Curt Doolittle

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  • THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD IS A SUBSET OF “THE MORAL METHOD” All processes of product

    THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD IS A SUBSET OF “THE MORAL METHOD”

    All processes of production are the same. We merely weight the outputs differently in value. Science values knowledge for its own sake (supposedly.) The scientific method ignores both real costs and opportunity costs. Technology doesn’t ignore them, because it is goal directed. The production of consumer goods, ignores places lower value on knowledge development and hides it rather than publishes it. But all that differs in any process of production (study of transformation) is which inputs we consider, and which outputs we prefer. PERIOD.

    The scientific method is but one instance of THE METHOD. The method is the same, whether in craft, production, technology or science. You would not believe how hard I have tried to make this argument, and how hard critical rationalists try to deny it so that they can preserve a special place in their hearts.

    Here is the mind blowing bit: The scientific method is written as a moral rule more than a logical one. The reason that scientists developed this moral rule in some detail before other fields, was because it was so much easier to lie, err, and fantasize about the production of hypotheses than it was to produce craft, production, or technology. Worse, (and this is what I work on) it is even harder to take the same moral prohibition and apply it to social science (economics, religion, morality, politics, law) because the incentives to lie, err, and fantasize, are even greater than those in science. My objective, in my work, is to apply the moral constraints we put in place upon science to defend us from lies, errors, and fantasies, to the social sciences, and the moral literature. And I expect that there will be a lot of resistance to following THE METHOD. Precisely because lying, useful error, and selling fantasies is so profitable.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-02 12:19:00 UTC

  • LOVE STEPHEN HICKS. AND THIS IS WHY

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhrGcRVohSk&google_comment_id=z124hdhzwreyfx15104ccdv5utuljnb4lv00k&google_view_type#gpluscommentsI LOVE STEPHEN HICKS. AND THIS IS WHY.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-02 11:56:00 UTC

  • PAINFUL REALIZATION: THE FAMILY AND PROPERTY RIGHTS I’ve been wrestling with thi

    PAINFUL REALIZATION: THE FAMILY AND PROPERTY RIGHTS

    I’ve been wrestling with this problem for a few days now. That is, that :

    (a) While intuited morality corresponds to the atomicity of the family structure;

    (b) AND therefore determines demand for the state (authority to resolve conflict, prevent conflict, or prevent retaliation);

    (c) AND only the absolute nuclear family can EVOLVE individual property rights, and liberty,

    (d) AND the absolute nuclear family, as normative and legal, is fragile, and subject to conquest by more familial, tribal, national, and religious organizations;

    (e) AND absolute nuclear families facilitate easier movement of human resources to capital (rather than moving capital to resources);

    That does not mean that:

    (f) An aristocratic, familial and tribal society cannot adopt legal individual property rights, and institute formally in law, and therefore in norm, total suppression of criminal, unethical, immoral, and conspiratorial actions.

    (g) And therefore eliminate the need for absolute nuclear and nuclear families, thereby returning to aristocratic families.

    (h) Furthermore, that only it is only by violation of rights by the formal institution of immoral and conspiratorial actions, that aristocratic families (natural aristocracy over 3+ generations) are exterminated by competitors.

    Therefore,

    (i) It is possible to possess both aristocratic families, outlaw persecution of aristocratic families, (inheritance taxes, etc, income taxes for the purpose of redistribution), and individual high trust property rights.

    (j) In fact, since violation of the family is a violation of moral and conspiratorial property rights, then of necessity, one cannot suppress the aristocratic families and yet preserve property rights.

    THEREFORE

    (k) The enlightenment era, particularly the cosmopolitan enlightenment (socialism, libertinism, and neo-conservatism) is a war on the exceptional families by the unexceptional families.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-02 11:54:00 UTC

  • GREAT: SOMONE JUST STOLE MY IPHONE (AND CARDS) Went 40′ to get a coffee, and ret

    GREAT: SOMONE JUST STOLE MY IPHONE (AND CARDS)

    Went 40′ to get a coffee, and returned to my table and it was gone. Laptop, fine, iphone gone. Credit cards gone AGAIN for the second time in two weeks. Eastern europe is not safe enough for me. 🙂

    Roman Skaskiw Don Finnegan Kirill Latysh

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-01 07:26:00 UTC

  • Video. 1) reading list 2) haidts moral foundations as property rights. 2) proper

    Video.

    1) reading list

    2) haidts moral foundations as property rights.

    2) property and reproductive strategy

    3) politics and reproductive strategy.

    4) the limit if reason at human scsle.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-01 03:38:00 UTC

  • The reason I frame propertarianism as philosophy, despite that it is a social sc

    The reason I frame propertarianism as philosophy, despite that it is a social science (system of measurement) is to kill the ability to use philosophy to lie. End postmodern pseudoscience.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-01 03:36:00 UTC

  • What evidence, compared to what, and at what cost? Wishes and rainbows Perfectio

    What evidence, compared to what, and at what cost?

    Wishes and rainbows

    Perfection

    At any cost.

    Sowell

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-01 03:22:00 UTC

  • LOVE THIS MEME: ROASTED BANKER WITH PRISON SAUCE. A DELICACY

    http://t.co/E6nCjY8Bs8I LOVE THIS MEME: ROASTED BANKER WITH PRISON SAUCE. A DELICACY.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-01 02:30:00 UTC

  • THE RED PILL IN UKRAINE I have taken the red pill, even though I never really ne

    THE RED PILL IN UKRAINE

    I have taken the red pill, even though I never really needed a big dose of it in the first place. You should have seen my wife’s face when I said “I am not a support system for a vagina. Either this relationship is beneficial in achieving both our goals or it is not.”

    On the other hand I have always believed in helping the women I am with to be all that they can be, and I come from a family of strong women who never see themselves as proletarian victims. And I don’t buy any feminist nonsense at all.

    The problem for me, here in Ukraine, is that the level of ..let’s say, suppression, that I would have to engage in is beyond my tolerance level. I am just not willing to become that person. Women are fiercely proud here, never apologize the way we are taught to in the west, and in my view speak unacceptably to men. Because here, they have to. And, men often respond with unacceptable (to me) levels of physicality. I am not willing to behave that way. I still have enough chivalry in me. People in this part of the world don’t.

    Talking with a friend tonight, (who I respect very much) reminded me that you can take the red pill in the states. But you don’t need to take it here. And while I’ve taken the red pill, I am willing to return to chivalry. But if I must abandon chivalry, I’d rather not play in that game at all. It’s chivalry as a demonstration of confidence and capability, not it’s more primitive component, physicality, passionate anger, and violence.

    The Red Pill returns us to Chivalry. But here, its barbarism. I won’t go there.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-30 17:11:00 UTC

  • LIKE AUTOBOTS THAN FENCING. A long sword is a metal spear. A short sword a longe

    http://sploid.gizmodo.com/this-is-how-medieval-knights-fought-with-their-heavy-an-1640223813MORE LIKE AUTOBOTS THAN FENCING.

    A long sword is a metal spear. A short sword a longer knife. Sword fighting is a brutal brawl with knives, not fencing.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-30 14:31:00 UTC