Curt Doolittle

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  • “Knowledge” like “red” is the name of an experience, not an action, or an object

    “Knowledge” like “red” is the name of an experience, not an action, or an object. Recorded knowledge, or more accurately instructions for the recreation of knowledge, is different from the experience of knowledge.

    So while it is verbally convenient to refer to mebers of a category with the same term, one cannot then treat all members of a category as identical.

    Logic without operational defunitions is an endlessly meaningless word game.

    Parlor game.

    Nonsense.

    That said, yes it is possible to record operations necesssry to reconstruct the experience we refer to as knowledge.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-15 04:16:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle shared a photo

    Curt Doolittle shared a photo.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-15 04:04:00 UTC

  • ( omg, you would not believe what I figured out this morning. wow. truth rocks.)

    ( omg, you would not believe what I figured out this morning. wow. truth rocks.)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-15 02:36:00 UTC

  • И смерти нет почётней той Что ты принять готов За кости пращуров твоих За храм с

    И смерти нет почётней той

    Что ты принять готов

    За кости пращуров твоих

    За храм своих богов.

    (Thus spake the brave horatio

    To the captain at the gate:)

    “How can a man die better,

    Than facing fearful odds,

    For the ashes of his fathers,

    And the temples of his gods?”

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-15 02:23:00 UTC

  • TRUTH AS NORMATIVE CAPITAL – CULTURAL DIFFERENCES Truth necessary for correspond

    TRUTH AS NORMATIVE CAPITAL – CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

    Truth necessary for correspondence (Europe) (universal high trust) (commitment)

    Truth necessary for fidelity (Judaism) (ingroup high – outgroup low) (pragmatic)

    Truth necessary for conformity (China) (low trust) (avoidance)

    Truth as unhelpful (everywhere else) (no trust) (ignorance)

    FIVE BOOKS

    Gotta read five books:

    1) Keegan’s A History Of Warfare

    2) Armstrong’s A History Of God

    3) Mallory’s In Search of Indo-Europeans

    4) Fukuyama’s Origins of Political Order

    5) Fukuyama’s Trust.

    Most people won’t understand the importance of the History of God (cross cultural study of the development of gods) but it’s just as important as Keegan’s history of warfare

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-15 01:40:00 UTC

  • USUALLY I AGREE WITH TALEB (But his suggestion that extreme wealth is analogous

    USUALLY I AGREE WITH TALEB

    (But his suggestion that extreme wealth is analogous to overdoes, well, doesn’t sit well with me.)

    Small problem of measurement on the one hand and acting upon it on the other. Wealth sufficient to circumvent the market or to seek rents, then yes, but otherwise I see no measurement that has meaning. If an individual possessed 80% of the wealth of an economy, if it is employed in the market, not used as credit sufficient to create monopolies, and politically free of rents then it is for all intents and purposes in circulation, and his behavior manageable under the common law. I am pretty sure I can answer all objections. But not in a comment. Wealth is inly a problem if the government lags or impedes the evolution of tactics in an economy. The common law, unlike a government, is not impeded from evolution at the rate of the market.

    As far as I know, representational, majority rule government is the problem blocking evolution under common law. I cant see much evidence of durable families in the economy that are not the product of economic rents on the distribution if liquidity through the financial markets instead of through consumers.

    Government is and remains the problem, not wealth. That is the best answer I can manage, and as far as I know thats the state of knowledge if our art if political economy.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-14 16:25:00 UTC

  • IS WARFARE NOT CRIME

    http://www.nationalreview.com/article/382333/dont-put-terrorists-trial-daniel-pipesTERRORISM IS WARFARE NOT CRIME

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-14 15:20:00 UTC

  • This qualifies as gotta read

    http://mercatus.org/sites/default/files/Sobel-Relationship-Political-Connections.pdfOk. This qualifies as gotta read.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-14 13:01:00 UTC

  • “The way you fight is the way you see the truth”

    “The way you fight is the way you see the truth”

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-14 12:56:00 UTC

  • Ayelam, you know, you put that damned idea in my head the other night about refo

    Ayelam, you know, you put that damned idea in my head the other night about reforming the Hegelian paradigm and you know, you’re right, and I never would have thought about it in that context. But the more I think about it, the more I understand what you meant. Thanks for that, and thanks for everything else too.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-14 12:55:00 UTC