Curt Doolittle

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  • I miss my guys. 🙁 (Sniffle)

    I miss my guys. 🙁 (Sniffle)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-15 12:58:00 UTC

  • CONCEPT(NAME) = FUNCTION({OPERATIONS}); A change in the concept requires change

    CONCEPT(NAME) = FUNCTION({OPERATIONS});

    A change in the concept requires change in the operations.

    —-“[any given] concept is synonymous with a corresponding set of operations. If the concept is physical, as of length, the operations are actual physical operations, namely, those by which length is measured; or if the concept is mental, as of mathematical continuity, the operations are mental operations, namely those by which we determine whether a given aggregate of magnitudes is continuous.”—

    A concept describes a function whose contents are algorithmic: a series of operations – a series of actions.

    That does not prohibit us from expressing fantasies as operations.

    HOwever, it does require that we discriminate between fantasies, pretentions and demonstrable operations.

    The square root of two is not a number – it cannot be. It is a function – it must be a function. As are all names of entities other than the natural numbers.

    The same applies for “JUSTICE”.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-15 12:15:00 UTC

  • Dear God. Thank you for smart, strong, stubborn, women. Otherwise life would jus

    Dear God. Thank you for smart, strong, stubborn, women. Otherwise life would just not be all that interesting. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-15 10:26:00 UTC

  • PROPERTY EVOLVED AS A MEANS OF SUPPRESSING FREE RIDING FIRST. (worth repeating)

    PROPERTY EVOLVED AS A MEANS OF SUPPRESSING FREE RIDING FIRST.

    (worth repeating)

    Well, I think the scarcity-as-primary cause of the evolution of property is probably false, and should be replaced by the prohibition on free riding:

    (a) Property evolved for preventing free riding during cooperation (along with mating – we dont’ know which was first – cooperation or pairing off, but it looks like cooperation was first.)

    (b) Language evolved to control mating (pairing off conditional monogamy – mates as property)

    (c) Property matured to facilitate the retention of goods and tools.

    (d) Property matured to facilitate capture of livestock.

    (e) Property matured to facilitate inheritance in families

    (f) Property matured to facilitate the division of labor.

    (g) Property evolved as a means of forming cooperative networks and positive expression of legal rules.

    As far as I can tell, it is the prevention of free riding needed to maintain incentives to produce that was the source of the evolution of property.

    As far as I can tell, it is probably more accurate to say that scarcity forced retention of redistribution within family and tribe, it did not cause the evolution of property.

    The hard problem that only Northern Europeans have solved, is to suppress redistribution in the tribe and family.

    I don’t think this is a meaningful revision of libertarian theory. It’s a correction. But the order of development doesn’t change the importance of property rights for the purpose of incentives, calculation, and dispute resolution.

    But it does reinforce my argument that the purpose of property is the prevention of free riding necessary for cooperation. So that property evolved a positive expression of the negative prohibition. Not as a good in itself in response to scarcity.

    In fact, I am pretty confident that the scarcity argument is a CROSS-GROUP problem not an in-group problem. (Again, this is why ghetto ethics were a failure – wrong problem. In group evolved prior to out-group.)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-15 09:58:00 UTC

  • OPERATIONALISM UNDER PROPERTARIANISM RENDERS POSTMODERNIST, CRITIQUE, AND KANTIA

    OPERATIONALISM UNDER PROPERTARIANISM RENDERS POSTMODERNIST, CRITIQUE, AND KANTIAN ARGUMENTS IMPOSSIBLE.

    LAUNDERING: Laundering actions and individuals via aggregation into symbols, objects and entities

    LOADING: Loading with emotional or moral sentiments

    FRAMING: Framing by selection of causes and properties

    OVERLOADING: Overloading by production of a multitude of

    CRITIQUE: Using all of the above to defend a straw man by attacking with overloading, framing, loading and laundering. An elaborate means of distraction from a hidden agenda.

    POSTMODERNISM: an attempt to conflate fact and value, such that value distorts fact.

    KANTIAN: an attempt to justify moral authority independent of experience.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-15 09:49:00 UTC

  • The more free riding you suppress, the more productivity that you enforce. And n

    The more free riding you suppress, the more productivity that you enforce. And northern europeans simply suppressed more free riding than any other people.

    What we resent is that physical effort is more costly to the individual than intellectual effort, and that intellectual effort is much more productive and scarce than physical effort.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-15 09:08:00 UTC

  • Over my lifetime there have been interesting dramatic changes in the underclasse

    Over my lifetime there have been interesting dramatic changes in the underclasses that I wouldn’t have expected. We know that the spread of science has had profound impact and is probably responsible for the continued increase in intelligence. We know that the spread of general knowledge has had impact. But we have also seen the spread of ‘general awareness’, which means everyone seems to know about almost everything so that unscientific or irrational rumours are much harder to spread.

    A lot of this has accelerated since the expansion of the internet, and now even more so because of the universal spread of smartphones. But it was already happening under television, radio, magazines, newspapers, pamphlets and books.

    But while the method and content of intellectual discourse (IMHO) hasn’t changed much in the past 150 years or more, the method and content of underclass conversation has changed so much that it’s unimaginable.

    I sat at a kitchen table listening to some ‘poor-folk’ (loggers) as a child and I remember how much it horrified me that adults could talk about such nonsense. I couldn’t have been more than twelve at the time. Probably younger. Conspiracy theory is and must be (Dunning Krueger) part and parcel of underclass experience. And it’s probably the most consistent metaphysical assumption of underclass conversation.

    But that level of ignorance has been forced out of all but the sub-80-IQ crowd.

    I routinely read academic work written over a century ago, and some back into the post-civil-war period. And honestly, aside from changes in technology, the metaphysical assumptions shared in that thought is pretty consistent across the century. (We have to largely discount the sixties and seventies though as an age of mysticism.) I could talk to most pre-war thinkers on level terms and not feel a void separated us. But if you talked to common people in 1900, 1965 and 2014 the difference would be astounding. Not just in what they talked abut, but what they knew about.

    Knowledge is enough. Saturation in information will do the job that training cannot.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-15 08:52:00 UTC

  • WHEN I SAY “MERE VERBALISMS” I MEAN: “MEANINGLESS FALLACIES” (worth repeating) –

    WHEN I SAY “MERE VERBALISMS” I MEAN: “MEANINGLESS FALLACIES”

    (worth repeating)

    –“…many of the questions asked about social and philosophical subjects will be found to be meaningless when examined from the point of operations.”– Bridgeman.

    1) Acquisitiveness as necessary for life.

    2) Cooperation and negative expression: the prohibition on free riding.

    3) The prevention of free riding as an incentive to produce.

    4) Property as a positive expression of the prohibition on free riding.

    5) Voluntary, fully informed, warrantied exchanged, free of negative externality.

    6) The Common law as a means of evolving property rights and the prevention of free riding as technology expands.

    7) Operationalism as the test of truth in political, ethical and moral expression.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-15 05:05:00 UTC

  • CLARITY OF THINKING – OPERATIONALISM IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES —“Bridgman also ex

    CLARITY OF THINKING – OPERATIONALISM IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

    —“Bridgman also extended his operationalist thinking by considering its implications outside physics. This was important to him at least from the time of The Logic of Modern Physics, in which he ventured: “many of the questions asked about social and philosophical subjects will be found to be meaningless when examined from the point of operations. It would doubtless conduce greatly to clarity of thought if the operational mode of thinking were adopted in all fields of inquiry as well as in the physical” (30–32).”– S.E.P. Operationalism (Bridgeman).

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-15 04:57:00 UTC

  • They are breeding, invading and fighting. You’re sitting on your ass and talking

    They are breeding, invading and fighting.

    You’re sitting on your ass and talking.

    The problem is you.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-15 04:46:00 UTC