Curt Doolittle

Theme: Science

  • I am really afraid of genetically engineering bacteria. I am not afraid at all o

    I am really afraid of genetically engineering bacteria.

    I am not afraid at all of genetically engineering large mammals.

    Will someone please make a lion that won’t attack people?

    The reason we don’t have a lot of species left on this planet is that we didn’t pacify them.

    Now some animals can be pacified by domestication.

    But other animals must be pacified by genetic engineering.

    Most pacification means limiting maturity to the minimum necessary for reproduction.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-18 10:47:00 UTC

  • THE SECRETS OF THE WEST!!! WHY WE WERE FASTER THAN THE REST. THE SECRETS OF THE

    THE SECRETS OF THE WEST!!! WHY WE WERE FASTER THAN THE REST.

    THE SECRETS OF THE WEST

    1) Heroism-Excellence, Sovereignty-Property-VoluntaryExchange.

    2) Truth, Reason, Rationalism, Science.

    3) Testimony, Jury, Common Law, Contract,

    4) Money, Saving, Interest, Accounting

    5) Market for Production and Consumption (investment in personal consumables), Market for Commons (Investment in group non-consumables).

    THE RESULT IS A SUPERCOMPUTER

    ***Voluntary cooperation as a means of distributed calculation of correspondence with reality in real time.***

    ***A human computing network whose test of equality is productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary transfer, free of externalities to the contrary, and whose single rule of computability is non-parasitism: objective morality.***

    (Note that It’s HEROISM not INDIVIDUALISM. (dammit!) “individualism is a free riding scam attempting to equate excellence with the ordinary. it’s a form of communism. You must choose to pay the cost of heroism, we grant you permission for individualism.)

    THE CONSEQUENCES

    From this we obtain the post-cooperative technologies of

    Ratio-empiricism or “science” – (epistemology)

    engineering, technology – (production)

    the market for goods and services (consumption)

    the market for commons (investment)

    Medicine, (maintenance)

    THE WEST WAS *FASTER* THAN THE REST

    This is the west and why we evolved faster than the rest: everything we do is a truth test. No other culture succeeded because they never could develop trust sufficiently to construct perpetual demand for truth.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-18 06:00:00 UTC

  • Philosophy: “Testimonial Science” Well, we usually define philosophy as either t

    Philosophy: “Testimonial Science”

    Well, we usually define philosophy as either the love of wisdom – in the ancient sense – or in the modern sense, the search for truth.

    My work is an effort to define truth, so that we can prohibit falsehood and the use of falsehood as a means of theft, parasitism, predation and conquest.

    So as far as I know I have produced the most total definition of truth and means of identifying it as has been achieved as yet. (and it seems hard to do better really.)

    This definition of truth causes the convergence of biology, morality, philosophy, law, and science. Which is in itself an achievement, and we call this kind of utility “explanatory power”. This truth has a great deal of explanatory power.

    I call this ‘existentially possible’ and ‘complete’ truth “Testimonial Truth”.

    And since science and philosophy are merged by using this definition of truth, I argue that philosophy should be reframed (relabeled) as “Testimonial Science”.

    Meaning, the science of speaking the truth.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-17 08:23:00 UTC

  • THE RECIPE OF OUR DESTRUCTION? 1) WEASEL WORDS + REASONABLENESS -> 2) PSEUDOSCIE

    THE RECIPE OF OUR DESTRUCTION?

    1) WEASEL WORDS + REASONABLENESS -> 2) PSEUDOSCIENCE + RATIONALISM -> 3) MYTH + MYSTICISM -> 4) LYING + PROPAGANDA.

    Not sure why I didn’t think of this earlier but Weasel Words and Reasonableness, and Pseudoscience and Rationalism make use of the same basic technology for lying.

    What technology: Analogy, Loading, Framing, Overloading, and Suggestion.

    This is how they hacked our altruism.

    Damn.

    ( I really did it. That’s it. )

    Isn’t it how women talk to each other? Through indirection and suggestion? Whereas men talk in facts? So am I right that the jews and the church and now the academy and state weaponized the female communication strategy of superior empathy as a means of suggestion?

    That’s why they distribute it through women. They’re more open to suggestion than men. OMG.

    Yep.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-17 07:33:00 UTC

  • ***To God his due, to Caesar his due, to Science its due.***

    ***To God his due, to Caesar his due, to Science its due.***

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-15 12:13:00 UTC

  • HOW WILL THE CURRENT ERA BE REMEMBERED? I am almost positive that the current er

    HOW WILL THE CURRENT ERA BE REMEMBERED?

    I am almost positive that the current era will be interpreted as a century long failed experiment, and that cognitive scientists and legal philosophers and anthropologists will obtain the credit for repairing it.

    Not that Austrians are wrong, but that their program was incomplete, cut off by the wars, and the need for reconstruction.

    And that Mises fundamental insight was misunderstood – not only by others but himself: moral criticism.

    Hayek was likely right in that the twentieth century will be considered an era of mysticism in the future. Mysticism meaning ‘pseudoscience’ today, for having relied upon aggregates alone rather than testing them with actions.

    But explaining why this is true is difficult.

    What we have been exploring is not so much economics but the addition of credit to the inventory of weapons of influence that can be used to govern a people.

    I am almost certain now that this is correct.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-15 07:15:00 UTC

  • Disease Gradients Impede Cooperation

    (Via Francesco Principi)

    “The xenophobia expressed in environments with high pathogen severity creates barriers to intergroup cooperation. These barriers cause greater poverty in environments with increased pathogen severity, in addition to the direct effects of disease on the human capital that is essential to economic growth. Xenophobic groups in competition for resources are unwilling to resolve this competition through cooperative means, and they are more likely to resort to violent conflict.”

    This idea has legs.

  • Western Philosophical Hierarchy

    ===METAPHYSICAL=== ........Heroism (demonstrated excellence) ........Science (truth) ...... ........Naturalism (reality) ....... Natural Law (sovereignty) ===POLITICAL=== ........Consent, Contract, Republican(Meritocratic) Commons ........Testimony, Common Law, Judge, Jury ===MORAL==== ........Christianity (love/trust bias) ===SPIRITUAL/AESTHETIC=== .......Love of nature (animism/paganism) ===PERSONAL=== Buddhism..........Stoicism Yoga..............sport Nurturing.........Craftsmanship. Spiritual ........Political (mental?) Experiential......Actionable Feminine ........ Masculine I haven’t got the metaphysical right because they overlap and it is how they overlap that makes the west unique.

  • Western Philosophical Hierarchy

    ===METAPHYSICAL=== ........Heroism (demonstrated excellence) ........Science (truth) ...... ........Naturalism (reality) ....... Natural Law (sovereignty) ===POLITICAL=== ........Consent, Contract, Republican(Meritocratic) Commons ........Testimony, Common Law, Judge, Jury ===MORAL==== ........Christianity (love/trust bias) ===SPIRITUAL/AESTHETIC=== .......Love of nature (animism/paganism) ===PERSONAL=== Buddhism..........Stoicism Yoga..............sport Nurturing.........Craftsmanship. Spiritual ........Political (mental?) Experiential......Actionable Feminine ........ Masculine I haven’t got the metaphysical right because they overlap and it is how they overlap that makes the west unique.

  • It should be obvious that the (a) Doolittle (Scientific) Political Chart and the

    It should be obvious that the (a) Doolittle (Scientific) Political Chart and the (b) Western Philosophical Hierarchy post, are compatible since western libertarian compromise/exchange/sovereignty society occupies the middle (compromise) position.

    It is not so obvious that this is a superior method for humans to CALCULATE their actions in real time.

    But If I flesh out the chart with the alternative metaphysical hierarchies then it will be fairly obvious how all of these philosophies map to strategies. I’m just afraid that it will be too complex for mere mortals.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-13 05:36:00 UTC