Curt Doolittle

Theme: Deception

  • None Of Us Is Equal

    We are unequal. We grant each other the pretense of equality in order to discover the truth, through discourse and debate, that is free of error, bias, suggestion, obscurantism, and deceit. We grant each other equality under the law to assist one another in cooperating productively and without conflict and retaliation across our various stations and abilities. We grant each other equal access to the market, by the equality of money and prices, because we all buy entry into the market by forgoing opportunities for violence, theft, and fraud, despite our differences in wealth. It is through these three equalities of opportunity that we cooperate despite our inequalities of interest, ability, value to one another, and wealth. But we are in no way equal.

  • We had to learn to understand the hate because we could not FEEL the hate. And y

    We had to learn to understand the hate because we could not FEEL the hate. And yet here you are, vainly attempting to make us FEEL bad about it. We understand what you are doing. So we are coming. Fear us. — Eli Harman

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-25 21:17:00 UTC

  • Living in Ukraine (Where you’ve been recently) is a daily exercise in ridiculous

    Living in Ukraine (Where you’ve been recently) is a daily exercise in ridiculous fake news filtering – esp. via RT.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-25 01:43:32 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/801964506427621376

    Reply addressees: @nntaleb @FamesBlond

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/801960686876323841

    IN REPLY TO:

    @nntaleb

    The meta question: is the news that Russia is spreading fake news fake news.

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/801960686876323841

  • There Is Nothing To Find In The Lies of the Conflationary Prophets

    THERE IS NOTHING TO FIND IN THE LIES OF THE CONFLATIONARY PROPHETS BUT INFANTILISM. —“It seems that, in Genesis, God has legs, and doesn’t know the answers to the questions he asks. It confirms my inclination to the Marcionite Heresy.”— There is nothing there to find. We have our fairy tales, and myths. We have our origin story: the Iliad and the odyssey We have books of great literature. Books of great ideas (moral literature). Books of great history. Books of great science. Books of great law. Books of great war.

    We have imitation of kin for infants. We have heroic imitation for children. We have virtue ethics for the adolescent. We have rule ethics for the adult. We have outcome ethics for the mature. CONFLATIONARY SIMPLICITY vs DEFLATIONARY COMPLEXITY The attractiveness of religious parable is that it’s conflated (all the disciplines are conflated into a single narrative). And the simple beast in each of us prefers to call upon one ‘unit of measure’ (method of deciding). But what separates man from animal is reason, and human from man, is deflation: the ability to compare multiple dimensions. So while we harbor in us a romantic childish animal that wants to save the burden of learning and cognition by relying on the reductive, conflation of simple ideal types, virtues, and parables, rather than identities, measurements, spectra, equilibria, and models, we merely infantilize ourselves by returning to infantile means of conflationary measurement. THERE ARE NO ANSWERS IN THE LIES OF THE CONFLATIONISTS. End the lies.

  • There Is Nothing To Find In The Lies of the Conflationary Prophets

    THERE IS NOTHING TO FIND IN THE LIES OF THE CONFLATIONARY PROPHETS BUT INFANTILISM. —“It seems that, in Genesis, God has legs, and doesn’t know the answers to the questions he asks. It confirms my inclination to the Marcionite Heresy.”— There is nothing there to find. We have our fairy tales, and myths. We have our origin story: the Iliad and the odyssey We have books of great literature. Books of great ideas (moral literature). Books of great history. Books of great science. Books of great law. Books of great war.

    We have imitation of kin for infants. We have heroic imitation for children. We have virtue ethics for the adolescent. We have rule ethics for the adult. We have outcome ethics for the mature. CONFLATIONARY SIMPLICITY vs DEFLATIONARY COMPLEXITY The attractiveness of religious parable is that it’s conflated (all the disciplines are conflated into a single narrative). And the simple beast in each of us prefers to call upon one ‘unit of measure’ (method of deciding). But what separates man from animal is reason, and human from man, is deflation: the ability to compare multiple dimensions. So while we harbor in us a romantic childish animal that wants to save the burden of learning and cognition by relying on the reductive, conflation of simple ideal types, virtues, and parables, rather than identities, measurements, spectra, equilibria, and models, we merely infantilize ourselves by returning to infantile means of conflationary measurement. THERE ARE NO ANSWERS IN THE LIES OF THE CONFLATIONISTS. End the lies.

  • Definitions of Techniques of Deception

    DEFINITIONS: LOADING, FRAMING, OVERLOADING. Loading = Moral Loading (a form of biasing a suggestion, causing the person to be more heavily influenced by intuition – social effects.) Framing = a form of informational cherrypicking where one eliminates some information and overloads with other information, in order to bias the conclusions of others.

    Overloading = Cognitive Overloading ( The use of information, language, detail, to cause the failure of the individual to analytically tests the statement and resort to intuition – cognitive effects) Pseudoscience and pseudorationalism, religion, and narrative are methods of Overloading. (Marxism is at present the second best form of overloading after monotheism – both of which make false utopian promises). I sometimes separate out Environmental Overloading (Propaganda) to demonstrate overloading at scale, by industrialized means. I sometimes refer to religion as using overloading and submission to overloading as a price of ritual entry into an identity. Most deception occurs by the use of incomplete information to cause reliance on introspection (substitution). this kind of deception is open to denial, and therefore not open to retaliation. Whereas supplying false information rather than incomplete and suggested information is not open to denial, and therefore is open to retaliation.

  • Definitions of Techniques of Deception

    DEFINITIONS: LOADING, FRAMING, OVERLOADING. Loading = Moral Loading (a form of biasing a suggestion, causing the person to be more heavily influenced by intuition – social effects.) Framing = a form of informational cherrypicking where one eliminates some information and overloads with other information, in order to bias the conclusions of others.

    Overloading = Cognitive Overloading ( The use of information, language, detail, to cause the failure of the individual to analytically tests the statement and resort to intuition – cognitive effects) Pseudoscience and pseudorationalism, religion, and narrative are methods of Overloading. (Marxism is at present the second best form of overloading after monotheism – both of which make false utopian promises). I sometimes separate out Environmental Overloading (Propaganda) to demonstrate overloading at scale, by industrialized means. I sometimes refer to religion as using overloading and submission to overloading as a price of ritual entry into an identity. Most deception occurs by the use of incomplete information to cause reliance on introspection (substitution). this kind of deception is open to denial, and therefore not open to retaliation. Whereas supplying false information rather than incomplete and suggested information is not open to denial, and therefore is open to retaliation.

  • JUDGEMENT:It’s EASY to TRIPLE Apple share value, vs stave off decline. Internal

    JUDGEMENT:It’s EASY to TRIPLE Apple share value, vs stave off decline. Internal mythos a cancer “#Apple just pulled a Microsoft”1/8

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-24 21:55:36 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/801907146082361344

  • Killing the hosts of an idea, just like invalidating an idea, only forces the re

    Killing the hosts of an idea, just like invalidating an idea, only forces the remaining idea-investors to double down on their priors. When you kill them the remainder double down on their priors. Killing hosts does not produce multiplier effects – meaning it does not encourage reformation. Instead, it forces doubling down on the priors. So you have to break all hope that priors will ever be successful.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-24 16:25:00 UTC

  • “We had to learn to understand the hate because we could not FEEL the hate. And

    —“We had to learn to understand the hate because we could not FEEL the hate. And yet here you are, vainly attempting to make us FEEL bad about it. We understand what you are doing. We are coming. Fear us. #autright “— Eli Harman

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-24 02:37:00 UTC