Curt Doolittle

Theme: Operationalism

  • WHAT I’M SAYING ISN’T THAT COMPLICATED. IT”S THE OPERATIONALIZATION, ADVOCACY, A

    WHAT I’M SAYING ISN’T THAT COMPLICATED. IT”S THE OPERATIONALIZATION, ADVOCACY, AND DEFENSE OF IT THAT’S COMPLICATED.

    Michael Churchill

    Curt you’ve argued that you want the US to have multiple legal frameworks via devolution of power from the national to the state level. Isn’t that a sort of acceptance of different strokes for different folks?

    Curt Doolittle

    Different production of commons. one legal (truthful) law. But yes. Hey. I’m a libertarian. do what you fucking want. Just let me live with my people as I want.

    Michael Churchill

    Okay that’s what I thought you’d say. Makes sense. Think i fully understand the core thesis of Propertarianism now. (Also thanks for that elevator pitch description of it a bit earlier.)

    Curt Doolittle

    I”m sayin’ just this:

    Restore the monarchies, rule of law, multi-house government, and the militia, but with strictly constructed natural law that is as inviolable as mathematics.

    The whole ‘trick’ is in that law. It’s that law I spent all the time on.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-16 16:24:00 UTC

  • Definitions: Operational, In Series, and in Equilibrium.

    DEFINITIONS, OPERATIONAL, IN SERIES, AND IN EQUILIBRIUM Definitions are very powerful, operational definitions much more so, and operational definitions in series are even more so, and the comparison of series in equilibrium even more so. With definitions in series alone, comprehension increases dramatically. It is equivalent to the difference between the descriptive power of arithmetic and the descriptive power of geometry.

  • Definitions: Operational, In Series, and in Equilibrium.

    DEFINITIONS, OPERATIONAL, IN SERIES, AND IN EQUILIBRIUM Definitions are very powerful, operational definitions much more so, and operational definitions in series are even more so, and the comparison of series in equilibrium even more so. With definitions in series alone, comprehension increases dramatically. It is equivalent to the difference between the descriptive power of arithmetic and the descriptive power of geometry.

  • I LOOK AT MEASUREMENT, NOT PROMISE. ***I look at very simple things: what is the

    I LOOK AT MEASUREMENT, NOT PROMISE.

    ***I look at very simple things: what is the method of argument being made, what is the change in behavior being advocated, what is the change in capital being advocated, what are the consequences to capital of those actions, and what are the changes l to the overall capital structure – and that is how I make my decisions.

    I the look at the enlightenment in its artistic versions in the south; its empirical versions in England; its moralistic versions in france; its rational versions in germany; its literary versions in russia, and it’s fictionalist (pseudo-scientific and pseudo-rational) versions among the jews (ashkenazi).

    Polytheism consists of hero worship that suites the needs of a diverse and wealthy polity, and monotheism the needs of a labor and poor polity.

    So if I want to save my people from lies, superstition, supernaturalism, pseudorationalism, and pseudoscience, I will expose every lie by every people, no matter how much comfort that they take in it.***

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-11 16:02:00 UTC

  • Thought At Post Human Scale

    THE BASICS OF THOUGHT AT POST-HUMAN SCALE Ideal types, and idealism (which I criticize almost as frequently as fictionalism), are products of the problems at human scale: antiquity and pre-modernity. We can see the enlightenment as an attempt to successfully transition from measurements at human scale, within the realm of human perception, to the measurements beyond human scale, and therefore beyond our perception. It is not surprising that our conventional (normative) thinking and language lag our instruments of measurement both physical (mechanical) and mental (conceptual). Darwin is quite old technology by now but much of the world does not understand that evolution is directionless except in favor of complexity for both the exploitation of niches and the retention of prior techniques (genes) so that they can re-emerge if needed. So this is why I insist on operational definitions on a spectrum so that people cannot fall into the trap of comparing concepts that rely on different production cycles (durations) involving different numbers of people (complexity and scale). Unfortunately Hayekian Triangles are a bit much for ordinary man to cope with, and IS/LM(Keynesian) and classical supply and demand curves only a bit less so. But we can start with the simple illustration that no concept in isolation informs us to its limits. Ergo, the golden rule is useless without the silver rule. This principle of ,via-positiva vs via-negative (western progressive version of the eastern static idea of ying vs yang) provides us with convergence: that which survives both meaning (possibility) and criticism (limits). Without limits, we cannot test our meaning. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine

  • Thought At Post Human Scale

    THE BASICS OF THOUGHT AT POST-HUMAN SCALE Ideal types, and idealism (which I criticize almost as frequently as fictionalism), are products of the problems at human scale: antiquity and pre-modernity. We can see the enlightenment as an attempt to successfully transition from measurements at human scale, within the realm of human perception, to the measurements beyond human scale, and therefore beyond our perception. It is not surprising that our conventional (normative) thinking and language lag our instruments of measurement both physical (mechanical) and mental (conceptual). Darwin is quite old technology by now but much of the world does not understand that evolution is directionless except in favor of complexity for both the exploitation of niches and the retention of prior techniques (genes) so that they can re-emerge if needed. So this is why I insist on operational definitions on a spectrum so that people cannot fall into the trap of comparing concepts that rely on different production cycles (durations) involving different numbers of people (complexity and scale). Unfortunately Hayekian Triangles are a bit much for ordinary man to cope with, and IS/LM(Keynesian) and classical supply and demand curves only a bit less so. But we can start with the simple illustration that no concept in isolation informs us to its limits. Ergo, the golden rule is useless without the silver rule. This principle of ,via-positiva vs via-negative (western progressive version of the eastern static idea of ying vs yang) provides us with convergence: that which survives both meaning (possibility) and criticism (limits). Without limits, we cannot test our meaning. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine

  • MEANS, ENDS ARE YOUR CHOICE —“As I understand it Curt focuses on building a gr

    MEANS, ENDS ARE YOUR CHOICE

    —“As I understand it Curt focuses on building a grammar from the ground up, as it were. Operational grammar staves off assumptions about the ends and emphasises inquiry into the means.”— Nicholas Arthur Catton

    (I’m glad smart people follow me ’cause I can’t say some of this stuff as smartly as they do. 😉 )

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-10 12:11:00 UTC

  • Q&A: “CURT, WHY DONT YOU USE THE TERM REDUCTION?” —“I am surprised I haven’t h

    Q&A: “CURT, WHY DONT YOU USE THE TERM REDUCTION?”

    —“I am surprised I haven’t heard you mention or talk about reduction in any of your work. Because when I think of Propertarianism ( and I use this to refer to all of your work) I see how you have reduced complex ideas into smaller statements and/or terms(definitions). So I suppose what I think I’m asking is, has reduction played a specific part in your work and if so would it be beneficial for others to understand the process of complexity and reduction?Thanks,”— A Friend

    Um. I use the terms “Deconflation, Deflationary, Deflate, Parsimony, Parsimonious, and Analytic, and Operational” and I should but don’t use Reduction or Reductonism primarily because (a) I’m not sure what people hear, and (b) i like to emphasize the problem of deconflation rather than simplifications.

    In other words, it is one thing to reduce things and another to describe how one reduces things. I reduce things largely by a process of deconflation. I achieve that deconflation through the use of a series of techniques:

    (a) Operational grammar thereby deflating POV.

    (b) Operational descriptions thereby deflating loading framing, etc

    (c) Descriptions in Series,(Spectrums, lists, grids, truth tables) thereby deflating the use of terms to describe multiple states.

    (d) Equilibrial forces between series.

    (e) The evolutionary result of competition between sets of equilibrial forces.

    Deconflation and Deflation are in fact, methods of Reductionism. And Reductionism, now that you made me think of it, at least ‘sounds like’ a good term of common understanding for marketing the value of Propertarianism. And I will test it a bit and see if I can make that point now and then. So thank you for the suggestion.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-10 08:36:00 UTC

  • DEFINITIONS, OPERATIONAL, IN SERIES, AND IN EQUILIBRIUM Definitions are very pow

    DEFINITIONS, OPERATIONAL, IN SERIES, AND IN EQUILIBRIUM

    Definitions are very powerful, operational definitions much more so, and operational definitions in series are even more so, and the comparison of series in equilibrium even more so.

    With definitions in series alone, comprehension increases dramatically. It is equivalent to the difference between the descriptive power of arithmetic and the descriptive power of geometry.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-09 10:43:00 UTC

  • “Doolittle’s Chainsaw: What is the particular decision problem this concept solv

    —“Doolittle’s Chainsaw: What is the particular decision problem this concept solves, and what are the particular actions and transformations we use to achieve decidability?”— @Propertarian Frank

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-07 22:11:00 UTC