Curt Doolittle

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  • INTUITION, BIAS, PREJUDICE —“Is intuition synonymous with prejudice?”—Skye S

    INTUITION, BIAS, PREJUDICE

    —“Is intuition synonymous with prejudice?”—Skye Stewart

    We have genetics that cause us to possess intuitions and biases — – both of which are pre-cognitive.

    A prejudice consists of a pre-judgement, and therefore a judgement we have made by some degree of free association, reason or contemplation.

    One may develop a prejudice because we also possess a bias, and we may possess a bias because of an intuition, and we may possess an intuition out of genetic necessity or accident, but they are different things, and …

    … oh… shall I say it? Yes?

    Therefore they are not to be CONFLATED.

    lol Sigh. That felt good.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-08 22:52:00 UTC

  • DEFINITION: LAW (‘inescapable’). 1 – Law: a statement of perpetual continuity (d

    DEFINITION: LAW (‘inescapable’).

    1 – Law: a statement of perpetual continuity (determinism), insured by the forces (organizations) of nature or man(polity, or government).

    2 – Law (physical): a statement of perpetual continuity (determinism), discovered by a process of testing(prosecuting) an hypothesis against reality,

    3 – Law (Natural): a statement of perpetual continuity (reciprocity) insured by the forces of nature (natural law)

    4 – Law (Common): a discovery (finding) of a violation of reciprocity, argued by a plaintiff, defendant, or prosecutor (hypothesis) of the findings of an inquiry by a judge (theory), that survives refutation from other judges (law), insured by a third party insurer of last resort (polity, government).

    5 – “Law” (Command) A command issued by the insurer of last resort, insured (enforced) by that insurer of last resort.

    6 – “Law” (Legislation): A contract on terms between members of ruling organization, issued by that organization, in its capacity of an insurer of last resort (self insurance).

    7 – “Law” (Treaty): An agreement between insurers of last resort, under reciprocal promise of adherence and insurance.

    Of these seven, command and legislation are not laws, but enforced as if they were laws. Treaties are uninsurable, because compliance is voluntary, unenforcible, and such agreements are, and always have been regularly violated – unless insured by an empire: a larger insurer of last resort.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-08 21:08:00 UTC

  • DEFINITIONS OF THE WORD “LAW” (and lesser things) So, you want to hold to the de

    DEFINITIONS OF THE WORD “LAW”

    (and lesser things)

    So, you want to hold to the definition of ‘involved’ as including the consequences of some action, rather than ongoing action, then I’m going to be forced to ask now someone is no longer involved?

    I leave psychologizing, conflation, loading, framing, and overloading (acts of suggestion) to people engaged in deceit.

    LETS UNDERSTAND THE ARGUMENTATIVE METHOD OF MARXISM

    I (correctly) call acts of ridicule, shaming, rallying, psychologizing, conflation, loading, framing, overloading, fictionalism (supernaturalism, pseudo-rationalism, and pseudo-science), straw-manning, straw-manning to avoid exposition, heaping of undue praise on unworthy heroes, slighting of worthy competitors – what they are: the techniques of Marxists and Feminists. What is this technique? There are only three means of coercion: force, cooperation (reciprocity, truthfulness, in argument in this case), and Gossip (attempts to create or eliminate opportunities). Ergo: Marxist/Feminist/postmodern substitution of argument is in fact, nothing more than *gossip*.

    NOW FOR THE MEANING OF LAW (‘inescapable’).

    1 – Law: a statement of perpetual continuity (determinism), insured by the forces (organizations) of nature or man(polity, or government).

    2 – Law (physical): a statement of perpetual continuity (determinism), discovered by a process of testing(prosecuting) an hypothesis against reality,

    3 – Law (Natural): a statement of perpetual continuity (reciprocity) insured by the forces of nature (natural law)

    4 – Law (Common): a discovery (finding) of a violation of reciprocity, argued by a plaintiff, defendant, or prosecutor (hypothesis) of the findings of an inquiry by a judge (theory), that survives refutation from other judges (law), insured by a third party insurer of last resort (polity, government).

    5 – “Law” (Command) A command issued by the insurer of last resort, insured (enforced) by that insurer of last resort.

    6 – “Law” (Legislation): A contract on terms between members of ruling organization, issued by that organization, in its capacity of an insurer of last resort (self insurance).

    7 – “Law” (Treaty): An agreement between insurers of last resort, under reciprocal promise of adherence and insurance.

    Of these seven, command and legislation are not laws, but enforced as if they were laws. Treaties are uninsurable, because compliance is voluntary, unenforcible, and such agreements are, and always have been regularly violated – unless insured by an empire: a larger insurer of last resort.

    SUMMARY

    I don’t rely on fuzzy terminology to construct a pretense of argument in order to invoke moral indignation because I cannot make my argument by substantive means – in fact, my reputation, justly deserved, is for the exact opposite, usually including the ironic criticism ‘autistic’, because I specialize in the prosecution of deceptions carried out by those who practice elaborate gossip as a pretense for argument.

    —“I don’t call that ‘involved’. It means we had an interaction. But to be ‘involved’ requires ‘persistence’. So you’re either ignorant of the terminology, not very bright, or engaging in rhetorical fallacy, or rallying and shaming in the usual neocon (marxist), libertarian(marxist), or socialist(marxist) tradition of conflation, heaping of undue praise, straw manning, and propagandizing.”—

    Q.E.D. Criticism stands.

    Thus endeth the lesson.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    https://www.facebook.com/MisesUK/photos/a.283608325389931.1073741828.251337711950326/309122929505137/?type=3

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-08 20:57:00 UTC

  • (by Micah Pezdirtz) I was inspired by Kipling’s poem: —“Gold is for the mistre

    (by Micah Pezdirtz)

    I was inspired by Kipling’s poem:

    —“Gold is for the mistress — silver for the maid —

    Copper for the craftsman cunning at his trade.”

    “Good!” said the Baron, sitting in his hall,

    “But Iron — Cold Iron — is master of them all.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-08 19:10:00 UTC

  • AGENCY VS RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY —“Is the concept of agency an answer to the r

    AGENCY VS RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY

    —“Is the concept of agency an answer to the rational choice theory?”—Ray V. Westwood

    Correct. we are all rational actors but the scope of information we can rationally process and the tools we can use to reduce complexity to analogies to experience, varies greatly. So because of time constraints, cost constraints, skill constraints, emotional constraints, and intellectual constraints, we rely upon our intuitions for that which we cannot calculate. However, we carry with us genetic biasses that radically affect our intuitions particularly our intuitions at scale. Without markets we cannot ‘calculate’ between our biases.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-08 16:45:00 UTC

  • “Woman is a riddle, the solution to which is a child.”— Nietzsche via Bjorn Mo

    —“Woman is a riddle, the solution to which is a child.”— Nietzsche via Bjorn Moritz

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-08 16:43:00 UTC

  • Or we can just simplify Taleb and say that we evolved to identify opportunities

    Or we can just simplify Taleb and say that we evolved to identify opportunities using very little available information, but it takes an absurd – meaning voluminous and expensive – amount of information before we know enough to determine whether the effect of an outlier cancels out all the possible opportunity that can result from our identification of opportunity using little information. Or to put Taleb’s rule of thumb to it: canceling outliers require logarithmic increases in information before we have any idea of the consequences. Ergo, it is better to be against people act opportunistically in the short term under the assumption of the stability of a long term.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-08 15:53:00 UTC

  • If you can’t say it in your own words, don’t waste my time, or our time, by post

    If you can’t say it in your own words, don’t waste my time, or our time, by posting it – ’cause we have no idea whether you understand what you’re doing or not.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-08 15:48:00 UTC

  • Let’s get this straight. The only reason to talk to you and not kill, enslave, o

    Let’s get this straight. The only reason to talk to you and not kill, enslave, or punish you, is if we engage in conversation limited to perfect reciprocity: meaning transparent, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary exchange of information, free of imposition of costs by externality.

    That means if you engage in ridicule, accusation, avoidance, obscurantism, in order to impose or justify an imposition of costs upon me or others, it is preferable prey upon you honestly, truthfully, by means of violence than it is preferable to be preyed upon you by means of stupidity, ignorance, bias, or deceit.

    Why? First question of ethics: why don’t I kill you and take your stuff? (and kill your sons, and rape and enslave your wives and daughters).

    We are past the point of negotiating with the left.

    You are dead.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-08 15:36:00 UTC

  • FWIW mainstream econ dropped the rational actor hypothesis decades ago. For the

    FWIW mainstream econ dropped the rational actor hypothesis decades ago. For the simple reason we lack the information to act rationally, so we act intuitively, and that means MORALLY.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-08 13:43:00 UTC