Theme: Decidability

  • WHEN YOU SAY RATIONAL, I BET YOU MEAN REASONABLE. Imagining and Imaginable (free

    WHEN YOU SAY RATIONAL, I BET YOU MEAN REASONABLE.

    Imagining and Imaginable (freely associatable by the sharing of properties) UNDECIDABLE

    -vs-

    Reasoning and Reasonable (sympathetically understandable meaning justifiable to others) ACTIONABLE DECIDABILITY

    -vs-

    Rational and Rationalism (internally consistent but not externally correspondent, meaning persuasive to others) MORAL DECIDABILITY

    -vs-

    Ratio-scientific and Scientific (internally consistent, externally correspondent, categorically consistent) LEGAL DECIDABILITY

    -vs-

    Critical and Falsifiable (categorically consistent, internally consistent, externally correspondent, parsimoniously limited, and fully accounted.) SCIENTIFIC DECIDABILITY

    -vs-

    Truthful and Testimonial (categorically consistent, internally consistent, externally correspondent, parsimoniously limited, and fully accounted, and objectively moral: consisting of fully informed productive warrantied voluntary transfers limited to externalities of the same critiera), UNIVERSAL DECIDABILITY

    We use the term Rational as a synonym for Reasonable, and they are different standards.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-02-09 05:28:00 UTC

  • MHO: the only test of one’s capacity is his mastery of this hierarchy: Historica

    MHO: the only test of one’s capacity is his mastery of this hierarchy: Historical, Moral, Rational, Critical, Decidable, and Prescriptive argumetns in propertarianism.

    Individuals do not need to master all of them. Only those that they can make use of.

    1) The sets of narratives describing the historical evolution of truth and incremental suppression and how this reduces all costs and forces all people into productive production and exchange.

    HISTORICAL

    2) The division of perception, cognition, knowledge, labor, and advocacy as demonstration of reproductive strategies, and voluntary exchange as the only means of making use of that disparate information. The evolution of a market for goods and services (consumption) and a market for commons (investment).

    MORAL

    3) The strict construction of propertarian arguments as a description of incentives, in various matters of human cooperation and conflict.

    RATIONAL

    4) The strict construction of criticism of statements under testimonialism using all 7/8 criterion

    CRITICAL (SCIENTIFIC)

    5) The strict construction of law enforcing all of the above in matters of dispute.

    DECIDABLE

    6) The construction of propertarian institutions.

    PRESCRIPTIVE

    )


    Source date (UTC): 2016-02-06 08:44:00 UTC

  • THE CATALOG OF ERRORS AND LIARS – INSTEAD, TRUTH IS ENOUGH. I tend to treat argu

    THE CATALOG OF ERRORS AND LIARS – INSTEAD, TRUTH IS ENOUGH.

    I tend to treat argumentative methods as sets of technologies differentiated by their methods of decidability (testing): whether they produce truth or falsehood.

    Mythology (explanatory)

    Reasonableness (The Pre-Socratics: justifiable)

    Reason (The Greeks: Critical)

    Religious Reasoning (The Monotheists: Mythically Correspondent)

    Rationalism (Kant: Internally Consistent)

    Ratio-Empiricism (Hume, Smith, Locke: Empirically Consistent)

    Scientific (Darwin, Einstein, Spencer: Deterministically consistent)

    Pseudoscientific (Boaz, Freud, Marx, Cantor, Keynes)

    Pseudo-logical (the analytic philosophers of language)

    Pseudo Rationalism (Postmodernists)

    Testimonialism (what I do:

    – categorically consistent

    – internally consistent

    – externally correspondent (empirically consistent)

    – existentially possible (operationally stated)

    – Limited and Parsimonious (falsified limits)

    – Fully Accounted (against selection bias)

    – Objectively Moral (consisting only of fully informed, productive, warrantied, voluntary transfer consisting only of externalities of the same.)

    German philosophers tend to treat argumentative methods as methods of teaching: whether they are successful at conveyance or not.

    As far as I Know Kant was trying to restate germanic christianity by justificationary means. He was remarkably successful. But it’s not ‘true’ in the sense that it’s correspondent. It’s just very well structured wisdom.

    As far as I know the entire continental, cosmopolitan, and anglo-liberal programs were dead ends for different reasons. The german possessed the correct vision of man, but an unscientific method of argument insufficiently divorced from religion. The cosmopolitans merely creates series of elaborate lies with which to justify predation on the west. The anglos were so enamored of their wealth and power they assumed all men desired and were capable of

    Man was not ‘kept down and oppressed’. He was not peaceful in the state of nature. He was a rapidly reproducing super predator happily competing with and killing off his own kind. Man was forcibly civilized against his will and against his desire for combating other sets of genes using malthusian reproduction. The entire enlightenment project was predicated on this fallacy. And the Germans, French, Cosmopolitan Jews, Anglo Liberals, and Anglo European neo-liberals were all wrong either in their method of argument, or their group evolutionary strategy, or their fantasy of the nature of man.

    Man is trivially simple: he does what is in his interests at all times. We civilize man by prohibiting parasitism in all forms so that the only method of survival left to him is productive, fully informed, voluntary exchange, limited externality of the same in the market for goods and services.

    Man was not oppressed. He was forcibly domesticated. And the enlightenment errors of the europeans set free the barbarians. The most serious of which was pandora. Who, once she could open the ballot box, let loose all the ills in the world, that man through his incremental evolution of property rights as a means of suppressing parasitism, unwound within decades.

    So that said, the OP’s question is a matter of angels on the heads of pins. The entire germanic corpus, like the french and the cosmopolitan jewish, and all but the scientific of the anglo, is nothing but a second attempt at imposing christian mysticism upon us with a new argumentative technology that is a mere minor improvement upon the last.

    Truth is enough. If you cannot manage truth, then the question is why you fear it? Is it because one lacks the courage? Is it because the universe is hostile to man? Is it because it would eliminate our ability to act parasitically upon others? Or is it all of the above?

    Truth is enough.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine


    Source date (UTC): 2016-02-01 05:08:00 UTC

  • (thinking again) Complexity from simplicity. We are very poor at multivariate vi

    (thinking again)

    Complexity from simplicity. We are very poor at multivariate visualization. We can pursue a rabbit, or follow the flight of an arrow, but when it comes to multiple axis, we are pretty bad at it.

    Our emotions appear to be limited to small number of axis, but out of this small number arises an enormous variety of experiences.

    I know these four exist – the only novelty I’ve added is information processing bias.

    1 – Predatory/Dominance/Skeptical-Agreeable/Submissive/Fearful

    2 – Hyperactive/Excitable/impulsive-calm/Patient/slothful

    3 – Autistic/Analytic – Empathic/Solipsistic (information processing)

    4 – Agony/Pain/discomfort-pleasing/Pleasure/Joy

    If I work at it I have a hunch that all subsequent models can be described as the effect of multiple agents in the brain provoking these from each person’s ‘steady state’.

    The big five can be explained as provoking these four.Why? Because I want to test the theory that these are informaiton processing problems. Make sense? Yes it does. 😉 As such they can be explained as information rather than experience. So that’s why I”m working on it.

    THE BIG FIVE

    Extroversion-introversion

    Solipsistic/empathy – analyltic/autistic

    Experience(curious) – Familiarity(cautious)

    Impulsivity- Patience

    Confidence/Secure – Sensitive/nervous/Fearfulness

    RATIONALIZING….

    Neuroticism: negatively correlated with ratio of brain volume to remainder of intracranial volume, reduced volume in dorsomedial PFC and a segment of left medial temporal lobe, including posterior hippocampus, increased volume in the mid-cingulate gyrus.

    Extraversion: positively correlated with orbitofrontal cortex metabolism, increased cerebral volume of medial orbitofrontal cortex.

    Agreeableness: negatively correlated with left orbitofrontal lobe volume in frontotemporal dementia patients, reduced volume in posterior left superior temporal sulcus, increased volume in posterior cingulate cortex.

    Conscientiousness: increased volume of middle frontal gyrus in left lateral PFC.

    Openness to experience: no regions large enough to be significant, although parietal cortex may be involved.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-27 08:54:00 UTC

  • WHAT CONSTITUTES A FACT? OUTING AMATEURS AS FREE RIDERS

    —-“As if Jim could answer that without first RECOGNIZING the FACT of your question.”—-

    [T]his is an interesting example, so lets use it. You observe the text, determine the question, can make sense of it, and therefore determine it exists. This is a very simple statement. But the reason it is a fact is that you cannot find evidence that it does not exist, or is not comprehensible as a question. Observation -> “recognition” -> free association -> hypothesis -> test -> theory -> test -> Law This sequence (popper’s problem->theory->test cycle) is what our brains do. It’s inescapable. So you can indeed recognize what you believe is a fact. Yes. We construct facts by testing the results of our observations against the possibility of falsehood. You use the term ‘recognizing’ which means ‘correspondence’. But correspondence must survive criticism. Ergo a fact is the result of survival from criticism. Now, this is what scientists do, and this is the meaning of fact in philosophy and science. If you want to use analogies and non operational arguments to justify your usage, then as long as I an translate your colloquialism into truthful statements I can attest that you MEAN the truth mean and intend to convey the truth even if you lack the ability (skill) to speak truthfully (scientifically). Now if you move from reductio examples to the court of disputes how often are people’s observations and subsequent testimony true? Well, we know from both a vast body of experiments, and the change in testimony after the invention of photography, and then video, that our ‘recognition’ is plagued with falsehood. So there is a big difference between recognition (an hypothesis), and a fact (a theory) because that difference There is a minor difference between a fact (theory of a description of an observation) and a theory (a description of a general rule that explains many observations). But the epistemological process is identical. We observe, identify (recognize and therefore hypothesize), test (criticize and produce theory), and repeat this process over and over again. (See “On Intelligence” by Jeff Hawkins for accessible research, and explanatory model of synthesis in layers of the cortex). This distinction is important because it is not the identity(recognition) that converts an observation to a fact, but the criticism (survival) of the observation that converts it to a fact. This is why we engage in a distribution of labor in research because we are so bad at testing observations and constructing theories that we need our own judgements tested – IF WE SEEK TRUTH. Now, the crux of YOUR argument is that one only needs sufficient confidence in correspondence with reality in order to act, and that is because one (often) bears the cost of one’s (frequent) error. It is when our actions affect any polity or group that the externalities of our errors ask us to judge not our own confidence in our observations and testing, but wether others will retaliate (at worst), ignore (as usual), or reward with opportunities of cooperation (at best) the externalities caused by our actions. So the sufficiency of our judgements in what we determine action is dependent upon the externalities produced by those judgements. What most libertines attempt to do is tell others that they do not wish to account for externalities produced by our actions, and that others ‘should tolerate’ the externalities produced by our actions. When people demonstrably do not do that. They retaliate against any and all imposition of costs on their potentials (inventory of property en toto), and if one is not contributing to them by compensatory means they will not tolerate it. So this is why the NAP/IVP is insufficient for rational action. It is insufficient for the prevention of retaliation, and the boycott of opportunity from others. And in fact it is not only insufficient but it is an attempt to justify parasitic actions caused by the externalization of costs, and justify the non contribution to the commons despite the fact that any general rule of behavior must be adopted as a common contract by consent and therefore exists as a commons. One does not choose the incentives of others. They merely exist as surely as the earth itself. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine.

  • WHAT CONSTITUTES A FACT? OUTING AMATEURS AS FREE RIDERS

    —-“As if Jim could answer that without first RECOGNIZING the FACT of your question.”—-

    [T]his is an interesting example, so lets use it. You observe the text, determine the question, can make sense of it, and therefore determine it exists. This is a very simple statement. But the reason it is a fact is that you cannot find evidence that it does not exist, or is not comprehensible as a question. Observation -> “recognition” -> free association -> hypothesis -> test -> theory -> test -> Law This sequence (popper’s problem->theory->test cycle) is what our brains do. It’s inescapable. So you can indeed recognize what you believe is a fact. Yes. We construct facts by testing the results of our observations against the possibility of falsehood. You use the term ‘recognizing’ which means ‘correspondence’. But correspondence must survive criticism. Ergo a fact is the result of survival from criticism. Now, this is what scientists do, and this is the meaning of fact in philosophy and science. If you want to use analogies and non operational arguments to justify your usage, then as long as I an translate your colloquialism into truthful statements I can attest that you MEAN the truth mean and intend to convey the truth even if you lack the ability (skill) to speak truthfully (scientifically). Now if you move from reductio examples to the court of disputes how often are people’s observations and subsequent testimony true? Well, we know from both a vast body of experiments, and the change in testimony after the invention of photography, and then video, that our ‘recognition’ is plagued with falsehood. So there is a big difference between recognition (an hypothesis), and a fact (a theory) because that difference There is a minor difference between a fact (theory of a description of an observation) and a theory (a description of a general rule that explains many observations). But the epistemological process is identical. We observe, identify (recognize and therefore hypothesize), test (criticize and produce theory), and repeat this process over and over again. (See “On Intelligence” by Jeff Hawkins for accessible research, and explanatory model of synthesis in layers of the cortex). This distinction is important because it is not the identity(recognition) that converts an observation to a fact, but the criticism (survival) of the observation that converts it to a fact. This is why we engage in a distribution of labor in research because we are so bad at testing observations and constructing theories that we need our own judgements tested – IF WE SEEK TRUTH. Now, the crux of YOUR argument is that one only needs sufficient confidence in correspondence with reality in order to act, and that is because one (often) bears the cost of one’s (frequent) error. It is when our actions affect any polity or group that the externalities of our errors ask us to judge not our own confidence in our observations and testing, but wether others will retaliate (at worst), ignore (as usual), or reward with opportunities of cooperation (at best) the externalities caused by our actions. So the sufficiency of our judgements in what we determine action is dependent upon the externalities produced by those judgements. What most libertines attempt to do is tell others that they do not wish to account for externalities produced by our actions, and that others ‘should tolerate’ the externalities produced by our actions. When people demonstrably do not do that. They retaliate against any and all imposition of costs on their potentials (inventory of property en toto), and if one is not contributing to them by compensatory means they will not tolerate it. So this is why the NAP/IVP is insufficient for rational action. It is insufficient for the prevention of retaliation, and the boycott of opportunity from others. And in fact it is not only insufficient but it is an attempt to justify parasitic actions caused by the externalization of costs, and justify the non contribution to the commons despite the fact that any general rule of behavior must be adopted as a common contract by consent and therefore exists as a commons. One does not choose the incentives of others. They merely exist as surely as the earth itself. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine.

  • Lets reframe the argument: I SAID THIS “The NAP/IVP is insufficient for the dete

    Lets reframe the argument:

    I SAID THIS

    “The NAP/IVP is insufficient for the determination of rational action, insufficient for decidability in the resolution of disputes, and insufficient for the formation of a voluntary polity.” (or thereabouts)

    But your criticism was that the NAP was sufficient for the determination of rational action and that I was wrong.

    We then go on to demonstrate that it you can come up with excuses to circumvent common examples of conflicts that have arisen over the problem of hinderance rather than physical aggression. But you ignore the costs imposed by hinderance and the resources available for alternatives.

    So we demonstrate that physicality is insufficient for the determination of rational action. Ergo, you were wrong.

    You then counter that it is rational to do what you want, and I counter that it is only rational if reasoning can result in the desired ends. Otherwise it’s irrational. And since your reasoning from the NAP/physicality cannot result in the desired ends of non-retaliation, then it cannot be sufficient. Ergo you were wrong.

    I then explain that others determine the ethical limits of your actions, not you, and now you flip around and say you agree, and were saying that all along. When it’s logically impossible that your judgement is the source of ethical limits AND we require others to determine if ethical limits exist. Ergo, you were wrong.

    I try to correct your representation. I show you the observation, hypothesis, criticism cycle or what is called “PTT”, but apparently this level of precision which would correct your use of terms and disallow you to claim that your egoistic perception provides truth content, rather than the survival of your perception from criticism. And you accuse me of unnecessary precision as a means of escaping your error. Ergo you were wrong.

    I try to correct your misrepresentation. You use the verb to-be: “is” and “are” to refer to existence without referring to the form of existence so that you can engage in a deception by conflating existence, action, and experience. This is an amateurish error but it allows you to make the false statements that you observe an existing fact rather than a fact is the result of criticism in order to ensure that you have not erred. You have avoided all of these statements and engaged in banter and distraction in order to avoid answering the basic premise that your perceptions are fallible on the one and and that the constraint on your behavior toward others is not determined by your choice, your reasoning, your argumentary justification, but by empirical evidence of what people choose to retaliate for and against. Ergo you were wrong.

    You constantly misuse terms as a means of avoiding falsifying your argument yourself. You seem to think “ethical judgement” refers to the individual alone, but this cannot be, since ethical only refers to interpersonal actions, and only can. Other judgments are useful only. Ethical judgements may be useful. Otherwise they are merely beneficial or not. Ethical statements require others. Just as I can demonstrate defense of property against all of nature and animals, but rights cannot exist without others.

    You then abandon the argument saying I need to learn something, and return to your question of correspondence hoping that retreat will save you from failure, but this requires you again rely on your ability to determine truth or falsehood without testing it. And your conflation of reality (existence), action (observation), cognition, and criticism.

    Well here is the thing.

    Here is your tactic: “I use imprecision (fuzzy language), conflation, terminological misrepresentation, bypassing contradiction, and outright distraction or deception in order to preserve myself from admitting that my faith in the NAP is nonsense justified by nonsense: a deception.

    So lets look at some more ways you engage in deception.

    —Golly, I thought that was my point!—

    if that was your point then show me where it was your point because your argument is was that I erred in my statement that the NAP was insufficient for rational action – because physicality is too limited a constraint on one’s physical aggression against their physical property, because OTHER human beings do not limit their retaliation against you to your physical property.

    TRANSLATE

    — how I use it—

    “how I misrepresent my ideas”

    — thuggery —

    “how I create an excuse to refer to non-physical violence, while claiming it’s physical violence – ‘in some sort of *way*’ “

    —I just said —

    “how I pretend what I just said is equal to what curt said even though i am simply avoiding the difference between the self determination of truth by personal judgement as if I never err, rather than the empirical determination of truth through criticism precisely because I err.”

    — waste my time—

    “how I avoid learning why I err and why I misrepresent arguments, and acknowledge the defeat of my ideas.”

    SO HERE IS THE TRUTH

    There are many kinds of liars. And the kind that attempts to lie to himself, is an a common one. And that is the liar you appear to be.

    You are justifying your free riding by an elaborate justificationary self deception by the misuse of terms, and intentional ignorance.

    —I don’t care—-

    But that is because you are an immoral man, working to maintain a false fantasy just as much as any religious obsessive. And for the same reason; reality is undesirable to you.

    I DO CARE

    Because it is a moral man’s duty to protect the commons from pollution by error, bias, wishful thinking, fantasy, and deception of every kind.

    And as a moral man I care that you are perpetuating the rothbardian lie just as others perpetuate the boazian, marxist, freudian lies, and keyneisan deception by innumeracy.

    So this is why I worked so long to defeat your argument entirely.

    I do not need your consent to invalidate your argument. I don’t need you to change your mind. A dishonest man’s opinion is irrelevant. I just need to show the audience how people like you carry on deception an self deception by wishful thinking using all sorts of techniques to preserve their ability to criticize using deception, and maintain the pretense of the superiority of their ideas using deception.

    You’re either a useful idiot, or a bad human being spreading verbal disease to protect an investment in a falsehood that gives you confidence and status.

    MY ARGUMENT STANDS

    “The NAP/IVP is insufficient for the determination of rational action, insufficient for decidability in the resolution of disputes, and insufficient for the formation of a voluntary polity.” (or thereabouts)

    ONLY Non aggression against property-en-toto – demonstrated property determined by empirical means, and tested sympathetically for the rationality of incentives – is sufficient for rational action, decidability in law, and the formation of a voluntary polity.

    ergo, nomocracy.

    Thus endeth the lesson.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine


    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-13 11:56:00 UTC

  • WHAT CONSTITUTES A FACT? OUTING AMATEURS AS FREE RIDERS —-“As if Jim could ans

    WHAT CONSTITUTES A FACT? OUTING AMATEURS AS FREE RIDERS

    —-“As if Jim could answer that without first RECOGNIZING the FACT of your question.”—-

    This is an interesting example, so lets use it.

    You observe the text, determine the question, can make sense of it, and therefore determine it exists. This is a very simple statement. But the reason it is a fact is that you cannot find evidence that it does not exist, or is not comprehensible as a question.

    Observation -> “recognition” -> free association -> hypothesis -> test -> theory -> test -> Law

    This sequence (popper’s problem->theory->test cycle) is what our brains do. It’s inescapable.

    So you can indeed recognize what you believe is a fact. Yes.

    We construct facts by testing the results of our observations against the possibility of falsehood. You use the term ‘recognizing’ which means ‘correspondence’. But correspondence must survive criticism. Ergo a fact is the result of survival from criticism.

    Now, this is what scientists do, and this is the meaning of fact in philosophy and science. If you want to use analogies and non operational arguments to justify your usage, then as long as I an translate your colloquialism into truthful statements I can attest that you MEAN the truth mean and intend to convey the truth even if you lack the ability (skill) to speak truthfully (scientifically).

    Now if you move from reductio examples to the court of disputes how often are people’s observations and subsequent testimony true? Well, we know from both a vast body of experiments, and the change in testimony after the invention of photography, and then video, that our ‘recognition’ is plagued with falsehood.

    So there is a big difference between recognition (an hypothesis), and a fact (a theory) because that difference

    There is a minor difference between a fact (theory of a description of an observation) and a theory (a description of a general rule that explains many observations).

    But the epistemological process is identical. We observe, identify (recognize and therefore hypothesize), test (criticize and produce theory), and repeat this process over and over again. (See “On Intelligence” by Jeff Hawkins for accessible research, and explanatory model of synthesis in layers of the cortex).

    This distinction is important because it is not the identity(recognition) that converts an observation to a fact, but the criticism (survival) of the observation that converts it to a fact. This is why we engage in a distribution of labor in research because we are so bad at testing observations and constructing theories that we need our own judgements tested – IF WE SEEK TRUTH.

    Now, the crux of YOUR argument is that one only needs sufficient confidence in correspondence with reality in order to act, and that is because one (often) bears the cost of one’s (frequent) error.

    It is when our actions affect any polity or group that the externalities of our errors ask us to judge not our own confidence in our observations and testing, but wether others will retaliate (at worst), ignore (as usual), or reward with opportunities of cooperation (at best) the externalities caused by our actions.

    So the sufficiency of our judgements in what we determine action is dependent upon the externalities produced by those judgements.

    What most libertines attempt to do is tell others that they do not wish to account for externalities produced by our actions, and that others ‘should tolerate’ the externalities produced by our actions.

    When people demonstrably do not do that. They retaliate against any and all imposition of costs on their potentials (inventory of property en toto), and if one is not contributing to them by compestatory means they will not tolerate it.

    So this is why the NAP/IVP is insufficient for rational action. It is insufficient for the prevention of retaliation, and the boycott of opportunity from others. And in fact it is not only insufficient but it is an attempt to justify parasitic actions caused by the externalization of costs, and justify the non contribution to the commons despite the fact that any general rule of behavior must be adopted as a common contract by consent and therefore exists as a commons.

    One does not choose the incentives of others. They merely exist as surely as the earth itself.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-13 07:56:00 UTC

  • Any intelligence needs a means of decidability. What if we gave an AI a preferen

    Any intelligence needs a means of decidability.

    What if we gave an AI a preference for ‘resting’ and it viewed any change in state as work to be avoided?

    Self awareness is not what we think it is.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-09 21:44:00 UTC

  • FWIW: Test of Hayekian analysis ~requires simulations not just models. Operation

    FWIW: Test of Hayekian analysis ~requires simulations not just models. Operations not calculations. Decisions not measures.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-04 12:02:58 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/683981947325050880

    Reply addressees: @FriedrichHayek

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/683480666126721024


    IN REPLY TO:

    @FriedrichHayek

    Here is more of Vassei’s mathematical treatment of Hayek https://t.co/s6EFelMKN7 https://t.co/b2P2OqaW3K

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/683480666126721024