Curt Doolittle

Theme: Education

  • (Sigh. You Can’t Fix Stupid)

    (Lament)(catharsis)

    [I] get a lot of criticism from my friends for trying to ‘help’ idiots. And yes, it is often a waste of time in the sense that you can’t change their thinking (much). On the other hand, I learn a lot about how to debate when I do argue with simple folk.

    I saved today’s conversation with (well meaning person) Wes Lysander, and some other twits or two. I can’t post a pdf here so I’ll put it on my site.

    But when I criticize ‘meaning’ rather than ‘truth’, and require definitions, that’s because meaning is dependent upon the imbecile’s abilities and knowledge, whereas truth is not.

    Now, truth is yet another problematic word whose ‘meaning’ is degraded into analogy after analogy. Because the truth content of a term is that which survives testing, not that from which we derive meaning.

    This is why I ask people in propertarianism to use terms only when they understand the entire spectrum in which that terminological point addresses a limited context. This is to ensure that we are not making argument by loose imprecise analogy.

    Often arguments require multiple axis of causality and therefore multiple spectra.

    So meaning is an exceptional device for deception, self deception, and error. (Yes I think I have settled that matter now – self deception is possible by intuitive desire.)

    And the reduction of any term to that which survives the process of elimination by the use of multiple axis of constraint, defines the necessary properties of the term (true), and not the abuses of that term (meaning).

    Just because I can use a shoe to hammer a nail does not mean it is honest to refer to a shoe as a hammer.

    That is what appeals to ‘meaning’ attempt to do.

    PDF PRINTOUT OF THE THREAD:

    (1) Wes Lysander – Meritocracies_ China and India Democracies_..

  • (Sigh. You Can’t Fix Stupid)

    (Lament)(catharsis)

    [I] get a lot of criticism from my friends for trying to ‘help’ idiots. And yes, it is often a waste of time in the sense that you can’t change their thinking (much). On the other hand, I learn a lot about how to debate when I do argue with simple folk.

    I saved today’s conversation with (well meaning person) Wes Lysander, and some other twits or two. I can’t post a pdf here so I’ll put it on my site.

    But when I criticize ‘meaning’ rather than ‘truth’, and require definitions, that’s because meaning is dependent upon the imbecile’s abilities and knowledge, whereas truth is not.

    Now, truth is yet another problematic word whose ‘meaning’ is degraded into analogy after analogy. Because the truth content of a term is that which survives testing, not that from which we derive meaning.

    This is why I ask people in propertarianism to use terms only when they understand the entire spectrum in which that terminological point addresses a limited context. This is to ensure that we are not making argument by loose imprecise analogy.

    Often arguments require multiple axis of causality and therefore multiple spectra.

    So meaning is an exceptional device for deception, self deception, and error. (Yes I think I have settled that matter now – self deception is possible by intuitive desire.)

    And the reduction of any term to that which survives the process of elimination by the use of multiple axis of constraint, defines the necessary properties of the term (true), and not the abuses of that term (meaning).

    Just because I can use a shoe to hammer a nail does not mean it is honest to refer to a shoe as a hammer.

    That is what appeals to ‘meaning’ attempt to do.

    PDF PRINTOUT OF THE THREAD:

    (1) Wes Lysander – Meritocracies_ China and India Democracies_..

  • Dear Budding Entrepreneurs: Smart people have a disease: they are lazy. They thi

    Dear Budding Entrepreneurs:

    Smart people have a disease: they are lazy. They think too much. And they gather too little information. If you’re thinking rather than researching you’re just lazy, not smart. The same is true of Rationalism versus Empiricism: if you’re thinking rather than researching, then you’re just lazy (and not very bright).

    Smart people exhaust all possible knowledge until the answers all come back the same. Talk to people. Get information. Look at details. As advice. Analyze competitors.

    Smart people don’t plan so much as have clear goals, do lots of research, and seize opportunities. And why to some people fail to do this even if they think they’re smart? Because despite the fact that other humans are the source of knowledge and you need to seek to understand others, to empathize with them, and to work with them – and it’s something you’re simply avoiding.

    If you think you’re smart and efficient – you probably aren’t either of them. You’re avoiding work and avoiding social interaction. And the primary reason you avoid social interaction is fear that your bubble will be burst.

    Advantages are found in unpredictable outliers.

    A plan is a bubble to be burst. A goal is merely the end point obtained by seizing identified opportunities.

    Business plans are sh_t. The ultimate business plan? Find customers. Sell them what they need.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-30 09:11:00 UTC

  • YOU CAN’T FIX STUPID I get a lot of criticism from my friends for trying to ‘hel

    YOU CAN’T FIX STUPID

    I get a lot of criticism from my friends for trying to ‘help’ idiots. And yes, it is often a waste of time in the sense that you can’t change their thinking (much). On the other hand, I learn a lot about how to debate when I do argue with simple folk.

    I saved today’s conversation with (well meaning person) Wes Lysander, and some other twits or two. I can’t post a pdf here so I’ll put it on my site.

    But when I criticize ‘meaning’ rather than ‘truth’, and require definitions, that’s because meaning is dependent upon the imbecile’s abilities and knowledge, whereas truth is not.

    Now, truth is yet another problematic word whose ‘meaning’ is degraded into analogy after analogy. Because the truth content of a term is that which survives testing, not that from which we derive meaning.

    This is why I ask people in propertarianism to use terms only when they understand the entire spectrum in which that terminological point addresses a limited context. This is to ensure that we are not making argument by loose imprecise analogy.

    Often arguments require multiple axis of causality and therefore multiple spectra.

    So meaning is an exceptional device for deception, self deception, and error. (Yes I think I have settled that matter now – self deception is possible by intuitive desire.)

    And the reduction of any term to that which survives the process of elimination by the use of multiple axis of constraint, defines the necessary properties of the term (true), and not the abuses of that term (meaning).

    Just because I can use a shoe to hammer a nail does not mean it is honest to refer to a shoe as a hammer.

    That is what appeals to ‘meaning’ attempt to do.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-30 04:50:00 UTC

  • I dunno if math is signaling. I kind of suspect it’s not. I dunno if programming

    I dunno if math is signaling. I kind of suspect it’s not.

    I dunno if programming and engineering are signaling. I kind of suspect not.

    I am pretty sure that philosophy when it’s’ not seeking algorithms, but persuasion, is in fact MOSTLY SIGNALING.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-29 05:36:00 UTC

  • PSEUDOSCIENCE AT ITS BEST It wasn’t conservatives that took darwin out of educat

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_BoasPROGRESSIVE PSEUDOSCIENCE AT ITS BEST

    It wasn’t conservatives that took darwin out of education – it was progressives.

    Pseudoscientists: Marx, Freud, Boas, Cantor, Russell, Keynes, Adorno, Mises, Rothbard.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-25 05:25:00 UTC

  • PUBLIC EDUCATION IS JAIL FOR OUR CHILDREN

    PUBLIC EDUCATION IS JAIL FOR OUR CHILDREN

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-24 12:19:00 UTC

  • Johannes noticed that I repeat ideas. “Over and over.” Why? Because it works: Re

    Johannes noticed that I repeat ideas. “Over and over.”

    Why? Because it works:

    Repetition is necessary for understanding.

    Because you must always improve ideas like stanzas.

    Because sets of complex ideas must be woven together into poems.

    Any talk show host or public intellectual, marketing or brand specialist, or political strategist will tell you the same thing:

    Stay on message.

    People who write help and tutorial documentation will tell you similar things: repeat until the audience feels that they are smart, and that what was not clear is intuitively obvious.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-22 09:33:00 UTC

  • Violent Reform of the Academy

    de.aristocratia

    —When asked what form of instruction was most in vogue in Sparta, he said, “Knowledge of how to rule and to be ruled.”—

    [R]eform the academy with violence, not words: Testimonial Truth, Ethics, Law, Politics, Economics, Engineering and War.

    One does not rule those who are immoral with their permission – but expressly without it.

    Otherwise they would not need to be ruled.

  • Violent Reform of the Academy

    de.aristocratia

    —When asked what form of instruction was most in vogue in Sparta, he said, “Knowledge of how to rule and to be ruled.”—

    [R]eform the academy with violence, not words: Testimonial Truth, Ethics, Law, Politics, Economics, Engineering and War.

    One does not rule those who are immoral with their permission – but expressly without it.

    Otherwise they would not need to be ruled.