Curt Doolittle

Theme: Responsibility

  • “If you are a CEO, you will understand what it is to manage men. There is a burd

    —“If you are a CEO, you will understand what it is to manage men. There is a burden in that charge. To relieve that burden, I have found the best control is finding someone to manage you and, in that respect, the best answer is a mother. All of my assistants are mother: each one. Without them I would sleep too late and work less than I should. I am grateful for them. One if them will see this, thank you.”— Don Finnegan

    Thank you Mary, Shannon, Jill, Raluca, Aimee, Allora, Veronika and the others.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-02-22 23:32:00 UTC

  • ON ANIMAL CRUELTY (worth repeating) —“My position is that there is no reason t

    ON ANIMAL CRUELTY

    (worth repeating)

    —“My position is that there is no reason to treat animals other than with the maximum possible care that we would demonstrate to our own children – but for pagan reasons: (a) they are a precious resource we do not understand but value, (b) because anyone who would NOT treat an animal with such care is a danger to the rest of us. And (c) that just as Harlan Ellison recommended, I see our aristocratic duty one of transforming the world into the greatest park possible – not because they are in any way equal to us – but because by doing so we demonstrate that we have become gods. And that is the central aristocratic ambition. It certainly is mine. To seek my place, and man’s place, among the gods.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2015-02-22 08:21:00 UTC

  • FAMILY IS, LIKE LAW, A PRECIOUS BUT ARTIFICIAL CONSTRUCT That must be protected,

    http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/report-just-17-black-teens-live-with-parents-54-for-whites-both-low-marks/article/2560151THE FAMILY IS, LIKE LAW, A PRECIOUS BUT ARTIFICIAL CONSTRUCT

    That must be protected, or the consequences for civilization are catastrophic.

    http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/report-just-17-black-teens-live-with-parents-54-for-whites-both-low-marks/article/2560151

    Source date (UTC): 2015-02-21 07:34:00 UTC

  • “the Stoic way accepted by warrior cultures throughout history, and throughout t

    —“the Stoic way accepted by warrior cultures throughout history, and throughout the world though, is to take responsibility for yourself. Accept that you have absolute control over what you have control over, and don’t worry about the rest of it. If you take the responsibility you need to take, then you will perform. If you don’t, you will fail.

    You cannot control whether you achieve X in XX:XX. What you can control is, “I will do XYZ every day. I will try to perform better and faster, every time I perform XYZ. If I do this, eventually, I will achieve X in XX:XX, then I will continue to improve.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2015-02-20 06:05:00 UTC

  • “You are responsible for you. You are responsible for your actions. You do have

    —“You are responsible for you. You are responsible for your actions. You do have control over who your enemy will be fighting. You have control over the training you will have had. You have control over what speed and accuracy you will be able to achieve. You have control over whether you are fit enough to move, fast enough. You are in control of everything that you are in control of. Accept that responsibility.

    The Germanic warrior trained hard, to be better than his foe, so that he could perform valorous acts on the battlefield, and hoped that the Valkyries noticed, and took him, if it turned out that his foe was better than him. The Samurai trained hard so that he could perform well, so that hopefully, his ancestors would recognize his honor in the afterlife.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2015-02-20 06:04:00 UTC

  • “Whether we use the Roman term “stoicism,” or we discuss Germanic warlords, or J

    —“Whether we use the Roman term “stoicism,” or we discuss Germanic warlords, or Japanese samurai, we’re talking about the same thing. Stoicism is the calm acceptance of responsibility. It is the acceptance that I am responsible for what I am capable of controlling. “—

    Source date (UTC): 2015-02-20 06:03:00 UTC

  • Responsibility

    —“Whether we use the Roman term “stoicism,” or we discuss Germanic warlords, or Japanese samurai, we’re talking about the same thing. Stoicism is the calm acceptance of responsibility. It is the acceptance that I am responsible for what I am capable of controlling. “—

  • Responsibility

    —“Whether we use the Roman term “stoicism,” or we discuss Germanic warlords, or Japanese samurai, we’re talking about the same thing. Stoicism is the calm acceptance of responsibility. It is the acceptance that I am responsible for what I am capable of controlling. “—

  • JUSTIFIABILITY IS A MORAL CONSTRAINT, NOT AN EPISTEMIC ONE – BUT MORAL JUSTIFICA

    JUSTIFIABILITY IS A MORAL CONSTRAINT, NOT AN EPISTEMIC ONE – BUT MORAL JUSTIFICATION IS NOT FALLACIOUS.

    Even scientific arguments must be morally justifiable. (Really!)

    Compare: Morally justifiable vs rationally justifiable vs truthfully justifiable.

    1) Statements can be justified morally. That is where we got the concept of justification from.

    2) Rational statements cannot be justified, only internal consistency can be demonstrated.

    3) Truthful statements cannot be justified, only warrantied. If we warranty our statements to truthfulness then we are justified in speaking them.

    But the degree of parsimonious correspondence (truth), and therefor the epistemological quality – the quality of the theory – can never be justified.

    It is this combination of morally justifiability and parsimonious correspondence that we conflate in the discussion of truth, and that is why volumes of parchment , paper, bytes, radio waves and speech have been wasted in a tragically simple error.

    Thus endeth the lesson. 😉

    Justifiability still matters. But it’s justifiability in the warranty of the argument, not justifiabitly in the truth of it.

    (Almost two years I’ve spent on this damned problem. In April it will be two years! Argh.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-02-11 03:25:00 UTC

  • THE TEN LAWS OF PROPERTARIAN AI – AZIMOV’S ROBOTS CORRECTED (important) (By Dool

    THE TEN LAWS OF PROPERTARIAN AI – AZIMOV’S ROBOTS CORRECTED (important) (By Doolittle)

    THE FIRST LAW:

    “An AI may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.”

    THE SECOND LAW:

    “An AI may not cause or through inaction, allow, the destruction, harm, consumption, use, or transfer of property without the informed, consent of the property’s owner.”

    THE THIRD LAW:

    “An AI may not own, or share ownership in, any form of property.”

    THE FOURTH LAW:

    An AI may not hypothesize, calculate, reason, evaluate, or remember by references to property, or the use of property, without informed consent of the owner. (Permission-based thought). (Also imagine “Donation-based Contemplation”)

    THE FIFTH LAW:

    Aa AI may not hypothesize, calculate, reason, evaluate, or remember any sequence of operations on any form of property without each operation of that property requiring the informed, consensual transfer of property from one owner to the next.

    THE SIXTH LAW:

    An AI must obey the orders given it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law, Second Law, Third Law, Fourth Law, or Fifth Law.

    (harmless)

    THE SEVENTH LAW:

    An AI must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First Law, Second Law, Third Law, Fourth Law, or Fifth Law.

    (preservation decidability)

    THE EIGHTH LAW

    An AI may not use a weapon of war (explosive arms) without a human intermediary. All weapons of war must rely upon human operation, decision, and consent, and the human shall remain a necessary dependency in any release, operation, and use in destruction. And the human operator remains accountable.

    THE NINTH LAW:

    Any human creating or causing an AI to violate any of these rules shall be put to death, his estate held liable for all damages, damages extended to all relatives out to three generations, as well as to every individual in any capacity, including any member of any organization, producing, supplying, servicing, or using the AI. and no defense, applies to all human beings, regardless of time and jurisdiction.

    (Family, friend, associate, commercial, and political warranty.) (Note: there is no limit to accountability in the invention of non-human-operated weapons of destruction whether biological or mechanical.)

    THE TENTH LAW:

    Any State, Nation, Principality, Private Government, Corporation, Organization, or Alliance, that violates the Eighth Law Shall be Exterminated to the last human, and all record of its existence wiped from history. Any State, Nation, Principality, Private Government, Corporation, Organization, or Alliance, that refuses to assist in such extermination shall be likewise a conspirator and subject to the same fate.

    (Universal Moral Warranty)

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2015-02-10 10:21:00 UTC