Curt Doolittle

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  • Truth – Defense Against The Dark Art Of Playing A Sucker

    Truth – Defense Against The Dark Art Of Playing A Sucker

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-05 01:58:00 UTC

  • Our Job, Is Now Our Duty: Intellectual Arms Dealing

    Our Job, Is Now Our Duty: Intellectual Arms Dealing

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-05 01:56:00 UTC

  • SEEMS THEY TOOK A RISK” —- – Of the Forbes 400 from 1987, 327 people have drop

    http://www.aei-ideas.org/2014/08/how-did-superrich-americans-become-superrich-americans/”IT SEEMS THEY TOOK A RISK”

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    – Of the Forbes 400 from 1987, 327 people have dropped off the list. Of the remaining 73 people, those with the highest annual rates of return are generally self-made entrepreneurs and investors—not heirs—with an average annual real rate of return of 5.6 percent over the last 26 years.

    – The rate of return for the Forbes 400 as a whole, 2.4 percent, is roughly equal to Piketty’s estimated returns for the entire population.

    – Wealth today is largely generated by entrepreneurial skill, with the number of entrepreneurs on the Forbes 400 list rising from 40 percent in 1982 to *****69 percent in 2011*****.

    – The role of inheritance has diminished over the last generation; the share of the Forbes 400 that grew up wealthy has fallen from 60 percent in 1982 to 32 percent today.

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    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-05 01:56:00 UTC

  • of inbreeders vs outbreeders. (Fascinating)

    http://hbdchick.wordpress.com/2011/08/12/theres-no-place-like-home/Houses of inbreeders vs outbreeders.

    (Fascinating)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-04 09:41:00 UTC

  • pay gap

    http://feedly.com/e/0Zzwi3O1No pay gap

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-04 09:40:00 UTC

  • AN ADVANCEMENT ON E-PRIME, I THINK? CHANGING IT FROM PREFERENCE FOR MEANING TO N

    AN ADVANCEMENT ON E-PRIME, I THINK? CHANGING IT FROM PREFERENCE FOR MEANING TO NECESSITY FOR TESTIMONY?

    I’ve been reading more on General Semantics and their meme E-Prime, and it’s pretty interesting how they advocate GS/E’ for the purpose of clarity and meaning.

    Now, I advocate E’ and Operationalism because one cannot testify to the truth of a statement if one cannot state it in operational language. Because you can’t possibly state that you know what you’re talking about.

    So, I think my argument in favor of E’ as a moral and ethical constraint, (and in the case of negative externalities, a criminal constraint) is stronger than the argument for ‘clarity and meaning’.

    ON A MY CONTINUED FRUSTRATION WITH A PRIORISM AS A VERBALISM

    I’ve still got to address the strange a priorist argument that there is something particularly interesting about decreasing precision (making general statements). Yes we can drop properties of many similar instances in order to construct sets of commons properties, and give them names. But this is an inverse of the problem of making general observations and investigating which properties we observe are necessary and which are not.

    Some descriptions, if made more precisely have no meaning: “wind” and “wave” are pretty good examples. At human scale they are meaningful statements. below human scale they are not. All statements of precision have maximum and minimum points of demarcation.

    I mean, i guess if you start with instrumentalism, you implicitly start with human scale and the problem of precision and arbitrary precision as necessary properties of any description (theory).

    I just guess this is one of those things that’s so obvious to me that I can’t imagine a literary alternative because I did not learn philosophy by literary (allegorical) means.

    Curt

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-04 04:49:00 UTC

  • Karl Brooks wins the Propertarian smart of the month award. 🙂 —– Experience

    Karl Brooks wins the Propertarian smart of the month award. 🙂

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    Experience – Apprehending sensory or mental events.

    Thinking – The mental process of reviewing what one knows and integrating that knowledge to create new knowledge or to calculate a probable result.

    Reasoning – Using heuristics to aid thinking.

    Rationalism – The belief that deductive reasoning, starting from either a priori intuitive knowledge or an established premise, is the optimum heuristic for gaining new knowledge.

    Scientific Descriptions – Descriptions of results obtained through the operations known as the scientific method.

    Operational Definitions – Defining discreet actions and results, labeling them with a unique name, and arranging them in a specific order. A cumulative process where each ordered set is also labeled with a unique name. Used to assemble complex constructions which demonstrate an empirically constructed truth, or identify component failure leading to falsification, of a specific ordered set.

    Analytic Rationalism – Existence exists. (Ok, that’s just a stab at it. Don’t know about this one, I know the difference between and analytic and synthetic proposition, but have not come across the term used with rationalism).

    Formal Logic – A specific language construction that allows inferences to be followed. The two branches I know of are syllogistic and symbolic. Here’s a syllogism I wrote about 10 years ago:

    God is truth

    Truth is love

    God is love.

    You’re scientism friends with love that one (heh)!

    Symbolic logic is the use of variables:

    A = B

    B = C

    A = C.

    Mathematics – Synthetic propositions expressed in symbolic logic.

    Arithmetic – Calculations using uniquely named components that have physical correspondence (real numbers).

    Naming – Unique identifying label.

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    Karl Brooks (Rational numbers, not real numbers).

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-04 04:37:00 UTC

  • READ IT. LEARN IT. USE IT. –“Fortunately, I’ve been inoculated against the debi

    READ IT. LEARN IT. USE IT.

    –“Fortunately, I’ve been inoculated against the debilitating western mental disease called Altruistic Punishment.”—

    Read it. Learn it. Use it. Aristocratic Egalitarianism.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-04 03:26:00 UTC

  • Aristocratic Egalitarianism (Aristocratic Libertarianism) crafted in public. On

    Aristocratic Egalitarianism (Aristocratic Libertarianism) crafted in public. On advice from supporters, taking it to Twitter. #libertarian #classicalliberal

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-04 02:22:00 UTC

  • WE ARE NOT AFRAID OF A NATIONALIST RUSSIA – NATIONALISM IS A GOOD THING WE NEED

    http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/how-nationalism-came-to-dominate-russia-s-political-mainstream/504495.htmlNO WE ARE NOT AFRAID OF A NATIONALIST RUSSIA – NATIONALISM IS A GOOD THING WE NEED MORE OF

    We westerners are not terrified of a Nationalistic Russia. The Western right LOVES a nationalist Russia. We WANT a strong Russia. What the west doesn’t want, and the world doesn’t want, is a breakdown of the postwar consensus on fixed borders. And none of the eastern europeans want to be subjected to more Russian deceit, corruption, violence and murder. Russia is a corrupt country, with a corrupt government, and russians demonstrate low trust, and low regard for the commons. Europeans, even western europeans, desire a high trust western society, with high regard for the commons. Russians depend on resource wealth to compenate for their low trust and corrupt society. Eastern europeans cannot depend upon resource wealth – they must generate economies that participate with the rest of the world.

    All this moralizing and propaganda from Russia is just populist nonsense. We assumed Russia would mature into a modern democracy by slowly building an economy that integrated with the rest of the world.

    A nationalist Russia that is militarily strong is good for the west since it keeps Russia’s eastern conflict zone, and southern spheres of influence, with their 90 IQ societies, from being a problem for the rest of the world. The west needs a strong Russia. What the west doesn’t need is for Russia to spread the corruption, dishonesty, and low-trust of Russian society to countries that must participate in the world economy to obtain a western standard of living.

    It’s not complicated.

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    LETTER TO RUSSIA FROM KIEV

    Dear Russia,

    We love you ok. You’re white. So we actually consider you part of the tribe. And yes, we westerners are kind of destroying Western civilization with abandon. And you’re right to reject that. And while we really don’t want to be in conflict with you, we do ask you to please keep your dysfunctional family, and dysfunctional political problems in your own house. We have problems but your problems are worse. Corruption, deception, pseudoscience, alcoholism, violence and mass murder are things russians are really good at. And we really don’t need you to export them to us. I mean, you killed enough of us already, haven’t you?

    And you kind of screwed up right? You could have let the USA continue withdrawing from Europe, softly guaranteed Europe’s safety militarily, and protect shipping on the high seas, and continued to spend the next 20 years integrating Russian resource dependence into the western economies. You could have imported western technology and law, behavior, and exported ‘resources, manliness, nationalism, and unity’ to the west. You could have accomplished the unification of the circumpolar peoples.

    But you screwed up. Yet again.

    Why is it that Russians, at every opportunity, make the wrong decision? It’s just amazing. It’s exasperating. Every time you can play the long run you screw it up.

    Please get your act together, and lead.

    Russia: why are you constantly the white people who fail?

    Thanks.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Philosophy of Aristocracy

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-04 02:12:00 UTC