Curt Doolittle

Theme: Truth

  • ON REPAIRING WESTERN PRESS Roman got me thinking last week, about the central di

    ON REPAIRING WESTERN PRESS

    Roman got me thinking last week, about the central difficulty with western press’ reliance on telling both sides of the STATED story, instead of whether they tell the truth given the INCENTIVES of both sides, regardless of what they state.

    Telling both sides merely gives the liars equal air play as the truth tellers.

    And it’s much easier for a ‘journalist’ to report on someone’s feelings, and speech than it is to report on facts and incentives. It’s much easier to create moral outrage or high ground with verbalism that obscures incentives, rather than the incentives themselves.

    To report ‘scientifically’ is possible with propertarian incentives and testimonial truth. We can systematically criticize what people say, and report on their incentives rather than their propaganda.

    But that means retraining a lot of ‘journalists’ and eliminating the perverse incentives that we have produced with the popular press.

    And the press, who free rides on destruction of the informational commons, may not like carrying the burden. On the other hand, we would have a lot fewer ‘journalists’ and they would be highly respected – and highly paid.

    And I think that’s something all of us would like.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-14 04:02:00 UTC

  • GRID: TRUTH AND DECEIT, MASCULINE AND FEMININE, HOMOGENOUS AND HETEROGENEOUS. TE

    GRID: TRUTH AND DECEIT, MASCULINE AND FEMININE, HOMOGENOUS AND HETEROGENEOUS.

    TEXAS………..GERMAN…………BRITISH

    …………………..JAPAN…………….FRENCH

    ……………………………………………LATIN

    ……………………………………………HINDU

    …………………..CHINA…………………………..

    ISLAM……….. RUSSIA……………JUDAISM

    More later. Just capturing the idea while I”m thinking of it.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-13 15:58:00 UTC

  • PROPERTARIANISM FOR THE PROSECUTION. (good) [I]f we claim we speak truthfully, t

    PROPERTARIANISM FOR THE PROSECUTION.

    (good)

    [I]f we claim we speak truthfully, then that we perform an act of testimony.

    If we are both trying to find the truth, then we engage in an act of discourse.

    If we are both trying to persuade and inform a jury(audience), then we participate in a debate.

    But if you are trying to engage in deceit for the purpose of theft (free riding) then you are a defendant and I am a prosecutor.

    I AM A PROSECUTOR.

    That is why I appear and am hostile. If you are a parasite, then I am a prosecutor. And I want to build an army of prosecutors the way the Jesuits did. Except this time, we will prosecute liars.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-13 15:44:00 UTC

  • What Is The Significance Of Jean Baudrillardâ´s For A Critique Of The Political Economy Of The Sign?

    As an activist philosopher engaged in restoring modernism I see Baudrillard’s work as one of the death rattles of postmodernism.  

    But that does not mean that it is not possible to restate some of his ideas in ratio-scientific terms.  And that is, that as we grow in prosperity, our patterns of consumption changes from survival, to risk reduction, to fulfillment, to purely signaling.  And that much of the consumer economy consists of little more than signaling. 

    Unfortunately, by couching his thought in postmodern pseudoscience, empty verbalism,  and pretense of reason, he doomed his contributions to the dustbin of history along with all of marxism.

    The more interesting question is when does such signaling become lying?  When are signals of falsehoods occurring at the expense of material improvement of life?

    That’s a problem I haven’t spent much time on, but I think it’s the scientific means of exploring his ideas.

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-significance-of-Jean-Baudrillard´s-For-a-Critique-of-the-Political-Economy-of-the-Sign

  • WHY WESTERNERS ARE VULNERABLE (roman skaskiw) 1) Everyone accustomed to truth te

    http://romaninukraine.com/tex-fighting-for-world-communism-with-the-dnr/III. WHY WESTERNERS ARE VULNERABLE

    (roman skaskiw)

    1) Everyone accustomed to truth telling

    2) Journalists accustomed to relying on official sources

    3) Journalists accustomed to telling both sides

    4) Russians extremely good at penetrating and influencing dissenting political movements (they’ve been doing it for centuries — see Joseph Conrad’s “Secret Agent” for an albeit fictional pre-Soviet example).

    ^^ this is why you hear Russian propaganda coming from libertarians, nationalists and communists.

    Amazing that Russia is able to create an imaginary world for communists from Italy, Spain, and Texas who will fight for the separatists thinking the goal is world communism (or else they pretend to think it):

    http://romaninukraine.com/tex-fighting-for-world-communism-with-the-dnr/

    http://romaninukraine.com/spaniards-arrested-after-fighting-for-rebels-in-east-ukraine-say-half-of-foreign-fighters-were-communists-half-nazis/

    http://conservative-headlines.com/2015/02/violent-marxist-antifa-gangs-allegedly-fighting-in-ukrainian-civil-war/

    A Russian dissident recently wrote a book called “Nothing is True and Everything is Possible”. (http://www.amazon.com/Nothing-Is-True-Everything-Possible/dp/1610394550)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-10 04:53:00 UTC

  • @RBEdmiston @macmason09 @voxdotcom Unfortunately if one relies on rationalism an

    @RBEdmiston @macmason09 @voxdotcom Unfortunately if one relies on rationalism and moralizing it is terribly easy to err.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-08 20:07:48 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/618874142637576193

  • Critique vs Criticism

    [C]RITIQUE VS CRITICISM


    – Critique is a cosmopolitan discipline(as in Culture of Critique).
    – Criticism is a scientific discipline (as in Popperian Criticism).
    – Criticism is necessary in order to determine whether a theory survives attempts to falsify it. Critique is a means of loading, framing, framing, overloading, and constructing suggestion by means of deceit.

    Moralizing is very different from constructing models of transfers to determine whether thefts have occurred.

    –“Are correct incentives what others have called the kool-aid?”–


    Correct incentives are those that do not create hazards thereby encouraging parasitism (involuntary transfer), but instead construct incentives for productive voluntary transfers. The counter proposition is that deceit and parasitism are somehow objective ‘goods’, rather than providing a disincentive for cooperation, increasing transaction costs, lower trust, lower economic velocity, lower production and lower consumption. In order to counter this argument one would have to provide a different method of decidabily in the conduct of human interactions. (which will be very difficult)

    —“write as more idealistic than moralistic, “—


    Well I don’t have to think of it ‘like’ anything, I can categorize it as analogical appeal to subjective preference rather than operation description without appeal to subjective preference.

    Source: Curt Doolittle

  • Critique vs Criticism

    [C]RITIQUE VS CRITICISM


    – Critique is a cosmopolitan discipline(as in Culture of Critique).
    – Criticism is a scientific discipline (as in Popperian Criticism).
    – Criticism is necessary in order to determine whether a theory survives attempts to falsify it. Critique is a means of loading, framing, framing, overloading, and constructing suggestion by means of deceit.

    Moralizing is very different from constructing models of transfers to determine whether thefts have occurred.

    –“Are correct incentives what others have called the kool-aid?”–


    Correct incentives are those that do not create hazards thereby encouraging parasitism (involuntary transfer), but instead construct incentives for productive voluntary transfers. The counter proposition is that deceit and parasitism are somehow objective ‘goods’, rather than providing a disincentive for cooperation, increasing transaction costs, lower trust, lower economic velocity, lower production and lower consumption. In order to counter this argument one would have to provide a different method of decidabily in the conduct of human interactions. (which will be very difficult)

    —“write as more idealistic than moralistic, “—


    Well I don’t have to think of it ‘like’ anything, I can categorize it as analogical appeal to subjective preference rather than operation description without appeal to subjective preference.

    Source: Curt Doolittle

  • Truth: Doing The Laundry of Imagination

    [T]ruth: Laundering Error, Bias, Imaginary Content, Wishful Thinking, and Deceit from our free associations, hypothesis, theories, and laws. Source: Curt Doolittle

  • Truth: Doing The Laundry of Imagination

    [T]ruth: Laundering Error, Bias, Imaginary Content, Wishful Thinking, and Deceit from our free associations, hypothesis, theories, and laws. Source: Curt Doolittle