Theme: Measurement

  • Unlike the physical universe where more ‘information’ waits to be discovered, th

    Unlike the physical universe where more ‘information’ waits to be discovered, there is none in words we did not put there.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-12 05:21:53 UTC

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  • THE FIRST PROPERTY OF PRODUCTION IS TIME. AND MONEY IS ITS COMMENSURABLE STORE I

    THE FIRST PROPERTY OF PRODUCTION IS TIME. AND MONEY IS ITS COMMENSURABLE STORE

    In the past ten years I have not been able to defeat the theory that money literally stores time ( saved by or spent in production ) and and that our claim that it is a store of value is a mistaken subjective perception given the utility in accounting rather than an objective description of its causality.

    When we cooperate we save time. When we divide labor we save more.

    When we exchange productively we save more.

    We are not wealthier in time than our distant ancestors, we have – depending upon how we wish to describe the phenomenon – made everything cheaper in cost of time while at the same time holding caloric expenditure relatively constant. And thanks to the nineteenth And twentieth centuries, dramatically reduced the cost in cellular damage per moment. Even if we have offset it a bit with chemical preservatives, carbohydrates and sugars.

    So all increases in productivity ( not aggregate productivity, but case specific productivity) reflect time savings. Just as all thefts and frauds its loss.

    Now we could also restate time saved as time created, or time made available rather than time saved.

    But I think doing so enters the domain of mathematical Platonism. No matter what we do, money is only able to influence others by paying them in saved time to prefer spending their time on what we desire of them versus the alternatives.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-10 10:18:00 UTC

  • Forms of argument evolve just like mathematics did: adding layers of precision M

    Forms of argument evolve just like mathematics did: adding layers of precision

    Myth (narrative analogy)

    Internally consistent myth ( religion )

    Reason ( possibility )

    Rationalism. ( justificationism )

    Analytic rationalism. ( Consistency )

    Existential criticism ( Operationalism)

    You see. In hindsight it’s obvious.

    It wasn’t though 😉


    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-05 15:37:00 UTC

  • ISNT THE CLASSICAL MODEL JUST AN ORTHODOXY —“i am from the usa. i live in kiev

    https://drive.google.com/open?id=1PHkD5DKO-X1I1eL7sJZED87nTc5h-PX5XL6q1ycnZ_kQ&A: ISNT THE CLASSICAL MODEL JUST AN ORTHODOXY

    —“i am from the usa. i live in kiev. i first saw your videos on red ice radio. Classical Liberalism / propertarianism seems like a one-track

    minded orthodoxy. (i would appreciate any comments about this essay)—“

    (NOTE: I think the importance of the classical liberal program and it’s anglo saxon english predecessor, like it’s dutch originators, and compared to the jewish model, is that truth and trust provide greater competitive value for a minority by allowing the rapid and discounted production of competitive commons. The west is faster than the rest. That’s our secret.)

    Well, you know, you’re taking on a big topic here, and while you write reasonably well, and while I find nothing terribly controversial in your arguments, as far as I know, just as boazian anthropology was created as a pseudoscience, and freudian psychology a pseudoscience, marxism was created as a pseudoscience, marxist reasoning a pseudo-logical, and critical theory, upon the failure of marxism, invented specifically to construct lies. And the purpose of those lies was to attack the west’s construction of commons, all of which were eugenic, and prosecutorial to the jews that invented these new pseudosciences, pseudologic, propaganda, and outright lies, culminating in postmodern, feminist, and political correctness, the purpose of which is to remove the ability to associate positive status signals with the production of commons, the achievement of heroism and self-sacrifice, and the eugenic suppression of the underclasses in order to continue western exceptionalism.

    There is no difference really between the construction of the old testament in order for the jews to claim ownership of land when the persians retreated just as they claim ownership of arts and property after the nazis were defeated – and the construction of the new testament as a means of undermining the control of information provided by roman law, education, and religion – and the construction of the pseudosciences, pseudologics, and outright lies of the modern era. In each era the jews were able to construct a new lie using the same technique: suggestion, in order to rally women and slaves against their productive upper classes.

    Now, explaining all that takes a bit of effort. But we can reduce it to the fact that dialectic(critique) is merely a vehicle for the conduct of suggestion(deception) using meaning(empty verbalism), rather than the conduct of criticism (survival from attempts at falsification), using tests of categorical consistency, internal consistency(logic), external correspondence (empirical consistency), which remove our ability to engage in error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, and deception, that make systematic use of human cognitive biases.

    But for simple people we can state it simply: You can use a lot of language to say ‘we can get away with saying this” or you can use a log of language to say “no matter how I try to say this is false, I cannot”. The first is marxist pseudoscience of rebelion by the undesirable underclasses, and the second is the discipline of giving truthful testimony that does no harm that we call ‘science’.

    And why does this conflict exist? The underclasses must lie and rally and shame to persist in a meritocratic order, and the upper classes cannot openly acknowledge that they are engaging in a form of soft eugenics the purpose of which is to eliminate the amount of damage done by the daily existence of the underclasess.

    And why does this matter? As we can see around the world, everywhere, the damage done by the mere existence oft he underclasses is more damaging to the economy, polity, gene pool, and civilization than the upper classes can compensate for.

    So progress requires not improving anything in particular, other than ‘taking out the trash’, so that they inhibit the productive classes less than they naturally would.

    MORE…

    So my point is more that you make statements that have nothing to do with marxism, and any and all statements made under Marxist dogma and framing are basically (justifiably) pseudoscientific in origin, and tainted forever as nothing but nonsense-pseudoscience.

    So where you in your paper succeed is where you just address incentives.

    A propertarian takes this approach: all people at rationally and negotiate with others on behalf of their reproductive strategy, of which they are completely unaware, and unavoidably cognitively biased. Ergo when we analyze humans we need only determine what they have (including reproductive, social, commercial, political desirability) and then determine what it is that they seek to acquire, and the means they use to negotiate for it, then we can understand the incentives of all of us no matter what race, tribe, clan, family, culture or religion.

    And we do not need pseudosciences to help us load and frame them with accusations, rallying, shaming, and psychologisms. All of which are just vehicles for deception.

    -Curt Doolittle


    Source date (UTC): 2016-06-25 13:29:00 UTC

  • I’d like to clarify that accounting has attempted to modernise at least twice in

    I’d like to clarify that accounting has attempted to modernise at least twice in the twentieth century. But I sufficiently, and law has not helped.

    The fallacy of the evenly rotating economy pervades lending, just as the fallacy of stable price.

    The value of assets in the industrial era , and in the contemporary era has inverted. Today IP has value but almost all assets other than land are never with more than liquidation value.

    Market brand has far more value than any leveragable assets do. But we can’t borrow against that brand value other than as demonstrated by cash flow.

    It’s one thing to meet regulatory compliance. It’s another to have an accurate inventory of your assets.

    For all intents and purposes our balance sheets are as ridiculous as congressional accounting office reports on the economy and treasury.

    More later


    Source date (UTC): 2016-06-16 05:14:00 UTC

  • So now that a friend has posted the chart (which shouldn’t be necessary because

    So now that a friend has posted the chart (which shouldn’t be necessary because trust is measured yearly)


    Source date (UTC): 2016-06-10 13:15:56 UTC

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    @curtdoolittle Here’s when you typically back up your claim….

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  • ¿Cómo se le pone precio al declive normativo?

    Traducido por Alberto R. Zambrano U. Texto original de Curt Doolittle disponible en http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2016/05/06/how-do-you-price-normative-decline/ [U]na útil conversación sobre el pueblo ucraniano con mi amigo Марта Госовська tuvo lugar el día de ayer, en la que ella fue capaz de poderme ayudar a entender cómo el mandato ruso convirtió a los ucranianos en un pueblo inmoral, y cuán lejos han llegado en este proceder. Porque ahora, al igual que Rusia, al pueblo se le enseña cómo aprovecharse de las situaciones y no cómo producir. Hablamos sobre cómo no se pueden organizar en grandes masas, el porqué sus cortes no funcionan. El porqué sus políticos son unos burócratas, y porqué sus profesores, maestros y policías son corruptos. Este es un ejemplo del problema que supone la normativa de precios. ¿Cuál fue el costo que se tuvo que pagar como consecuencia de que los Rusos (Soviéticos) gobernaran la Europa del Este? ¿Cuál fue el costo que se tuvo que pagar para la implementación de este programa marxista? ¿Cuál fue el costo del proceso de inmigración de 1964? Esos costos fueron reales. Y el no incluirlos es practicar el engaño al no ser responsables por lo que eso costó. ¿Cual es el costo del declive normativo de la clase blanca inferior?

  • ¿Cómo se le pone precio al declive normativo?

    Traducido por Alberto R. Zambrano U. Texto original de Curt Doolittle disponible en http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2016/05/06/how-do-you-price-normative-decline/ [U]na útil conversación sobre el pueblo ucraniano con mi amigo Марта Госовська tuvo lugar el día de ayer, en la que ella fue capaz de poderme ayudar a entender cómo el mandato ruso convirtió a los ucranianos en un pueblo inmoral, y cuán lejos han llegado en este proceder. Porque ahora, al igual que Rusia, al pueblo se le enseña cómo aprovecharse de las situaciones y no cómo producir. Hablamos sobre cómo no se pueden organizar en grandes masas, el porqué sus cortes no funcionan. El porqué sus políticos son unos burócratas, y porqué sus profesores, maestros y policías son corruptos. Este es un ejemplo del problema que supone la normativa de precios. ¿Cuál fue el costo que se tuvo que pagar como consecuencia de que los Rusos (Soviéticos) gobernaran la Europa del Este? ¿Cuál fue el costo que se tuvo que pagar para la implementación de este programa marxista? ¿Cuál fue el costo del proceso de inmigración de 1964? Esos costos fueron reales. Y el no incluirlos es practicar el engaño al no ser responsables por lo que eso costó. ¿Cual es el costo del declive normativo de la clase blanca inferior?

  • Please don’t be stupid. What is correspondence other than pairing? What is mathe

    Please don’t be stupid.

    What is correspondence other than pairing?

    What is mathematics other than pairing?

    Mathematics consists largely of removing properties from (deterministic)reality and constructing deductions with decreasing degrees of information.

    Logic consists of removing properties of from reality and constructing deductions with decreasing degrees of information.

    What is communication other than pairing?

    We use different terms but we pair (compare) and differentiate (remainder)

    We can use the oppposite process as well: we can restore correspondnce with reality in order to test whether our hypotheses can supply the information missing.

    This is how we come to understand BOTH critical rationalism and its complietion with operationalism and morality.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-06-03 06:01:00 UTC

  • “How does one determine truthfulness? Or truth? Would “accurate” not be a better

    —“How does one determine truthfulness? Or truth? Would “accurate” not be a better formulation? Can that be constructed?”—- Arthur K

    One cannot knowingly speak the most parsimonious truth possible.

    One can however perform such thorough due diligence that he can warranty that he speaks truthfully: meaning diligently free of error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, and deceit.

    One can perform the following tests of due diligence, any of which can falsify his ideas:

    1) categorical consistency (Identity)

    2) internal consistency (logical)

    3) external consistency (external correspondence)

    4) existential consistency (operational language)

    5) moral consistency (voluntary transfers)

    6) full accounting

    7) parsimony and limits (scope)

    8) falsifiability.

    If you pass all 8 of those hurdles then you speak as truthfully as is humanly (or even superhumanly) possible.

    But it is quite an informative exercise to look at 100 papers or books in each discipline and ask which of these tests of due diligence is provided and which is not.

    Almost everyone fails.

    Truth is hard.

    The question is why we permit verbal products in the informational commons and knowledge marketplace, but do not permit defective products or services in the physical commons and marketplace?

    Curt Doolittle


    Source date (UTC): 2016-06-01 09:32:00 UTC