Curt Doolittle

Theme: Truth

  • HE HUMANITIES: —“Is “humanism” and “the humanities” the study of Wizardry? How

    HE HUMANITIES:

    —“Is “humanism” and “the humanities” the study of Wizardry? How to influence and persuade?”— Butch Leghorn

    And how to lie using loading, framing, and overloading…. That’s the point of literary works – to persuade by suspension of disbelief and suggestion where one cannot persuade under skepticism, with measurements, and theories of causal relations: Myth > Lit > Hist > Sci > Math

    (The art of persuading children when you must, when they lack reason, retained into adulthood, to avoid the use of reason.)

    Source date (UTC): 2019-08-07 15:57:12 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102576516802807944

  • SOLIPSISM, NAXALT, AND GSSRM EVERYWHERE BUT NOT TRUTH TO DRINK…. —“With all

    SOLIPSISM, NAXALT, AND GSSRM EVERYWHERE BUT NOT TRUTH TO DRINK….

    —“With all due respect, what qualifies you to tell women when to have their children?”— @prost_keila (to molyneux)

    What qualifies you to object? Not that qualifications are in any way determinant of the truthfulness of an argument or counter-argument. But by what qualifications OR argument to you object, and what is your objection? Data is data. Are you trying to deceive women? Is that right?

    Source date (UTC): 2019-08-07 15:55:46 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102576511145794144

  • IF YOU ARE BEING OFFERED A CONCLUSION, YOU ARE NOT BEING PRESENTED WITH NEWS. by

    IF YOU ARE BEING OFFERED A CONCLUSION, YOU ARE NOT BEING PRESENTED WITH NEWS.
    by Luke Weinhagen

    “Journalist” is an honorable title for those exposing themselves to risk in pursuit or defense of the truth.

    Parasites like Mr. Stelter, who claim the title without the risk (or even worse, complain at the merest hint of risk), are enemies twice over.

    First, in sacrificing truth for their own rewards, and second, deceiving the rest of us with claims that the truth is being defended.

    Reminder – if you are being offered a conclusion, you are not being presented with news.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-08-07 15:51:58 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102576496218769230

  • “Wow I never heard half of those words in my entire life. Are you a doctor or wh

    —“Wow I never heard half of those words in my entire life. Are you a doctor or what.”— @priya__9

    You wouldn’t understand. I’m a “Judge” of whether words are true or not, can be true or not, or can be claimed to be true or not. (Philosopher of Science and Natural Law)

    Source date (UTC): 2019-08-07 15:51:40 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102576495033312246

  • THE ORIGINAL SAFE SPACE: TRUTH Western Science, Reason, Reciprocity: The origina

    THE ORIGINAL SAFE SPACE: TRUTH

    Western Science, Reason, Reciprocity: The original Safe Space – safe from parasites, morons, whiners, crybabies, and virtue signalers.

    —James Santagata

    Source date (UTC): 2019-08-07 15:35:49 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102576432688693743

  • THE OTHER REASON TALEB IS WRONG. THE UN-TRUSTWORTHY. By Curt Doolittle, The Prop

    THE OTHER REASON TALEB IS WRONG. THE UN-TRUSTWORTHY.
    By Curt Doolittle, The Propertarian Institute

    We presume intelligence is the driving factor in our differences in life outcomes. It’s just the driving factor for (a) rate of learning (b) working with complexity. Conscientiousness is evenly distributed across the spectrum of complexity regardless of intelligence. So the market demand is for minimum necessary intelligence and conscientiousness. And then by intelligence sufficient for the degree of complexity. But, what isn’t in that dichotomy is our incentives. This is where Taleb makes his second mistake. Just as we pay police to avoid corruption, we pay people more to avoid corruption. We are not paid just for conscientiousness, or just for complexity, but for loyalty and consequence.

    So instead of just Intelligence, we have:
    a) Reward for Conscientiousness (quality),
    b) Reward for Intelligence (complexity),
    c) Reward for Scarcity (by income) , and
    d) Reward for Insurance (by status and security)

    The Chinese bureaucracy was successful, because of the training and incentive against corruption, in exchange for the status and predictability of income – and why the German and French have been, and why the American has not been, and why the Semitic people have never been able to develop (a) civic trust or truthful speech (b) commons, (c) governments at scale, (d) nations at scale, (e) companies at scale (f) economies at scale, (g) a durable civilization without consuming an existing great one, and (h) why the Semites produce an ibn Khaldun (low trust), instead of Locke, Smith, Hume, Hamilton, Adams, and Jefferson, Pareto, Darwin, Menger, Maxwell, Nietzsche or Hayek (High Trust).

    Taleb hates the answer: (a) intelligence matters in the suppression of parasitism, (b) rewarding it with income, status, and security matters in the suppression of parasitism (c) dysgenia results from low trust, poverty results from low trust, and inability to innovate results from low trust, leaving only consumption and distrust and small scale corrupt organizations, (d) he and his ‘Fat Tony’ profit only because in a high trust society and civilization under rule of law, with scale institutions, both private and public, the opportunities for immoral (non-productive) windfalls exist – precisely because we are so high trust we never even THINK of the kinds of scams that Taleb, Fat Tony, (George Soros), imagine. In other words, all Taleb has managed to do across his books is explain why he could come to the west to make money but his people live in ignorance, superstition, tribalism, deceit, and relative poverty.

    ( … continued )

    Source date (UTC): 2019-08-07 15:23:31 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102576384220810882

  • “CURT DOESN’T KNOW HISTORY, HE NEEDS TO READ A BOOK” to: @Gareth Martin I though

    “CURT DOESN’T KNOW HISTORY, HE NEEDS TO READ A BOOK”

    to: @Gareth Martin

    I thought you were going to present some counterfactuals. But no.

    I’m tracing the evolution of truthful speech on the one hand and competing forms of speech on the other. The premise is that this is because of accidents of western origin.

    Now, you can try to make some argument or other, but in general you’ve made two false ones.

    THE CODE OF HAMMURABI
    The code of hammurabi like the inquisition for that matter, were attempts to standardize punishments between heterogeneous groups within the “empire”, so that retaliation cycles (feuds) did not scale between those groups.

    THE PHOENICIAN GROUP STRATEGY
    The phoenicians originated either as southern semites on the southern persian gulf, or in situ from earlier northern semitic survivors of the climate crisis. It appears the latter but it is nearly impossible to separate out their genetics, other than to say that lebanese are an old people. same problem with greek aristocracy. We don’t have samples from enough individuals yet to know.

    As far as we know they survived by pastoralism and fishing, but because they had the location and sufficient skill and organization, they were able to discount the shipping cost of Tin from the afghanistan route, and copper from the european route, and there is some evidence of local tin mining. So they capitalized in the ‘arms trade’ of the day (bronze was to the ancient world what oil is today. Waterways are still the cheapest method of transportation of heavy goods. They leveraged this wealth to create a coastal trading empire of city states.

    Agrarian societies are more expensive to tovern than naval (as the romans discovered when expanding into europe) because land is slow and costly to cover quickly but can be covered by foot soldiers rather rapidly (at 20m per day).

    So phoenicians like athenians and the british and unlike the persians and the germans and the spartans could concentrate wealth in capital with higher returns. But like jews, palestinians, and gypsies today they could not resist armies. They played Switzerland for the ancient empires precisely because they DIDN”T have capable armies, but were too useful as transporters. This utility ended when they competed with rome, that was, like the USA a combined marine and army power engaging in trade where possible, rule where possible, and predation where possible.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-08-07 15:11:56 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102576338715045971

  • “Ok and my job as an American citizen w/free speech is to tell you to fuck off a

    —“Ok and my job as an American citizen w/free speech is to tell you to fuck off and allow me to express my own opinion without having to deal with your bullshit. If you’re so good at your job why don’t you do in in real life rather than trying to intimidate random ppl on Twitter”— Twittiot

    Are you trying to tell me what to do with my body, to limit my freedom of speech, to oppress my right of expression; that you won’t respect differences of opinion, by people with different backgrounds and traditions, without having to deal with your complaint and criticism?

    —“Translation: “STOP TELLING THE TRUTH IT MAKES ME UNCOMFORTABLE”— Claire Elise II

    Source date (UTC): 2019-08-07 15:05:01 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102576311608519694

  • “Disagree with the idea that christianity is a cause for the decline of western

    —“Disagree with the idea that christianity is a cause for the decline of western civ. 1.Christianity is inherently synonymous with western civ itself. 2. Truth is a value in Christianity unlike islam and Judaism which you appear to be conflating it with.”—@ShiarTal

    You think that because you read what was written. I look at economic and legal data and I see in the past what I see today: Abrahamic propaganda saturating the literary classes, meanwhile the ordinary folk remain only ceremonially christian, and the state, law, economy march on.

    So with a forced monopoly on literacy, a banning and burning of books, a mandate to ‘believe in a falsehood’, the parasitism of the church on useful capital, of course we see SOMETHING. We just see trivialities compared pre roman, roman, greco-roman, civilizations.

    Why, if people can be misled by Marxism, socialism, postmodernism, feminism, all of which are a revolt against darwin on one hand and western tripartism on an other would you think it would not be easier with one vehicle of communication: the pulpit and the big lie.

    Abrahamism: False Promise, Pilpul, Critique sold via women and the underclass as a means to undermine aristocratic rational, empirical, legal, commercial civilization, and into semitic poverty, where the gullible are constantly led against the imaginary evil of their betters.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-08-07 14:58:36 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102576286297770240

  • “Empiricism is not a state sanctioned epistemology.”—Andrew M Gilmour (quote o

    —“Empiricism is not a state sanctioned epistemology.”—Andrew M Gilmour

    (quote of the day)

    Source date (UTC): 2019-08-07 14:56:16 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102576277208828524