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WESTERN LANGUAGES: RELIGIOUS MYTH, MORAL POETRY, TECHNICAL (AMORAL) LAW, AND SCI
WESTERN LANGUAGES: RELIGIOUS MYTH, MORAL POETRY, TECHNICAL (AMORAL) LAW, AND SCIENTIFIC POLITICS
I’ll translate this passage by Roger Scruton from religio-moral poetry into scientific language:
**The use of credit money to encourage hyper consumption makes us less directly dependent upon one another, more isolated from one another, and lacking the incentive to obtain status and self worth in the service of one another.
We have replaced civic society with selfish society, and culture with loneliness by the use of monetary dilution as a vehicle for increasing employment and consumption at the expense of creating a civic society.***
That’s about as scientific as you can make it.
(My job you know: translate our victorian, enlightenment, medieval, and archaic moral language into the language of science. Whereby it can be seen to have been scientific in content all along, even if it was structured as “the poetry of moral rhetoric.”)
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev, Ukraine
Source date (UTC): 2016-02-27 03:45:00 UTC
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WHAT WOULD A WEEKLY CLASS IN PROPERTARIANISM AND TESTIMONIALISM LOOK LIKE? (and
WHAT WOULD A WEEKLY CLASS IN PROPERTARIANISM AND TESTIMONIALISM LOOK LIKE?
(and could I manage to do it given the other things on my plate)
(sketching … can’t finish at the moment)
PROPERTARIANISM AND TESTIMONIALISM
Objectives: What are Testimonialism, Propertarianism, Natural Law, and Market Government.
PART I (EASY) – HUMAN BEINGS
PSYCHOLOGY
Man Acquires: the evolution of morality
Reproductive strategies of the genders.
Moral intuitions: the intertemporal division of perception, cognition, knowledge, labor and advocacy. And cooperation as the test of commensurability.
(short essay)
REPRODUCTION (the family)
The Evolution of Property: the means of production, and Family: the means of reproduction. The incremental evolution of property.
(short essay)
PRODUCTION (economics)
Suppression, trust, and economic velocity
Homogeneity vs Heterogeneity
Population Density and the Production of Opportunity: a restatement of homesteading: opportunities are the product of groups.
(short essay)
ETHICS
Demonstrated Property: Property en toto
retaliation as the author of order: the problem of conflict, the problem of clans, and retaliation and feuds.
(Note hoppe continues the tradition of victimhood, while I will continue the tradition of civilizing the barbarians)
The solution to non-conflict: productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary exchange limited to externality of the same.
(short essay)
SOCIOLOGY
Three Methods of Persuasion = Three Social Class Pyramids.
The relationship between these classes and institutions
The relationship between these classes and reproductive strategy.
(short essay)
PART II (HARD) – FROM IDEAL TYPES TO DEMAND CURVES
Using existence and spectrums to eliminate error, and clarify terms.
Eliminating the use of ‘is’ from your vocabulary so that you must be cognizant of rhetorical point of view, and begin to understand the importance of operationalism as a test of existential possibility and
Examples
(short essay)
Examples
(short essay)
PART III (EASY)- POLITICS
POLITICS (the evolution of the world’s different models)
River, Rivers, Steppe, Desert.
Dense populations, sparse populations.
Crops, Irrigation, Family, and Political structures.
What we had right in Rome, Anglo Saxon, and English Orders
(short essay)
THE ENLIGHTENMENT FAILURES
Anglo, German, Jewish, French, … Russian + Chinese, and now Arab/Muslim.
(short essay)
POLITICS OF LIBERTY
The Evolution of Order: incremental suppression from centralization to decentralization. (transaction cost theory of government)
The Shift In Theft, violence an control. as we Incrementally Suppress simpler methods of theft.
Natural Law of Cooperation, Common Evolutionary Law, Universal Standing, Rule of Law, as a competitive science for the discovery of the principles of human cooperation, by the removal of that which impedes it.
Work Through: Three Simple Case Examples
(short essay)
MONEY
(a correct categorization of the different economic ideologies)
(the range of instruments and their differences)
(the available alternatives to fiat credit.)
(short essay)
PART IV (HARD) – PROPERTARIAN ANALYSIS
( … )
Examples
(short essay)
Examples
(short essay)
Examples
(short essay)
PART V —TESTIMONIALISM: THE *HARD* STUFF—
(I have to think about this because this is very hard material for mortals)
Purpose of testimonialism is to unify philosophy, morality, law, and science into a single discipline ‘testimony’ which makes use of different methods to launder particular error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, and deceit from our imaginations.
THE INFORMATIONAL COMMONS
(later on)
TESTIMONIAL TRUTH
(later on)
PART VI – (VERY HARD) – NATURAL LAW EXPRESSED IN LAW: WRITING AN ARGUMENT AS A ‘PROGRAM’ (cool)
( … )
Source date (UTC): 2016-02-09 12:21:00 UTC
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ARTS, ANCHORING, AND WHY ARTISTS RUN THEIR COURSE (note to finish later) (why mo
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-hail-caesar-underwhelms-862324THE ARTS, ANCHORING, AND WHY ARTISTS RUN THEIR COURSE
(note to finish later) (why movies are flopping)
The Cohen brother’s ‘taste’ has failed them.
All artist’s tastes fail them.
Anchoring is inescapable in all of us. But it’s worst in the intuitive arts.
Source date (UTC): 2016-02-06 13:37:00 UTC
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It might be interesting to give a seminar or series of talks teaching Testimonia
It might be interesting to give a seminar or series of talks teaching Testimonialiism (“completed” critical rationalism), versus Suggestion: The Three Eras of the Great Lies: Monotheism, Pseudoscience, and Propaganda.
Source date (UTC): 2016-02-04 03:25:00 UTC
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(thinking again) Complexity from simplicity. We are very poor at multivariate vi
(thinking again)
Complexity from simplicity. We are very poor at multivariate visualization. We can pursue a rabbit, or follow the flight of an arrow, but when it comes to multiple axis, we are pretty bad at it.
Our emotions appear to be limited to small number of axis, but out of this small number arises an enormous variety of experiences.
I know these four exist – the only novelty I’ve added is information processing bias.
1 – Predatory/Dominance/Skeptical-Agreeable/Submissive/Fearful
2 – Hyperactive/Excitable/impulsive-calm/Patient/slothful
3 – Autistic/Analytic – Empathic/Solipsistic (information processing)
4 – Agony/Pain/discomfort-pleasing/Pleasure/Joy
If I work at it I have a hunch that all subsequent models can be described as the effect of multiple agents in the brain provoking these from each person’s ‘steady state’.
The big five can be explained as provoking these four.Why? Because I want to test the theory that these are informaiton processing problems. Make sense? Yes it does. ๐ As such they can be explained as information rather than experience. So that’s why I”m working on it.
THE BIG FIVE
Extroversion-introversion
Solipsistic/empathy – analyltic/autistic
Experience(curious) – Familiarity(cautious)
Impulsivity- Patience
Confidence/Secure – Sensitive/nervous/Fearfulness
RATIONALIZING….
Neuroticism: negatively correlated with ratio of brain volume to remainder of intracranial volume, reduced volume in dorsomedial PFC and a segment of left medial temporal lobe, including posterior hippocampus, increased volume in the mid-cingulate gyrus.
Extraversion: positively correlated with orbitofrontal cortex metabolism, increased cerebral volume of medial orbitofrontal cortex.
Agreeableness: negatively correlated with left orbitofrontal lobe volume in frontotemporal dementia patients, reduced volume in posterior left superior temporal sulcus, increased volume in posterior cingulate cortex.
Conscientiousness: increased volume of middle frontal gyrus in left lateral PFC.
Openness to experience: no regions large enough to be significant, although parietal cortex may be involved.
Source date (UTC): 2016-01-27 08:54:00 UTC
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The Technologies of Truth Telling: 1 – Allegorical(understandable), 2 – Reasonab
http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2016/01/pre-socratics-or-first-philosophers.htmlEva,
The Technologies of Truth Telling:
1 – Allegorical(understandable), 2 – Reasonable(given ignorance), 3 – Rational(given knowledge), 4 – Scientific (given criticism of physical law), 5 – Testimonial (given criticism by natural law).
Pre-Socratic work is limited to Allegorical methods. Socrates gives us reasonability – a way of conducting criticism of our ideas to determine whether they survive. In this way, he is the first thinker to evolve criticism as a test of truth: falsifying, rather than using ideation as a means of invention: imagining.
Socrates is the first step in a long evolution to the completion of epistemology that unites Truth, Science, Philosophy, Morality, and Law.
The pre-socratics were not able to give us this technology. Socrates did.
So the distinction between the socratics and the pre-socratics is as relevant as the distinction between religon and science, and science and testimony.
They are not equal in merit.
Source date (UTC): 2016-01-26 02:20:00 UTC
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TOP 100 PRESIDENTS (just a thought experiment) So what if instead of the preside
TOP 100 PRESIDENTS
(just a thought experiment)
So what if instead of the presidency, we added another house, and the top 100 individuals who got votes in the election got to form a parliament and select their own leader to act as president (prime minister)?
Then we return almost all power to the states, recalling the 14th amendment and all consequent legislation dependent upon it. leaving only 2/3 of the budget for the federal government(military and insurance) and returning the other 1/3 to the states (discretionary spending).
Source date (UTC): 2016-01-19 09:29:00 UTC
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THE SYNTHESIS I am not going to finish this today but I want to get it out for t
THE SYNTHESIS
I am not going to finish this today but I want to get it out for the wow factor in case I get hit by a bus or something.
IN ORDER TO ACT IN REALITY WE MUST WARRANTY OUR JUDGEMENTS
***I warranty to myself and to others that I performed due diligence prior to my actions – including speech – such that my actions imposed no net cost upon myself, or upon others, and by doing so, harmed both my survivability and the incentive to voluntarily cooperate while being free of the imposition of cost by others.***
THEREFORE
***as the complexity of CONSEQUENCES of ERROR increase, the degree of due diligence I must perform in order to provide myself and others a warranty that my reasoning and actions perform no harm to myself or others***
THE POWER OF THE HUMAN MIND IS ITS SEARCH ENGINE (INTUITION) NOT NECESSARILY ITS REASON.
***Our reason provides us both with search improvement and warranty***
ABILITY BIASES
– Gender
– Intelligence
– Impulsively
– Aggression
– Reproductive Fitness
– Cooperative Fitness
MORAL BIASES
Individual Property Rights:
1. Care/harm (The asset of life and body.)
2. Proportionality/cheating, (The asset of goods.)
3. Liberty/Oppression, (The asset of time, opportunity.)
Community Property Rights
4. In-Group Loyalty/In-Group Betrayal to/of your group, family, nation, polity.
5. Respect/Authority/Subversion for tradition and legitimate authority.
6. Purity/Sanctity/Degradation/Disgust, avoiding disgusting things, foods, actions.
DEMONSTRATED PROPERTY
I. SELF-PROPERTY
Personal property: โThings an individual has a Monopoly Of Control over the use of.โ
a) Physical Body
b) Actions and Time
c) Memories, Concepts and Identities: tools that enable us to plan and act. In the consumer economy this includes brands.
d) Status and Class (mate and relation selection, and reputation.)
II. PERSONAL PROPERTY
a) Several Property: Those things external to our bodies that we claim a monopoly of control over.
III. KINSHIP PROPERTY
a) Mates (access to sex/reproduction)
b) Children (genetics)
c) Familial Relations (security)
d) Non-Familial Relations (utility)
e) Consanguineous property (tribal and family ties)
IV. COOPERATIVE PROPERTY
a) Organizational ties (work)
b) Knowledge ties (skills, crafts)
V. SHAREHOLDER PROPERTY
a) Shares: Recorded And Quantified Shareholder Property (physical shares in a tradable asset)
b) Commons: Unrecorded and Unquantified Shareholder Property (shares in commons)
c) Artificial Property: (property created by fiat agreement) Intellectual Property.
VI. INFORMAL INSTITUTIONAL PROPERTY:
a) Informal (Normative) Property: Our norms: manners, ethics, morals, myths, and rituals that consist of our social portfolio and which make our social order possible.
VII. FORMAL INSTITUTIONAL PROPERTY
a) Formal Institutional Property: Formal (Procedural) Institutions: Our institutions: Religion (including the secular religion), Government, Laws.
SYSTEMS
– System -1 = Acquisition (objective)
– System 0 = Property (biased)
– System 1 = Intuition (search)
– System 2 = Reason (comparison)
CONCEPTUAL SEQUENCE
1 – Perception
2 – Experience
3 – Comprehension (identity)
4 – Association (imagination) (search)
5 – Criticism (testing) (reason)
6 – Valuation (judgement) (reason)
7 – Decision (reason)
8 – Action (test)
HIERARCHY OF TRUTHS
1 – Understandable: True enough to imagine a conceptual relationship
2 – Rationalizable: True enough for me to feel good about myself.
3 – Rational: True enough for me to take actions that produce positive results.
4 – Moral: True enough for me to not cause others to react negatively to me.
5 – Decidable (Justice): True enough to resolve a conflict without subjective opinion among my fellow people with similar values.
6 – Decidable (justice): True enough to resolve a conflict without subjective opinion across different peoples with different values.
7 – True: True regardless of all opinions or perspectives.
8 – Tatuology: Tautologically true: in that the two things are equal.
METHODS OF POSSIBLE WARRANTY
1 – Understandable/Recognizable (imaginable, possible to imagine)
2 – Reason (Reasonable, Reason)
3 – Rationalism (internally Consistent, non contradictory)
4 – Critical Rationalism (falsified for physical science)
5 – Testimonialism (falsified for social science)
ETHICAL AND MORAL WARRANTIES
1 – Productive
2 – Fully Informed
3 – Warrantied
4 – Voluntary
5 – Transfer
6 – Free of externalities to the contrary.
SCIENTIFIC METHOD
-fact-
1 – Observation
2 – Identification
3 – Hypothesis
4 – Criticism
5 – Fact
-theory-
1 – Observation
2 – Free Association (internal observation)
3 – Identification
4 – Hypothesis
5 – Criticism
6 – Theory
-law-
1 – Publication
2 – Observation
3 – Free Association
4 – Hypothesis
5 – Criticism
6 – Law (survival)
FULL SET OF WARRANTIES OF TRUTHFULNESS
1 – Categorically consistent (non-conflationary)
2 – Internally Consistent (logical and non-contradictory) “justifiable”
3 – Externally correspondent (observably consistent) “demonstrable”
4 – Existentially-Possible (operationally demonstrable and subjectively testable) “possible”
5 – Moral (consisting of productive, fully informed, warr., vol. exch)
6 – Fully Accounted (have we included all externalities?) “free of externalities”
7 – Limited (what are the limits of the statement?) “Falsified”
8 – Parsimonious (where is information lacking?) “internal limits”
ETHICAL SPECTRUM
1 – Pedagogical Ethics – youth
2 – Virtue Ethics – young
3 – Rule Ethics – adult
4 – Outcome Ethics – mature adult
5 – Testimonial Ethics – the wise adult
ORGANIZATIONS OF PRODUCTION
1 – Persistence of Existence (life)
2 – Organization of Reproduction (family)
3 – Organization of Production of Consumption
4 – Organization of Production of Commons (investment)
WEAPONS OF INFLUENCE, ORGANIZATION, COERCION
1 – Violence ( Deprivation of Inventory )
2 – Exchange ( Deprivation of opportunity )
3 – Gossip ( Deprivation of cooperation )
APPLICATION OF WEAPONS OF INFLUENCE
The Demand for Production – Using Gossip (shaming)
The Involuntary Organization of Production – Using Force
The Voluntary Organization of Production – Exchange
PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEMS
Metaphysical
……..Heroism (demonstrated excellence)
……..Science (truth) ……
……..Naturalism (reality)
……. Natural Law (sovereignty)
Political
……..Consent, Contract, Republican(Meritocratic) Commons
……..Testimony, Common Law, Judge, Jury
Moral
……..Christianity (love/trust bias)
Spiritual (Aesthetic)
…….Love of nature (animism/paganism)
Personal
…….Buddhism……….Stoicism
…….Yoga…………..sport
…….Nurturing………Craftsmanship.
…….Spiritual ……..Political (mental?)
…….Experiential……Actionable
…….Feminine …….. Masculine
Source date (UTC): 2016-01-15 11:26:00 UTC
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Drones Hovering
[D]rones Hovering 1) We probably need to maintain a right of Transitus (transit) but not a right of Observo(observation) or Usus (use) for drones. I can’t see how to get around this. That means that you must have the ability to navigate but not the ability to observe. (this is pretty easy. we put blinders on horses, we can put a horizontal blinder on transiting drones. 2) Rights of Observo(observation) into human activity(not territory alone) require either permission or warrant. In other words, if you have a big ranch, or a territorial view, and the drone is silent, and in transit, it is hard to say that this infringes on your actions. However if your actions are being observed,such that you are put at risk of either embarrassment for normal activities (sex, affection, emotional release, play), or put at risk for predation (gathering information with which to engage in the imposition of costs), then 3) What I would expect to see otherwise is the equivalent of camouflage netting, designed to defeat drones, or active repulsion systems designed to blind them when attempting to observe homes. 4) What I hope someone creates is drones that kill other drones. These are very cheap to make, and a ‘necessary’ defense mechanism against the possibility of predation enhanced by observation (spying). As a criminal endeavor it is quite easy to use drones to look for homes to rob. It is also easy to use drones to attack power lines. So a drone in motion at altitude is somewhat hard to criticize. While a drone hovering or exploring private property is not.