Curt Doolittle

Theme: Operationalism

  • #NRx 4) Existential Possibility(Operationalism), 5) Morality(voluntary transfers

    #NRx 4) Existential Possibility(Operationalism), 5) Morality(voluntary transfers), 6) Parsimony(limits), 7) Full Accounting…

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-07 11:51:39 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/673832237872345088

    Reply addressees: @Outsideness

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/673809450592034816

    IN REPLY TO:

    Unknown author

    @Outsideness Physical Science as practiced is merely incomplete. Science is a moral discipline laundering imagination from free association.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/673809450592034816

    IN REPLY TO:

    @curtdoolittle

    @Outsideness Physical Science as practiced is merely incomplete. Science is a moral discipline laundering imagination from free association.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/673809450592034816

  • Scientific Method In Everything

    Seek out combat: Intellectual, romantic, social, economic, and physical. Not to win, but to improve until you can no longer find a way to lose. Love the fight. Revel in it. It’s your heritage. Celebrate it. Heroes all – whether words, heart, work, money, stick, spear, sword or rifle. He who fights regardless of rank is a brother in arms.

    Famous household phrase I’d hear, “that’s okay, at least I’ll die trying.” Anecdotal. Nostalgic. Usually it was spoken in reference to a physical contest (street scuffle) and rebuffing an opponents boastful challenge.— William Benge

    Also pick intellectual fights with people with similar belief structure using arguments you do not agree with… great for hashing out third ways and new perspectives.–Delian

  • Scientific Method In Everything

    Seek out combat: Intellectual, romantic, social, economic, and physical. Not to win, but to improve until you can no longer find a way to lose. Love the fight. Revel in it. It’s your heritage. Celebrate it. Heroes all – whether words, heart, work, money, stick, spear, sword or rifle. He who fights regardless of rank is a brother in arms.

    Famous household phrase I’d hear, “that’s okay, at least I’ll die trying.” Anecdotal. Nostalgic. Usually it was spoken in reference to a physical contest (street scuffle) and rebuffing an opponents boastful challenge.— William Benge

    Also pick intellectual fights with people with similar belief structure using arguments you do not agree with… great for hashing out third ways and new perspectives.–Delian

  • 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.

  • IF YOU CAN NAME A THING THEN YOU CAN KILL A THING I have discovered how they lie

    IF YOU CAN NAME A THING THEN YOU CAN KILL A THING

    I have discovered how they lie. It took less time than I thought.

    If you can name a thing with its true name – the operations of its construction – you can kill a thing.

    End the Lies.

    Restore the west.

    Restore truth to the people who invented it.

    Truth. Violence. Law.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-26 05:39:00 UTC

  • TESTIMONIALISM: FULL ACCOUNTING AND PARSIMONY I talk about Parsimony (limits) pr

    TESTIMONIALISM: 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 (non-conflationary)

    Internal Consistency (logical)

    External Correspondence (empiricism)

    Existential Possiblity (operationalism)

    Parsimonious (falsified limits)

    Full Accounting (Full accounting of all costs)

    Moral (objectively 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.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-25 06:44:00 UTC

  • Also, programming (operationalism) is a new (now necessary) way of logical think

    Also, programming (operationalism) is a new (now necessary) way of logical thinking – not just a different language.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-22 19:37:47 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/668513724697870341

    Reply addressees: @BobMurphyEcon @pmarca

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/667937347397271556

    IN REPLY TO:

    @BobMurphyEcon

    Parents trying to decide foreign language(s) kid will learn: Remember the population that will grow most during kid’s life is computers.

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/667937347397271556

  • The Secrets of Propertarian (Scientific) Analysis:

    [T]he Secrets of Propertarian (Scientific) Analysis: 1) For any concept you refer to, construct lines of three or more points demonstrating limits not states. This is the most subtle and difficult part of the method since we tend to think in ideal types that invoke a particular experience and not the range of conditions and set of experiences that are invoked. Think in lines not states. Turn any idea into a spectrum. It’s not hard with practice. 2) Analyze information movement – who possesses it, what it consists of, and when. (programming is great for teaching you how your assumptions of the knowledge of others is tragically flawed). 3) Analyze incentives given the information individuals have at their disposal at any moment. 4) Expect people to seek to acquire at all points in time, and to seize rents whenever possible, and wherever possible means whenever they won’t be caught. 5) Expect Culture, Class, Gender, Race, Tribe, Family, and personal reproductive strategies to provide the dominant influence in decidability: whenever discretion is required these factors will influence the decision because the individual has no other means of decidability without propertarian ethics. 6) When you write, do so operationally not analogically, experientially, or observationally: use the vectors, information, incentives, biases, and decisions of individuals. Never use the word ‘is’ since it means you do not understand what you are saying. 7) Test for identity (non-conflationary identification of properties, methods and relations). Test for internal consistency of your argument. Test for external correspondence of your argument. Test for existential possiblity of each step in your argument (which is what propertarianism asks you to do by its nature). Test for Morality (that no involuntary transfers have occurrred, or if they have articulate them). Test for parsimony: that you have defined limits to all your assumptions and terms. Test for explanatory power. Attempt to falsify it: seek contradictory examples and ensure that your analysis (description) holds up. Propertarian analysis should produce tests of existential possibility: a proof. A proof is not a truth. But it is the most likely means of constructing a truth candidate that we currently know of. Curt Doolittle

  • The Secrets of Propertarian (Scientific) Analysis:

    [T]he Secrets of Propertarian (Scientific) Analysis: 1) For any concept you refer to, construct lines of three or more points demonstrating limits not states. This is the most subtle and difficult part of the method since we tend to think in ideal types that invoke a particular experience and not the range of conditions and set of experiences that are invoked. Think in lines not states. Turn any idea into a spectrum. It’s not hard with practice. 2) Analyze information movement – who possesses it, what it consists of, and when. (programming is great for teaching you how your assumptions of the knowledge of others is tragically flawed). 3) Analyze incentives given the information individuals have at their disposal at any moment. 4) Expect people to seek to acquire at all points in time, and to seize rents whenever possible, and wherever possible means whenever they won’t be caught. 5) Expect Culture, Class, Gender, Race, Tribe, Family, and personal reproductive strategies to provide the dominant influence in decidability: whenever discretion is required these factors will influence the decision because the individual has no other means of decidability without propertarian ethics. 6) When you write, do so operationally not analogically, experientially, or observationally: use the vectors, information, incentives, biases, and decisions of individuals. Never use the word ‘is’ since it means you do not understand what you are saying. 7) Test for identity (non-conflationary identification of properties, methods and relations). Test for internal consistency of your argument. Test for external correspondence of your argument. Test for existential possiblity of each step in your argument (which is what propertarianism asks you to do by its nature). Test for Morality (that no involuntary transfers have occurrred, or if they have articulate them). Test for parsimony: that you have defined limits to all your assumptions and terms. Test for explanatory power. Attempt to falsify it: seek contradictory examples and ensure that your analysis (description) holds up. Propertarian analysis should produce tests of existential possibility: a proof. A proof is not a truth. But it is the most likely means of constructing a truth candidate that we currently know of. Curt Doolittle