Curt Doolittle

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  • (humor) AGENT: Are you a journalist, Curt? ME: Sort of. I write philosophy and s

    (humor)

    AGENT:

    Are you a journalist, Curt?

    ME:

    Sort of. I write philosophy and such. No not the ridiculous kind. The serious kind…. Or well, as serious as I feel at the moment. It’s political, legal, and economic philosophy. Usually called “Political Economy”.

    AGENT:

    I’ve always admired the profession, wanted to be one myself. Constantly learning all sorts of things.

    ME:

    hmmm… Don’t be impressed. Most journalists are indistinguishable from the people who send you junk mail. They just use longer form, and more pages. But it’s the same content and process.

    (laughter)

    (Chatting with Apple support explaining why my keyboard is worn out after only a year and a half.)

    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-21 07:51:00 UTC

  • PHILOSOPHY IS FINISHED. THE REST IS LITERATURE, MYTH, AND RELIGION Interesting.

    PHILOSOPHY IS FINISHED. THE REST IS LITERATURE, MYTH, AND RELIGION

    Interesting. Reading top philosopher’s lists.

    Advocates of philosophy conflate the impactful, the useful and the true. In retrospect we can see those who were meaningful (Aristotle, Bacon, Descartes, Hume, Locke, Jefferson.)

    As far as I can tell, in retrospect, the problem all philosophers faced was that they were powerless observers, largely writing literature.

    They feared, sought to entice, or sought to leverage, from either the church, the state, or their peers.

    All the while, rulers ruled, merchants traded, and priests taught. These men only wrote. A few of them matter for the good. Most of them create as much or more harm than good.

    1) The only physical science is what we call physics (engineering).

    2) The only social science is what we call law(cooperation).

    3) The only philosophy testimony(truth).

    4) The only experiential science is aesthetics(experience).

    Because these three things require action: existence.

    1) Action vs reaction in the physical universe. (engineering)

    2) Action vs reaction in the cooperative population (ethics/economics, sociology/politics)

    3) Action vs reaction in personal testimony. (truth/psychology)

    4) Acton vs reaction in experience (aesthetics)

    **[Aesthetics], Engineering, Law(cooperation), Testimony**

    All disciplines fall within these three fields.

    This is the New Trivium.

    Testimony (the logics / ourselves)

    Law (cooperation / others)

    Engineering (the hard sciences / the universe)

    [Aesthetics (the science of experiences)]

    The rest is fantasy literature, religion, propaganda, and lies.

    Seriously.

    That’s all there is.

    Nothing more. The rest is nonsense dreams are made of.

    Philosophy is finished.

    Only Science remains.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-21 07:36:00 UTC

  • In a doctor’s office. There is a 3-4 year old girl here. She has 3 barbie dolls.

    In a doctor’s office.

    There is a 3-4 year old girl here.

    She has 3 barbie dolls. A blue ribbon in her blonde hair.

    She also has a smartphone and a tablet.

    Her mother is meeting with the doctor for a minor surgery.

    Her grandmother is keeping her busy by chatting with her over Skype on the tablet.

    (and yes. i am teasing her a little bit. just cause she’s too cute not to.)

    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-21 06:10:00 UTC

  • “People are not voting for Trump (or Sanders). People are just voting, finally,

    –“People are not voting for Trump (or Sanders). People are just voting, finally, to destroy the establishment.”– Taleb #conservative

    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-21 05:10:00 UTC

  • DOCUMENTATION: OK. I will finish (Or try to finish) the Scheduling, Forecasting,

    DOCUMENTATION:

    OK. I will finish (Or try to finish) the Scheduling, Forecasting, Time entry and Time Card Submission processes today. But my allergies are killing me this morning, so that seems like a lot to get done.

    If I get through them, the I just have to do the Pages/Tabs, and in most cases I will have covered the main features for most users.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-21 04:13:00 UTC

  • Nassim Nicholas Taleb is working on Finance, Policy and Risk. I am working on La

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb is working on Finance, Policy and Risk. I am working on Law. But fundamentally we are working on the same problem.

    And to some degree I have an easier problem to solve. I only have to demonstrate the need for warranty of due diligence (truthfulness) and of ‘demonstrated warranty’ (skin in the game).

    Taleb is trying to do something harder: to price risk – to determine the reserve amount of the warranty.

    I know his problem needs solving. I just don’t know if it can be improved beyond his basic statement that small increases in prediction require vast increases in information.

    Which is a problem. Why? Because the moment you can get enough information to do that, it means the value of the opportunity has declined, because others may have that information also.

    The mind’s intuition is risky but then, it’s also not externally knowable.

    I do not know if we can improve our ‘rule of law’ in matters of price except by indirection: if the individual loses, how does he gain? This is a kind of falsification warranty. (Which may be difficult to understand.)

    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-21 04:10:00 UTC

  • (this post is under construction for use in teaching propertarianism) (We want t

    (this post is under construction for use in teaching propertarianism)

    (We want to teach amoral language so that we can avoid deceit. propertarianism then extends Testimonialism: truth telling.)

    COMMUNICATION

    Transfer of properties by analogy culminating in the transfer of experience (meaning) by the process of “suggestion”.

    The process of creating shared experiences using symbols – primarily language.

    TRUTH

    (reconstruction of same experience)

    (where the experience corresponds to reality)

    FALSEHOOD

    Imagination

    Error

    Bias

    Wishful Thinking

    Obscurantism

    Suggestion

    Deceit

    SUGGESTION

    Loading

    Framing

    Shaming

    Rallying

    Chanting

    Overloading

    OVERLOADING

    Mysticism/Supernaturalism

    Narrative/Literature

    Rationalism/Verbalism

    Pseudoscience/Innumeracy

    UNLOADING

    Truthfulness

    TRUTHFULNESS

    Due diligence that we have not engaged in deception, or error, bias, wishful thinking, obscurantism, suggestion, and deceit.

    DUE DILIGENCE

    We perform due diligence by testing every dimension of knowledge we know how to. (just as we have different mathematics for each of the increasing dimensions):

    Identity and Category

    Internal Consistency (logic)

    External Correspondence (empirical consistency)

    Existential Possibility (operational definitions)

    Parsimony, Limits, Full Accounting (limits)

    Morality (Productive, Fully informed, warrantied, voluntary transfer, limited to externality of the same.)

    KNOWLEDGE

    There is only one sequence to knowledge, and all others are false:

    Perception(observation) -> Free Association(awareness) -> Hypothesis(guess) -> Theory(Due Diligence) -> Law(Survival) -> Tautology(identity/name) -OR- False

    Knowledge is not a qualifier as some pretend, nor does it or can it convey truth content. It is anything in any state of the process of knowledge evolution that we can observe, are aware of, imagine possible, seems consistent, cannot seem to falsify, that is not yet false.

    Knowledge: anything that works for the purposes we intend and we cannot yet deem false.

    SCIENCE

    Science = Truth telling. While we cannot know if we speak the most parsimonious truth, or whether we speak the truth, what we can do

    THE ECONOMICS OF TRANSFERRING EXPERIENCES

    (we use scientific language because it imposes the lowest cost of truth testing upon the audience. we avoid scientific language because we wish to impose costs upon the audience. We embrace unscientific language when we want to deceive.)

    THE CREATIVITY OF MEANING AND THE CRITICISM OF TRUTH

    (two part process: 1-transfer meaning, 2-test for truth – Reverse, Obverse)

    WARRANTY

    (skin in the game)

    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-21 03:58:00 UTC

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    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-21 03:38:00 UTC

  • Soros needs the French Rothschild treatment

    Soros needs the French Rothschild treatment.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-21 02:42:00 UTC

  • Can someone please PM me an email address for RamzPaul? -thx

    Can someone please PM me an email address for RamzPaul? -thx

    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-21 02:36:00 UTC