Curt Doolittle

Theme: Science

  • Go Ahead and Extrapolate This so I Don”t Have To…

    (…let a thousand nations bloom) (small groups speciate) (we want to speciate… ) —“Well Darwin believed that evolution was driven by selection. That’s essentially Darwin’s contribution. And it’s true for big populations, but it has limits. The limits are you need big populations in order for selection to be dominant. If you have small populations, then random drift is actually more important than selection. That’s the Kimura theory. Kimura called it the neutral theory of evolution and he wrote a book about it which was widely ignored by all the orthodox biologists. But I think he was right. And in fact, it happens that small populations are very important in evolution. In fact, you have to have a small population to start a new species, almost by definition. So small populations have a controlling effect on starting new species and also in the extension of old species. So this neutral regime where the selection is not important may, in fact, be the real driving force of evolution when you come to a new species. And of course, if that’s true, it changes the picture in many ways.”— Freeman Dyson

  • Go Ahead and Extrapolate This so I Don”t Have To…

    (…let a thousand nations bloom) (small groups speciate) (we want to speciate… ) —“Well Darwin believed that evolution was driven by selection. That’s essentially Darwin’s contribution. And it’s true for big populations, but it has limits. The limits are you need big populations in order for selection to be dominant. If you have small populations, then random drift is actually more important than selection. That’s the Kimura theory. Kimura called it the neutral theory of evolution and he wrote a book about it which was widely ignored by all the orthodox biologists. But I think he was right. And in fact, it happens that small populations are very important in evolution. In fact, you have to have a small population to start a new species, almost by definition. So small populations have a controlling effect on starting new species and also in the extension of old species. So this neutral regime where the selection is not important may, in fact, be the real driving force of evolution when you come to a new species. And of course, if that’s true, it changes the picture in many ways.”— Freeman Dyson

  • OPERATIONALISM? —“Define operation(alism)”— Let Me Google That For You: Scie

    OPERATIONALISM?

    —“Define operation(alism)”—

    Let Me Google That For You:

    Scientific Method ->

    …. Operational Definition ->

    …. …. Operationalism (Physical Sciences) /

    …. …. Operationism (Psychology) /

    …. …. Intuitionism (Mathematics) /

    …. …. Praxeology (Economics)

    ie: “Actions”.

    See Wiki for simple versions, and Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy for advanced versions.

    HOWEVER, since all science must be falsificationary, all arguments to justificationism (positivism) are false. As such the value of operational language (grammar and semantics) is to force empirical (existential) description as a means of avoiding hand waving, obscurantism, suggestion, and deceit.

    OTHER CONCEPTS

    Critical Rationalism

    Critical Preference

    Justificationism

    Falsificationism

    Propertarianism (Vitruvianism, Acquisitionism, Propertarianism, Testimonialism, Natural Law) is all Falsificationary. In other words, like evolution, that which survives falsification is potentially true. And justification either is neutral or reduces the empirical (measurable) content of an argument.

    VIA NEGATIVA (FALSIFICATION) VS VIA POSITIVA (JUSTIFICATION)

    So imagine a pair of sculptors, one working in stone, subtracting (falsificationism), and the other working in clay, adding, (justificationism).

    The two must match, or one, the other, or both is false.

    In other words, just as the only test of production is a voluntary exchange, the only test of truth is survival in the market for competition.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-18 16:25:00 UTC

  • The New Right Is the Scientific Right

    CONSERVATIVES (ARISTOCRACY) WERE FROZEN IN ANCIENT ARGUMENT THE NEW RIGHT IS THE SCIENTIFIC RIGHT Conservatives were stuck with a moral, religious, traditional set of arguments without themselves understanding why our civilization had ‘sped faster than the rest’. Worse, they bought into the lie just as libertarians bought into the lie of an aristocracy (sovereignty) of everyone. THE NEW RIGHT = SCIENTIFIC RIGHT. The alt right uses ridicule, but by and large the new right differs from the old right in that we now have DATA and we have it from a century of failures with the falsehoods of classical liberalism, and the falsehoods of marxist-postmodernism. My work is just going back to our roots: impose the law with violence and incrementally suppress all transgressions of it. Men will naturally insure kin, so create nation states, or at least small local polities in the Swiss model with federal governments providing only reciprocal decidability over inter-state conflicts, and acting as insurer of last resort.

  • The New Right Is the Scientific Right

    CONSERVATIVES (ARISTOCRACY) WERE FROZEN IN ANCIENT ARGUMENT THE NEW RIGHT IS THE SCIENTIFIC RIGHT Conservatives were stuck with a moral, religious, traditional set of arguments without themselves understanding why our civilization had ‘sped faster than the rest’. Worse, they bought into the lie just as libertarians bought into the lie of an aristocracy (sovereignty) of everyone. THE NEW RIGHT = SCIENTIFIC RIGHT. The alt right uses ridicule, but by and large the new right differs from the old right in that we now have DATA and we have it from a century of failures with the falsehoods of classical liberalism, and the falsehoods of marxist-postmodernism. My work is just going back to our roots: impose the law with violence and incrementally suppress all transgressions of it. Men will naturally insure kin, so create nation states, or at least small local polities in the Swiss model with federal governments providing only reciprocal decidability over inter-state conflicts, and acting as insurer of last resort.

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    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-17 09:50:00 UTC

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    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-17 09:50:00 UTC

  • Taleb and Doolittle

    TALEB AND DOOLITTLE (worth repeating) And Taleb is the counter to Keynesian Probabilism, the same way I am counter to Marxist, Boasian, Freudian, Frankfurt School, Postmodern pseudoscience and pseudo-rationalism. And there are very few of us working on ending the 19th-20th century’s experiment with ‘new mysticism’. Taleb = truth in probability. (anti-innumeracy – numbers ) Doolittle = Truth is testimony. (anti-fictionalism – words )

  • Taleb and Doolittle

    TALEB AND DOOLITTLE (worth repeating) And Taleb is the counter to Keynesian Probabilism, the same way I am counter to Marxist, Boasian, Freudian, Frankfurt School, Postmodern pseudoscience and pseudo-rationalism. And there are very few of us working on ending the 19th-20th century’s experiment with ‘new mysticism’. Taleb = truth in probability. (anti-innumeracy – numbers ) Doolittle = Truth is testimony. (anti-fictionalism – words )

  • Operational Language Expressing Science:

    OPERATIONAL LANGUAGE EXPRESSING SCIENCE: THE LEAST FALSE METHOD OF REACHING ROME —“Science is both the method of inquiry and the body of knowledge gained by that method’s application. A priori knowledge applies only to the abstract, once it interacts with the real world the test of any tool or paradigm is how effective it is in predicting and changing it. As there’s only one real world, any framework or method of inquiry that is effective in interfacing with it will approach the same results. All roads lead to Rome, as it were.”—Jason Johnson >Curt Doolittle ^ This is the most important argument really. Although I would refine it to say ‘there is only one most parsimonious (shortest) road to Rome.’