Curt Doolittle

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  • think I could at this point reframe Samuelson and Mises both as a mutual failure

    http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2014/11/23/its-the-economics-that-got-small/I think I could at this point reframe Samuelson and Mises both as a mutual failure to understand the problems of general rules and arbitrary precision. Mises’ failure was to create the pseudoscientific argent instead of recognizing operationalism and intuitionism as more mature arguments.

    In this sense, Samuelson is half right in practice but meaningless in theory. While Mises was half right in theory and meaningless in practice.

    It’s actually a fascinating problem – which is why I work on it.

    Mises intuited and Samuelson did not, that morality was non arbitrary and could not be divorced from economic theory.

    None on the other 20th century thinkers could solve that problem either.

    We needed another near century to do it.

    The problem now is the uncomfortable task of reinserting morality into economics – And by that I mean quantitatively.

    Because I am fairly certain it is possible.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-27 12:43:00 UTC

  • Results. So I cure the darkness thing with exercise, red meat, green veggies, wh

    Results.

    So I cure the darkness thing with exercise, red meat, green veggies, whiskey before bed and avoiding coffee? Is that how it works?

    If so, the avoiding coffee thing is gonna hurt… 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-27 12:20:00 UTC

  • Strange economic consequences: Brits built houses too small after the war. Germa

    Strange economic consequences:

    Brits built houses too small after the war.

    Germans built large apartments.

    Americans built houses with yards.

    French drove people into cities and preserved their farms.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-27 07:42:00 UTC

  • The art of attacking a frame to construct a new reframe. Not as a process of inv

    The art of attacking a frame to construct a new reframe. Not as a process of invalidation but as a process of discovery.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-27 07:42:00 UTC

  • CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS We manicure our lawns. Ukrainians farm them

    CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS

    We manicure our lawns.

    Ukrainians farm them.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-27 07:42:00 UTC

  • OK I CAN STOP CRITICISING CRITICAL RATIONALISM NOW. 🙂 It is merely a convenient

    OK I CAN STOP CRITICISING CRITICAL RATIONALISM NOW. 🙂

    It is merely a convenient language for science. A pidgin -just as mathematical Platonism is a convenient pidgin for mathematics.

    I apologise to my friends an ex friends for the experiments that I had to run in order to solve the superior problem.

    I appreciate all your efforts and patience.

    But I think it was worth it.

    Although science as a discipline will undoubtably disapprove of its loss of philosophical status, and possibly of the imposition of limited constraints upon what constitutes moral and legal pronouncements.

    But that is a necessary consequence of suppressing deception – and an even more important objective than suppressing mysticism.

    Cheers.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev Ukraine.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-27 07:18:00 UTC

  • PROPERTARIANISM, AND THE VALUE OF PHILOSOPHY (important) The value of philosophy

    PROPERTARIANISM, AND THE VALUE OF PHILOSOPHY

    (important)

    The value of philosophy is to convert what we learn, into the web (network) of related concepts that we currently USE. (Note that I do not use the word ‘believe’, which is a synonym for justification.) This often requires a great deal of rearranging of our concepts. That which was before subordinate, turns out to be superordinate. That which before was moral, turns out to be immoral. Trusted truths become harmful fallacies.

    Look at the scope of what I am trying to do:

    1) Western philosophy is the history of attempting to speak the truth, truthfully.

    2) Science and mathematics discovered the means of speaking truthfully.

    3) The scientific and mathematical methods however, did not include costs.

    4) By integrating costs into the scientific method, that method evolves into the universal means by which humans can endeavor to speak truthfully – regardless of discipline.

    5) Thus fulfilling the 2500 year old attempt to speak truthfully – even if we are forever bidden from knowing whether or now we are speaking the ultimate, most parsimonious truth that is possible.

    6) With this knowledge we can then embody in law, the principle of truth telling. And under universal standing, and rule of law, and property-en-toto, require truthful speech whenever costs are involved in one’s utterances: ethics and politics.

    If you can find more noble an ambition then I would like to know it.

    If you can find a better argument then I would like to know it.

    But I am fairly sure that I stand on the shoulders of many who came before me and the destination of their vision is pretty obvious from this height.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Philosophy of Aristocracy

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-27 04:58:00 UTC

  • CHALLENGING THOUGHT OF THE DAY (useful) 0 – We are unequally desirable mates – t

    CHALLENGING THOUGHT OF THE DAY

    (useful)

    0 – We are unequally desirable mates – this is necessary for evolutionary adaptation.

    1 – We evolved a reproductive division of labor – the genders.

    2 – We evolved an inter-temporal division of reproductive labor:

    4 – We demonstrate short, medium, and long term preferences;

    5 – We demonstrate short, medium, and long term moral biases;

    6 – We evolved, quite naturally, lower(<95), middle(<125) and upper(>125) classes;

    7 – We need virtue(imitative), rule (rational), and outcome (scientific) ethics;

    8 – We need sacred(religious), moral(normative), and calculative (legal) rules;

    9 – We rely upon intuitive(experiential), conscious(rational), and instrumental(calculative) tools to made decisions.

    10 – Our moral biases reflect our reproductive strategies.

    11 – Our normative biases reflect our reproductive strategies.

    12 – Our formal and informal institutions reflect our group-competitive strategies.

    13 – All universalist strategy is to extend group-competitive strategies to dominate other group competitive strategies.

    Short term strategy is in the interest of the lower classes (socialism – labor)

    Medium term strategy is in the interest of the middle classes (classical liberty – trade)

    Long term strategy is in the interests of the upper classes (aristocracy – order)

    Some people are only CAPABLE of sentimental talk and argument.

    Some people are only CAPABLE of rational talk and argument.

    Some people are CAPABLE of scientific talk and argument.

    So what does all of this tell us about persuading others? It tells us that we cannot (and should not) try. It tells us to create institutions that allow cooperation across moral codes and reproductive strategies. It tells us that the majority cannot understand these matters except experientially – once implemented.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-27 04:37:00 UTC

  • The imagination, like the mirror, always lies

    The imagination, like the mirror, always lies.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-26 14:44:00 UTC

  • (this whole seasonal darkness thing just shuts down my brain. gotta find some su

    (this whole seasonal darkness thing just shuts down my brain. gotta find some sun. because I’m going to be a walk-on for the Walking Dead pretty soon. damn.)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-26 14:23:00 UTC