Curt Doolittle

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    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-12 06:34:00 UTC

  • “Bacon, I suggest, was not a scientist but a prophet. … He had the vision of a n

    –“Bacon, I suggest, was not a scientist but a prophet. … He had the vision of a new age, of an industrial age which would also be an age of science and of technology. …Thus the new religion of science held a new promise of heaven on earth – of a better world which with the help of new knowledge, men would create for themselves. Knowledge is power, Bacon said, and this idea, this dangerous idea, of man’s master over nature – of men like gods – has been one of the most influential of the ideas through which the religion of science has transformed our world. (Myth of the Framework, p. 85-86)”–

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-12 06:33:00 UTC

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    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-12 05:42:00 UTC

  • With everyone copying the Bentley as the sedan design of choice (to the point wh

    With everyone copying the Bentley as the sedan design of choice (to the point where Bentley designers asked if GM just wanted their CAD drawings) what the heck are Bentley going to come up with next?

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-12 03:58:00 UTC

  • A Problem of Analogistic Language (Borrowed Terms) —“it’s impossible to purge

    A Problem of Analogistic Language (Borrowed Terms)

    —“it’s impossible to purge our minds of prejudice. Only after we have made a scientific advance can we then, retroactively, tell that we held onto a prejudice (such as the Earth not moving) that was hindering our progress.”—Michael Phillip

    MEANINGS

    (a) Prejudice (in the legal sense of the term) as in ‘with prejudice’ is meant to convey ‘punishment’ or ‘teaching of a lesson’. (b)Pre-judgement is necessary for the defeat of time – particularly when the cost of the failure of one’s assumptions is small. (c) Cognitive Bias is to be circumvented at all times. (d) Moral Bias is a reflection of our reproductive strategies, and only a problem when we claim it is a universal truth or good, rather than an expression of our genetic demand.

    To avoid this problem I use Prejudice, Pre-judgement, Cognitive Bias, Moral Bias, as discreet terms and do not conflate them by the use of a familiar term (even if colloquially accepted).

    INDIVIDUAL AND INTERPERSONAL, CLASS AND POLITICAL

    In my experience, and the empirical data supports this, it is illogical to use prejudice on an individual basis, and illogical not to use prejudice in a political context. The reason being that while we cannot judge an individual by the properties of a class, we can judge the class by the demonstrated properties of its individuals. In fact, it is illogical to judge a class other than by the demonstrated properties of individuals.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-12 03:52:00 UTC

  • ADVICE FOR NEW DRIVERS (from elsewhere) RUNNING WITH SCISSORS AND A BIG BAG OF C

    ADVICE FOR NEW DRIVERS

    (from elsewhere)

    RUNNING WITH SCISSORS AND A BIG BAG OF CONCRETE

    I rode a ran a lot, bicycled a lot, drove minibikes, and motorcycles. But when my mother taught me how to drive a manual truck in a school parking lot – even with all that experience – I was surprised at how different it was sitting on, and piloting, all that mass.

    The primary difference that I notice, between each increasingly massive vehicle (up to a B52 bomber, which starts slowly turning a few miles after you move the stick) is that you shift your perception out to the limit of your vision, and slowly pilot the car in an arc toward that limit of your vision.

    Most drivers start out trying to plan movements like they’re walking or riding a bicycle – thinking at ‘human scale’. As if we can turn, weave, stop, when we way a ton or two. It would be awesome if cars turned more slowly, for introductory drivers, so that they were FORCED to drive by slow correction of long arcs. Unfortunately cars are agile (and need to be for slow speeds). But basically the faster you go the longer the arc you have to aim at in the distance.

    Pick up something heavy, run with it as fast as you can, and then try to turn, and try to stop. Feel it. Now imagine you’re carrying twenty times your weight, and trying to turn or stop. The surface area of your foot is roughly equal to the surface area of a tire on the road. In optimum circumstances, the car has four feet touching the ground instead of two. But otherwise the car has the same problem that you do. Now, take the same heavy thing and try to make small adjustments in your course in order to reach the next curve that you can see out in the distance.

    ASIDE FROM MASS – THINK PARANOID

    The other things are (a) you are invisible to everyone else, always. (if you ride in a blind spot (behind to the left or right) you are asking to get hit. Even if you can see the driver’s eyes, it doesn’t mean he sees you. It means only that he might see you. (c) Other drivers don’t drive logically, they drive impulsively, intuitively, habitually, with the least intellectual effort, lowest concentration, and with their minds on something else. (b) If you can’t see into any space, it means something is there that’s trying to kill you.

    ASIDE FROM PARANOIA – THINK

    (c) You cannot ever really take your eyes off the road for longer than it takes you to blink. (d) It takes WAAAY longer to slow down and stop than you think, and so always obey 1 car length per 10 miles per hour of velocity no matter what. (e) passing people is the best way to get into an accident. (f) never hurry when driving. (g) Never try to optimize your drive time within the flow of traffic, only prior to a flow of traffic.

    SUMMARY

    Basically, drive completely paranoid, and in small movements of the wheel, targeting as far in the distance as you can ‘arc’, and don’t try to be cunning. The only smart driver is the one who leaves early enough that he doesn’t have to rush. Keep music and audio books in the car to entertain you.

    There… that’s my good deed for the day. lol

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-12 03:37:00 UTC

  • A DEFINITION OF PROPERTY (from 2013) I have developed a number of additional mea

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/01/15/the-complete-definition-of-property-excerpt-from-propertarianism/PROPERTARIANISM: A DEFINITION OF PROPERTY

    (from 2013)

    I have developed a number of additional means of saying the same thing, but it’s interesting how little it’s changed.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-11 06:53:00 UTC

  • (from 2013)

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/12/22/propertarianism-vs-libertarianism-universally-descriptive-vs-preferentially-prescriptive-but-still-all-rights-as-property-rights/PROPERTARIANISM

    (from 2013)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-11 06:51:00 UTC

  • CONFUCIUS AND HIS ANALECTS – NO TRUTH TO BE FOUND Translated into western langua

    CONFUCIUS AND HIS ANALECTS – NO TRUTH TO BE FOUND

    Translated into western language, and read by western minds, the Analects of Confucius sound similar to the writings Plato attributed to Socrates.

    But this is an illusion. A less than careful reading reveals that the origin of the sacred texts is indeed speaking of virtue, of fidelity, but not truth.

    But… what good is the true, if not good for the commons?

    Truth breaks the bias of familialism and renders all men kin.

    The truth evolved in the west because it is more valuable than conformity.

    This is why in both eras where the martial middle-class was sufficiently able to seize power, that innovation could continue.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-11 06:42:00 UTC

  • IMMORTALITY AND IDENTITY Was DaVinci an artist or an engineer? Was Spinoza a Phi

    IMMORTALITY AND IDENTITY

    Was DaVinci an artist or an engineer? Was Spinoza a Philosopher or a Lens Grinder? Was Jefferson a philosopher or a lawyer? What about Thomas Paine?

    I don’t mind being positioned as a technology entrepreneur. Or as an analyst of business processes. Or as a software architect – which is what I often did to make money – and I am good at it, in no small part because it is marginally indifferent from the kind of philosophy that I practice. I am not comfortable with the label programmer. My first technical job was as a CTO, and architect of software – very complicated software. I have never really been a programmer in the typical sense of the term – I’m just not that good at it. It requires short term memory and textual precision that is not in my nature – my memory is biased in the long term and synthetic instead. And worse, I find programming nearly as addictive an obsession for my autism as opiates would be for my emotions. It consumes my life.

    I have been practicing what we call philosophy since the age of twelve, and written philosophy casually since college and seriously since 2009. And it took the sum total of my life until that point to solve a problem in philosophy worth talking about. My vocation pays for my habits. It has made me wealthy. My vocation supplies emotional gratification from the act of working on a team with others. But in practical terms, since around the age of twelve, vocation has been a means to an end. My avocation is quite different from my vocation. I will not be remembered for the ten companies I have started. There is no immortality there to be had. I will be remembered, if at all, for unifying philosophy (the discipline of speaking truthfully), and Science (the procedural means of warrantying that we speak truthfully) and all the disciplines identity, logic, mathematics, physics, economics, law, and politics into a single language and forever dispelling religio-‘right’ argument, ratio-moral argument, and psychological argument, to the dustbin of intellectual history history.

    What I prefer to be known for is something else, yet to come. If I live long enough. We are remembered for our greatest achievement. If we are remembered at all.

    Immortality exists. Heaven exists. They are constructed in the memories of living man, transferred between generations, and hosted there as surely as any digitalized representation of our minds, and with far greater influence than we as individuals could have by direct action.

    It is the memory of the demonstration of our will that grants us a seat among the heroes. And our heroes are our only true gods – they drive our minds, and as such drive our hands.

    Engage in production. Speak the truth. Punish the wicked. Exterminate the evil. Seek to be remembered. By leaving this world a greater place than when you entered it.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-11 06:32:00 UTC