Curt Doolittle

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  • MEMETIC VIRUSES It’s interesting to watch one’s ideas and arguments spread, and

    MEMETIC VIRUSES

    It’s interesting to watch one’s ideas and arguments spread, and evolve of their own volition.

    Reforming libertarianism, and restoring liberty to nobility, one paragraph at a time.

    Cheers

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-26 04:10:00 UTC

  • If the Russians can conquer Ukraine because they think it isnt a real country, a

    If the Russians can conquer Ukraine because they think it isnt a real country, and really russia hasnt much claim to being a real country, then why dont we just conquer Russia? I mean, the chinese are winning in the east, the muslims in the south – so why dont we just take the west and russias resources, burn all their records and books and divide management if the territory to the eastern europeans?

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-25 13:49:00 UTC

  • THAT SOMETHING IS USEFUL DOES NOT MEAN IT IS TRUE Familiar and useful concepts.

    THAT SOMETHING IS USEFUL DOES NOT MEAN IT IS TRUE

    Familiar and useful concepts.

    It wasnt long ago that intellectuals could not imagine a universe without god.

    It wasnt that long ago that intellectuals could not imagine evolution: a world without intention.

    At present, intellectuals cannot imagine a world without the pretense of imaginary objects.

    Just how it is. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-25 13:38:00 UTC

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    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-25 09:48:00 UTC

  • GETTING CLOSER I am pretty close on ethics and performative truth. Not close eno

    GETTING CLOSER

    I am pretty close on ethics and performative truth. Not close enough to communicate it. But close enough to feel that I have the problem solved and understood.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-25 08:09:00 UTC

  • Just for yucks. Tried to see if I could sign up for Obamacare in both CT and WA.

    Just for yucks. Tried to see if I could sign up for Obamacare in both CT and WA. No dice.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-25 08:05:00 UTC

  • AMERICANS, EUROPEANS AND RUSSIANS? Americans are big, strong, idealistic, foolis

    AMERICANS, EUROPEANS AND RUSSIANS?

    Americans are big, strong, idealistic, foolish and stupid. But they aren’t evil – and will make you prosper.

    Europeans are incompetent, weak, effeminate, self delusional and stupid. But they aren’t evil – and will make you prosper.

    Russians are strong, smart, corrupt and evil – and will make you poor, enslaved, and permanently subject to their corruption.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-25 07:03:00 UTC

  • TARSKI IS SPECIFICALLY REFERRING TO FORMAL LANGUAGES Formal languages are subset

    TARSKI IS SPECIFICALLY REFERRING TO FORMAL LANGUAGES

    Formal languages are subsets of our full language. They are platonic (imaginary and symbolic) by definition and intent. Operational language is not platonic, but extant and demonstrated in real time and space, and can be used to describe actions in time and space, and if constrained to the description of actions in time and space, are open to observation, and confirmation, and falsification. This is why science requires operational language. This is why ethics MUST require operational language. Otherwise deception, self deception and error are obscured by the fungibility of language.

    Tarski, Alfred, “The Semantic Conception of Truth and the Foundations of Semantics”, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 4 (1944).

    Tarski, Alfred. “The Concept of Truth in Formalized Languages”, in Logic, Semantics, Metamathematics, Clarendon Press, 1956.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-25 06:35:00 UTC

  • THE PROBLEM OF CORRECTING PHILOSOPHICAL AND SCIENTIFIC ‘TRUTH’. It’s interesting

    THE PROBLEM OF CORRECTING PHILOSOPHICAL AND SCIENTIFIC ‘TRUTH’.

    It’s interesting that philosophical truth is problematic simply because it was scientists and philosophers of science which succeeded MOST in cleansing philosophy of magic, mysticism and platonism. (I am trying to additionally cleanse philosophy of deceptive obscurantism so that we can repair the ethics of cooperation and politics.) But they left logical and mathematical platonism in the philosophy of science. So we have this well respected and highly successful methodology that has drastically improved our understanding of, and ability to interact with physical reality. But in order to correct ethics, I have to FURTHER cleanse scientific philosophy of platonism, and ethics of obscurantism. And I think I have it figured out. The confusion resulted from philosophy’s history as an attempt to create an authoritarian common good via consensual belief, rather than simply improve the means of cooperation by formal institutions. On need not believe in anything. One need only construct formal institutions that eliminate all free riding – or at least, the maximum elimination of free riding that the current family structure and structure of production require.

    Unfortunately the contract for meaning of terms sometimes needs correction. One can correct meaning out of preference, out of influence on ends, for scientific accuracy, or for ethical reasons. And unfortunately , the meaning of ‘truth’ must be corrected from it’s platonic common usage to its performative and therefore accurate usage. And all other various analogies to truth as made use of in the different methodological disciplines ,demonstrated to be subtractive properties.

    To some degree, mathematics has already partly acknowledged this problem by calling it’s work ‘proofs’ not ‘truths’. We must unfortunately, get science to do the same as mathematics has done. For ethical reasons. Because it is a moral hazard for science to persist in the platonic use of the term truth instead of performative truth and the completeness of correspondence with reality.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-25 06:01:00 UTC

  • (All these tall, strong, broad shouldered, Ukrainian men. And all 5’6″ of my Bre

    (All these tall, strong, broad shouldered, Ukrainian men. And all 5’6″ of my Breton Celtness. I feel very small. But then again, I feel very safe. 🙂 )

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-25 05:25:00 UTC