Curt Doolittle

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  • “PHILOSOPHY MUST BE DRAGGED OUT OF THE IVORY TOWER AND INTO THE MARKETPLACE OF I

    –“PHILOSOPHY MUST BE DRAGGED OUT OF THE IVORY TOWER AND INTO THE MARKETPLACE OF IDEAS”–

    Um. I don’t think so. Unless it has a dramatic reformation.

    via negativa, measurement, science, economics, and law, versus via positiva, philosophy, theology, occult, daydreaming.

    While I find no difference between theorizing and philosophizing that is because I do not engage in empty verbalisms or sophisms, pseudosciences, nor the magic of ignoring costs.

    Philosophy can be laundered such that philosophizing(imaginary and verbal) and theorizing (existential and actionable) are essentially identical by the use of operational language, the full accounting of costs, and a preface of the choice of goods as those of the equalitarian herd, or the hierarchical pack.

    But as practiced, and as the demotion of the discipline to a peer to theology has evidenced, measuring, theorizing, philosophizing, and theologizing are simply analogous to description, deduction, induction, abduction, and guessing, using increasingly specious excuses for one’s guesswork.

    The athenian tradition did not account for costs. There are two principle reasons for it:

    (1) the peerage was small and wealthy with common interests – and costs were as rude then as today

    (2) discussion of costs immediately changes from ideals to reals thereby self selecting into class interests

    (3) mathematical idealism influenced greco-roman thought so heavily, giving such sophism an unearned legitimacy.

    (4) historically religion spoke in these ideal terms, philosophy an improvement upon them, and empiricism an improvement upon philosophy, and science an improvement upon empiricism, just as ‘Testimonialism’ is an improvement upon science. (empiricism vs science distinguished by the 20th’s implementation of operational language, and testimonialism by the completion of the scientific method).

    It is time for philosophy to either abandon idealism, sophism, and the ignorance of costs, or to be further demoted into the theology of ideals.

    Otherwise, like theology, it cannot compete in the marketplace of ideas.

    That is what the evidence shows us.

    People ask me every single day what philosophy to read and I tell them ‘none of it’ other than perhaps the bookends of Aristotle and Nietzsche. The rest is all measurement, science, economics, Law, and history.

    There are no crimes equal to those of abraham, saul, and mohammed in the ancient world, and marx, freud, boas, in the 19th, and adorno, derrida and foucault in the 20th. We can complain about Augustine and Aquinas as apologists, but by them the damage was done.

    It is very hard to criticize archimedes, democritus, aristotle, epicurus, zeno in the ancient world, and bacon, newton, hobbes, lock, smith, hume in the modern, or poincare, maxwell, darwin, menger, pareto, spencer, nietzsche and many others in the 19th, and einstein, watson-crick, and the many others in the 20th.

    Precision of our knowledge increases thereby justifying the pack, offset by counter-revolutions in denial, sophism, pseudoscience, and supernaturalism expanding the herd. And the war between neolithic feminine dysgenic herd strategy of the levant, and the bronze age masculine eugenic pack strategy of indo europeans.

    Truth is undesirable to the many.

    —

    https://www.newstatesman.com/2019/01/philosophy-must-be-dragged-out-ivory-tower-and-marketplace-ideas?

    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-10 09:42:00 UTC

  • “Western society is dominant through the propagation of western currency, which

    —“Western society is dominant through the propagation of western currency, which has taking the place of western warfare, in order to maintain western dominance do you think the value of economic currency needs to be maintained or the value of western warfare needs to become the currency?”— A Friend

    Smart Question.

    I think the short answer is that western currency, and in particular, the american takeover of the british empire at bretton woods, which was dependent upon providing open access to the american market, and american guarantee of policing of world trade.

    1. Western dominance is not ‘needed’.

    2. Conflict of civilizations will emerge.

    3. Power evolved by increasingly subtle incentives: Violence > Religion > Administration > Economics > with next state being information (which scares me).

    4. The west competed successfully by a combination of technologies. The competitive advantage in other than trust (culture) has mostly been eliminated. the competitive advantage of demographic distribution is in the process of being eliminated.

    5. I do not see how the west can maintain military superiority. Military superiority requires technology. Technology requires wealth. Wealth requires population, trade routes, and all the rest…

    6. At present, Trump is attempting to force europeans to remilitarize by withdrawing military force from the region, and then the rest of the world, more slowly, because america no longer has the relative economic and technological advantage. Worse, chinese organization, government, and culture is superior for the conduct of military, economic, and political expansion.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-10 07:57:00 UTC

  • offline. tired. g’nite

    offline. tired. g’nite.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-09 20:23:00 UTC

  • We are gonna have to go to war men. Not much else to be done

    We are gonna have to go to war men.

    Not much else to be done.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-09 15:01:00 UTC

  • JUST CALL ME JACKET Curt = Курт (russian, ukrainian) куртка (koort-‘ka) = jacket

    JUST CALL ME JACKET

    Curt = Курт (russian, ukrainian)

    куртка (koort-‘ka) = jackets (russian)

    Курточк ( Koor-TOH’CHk ) = Jackets. (Belarus)

    Жакеты (zha-KEH’-tee) = Jackets

    жакет (zha-keht) = Jacket

    френч (french) = jacket/coat (I think it means, like a smock?)

    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-09 14:22:00 UTC

  • What I love about open source? —“Well then, I can fix it my own damn self!!!”-

    What I love about open source?

    —“Well then, I can fix it my own damn self!!!”—

    Lost more than half a day.

    fking bug in the source after I’ve spent weeks on setting up the site for courses.

    And the dev acts like a dev… sigh. Meaning he has (understandably) forgotten the entire context of what he wrote, and so I’m combing thru source of three versions of the software, the addon, and the addon that links the addon…

    And saying … ‘um… here is where the bug is… and that function doesn’t exist, and it’s crashing because that function doesn’t exist’, and even if it did why are you calling the same date using two different methods in the first place?

    Fixed. sigh….

    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-09 13:53:00 UTC

  • THE LANGUAGE OF MATHEMATICS AND MAN Mathematics is just the most SIMPLE possible

    THE LANGUAGE OF MATHEMATICS AND MAN

    Mathematics is just the most SIMPLE possible language since it has only one property: positional name. And positional names are unique and perfectly deflationary (non-conflationary) and as such very difficult to subject to our principal category of error: conflation.

    LET’S TAKE A JOURNEY:

    A CHANGE IN STATE (TIME) consists of entropy at the local rate of entropy.

    An INTERVAL (CHANGE) of time consists of a change in state.

    EXPERIENCE(PERCEPTION) consists of the conflation of sense-perception, memory, and neural prediction with that memory, over some interval of time.

    A set of CONSTANT RELATIONS (CATEGORY) consists of a set of properties reducible to analogy to experience, and commensurable (differentiable) by human experience.

    A REFERENCE (ASSOCIATION) consists of a set of constant relations.

    CORRESPONDENCE (NAMES) consists of a name (INDEX) of a comparison of indifference between a name (referrer) and a reference.

    NUMBERS (NOUNS) consists of positional names, and the correspondence of positional names with some referent.

    ARITHMETIC (VERBS) consists in the study of the grammar of numbers, and the properties possible operations upon and between them (addition, subtraction, and their iterations in multiplication, and division).

    ALGEBRA (GRAMMAR) consists in the study of the grammar of mathematical language: the production of well form statements in mathematical language, and the manipulation of symbols (words, phrases, sentences) in that mathematical language, allowing for the deduction, induction, abduction, and guessing of the missing content of those statements, or range of possible content of those statements.

    A DIMENSION (PHRASES) consist of a set of constant internal relations, and each additional dimension consists of a shared dependency between dimensions the accumulation of which produces a chain, hierarchy, or network of dependencies.

    A dimension can refer to any difference reducible to analogy to perception by the human mind, and therefore capable of commensurability, comparison, and decidability.

    GEOMETRY (SENTENCES) consists in the study of dimensions of STATEFUL shapes described by positional relations we call numbers, in n-number of dimensions (although most commonly in four), and the use of triangles to measure area and volume.

    CALCULUS (MEANING) (from Latin calculus, literally ‘small pebble’, used for counting and calculations, as on an abacus) is the mathematical study of continuous change.

    It has two major branches:

    a) Curves: differential calculus (concerning instantaneous rates of change and slopes of curves), and;

    b) Curved Areas: integral calculus (concerning accumulation of quantities and the areas under and between curves).

    –“These two branches are related to each other by the fundamental theorem of calculus. Both branches make use of the fundamental notions of convergence of infinite sequences and infinite series to a well-defined limit. (marginal indifference).”–

    This paragraph consists of nonsense-speech.

    Calculus, like geometry, uses a very large number of approximations of the area under a curve, where we choose some arbitrary degree of precision to determine the smallness of each approximation. This means that all measurements must specify some point of marginal indifference, (scale dependence, ‘limit’).

    HIGHER MATHEMATICS (DEDUCTION, INDUCTION, ABDUCTION, GUESSING), (most analysis) consists in using the available set of constant relations, and some combination of negative (deduction) and positive (construction) to engage in trial and error, to narrow the range of possible solutions.

    EMERGENT PATTERNS OF CONSTANT RELATIONS

    Any and all networks produce patterns of constant relations (‘symmetries’) of that which is frequent and possible and that which is infrequent or impossible. We then can name these symmetries, assign them positional names, and repeat the descriptive language we call the process all over again.

    This is how the universe functions from its yet unknown time-space substance, to the quantum level of behavior upon it, to the atomic level of behavior upon that, to the carbon level beyond that, to the life, the complex life, to the sentience beyond that. One level of operations produces some maximum set of operations which is then results in some maximum set of operations until we have reason, and mathematics, and sufficient knowledge to forecast (imagine, predict) potential alternative ‘sentences’ and act upon them to change state ourselves, and to capture the energy from having done so, so that we ourselves continue to defeat entropy.

    All Reason consists of this using this series, all of which are simply statements of available information:

    1. Identity

    2. Equality

    3. Deduction

    4. Induction

    5. Abduction

    6. Guessing

    7. Free Association

    8. Intuition.

    9. Unobservable.

    In reasoning we can either:

    1. construct (justify),

    2. test (falsify)

    3. continuously recursively disambiguate.(analyze with language)

    4. eliminate by trial and error in construction, falsification, and analysis.

    5. eliminate by trial and error in the market for application.

    We can deceive by:

    1. Failure of due diligence

    2. Denial

    3. Obscurantism, loading, framing

    4. Conflation

    5. Inflation

    6. fictionalization

    7. Deceit

    8. Environmental deceit (saturation, popaganda)

    EVERYTHING WE DO FOLLOWS THE SAME EPISTEMIC PROCESS

    The competition between:

    1. construction by continuous recursive disambiguation (free association), and;

    2. continuous prediction (anticipation), and;

    3. continuous falsification (elimination).

    In this order:

    1. Experience (market for association in memory) >

    2. Free Association (prediction/falsification in reason) >

    3. Hypothesis (criticism/falsification in testing) >

    4. Theory (criticism/falsification in application ) >

    5. Law(survival) >

    6. Habituation (presumption) >

    7. Revision (iterate)

    Philosophizing only tells us if something is false. Nothing more

    The only means of due diligence is falsifying each dimension of possible human perception:

    1. survival from falsification of identity

    2. survival from falsification of internal consistency (logic)

    3. survival from falsification by external correspondence (empiricism).

    4. survival from falsification by operationalization and operational description.

    5. survival from falsification by subjective test of rational choice

    7. survival from falsification by reciprocal test of rational choice.

    8. survival from falsification by tests of limits and full accounting (scope).

    9. survival from falsification by of internal consistency across all of these methods of due diligence (coherence).

    In summary, operational grammar is the same as mathematical grammar: extremely difficult to circumvent tests of deflation and disambiguation in that hierarchy of real world dimensions.

    The human body, intuition, and mind, is a standard of measurement because of the marginal indifference of perception cognition and action, and the ‘grammar’ of operations, provides continuous consistency from the subatomic universe to the experiential.

    Once you understand this, the demand for ePrime (operational language), in complete sentences will be rather obvious.

    – Cheers

    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-09 13:37:00 UTC

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    https://nationalpost.com/opinion/barbara-kay-heres-what-happens-when-the-gender-gap-index-is-adjusted-for-bias?fbclid=IwAR2YAyUL_a3J-dUXcf2JKChdn9nQyXB7Iej9pwFyfiEzR7j6soX_h3rH7uI

    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-09 11:38:00 UTC

  • Women touch and hug men to calm them. Imagine if we could silence women by huggi

    Women touch and hug men to calm them. Imagine if we could silence women by hugging them? I think my life would be perfect. lolz

    (humor)

    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-09 11:07:00 UTC

  • James, if this is a forum for discussion, then it’s a value. Which would require

    James, if this is a forum for discussion, then it’s a value. Which would require posting both sides of the debate. If this is a form for you to express your frustrations then it is no longer anything to do with theory policy and philosophy, but simply just emotional. Just create an “I hate trump” forum and put it there. But at present you’re not acting any differently from the alt-right-green-frog folks except your posting pseudo-rational propaganda instead of openly irrational green-frog cartoons.

    You have energy and a particular gift. And if you employ it honestly then you can make a contribution to the world.

    I’m honest about my work and my bias. (and yes, the fact that The Clinton Foundation defrauded me of $2M they said they would pay me for developing the greenhouse-gas measurement software, after we rescued their efforts in India at Microsoft’s request; and the fact that I have direct experience with these people – including Murdoch’s wife – might color my judgement a bit. These are ‘bad’ immoral, people for whom lying is simply a justifiable means of achieving their ends.)

    Anger destroys honesty. Half truths are lies. Half arguments are just half truths.

    Hence why I argue in the manner that I do: the only ‘good’ is exchange. The only ‘moral’ is non-imposition of costs.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-08 18:13:00 UTC