Curt Doolittle

Theme: Measurement

  • Let Me Help: Understanding the Basics of Art Dimensions of Measurement

    September 18th, 2018 11:21 AM LET ME HELP: UNDERSTANDING THE BASICS OF ART

    DIMENSIONS OF MEASUREMENT
    (repost) There are three dimensions of art criticism:
    – Craftsmanship (includes materials)
    – Design (the play of order(composition) and bounty(beauty) and perception)
    – Content (the content and values of that content) All art can be judged by triangulation (comparison) along these three axis. There is no possible cardinality to art but ordinality can be achieved by recursive triangulation. ALL ART BEGINS WITH MONUMENTAL ARCHITECTURE AND DEVOLVES TO DECORATION AND HANDCRAFTS
    – Monumental Architecture is self selecting due to cost.
    – Monumental Sculpture is self selecting due to cost.
    – Monumental Painting is self selecting due to cost.
    – Life Size Representationalism (not photorealism) in painting is self selecting due to cost (hours). HOWEVER
    – Painting, Print, and Photography are not self selecting.
    They are middle, working, and lower class substitutes for monuments.

    • Even for the upper middle and upper class, and out-of-sight class, the few pieces of quality art that are canon (mentioned in art magazines and books, and references, or which had popular press) are inaccessible. Demand is just too high. So given the high signal value of art (yes it is an extreme expression of dominance), the market has had to experiment with novelty in order to satisfy demand.

    Much of what ordinary people rail against is the same as railing against fashion: for those in the fashion industries (of which display art is a member) novelty has to function as a substitute for scarcity of craftsmanship quality (note my particular distaste for the so called ‘art glass’ industry). AS SUCH
    – Monumental works convey ideas (allegiances, heroics, beauty)
    – The demand for low cost high production ‘decoration’
    (a) may form an icon or ‘remembrance’.
    (b) may decorate the environment.
    (c) may reflect the monumental, life sized, and representational, is misplaced in non monumental size (which is what most of us intuit as great work). IN OTHER WORDS
    – Monumental work is misplaced in most homes and offices in market (business) and is generally reserved for the political and institutional and aristocratic.
    – Most homes cannot support monumental work and require only design (decoration).
    – Most people are actually not capable of design, or capable of acquiring the monumental.
    – As such the colorful, abstract, the impressionistic, are to homes as type design and color pallet are to print and display advertising. IN OTHER WORDS
    – when people purchase relatively well made ‘design’ (abstract, gestural, impressionistic) of architectural size (to fill a wall) they are practicing good aesthetics (not acting on pretense).
    – when people pay homage to the monumental in private spaces, they are practicing good aesthetics. (small engineering drawings, paintings of flowers, well constructed prints)
    – when people pay homage to the monumental in architectural spaces (your living room, hallway, or dining room, or office) you are (a) alienating others, and (b) PERSONAL: ALLORA AND I
    We purchased a detailed mezzotint (print) of an elaborately painstakingly made tree that is about four or five feet tall in all, and framed in a wide matte and black frame. This was the centerpeice of the livingroom between two custom made bookcases. And in the center of the living room we had a glass table with her art jewelry collection and work. And Allora decorated a hallway with dozens of small pieces of framed photographs, etchings, mezzotints, and collections of remembrances. THE DESTRUCTION OF WEST VIA DESTRUCTION OF ARTS LITERATURE HISTORY LAW AND SCIENCE. Allora and I were a rare couple because we were the last generation that could be ‘cultured’ – you actually can’t get an art education any longer. You can’t get a liberal arts education any longer (the whig history). The marxists have destroyed art on purpose just as they have destroyed literature, academics, law, and history. It is nearly impossible to ‘be cultured’ in the aristocratic sense any longer. And it was destroyed on purpose by (((the marxists, socialists and postmodernists))). WE MUST ONCE AGAIN BE WARRIORS SO OUR CHILDREN CAN BE COMPETITIVE SO OUR GRAND CHILDREN CAN BE ARTISTS.” – Curt Doolittle

  • PROPERTARIANISM: THE CENTRAL IDEA (from the introduction) The central idea is th

    PROPERTARIANISM: THE CENTRAL IDEA

    (from the introduction)

    The central idea is the completion of the scientific method, and its application to the entire spectrum of human knowledge. Although understanding the full scope of what that means isn’t at all obvious from that statement.

    The completion of the scientific method is contained in Propertarianism’s Testimonial Truth (Epistemology). Acquisitionism (Psychology), Propertarianism (sociology), and Natural Law (Ethics, Politics, and Group Competitive Strategy).

    The rest of the work consists of application of that scientific method to the scope of human knowledge: “Here is the completed scientific method. If we apply the completed scientific method to the full scope of human knowledge, organized by combining categories of philosophy and social science into a single hierarchy, the result is *all of these ideas*.”

    The consequence of completing such a reformation of the scope of human knowledge, is our ability to explain not only all of human behavior, but to compare all human civilizations and explain why each excelled (The West), developed (China), fell into stasis (India), or regressed (Islam, Australian aboriginals, and possibly central africans), were conquered (far too many), or Collapsed (Mesoamericans).

    This reformation is on the same scale of the previous generations of the scientific method: aristotelian reason and stoic psychology of the late ancient world, anglo empiricism of the early modern era, anglo-germanic science of the 19th and 20th centuries, and brings the social soft-sciences from pseudoscientific into the hard sciences. But, given human defense of malinvestment in falsehoods, I suspect these arguments will take as long to propagate through our civlization as did those previous reformations of human knowledge.

    Whether you consider Propertarianism the Completed Scientific Method, Natural Law (social science), or the codification of the strategy of western civilization, depends upon your interest: intellectual (method), institutional (natural law), or anthropological (the reasons for western rapidity of progress in the ancient and modern worlds.)

    My original purpose was only to provide a scientific language for describing the group competitive and evolutionary strategy of western civlization. The result is the completion of the scientific method, an explanation for the success of the west, a reformation of human knowledge, and a Constitution of Natural Law by which any and all may live.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-17 10:22:00 UTC

  • Propertarianism: The Central Idea

    September 17th, 2018 10:22 AM PROPERTARIANISM: THE CENTRAL IDEA
    (from the introduction) The central idea is the completion of the scientific method, and its application to the entire spectrum of human knowledge. Although understanding the full scope of what that means isn’t at all obvious from that statement. The completion of the scientific method is contained in Propertarianism’s Testimonial Truth (Epistemology). Acquisitionism (Psychology), Propertarianism (sociology), and Natural Law (Ethics, Politics, and Group Competitive Strategy). The rest of the work consists of application of that scientific method to the scope of human knowledge: “Here is the completed scientific method. If we apply the completed scientific method to the full scope of human knowledge, organized by combining categories of philosophy and social science into a single hierarchy, the result is all of these ideas.” The consequence of completing such a reformation of the scope of human knowledge, is our ability to explain not only all of human behavior, but to compare all human civilizations and explain why each excelled (The West), developed (China), fell into stasis (India), or regressed (Islam, Australian aboriginals, and possibly central africans), were conquered (far too many), or Collapsed (Mesoamericans). This reformation is on the same scale of the previous generations of the scientific method: aristotelian reason and stoic psychology of the late ancient world, anglo empiricism of the early modern era, anglo-germanic science of the 19th and 20th centuries, and brings the social soft-sciences from pseudoscientific into the hard sciences. But, given human defense of malinvestment in falsehoods, I suspect these arguments will take as long to propagate through our civlization as did those previous reformations of human knowledge. Whether you consider Propertarianism the Completed Scientific Method, Natural Law (social science), or the codification of the strategy of western civilization, depends upon your interest: intellectual (method), institutional (natural law), or anthropological (the reasons for western rapidity of progress in the ancient and modern worlds.) My original purpose was only to provide a scientific language for describing the group competitive and evolutionary strategy of western civlization. The result is the completion of the scientific method, an explanation for the success of the west, a reformation of human knowledge, and a Constitution of Natural Law by which any and all may live.

  • September 20th, 2018 7:55 AM CONFLATION. WE CAN’T HELP IT. HENCE OPERATIONALISM.

    September 20th, 2018 7:55 AM CONFLATION. WE CAN’T HELP IT. HENCE OPERATIONALISM. —“Ontological confusions:
    Both children and adults tend to confuse aspects of reality
    (i.e., “core knowledge”) in systematic ways (Lindeman,
    Svedholm-Hakkinen & Lipsanen, 2015). Any category mistake
    involving property differences between animate and
    inanimate or mental and physical, as examples, constitutes
    an ontological confusion. Consider the belief that prayers
    have the capacity to heal (i.e., spiritual healing). Such
    beliefs are taken to result from conflation of mental phenomenon,which are subjective and immaterial, and physicalphenomenon, which are objective and material (Lindeman,Svedholm-Hakkinen & Lipsanen, 2015). On a dual-processview, ontological confusions constitute a failure to reflecton and inhibit such intuitive ontological confusions (Svedholm& Lindeman, 2013). Ontological confusions may also be supported by a bias toward believing the literal truth of
    statements. Thus, ontological confusions are conceptually
    related to both detection and response bias as mechanisms
    that may underlie bullshit receptivity. As such, the propensity
    to endorse ontological confusions should be linked to
    higher levels of bullshit receptivity.”—

  • September 20th, 2018 7:55 AM CONFLATION. WE CAN’T HELP IT. HENCE OPERATIONALISM.

    September 20th, 2018 7:55 AM CONFLATION. WE CAN’T HELP IT. HENCE OPERATIONALISM. —“Ontological confusions:
    Both children and adults tend to confuse aspects of reality
    (i.e., “core knowledge”) in systematic ways (Lindeman,
    Svedholm-Hakkinen & Lipsanen, 2015). Any category mistake
    involving property differences between animate and
    inanimate or mental and physical, as examples, constitutes
    an ontological confusion. Consider the belief that prayers
    have the capacity to heal (i.e., spiritual healing). Such
    beliefs are taken to result from conflation of mental phenomenon,which are subjective and immaterial, and physicalphenomenon, which are objective and material (Lindeman,Svedholm-Hakkinen & Lipsanen, 2015). On a dual-processview, ontological confusions constitute a failure to reflecton and inhibit such intuitive ontological confusions (Svedholm& Lindeman, 2013). Ontological confusions may also be supported by a bias toward believing the literal truth of
    statements. Thus, ontological confusions are conceptually
    related to both detection and response bias as mechanisms
    that may underlie bullshit receptivity. As such, the propensity
    to endorse ontological confusions should be linked to
    higher levels of bullshit receptivity.”—

  • JH: Not sure if it will be meaningful but when you use the trait reference ‘want

    JH: Not sure if it will be meaningful but when you use the trait reference ‘want of novelty'(psychological) the operational translation would be ‘consumption’. Proportionality (equality) of Consumption (Subsidy) vs Proportionality of Cost (Reciprocity in Exchange)? thx
    @JonHaidt

    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-08 18:43:27 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1038498064951070721

  • Conflict Between Different Races is Conflict Between Different Needs

    [S]tereotypes are the most accurate measurement in the social sciences, because they survive large scale observations over many years, by many people. People see other people with similar behaviors and say ‘these people act like this’. When many people make the same constant observation they develop into stereotypes. Stereotypes reflect the majority of people who they encounter with these behaviors. And all human populations under democracy vote heavily together, and whether under democracy or not, defend each other and rely upon one another, and favor one another, In marriage, friendships, neighborhoods, and workplaces style of dress manner of speech, body language, and a thousand other ways of signaling loyalty to the group. Groups stick together. They compete. They compete for status, wealth, access to political power. This is true everywhere in the world – except among the upper midd e and upper classes that have more in common with each other than they do with their lower classes – which is why it feels often t at our upper classes conspire against us – because they unintentionally do. The problem facing black people is not that blacks are somehow inferior. The problem is that a very large percentage of the black population is either (a) below the minimum employability, or (b) in the “evil 80’s”, where people resort to criminal and impulsive behavior. Fully 2/3 of the black population is in the high risk category of early sexual maturity, high testosterone aggression, high impulsivity, extremely costly education, low employability, high untrustworthiness, high risk of immorality, and high risk of criminality. Moreover, people remember immoral and criminal, and anti-social, and rude behavior many more times as intensely as they do kindness. And so the stereotype is created by the reality of the high number of people in ANY population wit large underclasses is *true’. White people have less of this problem because for thousands of years, they killed so many of their problem people by manorialism, cold, famine, war, and hanging a lot of them every single year europeans were all genetically middle class. A tactic which they practiced on black people in America as well. Domestication was a tactic that they had used on their own people for thousands of years. Criminals were hanged and had their throats slit, and were left to rot, and not buried. Asians did the same at even greater scale. Black people didn’t. The curse of warm climates lacking winters with hard freezes haunts people of color around the world today. he same reason they have dark skin is the same reason they have large underclasses. What is the lesson? There are only two solutions for black people. 1) separatism, so that they can use norms, eduction, laws, and institutions that suit the distribution of their population. Or, 2) stop your ‘dumb’ people from having children for four or five generations, and you will be equal to or superior to whites. OR, 3, do both. This is the source of Jewish excellence. They have been forcing their smartest to have extra children, and forcing their dumbest not to have any or to leave the community altogether. The primary difference between races, civilizations, and nations, is the degree to which the lower classes have been reduced in size relative to the middle and upper. And this problem will only get worse as we and technology evolve. Arabs are in worse condition than blacks. South American Indians in better condition. But this is not a problem of the color of one’s skin. It applies to all human groups of all sizes. Either stop your ‘dumb’ people from having children or pay the price of not stopping your ‘dumb’ people from having children. Because the time has passed when we will tolerate hanging your problem people in large numbers every year. We prefer to pay people not to reproduce.  

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  • Conflict Between Different Races is Conflict Between Different Needs

    [S]tereotypes are the most accurate measurement in the social sciences, because they survive large scale observations over many years, by many people. People see other people with similar behaviors and say ‘these people act like this’. When many people make the same constant observation they develop into stereotypes. Stereotypes reflect the majority of people who they encounter with these behaviors. And all human populations under democracy vote heavily together, and whether under democracy or not, defend each other and rely upon one another, and favor one another, In marriage, friendships, neighborhoods, and workplaces style of dress manner of speech, body language, and a thousand other ways of signaling loyalty to the group. Groups stick together. They compete. They compete for status, wealth, access to political power. This is true everywhere in the world – except among the upper midd e and upper classes that have more in common with each other than they do with their lower classes – which is why it feels often t at our upper classes conspire against us – because they unintentionally do. The problem facing black people is not that blacks are somehow inferior. The problem is that a very large percentage of the black population is either (a) below the minimum employability, or (b) in the “evil 80’s”, where people resort to criminal and impulsive behavior. Fully 2/3 of the black population is in the high risk category of early sexual maturity, high testosterone aggression, high impulsivity, extremely costly education, low employability, high untrustworthiness, high risk of immorality, and high risk of criminality. Moreover, people remember immoral and criminal, and anti-social, and rude behavior many more times as intensely as they do kindness. And so the stereotype is created by the reality of the high number of people in ANY population wit large underclasses is *true’. White people have less of this problem because for thousands of years, they killed so many of their problem people by manorialism, cold, famine, war, and hanging a lot of them every single year europeans were all genetically middle class. A tactic which they practiced on black people in America as well. Domestication was a tactic that they had used on their own people for thousands of years. Criminals were hanged and had their throats slit, and were left to rot, and not buried. Asians did the same at even greater scale. Black people didn’t. The curse of warm climates lacking winters with hard freezes haunts people of color around the world today. he same reason they have dark skin is the same reason they have large underclasses. What is the lesson? There are only two solutions for black people. 1) separatism, so that they can use norms, eduction, laws, and institutions that suit the distribution of their population. Or, 2) stop your ‘dumb’ people from having children for four or five generations, and you will be equal to or superior to whites. OR, 3, do both. This is the source of Jewish excellence. They have been forcing their smartest to have extra children, and forcing their dumbest not to have any or to leave the community altogether. The primary difference between races, civilizations, and nations, is the degree to which the lower classes have been reduced in size relative to the middle and upper. And this problem will only get worse as we and technology evolve. Arabs are in worse condition than blacks. South American Indians in better condition. But this is not a problem of the color of one’s skin. It applies to all human groups of all sizes. Either stop your ‘dumb’ people from having children or pay the price of not stopping your ‘dumb’ people from having children. Because the time has passed when we will tolerate hanging your problem people in large numbers every year. We prefer to pay people not to reproduce.  

    41203490_291400808123483_7496041640440627200_o.jpg

  • THE PROBLEM WITH “LOGIC” 1 – identity: tests of intra-reference constant relatio

    THE PROBLEM WITH “LOGIC”

    1 – identity: tests of intra-reference constant relations

    2 – logic: tests of inter-reference constant relations.

    3 – mathematics: operations on positional… https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=290463391550558&id=100017606988153

    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-04 17:33:54 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1037031007910809600

  • THE PROBLEM WITH “LOGIC” 1 – identity: tests of intra-reference constant relatio

    THE PROBLEM WITH “LOGIC”

    1 – identity: tests of intra-reference constant relations

    2 – logic: tests of inter-reference constant relations.

    3 – mathematics: operations on positional relations, which by definition remain constant.

    4 – construction: operational construction (arithmetic)

    5 – deduction: deduction from a construction. (geometry/algebra)

    6 – elimination (subtraction): deduction by falsification of all alternatives. (fields – effectively trial and error) the problem is that mathematical trial and error is cheap while verbal and existential trial and error is prohibitively expensive.

    We are trained in construction, deduction, induction, abduction, guessing, and free association.

    But mathematicians are trained in the trial and error method.

    In science we practice the trial and error method.

    In law we practice the trial and error method.

    It’s only (silly) justificationism that construction and deduction have any function, and even then that function, like the formal logics is of very limited value: it tells us only that something is false.

    You don’t prove anything (non trivial) with logic.

    You just falsify with it.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-04 13:33:00 UTC