Theme: Science

  • REVOLUTION: “THE BURNINGS” The Burnings: (a) the advocates of lying, deceit, and

    REVOLUTION: “THE BURNINGS”

    The Burnings:

    (a) the advocates of lying, deceit, and pseudoscience (people: public intellectuals)

    (b) the executors of lying, deceit, pseudoscience (bureaucrats)

    (b) the institutions of pseudoscience (academy, bureaucracy, media)

    (c) the works of pseudoscience (Freudianism, marxism, Keynesianism, postmodernism)

    (d) the advertising of ugliness, deceit, and pseudoscience (modern and postmodern art)

    Burn the “Cathedral Complex” to ashes.

    It’s not just statues of Lenin and Stalin that need to be destroyed. It’s statues to lying, deceit, and pseudoscience: all the works of the “era of deceit” – the Pseudoscientific and postmodern period.

    That is how it is done. Burning, Crucifying, Impaling, Guillotining, Hanging. It’s a very clear, informationally dense message.

    The Albigensian solution: Eradicate the lies as the Egyptians eradicated monotheism, and as the Christians eradicated stoicism and polytheism; and as the church eradicated the Albigensians, and as the Marxists and socialists eradicated truth, goodness and beauty.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Philosophy of Aristocracy

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine


    Source date (UTC): 2015-08-02 05:13:00 UTC

  • Reformation: The Study Of Man Before and After Propertarianism

    [G]iven the Spectrum of : {Neurobiology, Psychology, Sociology, Economics, Evolutionary Strategy, Politics and War}.

    1) Neurobiology: how the brain works: chiefly: it’s biological limits to perception, cognition, memory, knowledge and reason.

    2) Psychology: the study of the brain’s struggle to acquire and inventory, its limits, and its errors (cognitive biases) given the individual’s reproductive strategy.

    3) Sociology: the study of cooperative acquisition by groups: the production of cooperative and normative commons.

    4) Economics: the study of cooperative reproduction, production distribution and trade for the purposes of persistence. The productive commons.

    6) Evolutionary Strategy: The suite of informal(manners, ethics, morals, myths, education), economic (production distribution and trade), and formal (law, politics ) institutions that allow the extant peoples to compete with other extant peoples. The competitive commons.

    5) Politics: the study of organizational institutions for the purpose of producing competitive(group evolutionary strategy), reproductive, productive(economic), normative(institutions) and material commons.

    6) War: the study of the limits of productive cooperation, and the imposition of cooperation, elimination of threats, and elimination of competition.

    Man Acts To Acquire To Survive. Cooperation Is The Most Beneficial Means Action to Acquire. But only if cooperation is non-parasitic. And for cooperation to be non-parasitic it must be: productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary exchange, free of externality by the same criteria.

    So, the study of man is the study of man’s acquisition of all that he desires. Man acts to acquire.

    NEUROBIOLOGY
    While we will undoubtedly gain further insights into man, brain and mind, it is unlikely that the Propertarian principles will be falsified – only increased in precision.
    1) that man acts to acquire property en toto,
    2) moral bias is determined by reproductive strategy
    3) specialised moral biases that reflect our reproductive strategies and voluntary cooperation allow us to produce a market for cooperation that functions as an information system making use of the entire spectrum of perceptions in the division of perception, cognition, knowledge, labor and advocacy.
    4) language evolved largely to justify actions in the context of cooperation rather than to identify truth propositions. Truth is difficult for us because it is critical. Justification is easy for us.

    PSYCHOLOGY
    Instead of asking what is right or wrong (deviation from an ideal) with someone’s thinking (a totalitarian doctrine) we ask what they seek to acquire, and whether they seek to acquire it by moral or immoral means. All human behavior can be expressed as interactions between desires for acquisition, the need to negotiate, and moral constraint, and the relative value, or lack of value, of cooperation.

    SOCIOLOGY
    Instead of asking what is right or wrong (deviation from an ideal), we ask what the group seeks to acquire, and whether they seek to acquire it by moral or immoral means.

    EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGY
    Instead of asking what is right or wrong (deviation from an idea) we ask what the group seeks ot acquire, and whether they seek to acquire it by internally and externally moral, or immoral, means.

    ECONOMICS
    Economics can be studied as the means by which we eliminate frictions (transaction costs) and thereby increase the ease and decrease the risk of cooperation (Austrian Economics), OR economics can bes studied as the means by which we search for extensions of rule of law such that interference in the economy is non-discretionary (Chicago Economics), OR economics can be the means by which we determining the maximum disinformation that we can insert into the economy for the purpose of increasing consumption, and by consumption, employment(Keynesian economics). But we now know that Austrian is the most moral, Chicago at least interferes under rule of law, and Keynesian (saltwater) economics is the means by which we conduct the most deceit.

    POLITICS
    Instead of asking what action is best (monopoly) we ask how individuals can organize into groups to conduct exchanges with other groups, in order to acquire what they wish to by moral or immoral means.

    WAR
    Instead of the empirical falsehood that war is universally bad, war is the only solution to the failure to cooperate on marginally indifferent moral terms, and war is perhaps the most productive effort man can undertake if one group increases the suppression of parasitism of another group, and especially if it creates or improves trade routes. Violence is either the means by which we enact parasitism, or the means by which we eliminate parasitism. If we eliminate, or at least reduce parasitism substantially, then war, like all prosecution of parasitism, is by definition, moral.

    THE COMPLETION OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT PROJECT
    The study of man prior to Propertarianism and post-Propertarianism is equal to the study of man prior to the enlightenment and after the enlightenment.

    Curt Doolittle
    The Philosophy of Aristocracy
    The Propertarian Institute
    Kiev, Ukraine (Tallinn, Estonia)

  • Reformation: The Study Of Man Before and After Propertarianism

    [G]iven the Spectrum of : {Neurobiology, Psychology, Sociology, Economics, Evolutionary Strategy, Politics and War}.

    1) Neurobiology: how the brain works: chiefly: it’s biological limits to perception, cognition, memory, knowledge and reason.

    2) Psychology: the study of the brain’s struggle to acquire and inventory, its limits, and its errors (cognitive biases) given the individual’s reproductive strategy.

    3) Sociology: the study of cooperative acquisition by groups: the production of cooperative and normative commons.

    4) Economics: the study of cooperative reproduction, production distribution and trade for the purposes of persistence. The productive commons.

    6) Evolutionary Strategy: The suite of informal(manners, ethics, morals, myths, education), economic (production distribution and trade), and formal (law, politics ) institutions that allow the extant peoples to compete with other extant peoples. The competitive commons.

    5) Politics: the study of organizational institutions for the purpose of producing competitive(group evolutionary strategy), reproductive, productive(economic), normative(institutions) and material commons.

    6) War: the study of the limits of productive cooperation, and the imposition of cooperation, elimination of threats, and elimination of competition.

    Man Acts To Acquire To Survive. Cooperation Is The Most Beneficial Means Action to Acquire. But only if cooperation is non-parasitic. And for cooperation to be non-parasitic it must be: productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary exchange, free of externality by the same criteria.

    So, the study of man is the study of man’s acquisition of all that he desires. Man acts to acquire.

    NEUROBIOLOGY
    While we will undoubtedly gain further insights into man, brain and mind, it is unlikely that the Propertarian principles will be falsified – only increased in precision.
    1) that man acts to acquire property en toto,
    2) moral bias is determined by reproductive strategy
    3) specialised moral biases that reflect our reproductive strategies and voluntary cooperation allow us to produce a market for cooperation that functions as an information system making use of the entire spectrum of perceptions in the division of perception, cognition, knowledge, labor and advocacy.
    4) language evolved largely to justify actions in the context of cooperation rather than to identify truth propositions. Truth is difficult for us because it is critical. Justification is easy for us.

    PSYCHOLOGY
    Instead of asking what is right or wrong (deviation from an ideal) with someone’s thinking (a totalitarian doctrine) we ask what they seek to acquire, and whether they seek to acquire it by moral or immoral means. All human behavior can be expressed as interactions between desires for acquisition, the need to negotiate, and moral constraint, and the relative value, or lack of value, of cooperation.

    SOCIOLOGY
    Instead of asking what is right or wrong (deviation from an ideal), we ask what the group seeks to acquire, and whether they seek to acquire it by moral or immoral means.

    EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGY
    Instead of asking what is right or wrong (deviation from an idea) we ask what the group seeks ot acquire, and whether they seek to acquire it by internally and externally moral, or immoral, means.

    ECONOMICS
    Economics can be studied as the means by which we eliminate frictions (transaction costs) and thereby increase the ease and decrease the risk of cooperation (Austrian Economics), OR economics can bes studied as the means by which we search for extensions of rule of law such that interference in the economy is non-discretionary (Chicago Economics), OR economics can be the means by which we determining the maximum disinformation that we can insert into the economy for the purpose of increasing consumption, and by consumption, employment(Keynesian economics). But we now know that Austrian is the most moral, Chicago at least interferes under rule of law, and Keynesian (saltwater) economics is the means by which we conduct the most deceit.

    POLITICS
    Instead of asking what action is best (monopoly) we ask how individuals can organize into groups to conduct exchanges with other groups, in order to acquire what they wish to by moral or immoral means.

    WAR
    Instead of the empirical falsehood that war is universally bad, war is the only solution to the failure to cooperate on marginally indifferent moral terms, and war is perhaps the most productive effort man can undertake if one group increases the suppression of parasitism of another group, and especially if it creates or improves trade routes. Violence is either the means by which we enact parasitism, or the means by which we eliminate parasitism. If we eliminate, or at least reduce parasitism substantially, then war, like all prosecution of parasitism, is by definition, moral.

    THE COMPLETION OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT PROJECT
    The study of man prior to Propertarianism and post-Propertarianism is equal to the study of man prior to the enlightenment and after the enlightenment.

    Curt Doolittle
    The Philosophy of Aristocracy
    The Propertarian Institute
    Kiev, Ukraine (Tallinn, Estonia)

  • REFORMATION: THE STUDY OF MAN BEFORE AND AFTER PROPERTARIANISM Given the Spectru

    REFORMATION: THE STUDY OF MAN BEFORE AND AFTER PROPERTARIANISM

    Given the Spectrum of : {Neurobiology, Psychology, Sociology, Economics, Evolutionary Strategy, Politics and War}.

    1) Neurobiology: how the brain works: chiefly: it’s biological limits to perception, cognition, memory, knowledge and reason.

    2) Psychology: the study of the brain’s struggle to acquire and inventory, its limits, and its errors (cognitive biases) given the individual’s reproductive strategy.

    3) Sociology: the study of cooperative acquisition by groups: the production of cooperative and normative commons.

    4) Economics: the study of cooperative reproduction, production distribution and trade for the purposes of persistence. The productive commons.

    6) Evolutionary Strategy: The suite of informal(manners, ethics, morals, myths, education), economic (production distribution and trade), and formal (law, politics ) institutions that allow the extant peoples to compete with other extant peoples. The competitive commons.

    5) Politics: the study of organizational institutions for the purpose of producing competitive(group evolutionary strategy), reproductive, productive(economic), normative(institutions) and material commons.

    6) War: the study of the limits of productive cooperation, and the imposition of cooperation, elimination of threats, and elimination of competition.

    Man Acts To Acquire To Survive. Cooperation Is The Most Beneficial Means Action to Acquire. But only if cooperation is non-parasitic. And for cooperation to be non-parasitic it must be: productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary exchange, free of externality by the same criteria.

    So, the study of man is the study of man’s acquisition of all that he desires. Man acts to acquire.

    NEUROBIOLOGY

    While we will undoubtedly gain further insights into man, brain and mind, it is unlikely that the Propertarian principles will be falsified – only increased in precision.

    1) that man acts to acquire property en toto,

    2) moral bias is determined by reproductive strategy

    3) specialised moral biases that reflect our reproductive strategies and voluntary cooperation allow us to produce a market for cooperation that functions as an information system making use of the entire spectrum of perceptions in the division of perception, cognition, knowledge, labor and advocacy.

    4) language evolved largely to justify actions in the context of cooperation rather than to identify truth propositions. Truth is difficult for us because it is critical. Justification is easy for us.

    PSYCHOLOGY

    Instead of asking what is right or wrong (deviation from an ideal) with someone’s thinking (a totalitarian doctrine) we ask what they seek to acquire, and whether they seek to acquire it by moral or immoral means. All human behavior can be expressed as interactions between desires for acquisition, the need to negotiate, and moral constraint, and the relative value, or lack of value, of cooperation.

    SOCIOLOGY

    Instead of asking what is right or wrong (deviation from an ideal), we ask what the group seeks to acquire, and whether they seek to acquire it by moral or immoral means.

    EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGY

    Instead of asking what is right or wrong (deviation from an idea) we ask what the group seeks ot acquire, and whether they seek to acquire it by internally and externally moral, or immoral, means.

    ECONOMICS

    Economics can be studied as the means by which we eliminate frictions (transaction costs) and thereby increase the ease and decrease the risk of cooperation (Austrian Economics), OR economics can bes studied as the means by which we search for extensions of rule of law such that interference in the economy is non-discretionary (Chicago Economics), OR economics can be the means by which we determining the maximum disinformation that we can insert into the economy for the purpose of increasing consumption, and by consumption, employment(Keynesian economics). But we now know that Austrian is the most moral, Chicago at least interferes under rule of law, and Keynesian (saltwater) economics is the means by which we conduct the most deceit.

    POLITICS

    Instead of asking what is best (monopoly) we ask how individuals can organize into groups to conduct exchanges with other groups, in order to acquire what they wish to by moral or immoral means.

    WAR

    Instead of the empirical falsehood that war is universally bad, war is the only solution to the failure to cooperate on marginally indifferent moral terms, and war is perhaps the most productive effort man can undertake if one group increases the suppression of parasitism of another group, and especially if it creates or improves trade routes. Violence is either the means by which we enact parasitism, or the means by which we eliminate parasitism. If we eliminate, or at least reduce parasitism substantially, then war, like all prosecution of parasitism, is by definition, moral.

    THE COMPLETION OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT PROJECT

    The study of man prior to Propertarianism and post-Propertarianism is equal to the study of man prior to the enlightenment and after the enlightenment.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Philosophy of Aristocracy

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine (Tallinn, Estonia)


    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-31 11:26:00 UTC

  • #tcot #tlot The reason I’m merging philosophy with science, and destroying ratio

    #tcot #tlot The reason I’m merging philosophy with science, and destroying rationalism is simple: philosophy has been used largely to lie.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-30 10:01:37 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/626694123626622976

  • What’s the Purpose of Economics?

    [A] central argument in economics is unsettled: what is the purpose of economics?

    1) A social science (political economy) that describes human behavior in a monetary economy, regardless of policy wants or demands, so that we construct institutions that provide the least resistance to cooperation. (The german Austrian school)

    2) A means of extending the rule of law (moral cooperation) to economics (production distribution and trade): the discovery of rules which determine policy actions. (Chicago and the freshwater school)

    3) A means of justifying discretionary action independent of rules. (Krugman and the Saltwater school) I include our host John Quiggin in this group.

    The first is the least hubristic, the second more so, but allows planning, the third most hubristic, least moral, and least trustworthy.

    Discretion is for choosing flavors of ice cream. There is no room for discretion in law or economics.

    Curt Doolittle
    The Propertarian Institute,
    Kiev, Ukraine

  • What’s the Purpose of Economics?

    [A] central argument in economics is unsettled: what is the purpose of economics?

    1) A social science (political economy) that describes human behavior in a monetary economy, regardless of policy wants or demands, so that we construct institutions that provide the least resistance to cooperation. (The german Austrian school)

    2) A means of extending the rule of law (moral cooperation) to economics (production distribution and trade): the discovery of rules which determine policy actions. (Chicago and the freshwater school)

    3) A means of justifying discretionary action independent of rules. (Krugman and the Saltwater school) I include our host John Quiggin in this group.

    The first is the least hubristic, the second more so, but allows planning, the third most hubristic, least moral, and least trustworthy.

    Discretion is for choosing flavors of ice cream. There is no room for discretion in law or economics.

    Curt Doolittle
    The Propertarian Institute,
    Kiev, Ukraine

  • Q&A: Curt I Don’t Understand Your Criticism of Mises

    QUESTION

    —“I’ve seen you criticize Mises and I’m not sure I’ve fully understood your critique. Would it be fair to compare your criticism to modern science’s correction of the Greeks? I’m referring to the definition of modern science as inductive reasoning based on observation (empiricism) in contrast to the Greeks’ deduction based on self-evident truth. (Intuition vs. sensory information)”—

    ANSWER [W]ell, if it was easily reducible to something simple, someone would have figured this problem out before. And it wouldn’t have stumped mises, hayek, popper and dozens of others in other fields.”—

      [I] could be lazy and point you to the series of posts on this topic: http://www.propertarianism.com/propertarian-posts-by-chapt…/ Scroll down to (or search for) “REFORMING THE SCIENCES” That section covers it pretty thoroughly. [O]r, I could try to make it easy for you and point you to this single post: http://www.propertarianism.com/…/mises-praxeology-as-the-f…/ [O]r, I could spend a little effort and tell you that a whole bunch of philosophers failed to expand the scientific method in the 19th and 20th when our means of instrumental measurement exceeded our understanding of the limits of our perceptions. Mises is one of the philosophers who failed. In failing he created a pseudoscience. Whereas the others merely failed to understand what they had discovered. Economics is as empirical as any other science. But just as we cannot state that a formula is existentially possible in mathematics without a proof that it can be constructed from possible mathematical operations, we cannot state that an economic statement is possible if we cannot construct it from possible human operations. Conversely, we cannot possibly deduce all of economics. Yet we can explain all of economics if we try. Mises made a profound mistake of conflating a negative test – a form of falsification – with a positive means of discovery. He made the error all germans did: that justification can be used in matters of science. It cannot be. Contracts and moral arguments can be justified, but truth propositions merely survive criticism. This is a very advanced bit of a failure of philosophy in intellectual history so it’s not trivial to grasp. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine.
  • Q&A: Curt I Don’t Understand Your Criticism of Mises

    QUESTION

    —“I’ve seen you criticize Mises and I’m not sure I’ve fully understood your critique. Would it be fair to compare your criticism to modern science’s correction of the Greeks? I’m referring to the definition of modern science as inductive reasoning based on observation (empiricism) in contrast to the Greeks’ deduction based on self-evident truth. (Intuition vs. sensory information)”—

    ANSWER [W]ell, if it was easily reducible to something simple, someone would have figured this problem out before. And it wouldn’t have stumped mises, hayek, popper and dozens of others in other fields.”—

      [I] could be lazy and point you to the series of posts on this topic: http://www.propertarianism.com/propertarian-posts-by-chapt…/ Scroll down to (or search for) “REFORMING THE SCIENCES” That section covers it pretty thoroughly. [O]r, I could try to make it easy for you and point you to this single post: http://www.propertarianism.com/…/mises-praxeology-as-the-f…/ [O]r, I could spend a little effort and tell you that a whole bunch of philosophers failed to expand the scientific method in the 19th and 20th when our means of instrumental measurement exceeded our understanding of the limits of our perceptions. Mises is one of the philosophers who failed. In failing he created a pseudoscience. Whereas the others merely failed to understand what they had discovered. Economics is as empirical as any other science. But just as we cannot state that a formula is existentially possible in mathematics without a proof that it can be constructed from possible mathematical operations, we cannot state that an economic statement is possible if we cannot construct it from possible human operations. Conversely, we cannot possibly deduce all of economics. Yet we can explain all of economics if we try. Mises made a profound mistake of conflating a negative test – a form of falsification – with a positive means of discovery. He made the error all germans did: that justification can be used in matters of science. It cannot be. Contracts and moral arguments can be justified, but truth propositions merely survive criticism. This is a very advanced bit of a failure of philosophy in intellectual history so it’s not trivial to grasp. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine.
  • ECONOMIC HISTORY? NO: ECONOMIC LAWS Wmmbb (All), I’m a little concerned that eco

    ECONOMIC HISTORY? NO: ECONOMIC LAWS

    Wmmbb (All),

    I’m a little concerned that economic history is a vehicle for justification one way or the other. The central argument in economics is unsettled: what is the purpose of economics?

    1) A social science (political economy) that describes human behavior in a monetary economy, regardless of policy wants or demands, so that we construct institutions that provide the least resistance to cooperation. (The german Austrian school)

    2) A means of extending the rule of law (moral cooperation) to economics (production distribution and trade): the discovery of rules which determine policy actions. (Chicago and the freshwater school)

    3) A means of justifying discretionary action independent of rules. (Krugman and the Saltwater school) I include our host John Quiggin in this group.

    The first is the least hubristic, the second more so, but allows planning, the third most hubristic, least moral, and least trustworthy.

    Discretion is for choosing flavors of ice cream. There is no room for discretion in law or economics.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute,

    Kiev, Ukraine


    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-27 06:47:00 UTC