Curt Doolittle

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  • ECONOMICS: ART OR SCIENCE? (FALSE DICHOTOMY) —“Is economics an art or a scienc

    ECONOMICS: ART OR SCIENCE? (FALSE DICHOTOMY)

    —“Is economics an art or a science?” Gary would ask after a particularly difficult problem set. “Both,” he would answer his own question, to the great relief of a lecture hall full of students terrified that they were about to be called on.—

    The question is a fallacy of framing. Theorizing is an Art. Constructing a Proof is a Science. All correspondent proofs are constructed scientifically. Operationalism is the only proof possible in science. Economic statements are operationally reducible to human actions. Therefore economics is both an art and science – just like all other investigative forms of inquiry. That is what Mises failed to comprehend, and why he unfortunately cast his work forever as a pseudoscience, by claiming that a logic (a proof of internal consistency) was a science (a demonstration of correspondence by a proof of operational construction).

    Can’t really blame him. Brouwer and Bridgman were smarter than Mises but didn’t figure it out either. Popper got halfway but couldn’t escape cosmopolitanism’s debilitating empty verbalisms, any more than could Mises.

    Anything extant, the theory of which requires a truth claim, must be describable by operations otherwise it is at best analogy, more often lucky presumption, and generally accidental error.

    Just took me a four years of my adult life to figure all of that out unfortunately. Fortunately I understood computability as operational beforehand or I also might have been confused by the existing literature as well.

    If all logical problems were not tautological then we would not be able to construct tests of internal consistency by the use of axiomatic systems. Operations solve the problem of necessary verbal incoherence by replacing meaning with names of operations that must be extant and demonstrable. This avoids the endemic fallacies in rationalism.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-13 07:33:00 UTC

  • ) FIRST Quality that provides an exceptional experience and peak emotional satis

    🙂 FIRST

    Quality that provides an exceptional experience and peak emotional satisfaction is timeless. The more experience you have the more you appreciate quality, and well tested perfection outshines fresh mediocrity. I don’t care about being first. I don’t even care about the number and frequency of drivers. I only care about whatever record of passage that previous drivers have left behind. Only the inexperienced an those lacking confidence care about being first. Aesthetes appreciate perfection that only quality can provide.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-13 05:26:00 UTC

  • DEAR UKRAINIANS: THE PROBLEM IS YOU. Another day dealing with pervasive ukrainia

    DEAR UKRAINIANS: THE PROBLEM IS YOU.

    Another day dealing with pervasive ukrainian incompetence. If any protocol is non trivial in that it crosses boundaries of responsibikity, then in true soviet fashion there is a near certsinty a ukrainian will fuck it up by not handling the exception and instead laziliy and incompetently following the rule.

    And they dont even understand that they fucked up, or that the primary reason they are poor is their failure to understand that they fucked up.

    Here is the rule: if you ate aware of it or can be aware of it, its your problem until you are aware it is fixed completely.

    Soviet version is that you are only responsible for that about which you do not have to think.

    Every time you do not take responsibility for everything not right of which you are aware, you are stealing from the possible prosperity of you and your people.

    There are no conditions – ever – under which you are not responsible for that of which you are aware.

    Ukraine is poor because no one takes responsibility for making it prosper. And what makes a people prosper is not a few big things by government but a million billion tiny things by each individual.

    So the next time you wonder why you are poor, look in the mirror at the person to blame.

    If you are aware of it, then you must fix it until someone else promises you that they will fix it faster and better than you will instead.

    Ukraine is poor for this single reason. People do not pay for the common things that make a people economically efficient and free of risk to compete with the rest of the world.

    Look in the mirror.

    The problem is YOU. Not your culture, not your government, but YOU.

    The culture and the government are made of people just like YOU.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-13 04:38:00 UTC

  • To the ashes of my fathers and the temples of my gods, At the age of 12, sitting

    To the ashes of my fathers and the temples of my gods,

    At the age of 12, sitting in church, I made an oath to god: that should I become wealthy I would build him a church.

    I had no idea that while I meant money and a building, he meant a philosophy and a polity.

    A pity I do not know his name.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-13 03:47:00 UTC

  • If I am correct, then dialectical materialism is (as Kant earlier suggested of d

    If I am correct, then dialectical materialism is (as Kant earlier suggested of dialectic), merely a deceptive obscurantism.

    But it serves as confirmation of cosmopolitan low trust ethics: fidelity (search for consent); and unlike aristocratic (empirical) ethics, it has nothing to do with the discovery of truth.

    In the European anglo empirical model, we seek the truth and commit fidelity to it. In the cosmopolitan model we seek consent and fidelity regardless if truth.

    Warriors can die. Traders merely bear losses.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-13 03:41:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/07/12/opinion/the-trouble-with-brain-science.html?referrer

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

  • are philosophers stupid about politics?

    http://www.stephenhicks.org/#article/26345Why are philosophers stupid about politics?

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-13 01:02:00 UTC

  • I grew up surrounded by women, married young and perpetuated it. I didnt realize

    I grew up surrounded by women, married young and perpetuated it.

    I didnt realize it was a luxury.

    🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-13 00:20:00 UTC

  • SCIENCE AND SOCIALISM Unfortunately for Socialists and Feminists (socialism in s

    SCIENCE AND SOCIALISM

    Unfortunately for Socialists and Feminists (socialism in skirts) science has been a losing proposition. While pseudoscience from Marx to the postmodernists active today, was successful in the era of ignorance, the inability to control information via the media, and the explosion in economic, cognitive, psychological, genetic and anthropological sciences has largely been destructive to their ideology. Which is why while they started out with the fallacy of scientific socialism they have ended up with the fallacy of political correctness.

    The game is done.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-12 13:46:00 UTC

  • THE ODDS THAT LOIS IS LYING

    THE ODDS THAT LOIS IS LYING

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-12 08:44:00 UTC