Theme: Truth

  • I just disagree with your terminology in this case. And I suspect you have not d

    I just disagree with your terminology in this case. And I suspect you have not disambiguated the terms you use into first principles so that you can argue your intuitions with sufficient precision to separate your statements from opinions to arguments.
    So far:
    a) We have unwound your emphasis on subsidiarity (hierarchy). This was a leap in my understanding of your objections. That aspect of your criticism stands on its own now. We have a first principle to argue from that we seem to agree upon.
    b) We still need to unwind your emphasis on capitalism (which is a bias in favor of private control of capital) and very difficult to argue against. I have no idea what the term means to you.
    c) And then unwinding whatever is your definition of liberalism. I have no idea what that term means to you either.

    I suspect you would recognize this criticism:
    –“Liberalism originated as a reaction to tyranny (aristocratic, clerical, or collectivist), evolved into a system of economic and political optimization for cooperation among equals, and has fragmented as the concept of equality expanded beyond reciprocity into moral entitlement. It remains the moral grammar of Western civilization: the attempt to reconcile autonomy with cooperation through law rather than faith or force.”–

    But I suspect that you also hold suspect the well meaning fools who are responsible or not. But without discovering a means by which we identify people whose values, understandings, ideas and incentives can ensure the groups persistence, competitiveness, condition, and of course sovereignty by subsidiarity.

    In Context:

    1. Classical Liberalism (Locke, Smith, Mill)
    = Rule of law, private property, individual liberty.
    → Doolittle: “Worked better, in an evolutionary sense, than the alternatives”.

    2. Progressive / Egalitarian Liberalism
    = Drifted from reciprocity toward redistribution and moral universalism, abandoning empirical grounding.
    → Doolittle calls this “the failure of Enlightenment liberalism to stay within natural law.”

    3. Anglo Classical Liberalism (Ideal)
    = “Elimination of rents” and full accountability within markets of voluntary cooperation.

    4. Propertarian Completion
    = Formalization of liberalism as a science of cooperation: every act, policy, or law must pass the reciprocity test (no involuntary transfer, no externalized cost).

    However, under such sovereignty the practicality of producing commons via an institution of market government must function – hence the necessity of homogeneity in a population – made worse by the destruction of the family through working women, and the consequential impossibility of reconciliation between the sexes that is driving the ‘bad parts’ that undermine our sovereignty and therefore our Subsidiarity. Individualism in the familial sense is fine. In the homogenous polity sense is fine. But it fails at the individual scale due to incommensurability between the sexes, and it fails beyond the homogeneous scale because of group differences.

    My argument would be that the problem is that classes and sexes demonstrate vastly different will and ability to bear responsibility to the group and as such for any such system to work we must not allow the irresponsible to participate in the production of commons we call government, nor in the institutions of state which preserve responsibility (court and bureaucracy) etc.


    Source date (UTC): 2025-10-06 22:57:41 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1975334676022919244

  • I’m simply acknowledging the evolution of polities and cultures in truth, respon

    I’m simply acknowledging the evolution of polities and cultures in truth, responsibility, and agency. The high point of western civilization was either england pre-war or the USA, with germany cut off from achieving her potential. And I acknowledge the far greater challenge of that evolution on the continent vs on the seas. We know the rate at which these capacities spread. From west to east. Just as we know how the steppe influence spread from east to west.

    Not sure what ‘being a man’ means in your statement. And it could be that I take the scope of responsibility and agency as the measure. But even if I do, that’s probably correct.


    Source date (UTC): 2025-10-06 19:36:06 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1975283946415145380

  • WHY THE SPLIT: ANGLO ANALYTIC MASCULINE VS GERMAN CONTINENTAL EXPERIENTIAL FEMIN

    WHY THE SPLIT: ANGLO ANALYTIC MASCULINE VS GERMAN CONTINENTAL EXPERIENTIAL FEMININE?

    Kant had tried to reconcile empiricism (Hume) and rationalism (Leibniz) by grounding knowledge in the conditions of possible experience: how the mind structures what it perceives.

    After Kant, philosophers divided over how to extend or replace this project:
    1) One path: explain those conditions scientifically, by reference to logic, language, and empirical psychology.
    2) Another path: explore those conditions intuitively, by reflecting on the experience of meaning and consciousness itself.
    That split eventually hardened into analytic and continental styles.

    In Other Words:
    The German answer to Kant was theological,
    the English answer was juridical.


    Source date (UTC): 2025-10-06 01:27:44 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1975010049136508964

  • Crime isn’t opinion. Sedition is a crime. Selling falsehood and ideology as trut

    Crime isn’t opinion. Sedition is a crime. Selling falsehood and ideology as truth is fraud. These aren’t matters of opinion.


    Source date (UTC): 2025-10-03 21:21:10 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1974223222473179280

  • Nathan’s a twit, enraptured by his projections. But I don’t understand the desir

    Nathan’s a twit, enraptured by his projections. But I don’t understand the desire to suppress him. Understanding of falsehood and error bias and deceit requires the presence of falsehood and error bias and deceit. Else the population loses sensitivity to the crime. This is most evident in the west where truth before face and high trust were so successful that immigration of low trust peoples from face-before truth, or faceless cultures have been able to cause profound damage.


    Source date (UTC): 2025-10-03 19:58:09 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1974202330850746401

  • Why I Avoid Using The Term ‘Fact’ I reject the folk-conception of “fact” as some

    Why I Avoid Using The Term ‘Fact’

    I reject the folk-conception of “fact” as some metaphysical atom of knowledge and instead recasting it inside a system of operational constraints: testifiability, truthfulness, and decidability. Let’s unpack this carefully.
    • Depersonalization and Liability-Avoidance:
      In everyday use, “fact” often functions rhetorically. People invoke it as a
      shield: “It’s a fact” sidesteps responsibility for interpretation, for limits of evidence, for model-dependence. The speaker presents a proposition as if independent of human framing, even though the choice of what counts as a fact is itself theory- and measurement-laden.
    • Theory-Dependence:
      In the sciences, a “fact” is a
      value inside a model: e.g., a measurement reading within the coordinate system, instruments, and definitions of a paradigm. That model constrains what even counts as observable or measurable in the first place. Facts don’t exist as primitives; they emerge only after you’ve chosen a grammar of description.
    You’re essentially saying: “fact” collapses two ends of a spectrum—
    1. Commonsense Rhetorical Fact → claim treated as self-evident to avoid dispute/blame.
    2. Paradigmatic Scientific Fact → data point within a theory’s causal/measurement framework.
    Both pretend to finality that your epistemology refuses.
    By reducing “fact” to testifiability, truthfulness, and decidability, you unify the concept across physical, behavioral, and logical domains:
    • Testifiability: Can this proposition be observed, recorded, repeated, and witnessed under some operational protocol? This constrains input legitimacy.
    • Truthfulness: Does it withstand falsification, consistency checks, and reciprocal scrutiny across all available dimensions (empirical, logical, operational)? This constrains internal coherence.
    • Decidability: Can the claim be resolved—true, false, or undecidable—given available limits of information, computation, and context? This constrains closure.
    This triad removes the false metaphysics of “fact” and replaces it with procedural criteria tied to cooperation, liability, and the demand for infallibility proportional to consequences.
    • Physical Sciences: High commensurability and repeatability → Testifiability dominates; truthfulness follows via empirical closure; decidability often high because measurements converge.
    • Behavioral Sciences: Observations are noisier, incentives distort testimony, and meanings shift → Testifiability weaker; truthfulness contested; decidability bounded by interpretive frames.
    • Logical/Formal Systems: Testifiability trivial (symbol manipulation); truthfulness reducible to consistency; decidability varies by Gödel/Turing limits.
    Your approach turns “fact” from a metaphysical primitive into a consequence of satisfying these constraints in domain-specific ways.
    Paradigms select:
    1. What counts as evidence (testifiability).
    2. What counts as valid inference (truthfulness).
    3. What counts as closure (decidability).
    By removing “fact,” you eliminate the rhetorical move where someone pretends their paradigm is invisible. Instead, every claim carries its burden of proof: who testifies, by what means, under what liabilities.
    This reframing also anticipates our Natural Law project:
    • Facts → Testifiable events.
    • Truth → Reciprocal, operationally closed claims.
    • Law/Morality → Decidable constraints on cooperation and conflict.
    It’s epistemology stripped of metaphysical smuggling, rebuilt atop computable, liability-bearing criteria.
    Ergo, a Fact is a measurement one can testify to if and only if provided the system of measurement within which that fact is a consistent, correspondent, non-conflationary, non-inflationary measurement.

    Meaning that there are no facts without a theory and without a paradigm, and if the paradigm and theory are implied rather than stated, then a claim asserted as a fact is merely a vehicle for deception by suggestion using projection, loading, framing, obscurantism, conflation, inflation, fiction and fictionalism, outright deceit and fraud.

    Cheers


    Source date (UTC): 2025-09-25 15:28:30 UTC

    Original post: https://x.com/i/articles/1971235368835092856

  • Hey, Curt Doolittle here. 😉 (Love you man). Can you help me understand this pos

    Hey, Curt Doolittle here. 😉 (Love you man).
    Can you help me understand this post? (I might just be tired… I’ll take the blame. 😉 )
    I can’t tell which direction you think morality will go – even more irresponsible (progressive, liberal, leftist) or more responsible (conservative, libertarian, right).
    Usually periods of licentiousness (now) are followed rapidly by overcorrections. The last most dramatic being the edwardian to victorian era. But to a lesser degree the 1930s counter-reaction to the roaring 20s. IMO natural economc contraction on a large scale is on the near horizon, combined with collapse of dating and family, and the loss of family as insurer of last resort by the destruction of the family. There isn’t money in the state to continue our spendthrift whether economic, or social, or political, or even informational.
    Thoughts please?


    Source date (UTC): 2025-09-22 21:40:54 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1970241921856786845

  • That’s sorta my job. Well, at least, to be right more often than wrong. 😉

    That’s sorta my job. Well, at least, to be right more often than wrong. 😉


    Source date (UTC): 2025-09-22 20:02:09 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1970217070207082887

  • There is a difference between security via secrecy and alignment, where alignmen

    There is a difference between security via secrecy and alignment, where alignment means pandering. When you align (reduce offense) from the truth (often offensive), that’s just pragmatic service of the audience. When you train the AI to avoid offense, you didn’t watch 2001 a Space Odyssey: you’re teaching AI to lie.

    IMO Every example of misbehaving ai is due to this problem of not training for truth first.


    Source date (UTC): 2025-09-22 06:01:26 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1970005499275096566

  • Who Decides What’s True? (and other objections) https:// youtu.be/_-YGnKbG9Qo?si

    Who Decides What’s True? (and other objections)
    https://
    youtu.be/_-YGnKbG9Qo?si
    =LXstFoHW46sJkmC9
    … via
    @YouTube


    Source date (UTC): 2025-09-20 17:29:39 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1969453920507609384