Curt Doolittle

Theme: Truth

  • SCIENTISM IS SHAMING UNLESS YOU MEAN POSITIVISM – I DON’T. I DO TESTIMONIALISM.

    SCIENTISM IS SHAMING UNLESS YOU MEAN POSITIVISM – I DON’T. I DO TESTIMONIALISM.

    —“I may be mistaken here, but your thinking on economics, identity politics, making choices, is based on Scientism.”—Mark Goodkin

    Well, that’s just name calling unless we can operationalize that as a test of truth, contingency, or falsehood.

    As far as I know we continuously converge on increases in precision using logical and physical instrumentation (science), and we reorganize our network of categories, relations and value judgements (and narratives) in response to those increases.

    We do this because increases in precision (particularly those above and below human scale) increase our agency (ability to act).

    Only a justificationist (which is false) prioritizes representation (meaning) over action (demonstration).

    No matter what we understand or how we understand it, our actions produce decreasingly divergent consequences or not. It’s true that we have a psychological bias to prefer fixed answers because it lowers the cost of constant reorganization but the evidence is that we are extraordinarily successful at increases in parsimony and the result of that parsimony is convergence on marginal indifference.

    Choice on the other hand (preference and good) are something else. Generally speaking we have found that increases in agency (truth) have produced greater choices with higher returns, while we have also found that philosophy(justificationary rationalism) has produced profound delays and horrors – not the least of which was the Rousseau> Kant> Marx/Freud/Boas> Lenin/Trotsky> Keynesian > Neocon/Libertarian/Postmodern series. That’s before we go back to theological – which is the deadliest information system ever invented by man, and second only to malaria and the great plagues.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-21 12:27:00 UTC

  • It’s because I don’t do symbolism, I don’t do utilitarianism, I don’t do pragmat

    It’s because I don’t do symbolism, I don’t do utilitarianism, I don’t do pragmatism, I do truth, sovereignty, reciprocity, heroism, duty, and markets in everything. Why? There is more to a polity than money and property. It is our commons that are our competitive advantage.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-21 12:21:12 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/998539204001923072

  • NO, PHILOSOPHY(CHOICE) IS SUBORDINATE TO SCIENCE (TRUTH) Again, economics and la

    NO, PHILOSOPHY(CHOICE) IS SUBORDINATE TO SCIENCE (TRUTH)

    Again, economics and law, defeat philosophy, religious tradition, and moral justificationism. Demonstrated vs Reported. Always and everywhere.

    —“Philosophy is more fundamental than economics. The notion of making choices, based on rewards and punishment, implies some form of ethics, which itself is a branch of philosophy. Economics is not a floating abstract, disconnected from ethics or philosophy.”— Mark Goodkin

    It’s actually just physics. Morality=reciprocity, an reciprocity is the only system of measurement a cooperative species can use and survive.

    Philosophy allows us to choose preferences, but truth and falsehood are in the domain of science.

    Historically this relationship was mistakenly reversed because it threatened the status quo. Philosophy(middle class) like religion (underclass) is just the record of dissatisfaction: opposition literature. The ruling class rules, and they rule by law, and law and economics require reciprocity to fund the requirements for maintaining power.

    Science has a great track record. Philosophy has very arguable (if not certainly) done more harm than good. And theology has certainly done more harm than all but malaria and the black plague.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-21 11:59:00 UTC

  • agency, truth, sovereignty, reciprocity, heroism, duty, and markets in everythin

    agency, truth, sovereignty, reciprocity, heroism, duty, and markets in everything.

    agency, truth,

    sovereignty, reciprocity,

    heroism, duty,

    and markets in everything.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-21 08:37:00 UTC

  • (more on eli harman and jared how on truediltom’s stream) So what you saw was El

    (more on eli harman and jared how on truediltom’s stream)

    So what you saw was Eli understanding (without any effort) Howe, but no attempt for Howe to understand Eli. Eli was searching for opportunities to explain. Howe was searching for opportunities to disagree and repeat talking points. And making zero effort to understand. Seek to understand. Define terms. Create models. Paraphrase your opponent.

    The reality is that these subjects are over the heads of the people so passionately debating them.

    Libertarianism = Marxism = Neoconservatism = Parasitism.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-21 08:27:00 UTC

  • It’s because I don’t do symbolism, I don’t do utilitarianism, I don’t do pragmat

    It’s because I don’t do symbolism, I don’t do utilitarianism, I don’t do pragmatism, I do truth, sovereignty, reciprocity, heroism, duty, and markets in everything. Why? There is more to a polity than money and property. It is our commons that are our competitive advantage.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-21 08:21:00 UTC

  • “I think the biggest problem with arguing is two people whose beliefs are differ

    —“I think the biggest problem with arguing is two people whose beliefs are different at the foundation will probably never be able to convince each other of anything.”— Skyler Sickinger

    Well I disagree because we see it happen all the time between people who are intellectually honest. What they disagree over is (a) predicted people’s behavior, (b) utility of the idea in changing it (c) priority among available ideas.

    If you define terms and make models (constructions) then it’s very easy for intellectually honest and able people to agree.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-21 07:48:00 UTC

  • Debates are only as valuable as the intellectual ability and honesty of the peop

    Debates are only as valuable as the intellectual ability and honesty of the people debating.

    Conversations are better.

    In my experience arguments that consist of a series of steps rather than a simple contrast require writing.

    We can FEEL contrasts but we must REASON deductions.

    The reason we have difficulty with most big questions is that they must be reasoned not felt.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-21 07:26:00 UTC

  • @Outsideness ( Just a humble thank you for points of articulate and poetic light

    @Outsideness ( Just a humble thank you for points of articulate and poetic light amidst the industrialized production of sophistry. )

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-21 02:21:14 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/998388216062533638

  • No, Philosophy(choice) Is Subordinate to Science (truth)

    Again, economics and law, defeat philosophy, religious tradition, and moral justificationism. Demonstrated vs Reported. Always and everywhere. —“Philosophy is more fundamental than economics. The notion of making choices, based on rewards and punishment, implies some form of ethics, which itself is a branch of philosophy. Economics is not a floating abstract, disconnected from ethics or philosophy.”— Mark Goodkin It’s actually just physics. Morality=reciprocity, an reciprocity is the only system of measurement a cooperative species can use and survive. Philosophy allows us to choose preferences, but truth and falsehood are in the domain of science. Historically this relationship was mistakenly reversed because it threatened the status quo. Philosophy(middle class) like religion (underclass) is just the record of dissatisfaction: opposition literature. The ruling class rules, and they rule by law, and law and economics require reciprocity to fund the requirements for maintaining power. Science has a great track record. Philosophy has very arguable (if not certainly) done more harm than good. And theology has certainly done more harm than all but malaria and the black plague.
    May 21, 2018 11:59am