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  • The Poverty of Philosophy

    [T]heology exists because philosophy excludes its fallacies, and philosophy exists because science excludes its fallacies. Science exists because math excludes its fallacies. Math exists because logic excludes its fallacies. The question is why there is a demand for those excluded fallacies? Why? Either to bridge the gap between one stage of ignorance and the next, or to use fallacies for the purpose of conducting some sort of fraud. Philosophy just means ‘we don’t know enough to write history, law, science, and mathematics yet’. Philosophy serves as young adult literature that prepares you for adult literature: history, law, science, and mathematics, just as children’s stories, fables, and fairy tales prepare yu for young adult literature. Its storytelling. Stories provide context for history, law, science, and math. So in that sense, the reason philosophy is largely dead, is that history, law, science, mathematics, and logic has rendered it young adult moral fantasy literature. The knowledge required at each state of declining ignorance is much greater than the previous. (I’ve had to master a lot of fields as a judge if not as a craftsman. It took a very long time. I had the luxury of the wealth and time necessary to invest that time.)

  • The Poverty of Philosophy

    [T]heology exists because philosophy excludes its fallacies, and philosophy exists because science excludes its fallacies. Science exists because math excludes its fallacies. Math exists because logic excludes its fallacies. The question is why there is a demand for those excluded fallacies? Why? Either to bridge the gap between one stage of ignorance and the next, or to use fallacies for the purpose of conducting some sort of fraud. Philosophy just means ‘we don’t know enough to write history, law, science, and mathematics yet’. Philosophy serves as young adult literature that prepares you for adult literature: history, law, science, and mathematics, just as children’s stories, fables, and fairy tales prepare yu for young adult literature. Its storytelling. Stories provide context for history, law, science, and math. So in that sense, the reason philosophy is largely dead, is that history, law, science, mathematics, and logic has rendered it young adult moral fantasy literature. The knowledge required at each state of declining ignorance is much greater than the previous. (I’ve had to master a lot of fields as a judge if not as a craftsman. It took a very long time. I had the luxury of the wealth and time necessary to invest that time.)

  • Intuitions as Neural Economy

    Because of my work on artificial intelligence, I think of intuitions as regional differences neural economy. As far as I know very minor changes in rewards and frustrations produce HUGE accumulated differences in regional (functional network) dependence. Some people have the resource curse in neural economy, some people do not, and some people are resource poor, and worse, some have resource poor and very poor transport systems (white matter). And others have totally unconstructive asymmetries of reward and frustration….. lots to go wrong, many things need to go right. So it takes a great deal of training with some, and mere exposure for others…. and for others… its fucking impossible. They’re semi domesticated animals.

  • Intuitions as Neural Economy

    Because of my work on artificial intelligence, I think of intuitions as regional differences neural economy. As far as I know very minor changes in rewards and frustrations produce HUGE accumulated differences in regional (functional network) dependence. Some people have the resource curse in neural economy, some people do not, and some people are resource poor, and worse, some have resource poor and very poor transport systems (white matter). And others have totally unconstructive asymmetries of reward and frustration….. lots to go wrong, many things need to go right. So it takes a great deal of training with some, and mere exposure for others…. and for others… its fucking impossible. They’re semi domesticated animals.

  • Curzon on The Science Behind Stoic Discipline

    —-“A great first thing to train out of is embarrassment – one of the cardinal signs of lack of agency.”—- Andy Curzon I mean, if you wanna start with the first and most important step in ‘never take anything personally’ that’s the first step. —-“Be careful not to conflate the processes of ‘pushing away’ (to use the lingo) unhelpful thoughts with the action of redirecting. I do not believe redirecting to be possible, per se. I can only describe a parallel to this by the example of the pathological ‘self-esteem’ movement – or the counterproductive sales pitch of ‘follow your bliss’. One can not AIM for happiness or self-esteem because they are RESULTS of actions. One can not ‘aim’ for a specific thought – but one can ask questions. The practice of asking for something (a form of prayer) and allowing one’s trained ‘wisdom’ to answer it and receive feedback seems akin to the conjecture and refutation processes Popper espouses.”— Andy Curzon bingo. You cannot circumvent a network of information, you can only train the network of information to come to different conclusions through self-questioning. hence the value of archetypes (gods, demigods, heroes) especially those that are omniscient (can read your subconscious). These train you to role play in a dialog that retrains networks. It works.

  • Curzon on The Science Behind Stoic Discipline

    —-“A great first thing to train out of is embarrassment – one of the cardinal signs of lack of agency.”—- Andy Curzon I mean, if you wanna start with the first and most important step in ‘never take anything personally’ that’s the first step. —-“Be careful not to conflate the processes of ‘pushing away’ (to use the lingo) unhelpful thoughts with the action of redirecting. I do not believe redirecting to be possible, per se. I can only describe a parallel to this by the example of the pathological ‘self-esteem’ movement – or the counterproductive sales pitch of ‘follow your bliss’. One can not AIM for happiness or self-esteem because they are RESULTS of actions. One can not ‘aim’ for a specific thought – but one can ask questions. The practice of asking for something (a form of prayer) and allowing one’s trained ‘wisdom’ to answer it and receive feedback seems akin to the conjecture and refutation processes Popper espouses.”— Andy Curzon bingo. You cannot circumvent a network of information, you can only train the network of information to come to different conclusions through self-questioning. hence the value of archetypes (gods, demigods, heroes) especially those that are omniscient (can read your subconscious). These train you to role play in a dialog that retrains networks. It works.

  • How is Sovereignty Achieved?

    QUESTION:

    —“Hi Curt, if you don’t mind I’ve got a question on Sovereignty after reading your recent posts. Is Sovereignty only achieved through combing agency and reciprocity (I think I’ve seen you say this somewhere)? In which case, thinking about this in terms of individualism vs collectivism: -Groups of people who lack individual agency, but act as a collective can only ever beg for what they want (the herd). -Individuals who possess agency, but are unwilling to reciprocate with one another will be unable to achieve results at scale (lone wolves). -Therefore it’s not individualism vs collectivism; it’s agency AND reciprocity which when combined creates Sovereignty (the pack). Not sure if I’m stretching things here?”—- Andy Lunn

    ANSWER: Um. (a) very well structured argument, (b) correct conclusion. (c) nice work! A+

  • How is Sovereignty Achieved?

    QUESTION:

    —“Hi Curt, if you don’t mind I’ve got a question on Sovereignty after reading your recent posts. Is Sovereignty only achieved through combing agency and reciprocity (I think I’ve seen you say this somewhere)? In which case, thinking about this in terms of individualism vs collectivism: -Groups of people who lack individual agency, but act as a collective can only ever beg for what they want (the herd). -Individuals who possess agency, but are unwilling to reciprocate with one another will be unable to achieve results at scale (lone wolves). -Therefore it’s not individualism vs collectivism; it’s agency AND reciprocity which when combined creates Sovereignty (the pack). Not sure if I’m stretching things here?”—- Andy Lunn

    ANSWER: Um. (a) very well structured argument, (b) correct conclusion. (c) nice work! A+

  • Books on Militia from History to Policy to Popular Press

    HISTORY Edwin Viera’s Book : The Sword and Sovereignty https://curtdoolittle.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/the-sword-and-sovereignty-1.pdf POLICY USA’s Military Work on the Militia LAW On Constitutional Regulations PRACTICE On Actions https://www.amazon.com/Militia-Battle-Manual-Thomas-Koch/dp/0879471514/

  • Books on Militia from History to Policy to Popular Press

    HISTORY Edwin Viera’s Book : The Sword and Sovereignty https://curtdoolittle.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/the-sword-and-sovereignty.pdf POLICY USA’s Military Work on the Militia LAW On Constitutional Regulations PRACTICE On Actions https://www.amazon.com/Militia-Battle-Manual-Thomas-Koch/dp/0879471514/