Curt Doolittle

Theme: Education

  • I have used the same technique for over thirty years. Never allow others to use

    I have used the same technique for over thirty years. Never allow others to use disapproval, ridicule, shaming, and rallying to force you to educate them. Make them do the research on their own. Attempts at theft of one’s time and effort should never be rewarded. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-14 00:12:19 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/973713399644413952

    Reply addressees: @LibertyBrekfast @nathancofnas

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/973710228138151942

    IN REPLY TO:

    @LibertyBrekfast

    @curtdoolittle @nathancofnas Well there’s no point in debate. I said you didn’t respond to a single point by Cofnas, you responded with a declaration that you didn’t need to because you defeat your opponents easily with just 1500 words. Then you declared yourself a genius. In what way should I respond?

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/973710228138151942

  • Whether I ‘make sense’ or not depends on the scope of knowledge of the reader. A

    Whether I ‘make sense’ or not depends on the scope of knowledge of the reader. And I made a very profound set of points in a relatively small number of words. That said, I’m happy to (and will) respond in long form. Tearing apart critiques like this is rather trivial.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-13 23:20:35 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/973700378230390784

    Reply addressees: @LibertyBrekfast @nathancofnas

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/973651691609444352

    IN REPLY TO:

    @LibertyBrekfast

    @curtdoolittle @nathancofnas You disproved nothing. Instead you produced a long word salad that made little sense, didn’t challenge any of @nathancofnas points, and failed to articulate a single point. The only person engaging in “pseudorationalism” here is you.

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/973651691609444352

  • Do your own homework. Don’t try to shame me into educating you for free. And the

    Do your own homework. Don’t try to shame me into educating you for free. And then try to understand what was said. If you can only follow single axis arguments then this topic is beyond your present knowledge. – cheers. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-13 19:33:09 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/973643144096083969

    Reply addressees: @OppressorBot @jordanbpeterson

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  • If Via Positiva Worked, We Would Have Won Already

    We teach many counter-intuitive things precisely because the value of deflation prevents errors as much as empowers better comparisons. We need parables (fairy tales), novels, and histories. Math, reading, grammar, and now economics – every form of measurement. If via positiva worked, then we would have won already. Lies are cheaper than truths. But Fictions cheaper than descriptions. That is why they win. Meaning tells you nothing other than confirmation of your existing understanding. Truth is created by falsifying alternatives that compete with it. Everything else is just the coincidence of wants between the preacher and the choir. There are many churches. There is one science. And that science is possible because of one law:

  • IF VIA POSITIVA WORKED, WE WOULD HAVE WON ALREADY We teach many counter-intuitiv

    IF VIA POSITIVA WORKED, WE WOULD HAVE WON ALREADY

    We teach many counter-intuitive things precisely because the value of deflation prevents errors as much as empowers better comparisons.

    We need parables (fairy tales), novels, and histories.

    Math, reading, grammar, and now economics – every form of measurement.

    If via positiva worked, then we would have won already.

    Lies are cheaper than truths. But Fictions cheaper than descriptions. That is why they win.

    Meaning tells you nothing other than confirmation of your existing understanding. Truth is created by falsifying alternatives that compete with it.

    Everything else is just the coincidence of wants between the preacher and the choir.

    There are many churches.

    There is one science.

    And that science is possible because of one law:

    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-11 17:50:00 UTC

  • If Via Positiva Worked, We Would Have Won Already

    We teach many counter-intuitive things precisely because the value of deflation prevents errors as much as empowers better comparisons. We need parables (fairy tales), novels, and histories. Math, reading, grammar, and now economics – every form of measurement. If via positiva worked, then we would have won already. Lies are cheaper than truths. But Fictions cheaper than descriptions. That is why they win. Meaning tells you nothing other than confirmation of your existing understanding. Truth is created by falsifying alternatives that compete with it. Everything else is just the coincidence of wants between the preacher and the choir. There are many churches. There is one science. And that science is possible because of one law:

  • (from elsewhere) The parable, the novel, the history, the economic history of th

    (from elsewhere)

    The parable, the novel, the history, the economic history of the world provide better understanding for those with the physical, emotional, and mental agency to act in accordance with the world.

    But many of us, perhaps all but a few of us, cannot tolerate our relationship with reality for the same reason 80% of people in any organization believe they are in the top 20% of people in that organization – the illusion is necessary to preserve mindfulness (fear of status-diminution).

    So like religions of old, philosophy provides a form of entertainment in which those lacking agency, because they lack ability, find a means of insulation from the confrontation of the dissonance between their social, sexual, economic, political, and military value.

    Philosophy is just pseudoscientific entertainment literature, just as was religion. All we have done is refine the language while retaining the underlying value of comforting falsehoods.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-10 10:37:00 UTC

  • (from elsewhere) The parable, the novel, the history, the economic history of th

    (from elsewhere) The parable, the novel, the history, the economic history of the world provide better understanding for those with the physical, emotional, and mental agency to act in accordance with the world. But many of us, perhaps all but a few of us, cannot tolerate our relationship with reality for the same reason 80% of people in any organization believe they are in the top 20% of people in that organization – the illusion is necessary to preserve mindfulness (fear of status-diminution). So like religions of old, philosophy provides a form of entertainment in which those lacking agency, because they lack ability, find a means of insulation from the confrontation of the dissonance between their social, sexual, economic, political, and military value. Philosophy is just pseudoscientific entertainment literature, just as was religion. All we have done is refine the language while retaining the underlying value of comforting falsehoods.

  • Teaching And The Role Of Narrative

    My understanding is that what I term ‘mindfulness’ (mental and emotional agency) can be obtained by making use of animal sentiments thru age seven, and that we can teach logic, and grammar of language, logic and grammar of measurement (math), logic and grammar of physics (science), and logic and grammar of ethics:, propertarianism, and testimonialism. And if we do that then we will achieve in both personal mindfulness, social mindfulness, and politics, what we have achieved in mathematics and the physical sciences. There is no difference between the different grammars except the range of operations (permutations) available at different scales. Reading and Math are terribly unnatural. Cooperation is NOT. That people cannot imagine a developmental evolution that they cannot find commensurable with their own experience is simply a limitation of the individuals making that assessment. There is absolutely no reason that we cannot teach calculative means of solving problems of cooperation, rather than literary means. This reduces the use of narrative to a series of ‘word problems’ we can empathize with. if you can grok this then you’ll see how profound an innovation in the logics and grammars of continuous disambiguation and calculation that we call thought are propertarianism, testimonialism, and operationalism. The same evolutionary leaps of mathematics and reason in the ancient world, and science and empiricism in the modern world, can be achieved in cooperation and operationalism in the present. The problem is that each of us has problem saying something other than ‘well it worked for me because’ rather than ‘I was able to get here despite the way I was taught’. People are ‘hooked’ on the mythic and fictional narrative for the same reason they were hooked on and could not envision a world under the arbitrary discretion of a fictional god. They were wrong in the late medieval world, and they are wrong in the present world. Cheers.

  • TEACHING AND THE ROLE OF NARRATIVE My understanding is that what I term ‘mindful

    TEACHING AND THE ROLE OF NARRATIVE

    My understanding is that what I term ‘mindfulness’ (mental and emotional agency) can be obtained by making use of animal sentiments thru age seven, and that we can teach logic, and grammar of language, logic and grammar of measurement (math), logic and grammar of physics (science), and logic and grammar of ethics:, propertarianism, and testimonialism.

    And if we do that then we will achieve in both personal mindfulness, social mindfulness, and politics, what we have achieved in mathematics and the physical sciences. There is no difference between the different grammars except the range of operations (permutations) available at different scales.

    Reading and Math are terribly unnatural. Cooperation is NOT. That people cannot imagine a developmental evolution that they cannot find commensurable with their own experience is simply a limitation of the individuals making that assessment. There is absolutely no reason that we cannot teach calculative means of solving problems of cooperation, rather than literary means.

    This reduces the use of narrative to a series of ‘word problems’ we can empathize with.

    if you can grok this then you’ll see how profound an innovation in the logics and grammars of continuous disambiguation and calculation that we call thought are propertarianism, testimonialism, and operationalism.

    The same evolutionary leaps of mathematics and reason in the ancient world, and science and empiricism in the modern world, can be achieved in cooperation and operationalism in the present.

    The problem is that each of us has problem saying something other than ‘well it worked for me because’ rather than ‘I was able to get here despite the way I was taught’.

    People are ‘hooked’ on the mythic and fictional narrative for the same reason they were hooked on and could not envision a world under the arbitrary discretion of a fictional god.

    They were wrong in the late medieval world, and they are wrong in the present world.

    Cheers.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-06 11:05:00 UTC