

    It’s actually a fascinating problem – which is why I work on it.

    Mises intuited and Samuelson did not, that morality was non arbitrary and could not be divorced from economic theory.

    None on the other 20th century thinkers could solve that problem either.

    We needed another near century to do it.

    The problem now is the uncomfortable task of reinserting morality into economics – And by that I mean quantitatively.

    Because I am fairly certain it is possible.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-27 12:43:00 UTC

  • Results. So I cure the darkness thing with exercise, red meat, green veggies, wh

    Results.

    So I cure the darkness thing with exercise, red meat, green veggies, whiskey before bed and avoiding coffee? Is that how it works?

    If so, the avoiding coffee thing is gonna hurt… 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-27 12:20:00 UTC

  • Strange economic consequences: Brits built houses too small after the war. Germa

    Strange economic consequences:

    Brits built houses too small after the war.

    Germans built large apartments.

    Americans built houses with yards.

    French drove people into cities and preserved their farms.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-27 07:42:00 UTC

  • OK I CAN STOP CRITICISING CRITICAL RATIONALISM NOW. 🙂 It is merely a convenient

    OK I CAN STOP CRITICISING CRITICAL RATIONALISM NOW. 🙂

    It is merely a convenient language for science. A pidgin -just as mathematical Platonism is a convenient pidgin for mathematics.

    I apologise to my friends an ex friends for the experiments that I had to run in order to solve the superior problem.

    I appreciate all your efforts and patience.

    But I think it was worth it.

    Although science as a discipline will undoubtably disapprove of its loss of philosophical status, and possibly of the imposition of limited constraints upon what constitutes moral and legal pronouncements.

    But that is a necessary consequence of suppressing deception – and an even more important objective than suppressing mysticism.

    Cheers.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev Ukraine.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-27 07:18:00 UTC

  • end of Russia’s demographic decline is partly related to alcoholism

    http://mangans.blogspot.com/2014/11/russia-is-not-in-demographic-decline.htmlThe end of Russia’s demographic decline is partly related to alcoholism

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-26 11:38:00 UTC

  • The men post publicly. The women PM me. And I am very lucky that I have so many

    The men post publicly. The women PM me. And I am very lucky that I have so many female friends – who I could not survive without.

    You know who you are. Thank you. Very much. Always.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-26 03:33:00 UTC