Curt Doolittle

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  • ” It is interesting to see how there are difficulties in translating propertaria

    —-” It is interesting to see how there are difficulties in translating propertarian terms and definitions into another language. Can it be because the Anglo-world had evolved many of the P concepts first, and then Curt had scientifically described them? Other languages and nations were not at the same level. I think that German may be the second best language to translate P into. But in my experience concisely translating things like “agency” “commons” and “reciprocity” in Russian is fairly hard. Appears to correlate with how russian empire and then the soviet union was – no agency for people, no reciprocity, and going from no commons to all commons at the costs of millions of lives to virtually no gain”—James Dmitro Makienko

    Yep.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-02-02 12:47:00 UTC

  • ORDINARY FLU DEATHS EACH YEAR ARE LIMITED (compiled) According to the World Heal

    ORDINARY FLU DEATHS EACH YEAR ARE LIMITED

    (compiled)

    According to the World Health Organization (WHO), flu globally attacks 5%–10% adults and 20%–30% children annually.

    According to the CDC, during the year when the influenza A (H3N2) viruses are prominent, death rates are typically more than double as compared to seasons when the influenza A (H1N1) or influenza B viruses dominate. This is because the influenza A (H3N2) virus is far more potent and contagious than the H1N1 influenza virus.

    Hospitalizations and flu season deaths occur mainly among the high-risk groups such as young children below the age of 5 years, the elderly above the age of 65 years, and those with chronic medical illnesses.

    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), experts say the flu season is in full swing with an estimated 4.6 million flu illnesses, 39,000 hospitalizations and 2,100 deaths from flu so far this season.

    The rate of outpatient visits for influenza-like illnesses (ILI) spiked in the week ending on Dec 21, from 3.9% to 5.1% — a trend typically seen during winter holidays. Rates of ILI have been above the national baseline of 2.4% for 7 weeks.

    Twenty-five states and the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and New York City reported high levels of ILI. Flu activity was described as widespread in 39 states.

    The CDC said hospitalization rates rose to 6.6 per 100,000 population, up from 5.5 per 100,000 population during the second week of December. The highest rate of hospitalization was among adults aged older than 65 (14.4 per 100,000 population), followed by children ages 0 to 4 (12.5 per 100,000 population) and adults ages 50 to 64 (7.0 per 100,000 population). All age groups have seen a significant increase in the last week.

    The CDC said hospitalization rates mirror previous seasons.

    Influenza A has been detected in 52.9% of hospitalized cases, and 46.4% were associated with influenza B.

    In testing at public health labs, influenza B accounts for 58.8% of positive flu samples collected from across the country, 98.7% of which are Victoria lineage. Influenza A was detected in 41.2% of specimens, with most of those (94.8%) subtyped as the H1N1 strain first seen in 2009.

    “Activity is being caused mostly by influenza B/Victoria viruses, which is unusual for this time of year. A(H1N1) viruses are the next most common and are increasing in proportion relative to other influenza viruses in some regions,” the CDC said.

    Three pediatric deaths were also recorded in the last week, raising the season’s total to 22. All three recent deaths were associated with influenza B viruses; only six deaths in total this season have been associated with influenza A.

    In the 2018-2019 flu season, the CDC confirmed 143 pediatric deaths.

    The CDC encouraged all who have not yet done so to receive a seasonal influenza vaccine, as the season is set to last for several more weeks.

    DEATHS DUE DO EPIDEMICS

    The world has seen five pandemics during the last century, which took a large number of lives. Here are the figures of deaths that occurred in the United States and Worldwide during those years.

    1. 1889 Russian Flu Pandemic – about 1 million flu deaths

    2. “Spanish flu” A of 1918-19 caused the highest number of influenza-related deaths: approximately 500,000 deaths occurred in the U.S. and 20 million worldwide. That figure is more than the total number of deaths caused by the World War one — 16 million. As a matter of fact, during that year, the flu had killed more people than any other illness in recorded history.

    3. “Asian flu” A of 1957-58 caused 70,000 deaths in the United States and about one million to two million deaths worldwide

    4. “Hong-Kong flu” A of 1968-69 resulted in 34,000 deaths in the United States and an estimated one million to three million people died worldwide.

    5. 2009 H1N1 Flu Pandemic – about 18,300 deaths in the United States and up to 203,000 deaths worldwide

    Source date (UTC): 2020-02-01 11:35:00 UTC

  • whomever asked me about “Integrated Information Theory”: it’s an attempt at math

    whomever asked me about “Integrated Information Theory”: it’s an attempt at mathematical description of the requirements. I don’t find it useful. That said the only objection I have to the theory as I undestand it is ‘integration’ because I’m not sure what the author means and I don’t want to spend time investigating a mathematical rather than causal model. That objection is reducible to whether we can access components of a memory – and we can and do. I’m pretty certain of how memories are stored in the brain, and we certainly can access episodes, and features of episodes, and we do store the fragments of each as pure relations even if we can’t introspect upon them. If that’s what he means then fine. I’m not sure. This is why I emphasize operational langauge not descriptive language.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-02-01 11:02:00 UTC

  • WE DO HAVE A NAME FOR IT: DISAMBIGUATION by Bill Joslin —“I think one of the a

    WE DO HAVE A NAME FOR IT: DISAMBIGUATION

    by Bill Joslin

    —“I think one of the aspects of mental existence we have no name for yet …”—CurtD

    But we do have a name for it: its called disambiguation. And as far as I understand the fundamental process of the brain exists as a neuronal competition for caloric reward granted by disambiguation of sensory data which affords further acquisition of calories (to reduce it to a base level).

    Disambiguation – as far as I’m concerned – is the term.

    The issue with human suffering – or more aptly, human objectivity – pertains to the difficulty entailed in disambiguating jntentionality of our predictive faculty whereby past predictions (intentionally held to maintain POV) of this moment becomes superimposed upon sensory faculty – and thus results in an ambiguity (an ambiguation) which that reaps caloric rewards.

    The tough nut being disambiguating the array of self generated models (predictions) which persist due to higher predicted rewards (preference) from models that survive pattern matching to updated inputs.

    But its kind of simple – the former requires effort and is often accompanied by excitation or tension. the later provides relief because once the model matches the input, the caloric cost of the model comes to and end – no more effort required.

    it takes effort to be incorrect. coming into correction is like coming to rest. truth is the reprieve that escapist desire.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-31 18:12:00 UTC

  • THE VIA NEGATIVA REVERSAL OF THE 20TH TO 21ST —“In the information age, it’s l

    THE VIA NEGATIVA REVERSAL OF THE 20TH TO 21ST

    —“In the information age, it’s less important to have the information than knowing how to discriminate from and work with all the information that is available. And P can be immensely helpful with that.”— Martin Štěpán

    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-31 17:22:00 UTC

  • Again, it’s explainable. But explaining, including video of laying on the beach

    Again, it’s explainable. But explaining, including video of laying on the beach in the bahamas, is not the same as experiencing laying on the beach in the bahamas. Conversely, there is nothing we cannot explain. Modern religions are indifferent from Tolkien w/ a false promise.

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  • CAN YOU EXPLAIN EPRIME TO A NEWBIE? —“Curt Doolittle, Can you help explain e p

    http://www.nobeliefs.com/eprime.htmCURT CAN YOU EXPLAIN EPRIME TO A NEWBIE?

    —“Curt Doolittle, Can you help explain e prime for a newbie? (E prime is a the language taught in Propertarian circles – to reduce every statement down to an operational level – to test it for truth.)”—Rae Liera

    I don’t think it’s that hard:

    E-PRIME

    E-Prime (short for English-Prime or English Prime, sometimes denoted É or E′) is a version of the English language that excludes all forms of the verb to be, including all conjugations, contractions and archaic forms. Some scholars advocate using E-Prime as a device to clarify thinking and strengthen writing.

    PRETENSE OF KNOWLEDGE

    Kellogg and Bourland describe misuse of the verb to be as creating a “deity mode of speech”, allowing “even the most ignorant to transform their opinions magically into god-like pronouncements on the nature of things”. Use of E-Prime reduces the possibility of deception, suggestion, misunderstanding or conflict.

    Korzybski observed improvement “of one full letter grade” by “students who did not generalize by using that infinitive”. In other words, you will dramatically improve your own understanding and ability to communicate by writing in eprime.

    PROPERTARIAN CONTEXT

    So, P uses Disambiguation by serialization and operationaliztion, and ePrime, written in complete sentences (transactions), where complete sentences or sets of sentences (full accounting) describe changes in state of demonstrated interests (investments). This produces a value neutral financial or economic language of psychology, ethics, sociology, and politics. It is also, like accounting, very difficult to ‘fudge’ (lie).

    DIFFERENT FUNCTIONS OF THE VERB TO-BE

    In the English language, the verb ‘to be’ (also known as the copula) has several distinct functions, all of which are reducible to “testimony on the terms of existence”.

    1. identity, of the form “noun copula definite-noun” [The cat is my only pet]; [The cat is Garfield]

    2. class membership, of the form “definite-noun copula noun” [Garfield is a cat]

    3. class inclusion, of the form “noun copula noun” [A cat is an animal]

    4. predication, of the form “noun copula adjective” [The cat is furry]

    5. auxiliary, of the form “noun copula verb” [The cat is sleeping]; [The cat is being bitten by the dog]. The examples illustrate two different uses of ‘be’ as an auxiliary. In the first, ‘be’ is part of the progressive aspect, used with “-ing” on the verb; in the second, it is part of the passive, as indicated by the perfect participle of a transitive verb.

    6. existence, of the form “there copula noun” [There is a cat]

    location, of the form “noun copula place-phrase” [The cat is on the mat]; [The cat is here]

    Bourland sees specifically the “identity” and “predication” functions as pernicious, but advocates eliminating all forms for the sake of simplicity. In the case of the “existence” form (and less idiomatically, the “location” form), one might (for example) simply substitute the verb “exists”. Other copula-substitutes in English include taste, feel, smell, sound, grow, remain, stay, and turn, among others a user of E-prime might use instead of to be.

    Examples

    Words not used in E-prime include: be, being, been, am, is, isn’t, are, aren’t, was, wasn’t, were, and weren’t.

    Contractions formed from a pronoun and a form of to be are also not used, including: I’m, you’re, we’re, they’re, he’s, she’s, it’s, there’s, here’s, where’s, how’s, what’s, who’s, and that’s. E-Prime also prohibits contractions of to be found in nonstandard dialects of English, such as “ain’t”.

    GENERAL SEMANTICS

    General semantics was a self improvement movement that (roughly) suggested that if you improve the use of your language so that it is more correspondent to reality (or something at least) that you will train yourself (similar to stoic rituals in list making) to have greater understanding and mindfulness of the world.

    I would state this differently in that P logic using the above techniques seeks to create a value neutral standard of weights and measures by which we interpret the world, that is the most parsimonious system of weights and measure that is possible – and – is most correspondent consistent and coherent with the world. (this is the aristotelian project).

    P IS THE OPPOSITE OF POSTMODERNISM

    The opposite proposition of P is that of Theology, Postmodernism, and Generative Anthropology, all of which attempt social construction that is non-correspondent, inconsistent, non-coherent with reality in order to use deception to coerce people into submission to some narrative of desirable or undesirable deceit.

    In other words, there is leftist postmodernism (social construction) and rightist postmodernism (social construction) and both are means of deceit in order to compensate for lack of military and economic power. In other words, this is the purvey of pseudoscientists, financialists, mystics and priests: deception.

    And yes, I realize, people have a hard time with reality and want comforting deceits. But there are three other choices: physical ritual, buddhist and stoic-epicurean self discipline (emotional), and the scientific truth (intellectual). All three produce mindfulness without ‘the big lies of social constructions.’

    ORIGINS OF EPRIME

    D. David Bourland Jr., studied under Alfred Korzybski, and devised E-Prime as an addition to Korzybski’s general semantics in the late 1940s.

    BOOKS

    Bourland published the concept in a 1965 essay entitled “A Linguistic Note: Writing in E-Prime”

    Bourland collected and published three volumes of essays in support of his innovation.

    – To Be or Not: An E-Prime Anthology (1991)

    – More E-Prime: To Be or Not II (1994)

    – E-Prime III: a third anthology, published (1997).

    LINKS TO PAPERS ONLINE

    https://web.archive.org/web/20130204204954/http://www.generalsemantics.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/articles/etc/46-3-bourland.pdf

    http://www.generalsemantics.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/articles/etc/44-2-kellogg.pdf

    http://www.hilgart.org/papers_html/091S196.B07.html

    http://www.nobeliefs.com/eprime.htm

    http://www.textjournal.com.au/april16/frazer.htm

    https://web.archive.org/web/20061221093237/http://learn-gs.org/library/elaine-eprime.htm

    ( FYI: @[655376421:2048:Bill Joslin] @[11019687:2048:Brandon Hayes] )Updated Jan 31, 2020, 9:14 AM

    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-31 08:59:00 UTC

  • It is however, very difficult and time consuming to disambiguate by serializatio

    It is however, very difficult and time consuming to disambiguate by serialization and operationalization, terms across the suite of disciplines, producing a universally commensurable value-neutral language of language, psychology, sociology, ethics, politics, and strategy. 😉

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  • FIRST STEP IN LEARNING THE PROPERTARIAN METHOD This is one of those surprisingly

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copula_(linguistics)THE FIRST STEP IN LEARNING THE PROPERTARIAN METHOD

    This is one of those surprisingly difficult concepts.

    We avoid the verb to be in operational language becuase it allows you the pretense of knowledge (promising what you can’t promise) without articulating a causal relationship. The simple example being the difference between ‘the book is on the table’ and ‘I promise i recall seeing a book on the table in the hallway’ or ‘I promise i see a book on the table and if you observe the table in the hall you will see a book on it also.” While this is a simple example, this operationalizing of language into testimonial speech makes almost all sophistry and deceit impossible to construct (really). In fact, most sophomoric philosophically ‘profound’ questions cannot be constructed in operational and testimonial terms.

    If you want to know more, spend thirty minutes reading four wiki articles:

    THE COPULA (VERB TO BE)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copula_(linguistics)

    EPRIME (ELIMINATING THE COPULA)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime

    PERFORMATIVE (EXISTENTIAL) TRUTH

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth#Performative

    (then read the rest of the article)

    OPERATIONALISM

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/operationalism

    FALSIFIABILITY

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability#Falsificationism

    By the use of performative statements, in ePrime, in Operational Vocabulary, we can falsify almost any claim to knowledge, understanding, consistency, coherence, and truth claims simply by the fact that it is almost impossible to state a falsehood in such gramamtical constraints, just as it is almost impossible to make well formed mathematical or programming statements in the grammatical constraints of mathematics in programming.

    DISAMBIGUATION BY SERIALIZATION AND OPERATIONALISM

    Most of P-Logic invovles learning how to disambiguate at term by creating an ordered list of terms (serialization) restating them in operational language, and adjusting their definitions so that they are each unique in meaning, yet represent a point on the spectrum of whatever constant relation you are making use of.

    THis is the first step in learning propertarian methods.Updated Jan 30, 2020, 12:36 PM

    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-30 12:36:00 UTC

  • 2) Intelligence provides discount on the rate of learning(adapting to) increasin

    2) Intelligence provides discount on the rate of learning(adapting to) increasing complexity and consciousness duration of tolerance for frustration – and together these defeat time and complexity.
    Wanna be Scared? What do you think Ohm’s Law tells us? Same thing: Dehumanizing.

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    @Bollemakiesie11 @DegenRolf 1) Intelligence is definable(ideal), measurable(potential), and demonstrable(existential), and like all cognition mechanical(biological), accidental (idiosyncratic accumulation of experience or knowledge), and deliberate (training). With conscientiousness is just as important. https://t.co/6hMiXOHf9Q

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    @Bollemakiesie11 @DegenRolf 1) Intelligence is definable(ideal), measurable(potential), and demonstrable(existential), and like all cognition mechanical(biological), accidental (idiosyncratic accumulation of experience or knowledge), and deliberate (training). With conscientiousness is just as important. https://t.co/6hMiXOHf9Q

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