Curt Doolittle

Form: Short Note

  • Under Propertarianism, Operationalism Prevents Exporting “Harm” (Costs)

    —“[A]ll arguments put into the marketplace of ideas function as conceptual goods – products for our use. Now since we are producing goods we do have the ability if not the necessity to provide consumer protection. This is all that operationalism does for us. It doesnt say you’re doing good (telling the truth) it tests whether or not you are doing HARM. It makes sure that you’re not using verbalisms. Under Propertarianism we require you warranty your goods and services. And those warranties are subject to legal enforcement by universal standing where the loser pays.”—-

  • “The Wisdom Of Eli Harman” Eli has sort of mastered the nutshell argument for ar

    “The Wisdom Of Eli Harman”

    Eli has sort of mastered the nutshell argument for aristocracy. (color me envious)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-25 04:53:00 UTC

  • UNDER PROPERTARIANISM, OPERATIONALISM PREVENTS *HARM* —“All arguments put into

    UNDER PROPERTARIANISM, OPERATIONALISM PREVENTS *HARM*

    —“All arguments put into the marketplace of ideas function as conceptual goods – products for our use. Now since we are producing goods we do have the ability if not the necessity to provide consumer protection. This is all that operationalism does for us. It doesnt say you’re doing good (telling the truth) it tests whether or not you are doing HARM. It makes sure that you’re not using verbalisms. Under Propertarianism we require you warranty your goods and services. And those warranties are subject to legal enforcement by universal standing where the loser pays.”—-

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-25 02:47:00 UTC

  • COPENHAGEN INTERPRETATION AS AN EXAMPLE OF THE PROBLEM OF EPISTEMOLOGY AT SCALE

    http://feedly.com/k/1tInDdZTHE COPENHAGEN INTERPRETATION AS AN EXAMPLE OF THE PROBLEM OF EPISTEMOLOGY AT SCALE

    A profoundly good example of the problem philosophers face in reducing that which we cannot sense and perceive without instruments to analogies to experience which we can.

    As I struggle with the cultural conflation of truth with strategic good, assumed as metaphysical property of reality, and reconciling this with the requirement for ethical testimony, which can only be claimed by observation and measurement, I realize the problems facing those in quantum mechanics and those of ethics and politics of heterogeneous polities, are both products of vast increases in scale and complexity that our minds neither evolved for, nor have our language and epistemological traditions evolved to accommodate.

    We are still mystics at describing reality at scale, not because we are conservative or unwilling, as we were with religion in reaction to science, but because despite our willingness we do not yet know how.

    There are two solutions to this problem: to state scale concepts in perceivable terms as best we can, or to restate all concepts in new terms. Under both models language will eventually evolve, and with it the populace. I suppose the former is more pragmatic but less truthful, and the latter more truthful but less likely to succeed.

    In ethics I face this same problem. And its painful.we must use extant language despite that it is wrong, clarify its meaning by cleansing it of error, and restate relations formed in homogenous polities with the properties of heterogeneous polities.

    Universalism is an error in scale, measurement, and logic.

    Its yeoman’s labor.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-25 01:49:00 UTC

  • I understand the problem better, but I still cant do better that ultimate truth(

    I understand the problem better, but I still cant do better that ultimate truth(perfect parsimony), current knowledge of truth(imperfect parsimony), and truthful testimony.

    I have to go back to the propertarian argument and warranty.

    That eliminates the problem of correcting the now conventional use of terms.

    Not sure why I didnt firure it out earlier, but its not necessary to correct it. Its only necessary to require warranty.

    Thanks for all the CR people who helped me yet again.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-24 11:34:00 UTC

  • PERFECTLY ON MESSAGE: INSTITUTIONS

    http://www.coordinationproblem.org/2014/07/how-bad-are-we-economists.htmlBOETTKE PERFECTLY ON MESSAGE: INSTITUTIONS

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-24 11:15:00 UTC

  • (Freaking too many people out. Maybe I should go offline while I work on the var

    (Freaking too many people out. Maybe I should go offline while I work on the various forms of truth as group evolutionary strategies. I mean, it’s so freaking obvious. But we think (erroneously) that we have a lock on it. And we’re wrong. We have a lock on platonic truth. We don’t have a lock on any form of extant truth. sigh.)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-24 08:36:00 UTC

  • DECREASES HAPPINESS But people willingly trade happiness for consumption. Does t

    http://blogs.marketwatch.com/capitolreport/2014/07/18/new-york-city-is-the-most-unhappy-city-in-america/DENSITY DECREASES HAPPINESS

    But people willingly trade happiness for consumption. Does this sound like a drug addiction to you? 🙂 Stimulation over happiness?

    —“That’s according to data coming from a working paper by Harvard professor Edward Glaeser, Vancouver School of Economics professor Joshua Gottlieb and Harvard doctoral student Oren Ziv. They used data collected in a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey called the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, and then adjusted it for age, sex, race, income and other factors. (Such adjustments are important — women, for instance, are happier than men; the married are happier than single or divorced respondents; and so on.)”—

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-24 01:18:00 UTC

  • Owe Val a response (note: consistent sets vs correspondent sequences). Two categ

    Owe Val a response (note: consistent sets vs correspondent sequences). Two categories of method.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-23 13:27:00 UTC

  • Untitled

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    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-23 12:49:00 UTC