Curt Doolittle

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  • MISES: “HUMAN OPERATIONALISM”, “NOT HUMAN ACTION” He was that close. I have more

    MISES: “HUMAN OPERATIONALISM”, “NOT HUMAN ACTION”

    He was that close.

    I have more important things to do with my life, but if I had the time I could rewrite his tome Human Action as Human Operationalism, and instantly reform the debate from one between science and pseudoscience in which he has been outcast, to one that unified all fields, and restored his position in intellectual history.

    Damn. He was SO CLOSE. So close. It’s taken me years. And in retrospect it’s tragic. Terribly tragic. He *almost* reformed economics and saved us from a century of destructive Keynesian policy.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-01-16 04:33:00 UTC

  • Ayelam Valentine Agaliba : You’re right. Once one just attacks justification, it

    Ayelam Valentine Agaliba : You’re right. Once one just attacks justification, it all comes together much more neatly.

    Thank you. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2015-01-16 04:11:00 UTC

  • I’M SORRY THAT MY INQUIRY INTO TRUTH ISN’T THAT INTERESTING. 🙂 (the importance

    I’M SORRY THAT MY INQUIRY INTO TRUTH ISN’T THAT INTERESTING. 🙂

    (the importance of the work)

    I realize that I have spent a lot of time over the past twelve months on Truth. And that this appears (falsely) to be a rat-hole, that is not as interesting as attacking the argumentative follies of the political extremes.

    But I am working at an institutional solution to the restoration of truth telling and suppressing the problem of intentional deception and ignorance, and acting as a vector for deception and ignorance. This hasn’t been done before. It’s hard work.

    The degree to which we justify our investment in ‘meaning’ and justify our reproductive (moral) biases was something that I wasn’t prepared for. Nor was the level of sophistication that can be accomplished by using ‘meaning’ as a means of manufacturing ignorance.

    A rationalist says “but it’s useful for understanding” (a justification). A mathematician says “but it works” (a justification). A logician says “but it largely works” (a justification). A lawyer says “but we have tradition” (a justification). A politician says “The people will not understand that” (a justification). An economist says “We try only to solve this problem, not that one” (a justification). A physicist says “that’s unscientific”, without understanding what the ethics of science demand of him, and why (a justification).

    All of these justifications (fallacies) manufacture ignorance. All of them impede truth. They provide incentive to continue to justify what we know, rather than reform what we know. Over time they calcify by the mere accumulation of the cost of learning an alternative: transaction costs and conformity costs.

    I think this specializing at justification is the underlying reason that civilizations calcify and fail.

    But even if that problem is farther out than the one we face today, prohibiting deception in economics, politics(government) and law, so that the people who speak the truth may prosper, dragging humanity along with them, is still the central problem that I face.

    And to institutionally expand prohibition on immoral action (negative externalities) thereby increasing transaction (and conformity) costs[1], on an activity that is currently assumed to be harmless (free of negative externality), and expanding that prohibition by law, requires that we have some criteria sufficient to test statements for due diligence against the production of that externality – even if the cost of producing that common (the truth) requires all of us pay costs in both material, intellectual, and of forgone opportunities.

    ***That sufficiency consists of due diligence and warranty, where the form of due diligence was discovered by scientists, and while inarticulately expressed, requires not just internal consistency, external consistency and the 20th century innovation: the requirement for falsification, but the 21st century innovation: the requirements for operational definitions as proof of existential possibility and the requirement for moral constraint: free of imposed costs that we call negative externalities – stated positively as a requirement for productive, diligent(truthfully stated), fully informed, warrantied, voluntary transfer, free of all negative externality under the same recursive criterion.***

    So that is why I must solve the problem of truth, uniting law, morality, philosophy, science and economics into a single system of thought: the art of truth telling, the means of due diligence, and the provision of warranty to our testimony to the jury of our peers.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Lviv Ukraine

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    [1] Technically speaking a transaction costs (material), opportunity costs(consequences), forgone opportunity costs (norms) and conformity costs(psychological and behavioral costs), are categorized differently – however, I tend to suggest that emphasis on the form of cost is a means of imposing value judgements on what are merely ‘costs’. As such I tend to use ‘transaction cost’ similar to ‘information’: that which is necessary to change state, regardless of whether the cost is material(physical property), physical(body, action and time), or mental(psychological).

    Source date (UTC): 2015-01-16 04:09:00 UTC

  • Clone

    http://www.fastcompany.com/3040943/fast-feed/facebook-rolls-out-a-platform-for-professionals-called-workYammer Clone

    Source date (UTC): 2015-01-15 17:22:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle shared a photo

    Curt Doolittle shared a photo.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-01-15 17:20:00 UTC

  • i don’t feel well, but today, i made sort of accidental progress on the use of m

    i don’t feel well, but today, i made sort of accidental progress on the use of meaning, analogy and conflation as sources of ignorance. if it weren’t for all these well intentioned folks trying to justify meaning and allegory, despite their scientific bias, i wouldn’t get anywhere given the literature.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-01-15 17:03:00 UTC

  • Midnight. A mild flu. A hotel room in the Paris of the east. Hot tea with lemon

    Midnight.

    A mild flu.

    A hotel room in the Paris of the east.

    Hot tea with lemon and honey.

    A hard drive full of the best movies of 2014.

    An HDMI cable for just such emergencies.

    The best portable bluetooth speaker for just such emergencies.

    High thread count sheets.

    Lots of pillows.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-01-15 16:57:00 UTC

  • DON’T SUPPORT RON PAUL EITHER Ron Paul committed political suicide, in an act of

    http://idontsupportronpaul.com/I DON’T SUPPORT RON PAUL EITHER

    Ron Paul committed political suicide, in an act of profound moral cowardice, joining the Mises Institute in their decades of ideological suicide, by using the hardship of real people as an excuse to produce propaganda against the monopoly bureaucratic state – a fight which the Ukrainians themselves are more the victim of than any other.

    It was an act of unconscionable immorality, demonstrating the immorality of libertine free rider libertarianism – But moreover it violates the western aristocratic moral imperative that is the source of all liberty: that any who desire to be free of tyranny in pursuit of property rights, shall have our alliance, if we obtain their alliance in return. The west was constructed using this ethic.

    The low-trust, free riding, Rothbardian ethic of the Ghetto mandates that we walk away from all fights that are not directly initiated against us. But under this ethic, not only would the west never have arisen, but neither would have liberty, because liberty was the result of this system of ever-expanding alliances between families, tribes, city states, and nation-states: the reciprocal grant of sovereignty over life and property in exchange for reciprocal insurance in the defense of life liberty and property. This exchange is the origin of liberty and property rights, and all men sought this status, and the prosperity it gave them, by demonstrating their commitment in martial service to one another. This is the only source of rights that is existentially possible – every alternative justification is a mere verbal excuse to escape the high cost of constructing a condition of liberty by taking responsibility for using, and spending, your wealth of violence, to construct and preserve it.

    The war for liberty is not against the nation state – if anything we must re-nationalize liberalism to save the west – but instead, libertinism, like marxism, socialism, postmodernism and neo-conservatism, are a war intentionally produced by cosmopolitan separatists against western solidarity, for the purpose of preserving their dual-ethical social model, and its dependence upon free riding on the martial strength, martial expense, and martial risk, of others. There is no possibility for one to claim moral righteousness by free riding upon the costly defense of others, and no moral righteousness not coming to the martial aid of all those who seek to join the alliance of free men. It is merely free riding: theft. An act of fraud by which one seeks to obtain the expensive liberty at a discount. If this escapist strategy is followed to its end, it will leave a people homeless, diasporic, and dependent upon the kindness and charity of host people, nations, and civilizations. It has. It does.

    What differentiates the west from the west is not the six apps that Nial Ferguson compliments us for – they are effects, not causes. The source of those six apps, and the west’s ability to innovate faster than all other civilizations combined, despite our poverty, small numbers, and distance from the origin of the bronze age, is that we discovered the truth, we speak the truth, we trust because we speak the truth, we hold each other accountable for speaking the truth, and we exchange the promise of our ready and willing hand of violence in the defense of the life liberty and property of our allies. Western excellence is the result of the unique western reliance upon truth as the most expensive, and most disciplined commons ever constructed by man.

    Reality intervenes on all ideals, but the west, western ethics, western prosperity, and western liberty, evolved because more often then not, we preserved sovereignty with the reciprocal commitment for truth and violence, and we appeal to the jury of our peers as a test of both.

    So, leave Ron Paul, and his marxist-inspired allies. Return to classical liberalism and abandon the immoral ethics of the Ghetto. Unless you prefer to live in one. Because the ghetto is the result of those ethics libertines espouse.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev Ukraine

    WEB SITE

    http://idontsupportronpaul.com/

    LOU ROCKWELL GETS OFFENDED

    http://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/01/robert-wenzel/troika-seeks-to-purge-ron-paul/

    TARGET LIBERTY GETS OFFENDED

    http://www.targetliberty.com/2015/01/sfl-faction-starts-website-to-oppose.html

    Source date (UTC): 2015-01-15 16:42:00 UTC

  • Veronika Sergeevna shared a photo to your timeline

    Veronika Sergeevna shared a photo to your timeline.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-01-15 15:07:00 UTC

  • FINALLY DEVELOP ARISTOCRACY – AND TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE COMMONS? ( I am a

    http://freebeacon.com/national-security/europes-leading-rabbi-jews-must-begin-carrying-guns/JEWS FINALLY DEVELOP ARISTOCRACY – AND TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE COMMONS?

    ( I am a very big fan of the armed society )

    Source date (UTC): 2015-01-15 08:26:00 UTC