Curt Doolittle

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  • Your choice of grammar (paradigm) tells us how you understand yourself in relati

    Your choice of grammar (paradigm) tells us how you understand yourself in relation to others.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-30 14:14:00 UTC

  • ARE HISTORIANS OR ECONOMISTS MORE RIGHT? Um…. Let me help you: OUTLIERS. Econo

    ARE HISTORIANS OR ECONOMISTS MORE RIGHT?

    Um…. Let me help you: OUTLIERS. Economists are better at explanation post hoc, and historians are better at prediction, for the simple reason that history consists of the analysis of outliers (opportunities in signal), and economics the analysis of regularities (opportunities in noise).

    At present it is painfully clear to me that we are both at the most fragile condition any empire has been in history, and we have a surplus of agitated external competitors, and a surplus of agitated internal males ready to seize the opportunity.

    If the economics profession measured ALL capital changes and incentives those changes cause, and demand for it’s reallocation, as well as rates of consumption and production, then the profession MIGHT come close to the predictive ability of historians.

    But as we have consistently seen, (which I have been measuring since 2002), the opinions of economists (confidence) vary inversely to the predictability of the conditions.

    So, it’s not an either or proposition.

    Bias Confirmation in History,

    Projection in Psychology and Sociology, and;

    Cherry Picking in Economics.

    Next time you hear an economist say ‘but we don’t try to measure that’, inform him that his position is no different from theologians saying ‘we don’t account for that’.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-30 13:37:00 UTC

  • “Personally I think a semantically commensurable language creates a problem of c

    —“Personally I think a semantically commensurable language creates a problem of cost, but alas we must bear costs.”—Micah Pezdirtz

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-30 13:01:00 UTC

  • “LYING” IN THE WHITE LAW (PROPERTARIANISM) by Daniel Roland Anderson —“I (we)

    “LYING” IN THE WHITE LAW (PROPERTARIANISM)

    by Daniel Roland Anderson

    —“I (we) require you to perform due diligence before making a truth claim. In other words, we have a higher standard of not lying. This prevents people (as we do in law) from claiming ignorance.”—Curt Doolittle

    This is the first time I’ve seen you explain why you use the term “lie” the way you do.

    I’m glad I randomly scroll through comment sections like this looking for gold.

    I’m thinking another couple paragraphs, and this is a post that resolves some angst with IQs all the way down to 95.

    The rest of this discussion on the relationship between truth, meaning, and lying is more important for a lot of us though because it seems to cause a lot of confusion—more so the truth and meaning thing.

    INCREASE IN THE SCOPE OF LYING RESULTS FROM AN INCREASE IN THE SCOPE OF WARRANTY, DUE TO AN INCREASE IN THE SCOPE OF DUE DILIGENCE

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-30 13:00:00 UTC

  • THE COMMONS OF NOMOCRACY by Bill Joslin Nomocracy (Rule of Law) is a Commons. Th

    THE COMMONS OF NOMOCRACY

    by Bill Joslin

    Nomocracy (Rule of Law) is a Commons. The forms of rule, outlined by Aristotle, describe the cycle of competition to gain a monopoly over the commons (to seize control of it).

    Nomocracy exists as a commons.

    [Nomocracy, under everyman a Sheriff (contract and criminal law separated from legislative and regulatory institutions), exists as a commons, where all contribute via participation in lawful behaviour, as well as execution of the law and all who do so reap the benefits – a type of property.)]

    An end to the many *-ocracies (forms of rule which monopolize law) could end civilizational cycles.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-30 10:48:00 UTC

  • by Luan Raphael Via Positiva: Provide us with a precise description so that we c

    by Luan Raphael

    Via Positiva: Provide us with a precise description so that we can construct the experience you seek to communicate.

    Via Negativa: Provide us with a description so that we can constrain our imagination to that which you seek to communicate.

    Identity allows us to constrain our imagination so that we can construct the experience.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-30 10:29:00 UTC

  • “If your speech does not satisfy the categories necessary to demonstrate due dil

    —“If your speech does not satisfy the categories necessary to demonstrate due diligence or establish warrantee against fraud, bias, or error, why on earth would I take you seriously?”—Micah Pezdirtz

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-30 09:41:00 UTC

  • “Metaphor: low resolution vs. E-prime: high resolution”—Micah Pezdirtz

    —“Metaphor: low resolution vs. E-prime: high resolution”—Micah Pezdirtz

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-30 09:32:00 UTC

  • INDIVIDUALS, GROUPS, AND CIVILIZATIONS FILL EVERY NICHE |FEED|: Herd > Pack > So

    INDIVIDUALS, GROUPS, AND CIVILIZATIONS FILL EVERY NICHE

    |FEED|: Herd > Pack > Solitary Hunter > Scavenger > Kleptoparasite > Parasite.

    Mammals cover the full range. Humans cover the full range. Civilizations cover the full range.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-30 09:15:00 UTC

  • “One of my philosophy professors said, it’s not that you can’t use analogy and m

    —“One of my philosophy professors said, it’s not that you can’t use analogy and metaphor to express some difficult ideas, but eventually you have to actually tell us what you MEAN. We will insist on that point.”—Daniel Roland Anderson

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-30 09:01:00 UTC