Curt Doolittle

Theme: Deception

  • TRUTHFULNESS AND TRUTH (h/t Francesco Principi) Honesty does depend on the indiv

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2015/05/29/definitions-truth/HONESTY, TRUTHFULNESS AND TRUTH

    (h/t Francesco Principi)

    Honesty does depend on the individual’s abilties, yes.

    – Truthfulness is a skill because man evolved to lie and negotiate, not to tell the truth – truth telling is expensive.

    – The ‘truth’ refers to a description that is ultimately parsimonious without being tautological (a name). And we can never know we speak the truth.

    We can know we speak truthfully, and we can know we speak honestly. But others cannot know you speak honestly (without questioning:falsifying), only that you speak truthfully: that your testimony is constructed to be free of error, imagination, bias and deceit. None of us can know we speak the truth, even if we speak it, because there is always more information available in the future.

    We use the word “True” very frequently, just like the word “is” but almost none of us can state in operational terms (existentially possible terms) what those two words mean. We use them as uncomprehended norms, not as truthful (warrantied) terms.

    So as much as everyone would like to confuse honesty with truth, and due diligence as truth, honesty, diligent testimony, and the truth are three very different things.

    Just as deduction, induction and abduction are very different things.

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    FROM http://www.propertarianism.com/2015/05/29/definitions-truth/

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    [D]EFINITIONS OF TRUTH.

    [T]RUTH: That testimony (description) you would give, if your knowledge (information) was complete, your language was sufficient, stated without error, cleansed of bias, and absent deceit, within the scope of precision limited to the context of the question you wish to answer; and the promise that another possess of the same knowledge (information), performing the same due diligence, would provide the same testimony.

    [T]RUTHFULNESS: that testimony (description) you give if your knowledge (information) is incomplete, your language is insufficient, you have performed due diligence in the elimination of error and bias, and warranty free of deceit; within the scope of precision limited to the question you wish to answer; and which you warranty to be so; and the promise that another possess of the same knowledge (information), performing the same due diligence, would provide the same testimony.

    [H]ONESTY: that testimony (description) you give with full knowledge that knowledge is incomplete, your language is insufficient, but you have not performed due diligence in the elimination of error and bias, but which you warranty is free of deceit; within the scope of precision limited to the question you wish to answer; and the promise that another possess of the same knowledge (information), performing the same due diligence, would provide the same testimony.

    [I]ntuition: (sentimental expression) – an uncritical, uncriticized, response to information that expresses a measure of existing biases (priors).

    [P]reference (rational expression) : a justification of one’s biases (wants).

    [O]pinion: (justificationism) – a justified uncritical statement given the limits of one’s knowledge about external questions.

    [P]osition: (criticism) – a theoretical statement that survives one’s available criticisms about external questions.

    [D]emonstrated Preference: – Evidence of intuition, preference, opinion, and position as demonstrated by your actions, independent of your statements.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-20 07:16:00 UTC

  • literature than I expected on international differences in lying. Last I knew th

    http://www.researchgate.net/publication/247746791_International_DeceptionMore literature than I expected on international differences in lying. Last I knew there was only one study. This is cool.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-19 09:55:00 UTC

  • Protestants signal Catholics, Catholics signal Jews, Jews signal themselves – we

    Protestants signal Catholics, Catholics signal Jews, Jews signal themselves – we all signal. None of this is ‘good’. None of this is ‘moral’. All of it is nonsense.

    Freebies.

    Your only honest signal is the product of your time, energy and offspring.

    Everything else is just lying for status.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-19 06:26:00 UTC

  • THE CATHOLICS DID TREMENDOUS DAMAGE —“Ted Kennedy’s ’65 immigration act was “s

    THE CATHOLICS DID TREMENDOUS DAMAGE

    —“Ted Kennedy’s ’65 immigration act was “specifically designed to change the demographics of this country. When it went through, as with Obamacare, surrounded with lies, a miasma of lies: ‘this will not change the demographic of America; we’ll get basically the same people we’ve always gotten.’” But, instead, Coulter asserted, this act “was specifically designed to bring in peasant cultures who would remain poor for generations, remain on government support, so that you would have a solid block of Democratic voters, and it worked.”… “Obama never would have been elected. …. Romney would have won a bigger landslide than Reagan did against Carter in 1980.”— ibid

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-19 06:16:00 UTC

  • TRUTH IS A VERY EXPENSIVE NORM – THATS WHY NO ONE ELSE DOES IT (guaranteed to ma

    TRUTH IS A VERY EXPENSIVE NORM – THATS WHY NO ONE ELSE DOES IT

    (guaranteed to make people angry)(sketch)

    —HIERARCHY—

    -TRUTHFUL-

    GERMANIC EUROPE (non-ideological)

    ANGLO/AMERICAN (ideological optimism)

    INDIA (utopian idealism and justification)

    -DECEPTIVE-

    JEWISH (circumstantial truth, dual ethics, framing and overloading: pseudoscience and pseudorationalism and informational asymmetry)

    CHINA (creative lying, obscurantism, and delaying, lying as buying time, avoiding conflict, accumulating strength.)

    -DECEITFUL-

    RUSSIA (outright lying and cheating, non-contractual, lying as strength,)

    ISLAM/ARAB (denial of reality, deceit and aggression, lying as heroic.)

    I need a third dimension because India and SE Asia are hard to fit in a stack.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-18 16:23:00 UTC

  • STATES LIE AND TEACH US TO LIE (profound)(at least for me) The more I work on th

    STATES LIE AND TEACH US TO LIE

    (profound)(at least for me)

    The more I work on the subject of truth, the more I respect our anglo, north sea, and greek ancestors for just how close they were to truth: they were a very scientific civilization.

    And conversely, the more I work on the subject of truth, the more I am convinced that it is because government never really evolved to organized large-scale production, with a need to justify falsehoods as ‘good’.

    The State and State-Production, Propaganda, and Deceit are all interdependent technologies. Whereas partnerships, familial production, the jury, and truth-telling are all interdependent technologies.

    States lie and teach us to lie.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-18 02:09:00 UTC

  • (Russian ridicule of Ukraine) I had a lot of childish fun trolling this pro-Puti

    (Russian ridicule of Ukraine)

    I had a lot of childish fun trolling this pro-Putin site today. 🙂 I am happy to admit it’s childish. I am also happy to admit that it was fun.

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    What’s your point? That we shouldn’t hire foreigners? We have a government saturated with people paid off by the Kremlin. That’s why we’re engaging in lustration – to purge them and their pervasive corruption. So we are hiring foreigners to help with lustration.

    Ukraine has decided it is European. Muscovite Russia has decided it is Mongolian. We all retreat to our roots under pressure. There may be 140M Muscovites, but there are 1B+ westerners, 1B+ Chinese, 1B+ Muslims, and 1B+ Hindus. Russians cannot reform. Russians cannot build a diverse economy. Russia cannot join modernity. We understand the choice. However, we do not want to be prisoners of Russia’s bad decisions.

    Russians are foolish. They could have ruled the world. The west wanted them to. Putin was becoming the most influential man in the world. But instead of just saying ‘no democratic revolution here’ they attacked Ukraine, and broke the postwar consensus. All out of fear of spread of democracy.

    We don’t necessarily think democracy and hedonism are good things either. On the other hand, almost anything is better than ongoing Russian despotism and poverty.

    Haven’t Russians harmed eastern Europe enough for one millennium?

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    Maybe, but trolling you clowns for an afternoon provided endless entertainment for the office. lol

    See your technique is a variation of critique: rallying and shaming. the counter to this strategy is to attack obvious and consistent Russian failures while ignoring your responses. Since Russia produces so many obvious and consistent failures this turns out to be easy. Each Troll’s response is an opportunity to repeat key memes. And we repeat the meme’s over and over again by merely riffing off of whatever the trolls manage to desperately say.

    Russian memes:

    – Russians are the only white people who failed.

    – Russians are poor, ignorant, rude, stupid, bovine morons.

    – Russians are alcoholics who die at an early age.

    – Russians can’t drive across a street without running over two old ladies, a mother and her child.

    – Russians can’t cross the street and use a telephone at the same time.

    – Russians are superstitious conspiracy theories who believe in electromagnetic radiation.

    – Russians are incapable of innovation, but they can copy the germans and the Americans now and then.

    – Russians are worse than the nazis and killed more people than nazis.

    – Russians are the only people to kill more of their own than the enemy.

    – Russians are incapable of self-government, let alone anyone else.

    – Russians are the lowest trust white people.

    – Russians are the most ignorant white people.

    – Russians are the most corrupt white people.

    – Russians are white people’s trailer trash.

    – Russians believe they’re Rus, rather than muscovites – it’s because their envious.

    – Russians are just Mongols who look white.

    – You can take the slut out of the village but you can’t take slut out of the girl.

    etc. the list is endless.

    The Russian strategy is to poison the informational commons (the Internet) so that even though only 50% of Russians have access to the internet, they will disregard it as chaotic, and return to state-sponsored media, rather than to learn the truth: that they live like subsaharan Africans in the opposite temperature extreme. And that they are poor only because of the corruption of their leadership, and its failure to create a diverse economy.

    The set of alliances that the kremlin must keep in competition with one another is complex and tenuous. The black market and drugs are controlled by the FSB. The Chechens are more combat effective than the Russian military. The mafia is required to keep order. And 50% of the country is dependent on oil revenues Layers of corruption are difficult to manage.

    The decisions have been made. NATO will arm the east and re-pivot against Russia. The sanctions will continue. During the next opportunity they will arm both Poland and Turkey. Ukraine will isolate the conquered Donbas region, and without federalization the rest of Ukraine will vote consistently for lustration and membership in Europe It will take ten years to clean the bureaucracy of Russians and Russian plants, but it will be done. And right sector will simply kill them if they don’t do it.

    Meanwhile we’re going to be over here laughing at the ongoing collapse of the economy.

    April was what -4.2%? An employer of 70,000 is bankrupt but the state can’t afford to let it go under? The worst that happens to Ukraine is that it’s a better investment than greece. the worst that happens to Russia is that the lowest populated country per square kilometer is incrementally cut off on all sides by peoples who justifiably hate it.

    I mean, what’s china doing? They’re already taking Siberia back. The Muslims are a few years from taking Moscow.

    Idiots. Could have run the world. Ran like little girls away from the fear of democracy.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-16 02:31:00 UTC

  • QUIGGIN IS AT IT AGAIN. Some small percent of any thinker’s ideas survive the te

    http://johnquiggin.com/2015/06/15/john-locke-an-enemy-of-freedom/LEFTIST QUIGGIN IS AT IT AGAIN.

    Some small percent of any thinker’s ideas survive the test of time. We acknowledge these thinkers for their surviving ideas – the duration of an idea as a capital asset. Those ideas that do not survive the test of time are irrelevant.

    The only reason to argue that an individual is or is not morally something or other, is if one is attributing authority to the individual, rather than to the asset value of his surviving ideas.

    In other words, John’s post is an authoritarian and unscientific argument against an authoritarian and unscientific hypothesis.

    Aristotle was wrong about almost everything. But that does not diminish that of the thinkers in the age of transformation, that he was not more ‘right’ and therefore more influential than all other thinkers combined.

    He gave us a way of thinking. Locke gave us a way of thinking.

    (BTW: The Catholics were just as damaging to the Rule of Law as Locke and his contemporaries supposed. They were certainly catastrophically damaging to the American constitution and American rule of law. And that’s before we get to Socialism and Judaism. Australia, like Canada, is one of the most privileged nations on earth, and Australians are notorious for confusing and conflating virtue with luxury and signaling.)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-15 05:54:00 UTC

  • The Law Evolves as Science Evolves: By Reaction

    [A]ll progress in truth, like all progress in law, is a reaction to progress in imagination, error, bias, deception and propaganda. The reason we could not suppress the left, is because we did not yet understand Truth. Now that we understand Truth, we can criticize, suppress and punish the left as the liars and thieves that they are.

  • Tolerance as Conspicuous Consumption

    [S]orry, but there are a whole lot of very bad people in this world. And a goodly part of our time is spent so that we never have to interact with, meet, see, or be aware of them. All human life is not precious. Some humans are merely a drain on us. But others are a daily threat to us. And letting them live is merely a form of conspicuous consumption. Source: Curt Doolittle – Sorry, but there are a whole lot of very bad…