Theme: Education

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1544709552 Timestamp) URGENCY We are pretty much done R&D. Classes, book, and constitution all in progress. I am not doing any meaningful R&D for this phase at present. It is all just production. The R&D I that I’m doing is for religion and education and that will come later on. So yes I feel the pressure, yes I know the time is coming, yes I can see it happening over the coming government shutdown over the wall. Yes I can see it happening over any attempt at impeachment. Yes I can see it happening no matter what due to conflict and unrest. Unfortunately I’m only human. I work like hell. But I can only produce so much…. The truth is your pushing me helps.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1544709552 Timestamp) URGENCY We are pretty much done R&D. Classes, book, and constitution all in progress. I am not doing any meaningful R&D for this phase at present. It is all just production. The R&D I that I’m doing is for religion and education and that will come later on. So yes I feel the pressure, yes I know the time is coming, yes I can see it happening over the coming government shutdown over the wall. Yes I can see it happening over any attempt at impeachment. Yes I can see it happening no matter what due to conflict and unrest. Unfortunately I’m only human. I work like hell. But I can only produce so much…. The truth is your pushing me helps.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1544623589 Timestamp) PARSIMONY IS MORE WORK THAN IT SOUNDS: I DO THE BEST I CAN BUT THERE ARE LIMITS…. —Paraphrased: “I think Curt is more obscure than he needs to be, and we need to make his work accessible.”— Let me see if I can answer this objection because there is truth in it, but explanation to be had. I am working in public like a street smith. I do not claim to have an answer until I have an answer so to speak. I just work through the problems one at a time in a painfully organized fashion. I do this because I don’t have a classroom at a university to test my ideas on students in organized form. Nor is there a method of running tests on people better than working through problems together. As most know I understand that thing we call religion today, and I know how to repair the institution, but I am still working on the content of it. But I have followed this process across the intellectual spectrum. So I am WORKING with the online group. In the classes I will TEACH them. There is a difference between research and development (my online work) and teaching (book and courses). Now to answer the question: First, yes, I add a certain degree of inferential or deductive demand in those cases where direct statement would remove me from the platform. If I stated some things directly deplatforming would follow. Second is the Great Change i’m trying to force, and the vast difference in the shift from the ideal (meaning) to the real (testimony). And I am working on this Great Change as a means of creating the Law that would end the means by which my (our) people have been deceived by false promises, straw manning, sophism, pseudoscience, and supernaturalism. For example, this is a short version of the dependency chain I work with: |SPIKE| Demand for Acquisition > Evolutionary(Adaptive) Velocity > Agency > Operational Definitions > Series/Tables of Operational Definitions > Divisions of Labor > Equilibrations(Competitions, Markets) > Arguments > Aphorisms. I KNOW that chain of reasoning from physics through cognition. And so I defend that chain of reasoning from error. And I defend my words from others’ ‘cheats’ (descent in to ideal types and normative usage’) that is the reason for fuzzy deduction from fuzzy definitions: fuzzy (justificationary) thinking. There is no way to explain that to people in all its depth when everyone we know, solves for their current investment in the current frame. I write in sentences that are closer to software statements and mathematics than ordinary language, and because of that closer to latin grammar. In fact I have considered writing in a formal language like software, and tried it a few times, but this is what makes formal logic and symbolic mathematics inaccessible. I DO create a degree of inferential demand yes. I do this to prohibit MISINTERPRETATION. This is part of the ‘trick’. In other words, you will not undrestand incorrectly only correctly. In other words, you will either not understand or you will correctly intuit and eventually correctly understand. I create partial arguments, and work with themes right out in public. I run dozens or hundreds of tests with these arguments. Until I can distill their causal relations into operational definitions in series. (Produce a supply demand graph of multiple dimensions over time). And thien weave them into an historical explanation. And then reference them with aphorisms. Then I weave all these ideas together in different patterns to educate on the relations between phenomenon that appear unrelated, or which are artificially unrelated by the differences in nonsense language between the disciplines. I search for aphoristic form as the ‘index’, ‘end point’, or ‘entry point’ of an idea.. I think the combination of ‘memorable’ aphoristic form, use of series and equilibria, and the operational (software) form produce an incremental hierarchy that makes misinterpretation difficult. And I do so by a great deal of repetition so that the newbies who come along can learn, as the others have, by ‘drip-feeding’. The Web is a One Room School House (that frequently descends into a locker room). The hard part is the series of terms. Once you have that, you can largely understand it. I publish those series often. I have a glossary. Although once you have a series the glossary seems largely superfluous. So you find that (a) people with the requisite knowledge of multiple fields recognize it but struggle to use it – although you can see from the groups that spun off, that they could learn within a few months – but pursued more elitist (absolutist) objectives because of it; (b) people who intuit ‘something is right there’ work to obtain that knowledge, (c) as more people obtain that knowledge the community rate of understanding expands, and (d) people begin to develop interest simply because they see that others do – and this reduces my cost of educating others. Others are better suited to bring it to the masses than I am. And I have invested so heavily in training others (all of you) for this reason: both to reduce the burden on me, and to compensate for my inadequacy – and frankly, disinterest. I am extremely confident (frighteningly so) that can defeat any intellectual at my level that’s living. And I am keenly aware that it is those people I must defend against attacks from over time. And while I care deeply for, and enjoy the company of, I cannot however sufficiently empathize with the cognitive framework of those much further down the curve than I am, unless in a one-on-one conversation. I do not have their frame to work with. Nor the time and energy to retrain minds working entirely by habituation with limited understanding of what they do vs the possible alternatives that we all CAN do. Others gain their status and experience training those minds. And together we train a people. So it is quite possible that it can be done better. But this is the best I can do while trying to produce a formal law closed to interpretation and therefore abuse, while at the same time explaining the historical narrative of our people, restoring our people’s confidence in our civilization, providing a constitution that restores our civilization, a strategy and tactics for forcing its imposition, and creating a ‘college’ to institutionalize teaching it at some scale, prior to its gradual transformation into a religion. It is that ‘religion’ that will transform our people.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1544623589 Timestamp) PARSIMONY IS MORE WORK THAN IT SOUNDS: I DO THE BEST I CAN BUT THERE ARE LIMITS…. —Paraphrased: “I think Curt is more obscure than he needs to be, and we need to make his work accessible.”— Let me see if I can answer this objection because there is truth in it, but explanation to be had. I am working in public like a street smith. I do not claim to have an answer until I have an answer so to speak. I just work through the problems one at a time in a painfully organized fashion. I do this because I don’t have a classroom at a university to test my ideas on students in organized form. Nor is there a method of running tests on people better than working through problems together. As most know I understand that thing we call religion today, and I know how to repair the institution, but I am still working on the content of it. But I have followed this process across the intellectual spectrum. So I am WORKING with the online group. In the classes I will TEACH them. There is a difference between research and development (my online work) and teaching (book and courses). Now to answer the question: First, yes, I add a certain degree of inferential or deductive demand in those cases where direct statement would remove me from the platform. If I stated some things directly deplatforming would follow. Second is the Great Change i’m trying to force, and the vast difference in the shift from the ideal (meaning) to the real (testimony). And I am working on this Great Change as a means of creating the Law that would end the means by which my (our) people have been deceived by false promises, straw manning, sophism, pseudoscience, and supernaturalism. For example, this is a short version of the dependency chain I work with: |SPIKE| Demand for Acquisition > Evolutionary(Adaptive) Velocity > Agency > Operational Definitions > Series/Tables of Operational Definitions > Divisions of Labor > Equilibrations(Competitions, Markets) > Arguments > Aphorisms. I KNOW that chain of reasoning from physics through cognition. And so I defend that chain of reasoning from error. And I defend my words from others’ ‘cheats’ (descent in to ideal types and normative usage’) that is the reason for fuzzy deduction from fuzzy definitions: fuzzy (justificationary) thinking. There is no way to explain that to people in all its depth when everyone we know, solves for their current investment in the current frame. I write in sentences that are closer to software statements and mathematics than ordinary language, and because of that closer to latin grammar. In fact I have considered writing in a formal language like software, and tried it a few times, but this is what makes formal logic and symbolic mathematics inaccessible. I DO create a degree of inferential demand yes. I do this to prohibit MISINTERPRETATION. This is part of the ‘trick’. In other words, you will not undrestand incorrectly only correctly. In other words, you will either not understand or you will correctly intuit and eventually correctly understand. I create partial arguments, and work with themes right out in public. I run dozens or hundreds of tests with these arguments. Until I can distill their causal relations into operational definitions in series. (Produce a supply demand graph of multiple dimensions over time). And thien weave them into an historical explanation. And then reference them with aphorisms. Then I weave all these ideas together in different patterns to educate on the relations between phenomenon that appear unrelated, or which are artificially unrelated by the differences in nonsense language between the disciplines. I search for aphoristic form as the ‘index’, ‘end point’, or ‘entry point’ of an idea.. I think the combination of ‘memorable’ aphoristic form, use of series and equilibria, and the operational (software) form produce an incremental hierarchy that makes misinterpretation difficult. And I do so by a great deal of repetition so that the newbies who come along can learn, as the others have, by ‘drip-feeding’. The Web is a One Room School House (that frequently descends into a locker room). The hard part is the series of terms. Once you have that, you can largely understand it. I publish those series often. I have a glossary. Although once you have a series the glossary seems largely superfluous. So you find that (a) people with the requisite knowledge of multiple fields recognize it but struggle to use it – although you can see from the groups that spun off, that they could learn within a few months – but pursued more elitist (absolutist) objectives because of it; (b) people who intuit ‘something is right there’ work to obtain that knowledge, (c) as more people obtain that knowledge the community rate of understanding expands, and (d) people begin to develop interest simply because they see that others do – and this reduces my cost of educating others. Others are better suited to bring it to the masses than I am. And I have invested so heavily in training others (all of you) for this reason: both to reduce the burden on me, and to compensate for my inadequacy – and frankly, disinterest. I am extremely confident (frighteningly so) that can defeat any intellectual at my level that’s living. And I am keenly aware that it is those people I must defend against attacks from over time. And while I care deeply for, and enjoy the company of, I cannot however sufficiently empathize with the cognitive framework of those much further down the curve than I am, unless in a one-on-one conversation. I do not have their frame to work with. Nor the time and energy to retrain minds working entirely by habituation with limited understanding of what they do vs the possible alternatives that we all CAN do. Others gain their status and experience training those minds. And together we train a people. So it is quite possible that it can be done better. But this is the best I can do while trying to produce a formal law closed to interpretation and therefore abuse, while at the same time explaining the historical narrative of our people, restoring our people’s confidence in our civilization, providing a constitution that restores our civilization, a strategy and tactics for forcing its imposition, and creating a ‘college’ to institutionalize teaching it at some scale, prior to its gradual transformation into a religion. It is that ‘religion’ that will transform our people.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1545053137 Timestamp) THE INVERTED PYRAMID OF KNOWLEDGE From Base To Top 0 – Mindfulness: Living as a Self. 1 – Religion(I): Living Amongst Men 2 – Lit(I): Understanding the Ambitions of Men 3 – History: Understanding the Limits Men (Reconciling The Reality) 4 – Sciences(K): Understanding the Universe (big, human, and small) 5 – Calculation(S): Categorization, comparison, Measurement, Reason, calculation 6 – Skill(S): Understand Application in the service of self, family, others, man. 7 – Fitness, 8 – Fighting 9 – War 10 – Rule

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1545053137 Timestamp) THE INVERTED PYRAMID OF KNOWLEDGE From Base To Top 0 – Mindfulness: Living as a Self. 1 – Religion(I): Living Amongst Men 2 – Lit(I): Understanding the Ambitions of Men 3 – History: Understanding the Limits Men (Reconciling The Reality) 4 – Sciences(K): Understanding the Universe (big, human, and small) 5 – Calculation(S): Categorization, comparison, Measurement, Reason, calculation 6 – Skill(S): Understand Application in the service of self, family, others, man. 7 – Fitness, 8 – Fighting 9 – War 10 – Rule

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1544981399 Timestamp) —“What are your thoughts on learned intelligence,cause intelligence? Can we therefore train people to be intelligent(by following certain laws),for example charlie munger has a law of “always arguing the other side better than the opponent”,so did Cicero,and it a nice way of avoiding confirmation bias ,if we create certain rules such as these and train people(like dogs),will we increase their intelligence”— Abhimanyu Karnawat There are three issues here. And I’m going to expand the range of your question from intelligence to intuition to political consequences. The first is that intelligence improves with the ability to use language and ideas to calculate. In other words, if you learn english and science and logica, and mathematics a PEOPLE will get smarter by about a standard deviation or so. But it lifts all people in the culture equally. So it’s not so much that we improve the brain but that we improve the precision of it’s means of calculation by better information. The Second is whether people can produce what we call mindfulness through various trainings (equation, discipline, ritual, practice). The other is whether we know what to train them IN (content). I want to know how to eliminate all falsehood from that training (content) and any externalities (side effects) caused by the method of practice. The third is that Everyone in the world wants to preserve his favorite falsehoods – because they’re culture, class, gender and era dependent. I want to know what is NOT dependent upon those biases. That’s science. Now, I am going to clearly bias myself to naturalism because I’m definitely on the Naturalist (scientific) Nature worshiping (old religions), Pagan(hearth religion) side of the anglo scandinavian and german tradition. I know that. I know that is my bias. The question is whether those biases matter if we get the science right. And I think they don’t. Particularly for hindu since all in all it’s a pretty awesome religion that scaled nicely. In my undrestanding the Japanese resisted religion the longest because they had no reason for it. The chinese and japanese governments were either advocats or forcible imposers of buddhism. There were reasons for doing it and they weren’t good. The west had no need of religion either. It was forced on them , and then coerced upon them. I am slowly gaining an understanding of the spread of religion across india and I think it is the most ‘faithful’ to folk religions. I have only recently come to understand that there is good secular work in indian history – very far back in time. And I have begun studying it a bit. The content is purely empirical and practical and of exceptional quality – equal if not better than the chinese (who are have a problem with loving poetic sounding prose). I think it is terribly easy to rid the world of Abrahamism in all its forms if we have yet another more secular or naturalist reformation of christianity in the west and bring it closer to our ancestral religion of the hearth home and nature. But it is not something easily done. And the world has only one enemy today: the followers of the abrahamic religion and their cult of revolution and conquest.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1544981399 Timestamp) —“What are your thoughts on learned intelligence,cause intelligence? Can we therefore train people to be intelligent(by following certain laws),for example charlie munger has a law of “always arguing the other side better than the opponent”,so did Cicero,and it a nice way of avoiding confirmation bias ,if we create certain rules such as these and train people(like dogs),will we increase their intelligence”— Abhimanyu Karnawat There are three issues here. And I’m going to expand the range of your question from intelligence to intuition to political consequences. The first is that intelligence improves with the ability to use language and ideas to calculate. In other words, if you learn english and science and logica, and mathematics a PEOPLE will get smarter by about a standard deviation or so. But it lifts all people in the culture equally. So it’s not so much that we improve the brain but that we improve the precision of it’s means of calculation by better information. The Second is whether people can produce what we call mindfulness through various trainings (equation, discipline, ritual, practice). The other is whether we know what to train them IN (content). I want to know how to eliminate all falsehood from that training (content) and any externalities (side effects) caused by the method of practice. The third is that Everyone in the world wants to preserve his favorite falsehoods – because they’re culture, class, gender and era dependent. I want to know what is NOT dependent upon those biases. That’s science. Now, I am going to clearly bias myself to naturalism because I’m definitely on the Naturalist (scientific) Nature worshiping (old religions), Pagan(hearth religion) side of the anglo scandinavian and german tradition. I know that. I know that is my bias. The question is whether those biases matter if we get the science right. And I think they don’t. Particularly for hindu since all in all it’s a pretty awesome religion that scaled nicely. In my undrestanding the Japanese resisted religion the longest because they had no reason for it. The chinese and japanese governments were either advocats or forcible imposers of buddhism. There were reasons for doing it and they weren’t good. The west had no need of religion either. It was forced on them , and then coerced upon them. I am slowly gaining an understanding of the spread of religion across india and I think it is the most ‘faithful’ to folk religions. I have only recently come to understand that there is good secular work in indian history – very far back in time. And I have begun studying it a bit. The content is purely empirical and practical and of exceptional quality – equal if not better than the chinese (who are have a problem with loving poetic sounding prose). I think it is terribly easy to rid the world of Abrahamism in all its forms if we have yet another more secular or naturalist reformation of christianity in the west and bring it closer to our ancestral religion of the hearth home and nature. But it is not something easily done. And the world has only one enemy today: the followers of the abrahamic religion and their cult of revolution and conquest.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1545151473 Timestamp) COURSES AT THE INSTITUTE MUST BE ACTION ORIENTED There is a difference between meaningful and actionable. We are trying to ensure that all the courses produce knowledge and skills that are actionable. That they are merely understandable, and meaningful is a measurement of the state of ignorance and lack of agency of the student. Instead, we are trying to produce agency and action as the source of meaning – not meaning given the current life experience and condition of the individual students. Until the Clinton’s destruction of the military, when you went into the military the first thing they did in boot camp was break your self monitoring and self image so that it could be rebuilt as a soldier by necessity and a warrior if at all possible. That is the purpose of the institute. Not to provide you comfort in your current state, but to provide you agency in that state that is your full potential. Western civilization specialized in the social, economic, political, and military production of AGENCY. And that is our purpose. Cheers.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1545151473 Timestamp) COURSES AT THE INSTITUTE MUST BE ACTION ORIENTED There is a difference between meaningful and actionable. We are trying to ensure that all the courses produce knowledge and skills that are actionable. That they are merely understandable, and meaningful is a measurement of the state of ignorance and lack of agency of the student. Instead, we are trying to produce agency and action as the source of meaning – not meaning given the current life experience and condition of the individual students. Until the Clinton’s destruction of the military, when you went into the military the first thing they did in boot camp was break your self monitoring and self image so that it could be rebuilt as a soldier by necessity and a warrior if at all possible. That is the purpose of the institute. Not to provide you comfort in your current state, but to provide you agency in that state that is your full potential. Western civilization specialized in the social, economic, political, and military production of AGENCY. And that is our purpose. Cheers.