Curt Doolittle

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  • THNKING more on the family and government. …governments that administer common

    THNKING

    more on the family and government.

    …governments that administer commons for families assist in reproduction, while governments that administer individuals assist merely in consumption. While all must be written for individuals, all commons must be constructed for families …..

    The compromise. the market and law are individual preferences. marriage is a corporation-a contractual preference. government is a corporation – a contractual preference.. …

    I see. I think I have it. This will take me a while to figure out….

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-01 02:46:00 UTC

  • explain phase transitions in human polities

    http://www.wired.com/2014/10/tracy-widom-mysterious-statistical-law/Curt: explain phase transitions in human polities…

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-01 00:32:00 UTC

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    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-01 00:18:00 UTC

  • that relies upon statistical correlation is merely a side effect of advancements

    http://bv.ms/1thsTYtScience that relies upon statistical correlation is merely a side effect of advancements in data collection, calculation, and computing by increasingly mechanical means of instrumentation. With these advanced, made possible by instrumentation, collection, analysis and explanation were specialised – but without operationalism as a moral and logical constraint upon scientific statements, pseudoscience has evolved as a specific disciple – and means of fund and attention getting – because it’s easier than practicing science.

    This fallacy is so embedded in western thought at this point it will be as difficult to erase as was anthropomorphism or the act of divine hand.

    It is the phlogiston theory of the 20th century brought about by advances in tools without corresponding advances in reason.

    We can intuit a theory by any possible means. Statistical collection analysis extends our sense, perception, and therefore reduces the imperceptible to an analogy to experience that renders it perceptible.

    And such correlations can help us develop hypotheses, and can invalidate older theories.

    But without converting hypotheses intuited from statistical observations to a series of testable actions on the part of humans, no such pseudoscientific statement can be said to have been tested.

    This is the reason for the fallacies of social science over the past centuries: wishful thinking about human nature in the left and pessimistic thinking about human nature as purely incentive driven if required to pay costs of decisions in the other.

    Mor later. Thanks for the post. – curt.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-01 00:18:00 UTC

  • Skye Stewart ) I have to reply to this paper, since it’s close. But only close.

    http://fs1.law.keio.ac.jp/~popper/v7n1jarvie.html(Thanks Skye Stewart ) I have to reply to this paper, since it’s close. But only close. What it seems to have been unintuitive to discover, is that the reason science progresses is because it is conducted more truthfully than other disciplines are – because it is a luxury good.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-31 15:39:00 UTC

  • PRAXEOLOGY CAN BE REPAIRED — AT THE EXPENSE OF THE COSMOPOLITAN PROJECT (worth

    PRAXEOLOGY CAN BE REPAIRED — AT THE EXPENSE OF THE COSMOPOLITAN PROJECT

    (worth repeating)

    Praxeology can be repaired: by restating it as operationalism and testimonial truth. Mises merely failed in his attempt. Because he relied upon rationalism rather than science. And very likely, as did popper, and the rest of the cosmopolitans, because it allowed him to justify preconceptions rather than to discover uncomfortable truths: that the cosmopolitan way of life was systemically immoral, and that western universalism cannot be use as an attempt to preserve separatism.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-31 12:26:00 UTC

  • CLASS SPECTRUM: *IMPULSIVITY, FRUSTRATION TOLERANCE, AND LOW TIME PREFERENCE* Pr

    CLASS SPECTRUM: *IMPULSIVITY, FRUSTRATION TOLERANCE, AND LOW TIME PREFERENCE*

    Preference is a choice. Demonstrated time preference (useful for the economic concept of interest but not scientific in that it’s not causally descriptive) appears to be largely genetic, and is determined by what we consider the ‘frustration budget’:our ability to suppress the urge for gratification.

    So the terms, Impulsivity, frustration budget (tolerance), and time preference, represent three portions of the impulsivity spectrum. Where the lower our impulsivity, the higher our tolerance for frustration, and the greater our willingness to persist a desire for a long term goal, each represent our social classes.

    As such to discuss time preference outside of the impulsivity scale is to attribute to choice that which is no more available to choice than rational thought is to the solipsist, empathy is to the autistic, or operational calculation using abstract rules of deduction is to the imbecile.

    The language of libertinism is rife with upper middle class economic loading and framing: attributing to choice that which is not, in order to perpetuate the fallacy that liberty is a rational preference and choice, rather than the reproductive strategy of an elite minority and the social outcasts that follow them in hopes of status seeking.

    Instead, science: empiricism, instrumentalism, operationalism and performative truth attempts to explain all phenomenon in least loaded and framed (if not least obscurant) terms. It is for this reason that the language of science is the language of the spoken and written truth, and rationalism must always be suspect, because the majority of outright lies, pseudo-rationalism and pseudo-science have been told in rational language.

    So while rationalists say that something is possible or may be possible, science merely demonstrates that rationalism is de facto the optimum means of lying invented by man. And the 20th century as Hayek proposed, was merely the high point of cosmopolitan pseudoscience, precisely because those with lesser abilities relied upon rationalism rather than science. And they did so because it was profitable to lie: see various quotes by and about Marx and Keynes.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-31 12:26:00 UTC

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  • A third of the world wants to work in Germany? Of course they do. But I have a b

    A third of the world wants to work in Germany? Of course they do. But I have a better idea:

    ***HIRE A GERMAN MONARCHY AND JUDICIARY***

    So your entire country can work like Germany. ’cause that’s the problem: your government, your customs, you education and your laws.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-31 10:26:00 UTC