(FB 1542678201 Timestamp) WHERE DID ECONOMICS GO WRONG? As far as I know, economics ‘went wrong’ when “the republican income statement no longer propagated to the monarchical balance sheet.” In other words, when we failed to account for ALL capital changes, including territorial, genetic, cultural, normative, knowledge, and institutional, and therefore treated economics as a means of pseudo-scientific cherry-picking of measurements, under the pretense that such capital was being mobilized rather than consumed (or simply lost or destroyed). The postwar era, by the pseudoscientific taboo against the darwinian revolution and the necessity of continuing 3500 years of environmental eugenics, and 1600 years of manorial eugenics, and 800 years of juridical eugenics, converted the discipline into the means by which to conduct war against civilization: the incremental domestication of animal man into equilibrium with his productive technologies, and his means of calculating a survivable future with them: sovereignty, reciprocity, law (tort), markets in everything, property, money, prices. Economics is either a measure of cooperation, and therefore, reciprocity, and therefore political economy, and as such Law (tort – dispute resolution), Legislation (commons production and defense), and regulation (prior restraint by the insurer of last resort), and attendant standards of measurement, or it is merely an innumerate pseudoscience to justify the consumption of accumulated capital in pursuit of slow reversal of eugenic evolution, regression to the ancient mean, and the source of the justification for the consequente devolution of civilization and man. Efficiency is a rather ridiculous pursuit unbound by justification for less visible capital destruction , just as is legislation is a pursuit unbound by rules of contract. The Market Failure hypothesis is rather ridiculous since if the market produces proceeds sufficient to subsidize goods services and information, and distorting that market harmful to it. And a hundred other nonsense-schemes we use to obscure the reversal of eugenic evolution, or the returns on conquest and sale of continents, or the conversion of intergenerational lending to temporal redistribution and the price of that risk, or the transition from physical money to digital record of credit and debt, and the end of necessity or value of distribution of liquidity through the financial system, and the inability to reconstruct that capital without such chaos we dare not speak of it. Science is not kind. We have yet to have the necessary revolution in economics by its reunification with the law. As far as I know there is only one social science – the law (tort), legislation (contracts for the commons) and regulation (insurance) and the rest is measurement of its consequence. This was the difference between the austrian (rule of law), chicago (rule of law insured) and saltwater (return to arbitrary rule of man) schools of economics. Today, post 2008, it is very difficult to see much more than “I dunno what to do know” from the profession, except to permute as do the physicists on dark matter, because we lack the instrumentation necessary to obtain the information sufficient to correct our theories, and therefore limited to failure (collapse) and therefore desperate incentive to correct these errors, rather than falsify the 20th century social pseudosciences in economics as we are doing in psychology and sociology, with cognitive sciences and genetics. The Worm Turns, and as Hayek warned but could not himself answer: the 20th will be remembered as an era of the restoration of mysticism – which we more correctly state as platonism, idealism, sophism, innumeracy, and pseudoscience. Cheers
Theme: Measurement
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1542717535 Timestamp) ( In interviews, it takes me a while to understand the other person’s ‘frame’, so that I can match it without losing them. So when an interview or conversation starts, in the background, I’m trying to create a ‘plan’ of how to educate the other person. As I build up a bit of understanding, and build out that plan, I can intuit their frame and I can stop working so hard to self monitor my speech. So that’s when the conversation ‘gets going’. I mean, I have to create a chain of reasoning rather than oversimplify the ideas, since that’s a substantial part of the difference in my work. So I feel like I’m working pretty hard in these interviews because if I don’t then I almost always lose the interviewer and the audience. (And then Megan disciplines me for a few weeks…) I’m quite a bit different in person, or on stage because those problems are less challenging in those venues. )
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1543084404 Timestamp) I use a large vocabulary, but the number of definitions-in-series I rely upon is far smaller than it appears. Memorizing them is not all that difficult. It’s understanding how to use them in argument without relying on your past ‘fuzzy use of terms’ that’s hard.
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Curt Doolittle wrote on Bill Joslin’s timeline.
(FB 1543418287 Timestamp) THE UNIQUENESS OF THE GRAMMARS by Bill Joslin (new, important idea) The development of various grammars of disambiguation defines the uniqueness of the west. A culture of martial raiders requires explicit technologies for maintain peaceful coexistence among dangerous people, as well as requires truthful reporting of battle situations for raiding to be successful. This leads to social value on truth – truthful reporting (reliability) and honest interactions to prevent in-group conflict (honesty). The result being the innovation of OATH (proto-contract) and competency (meritocracy). This I see as the initial step (or early) step toward disambiguation. Disambiguation of reporting on intention and ability. Incremental stages of growth for European peoples can be seen as the progress of disambiguation. Common law : Disambiguation of accountability and disambiguation of reciprocal consequences (punishment fit the crime) Contract: Disambiguation of terms of agreement and limits to commitment (Trade) Institutionalization of Law : Disambiguation of the application of power over a polis i.e. rule (isolation of discretionary rule) Science: disambiguation of external causal relations (Propertarianism – disambiguation of human action and human conflict) Disambiguation provides a commensurable measure in evaluating “western identity” for what belongs or doesn’t belong, or what needs to be corrected and how. So when Abrahamists conflate religion and western civilization (christianity, Jewish contribution, secular islam), or Aesthetics (spiritualists) propose that aesthetics undergirds civilization, or linguists propose language as the means to calculate power and distribution (GA) etc… all while stating they are “for the west”, I get confused and a bit uppity. Introduction of ambiguity is not what we do – its what we’ve been taught by those who’d see us gone or enslaved.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1543418196 Timestamp) THE UNIQUENESS OF THE GRAMMARS by Bill Joslin (new, important idea) The development of various grammars of disambiguation defines the uniqueness of the west. A culture of martial raiders requires explicit technologies for maintain peaceful coexistence among dangerous people, as well as requires truthful reporting of battle situations for raiding to be successful. This leads to social value on truth – truthful reporting (reliability) and honest interactions to prevent in-group conflict (honesty). The result being the innovation of OATH (proto-contract) and competency (meritocracy). This I see as the initial step (or early) step toward disambiguation. Disambiguation of reporting on intention and ability. Incremental stages of growth for European peoples can be seen as the progress of disambiguation. Common law : Disambiguation of accountability and disambiguation of reciprocal consequences (punishment fit the crime) Contract: Disambiguation of terms of agreement and limits to commitment (Trade) Institutionalization of Law : Disambiguation of the application of power over a polis i.e. rule (isolation of discretionary rule) Science: disambiguation of external causal relations (Propertarianism – disambiguation of human action and human conflict) Disambiguation provides a commensurable measure in evaluating “western identity” for what belongs or doesn’t belong, or what needs to be corrected and how. So when Abrahamists conflate religion and western civilization (christianity, Jewish contribution, secular islam), or Aesthetics (spiritualists) propose that aesthetics undergirds civilization, or linguists propose language as the means to calculate power and distribution (GA) etc… all while stating they are “for the west”, I get confused and a bit uppity. Introduction of ambiguity is not what we do – its what we’ve been taught by those who’d see us gone or enslaved.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1543416288 Timestamp) THE NEXT SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION (worth repeating) This persistent ‘error’ in the soft (projected) ‘sciences’, is, as far as my work goes, the central problem of thought in the 21st century. We are still trying to overcome the monopoly authoritarianism of Boas, Marx, Feud, Adorno et all, Derrida et al, and the feminists et al that sought to take advantage of the democratic novelty to obtain power. And the 21st century, beginning within the next decade, will consist largely of the transformation of the soft sciences into hard sciences reflecting groups rather than individuals – because the ‘individualism'(ideal) movement has failed. We evolved as a division of perceptual, cognitive, negotiative, and advocative labor across the generations, among members of kin groups functioning as an intertemporal network of ‘calculation’ of choices. The reason people are unhappy is the attempt to create ‘complete’ individuals instead of ‘complete’ kin groups. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute
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Curt Doolittle wrote on Bill Joslin’s timeline.
(FB 1543418287 Timestamp) THE UNIQUENESS OF THE GRAMMARS by Bill Joslin (new, important idea) The development of various grammars of disambiguation defines the uniqueness of the west. A culture of martial raiders requires explicit technologies for maintain peaceful coexistence among dangerous people, as well as requires truthful reporting of battle situations for raiding to be successful. This leads to social value on truth – truthful reporting (reliability) and honest interactions to prevent in-group conflict (honesty). The result being the innovation of OATH (proto-contract) and competency (meritocracy). This I see as the initial step (or early) step toward disambiguation. Disambiguation of reporting on intention and ability. Incremental stages of growth for European peoples can be seen as the progress of disambiguation. Common law : Disambiguation of accountability and disambiguation of reciprocal consequences (punishment fit the crime) Contract: Disambiguation of terms of agreement and limits to commitment (Trade) Institutionalization of Law : Disambiguation of the application of power over a polis i.e. rule (isolation of discretionary rule) Science: disambiguation of external causal relations (Propertarianism – disambiguation of human action and human conflict) Disambiguation provides a commensurable measure in evaluating “western identity” for what belongs or doesn’t belong, or what needs to be corrected and how. So when Abrahamists conflate religion and western civilization (christianity, Jewish contribution, secular islam), or Aesthetics (spiritualists) propose that aesthetics undergirds civilization, or linguists propose language as the means to calculate power and distribution (GA) etc… all while stating they are “for the west”, I get confused and a bit uppity. Introduction of ambiguity is not what we do – its what we’ve been taught by those who’d see us gone or enslaved.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1543418196 Timestamp) THE UNIQUENESS OF THE GRAMMARS by Bill Joslin (new, important idea) The development of various grammars of disambiguation defines the uniqueness of the west. A culture of martial raiders requires explicit technologies for maintain peaceful coexistence among dangerous people, as well as requires truthful reporting of battle situations for raiding to be successful. This leads to social value on truth – truthful reporting (reliability) and honest interactions to prevent in-group conflict (honesty). The result being the innovation of OATH (proto-contract) and competency (meritocracy). This I see as the initial step (or early) step toward disambiguation. Disambiguation of reporting on intention and ability. Incremental stages of growth for European peoples can be seen as the progress of disambiguation. Common law : Disambiguation of accountability and disambiguation of reciprocal consequences (punishment fit the crime) Contract: Disambiguation of terms of agreement and limits to commitment (Trade) Institutionalization of Law : Disambiguation of the application of power over a polis i.e. rule (isolation of discretionary rule) Science: disambiguation of external causal relations (Propertarianism – disambiguation of human action and human conflict) Disambiguation provides a commensurable measure in evaluating “western identity” for what belongs or doesn’t belong, or what needs to be corrected and how. So when Abrahamists conflate religion and western civilization (christianity, Jewish contribution, secular islam), or Aesthetics (spiritualists) propose that aesthetics undergirds civilization, or linguists propose language as the means to calculate power and distribution (GA) etc… all while stating they are “for the west”, I get confused and a bit uppity. Introduction of ambiguity is not what we do – its what we’ve been taught by those who’d see us gone or enslaved.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1543588356 Timestamp) —“Metaphor: low resolution vs. E-prime: high resolution”—Micah Pezdirtz
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1543600878 Timestamp) —“Personally I think a semantically commensurable language creates a problem of cost, but alas we must bear costs.”—Micah Pezdirtz