You will become what you imagine that your gods demand of you. The categorical imperative applies to the choice of gods as well: if everyone acted this way, then what would be the consequence, with the people that exist today?
Dayus Pitar and Europa seek to increase their numbers.
Source date (UTC): 2016-08-04 05:45:00 UTC
—“It‘s not that I‘m so smart, it‘s just that I stay with problems longer.” — Albert Einstein
(exactly)
Source date (UTC): 2016-08-04 05:26:00 UTC
A CONVERSATION BETWEEN TALEB AND DOOLITTLE?
Rob De Geer
I want you and Nassim Taleb to tango. My two favorites at the moment.
Curt Doolittle
We can talk and educate, but we can’t really ‘debate’ because we are saying very similar things. I think I would frame the argument, and that my terminology would be so superior that it was inescapable, and that it would show that we’re in violent agreement – and that I understand what he is doing but he doesn’t know about or understand what I’m doing.
So (a) I would ‘win’ only in the sense that I would frame the discourse with a superior descriptive language, and (b) we would both win, and perhaps mankind would win, by showing that we are not necessarily outliers but representatives of a scientific movement to counteract the pseudosciences of the 20th century.
Rob De Geer
OOOooo I want to see it more because of those statements.
Curt Doolittle
I think the big difference between Taleb and I, besides our obvious and genetic cultural differences and our equally big round heads, is that my ‘ego’ is purely a marketing position, and his is a natural extension of his background and character. My mother’s Catholicism worked on me. 🙂 In other words, It would be good for mankind but I don’t see him engaging me until I publish. Even though my work would fend off many of the criticisms he receives. I’m not actually keen on being famous. He is. Different currencies for different souls.
Curt Doolittle (after thinking a bit)
Taleb’s LITERARY method relies on ANALOGY and won’t necessarily help him get to an answer. His mathematics are excellent but don’t seem to be providing him enough parsimony. And for the same reasons I criticize apriorism as a special cast of empiricism, I don’t *THINK* until we determine what it is we need to measure and how to measure it, that we can measure it empirically.
This is why I prefer my method, which should provide us with an understanding of what we need to measure so that we can measure it. All these distortions accumulate throughout the economy and they burn down accumulated capital of every sort: genetic, cultural, normative, reproductive, productive, fixed, and monumental.
Both top down (empiricism) or bottom up (operationalism) help us solve different categories of problems – and then we use the opposite technique to test our hypothesis. We need both tools.
I’ve been hoping Nassim would get a little closer than his demonstration that we require logarithmically increasing amounts of information to gain any insight into outliers and black swans.
I think there is an operational explanation for this, and that just as we measure economies with sets of anchor measures, we can measure for black swans with sets of anchor measures.
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev, Ukraine
Source date (UTC): 2016-08-04 05:20:00 UTC
I’m probably not that much smarter than you are. I’m just dumb about different things.
Source date (UTC): 2016-08-04 05:00:00 UTC
PROPERTARIANISM GIVES ASPIES A LANGUAGE WITH WHICH TO DISCOURSE WITH NORMALS.
Working with the intense-world model of autism, what we ‘aspies’ experience is a lot of localized (intense) but un-integrated phenomenon, and then we try to explain these intense phenomenon to others. Conversely, normals tend to explain the (diluted) single aggregate experience without having visibility into the (intense) localized phenomenon. It’s much easier for them to communicate the RESULTING experience that we DON”T have, than it is for us to communicate the SET of experiences we DO have. Unfortunately for them and fortunately for us, and therefore fortunately for all of us, just as we cannot inspect how we move our limbs – they just move, normals cannot inspect how they obtain those aggregates. We can inspect how we obtain those aggregates at the cost of losing the ability to communicate in aggregates. Or put differently, we speak in much higher information density with higher causal relation. They speak in lower information density with higher experiential description. One of the things I feel most proud of is giving us (intense world thinkers) a language that lets us communicate WITHOUT Experiential loading, in a language that while wordy is comprehensible both to us and to normals.
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev, Ukraine.
Source date (UTC): 2016-08-04 04:59:00 UTC
THE LIFETIME VALUE OF MONEY AND OTHER THINGS
The value of fitness is in how you feel in general. Although it does help you get respect from others.
The value of preening is that you will get respect from others.
The value of manners is that you will get respect from others.
The value of ethics is that you will preserve any respect from others.
The value of money is … mostly in helping you get laid by better women.
After that, the value of money is directly proportional to whether you gain your joy from intellectual or experiential stimuli. It’s pretty cheap to love philosophy and literature, and really expensive to climb or ski the peaks. More expensive to engage in risky sexual relations. And much more expensive to engage in risky marriages that end in divorce.
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev, Ukraine
Source date (UTC): 2016-08-04 04:44:00 UTC
SORRY BOB, YOU CAN’T PROFESSIONALIZE PROGRAMMING. ITS JUST THE NEWEST OF THE TRADES.
(computer science, programming, sociology of technology)
Bob Martin, like many of the Agile leadership, dreams of a return to the original history of programming as an art practiced by professional scientists, engineers, and mathematicians. His hopes that programming will join the ranks of the other professions: accounting, law, and medicine. He correctly identifies the problem that given the rate of expansion of our industry, the exaggerated demand, and the constant entry of many young people means that the majority of programmers are unprofessional. Meaning that they are unable to manage themselves, and take responsibilty for the scope, time, budget, and quality of deliverables.
But while where bob envisions a profession, I am absolutely certain I see a trade: a hierarchy of skill sets from cleanup crews (support desks) to maintenance crews (IT departments), to refurbishment crews (ongoing development and maintenance), to construction crews ( ordinary web, enterprise, and application developers) to retail architects (small systems) to commercial architects (large systems), to specialty suppliers (drivers, frameworks, tools, IDEs, operating sytsems), to Monumental architects (for government and the international industries). The secret in these industries is that it’s the suppliers, not the architects or the craftsmen that possess the material knowledge, that architects and craftsmen rely upon.
Nick Carr predicted the deflation of IT years ago and IT has already become a tradesman’s occupation in a hierarchy culminating in hosting centers. He did not address programming specifically that I recall.
Perhaps we might consider advanced degrees, but we already have them. Unfortunately those degrees are just as unpredictive of market survivability as architectural degrees are predictive of market survivability. The only proof of market surivability is the market, or insurance and bonding where there is skin-in-the-game.
I can easily see a future where there is an equivalent to a building code for software, and architects and development leads are bonded. this would create a semi-professional trade where chaos reigns.
The problem is of course, that while we can establish codes for recreational, residential, light commercial, heavy commercial, light industrial, heavy industrial, agrarian, grazing and forresting, we would have to also produce codes for each of these. ISO9000 makes very little sense really, just as many other regulatory hurdles that claim some degree of extreme, make little sense – and we would just create a black market for the offshoring of software development.
Quality and Certainty increase price dramatically. And software is still too useful and too cheap, and without sufficient damage – at least in commercial settings – to drive up its cost to the point where it’s not worth taking the risk for liability reasons rather than cost reasons.
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kieve, Ukraine
Source date (UTC): 2016-08-04 04:28:00 UTC
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Source date (UTC): 2016-08-04 03:02:00 UTC
Told you so.
If we attacked and destroyed the obscurantist nonsense theory of rothbardianism, we would pull all the right libertarians to conservatism and Leave the existing libertarian movement as a leftist one.
Which it always has been.
Source date (UTC): 2016-08-03 12:37:00 UTC
It’s always good, sure, but you just can’t recapture the experience of 16-24.
Source date (UTC): 2016-08-03 11:41:00 UTC