Curt Doolittle

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  • I SAID – “DIFFERENT RATES OF BRAIN DEVELOPMENT”

    http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/29/opinion/sunday/why-teenagers-act-crazy.htmlLIKE I SAID – “DIFFERENT RATES OF BRAIN DEVELOPMENT”

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-29 12:01:00 UTC

  • SCRUTON DISCOVERED THE COMMON LAW (AS DID HAYEK AND WEBER) —-Scruton took the

    SCRUTON DISCOVERED THE COMMON LAW (AS DID HAYEK AND WEBER)

    —-Scruton took the opportunity to study law and “discovered … the answer to Foucault” in the common law of England, which he took as proof “that there is a real distinction between legitimate and illegitimate power, that power can exist without oppression, and that authority is a living force in human conduct.”—

    But does anyone grasp that the common law, voluntary exchange and property rights form a calculable, not rational, set of operations?

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-29 10:36:00 UTC

  • Knowledge of change in state (awareness) Knowledge of correlation between cause

    Knowledge of change in state (awareness)

    Knowledge of correlation between cause and effect (knowledge of use) (hypothesis)

    Knowledge of causality (knowledge of construction) (truth)

    Knowledge of Increases in precision (increase in parsimony and explanatory power)

    Knowledge of the limit of marginal indifference ( ultimate truth ) The point at which the question must change in order for the theory to change.

    I am aware of it.

    It’s over there somewhere.

    I can reach it today

    I’s N paces away

    It’s X feet away.

    It’s Y * 10^Zth mm away.

    It’s L light seconds away.

    Precision is determined by context, and so the theory above, of the location of whatever I am aware of, is never false.

    Achilles always passes the tortoise (marginal indifference)

    You always can get close enough moving halfway across the couch, to obtain a kiss. (marginal indifference)

    Buridan’s Ass always can make a choice (and so can we – information is always available).

    No case of infinity exists (only cases of arbitrary precision)

    Not enough ‘marginal indifference’ in math.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-29 08:42:00 UTC

  • The supreme court is just fine with undermining the constitution, undermining th

    The supreme court is just fine with undermining the constitution, undermining the rule of law, destroying the family, and creating special inegalitarian rights for minorities. But god forbid they should limit the power of the other two branches of government. If we have a revolution I want the privilege of pulling the gallows lever for Roberts. I assume there is too much competition ahead of me for both Ginsberg and Sotomayor.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-29 07:27:00 UTC

  • WOMEN ARE MORE LIKELY TO USE VIOLENCE IN A RELATIONSHIP. (My personal experience

    http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/relationship-terrorists-study-finds-women-likely-physically-abusive-men/#axzz361QwDcBMYES: WOMEN ARE MORE LIKELY TO USE VIOLENCE IN A RELATIONSHIP.

    (My personal experience is certainly the same)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-29 06:20:00 UTC

  • can india do to protect the rights of indians working overseas- particularly in

    http://www.quora.com/What-can-the-Indian-government-do-to-protect-the-rights-of-Indian-laborers-in-foreign-countries-especially-in-the-Middle-East-Why-has-it-not-taken-any-action-till-now/answer/Curt-Doolittle?srid=u4Qv&share=1″What can india do to protect the rights of indians working overseas- particularly in Saudi Arabia.”

    Nothing other than trade sanctions, which would only cause those countries to deport the workers.

    One has no “rights” external to the territory we stand in. That is a phrase of modern mysticism. The USA postwar effort to encourage all states to care for their citizens in order to be treated as legitimate is or was a function of US military and Ideological dominance.

    As the postwar consensus fails, and american hegemony declines, and the american mandate for fixed borders and human rights declines, and america can no longer project sufficient power to mandate fixed borders and human tights, neither fixed borders nor human rights will remain.

    We have seen Russia conquer Ukraine. Mexico invade the USA through mass immigration. Israel extend its borders. China invade russia through mass immigration. China conquer the nearby sea and threaten Japan. And ISIS and Iran try to reestablish the caliphate.

    Meanwhile the euro project is failing. Civil wars and and secessionist movements are spreading.

    So if you cant keep your own country’s economic house in order (and india cant because of corruption – india is too big), and the USA cannot play world policeman, then you will be subject to whatever arbitrary rules exist wherever you are standing.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-29 04:32:00 UTC

  • NEXT EINSTEIN? This enthusiastic fellow thinks (Einstein was somehow both rare a

    http://www.quora.com/Genius-and-Geniuses/How-long-before-we-have-another-Einstein/answer/David-Minott/comment/5201426?srid=u4Qv&share=1THE NEXT EINSTEIN?

    This enthusiastic fellow thinks (Einstein was somehow both rare and unique.)

    We have many people as smart or smarter than Einstein today. There is never a shortage of geniuses.

    To create a bach/mozart, aristotle/hume, maxwell/einstein requires three prior generations to attempt to solve a significant problem, so that the knowledge accumulated is sufficient for an individual to synthesize it. We have known this at least since Durant argued for it, and more recently and thoroughly by Murray.

    You may not know that Einstein’s chief role in relativity was not so much of innovator as it was communicator since the ideas had already been disussed by others. Just as the lightbulb, calculus, and the television had multiple inventors. We pick a hero to single out. But great inventions are the product of many people over many years.

    It apprars that I myself may have solved a century old problem in philisophy that is profoundly important for ethics, economics and politics. But I was only able to do so because of the accumulated effort of hundreds of people in the last century who did the vast majority of the work, while only failing to put the last few pieces together. Even my work was only possible because the internet dramatically teduced the time neede to conduct resrarch across multiple disciplines. And it still took me fifteen years.

    To flip it around, intellectual historians have noted, not infrequently, that Einstein was a very naive individual, and that it is a credit to our civilization that such a soul could survive in it and still contribute a great achievement.

    There is an organization dedicated to propagandizing Einstein’s mythos. His heroism is as much the result of their publicity efforts than his achievements.

    And as Bridgman noted, and fought his whole life for: the reason we did not discover relativity earlier (its discovery was delayed) was an intellectual error that invaded physics from mathematics, and had been in mathematics since at least the invention of geometry – cured by proof of construction: the scope of measures.

    A problem that remains with us today, and which is responsible for most pseudoscience – especially the pseudoscience remaining in our most respected sciences.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-29 04:17:00 UTC

  • MARK ANDREESSEN ON PIKETTY’S NONSENSE Timothy B. Lee: This relates to another to

    MARK ANDREESSEN ON PIKETTY’S NONSENSE

    Timothy B. Lee: This relates to another topic I wanted to ask about. You’ve had some harsh words for Thomas Piketty, the French economist whose new book is trendy in liberal circles right now. Do you think he’s right that we’re going to see a growing gap between the rich and the poor in the coming years?

    Marc Andreessen:The funny thing about Piketty is that he has a lot more faith in returns on invested capital than any professional investor I’ve ever met. It’s actually very interesting about his book. This is exactly what you’d expect form a French socialist economist. He assumes it’s really easy to put money in the market for 40 years or 80 years or 100 years and have it compound at these amazing rates. He never explains how that’s supposed to happen.

    Every investment manager I know is sweating the opposite problem, which is: what do I do? Where do I get the growth? I can’t get into the public market, so I have to go into the private market. The problem in the private market is there isn’t much growth. Maybe a dozen hedge funds. After that they’re not that good. The returns degrade down to S&P 500 levels.

    Timothy B. Lee: That’s not so bad is it? The S&P 500 has returned 6 or 7 percent real growth for the last few decades.

    Marc Andreessen:Yeah, 6 or 7 percent. But if you look at the last 15 years they’re much less than that. Jeremy Siegel put out his book about how there’s never been a 10-year period where you lose money in the stock market — right at the beginning of a very long period where you lose money for 10-plus years.

    Piketty thinks it’s really easy to compound capital at scale. There’s just a lot of evidence that that’s not true. The shining example of that is: where are all the big companies and the big families?

    If you look at what’s actually happening in the Forbes 400 and the Fortune 500, churn is accelerating. One year it’s some real estate family, and then the next year it’s like, “There’s Larry Page, where did he come from?” Somehow Piketty looks through that to a world where all this change is going to just stop. [He has] this idea that normal is 18th-century feudal France, and we’re going to go back to it.

    He does this other dodge where the 20th century doesn’t conform to his theory, but that’s because of the wars and economic dislocations. And so it’s like the 21st century is predicted to be much more peaceful and calm. I don’t know about you but that’s not what I see happening. I look around the world right now and I see exciting things happening that’s causing a lot of changes.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-29 01:29:00 UTC

  • PHILOSOPHY AND IDEOLOGY: TRUTH IS ENOUGH. The Job of Scientists, Philosophers, I

    PHILOSOPHY AND IDEOLOGY: TRUTH IS ENOUGH.

    The Job of Scientists, Philosophers, Ideologists, Activists and Priests.

    I. Science-> II. Philosophy-> III. Ideology -> IV. Religion

    Science is a purely descriptive discipline. Philosophy consists of constructing true statements that assist us in ethical action. ideology consists of inspirations to act to obtain power, and requires only the minimum truth necessary to obtain power. Religion consists of rituals and myths that bind us together pre-cognitively, and in religion, true propositions are unnecessary – and largely undesirable.

    Therefore, truth content of each discipline: science, philosophy, ideology and religion – varies significantly.

    ***Now, if we merely sought discretionary power as do most, then it wouldn’t matter if our arguments were constructed scientifically. But since we are proposing an order that lacks discretionary authority, and where discretionary authority is prohibited, and where economic prosperity is the promised common good, then ideas and actions must correspond with objective reality rather than subjective command, law must be rationally calculable, and truth (correspondence with reality) is required of us. Truth is the only ‘rule’ that we can ‘rule’ by.***

    This does put us at an ideological disadvantage: our messages are harder to convey. We promise no free rides. Offer no eternity. No certainty.

    But that said, for some minority of us, truth, liberty, prosperity, and reality are desirable enough for us to act, and act with the threat of violence, to obtain them.

    Our ideology then, consists of the truth, the promise of liberty and prosperity, the organized application of violence to obtain them, and the moral justification whereby moral men feel that their actions are morally sanctioned.

    Therefore, the job of a philosopher, like myself, is to produce the truth. The job of ideologists, is to provide moral sanction. The job of activists, is to distribute moral sanctions. The job of shamans is to bind us together through shared experience, ritual and myth.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Philosophy of Aristocracy

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine (writing from L’viv)

    🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-28 04:35:00 UTC

  • I can bring down the house with Nirvana every time. Did tonight. But too much Ja

    I can bring down the house with Nirvana every time. Did tonight. But too much Jack and I can lose my lyrics, even in teen spirit. Damn. And there is no chance that I’ll be able to talk tomorrow after that night of vocal cord benders. The club attracts others who can actually sing, so it was a great night. I love this country. This culture. These people. The women are walking, living, art. The men are men, and don’t need to prove it.

    Now if the bed will just stop spinning…..

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-27 18:12:00 UTC