Curt Doolittle

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  • ON ASKING FOR CITATIONS (JUSTIFICATIONISM) There is a difference between questio

    ON ASKING FOR CITATIONS (JUSTIFICATIONISM)

    There is a difference between questioning experimental data, and questioning asserted theory.

    We can ask for data for cites – that’s criticism, but we can’t ask for arguments for cites – that’s justificationism.

    Best answer is not to request cites but to offer alternative, more parsimonious hypotheses- what we call criticism, and see if the original argument survives.

    While dishonest people ask for cites in order to create a justificationary rhetorical fallacy, what most honest people mean when they ask for cites is that they want to know more, so that they can judge for themselves.

    My position on these questions is driven empirically: papers are almost always *shit* (always actually), and so the only works worth recommending are books that integrate hypotheses into contextual knowledge.

    I’d get into why that’s true but that would take me a while.

    So, ask for, and supply:

    1) cites for experimental data,

    2) counter argument for theory,

    3) books for understanding.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-06-01 03:08:00 UTC

  • Prior to universal suffrage we used one FAMILY one vote, by the male property ow

    Prior to universal suffrage we used one FAMILY one vote, by the male property owner: the only individual with intergenerational incentives.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-06-01 02:25:00 UTC

  • You can’t sell a eugenic social order under majoritarian democracy where women a

    You can’t sell a eugenic social order under majoritarian democracy where women and men have equal votes. Women reproduce with dysgenic bias.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-06-01 02:24:00 UTC

  • The reason that conservatism cant be stated honestly is because it’s unappealing

    The reason that conservatism cant be stated honestly is because it’s unappealing under democracy: conservatism is a eugenic social order.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-06-01 02:23:00 UTC

  • Data is holding constant over twenty years: men hold the theoretical high ground

    Data is holding constant over twenty years: men hold the theoretical high ground (mental models – space) and women hold the descriptive high ground (experiences – words).

    Source date (UTC): 2016-06-01 01:52:00 UTC

  • “The peculiarity of philosophy in Italy is, with minor exceptions, an endless ta

    —“The peculiarity of philosophy in Italy is, with minor exceptions, an endless target practice with the object of refining some aspects of German classical idealism, or else the re-hashing of themes from the philosophy of the ‘schools’ in quasi Thomistic ways.‘”—

    interesting positioning. I tend to read only the aristocratic italian writers and I see them as only sligthly sentimental empiricists. So perhaps I read only the scientific wing (those that descend from machhieavelli). But it occurs to me that while french love deceit and subtlety, and germans abstract obfuscation, the italians are less trusting and their philosophy more skeptical, if beautiful.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-06-01 01:46:00 UTC

  • PROPERTARIANISM Conquest of a group and its territorial monopoly is objectively

    PROPERTARIANISM

    Conquest of a group and its territorial monopoly is objectively morally warranted, and objectively legally decidable if they systematically violate rule of law under natural law – even internally. Ergo, you can be conquered by your neighbors if your people violate rule of law.

    Effectively this is the competitive balance the church created.

    If the gods speak truth then truth and gods are one. If not then they are not our gods.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-06-01 01:34:00 UTC

  • Retweeted Post PC (@FUFeelinz): #IStandWithHateSpeech because those who make pea

    Retweeted Post PC (@FUFeelinz):

    #IStandWithHateSpeech because those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-06-01 01:04:00 UTC

  • Alt Right (@_AltRight_): #IStandWithHateSpeech b/c western govs could easily end

    http://twitter.com/_AltRight_/status/737818739081510913/photo/1?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=fb&utm_campaign=curtdoolittle&utm_content=737871825930231808Retweeted Alt Right (@_AltRight_):

    #IStandWithHateSpeech b/c western govs could easily end real hate by shutting down mosques & deporting muslims https://t.co/yncnWYicG2

    Source date (UTC): 2016-06-01 01:02:00 UTC

  • Spencer was influenced by Lamarckism not Darwinism. But that doesn’t make his ge

    Spencer was influenced by Lamarckism not Darwinism. But that doesn’t make his general arguments less meaningful.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-05-31 15:12:00 UTC