Curt Doolittle

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  • LOGICS: (worth repeating) 1 – Mathematics : commensurability provided by operati

    LOGICS:

    (worth repeating)

    1 – Mathematics : commensurability provided by operational, positional, names, and mathematical operations.

    2 – Physical sciences and engineering : commensurability provided by physical determinism (laws of nature).

    3 – Economics : commensurability provided by operationally produced prices

    4 – Politics : commensurability provided by voluntary exchanges, articulated as fully accounted transactions.

    3 – Testimony : commensurability provided by all possible human actions stated objectively as operations.

    I need to work on this further to make it clear but you get the idea.

    A logic is means of testing for possibility.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-09-22 05:33:00 UTC

  • WHERE TO BEGIN? —“Just show us how to begin, how we start removing error, bias

    WHERE TO BEGIN?

    —“Just show us how to begin, how we start removing error, bias, and deception and we will begin. Give us the nuts and bolts.”—

    We begin with e-prime. I suppose I could teach that first. Although I don’t know how I have time to teach such a thing right now. It’s all available on the web anyway….

    I don’t think categorical, logical, and empirical consistency are very difficult if we start with E-prime – they are all well understood and must only be stated in consistent language.

    Propertarianism provides moral consistency and full accounting. I don’t think scope consistency (limits) is very hard either.

    The hard part is provided by the problem of operational language exposes our ignorance.

    It is very hard to learn to speak without the use of the verb to be. But this is the first step. After that, Propertarian ethics. And the rest is just practice.

    Compared to mathematics?

    Language ( logic ) requires we supply limits and consistency that is provided by the assumptions of consistency in mathematics.

    In other words, logic of action is a shallower model, and mathematics a deeper model, but logic is more complicated than mathematics because of the inconstancy of external categories ( referents ) must be rendered commensurable by the grammar of human operations.

    If we understand this we will see that we solved mathematics first because it is much more simple.

    I should perhaps point out that this is the purpose of operationalism: the use of human action to produce consistent logical categories.

    Thank you for allowing me an opportunity to express this important insight.

    ( I hope I don’t forget about this comment because it is an important insight into the grammar of truth. )

    So, let us take this as a sequence for informative purposes:

    LOGICS:

    1 – Mathematics : commensurability provided by operational, positional, names, and mathematical operations.

    2 – Physical sciences and engineering : commensurability provided by physical determinism (laws of nature).

    3 – Economics : commensurability provided by operationally produced prices

    4 – Politics : commensurability provided by voluntary exchanges, articulated as fully accounted transactions.

    3 – Testimony : commensurability provided by all possible human actions stated objectively as operations.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-09-22 05:29:00 UTC

  • Complete sentences solve a lot of problems. 2 + 2 = 4 Assuming I start by observ

    Complete sentences solve a lot of problems.

    2 + 2 = 4

    Assuming I start by observing two of something identical, and I add two more of that same thing to my observation, I will observe a total of four of the same thing; where the names 2(two) and 4(four) refer to positional names of quantities specified by the system of positional naming.

    Numbers consist of operationally constructed positional names, corresponding to some quantity of some consistent category.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-09-22 03:38:00 UTC

  • I don’t really know myself what macro problems I intuit need solving. But here i

    I don’t really know myself what macro problems I intuit need solving. But here is some clarity on categorical consistency.

    As you probably know, I see the problem of ignorance error bias and deception as one of laundering information by exposing unknowns, and prohibiting the obscurantism of ignorance by loading, framing, substitution, suggestion, switching existential point of view, and switching argumentative method.

    While any of these techniques may be used to convey meaning they cannot be used for argument and deduction with the same veracity as consistency in argumentative method under the existential point of view, moral, categorical, logical, empirical, and scope consistency.

    Yet the montage most people argue with consists of precisely these conflations.

    Why? Because we removed grammar, logic, and rhetoric and we failed to add economics – incentives and cost – to the educational system.

    Not just because teachers would have trouble teaching. But because students would stop buying the pseudoscientific messages.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-09-22 03:08:00 UTC

  • I believe in elves ghosts and Angels. But they exist only in our imaginations. M

    I believe in elves ghosts and Angels. But they exist only in our imaginations.

    Mixing truth, history, myth, literature, fantasising, and dream states is just and act of deception by conflation.

    We can compare truth and any other state to determine what we may learn from either.

    But our ability to compare by analogy for the purpose of meaning does not mean these things possess equal truth content.

    They don’t.

    All religions are extremely disciplined forms of literature no different from the Star Wars universe or the world of the Greek myths or that of the Upanishads.

    This is all fantasy literature for the purpose of CONFLATION, thus mixing some combination of psychology, literature, law, and education.

    In the west we disallow this conflation and instead specialise in psychology literature, law, and education.

    We do this to force them into competition so that they cannot be used for deception.

    The west was infected by the oriental technique of literary deception – probably because of Alexander.

    But just because fantasy literature is easier for simple minds to assimilate that does not mean the consequences of simplicity do not produce consequences that manufacture ignorance poverty and deceit.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-09-22 02:51:00 UTC

  • Morality is best. Intelligence I always like. Intelligent and crazy doesn’t both

    Morality is best. Intelligence I always like. Intelligent and crazy doesn’t bother me – crazier people take bigger intellectual risks. But I don’t like anger, and I hate immorality.

    Stop thinking about normal and worry instead about moral.

    If you do then we are all instruments of perception and calculation in an enormous collectively intelligent organism. Neurons in the body human.

    If instead you seek normalcy and equality then we are nearly all incompetent, immoral and undesirable.

    Think about that for a minute.

    Like any system, the organising structure at small scale, large scale, and very large scale is very different.

    Related families. Homogenous polities. Moral mankind.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-09-22 01:40:00 UTC

  • Interesting direction here, Curt. What are your thoughts?

    Interesting direction here, Curt. What are your thoughts?

    Source date (UTC): 2016-09-21 16:22:00 UTC

  • Cultural differences. Legal dispute. In America, lying if any kind is a serious

    Cultural differences.

    Legal dispute.

    In America, lying if any kind is a serious thing and reason for the judge to decide against you. In Ukraine lying is a reasonable response to uncertainty and distrust.

    Ukrainian police are much more akin to American sheriffs. They talk to you. They are reasonable. The try to understand they don’t try to find an opportunity to trip you up or prosecute you and make inquiry someone else’s problem.

    I also prefer to pay a twenty dollar bribe that improves his income rather than a 200 dollar fine that enriches the bureaucracy.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-09-21 06:36:00 UTC

  • (Excellent S02E01!) Dear Writers: Very old and wise people take time to search t

    (Excellent S02E01!)

    Dear Writers:

    Very old and wise people take time to search their memories before responding. This is missing from the characters and it plays hell with suspension of disbelief.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-09-20 14:01:00 UTC

  • Of course you already know about this stuff, but this is really good marketing f

    Of course you already know about this stuff, but this is really good marketing for it!

    Source date (UTC): 2016-09-20 13:49:00 UTC