Curt Doolittle

Theme: Measurement

  • DEAR FELLOW INTELLECTUALS, PARTICULARLY IN ACADEMIA The language of social scien

    DEAR FELLOW INTELLECTUALS, PARTICULARLY IN ACADEMIA

    The language of social science is now and will forever be, economics, just as the language of ratios is and will be mathematics. But when we say economics, we mean not monetary economics, but the terminology of costs, discounts and premiums. The effect of asymmetry of information. The language of equilibria.

    Acquisition, Inventory, Property-en-toto (demonstrated property)

    Incentive and retaliation

    Voluntary and moral exchange, involuntary and immoral takings.

    Cooperation, Boycott, and War.

    Acquisitions, Costs, and Full Accounting

    Opportunity costs, Transaction Costs

    Information and Asymmetry

    Portfolios and Equilibria

    Production and Reproduction, Genetic Pacification and Evolution

    The Intertemporal Division of reproductive Perception, Cognition, Labor, and Advocacy

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-08 07:04:00 UTC

  • Nope. And furthermore it is unscientific to make cost benefit statements without

    Nope. And furthermore it is unscientific to make cost benefit statements without having made a full accounting.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-05 17:42:19 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/673195712285396992

    Reply addressees: @LearnLiberty @ATabarrok

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/673183053670277120

    IN REPLY TO:

    @LearnLiberty

    .@ATabarrok: “All people should be free to move about the earth, uncaged by the arbitrary lines known as borders.” https://t.co/vjkYWMZptv

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/673183053670277120

  • FULL ACCOUNTING IS MUCH MORE IMPORTANT THAN I THOUGHT I have definitely underest

    FULL ACCOUNTING IS MUCH MORE IMPORTANT THAN I THOUGHT

    I have definitely underestimated the importance of the the principle of the “Warranty of Full Accounting”. Its so damned obvious in retrospect. But it is VERY hard to pull a fast one if you are required to give a full accounting of any principle. This is much better than popper’s incomplete ‘falsification’. Followers of Popper ‘get’ that something is very right with falsification but none have reduced it the the set of dimensional warranties that I have. The virtue of thinking like a programmer in operations balancing accounts rather than a philosopher using analogies, or a logician using equality of ratios.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-05 09:05:00 UTC

  • Testimonialism: More On Full Accounting and Parsimony

    [I] talk about Parsimony (limits) pretty often, but I don’t spend enough time and effort on the obvious moral requirement of Full Accounting(full accounting of all costs: opportunity, real, normative, institutional, genetic and ‘godly’- in the sense of man’s achievement of godhood). THE TESTS OF TRUTHFULNESS – WARRANTY OF DUE DILIGENCE

    • Identity
    • Internal Consistency
    • External Correspondence
    • Existential Possiblity
    • Parsimonious
    • Full Accounting
    • Moral

    Popper came close but he just supplied the darwinian idea. I think now that I am in the third year of work on this problem I’m getting pretty close to confidence that this list of warranties is the complete set that man is capable of providing, and is the complete set necessary for warranty against imaginary content: error, bias, wishful thinking and deceit.

  • Testimonialism: More On Full Accounting and Parsimony

    [I] talk about Parsimony (limits) pretty often, but I don’t spend enough time and effort on the obvious moral requirement of Full Accounting(full accounting of all costs: opportunity, real, normative, institutional, genetic and ‘godly’- in the sense of man’s achievement of godhood). THE TESTS OF TRUTHFULNESS – WARRANTY OF DUE DILIGENCE

    • Identity
    • Internal Consistency
    • External Correspondence
    • Existential Possiblity
    • Parsimonious
    • Full Accounting
    • Moral

    Popper came close but he just supplied the darwinian idea. I think now that I am in the third year of work on this problem I’m getting pretty close to confidence that this list of warranties is the complete set that man is capable of providing, and is the complete set necessary for warranty against imaginary content: error, bias, wishful thinking and deceit.

  • Markets Provide Information

    [J]ust as you cannot know anything about an economy without a market of exchanges of goods and services resulting in prices by which you can make decisions, you cannot know anything about society without a market of exchanges of commons resulting in prices by which you can make decisions.

  • Markets Provide Information

    [J]ust as you cannot know anything about an economy without a market of exchanges of goods and services resulting in prices by which you can make decisions, you cannot know anything about society without a market of exchanges of commons resulting in prices by which you can make decisions.

  • How Do We Know The ‘Right’ Taxation?

    Q&A:

    —“How does one find out if taxes are indeed limited? How does one figure out whether “the price is right” under a monopoly?”—

    [I] think what you might mean is how we know what commission to calculate. And given that commissions and sales taxes are well understood phenomenon I’m not sure how that’s particularly difficult. Most shopping malls charge ‘commissions’ or ‘fees’ that are a percentage of revenue. They can be universal or particular, but that question is empirical not moral. ***As an adjunct to rule of law, and therefore free of discretion, the formula must remain constant. But the formula itself is irrelevant. The point being that the purpose of any producer of commons would be to increase common revenues, not decrease common profits.*** In other words, the problem is in providing the correct incentive to those who specialize in the production of commons, and to prevent loading framing and overloading in their arguments. Otherwise a sales tax that individuals vote in favor of initiatives is kind of hard to argue with.

  • How Do We Know The ‘Right’ Taxation?

    Q&A:

    —“How does one find out if taxes are indeed limited? How does one figure out whether “the price is right” under a monopoly?”—

    [I] think what you might mean is how we know what commission to calculate. And given that commissions and sales taxes are well understood phenomenon I’m not sure how that’s particularly difficult. Most shopping malls charge ‘commissions’ or ‘fees’ that are a percentage of revenue. They can be universal or particular, but that question is empirical not moral. ***As an adjunct to rule of law, and therefore free of discretion, the formula must remain constant. But the formula itself is irrelevant. The point being that the purpose of any producer of commons would be to increase common revenues, not decrease common profits.*** In other words, the problem is in providing the correct incentive to those who specialize in the production of commons, and to prevent loading framing and overloading in their arguments. Otherwise a sales tax that individuals vote in favor of initiatives is kind of hard to argue with.

  • The Curriculum

    [T]HE UNIFYING METHOD: HISTORY: The Evolution of Each As A ‘Technology’ That People Used To Solve Problems. (ie: no wrote.) ARTS – Personal Myths and Legends, Literature, Biography, History(anthropology, archaeology), Geography, Space Reading, Writing, Programming (note that programming is an extension of writing) Health and Hygiene, Diet, Discipline, Diary, Tradition, Ritual, Feast(cooking), Holidays, Celebration. Beauty: The Fine Arts(content), Design(aesthetics), Craft (construction) ETHICS – Interpersonal Virtue (excellences), Ethics and Morality, Natural and Common Law, Jury, Testimony, Grammar, Logic and Rhetoric Family(siblings and parents), Friendship, Alliances, Leadership, Romance, Marriage and Home, Parenting, Aging, Retiring, Death. Hospital, Emergency Services, Charity, Care -and- Commons, Construction, use and maintenance, Manners SCIENCES – Extrapersonal Arithmetic, Measurement, Accounting, Algebra, Geometry and Trigonometry, (Risk, Fragility, Probability and) Statistics, Calculus Science, Engineering, Macro physics(large), Planetology-Ecology, biology, chemistry, subatomic Money, Banking(credit, interest, notes, investments), Contract, Competition, Entrepreneurship (private), Politics (commons), Economics War, Strategy, Tactics, Fighting, Sport, Fitness CRAFTS – Production Physical transformations (labor careers) Logical Transformations (calculation careers) Organizational Transformations (organizational careers) Institutional Transformations (cross organizational careers )