Curt Doolittle

Theme: Science

  • “Could we come up with a better term than “tribalism” please?”— Marginal Revol

    —“Could we come up with a better term than “tribalism” please?”— Marginal Revolution

    <Critical Rant=ON>

    OMG…..

    How about we use operational (scientific language) instead of postmodern (pseudoscientific language)? I mean, is economics a science or a pseudoscience?

    The world doesn’t need more sophisms.

    |PACK| Family > Kin > Clan > Tribe > Nation > Civilization > Race = Markets for signals, values, frames, norms, traditions, Laws, Institutions, and group evolutionary strategies REGULATED by the natural law of reciprocity (international law, trade policy ameliorating differences in purchasing power), producing universal EUGENIC reproduction.

    –versus–

    |HERD| Individual > Corporation > Universalism = NO MARKETS for signals, values, frames, norms, traditions, Laws, Institutions, and group evolutionary strategies REGULATED by the natural law of reciprocity (international law), instead involuntary transfers between groups producing UNIVERSAL DYSGENIC REPRODUCTION.

    Economics if anything consists of the full accounting of costs. NOT THE CHERRY PICKING OF RETURNS INDEPENDENT OF COSTS.

    I don’t make mistakes such as these. The reason is that I don’t engage in cherry-picking (Pseudoscience) Justificationism (sophism) and Postmodern (denial and deceit) “empty verbalism” for the purpose of producing frames that perpetuate the frauds of involuntary transfer, and the spread of dysgenia.

    Simple facts: those groups that practiced eugenic reproduction under manorialism (east and west) succeeded precisely because of those eugenics, and those that did not, and still do not, are those that struggle.

    And those that were sold the false promise of universalism whether in the ancient world (the Abrahamic Dark Age and the destruction of all great civilizations of the ancient world), and in the Modern world (marxist-libertarian-postmodern-feminist destruction of the modern world) but lacked the reserve capital (europe, east asia), were sufficiently distracted by the false promise of pseudoscientific sophism, that they have missed the window for using the industrial and technological revolution to organize their societies for eugenic middle class reproduction.

    Reductive Explanation: The HERD (Universalist) doesn’t know it’s a HERD, but the PACK (Nationalist) knows it’s a pack, and the herd a herd.

    Selective use of economics to justify an instinct is just pseudoscience. Either you engage in full accounting or you don’t.

    <Critical Rant=Off/>

    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-10 09:50:00 UTC

  • The Difference Between Understanding(knowledge) and Use (craft)

    October 8th, 2018 2:28 PM THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN UNDERSTANDING(KNOWLEDGE) AND USE (CRAFT) I just thought of a good analogy. Mathematicians do amazing things without having any idea why their craft performs as it does. Then we have this nonsense of the contortions of the logical foundations of mathematics, that once you understand them, are ridiculous. Not false, just ridiculous – because the foundations of mathematics are TRIVIAL. But the whole host of nonsense we call mathematics doesn’t stop us from using the CRAFT of mathematics, any more than adding ancestor’s bones to a crucible of iron doesn’t explain why the extra carbon can produce low grade steel. It didn’t stop people from making steel. The same is true of the LAW. People conflate the ethical, moral, legal, and necessary law (natural law) all the time as what they intuit as ‘wrong’. Yet a minority of laws, moral norms, social norms, customs, traditions are in fact ethical, and moral under natural law because our various polities, groups, cultures, and civilizations used different portfolios of rights and obligations to preserve the social order regardless of its morality – survival is not a moral question. So we just habituate all sorts of means of calculating, from math and logic to laws, and norms, we produce vocabularies that help us do what we do in the context that we do it in, and we lose, if we ever new, which mostly we don’t, the ‘science’ and ‘logic’ in the rich weave of normative rules that we use on a day to day basis. It’s a small minority of us that must learn, recall, use, persist, and evolve those fundamental ideas that allow us to manufacture those normative ideas in useful form. Goods, Services, and Information are all products. The thing is, that goods are easy to charge for, services less so, and information hardly useful at all except in dispute resolution.

  • The Difference Between Understanding(knowledge) and Use (craft)

    October 8th, 2018 2:28 PM THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN UNDERSTANDING(KNOWLEDGE) AND USE (CRAFT) I just thought of a good analogy. Mathematicians do amazing things without having any idea why their craft performs as it does. Then we have this nonsense of the contortions of the logical foundations of mathematics, that once you understand them, are ridiculous. Not false, just ridiculous – because the foundations of mathematics are TRIVIAL. But the whole host of nonsense we call mathematics doesn’t stop us from using the CRAFT of mathematics, any more than adding ancestor’s bones to a crucible of iron doesn’t explain why the extra carbon can produce low grade steel. It didn’t stop people from making steel. The same is true of the LAW. People conflate the ethical, moral, legal, and necessary law (natural law) all the time as what they intuit as ‘wrong’. Yet a minority of laws, moral norms, social norms, customs, traditions are in fact ethical, and moral under natural law because our various polities, groups, cultures, and civilizations used different portfolios of rights and obligations to preserve the social order regardless of its morality – survival is not a moral question. So we just habituate all sorts of means of calculating, from math and logic to laws, and norms, we produce vocabularies that help us do what we do in the context that we do it in, and we lose, if we ever new, which mostly we don’t, the ‘science’ and ‘logic’ in the rich weave of normative rules that we use on a day to day basis. It’s a small minority of us that must learn, recall, use, persist, and evolve those fundamental ideas that allow us to manufacture those normative ideas in useful form. Goods, Services, and Information are all products. The thing is, that goods are easy to charge for, services less so, and information hardly useful at all except in dispute resolution.

  • THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN UNDERSTANDING(KNOWLEDGE) AND USE (CRAFT) I just thought o

    THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN UNDERSTANDING(KNOWLEDGE) AND USE (CRAFT)

    I just thought of a good analogy.

    Mathematicians do amazing things without having any idea why their craft performs as it does. Then we have this nonsense of the contortions of the logical foundations of mathematics, that once you understand them, are ridiculous. Not false, just ridiculous – because the foundations of mathematics are TRIVIAL.

    But the whole host of nonsense we call mathematics doesn’t stop us from using the CRAFT of mathematics, any more than adding ancestor’s bones to a crucible of iron doesn’t explain why the extra carbon can produce low grade steel. It didn’t stop people from making steel.

    The same is true of the LAW. People conflate the ethical, moral, legal, and necessary law (natural law) all the time as what they intuit as ‘wrong’. Yet a minority of laws, moral norms, social norms, customs, traditions are in fact ethical, and moral under natural law because our various polities, groups, cultures, and civilizations used different portfolios of rights and obligations to preserve the social order regardless of its morality – survival is not a moral question.

    So we just habituate all sorts of means of calculating, from math and logic to laws, and norms, we produce vocabularies that help us do what we do in the context that we do it in, and we lose, if we ever new, which mostly we don’t, the ‘science’ and ‘logic’ in the rich weave of normative rules that we use on a day to day basis.

    It’s a small minority of us that must learn, recall, use, persist, and evolve those fundamental ideas that allow us to manufacture those normative ideas in useful form.

    Goods, Services, and Information are all products. The thing is, that goods are easy to charge for, services less so, and information hardly useful at all except in dispute resolution.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-08 14:28:00 UTC

  • “…by elevating elements like parsimony severs the concept from its foundation.

    —“…by elevating elements like parsimony severs the concept from its foundation.”— Um. Not sure what you’re saying here. Could be that parsimony is not clear enough? Math is more parsimonious than ordinary language for example.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-07 00:43:31 UTC

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    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-06 16:44:05 UTC

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  • Demarcation of a species isn’t determined by reproductive capacity but by morpho

    Demarcation of a species isn’t determined by reproductive capacity but by morphology sufficient to produce reproductive preference. Chimps and Bonobos can interbreed, but are morphologically and behaviorally different. Human species can interbreed, but are just as different.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-06 14:53:25 UTC

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  • Demarcation of a species isn’t determined by reproductive capacity but by morpho

    Demarcation of a species isn’t determined by reproductive capacity but by morphology sufficient to produce reproductive preference. We select our own kind unless we are limited by scarcity or overwhelmed by opportunity.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-06 14:49:37 UTC

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  • FWIW: it is very hard for the literary and subjective mind to comprehend the sci

    FWIW: it is very hard for the literary and subjective mind to comprehend the scientific and legal mind, just as it is hard for the left to comprehend the right, but not visa versa.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-06 13:46:46 UTC

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    Friendly reminder: You still haven’t addressed this critique.
    cc: @curtdoolittle https://t.co/6bqE5v4K7C

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  • 12) Law seeks to suppress lies. Literature to produce them. History, Economics,

    12) Law seeks to suppress lies. Literature to produce them. History, Economics, and Law describe man as he is. And few writers, philosophers, and theologians in history would survive prosecution other than aristotle.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-06 10:31:04 UTC

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