Curt Doolittle

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  • What Do You Call A Person Who Believes In Science And Doesn’t Believe In God?

    One doesn’t believe in science. One takes measurements as a means by which to eliminate ignorance, error, bias and deceit, because it is our ignorance, error, bias and deceit that prevents us from seeing the universe as it is, rather than as we wish it to be, or as we evolved to see it to be.

    As far as I know, a scientist is a scientist, and that is the name of those people who practice aristotelianism, vs those people who practice literary idealism (platonists), and those who practice humble literary mysticism (mythicists), and those who practice arrogant literary pseudo-law, pseudo-history and pseudo-science (theology).

    A scientist can testify in court. A fictionalist cannot.

    Truth is a matter of due diligence and warranty. Both of which are only possible through measurement.

    https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-call-a-person-who-believes-in-science-and-doesnt-believe-in-god

  • What Are The Physical Differences Between African People’s Ethnicities (e.g. Ethiopian, Zulu, Congan, Etc.)?

    Hmmm. The terrain and the harshness of the environment has led to wide variation among africans. (While the rest of us evolved pedomorphically, africa demanded DEEPER and FASTER sexual maturity – if for the disease gradient alone. )

    I have seventeen subraces listed in Africa, and I think that others might break it down into more than thirty. And they all hold scrutiny. By comparison, West europeans and east asians are the least diverse polities and it’s very important that we understand that both our accelerated developments were in no small part due to isolation and proto-speciation.

    Africa:

    • Tigrean Race*** (Tigrean)
    • Amharic Race*** (Amharic)
    • Sudanese-Barya Race*** (Sudanese – Barya)
    • General Nilotic Race (Shilluk – Masai – Nuer – Dinka – Luo – Turkana – Karanojo – Mabaan)
    • Funji Nilotic Race (Funji)
    • Tuareg-Beja Cushitic Race*** (Tuareg – Beja)
    • Nubian Race*** (Nubian)
    • Wolof-Peul-Serer Race (Wolof – Peul – Serer)
    • General Bantu Race (Most Bantus)
    • Bedik Bantu Race (Bedik)
    • West African Race (Most West Africans)
    • Mbuti Pygmy Race
    • Sara Nilotic-Biaka Pygmy Race (Sara – Biaka)
    • San Khoisan-Somali Race*** (San – Somali)
    • Khoi Khoisan Race*** (Nama – !Ora)
    • Hadza Khoisan Race*** (Hadza)
    • Sandawe Khoisan Race (Sandawe)

    https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-physical-differences-between-African-peoples-ethnicities-e-g-Ethiopian-Zulu-Congan-etc

  • What Is A Problem You Have Never Been Able To Figure Out?

    I have solved at least two significant problems in human thought, and while it takes a long time to do so, I have been able to ‘figure out’ everything I have set my mind to – and abandoned those that I understood could not be solved because we lack the information – not the reasoning ability.

    The first was the same one that troubles the physics community, and that is only because the costs of the necessary tests is still too high, and the community is distracted by mathematical pseudoscience for the simple reason that they lack the funds to conduct meaningful tests at necessary scales. This is why I didn’t choose that career. It is economic-progress bound, not idea bound.

    The second was general artificial intelligence, which after I understood the problem thoroughly, also understood that it was a problem only solvable by reduction of costs through continuous innovation. I have known for quite some time the answers to general intelligence, the general structure of the data and algorithms, and the problem of ethical(moral) conduct (transactions). The problem is, that … as far as I know … it is still a multi-billion dollar problem if for no other reason than turing’s advice wasn’t followed and the structure of current microprocessors inhibits development.

    The third is the same one that’s troubling Nassim Taleb and that is that we lack a unit of measure by which to determine the information necessary to measure changes in state of risk (outliers or paradigm-changers) that we see in high causal density phenomenon like economics where categories are not only fungible but inconstant. As far as I know we cannot achieve this until we produce a unit of measure and that unit of measure will be provided by the information necessary to cause changes in state from the production of a general artificial intelligence.

    I think we are a lot farther along in understanding and unifying the first full generation of thought across all disciplines than I’d originally assumed, or that anyone would infer from exposure to their various grammars, vocabularies, semantics, and truth tests. However, reforming all those disciplines, and the common vernacular takes a century or more. But just as the Greek enlightenment and the British Enlightenment both dragged humanity out of ignorance and superstition, the counter revolutions of Abrahamic pseudo rationalism in the ancient world, and Rousseuian-Kantian-Marxist-Postmodern pseudoscience in the modern, have struggled to restore the dark ages.

    Truth is not comforting.

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-problem-you-have-never-been-able-to-figure-out

  • Does Libertarianism Require A Higher Than Average Level Of Social Capital In Order To Work On A Large Scale?

    Social Capital, like ‘social justice’ is a notoriously suspect term. But I’m going to assume you mean:

    1 – Language, Manners, Ethics, Morals (intergenerational norms),

    And that in addition you MAY be referring to:

    2- Traditions, laws, myths, histories, sciences (intergenerational decidability), and informal and formal institutions (intergenerational institutions).

    And that you are NOT referring to:

    3 – genetic advantage either (a) universally such as jewish and western verbal ability or east asian short term memory ability, or (b) a beneficial distribution (near extermination of the underclasses in Western, Ashkenazi, Han/Korean/Japanese populations, producing a higher mean distribution)

    As far as I know the independent polity must raise its median IQ over 105, and as close to 115 as possible in order to make a libertarian polity possible if for no other reason than the institutions and methods of decidability that are possible for such people without the high cost of the underclasses.

    Or stated another way, a population with a median IQ above 112–115 would find other than ‘libertarian’ laws unnecessary, where those below 100 increasingly find authority and fixed rules necessary.

    So I would say that any population desirous of Freedom(managed), Liberty (by permission), and sovereignty(in fact), would be much more dependent upon genetic capital than normative capital.

    The simple reason being that one can adopt behaviors by simply imposing laws to prohibit undesirable alternatives – as we largely do today. But that no imposition of law upon insufficient genetic capital will allow high trust norms and traditions to form.

    Western man must abandon the fallacies of christianity. We excelled because we eliminated our underclasses through manorialism, aggressive prosecution, disease and war. Our civilization is entirely eugenic, using ‘markets in everything’ from family, to production, to commons, to polities. And we succeeded by profiting from the domestication (eugenic) of man. And that we have reversed that trend over the past century and a half – and we are currently paying the costs of it. And immigration has made it far worse.

    What is the cost of 1pt of IQ? It is the highest cost commons that man can produce, and the most beneficial.

    Curt Doolittle
    the Propertarian Institute
    Kiev, Ukraine

    https://www.quora.com/Does-libertarianism-require-a-higher-than-average-level-of-social-capital-in-order-to-work-on-a-large-scale

  • Does Wittgenstein’s Conclusion On The Omnipotence Paradoxes Put An End To Them?

    Wittgenstein did not solve the problem that he sought to, Frege thru Kripke and the followers of Turing (meaning Chomsky) did.

    (a) there exist no paradoxes, only the application of the rules of formal (deflationary) grammars to colloquial (suggestive) and inflationary (fictional) speech. In other words, there exist no paradoxes that are not simply incomplete sentences (transactions).

    (b) wittgenstein and russell are correct: in the end, the investment in logic has been a waste of time. It’s nothing but tautology. Because we cannot use the logic of constant semantic relations (language) as we do the logic of constant positional relations (mathematics) to produce proofs. And the Intuitionists were correct: We cannot even do so in mathematics. So what the logics allow us to do is falsify statements, but not prove statements.

    https://www.quora.com/Does-Wittgensteins-conclusion-on-the-omnipotence-paradoxes-put-an-end-to-them

  • DOSTOYEVSKY > NIETZSCHE > SCIENCE Peterson says it better. I’ve been saying this

    DOSTOYEVSKY > NIETZSCHE > SCIENCE Peterson says it better. I’ve been saying this for years but nowhere near as elegantly: Dostoyevsky provided the novel, Nietzsche the Rationalism. And all of in the 20th and now 21st century are trying to produce the Science. And we are trying to do it faster than the Abrahamists can destroy our civilization again.

  • DOSTOYEVSKY > NIETZSCHE > SCIENCE Peterson says it better. I’ve been saying this

    DOSTOYEVSKY > NIETZSCHE > SCIENCE Peterson says it better. I’ve been saying this for years but nowhere near as elegantly: Dostoyevsky provided the novel, Nietzsche the Rationalism. And all of in the 20th and now 21st century are trying to produce the Science. And we are trying to do it faster than the Abrahamists can destroy our civilization again.

  • Um. Retail bank locations are closing for the same reason all other retail locat

    Um. Retail bank locations are closing for the same reason all other retail locations are closing: there are rapidly declining reasons for foot traffic. There is very little value in banks other than to support commercial cash transactions. And commercial cash transactions are only necessary because of credit disparities.

  • Um. Retail bank locations are closing for the same reason all other retail locat

    Um. Retail bank locations are closing for the same reason all other retail locations are closing: there are rapidly declining reasons for foot traffic. There is very little value in banks other than to support commercial cash transactions. And commercial cash transactions are only necessary because of credit disparities.

  • Abrahamic Pilpul

    —“I could be off base on this, but are your referring specifically to various forms of Jewish mysticism and Jews themselves? (medieval Kabbalah, Neo-Hassidism, etc..). Or the influence of Abrahamic traditions (starting with Jews) in general?”— Via Twitter 1) I am referring to a conflationary grammar and semantics, that we call ‘fictionalism’, that appears to have originated in Pilpul, and when exposed to greek rationalism, evolved into Rabbinical Judaism>Christianity>Islam>and the French, German, and Jewish counter-enlightenments. 2) Jewish law retained Pilpul (The verbal equivalent of numerology, and astrology applied to theology). While (thankfully) western law retained empiricism (Tort). Over time, the Lawyers cum philosophers saved us where the theologians cum philosophers failed. 3) Pilpul (Abrahamism) is necessary to preserve (a) the intertemporal falsehood of divine authority in the face of adaptive circumstances, and (b) the polylogism of Jewish poly ethical (unethical) law. While western law is empirically consistent with progressive fines. 4) The only difference between Abrahamism (Pilpul>Judaism> Christianity>Islam>Marxism>Socialism> Postmodernism > Feminism is just the transformation from supernatural and theological to pseudoscientific and pseudo rational: destroy aristocracy and meritocracy by fictionalism. 5) Jewish group evolutionary strategy consists of institutionalizing the (Pastoral) female group evolutionary strategy: Equalitarianism against the (Territorial) male group evolutionary strategy: Aristocracy. Feminine Dysgenic vs Masculine Eugenic.