Curt Doolittle

Theme: Measurement

  • THE POST MARX-KEYNES ECONOMY: OUR RESTORATION —“There’s plenty wrong with GDP

    THE POST MARX-KEYNES ECONOMY: OUR RESTORATION

    —“There’s plenty wrong with GDP as a global measure of system performance. One of those problems is that no one has yet to come up with a better one.”—Duke Newcomb

    Income != balance sheet. That’s the problem. (Really). GDP P/C @ PPP = Standard of living. Change in Balance Sheet = Gain or Loss (productivity); GDP = Debt Capacity = Military Capacity = Coercive Capacity and that’s all it means. The problem is false productivity, were in consumption of capital is obscured by velocity, in order to maintain keynesian employment as a (bad) means of restoring economic velocity (which is the error) – where under digital and fiat money, liquidity distribution directly to the people will make employment a measure only of demographic utility (which is what the left is afraid of) and the correction of which (as I recommend) will re-suppress immigration, and re-suppress underclass reproduction, and restore middle class reproduction.The only way to increase wealth in this model is reproduction of the middle class, employment of young and old, payment for labor necessary to create an aesthetic commons, one child policy for those who are dependent, and following the japanese in automation.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-31 11:33:00 UTC

  • I call it Vitruvianism in honor of Davinci’s Vitruivan Man. —“Man is the Syste

    I call it Vitruvianism in honor of Davinci’s Vitruivan Man.

    —“Man is the System of Weights and Measures for all things Human”—

    But the first man to say it:

    —“Man is the measure of all things.”— Protagoras

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-30 16:32:05 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1189580745683197953

  • VALUE AND MEASUREMENTS MATTER; THE ECONOMICS OF THE IMMORAL; YOUR TIME SHOULD MA

    VALUE AND MEASUREMENTS MATTER; THE ECONOMICS OF THE IMMORAL; YOUR TIME SHOULD MATTER
    (Editor Brandon Hayes, with multiple authors)

    We have some very serious issues with our economics and our… https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=496048447658717&id=100017606988153

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-30 16:31:44 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1189580657380528128

  • “The crazy notion that overlapping distributions can still have divergent centra

    —“The crazy notion that overlapping distributions can still have divergent central tendencies and dispersion. It’s almost as if statistical reasoning doesn’t stop at the door just because we want it to.”—Duke Newcomb

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-30 16:17:45 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1189577137272975361

  • I call it Vitruvianism in honor of Davinci’s Vitruivan Man. —“Man is the Syste

    I call it Vitruvianism in honor of Davinci’s Vitruivan Man.

    —“Man is the System of Weights and Measures for all things Human”—

    But the first man to say it:

    —“Man is the measure of all things.”— Protagoras

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-30 12:31:00 UTC

  • VALUE AND MEASUREMENTS MATTER; THE ECONOMICS OF THE IMMORAL; YOUR TIME SHOULD MA

    VALUE AND MEASUREMENTS MATTER; THE ECONOMICS OF THE IMMORAL; YOUR TIME SHOULD MATTER

    (Editor Brandon Hayes, with multiple authors)

    We have some very serious issues with our economics and our economy as current:

    Plausible Bubbles (short list; none are ever sure, when one goes others follow or become hidden):

    Student Debt

    Credit Debt (That’s cards and lines from banks)

    Housing

    Commercial Real-estate

    Automobiles

    Healthcare

    State Pensions

    Federal Debt

    Crypto

    AND MORE!!!

    But, but, but…. Our economy is doing so well; ah, yeah sure, til it isn’t. Look we measure GDP and average income. Both of which have nothing to do with quality of life for individuals and everything to do with leveraging our position on the world financial stage. We run a fiat currency that has no corresponding tangible hard asset (like gold). And we love exaggerating (lying) about the financial shape we’re in [American’s do this personally].

    When we measure and aim at growing something (like GDP) that doesn’t directly translate to well-being (measurements to be debated about), this arguably translates to more suffering, we have an immoral measure; as it doesn’t take morality nor mortality into consideration. It puts them on the back burner, favoring an ever-climbing number. {You can never stop chasing numbers; as numbers never stop running; money is a BAD aim.}

    Next, our traditional economic models are wrong. Nearly all economics is based on this ludicrous assumption of human behavior:

    “Rational choice theory: is an economic principle that assumes that individuals always make prudent and logical decisions that provide them with the highest amount of personal utility.”

    I studied economics and marketing in college [among other things] (I was a business major), even then this assumption was asinine. We teach marketing as psychological manipulation; meaning we teach to advertise to irrational agents because we KNOW for a fact they are not rational. To build models based on rational agents is moronic to the point of offense; and dangerous because it doesn’t predict anything properly.

    So far, without even scratching the surface of how complicated economics is at the scales we operate at, we have glaring errors in our framework. What could possibly happen, who could imagine things going array!?! < internet sarcasm.

    It’s time to change; it’s way past time to change; the next market correction is going to put people back on their heels; more over it’s going to knock people back on their asses. It’s time to wake up, pay attention. < repeated mantras

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    What follows is a list of jobs that could be culled back 90%+:

    Anything that has to do with pushing paper: lawyer, accountant, financier, traders, stock brokers, administrators, legislatures, lobbyists, and so on. [You do nothing but create hurdles for others actually doing work; and we don’t need you.]

    Anything that is a net value loss: most dirty energy jobs (we should seek energy independence), anything in a cubical that requires a commute, anything sales related (stop selling us shit we don’t need nor do we want it [people just don’t know they don’t]), etc.

    Anything that’ll soon be replaced by technology: Driver of any sort, fast food of any sort, most store clerks and cashiers (see Amazon’s new walk-in and walk-out stores), lecturing (see youtube), etc.

    ^All this, rough and incomplete, and off the top of my head after only one cup of coffee.

    Look, we could pay people half their salaries to stay HOME and sort their family out, clean their communities up, and reduce the stress that the 9-5 lifestyle induces. And it would be better (more beneficial) than them showing up at work.

    We made a mistake during the last crash to bail out the banks (more crooks that ought to be out of jobs) we should have bailed out students and homeowners; it was our money and we gave it to the .001% and the government; have we not learned a god-damned thing?

    The economy of the future is based on local exchange, sustainable supply chains, and a reduction in excess movement of goods. It’s family centric, energy creating, and value added. It’s quality lifetime products not throw away plastic garbage; it’s centered around children and the future NOT me, me, me, now, now, now! That’s not getting us anywhere take a look around at the twilight zone reality in which you reside.

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    Libertarians and an-caps you don’t have the answers; your approaches are as flawed as those in use currently and we don’t have the time, energy, nor the wherewithal for you to give it a whirl.

    Marxists; you’ve been so wrong and murdering millions for so long I have a hard time understanding why we even let you speak.

    “Let’s get this labor thing straight. Labor has no value other than under capitalism we can create a consumer out of the laborer which organizes the very fractional contribution of labor into large groups producing many complex parts, and the complex part provides the value.

    The profit on the price is required to organize others in this network.

    That’s the whole thing. If you’re ‘labor’ you aren’t ‘value’ to others, since none of us is productive enough to matter. What matters is multipliers, and labor isn’t one.

    Labor’s primary value lies in (a) you are at least self supporting because (b) as a slave you’re even less productive, and (c) as a barbarian you’re a parasite.

    The value is in organizing using incentives using prices and profits.“ – Curt Doolittle

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    Here I should square the circle of time. If your labor isn’t worth anything (and in and of itself, it isn’t) then your time is worth nothing to others; but it is worth EVERYTHING to you and it should be. You have one life [80 years old]; it’s roughly 700,000 hours; you’ll spend a 3rd of those sleeping, leaving you with 467,200 waking hours. If you’re spending a majority of YOUR waking hours working at something you hate, cut that out right now!

    You ought to value your own time above all else; BUT you can’t force others to value it nor pay you for it. You must create something with your time and offer it as fair value exchange. This is the only way to make your time worth anything to others. Just because you show up and do a job; doesn’t mean you’re adding anything of worth [it’s still very hard to find good employees, ask any employer]. Master something (anything) and make your time worthwhile.

    I have deep sympathy for people living currently; as I am one of them. I have no problems walking in other’s shoes. We have lied strategically to generations of humans (all the generations), we are at a unique point in time where the lies can be rooted out and have real light shown upon them. Many of them (lies) are painful to let go, but never in history has there been a lie that didn’t come back and take its toll in the future. Reality doesn’t take kindly to being mischaracterized!

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-30 12:31:00 UTC

  • WHICH OF YOUR COGNITIVE MARKETS ARE YOU SERVING? The verb to be circumvents exis

    WHICH OF YOUR COGNITIVE MARKETS ARE YOU SERVING?

    The verb to be circumvents existence, which is what you are trying to cirumvent testifying for, just as Heiddeger was trying to cirvument and reverse the verb and noun – because both of you are tyint go make speech conform to experience rather than speech test experience – which is it’s only POSSIBLE function unless you’re trying to lie.

    All imagination is produced by association and introspective causes justificationary but all speech like all action is falsificationary – whether or not we wish it to be.

    So you can describe your predictions, imaginations and fantasies (meaning) in an effort to deceive yourself and others, or you can speak your predictions, imaginations and fantasies (meaning) and have others falsify them or not, or you can act on your predications, imaginations, and fantasies (meaning) and physical reality will falsify them or not.

    We are capable of free association, imagination (prediction), and fiction (relations between predictions), just as we capable of our own falsification of our fictions (reason, calculation, computation). But this requires agency, and to prefer the rewards of knowledge (truth) over masturbation( sedation by daydreaming) .

    So we physically demonstrate the series: sense(collection), perception(disambiguation), auto-association (free association), prediction (imagination), fictions (compositions) produce hypotheses, and THEN we falsify (test) them (detect risk and losses) using Reason, Calculation (transformation of inputs into outputs) and computation (using assistants-to-memory to overcome limits – something a we cannot do without external instrumentation, especially symbols that preserve correspondence-name, and other properties of the name-noun expressed as measurements of varying degrees of precision.)

    So the question is which market are you serving when you speak? Purely psychological (psychotic), purely personal interpretation of interpersonal (solipsistic), interpersonal (empathic), practical action (evidentiary), generalization (analytic), generalization without empathy (aspergers), failure to generalize or empathize (autism).

    And this is the underlying question. Are you preventing your learning and continuous adaptation to reality by the incremental development of agency, or are you trying to do the opposite which is the primary function of all religions, and most philosophies, and most pseudoscience, and that is to justify not paying the psychological, emotional, physical, and material costs of adapting to reality such that you develop agency? And always and everywhere with very little effort we can ask any individual a few questions, and discover the economics of his or her system of decidability, given costs and returns. (my favorite being christians, muslims, and hindus, as we do not see this other than ‘nationalism’ in the far east and the non-superstitious right, and the upper classes who have and have demonstrated agency.

    We don’t think of language as a system of measurement (but measurement of what?) but a cursory disambiguation and operationalization of english vocabulary (names of references, whether person, place, thing, action, change etc – reduced to scales that are open to human perception. As an example, Time in english includes always – sometimes – just a bit ago – now – not just a bit ago – sometimes not, and never. Most english vocabulary follows this 3 to 5 to 7 example range, which is about the maximum of human means of disambiguation into scopes of untidily; matches human short term memory; matches the number of points necessary to falsify a line (reduce most errors). I find when I disambiguate a concept that is not well understood because of insufficient operationalization, I end up with twelve or more points. I find that when I serialize existing terms I end up with five or seven.

    And this difference illustrates the function of operationalization – to improve precision in human speech.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-30 12:20:00 UTC

  • IF YOU WANT TO LEARN P Propertarianism is like Aristotelianism – it is a huge pr

    IF YOU WANT TO LEARN P

    Propertarianism is like Aristotelianism – it is a huge project that reforms much human thought especially logic, language, epistemology (knowledge), psychology, sociology, ethics, law, and politics.

    1. You can learn about our proposed constitution and it’s policies (it’s a lot, and you might have to learn a bit bout economics and the justice system but you can do it.)

    2. You can learn the Big History of the competition between civilizations and in particular between European and Semitic.(easy)

    3. You can learn why Europeans evolved faster than the rest, and developed the only truth telling, high trust, wealthy, advanced, technological, civilization in so short a span in the bronze, ancient, and modern worlds – except for our period of failure during the Abrahamic dark age. (relatively easy)

    4. You can learn a whole suite of the propertarian arguments (Takes some work)

    5. You can learn how to conduct propertarian arguments

    You can learn how to use the p-methodology (Not easy)

    6. And you can if you want to get into the foundations of the P-methodology, the completed scientific method, and logic and epistemology. (Hard)

    SO IF YOU WANT TO LEARN ANY OF THAT

    1) you can use the site and read it.

    2) you can follow along.

    3) you can use my (Curt) friends list to contact and catch the attention of a mentor by asking for help:

    Alain, Martin, Bill, Luke, Brandon, Erik, Steve, Eli, …(there are a lot more)

    4) you can take our course (if you are patient enough for me to slowly release content – and I mean slowly).

    The other folks are better teachers than I am. Really. By far.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-30 12:17:00 UTC

  • INTUITION IS UNDERSTOOD, SORRY. ITS NOT COMPLICATED —“Any thoughts on empirici

    INTUITION IS UNDERSTOOD, SORRY. ITS NOT COMPLICATED

    —“Any thoughts on empiricism ever incorporating intuition into its epistemology? It is, though not yet understood, a sensory experience.”—Jarrod Marma

    I don’t make errors. Operational simplification: Sensation(nerves), perception(cortex), integration (entorhinal cortex), experience(hippocampal region), auto-association( hippocampal subregion), attention (thalamus), projection(frontal cortex), retention (prefrontal cortex), recursion (repeat).

    intuition = auto association (involuntary), free association(voluntary focus of attention)

    If you read testimonialism you will find that I’ve repeated it for years now.

    sense(stimulation), perception (disambiguation), auto-association, free association, hypothesis(reason), theory(empiricism), law(survival), recursion(partial falsification).

    The brain (you) consists of a nervous system consisting almost entirely of variations on one cell type (neuron) of different compositions for different functions, the most numerous variation of which is (surprisingly) inhibition of information, the most influential of which are one type which calculate information.

    We cannot make computeres do the same thing at the same cost because in exchange for perfect memory, computers use fixed wiring and dynamic routing, where your brain uses both dynamic wiring and with it dynamic routing. So we have vast adaptability, and storage in exchange for recreation of memories through associations, whereas computers have precise recollection, l limited adaptability, and require far more physical storage because they have to store all the underlying sensory data. Current computer neural networks learn and no longer need to retain the sensory data they were trained with but they cannot be adapted to additional functions without training and re-structuring (yet). There are very good at single things so the future will likely consist of many basic functions performed by artificial neural networks, combined by a ‘grammar’ into a hierarchy of neural networks. our ‘grammar’ is spatial – because we must act. That does not mean computers will need a spatial grammar as well, because we might design it to act by different means – but I can’t conceive yet of an alternative other than property transactions, which are then handed off too another AI to act upon.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-30 11:56:00 UTC

  • The Future: If you can’t manage math through geometry, physics through Newtonian

    The Future: If you can’t manage math through geometry, physics through Newtonian; p-law through strict construction, then you will not qualify as “human”. These are the formal logics of measurement, the law of nature, and the natural law at human scale.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-28 08:42:00 UTC