Curt Doolittle

Form: Short Note

  • ECONOMIC FALLACY #4: SCIENTISTS AREN’T NEUTRAL SCIENTISTS AND ACADEMICS ARE ADVO

    ECONOMIC FALLACY #4: SCIENTISTS AREN’T NEUTRAL

    SCIENTISTS AND ACADEMICS ARE ADVOCATES OF EXTREMES, THEY ARE NOT NEUTRAL JUDGES

    No need to explain this. The process of competition between ideas in the pursuit of status in the scientific community tends, over time, to produce relatively truthful results. But scientists cannot make the claim for neutrality, or that as individuals they even follow the scientific method. It is the market for status signals that produces the outcome, not the ethics of any particular scientist. In fact, it certainly looks like most grad students are vastly incompetent, most professors are not much better, and only the top one percent of people in any discipline are even close to accurate about anything that they publish. And those that are, are accurate because they are synthesists, of everyone’s work not advocates of their own.

    Science is not what scientists claim it to be. Economists are as bad or worse.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-04-11 03:15:00 UTC

  • Need a cyborged techie too

    Need a cyborged techie too

    Source date (UTC): 2013-04-11 02:09:00 UTC

  • LOVING THE WORLD There are people on both sides of the spectrum that love life a

    LOVING THE WORLD

    There are people on both sides of the spectrum that love life and celebrate it. THere are people on both sides of the spectrum that criticize everything.

    I pretty much love anybody that is heroic. Whether it’s some proletarian who is looking under rocks for the bright things in life, or some conservative who is hero worshipping western art and architecture. Or some libertarian who hero worship’s technology and wealth.

    It’s all beautiful. And it’s all possible because none of them can get enough power in government to mandate that we share the same sense of joy, and therefore mandate that we pursue the same ends.

    Personally I’d like to throw the people who want control over government, regardless of ideology, into a cauldron and cook them slowly, and feed them to farm animals.

    At the end they would at least be useful as fertilizer. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-04-11 01:10:00 UTC

  • FACEBOOK AS SOCIAL SCIENCE I love Facebook. You can sort of ask man-on-the-stree

    FACEBOOK AS SOCIAL SCIENCE

    I love Facebook. You can sort of ask man-on-the-street questions of people who are (at least reasonably) self selected for topical literacy.

    It’s like having your own really large pool of first year grad students to ask willing questions of without having to offer ten dollars a head, and getting your prof’s to promote it to their students.

    I mean really. It’s awesome. You can sort of wander from club to club commenting and chatting with people in all these rooms, and there isn’t any cover charge, and the bouncers just use harsh language.

    I love Facebook. lol.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-04-09 07:56:00 UTC

  • ECONOMICS OF FEMALE REJECTION The emotional cost of rejecting someone an attempt

    ECONOMICS OF FEMALE REJECTION

    The emotional cost of rejecting someone an attempt at seduction is higher than the emotional cost of rejecting someone for attempting to obtain attention by gifts. The first is a rejection of the individual, the second a rejection of the individual that is attributable to the thing.

    LOL. Women are fascinating creatures.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-04-09 03:27:00 UTC

  • DID YOU NOTICE… That Americans are starting to look like Brits? Traipsing arou

    DID YOU NOTICE…

    That Americans are starting to look like Brits? Traipsing around the world as if the empire still existed, had influence… living off past glory?

    Before we were just wealthy well intentioned hicks.

    Now we’re declining bullying rabble.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-04-07 13:25:00 UTC

  • ARGUMENTATIVE SCIENCE I just construct arguments. It’s just like science. You co

    ARGUMENTATIVE SCIENCE

    I just construct arguments. It’s just like science. You compose an experiment. You run a test. You observe the results. You ask others to corroborate or refute your findings. You are never sure that your argument is ever right. You can only struggle to eliminate every known possibility that it is wrong. The only way to get better is to run a lot of experiments, and create a lot of arguments. And I create a lot of arguments. And get a little better with each one.

    Curt Doolittle

    Source date (UTC): 2013-04-06 10:59:00 UTC

  • MARKERS AND A HOODIE? I think… I need to go buy myself some markers and a hood

    MARKERS AND A HOODIE?

    I think… I need to go buy myself some markers and a hoodie, ’cause now I have a personal mission that involves beer and stealing around in the dark making mischief.

    (awesome)

    🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-04-06 09:38:00 UTC

  • PROGRESSIVE VERBAL DECEPTION In postmodern discourse, truth is rejected explicit

    PROGRESSIVE VERBAL DECEPTION

    In postmodern discourse, truth is rejected explicitly and consistency can be a rare phenomenon. Consider the following pairs of claims.

    1) On the one hand, all truth is relative; on the other hand, postmodernism tells it like it really is.

    2) On the one hand, all cultures are equally deserving of respect; on the other, Western culture is uniquely destructive and bad.

    3) Values are subjective—but sexism and racism are really evil. Technology is bad and destructive—and it is unfair that some people have more technology than others.

    4) Tolerance is good and dominance is bad—but when postmodernists come to power, political correctness follows.

    There is a common pattern here: Subjectivism and relativism in one breath, dogmatic absolutism in the next.

    Hicks, Stephen R. C. (2010-10-19). Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault (Kindle Locations 4281-4291). Ockham’s Razor Publishing / Scholargy. Kindle Edition.

    The only possible conservative strategy is the one they adopted. Equal irrationalism and dogma.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-03-30 08:16:00 UTC

  • NO TELEVISION Do you know how awesome it is to live in a country where you can’t

    NO TELEVISION

    Do you know how awesome it is to live in a country where you can’t watch television?

    All the stuff I get done. And I’m so much less angry all the time, now that I’m not harassed by political news.

    Awesome.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-03-29 16:51:00 UTC