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  • “Crying about the rigors of sovereignty is not something sovereign people do.”–

    —“Crying about the rigors of sovereignty is not something sovereign people do.”—Josh Jeppson

    (There’s no crying in baseball, and none in Sovereignty either.)


    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-22 15:03:00 UTC

  • TRUMP’S STRATEGY: NEGOTIATE FROM A POSITION OF MISTRUST, AND MAINTAIN WALK AWAY

    TRUMP’S STRATEGY: NEGOTIATE FROM A POSITION OF MISTRUST, AND MAINTAIN WALK AWAY POWER., CAUSING YOUR OPPONENTS TO CREATIVELY NEGOTIATE ON THE DEFENSE.

    He uses this strategy all the time. He did it throughout his career. He did it through the campaign. He did it prior to taking office. And he has continued to do it since taking office.

    1) ACT STUPID (OR PARANOID): “Say what the base thinks, and cause the state bureaucracy, media, public intellectuals, and academy, to justify its position thereby educating the people.”

    He has been doing this to the media and they do his bidding. It is how he obtained free press. It is how they are under his control today.

    In this way he talks to his base, who understands exactly what he is doing, and avoids putting the opponents in control of the discourse.

    As long as his base will repeat what he says the opposition will remain on the defensive.

    I think most people forget that he wrote a book on the art of the deal. Trump forgot more about negotiation in the past hour than most people on earth will ever know.

    I’m not the only person who has been putting this explanation forward – dozens of others have. It’s obvious. It’s just not obvious to the solipsistic left. People who speak in emotion today not consequence in the future.

    2) USE HYPERBOLE (The Kantian Categorical Imperative):

    One of the other techniques he makes use of is that conservatives speak in hyperbole in order to accentuate the conservative intuition to treat all moral statements under the Kantian Categorical Imperative.

    What is it? Conservatives always ask themselves, subconsciously: “What if everyone did that, or what would be the consequences of a lot of this happening?” (The intuition of the conservative time preference).

    3) ACT DECISIVELY ACCORDING WHAT THEY EXPECT: ACTING STUPID.

    This technique results in forcing all other parties to use creative means of preventing that EXTREME (which you never intend), and will come to the table with either an admission of failure so that you can move on.

    In other words, it is a means of exporting cost and blame by forcing others to do work defensively. This produces the least posturing, less deceitful, most detailed explanatory responses by others, and it leaves responsibility for failure at their feet. Your hands are clean.

    4) SIEZE OPPORTUNITY FOR SUCCESS, WHILE DEMONSTRATING HOW DISHONEST AND MANIPULATIVE AND UNTRUSTWORTHY YOUR OPPONENTS ARE.

    Now from personal experience, this requires some acting skill, but all it really requires is ‘keeping your finger on the pulse of your workers’ and using whatever concerns they have (which are far more paranoid and creative than you can ever imagine being) against your opponents’.

    Trump is a MASTER OF THE DEAL. Not of testimony, not of fully informed, consent, but of negotiation and the deal.

    Basically, force people to make you happy, but never admit to being satisfied. Then anyone who was at all honest and helpful, heap praise upon, and make sure gets access to future opportunities.

    THE IGNORANCE OF THE TALKING HEAD CLASS

    People who babble, advocate, politic, and criticize for a living rarely if EVER have had any responsibility for anything other than themselves. Those who manage the incomes of many families, tens, hundreds or thousands; those who manage the money of investors; those who manage the political demands of millions; all have responsibility as long as they can fail. Unfortunately, politicians can’t really fail because – while we could – we don’t measure them the way we measure business, industry, and finance.

    When you fight in business you fight, and when you fight in business in ‘the trades’ you’re dealing with very small margins, and very ‘creative’ means of error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, obscurantism, fictionalism, and outright deceit.

    NEGOTIATION AS PROXY WARFARE

    Imagine (you probably can’t) what it is like to negotiate with Yassir Arafat, any given president of Iran, any given member of the Russia duma, or any given Chinese official. In these countries DECEPTION is not only an art, but it is HONORABLE. In the case of Chinese it is simply good manners to lie in most circumstances.

    Trump uses very well understood negotiating techniques. They have names. People teach them. You can hire people to use them for you. Most of us cannot grasp the art of negotiation with enemies, competitors, and frenemies. (Foreign Governments, Domestic Politicians, Bureaucrats, Unions, Financiers, Construction, Garbage Disposal, Maintenance, Housekeeping, and Utility companies.)

    Imagine what it is to negotiate with rooms full of lawyers trying to seek advantage through contractual nuance (deceit). (You wouldn’t believe what I have heard from the top firms in the USA like Wilson Sonsini – ‘Here is how to screw your common shareholders….’, and “here is how we’re going to help the other side screw you”. Or what I have heard from the Clinton Foundation (which I won’t repeat here).

    (Conversely, FWIW, the CIA (er…State Department) never lied to me … ever. They only say “I can’t discuss those topics.) And my (limited) experience in the Justice Department was that everyone is lying all the time, and at every opportunity, and doing as little as possible, taking as much vacation time, and politicking for another position. Conversely the Postal Inspectors were about as straight up and honest as you can get.)

    Trump has vast experience with ‘the unskilled laboring classes’, ‘the semi-skilled working classes’, and the ‘the skilled classes’, the ‘managerial classes’, the ‘professional classes’, and the bureaucratic classes. He has build his career negotiating with people in an industry (construction) where corruption is rife at political, government, union, and contract or level, and where profits and losses are often determined in by the resolution of conflicts over prices and responsibility in courts, and where everyone is greedy and trying to get a dime out of everyone else.

    Unfortunately, college educated yet ignorant and questionably intelligent america, and the ‘talkers’ generally lack any responsibility for people, money, and tangible results of any scale, and have lost all cognition of what it’s like to do this kind of ‘real work’. The kind of work his BASE does every single day.

    HE’S DOING WHAT THE WORKING AND PRODUCING PUBLIC WANT, AND WHAT CONSERVATIVE INTELLECTUALS (LIKE ME) WANT.

    As someone who has spent a few decades now working on performative truth (and what we refer to as the scientific method), I think many of us in the population are desirous of putting the shoe on the other public intellectuals foot so to speak, and therefore changing the strategy to where we actively interrogate the state, academy, and media. If for no other reason than the misuse of statistics, and the misrepresentation of nearly all ‘research’ in anthropology, economics, the social sciences, and psychology.

    Even within that discipline of economics, I find it trivially easy to demonstrate that almost every measure we can find constitutes cherrypicking and does not fully account for the changes in various forms of capital, and the cost of doing so. Isn’t economics of growth de-facto cherrypicking?

    Anyway. On behalf of the public I prefer that politicians prosecute the academy state and media. Because those of us out here in the fields (tiny think tanks included) are clearly not able to do so in sufficient numbers.

    Cheers.

    ( Note: I made a living by buying, reforming, consolidating, and selling companies. I have used this strategy for decades at admittedly smaller scales. And I have a more ‘ruthless’ reputation than Trump does – at my infinitely smaller scale of operations. )


    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-22 14:59:00 UTC

  • AN BRIEF EXPLANATION OF THE INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES

    AN BRIEF EXPLANATION OF THE INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES UNTIL PRESENT

    I consider each wave of conservatism (somewhere between around one generation (25) years between iterations to have been a failure.

    Starting with the war interrupting Poincare, Maxwell, Darwin, Menger, Spencer, Nietzche, and the Romanticists and the second german scientific enlightenment, continuing with the failure of Mises, Hayek, Popper, Brouwer, Bridgman, and all their peers. (failing with science), moving to literature in the next generation (Kirk and contemporaries), moving to intellectual research in the late 70’s (the investment in the think tanks), to the conservative shift in the sciences due to the development of computers, magnetic imaging systems, and research in genetics, and the economic and historical evidence of a century of modernity in the late 1990’s.

    So my perspective is that we are now in the hard science era picking up where the war disrupted the center of the completion of the enlightenment in Germany, and as a consequence throughout europe, and less so in america, where Poincare,Brouwer/Bridgman failed, (maxwell succeeded), Darwin failed to extend into social science and politics, Spencer failed to explain operationalism in social science, Hayek only partially succeeded in Cognition, Economics, Politics, and Law, and Popper only partially succeeded wth Critical rationalism (philosophy of science).

    We are now completing (without understanding what we are doing) the 19th century (lost) german second half of the enlightenment (social science).

    But this is why we must read and understand:

    1 – Marx (jewish),

    2 – Durant (french catholic)

    3 – Toynbee (Anglo Tory), and

    4 – Spengler(German ‘lutheran’), and Hobbes (‘aryan’),

    Just as we must understand:

    1 – marx/freud/boaz(jewish athoritarian pseudoscience),

    2 – rousseu(catholic utopian moral literatue),

    3 – kant(german duty and rationalism),

    4 – locke/smith/hume/jefferson(english utopian empiricism).

    To understand the different enlightenment strategies.

    Everyone writes in their group evolutionary strategy under the assumption that it is ‘good’. But the only testable good independent of context (group evolutionary strategy) is ‘reciprocity’ (natural law).

    Of those historians, and philosophers, who provides us with the closest approximation of natural law?

    And what is the consequence if everyone practices natural law, but constructs the myth, institutions, law, norms, and commons most suitable to their people in truthful (scientific reciprocity) terms?

    Criticisms of the past motivations are available for every single group that evolved under literacy (the enlightenment).

    The question is, regardless of intentions, regardless of motivations, regardless of previous actions, what actions must we take today to create a future where the benefits of knowledge and understanding can continue to persist,and expand?

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine


    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-22 14:12:00 UTC

  • Q&A: “CURT, HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT INTELLECTUAL HISTORY?” —“How do you feel abo

    Q&A: “CURT, HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT INTELLECTUAL HISTORY?”

    —“How do you feel about just general ‘intellectual history’? Has anyone written useful accounts of the appropriate methodology or does one have to approach it piecemeal?”— A Friend.

    Will Durant,

    1) the lessons of history

    2) the story of philosophy

    3) the greatest minds and ideas of all time.

    Now, Durant is a proper catholic frenchman, and he is clearly a fan of democracy, and so you have to discount his value judgements.

    But he is a superb and accessible author, and I have found that for most people, you get a better foundation with his overview – the overview of a historian (empiricist).

    Most people who write about philosophy only know philosophy. Durant studied philosophy and came to (the correct) conclusion that there are NO ANSWERS THERE, but that all the answers exist in history. (he is right)..

    Philosophy is just literature. You might as well read fantasy stories. Instead, read history, particularly economic history. And science if you can manage it.

    Philosophy and literature advocates; history records; and measurement provides information, and as the three converge we find some possiblilty of truth candidate.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-22 12:35:00 UTC

  • 1) The english immigrants were germanic, and were eugenicists before the term wa

    1) The english immigrants were germanic, and were eugenicists before the term was coined.

    2) the german immigrants improved on the english, by increasing the numbers of germanic peoples

    3) the scotts irish at least held onto our traditions.

    4) the consequences of the potato-famine irish and catholic were severe (see New England)

    5) the consequences of the italians were worse (see NE/NJ)

    6) the consequences of the (eastern) jews were the worst of all.

    7) the destruction of the souther black agrarian family was the tipping point.

    8) the invasion by the Caribbeans, south Americans (Mestizos), and Muslims has been catastrophic.

    And now we are at civil war.

    How can we measure these things? In effect on law.

    Who caused it? Look at THE DATA. Women + Catholics. Whose idea was it? Jews.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-22 11:33:00 UTC

  • ADAM VOIGHT: USA IN FIRST STAGES OF HYBRID WARFARE (had to repeat this) Adam Voi

    ADAM VOIGHT: USA IN FIRST STAGES OF HYBRID WARFARE

    (had to repeat this)

    Adam Voight

    So is the USA in the early stages of “hybrid war”. Right?

    Curt Doolittle

    my implied suggestion …. yes

    Adam Voight

    Just as the printing press created the modern nation-state, so now we are seeing a similar media-driven change in how politic is done.

    Curt Doolittle

    Exactly … and a return to war as usual: factions that the state can no longer and no longer has an interest in controlling.

    BTW: Iran was the first actor. Russia the second. We ignored iran because they are ‘them’. But russians are ‘us’ and that we see as a proble.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-22 11:18:00 UTC

  • I THINK THIS MIGHT BE HARD FOR YOU BUT …. (mathematics and truth) (very import

    I THINK THIS MIGHT BE HARD FOR YOU BUT ….

    (mathematics and truth) (very important) (hot gates pls read)

    The answer is quite simple: you just demonstrated proof of operational construction and named that series of actions.

    Reality consists of the following actionable and conceivable dimensions:

    1 – point, (identity, or correspondence)

    2 – line (unit, quantity, set, or scale defined by relation between points)

    3 – area (defined by constant relations)

    4 – geometry (existence, defied by existentially possible spatial relations)

    5 – change (time (memory), defined by state relations)

    6 – pure, constant, relations. (forces (ideas))

    7 – externality (lie groups etc) (external consequences of constant relations)

    7 – reality (or totality) (full causal density)

    We can speak in descriptions including (at least):

    1 – operational (true) names

    2 – mathematics (ratios)

    3 – logic (sets)

    4 – physics (operations)

    5 – Law (reciprocity)

    6 – History (memory)

    7 – Literature (allegory (possible))

    8 – Literature of pure relations ( impossible )

    8a – Mythology (supernormal allegory)

    8b – Moral Literature (philosophy – super rational allegory)

    8c – Pseudoscientific Literature (super-scientific / pseudoscience literature)

    8c – Religious Literature (conflationary super natural allegory)

    8d – Occult Literature (post -rational experiential allegory )

    We can testify to the truth of our speech only when we have performed due diligence to remove:

    1 – ignorance,

    2 – error,

    3 – bias,

    4 – wishful thinking,

    5 – suggestion,

    6 – obscurantism,

    7 – fictionalism, and

    8 – deceit.

    So of the tests:

    1 – categorical consistency (equivalent of point)

    2 – internal consistency (equivalent of line)

    3 – external correspondence (equivalent shape/object)

    4 – operational possibility (what you just described) (equivalent of change [operations])

    6 – limits, parsimony, and full accounting. (equivalent of proof)

    You have demonstrated test number 4. Only.

    Those operations existed or can exist. That you engaged in conflation (or deception) because you have given allegorical (fictional) names to a sequence of operations does not. Because you reintroduced falsehood by analogy.

    You can imagine a something with the properties of a unicorn, you can speak of the same, draw the same, sculpt the same … but until you can breed one (and even then we must question), and we can test it, the unicorn does not exist ***in any condition that we can test in all dimensions necessary for you to testify it exists***

    This is just one of the differences between TRUTH (dimensional consistency (constant relations)), and some subset of the properties of reality (DIMENSIONAL CONSISTENCY).

    Mathematics allows us to describe constant relations between constant categories (correspondence) by means of self-reference we call ‘ratios’ to some constant unit (one). The more deterministic (constant) the relations the more descriptive mathematics, the higher causal density that influences changes in state, the more information and calculation is necessary for the description of candidate consequences, and eventually we must move from the description of end states to the description of intermediary states that because of causal density place limits on the ranges of possible end states.

    In other words, in oder to construct theories (descriptions) of general rules of constant relations, we SUBTRACT properties of reality from our descriptions until we include nothing but identity(category), quantity, and ratio, and constrain ourselves to operations that maintain the ratios between the subject (identity).

    Mathematics has evolved but retained (since the greeks at least) the ‘magical’ (fictional, supernormal fiction, we call platonism) as a means of obscuring a mathematician’s lack of understanding of just why ‘this magic works’. When in reality, mathematics is trivially simple, because it rests on nothing more than correspondence (identity), quantity, ratio, and operations that maintain those ratios, and incrementally adding or removing dimensions, to describe relations across the spectrum between points(identities, objects, categories) and pure relations at scales we do not yet possess the instrumentation or memory or ability to calculate at such vast scales – except through intermediary phenomenon.

    As such, operationally speaking, the discipline of mathematics consists (Truthfully) of the science (theories of), general rules of constant relations at scale independence, in arbitrarily selected dimensions. In other words. Mathematics consists of the study of measurement.

    it is understandable why we do not grasp the first principles of the universe – they are unobservable directly except at great cost. It is not understandable why we do not grasp the first principles of mathematics: because measurement is a very simple thing, and dimensions are very simple things.

    That mathematicians still speak in fictional language, just as do theists and just as do the majority of philosophers (pseudo science, pseudo-rationalism, pseudo-mythology) is merely evidence of retention of ancient fictionalism (platonism). And the fact that we must have these discussions demonstrates the equivalent of faith in platonic models, is equal to faith in theological models – merely lacking the anthropomorphism.

    Ergo, infinities are a fictionalism. Multiple infinities are a fictionalism. Both fictionalism describe conditions where time and actions (operations) have been removed as is common in the discipline of measurement (mathematics). Operationally, numbers (operationally constructed positional names, must be existentially produced as are movements of gears attached in ratio. And as such certain sets of numbers (outputs) are produced faster (like seconds or minutes vs hours) than other sets of numbers (outputs), and the reverse: some slower. But we simply ignore this fact and instead of saying no matter what limits we apply, the size of the current set of x will always be larger than the current set of y, we say the infinities are of different sizes? No. the intermediary sets produce members at different rates, and the term ‘infinity’ merely refers to ‘unknown limit’ or ‘limit that must be supplies by correspondence with reality upon application.

    Practice math as science, or practice it as supernatural religion. I can make correspondent statements referring to god, I can make correspondent statements referring to ‘infinities’ or any other form of mathematical platonism, but in the end, when I do that, I merely make excuses for my inability to testify to causality: TRUTH.

    Ergo, like I said, I am pretty well versed in the philosophy of mathematics, and I am perhaps most versed in the philosophy of science of anyone living. And I am pretty confident that mathematicians are no different from scripturalists and platonists: using arcane language and internal consistency to justify a failure to grasp causality: that the only reason internal consistency correspondence to reality is because at least in the physics of the universe if not the actions of man, determinism reigns. In other words, mathematicians in most senses have no idea why what they do, allows them to do what they do.

    And at least physicists admit it.

    And lawyers before juries have no choice.

    Our “Objectives” (intentions) are irrelevant in court. You do not have any right, permission, or ability to determine harm to others. Others determine if you have caused harm to them. And the jury, the judge, and the law are used to determine if in fact your words and deeds cause harm to others. As a prosecutor in court, trying you on whether you speak truthfully, you are guilty of making excuses for the harm you have done by false representation of the discipline of measurement. 😉 you might claim no harm, but then the opposition would say that your retention of fictionalism imposes a cost on every student which is multiplied by every possible action that they could have taken involving any judgement requiring measurement. If we can prevent other kinds of fraud in the market for goods, services, and testimony, why cannot we fill the gap, and prevent fraud in the market for information? 😉

    In other words, in crime, neither your intentions nor your opinion matter. Defacto, you’re imposing costs on the commons.

    The question is only whether the outcome of your actions imposes costs. Once that question is settled, you are liable for restitution regardless of intent.

    Now, since the cost of the practice of supernaturalism, super-normalism (platonism), pseudo-rationalism, and pseudoscience, are only substantial when in the commons, whatever you think in your head is your choice. However once yo speak it in public you are just as liable for that damage as you are liable for yelling fire in the theater. There is no fire in the theatre, and there is no imaginary existence.

    Infinity is the name we give to unknown limits that must be provided by context.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-22 11:08:00 UTC

  • IT – THE END OF THE PEACE OF WESTPHALIA AND THE RETURN TO ALL-OUT-WAR (I don’t m

    http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/03/21/ukrainian-elder-statesman-how-russian-hybrid-war-is-changing-the-world-order/READ IT – THE END OF THE PEACE OF WESTPHALIA AND THE RETURN TO ALL-OUT-WAR (I don’t mean this as anti-russian per se, but merely the acknowledgment that the peace of westphalia is ended. and that war in the present belongs to FACTIONS like “US”, not states.)

    Europe cannot fight the immigration problem becuase in fact THE STATE CANNOT.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-22 01:01:00 UTC

  • “To make your job easy, let me translate Curt’s model for the folk below +3 sigm

    —“To make your job easy, let me translate Curt’s model for the folk below +3 sigma: conflict resolution and cooperation among sovereign peers is a different GAME than organization of non-sovereigns by a central sovereign. This cybernetic differential produces different optimizations, which we call civilizational strategies. If you can cut the lifeblood of other agents on a whim (centrally organized irrigation), then you can rule by fiat. If you can’t overwhelm, force other agents cheaply into submission, then you’ll have to discover a method of adjudication in conflicts such that you get stable cooperation instead of retaliation and defect/defect equilibrium. In other words, you’ll discover natural law, and you’ll incrementally get better at truth telling to make it work.”— Propertarian Frank


    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-21 21:54:00 UTC

  • “Feminism is not the result of the thought process of grown women but observatio

    —“Feminism is not the result of the thought process of grown women but observations made by a female child that then get turned into a law”—


    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-21 20:38:00 UTC