Theme: Science

  • THE END OF APRIORISM VS EMPIRICISM (read it and weep) 😉 PROPOSITIONS 1) All dom

    THE END OF APRIORISM VS EMPIRICISM

    (read it and weep) 😉

    PROPOSITIONS

    1) All domesticatable animals are domesticatable for five reasons. All undomesticatable animals are undomesticatable for any one of them.

    2) All human personalities are highly functional for five or six reasons. All dysfunctional families are dysfunctional for any one of those six reasons.

    3) All happy families are happy for the same five or six reasons. All unhappy families are unhappy any one of those five or six reasons.

    4) All TRUE statements are true because of consistency in six dimensions. All FALSE statements are false because of inconsistency in any ONE of those six dimensions.

    5) All analytically true (mathematically true) statements correspondingly model reality because of consistency of correspondence of six dimensions. All analytically false statements are false because they fail to correspond to reality in any one of those six dimensions.

    6) Existential(actionable) reality is composed of only so many ACTIONABLE dimensions, followed by only so many CAUSALLY RELATABLE dimensions.

    7) The ‘True Name’ (Most Parsimonious Truth) of any phenomenon (set of consistent relations at some scale of actionable utility), can be described by the number, scope, limits, relations, relative change, and ACTIONABLE change, of those dimensions.

    THEREFORE

    1) There exist fundamental laws of existentially possible action and comprehension in the existing universe as it is constructed (and likely must be constructed).

    2) These laws can be described theoretically until known, and by analogy, axiomatically once they ARE known. By convention (by honesty and truthfulness) we distinguish between declarative axiomatic systems (analytic), and existential theoretic (existing) systems in order to NOT claim that axiomatic and declarative, and theoretical(laws), are equal in empirical content. They are not. To do so is to conduct either an analogy for the purpose of communication, or an error of understanding, or a fraud for the purpose of deception. We can determine whether ignorance, error, or deception by analysis of the speaker’s argument(error or ignorance) and incentives (fraud), including unconscious fraud (justification).

    3) We can theorize from observation and imagination, to understanding (top down) or from understanding to imagination and observation (bottom up). But unless we can both construct (operationally and therefore existentially) as well as observe (empirically, and therefore existential) then we cannot say we possess the knowledge to make a truth claim about a theoretic system or an axiomatic system – although we must keep in mind that axiomatic systems are ‘complete and tautological’ and theoretic statements ‘incomplete and descriptive’.

    4) To warranty against falsehood of any Statement, we must perform due diligence upon our free associations, ensuring that we have established consistent limits(invariant descriptions) for each of the dimensions:

    i) categorical consistency (identity consistency)

    ii) logical consistency (internal consistency)

    iii) empirical consistency (external correspondence)

    iv) existential consistency (operational correspondence)

    v) moral consistency (voluntarily reciprocal)

    vi) Scope, Limits and Parsimony (scope consistency)

    5) The empirical measurement that Taleb, artificial intelligence researchers, and myself are seeking is how to quantify the information necessary for the human mind to form a free association (a pattern). This unit, if discovered, will be analogous to calories of heat, as the basic unit of state change in information. My theory is that this number, as Taleb has suggested is extremely large (logarithmically so) which accounts for the rarity of intelligence: the amount of memory, and the evolutionary and biological cost of memory, necessary to form even basic relations (free associations) appears to be extraordinarily high.

    THEREFORE

    1) Mises epistemology is false. MIses, Popper, Hayek, Bridgman, Brouwer all had a piece of the problem but they all failed to synthesize their findings into a complete reformation of the scientific method (the method of stating truthful propositions.

    – economics is a scientific, not logical discipline.

    – the categories mises uses to determine human action are insufficient (and constructed in my opinion as a justificationary fraud just as is Jewish law – which is my interpretation – only causal axis I can find – of why he failed.)

    WHAT DID MISES ERR REGARDING?

    1) Apriorism is but a special case of Empiricism, just as Prime Numbers are a special case in mathematics, and just as is any set of operations that returns a natural number; and again, is a special case, just as contradiction is a special case in logic.The laws of triangles form a particularly useful set of special cases. (But we must understand that it is because they possess the minimum dimensions necessary for spatial descriptions,)

    Note: The human mind evolved to prey upon other creatures. Unlike frogs and cockroaches that just seek the closest dark spot, humans must prey. To prey we must anticipate velocity in time. This is why we can chase something, and we can throw rocks, spears, and arrows at moving things. And why we and canines can model the destination of a thrown or fallen object. But we also evolved the ability to choose. To model one set of conditions and compare it to another set of conditions. And to model the conditions of OTHERS (intentions), and to compare it to other conditions. So this is why we can hold about five things in mind at once before resorting to breaking a ‘vision’ into patterns. (I have elaborated on each of the dimensions elsewhere).

    2) Few (possibly no non-tautological, or at least non-reductio) aprioristic statements survive scope consistency (I can find none in economics that are actionable).

    3) We can establish free associations(hypotheses) empirically (top down) or constructively (bottom up). But the method of discovery places no truth constraint on the statement. All must survive the full test of dimensions.

    4) This does NOT mean that we cannot use a ‘partial truth’ (an hypothesis that does not survive all six dimensions) to search for further associations (partial search criteria). It is this UTILITY IN SEARCHING that we have converted first into reason, second into rationalism, third into empiricism, fourth in to operationalism, and fifth into scope consistency, and sixth into ‘natural law’ or morality or ‘voluntary cooperation’ – volition which is necessary to ensure the information quality in small groups, just as norms and laws are necessary methods of establishing limits in larger groups, just as money is necessary for producing actionable information in very large groups.

    5) there is but one epistemological method: accumulate information, identify pattern, search for hypothesis, criticize hypothesis to produce a theory, distribute the theory (speak), let others criticize the theory until it fails, or we create a conceptual norm of it (law), and finally until we habituate it entirely (metaphysical judgment).

    6) There is nothing special about physical science other than philosophy was free of COST constraints but held by moral constraints, and science was free of MORAL constraints as well as cost constraints, and judicial law was bound by both. So by these three disciplines: the imaginary and mental, the cooperative and existential, and the physical – we managed to slowly assemble a sufficient understanding of truth in each of those disciplines, that together we can establish tests for ANY PROPOSITION in ANY DISCIPLINE: Mental, Cooperative, and PHYSICAL by the due diligence of consistency in the dimensions that apply to that instance.

    i) Categorical and Logical (mental)

    ii) Operational and Existential (physical)

    iii) Morality and Scope (cooperative)

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine


    Source date (UTC): 2016-09-04 02:19:00 UTC

  • Anglo Empirical, French moral, German rational, German literary, Jewish pseudosc

    Anglo Empirical, French moral, German rational, German literary, Jewish pseudoscientific. All were wrong either in model or method


    Source date (UTC): 2016-09-03 05:30:13 UTC

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  • Hard to reframe the pseudoscientific era. Haidt/Pinker share responsibility for

    Hard to reframe the pseudoscientific era. Haidt/Pinker share responsibility for initiating reformation.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-09-03 05:01:58 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/771936250647412736

    Reply addressees: @Outsideness @NickLand7 @JonHaidt

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/771780755714301952


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    @Outsideness

    @NickLand7 @JonHaidt That’s because you’ve not been paying attention.

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  • b/c theories only evolve with the death of their proponents. The pseudoscientifi

    b/c theories only evolve with the death of their proponents. The pseudoscientific social era is ending.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-09-03 05:00:18 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/771935829505826817

    Reply addressees: @Outsideness @NickLand7 @JonHaidt

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    IN REPLY TO:

    @Outsideness

    @NickLand7 @JonHaidt That’s because you’ve not been paying attention.

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  • I see a lot of selection bias in the comments. No pun intended. ) As far as I kn

    http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/09/group-selection-bleg.html( I see a lot of selection bias in the comments. No pun intended. )

    As far as I know:

    1) In the past 30k and certainly in the past 10K years, the driving force in selection has not been mutation, but ‘group domestication’. There are environmental selection pressures ( dairy, wheat, disease resistance) sure. But the primary difference has been, just like domesticated animals, domestication of mankind using the same techniques: maturity.

    2) the primary change that has caused the major differences between the groups has been (a) rate of sexual maturity (b) degree of sexual maturity, (c) sexual dimorphism. Ergo, the primary differences are in endocrine expression. And from the data I’ve seen it’s pretty obvious that the majority of the difference in maturity has been testosterone levels.

    3) the secondary major change has been how aggressively some groups domesticated their members (east asia, western europe), or how groups have been unable to domesticate their members (africa and the middle east).

    4) of the mutations that do occur, these appear to be relatively minor trade-offs that are related to these differences (speed vs endurance).

    So as far as I now, evolution by mutation, has been trivial compared to evolution by domestication. This inverts the multi-level selection argument: most genetic mutation and drift is ‘noise’ and domestication has been the primary influence (culture), with the secondary influence being territory.

    The genome stores ‘options’ which we seem to express. I am not sure there is much of a case to be made for terribly meaningful genetic variation.

    In my work (which seems to have pleasantly shocked the Africans), as far as I can tell, the major differences between regional groups is how successful they have been at eliminating the underclasses and redistributing reproduction upwards.

    Unfortunately, it’s impolitic. But it is what it is.

    Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine


    Source date (UTC): 2016-09-02 15:59:00 UTC

  • VIDEO. PROPERTARIANISM: LECTURE : SOCIAL SCIENCE : MORALITY I tried to give an e

    https://youtu.be/upHN5H9TjNgNEW VIDEO.

    PROPERTARIANISM: LECTURE : SOCIAL SCIENCE : MORALITY

    I tried to give an exhaustively thorough analysis of morality.

    Approximately 60 Minutes.

    You may need to watch it more than once (I would). But it should give you a complete language for discourse on morality.

    OUTLINE (SCRIPT):

    —————

    MORALITY

    (video script outline)

    Today I’m going to discuss morality.

    PURPOSE

    – confusion over my position on morality.

    — positive moral ambitions (gossip/rally/ambition)

    — negative moral prohibitions (law/rule/prohibition)

    — anything not immoral is moral.

    — a philosopher’s, scientist’s and judge’s duty (and ability) is not to recommend shoulds but to discover, decide and enforce limits. It’s the artist’s, priest’s and public intellectuals duty to propose ‘goods’.

    — I can say how institutions CAN be formed. I can say what we CANNOT do. But I do not claim a preference or wisdom over what we should do. That is a question of the MARKET for future wants. We calculate this together. The artists, priests, and public intellectuals make these arguments, and the market for commons can decide them.

    — What I can say is that in the choice between the Aryan(aristocratic egalitarian) program of transcendence (heroism, innovation, and domestication), that a transcendent program (eugenic) is decidably superior top an experiential (dysgenic) program. And that we must retaliate against the experiential and dysgenic when it imposes costs upon the transcendent and eugenic by interference in the market for cooperation.

    THE CONTINUATION OF WESTERN POLYTHEISM: A MYTHOS FOR EACH CLASS.

    We all want a single replacement for monopoly christianity. The left does and the parasitic-state does in an attempt to create a monopoly of positive and utopian discretion rather than a monopoly of negative and empirical, natural law. But just as we evolve fastest and compete most successfully when we deconflate our institutions, it’s just as important that we deconflate our mythos. Why? Becuase each class uses a different argument structure.

    Parsimony (‘complete’ science) (truth)

    Operationalism (physical science) (physical and natural law)

    Empiricism (social science and statistics) (systems)

    Historicism (evidence) (existential examples)

    Rationalism (noncontradiction) (precise meaning)

    Theology (obedience) (social contract) (“religion”)

    Reason (clarity) (analogistic understanding)

    Morality (loyalty) (social contract) (“religion”)

    Approval or disapproval. (opinion) (cognition)(myths)

    Emotive expression (reaction) (pre-cognitive) (instincts)

    We argue by class structure.

    We need myths (methods of argument and narratives) that correspond to the needs of our classes.

    In the past we even had three languages in the anglo world:

    – Latin for the intellectuals

    – French for the ruling class

    – German for the working class.

    We’ve had:

    – science for the intellectual class

    – Law for the ruling class

    – Contract for the merchant class

    – Religion for the working class

    – And our ‘family’ (hearth) religion remains our pagan one.

    Today we have

    Natural law from the martial class

    Psuedoscience and democracy for the prieestly class

    Science for the upper middle class

    Contractualism for the merchant classes

    Chrsitian REligion for the working classes

    State-Religion for the underclasses

    EVOLUTION (CAUSALITY)

    Most life forms evolved to suffer predation by high reproduction.

    Others to avoid predation, at the expense of lower reproduction.

    Others to avoid predation and protect investments in offspring.

    Others to avoid predation, protect offspring and protect territories.

    Others to avoid predation, protect offspring, protect territories, and protect kin.

    Others to … follow kin (imitate).

    Others to … empathize with the intentions of kin.

    Others to … late maturity, and the need to empathize with the young.

    Others to … offer to assist with the intentions of others of our kin.

    and at this point we can say we cooperate.

    And cooperation is so profoundly beneficial to survival, reproduction, and production, that it gave us dominion over ourselves, and much of the natural world.

    But upon our ability to cooperate we also retained our previous instincts to engage in parasitism and predation.

    So we could either engage in cooperation, or parasitism and predation upon one another.

    To defend against parasitism we evolved moral instincts and intuitions – we retaliate, even at very high cost to us, against those who engage in parasitism and predation. Because when we cooperate we obtain extremely high rewards for doing so.

    Unfortunately, in the short term, free-riding, parasitism, and predation are extremely beneficial strategies for some at the expense of others.

    Fortunately, we learn to retaliate against these impositions – or at least wait for an opportunity to retaliate when it’s possible for us to succeed.

    DEFINE MORALITY?

    Morality then consists in the incentive to cooperate (positive), the incentive to retaliate(negative), in order to preserve the incentive to cooperate at interpersonal, group, intergroup, and indirect scales, at any scale. And to prevent our conversion, depopulation, or conquest at any scale.

    We do not reason through morality so much as feel it as an impulse to assist and a fear of retaliation. And we tend to exterminate those who possess less of it (sociopaths), and we tend to ignore or limit the damage done by those who possess too much of it (females and the weak who are overly concerned with defending against retaliation).

    Moral actions then are those that impose no costs on those with whom you wish to avoid retaliation, and instead invest in the returns of cooperation, and conversely that you retaliate for the imposition of costs upon the results of others’ actions, to preserve the value of cooperation for all.

    THE PROBLEM OF SCALE

    As we cooperate in larger and larger numbers we need new means of providing incentives to cooperate INDIRECTLY, and incentives to prohibit INDIRECT parasitism.

    As cooperation increases into a division of labor, the division of labor decreases transparency (audibility) and increases anonymity, so we divide up the positive: the labor of production, of knowledge, of perception, of value, and of advocacy. But we also divide up the negatives: the policing of our local groups against parasitism and predation internally and externally.

    So, as we scale, instead of just individuals engaging in parasitism, groups and the leaders of groups engage in parasitism, and we merely transform the interpersonal problem of morality, into the inter-group problem of morality.

    At this point in our history we organized to resolve intergroup parasitism, by suppressing local parasitism, imposing standard laws across groups, and creating what we consider ‘rule’. Rule is a profitable enterprise, both for the ruling and the ruled. Rulers centralize parasitism and suppress local parasitism, and make markets possible. Rule is a business. An industry. And like any business or industry it can be conducted productively or destructively. Thankfully it is very hard to conduct it parasitically for long. Thus the incentive of rulers (with intergenerational ambitions) is to create domestication (productivity) rather than parasitism.

    As we scale further trade enforces universal COMMERCIAL conditions of exchange regardless of local rule. Thankfully commercial conditions of exchange reflect interpersonal conditions of exchange, so parasitism between people who trade tends to decrease.

    However, as a consequence, it is possible for the organizers of production to engage in parasitism and predation. And initially, the courts possessed the power to regulate these matters, but during the industrial revolution, the state intervened and took away from the ordinary people the ability to judge such conflict, and the state intervened to seek rents (fees), because in the end, the state became the insurer of last resort to whom commercial interests pleaded in the case of malfeasance.

    What we see today is the attempt to further exacerbate this order by creating a world government of extractions, rather than Natural Law, and world government as an insurer of last resort for such enforcements.

    Our only solution is to incrementally suppress the centralization of parasitism that occurs with each increase in scale, by converting from what is probably a necessary centralization in order to suppress parasitisms, then the division of those functions into competing services regulated by the demand for natural law.

    So this is the theory of the evolution of rule: the suppression of local parasitism and rents by the centralization of those rents, then the incremental suppression of those rents as they convert from fees for service to extractive parasitisms.

    Government differs from Rule, in that its function is the provision of commons. The fact that we conflate government (commons production) and rule (suppression of parasitism) is another example of how conflationary argument and conflationary institutions explain the difference between rapidly evolving polities (west) and stagnating or declining polities (middle east), and very resistant polities (far east).

    The only institutions I know of that are required for cooperation:

    Military, Judiciary, Treasury, Government

    And the only informal institutions I know of that are required for:

    Property Registry, Banking, Education, Hospital, Police, Emergency.

    And the only infrastructure institutions I know of that are required:

    Transportation, Communication, Power, Insurance(Water, Air, Land, information)

    And the only institutions I know of that are necessary for reproduction without parasitism are:

    Family of some form from traditional to absolute nuclear.

    DEFINE MORALITY

    Define Morality, Objectively.

    NATURAL LAW

    As Natural Law: the preservation of the value of the incentive for cooperation and the elimination of the incentive for predation. Notice how I consistently illustrate the requirement for limits. It’s by stating botht he positive and negative that we demonstrate limits.

    The asians unfortunately call this practice balance limited by harmony, and demanding duty, and stagnated because of it. The as westerners we call this practice limits, unbounded by heroism, and preserve innovation because of it. The muslims unfortunately sought submission under a fixed system of, and have declined because of it.

    FIRST RULE OF LAW

    Define Morality as the first condition of Law:

    The law of non-imposition against property in toto.

    The obligation to retaliate against imposition against property in toto.

    Articulated as an increasingly complex portfolio of property rights.

    Where a property right provides justification for retaliation against an aggressor without demand for corresponding punishment by the tribe.

    DECIDABLE LAW

    Define Morality as Decidable Law :

    The ability to decide differences in presumptions of harm or innocence regardless of opinion of the parties, regardless of the cultures the parties are from, regardless of the states the parties are from.

    THE NORMATIVE “MORAL” SPECTRUM. MORAL BY ANALOGY.

    Define Manners, Ethics, Morals,Strategies, Legislation.

    Manners: ….

    Ethics: … between people

    Morals: … anonymous

    Group Strategies: …. see my other talk with butch.

    Legislation: … punishment for exiting strategy.

    NORMATIVE PORTFOLIOS ARE MORAL WITHIN GROUP ONLY, AND EVEN SO MAY NOT BE EXCEPT WITHIN STRATEGY.

    And a strategy may or may not be moral, only (successful).

    Define Normative Portfolios reflecting group strategies”

    That these are contractual substitutes for morals, not objectively moral.

    (Islam is an immoral strategy of full parasitism. judaism is an immoral strategy of commons-parasitism. Aryanism is a moral strategy in so far as domestication is transcendent. Hinduism and buddhism and confusianism appear to be less effective, but largely moral strategies.)

    INEQUALITY OF MORAL PORTFOLIOS

    Conflicting normative portfolios are not ‘equal’. And not relative at all. Some are lower trust more parasitic strategies, and some are higher trust lower parasitic strategies.

    The more moral group is the one with the higher objectve suppression of parasitism – independent of group norms. The less moral group is the one with the lower objective suppression of parasitism – independent of group norms.

    MAN IS RATIONAL – CAPABLE OF MORAL OR IMMORAL

    Man is rational. He has moral and immoral intuitions (instincts). These intuitions (instincts) help him calculate costs. Man is neither moral or immoral, he is rational. He is immoral or moral when it is in his interests to be moral or immoral.

    It is just almost always in his interests to act morally, since we retaliate so overwhelmingly when man and woman are not. In most circumstances, if one is not relatively safe from retaliation, parasitism, or predation, he will almost always choose moral action because even the risk of retaliation is not worth the benefit he claims from immoral action. This is why informational transparency is so important – it dramatically eliminates our ability to preserve incentives for immoral action, by making public the opportunity to retaliate.

    And since many of us who possess any kind of property at all, any kind of sustenance at all, possess this same interest, we increasingly invent and evolve institutions that suppress parasitism, just as when we scale we evolve methods by which to conduct parasitism.

    But no matter how we scale our institutions, the principle remains the same: impose no costs upon that which others

    THE LIMITS OF MORALITY: THE EXTRA MORAL ACTIONS

    We can engage in actions where we deem cooperation impossible, dangerous, or undesirable.

    When we engage in these actions, we act amorally – outside the limits of morality, but only in so far as we do not expect retaliation for our actions. Its the measurement of retaliation that determines the limits of our actions, and the limits of retaliation alone.

    EXPANSION

    I consider it moral to domesticate a group with lower objective morality and ambitions(islam), and immoral to corrupt a group with higher objective morality and ambitions(eastern europeans).

    BEHAVIORAL PORTFOLIO – WE RETAIN AND EXPRESS ABILITIES AS NEEDED.

    (discuss how we express classes as needed to compete)

    (discuss how we express genes as needed to compete)

    (discuss how we express norms as neded to compete )

    (discuss how we can express laws as needed to compete)

    (discuss how fast we can do each.)

    MAN’S COOPERATION IS BOUND BY PHYSICAL LAW AS WELL AS NATURAL LAW

    Nature can exchange freely available energy and transform state. By analogy we can take only freely available energy from one another by exchange.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-09-01 19:56:00 UTC

  • THE LANGUAGE OF GOD? OR OF MEN? Sorry religious folk, but religious language is

    THE LANGUAGE OF GOD? OR OF MEN?

    Sorry religious folk, but religious language is a language of men, not god – science and mathematics are the language of god. Religious law is the command of men, not god – natural law discovered by science is the law of god. Heaven is not created by god, but created by men – it is nature that we domesticate for our use that produces paradise in a universe that is hostile to us. Prophets were not speaking the word of god, but spinning stories by men for the control and manipulation of the ignorant. There is nothing found in the lies of the prophets that cannot be stated truthfully in the language of god: Math, Scientific Truth Natual Law, Physical Law, created by god, put into the minds of man through his discovery, and put to work by the hand of man because of that discovery. God wrote to us with reality. He does not speak to us. We can only read his writings in the fabric of the universe.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-08-30 02:02:00 UTC

  • MONOTHEISM, PSEUDOSCIENCE, AND THE DOMESTICATION OF MAN

    https://propertarianforum.wordpress.com/2016/08/29/propertarian-podcast-003/ON MONOTHEISM, PSEUDOSCIENCE, AND THE DOMESTICATION OF MAN.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-08-29 15:34:00 UTC

  • CONFLATION AND DECONFLATION IN ARGUMENT (important concept in demarcation betwee

    CONFLATION AND DECONFLATION IN ARGUMENT

    (important concept in demarcation between science and non-science)

    I want to try to put my objection – if we can call it an objection – into a more articulate form, and see if I can convince you, or at least see if I am capable of communicating this idea with any degree of clarity.

    1 – CONFLATION TO COMMUNICATE VS DECONFLATION TO INNOVATE

    I”m not necessarily objecting to the conflation of experience, action, observation, and existence, because otherwise we could not produce literature and art, the purpose of which is loading and framing in order to attribute value through shared experience, to ideas. But I want to point out the consequences of conflationary( monopoly ) and deconflationary (competing) models by which civilizations produce and use knowledge.

    2 – DECONFLATION AND COMPETITION VS CONFLATION AND AUTHORITARIANISM

    In the western tradition, we maintained separate disciplines for Law, Religion, and ….welll… “Theory”, or what we call ‘science”. Or Religion: what we should do, Theory, how we do it, and Law, what we must not do. In the west , our civic disciplines are divided into the common law; contractual politics that are limited by that common law;

    Our celebrations and festivals and art function as our ‘church’ experience (bonding), and our mythology as our literature (aspirations).

    Our science and technology and commerce function as their own discipline inspired by religion and limited by law.

    Our succes at discovering truth proper (scientific truth) is due to our evolution of empirical contractual law, independent of the state, independent of religion,

    We divided the related properties of existence, and thereby deconflated them just as all human thought consists of a process of deconflation (increasing information), free association (pattern recognition), and hypothesis (ideation).

    3 – COMPARISONS

    Other civilizations that did NOT start with sovereign contractualism did not do this, and they retained conflation, in order to retain authoritarianism. (fertile crescent, east Asia). Monotheism, uniting law, religion, and even a pretense of existence into a literature, created the most conflationary totalitarianism yet developed. Law, politics, religion, and science deconflated those same concepts and left them not only open to further investigation and evolution, but prevented the deception that arose from the conflation of manipulation of the physical world(cafts and science), dispute resolution(law), cooperative action(trade), common aspiration(religion), and education.

    The result in every civilization and in every era is that conflation led to stagnation. and deconflation led to innovation. (We can go through every civilization. Fukuyama does it for us actually.)

    4 – WE ALL SEEK TO ESCAPE THE COST OF DUE DILIGENCE

    All of us seek opportunities and aspirational information provides us with opportunities. We all want something for nothing, and we feel intellectual opportunities are the most valuable ‘freebie’ we can obtain. Moreover, we can read books and decide ourselves, rather than enter into production of goods and services, production of commons, production of arts, or production of offspring – all of which require cooperation with those who differ in knowledge, opinion and desire from us. Which is why many of us seek to use philosophy, like religion, like science, as an authoritarian method of decidability rather than a voluntary exchange of promises, contracts, goods, services, commons, and liabilities.

    All of us seek to avoid limits upon us, and so we seek to separate the limits of cost, and the limits of morality,the limits of cooperation, and the limits of law, and by doing so the limits of reality. Philosophy notoriously throughout history differs from Law and science, by ignoring costs (effort, resources, time, and money), which is why it’s failed to retain independence from religion in the modern academy.

    5 – THE ENLIGHTENMENTS AND THEIR OPPOSITIONS

    The anglo enlightenment, beginning with Bacon’s creation of empiricism by applying the methods of the common law, to the methods of scientific investigation, was terribly disruptive to the non-contractual peoples, even though it was natural to the anglo-saxons (north sea peoples) who had been operating a contractual government since at least the 700’s if not earlier. The English revolution was painful but was eventually settled by contract – as is traditional in anglo saxon civilization, and remains today in the USA.

    The french enlightenment was written as a literature of moral persuasion, in order to protect itself from empiricism and contractualism. And its revolution destroyed french civilization, created state currency financed total war, and force the uniting of german princedoms in response. That this effort was merely an attack on the land holders in both private (noble) and church hands is obvious to us. That this ended french contribution to western civilization is less so. That it has been the sponsor for marxism and Islamism are less obvious. France fell from the stage and without interference from other nations would be german colony today.

    The german enlightenment used not empiricism, and not moral literature, but rationalist literature (kant) in order to protect its social order from empiricism and contractualism that threatened the hierarchy that constitutes german ‘duty’. Kant replaced germanic Christianity not with science but with rationalist literature. He spawned the continental philosophical movement retaining conflation which has tried every bit of verbal trickery to retain conflation while proposing alternate methods of INTERPRETING and VALUING what we experience, but not better methods of ACTING upon the universe we exist within. in other words, the germans remain desperate to restore religion. Unfortunately, the germans were cut short in their maturity by the entrapment between the bolshevik/soviets who wanted to obtain eastern Europe, and conquer Europe, to defeat deconflationary empirical contractualism – and the anglos who wanted to maintain the balance of power. And the germans who had spread what remains of Hanseatic civilization across central and eastern Europe with members of her own nation, and wished to defend them.

    The Jewish enlightenment expanded on the french and german by creating the great authoritarian pseudosciences: boazian anthropology (ant-Darwinian), fruedian psychology (anti-Nietzche restorationism), and Marxist socialist (anti contractualism), and even Cantorian mathematical platonism (anti-materialism), frankfurt-school criticism (anti aristocratic ethics), and combined it not just with press, but with new mass media, and new consumers with disposable income from the consumer capitalist industrial revolution. Out of the Jewish enlightenment, we get the horrors of the Bolsheviks, the soviets, the maoists, and world communism. 100M dead. And at present, we are about to lose Europe for the second time in two thousand years to another wave of ignorance.

    Without bolshevism and communism we would very likely never had the world wars, and would still retain the best system of government ever evolved by man: Juridical monarchy, a market for commons by houses representing classes, a market for goods and services, and a market for reproduction, all under the rule of law.

    6 – THE COST OF CONFLATION AND DECEPTION

    What has been the cost of each of these failed enlightenments? What has been the cost of the Jewish alone? What of napoleon? The British was a trivial tribal dispute between the (failed) corporate-republicans and the (successful) national-monarchists.

    What if the British enlightenment hadn’t been cut short by the conflicts (counter enlightenments) of the French, German, Jewish and Russians? What if the greeks had finished their invention of the industrial revolution? What if Justinian hadn’t closed the stoic and greek schools, and forcibly indoctrinated Europeans into mysticism instead of literacy and reason? What if the RESTORATION OF DECONFLATION imposed on the west by the first great deception of authoritarian monotheism had not been necessary?

    Most of the great lies in history are created by conflation, and all our great achievements in dragging mankind out of ignorance and poverty have been achieved through information provided by deconfliction and competition.

    SO while as a human I can empathize with the desire to assist in COMMUNICATION through conflation – thereby allowing us to impose values upon ideas, during education, and allowing us to experience life through the words of other minds. That is very different from the act of conflation in philosophy which appears in large part, whether literary philosophy, moral philosophy, or religious philosophy, to be nothing more than the use of subterfuge (the use of suggestion under the influence of suspension of disbelief), to cause either submission or agitation by artful deceit.

    So just as we must have communication and education (conflation) we must have analysis and prosecution(deconflation). Without both tools, (literature for education, law for deconflation) we cannot protect ourselves from the greatest crimes in history.

    Because outside of the great plagues, philosophers and prophets are responsible for more death and destruction, ignorance and poverty, susceptibility to starvation and disease than any general ever dreamed of being.

    So contrary to giving philosophers a license to special pleading, my position is that the evidence is in, and that unless words are backed by warranty that they do no harm, the are no different from any other product of man. And that while no producer of goods, services, and ideas, wishes to be accountable and to warranty his materials, actions, and words, that we must constrain those people such that no intellectual products, like no services, and like no material goods can enter the market for knowledge any more so than goods and services can enter the market for consumption.

    My assessment of history is that the jurists and scientist do all the work, and the prophets and the philosophers take all the credit, and us it like today’s marketers and advertisers for personal gain despite the drastic consequences of their deceptions.

    So I tend to damn philosophy or literature that is objectively criminal, regardless of the intentions of the producers and distributors of it.

    7 – WHY CANNOT WE WARRANTY OUR SPEECH

    I have no idea why, in an era of mass manufacture and distribution of information that we do not require the same increase in due diligence against harm, that we have incrementally added to the production of goods and services.

    If we can police polite speech (political correctness) against shame by the true, then why can we not police philosophical speech against damage by the false and immoral?

    We cannot ever know what is good or true until we test them. We can, however, know that is bad and false.

    If it is bad and false we can either regulate(prior constraint) in the continental model, or enforce involuntary warranty(post facto restitution) in the American model. My opinion is that regulation creates corruption and restitution creates quality.

    So as to your preference for conflationary philosophy, I would say that as long as you would warranty that your conflation does not harm, then it seem you have nothing to worry about. But if your use of conflation does harm, then you do.

    And if we had the same defense against deception that we have gainst every other kind of fraud, that there would be very few philosophers – and the few we had, would be of much higher calibre rather than simply those who write the rationalist equivalent of science fiction and fantasy, under the pretense of possibility, thus inspiring people to the social equivalent of yelling fire in the theatre.

    8 – CLOSING

    There is only one moral law of nature: do no harm. Everything that does not harm, is by definition good. One thing may be better good than another. But that is a matter of preference and taste, not of truth,

    No free rides. No special pleading. Ideas produce more harm than material goods by orders of magnitudes.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Philosophy of Aristocracy

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine


    Source date (UTC): 2016-08-28 08:50:00 UTC

  • I’M A SCIENTIST. I JUST USE THE LANGUAGE OF PHILOSOPHY TO SEPARATE TRUTH(DECISIO

    I’M A SCIENTIST. I JUST USE THE LANGUAGE OF PHILOSOPHY TO SEPARATE TRUTH(DECISIONS) FROM LITERATURE(COMMUNICATION)

    Like Nietzche I’m an anti-philosophy philosopher. If I finish correctly, there will be no difference between philosophy, science, morality, and law. None.

    Nietzche couldn’t do it because his era lacked teh tools, and he was crippled by the german failure to transition to empiricism.

    But we can do it. We can do it and demand it.

    Because with testable criteria testimonialism and propertarianism are sufficiently scientific to place into the law, thus completing natural law.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-08-28 08:05:00 UTC