Curt Doolittle

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  • THE POVERTY OF PHILOSOPHY Theology exists because philosophy excludes its fallac

    THE POVERTY OF PHILOSOPHY

    Theology exists because philosophy excludes its fallacies, and philosophy exists because science excludes its fallacies. Science exists because math excludes its fallacies. Math exists because logic excludes its fallacies.

    The question is why there is a demand for those excluded fallacies? Why? Either to bridge the gap between one stage of ignorance and the next, or to use fallacies for the purpose of conducting some sort of fraud.

    Philosophy just means ‘we don’t know enough to write history, law, science, and mathematics yet’.

    Philosophy serves as young adult literature that prepares you for adult literature: history, law, science, and mathematics, just as children’s stories, fables, and fairy tales prepare yu for young adult literature.

    Its storytelling. Stories provide context for history, law, science, and math.

    So in that sense, the reason philosophy is largely dead, is that history, law, science, mathematics, and logic has rendered it young adult moral fantasy literature.

    The knowledge required at each state of declining ignorance is much greater than the previous.

    (I’ve had to master a lot of fields as a judge if not as a craftsman. It took a very long time. I had the luxury of the wealth and time necessary to invest that time.)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-05 13:14:00 UTC

  • STANDARDS —“light-skinned black Americans suffer an obesity income penalty sim

    http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2332649218795185DOUBLE STANDARDS

    —“light-skinned black Americans suffer an obesity income penalty similar to white Americans, whereas medium- and dark-skinned black Americans seem to suffer no obesity income penalty.”—-

    http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2332649218795185Updated Sep 5, 2018, 12:38 PM

    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-05 12:38:00 UTC

  • ” QUESTION: Hi Curt, if you don’t mind I’ve got a question on Sovereignty after

    —” QUESTION: Hi Curt, if you don’t mind I’ve got a question on Sovereignty after reading your recent posts.

    Is Sovereignty only achieved through combing agency and reciprocity (I think I’ve seen you say this somewhere)? In which case, thinking about this in terms of individualism vs collectivism:

    -Groups of people who lack individual agency, but act as a collective can only ever beg for what they want (the herd).

    -Individuals who possess agency, but are unwilling to reciprocate with one another will be unable to achieve results at scale (lone wolves).

    -Therefore it’s not individualism vs collectivism; it’s agency AND reciprocity which when combined creates Sovereignty (the pack).

    Not sure if I’m stretching things here?”—- Andy Lunn

    ANSWER:

    Um. (a) very well structured argument, (b) correct conclusion. (c) nice work! A+

    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-05 11:55:00 UTC

  • INTUITIONS AS NEURAL ECONOMY Because of my work on artificial intelligence, I th

    INTUITIONS AS NEURAL ECONOMY

    Because of my work on artificial intelligence, I think of intuitions as regional differences neural economy.

    As far as I know very minor changes in rewards and frustrations produce HUGE accumulated differences in regional (functional network) dependence.

    Some people have the resource curse in neural economy, some people do not, and some people are resource poor, and worse, some have resource poor and very poor transport systems (white matter).

    And others have totally unconstructive asymmetries of reward and frustration….. lots to go wrong, many things need to go right.

    So it takes a great deal of training with some, and mere exposure for others…. and for others… its fucking impossible. They’re semi domesticated animals.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-05 11:51:00 UTC

  • CURZON ON THE SCIENCE BEHIND STOIC DISCIPLINE —-“A great first thing to train

    CURZON ON THE SCIENCE BEHIND STOIC DISCIPLINE

    —-“A great first thing to train out of is embarrassment – one of the cardinal signs of lack of agency.”—- Andy Curzon

    I mean, if you wanna start with the first and most important step in ‘never take anything personally’ that’s the first step.

    —-“Be careful not to conflate the processes of ‘pushing away’ (to use the lingo) unhelpful thoughts with the action of redirecting. I do not believe redirecting to be possible, per se. I can only describe a parallel to this by the example of the pathological ‘self-esteem’ movement – or the counterproductive sales pitch of ‘follow your bliss’. One can not AIM for happiness or self-esteem because they are RESULTS of actions. One can not ‘aim’ for a specific thought – but one can ask questions. The practice of asking for something (a form of prayer) and allowing one’s trained ‘wisdom’ to answer it and receive feedback seems akin to the conjecture and refutation processes Popper espouses.”— Andy Curzon

    bingo.

    You cannot circumvent a network of information, you can only train the network of information to come to different conclusions through self-questioning. hence the value of achetypes (gods, demigods, heroes) especially those that are omnicient (can read your subconsious). These train you to role play in a dialog that retrains networks. It works.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-05 11:40:00 UTC

  • ON MILITIA FROM HISTORY TO POLICY TO POPULAR PRESS HISTORY Edwin Viera’s Book :

    https://propertarianism.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/the-sword-and-sovereignty.pdfBOOKS ON MILITIA FROM HISTORY TO POLICY TO POPULAR PRESS

    HISTORY

    Edwin Viera’s Book : The Sword and Sovereignty

    https://propertarianism.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/the-sword-and-sovereignty.pdf

    POLICY

    USA’s Military Work on the Militia

    https://www.amazon.com/Use-Militia-Pennsylvania-Abstract-Discipline/dp/1379235014/

    LAW

    On Constitutional Regulations

    https://www.amazon.com/Regulations-organized-militia-Constitution-United-ebook/dp/B00BIU3166/

    PRACTICE

    On Actions

    https://www.amazon.com/Militia-Battle-Manual-Thomas-Koch/dp/0879471514/Updated Sep 5, 2018, 11:27 AM

    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-05 11:27:00 UTC

  • Please stop spamming me with friend requests from new empty accounts. No, I do n

    Please stop spamming me with friend requests from new empty accounts. No, I do not want some scammer using my account for leverage.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-05 10:38:00 UTC

  • AVOID GETTING STUCK IN AGE-DEPENDENT NARRATIVES Aesop’s fables, Fairy Tales, Art

    AVOID GETTING STUCK IN AGE-DEPENDENT NARRATIVES

    Aesop’s fables, Fairy Tales, Arthurian Legends, Homer, the greek myths, are all not only helpful but possibly necessary. We mature from those to novels, then to biographies, then histories, then maybe economic histories, and then into the sciences.

    But some of us PEAK in life at some particular point and freeze – we all know high school kids who are still living in that world where peer-pressure was the only form of education that worked on them.

    And some of us continuously mature until very old age, precisely because peer pressure does not force us into conformity but into advancement.

    So I view nietzsche as a necessary critique for those that are not able to judge without sentimental and emotional associations.

    The human differs from the animal in distance from impulse and emotion. The adult differs from the child in further increase in distance. The sage differs from the adult in further distance.

    The point is to make use of STAGE SPECIFIC INFORMATION while not getting STUCK in childish pubescent, young adult stage – and continue to mature.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-05 10:18:00 UTC

  • NIETZSCHE IS A DOORWAY – HE GIVES YOU PERMISSION. Don’t get me wrong. Nietzsche

    NIETZSCHE IS A DOORWAY – HE GIVES YOU PERMISSION.

    Don’t get me wrong. Nietzsche is wonderful. Like Rand, he is a doorway for teenagers. The problem is getting stuck in Nietzsche/Rand/Marx world like some people get stuck in comic book, harry potter, and lord of the rings worlds. You know, they’re STAGES of using literature to gain meaning you are not able to access yet by more direct means – they are not ENDS.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-05 10:11:00 UTC

  • “Debunking Paul Krugman is a little like beating up the special ed kid”– Joe Re

    —“Debunking Paul Krugman is a little like beating up the special ed kid”– Joe Redtree

    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-05 10:09:00 UTC