Curt Doolittle

Theme: Truth

  • My Simple Methodology: Locker Room vs Porch

    I have a very simple methodology: the truth. the truth provides decidability. And I don’t leave room for pragmatism. By allowing one pragmatic falsehood you allow all pragmatic falsehoods. By disallowing all falsehoods, no matter how practical, you leave only the truth. —“I get that you teach by a startling statement and follow-up Devil’s advocate questions. But sometime we lose the forest for trying to define a tree.”—Anne Summers It’s just the socratic method. Propose an assertion that will either reinforce or oppose a norm. Then we all debate until we understand. I love teaching online. It’s just more like teaching in a Locker Room or Bar than the vaulted porch of athenian wisdom….. lol

  • In Response to A Proposal for Democracy:

    —“Begin with your own family”—Lycurgus of Sparta Um. No it doesn’t work in family. It doesn’t work in business. and it doesn’t work in a polity either. Militia, Truth, Duty, Reciprocity, and Markets in Everything: The Natural Law of Sovereign Men. via Andrew Clayton

  • If You Reformed Christianity

    If you took all the falsehood out of christianity then what would remain? – The mass (A lesson, an oath, a feast), festivals. – The extirpation of hatred from the human heart. – The exhaustion of interpersonal forgiveness as the optimum group cooperative strategy. – The demand for personal acts of charity. If you replace life after death with living a good life, persistence through actions, genetic persistence, and human transcendence of our descendents into the gods we imagine. If you replace lessons against the aristocracy in favor of diasporic pastoralists, and instead restored our original mythology os the trials of homer. If you restored the festivals with those of heroes, ancestors and the seasons (nature). If you add ethnocentrism (the optimum group strategy), government by rule of law and markets in everything (the optimum competitive strategy), and stoicism (the optimum mindfulness strategy). Then you have a religion free of lies. Church is a good thing. What one does there produces mindfulness. What one learns there can be truth or lie.

  • If You Reformed Christianity

    If you took all the falsehood out of christianity then what would remain? – The mass (A lesson, an oath, a feast), festivals. – The extirpation of hatred from the human heart. – The exhaustion of interpersonal forgiveness as the optimum group cooperative strategy. – The demand for personal acts of charity. If you replace life after death with living a good life, persistence through actions, genetic persistence, and human transcendence of our descendents into the gods we imagine. If you replace lessons against the aristocracy in favor of diasporic pastoralists, and instead restored our original mythology os the trials of homer. If you restored the festivals with those of heroes, ancestors and the seasons (nature). If you add ethnocentrism (the optimum group strategy), government by rule of law and markets in everything (the optimum competitive strategy), and stoicism (the optimum mindfulness strategy). Then you have a religion free of lies. Church is a good thing. What one does there produces mindfulness. What one learns there can be truth or lie.

  • 1) We (Taleb and I) are both specialists in debunking frauds – he by innumeracy

    1) We (Taleb and I) are both specialists in debunking frauds – he by innumeracy in specific and I fictionalism more broadly. We are both intolerant of frauds. One can only claim one speaks truthfully of the testifiable, where one can warranty one’s speech. if not one lies. Period.

    2) Since you demonstrate you lie, and you do so by fictionalism, it is not an ad hominem to call you a liar and a fraud it is an inescapable logical necessity. in other words some arguments and methods of arguments are lies and frauds by mere construction prior to content.

    3) i practice the natural law of reciprocity, falsificationary science, deflationary logic and constructivist mathematics, not justificationary rationalism, theology or pseudoscience. Stop wasting my time with fraud and deceit.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-11 22:43:00 UTC

  • (ad hom) Yes, I attack frauds of all forms. That’s my job. To protect the inform

    (ad hom) Yes, I attack frauds of all forms. That’s my job. To protect the informational commons from ignorance, error, bias, suggestion, fictionalism, and deceit. You can only say I am wrong. I am saying you are not wrong, but you are a fraud.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-11 19:28:26 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1017128501214957569

    Reply addressees: @Hispanogoyim @egoissocial @IberianSoldier

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  • I don’t have a metaphysical framework other than testimony. I specialize testimo

    I don’t have a metaphysical framework other than testimony. I specialize testimony, and in particular in debunking liars. Particularly pseudoscientific, pseudo-rational, and supernatural. You are making a pseudo-rational argument. I can testify to the structure of the universe.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-11 19:22:50 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1017127091287085056

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  • “Error has no rights.”— Zachary Miller

    —“Error has no rights.”— Zachary Miller

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-11 18:09:58 UTC

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  • Curt Doolittle updated his status. —“Error has no rights.”— Zachary Miller

    Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    —“Error has no rights.”— Zachary Miller

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-11 18:09:48 UTC

  • Truth has no mercy. And others grant us no mercy when subject them to it. ( Trut

    Truth has no mercy. And others grant us no mercy when subject them to it.

    ( Truth, Duty, Reciprocity, Stoicism. Violence. )

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-11 18:05:45 UTC

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