Theme: Truth

  • The Cult of Sovereignty (natural Law)

    It’s better to belong to a cult of truth, sovereignty, reciprocity, duty, and markets in everything, than (a) to be wrong, (b) to be a sophist (c) be dedicated to any OTHER cult. Western law is a cult. hence why Americans treat the constitution (of natural law) as sacred. They just couldn’t defend it as such. The law is a cult, and that is its virtue. I’m thoroughly thrilled to institutionalize that cult. You think calling natural law fundamentalism a cult is an insult? It’s a recognition of SUCCESS. (a) a moral license for violence… (b) a set of demands, (c) a plan of transition (d) a threat of sufficient concern that the other parties acquiesce. But better – a scientific religion of intergenerational transmission.

  • The Cult of Sovereignty (natural Law)

    It’s better to belong to a cult of truth, sovereignty, reciprocity, duty, and markets in everything, than (a) to be wrong, (b) to be a sophist (c) be dedicated to any OTHER cult. Western law is a cult. hence why Americans treat the constitution (of natural law) as sacred. They just couldn’t defend it as such. The law is a cult, and that is its virtue. I’m thoroughly thrilled to institutionalize that cult. You think calling natural law fundamentalism a cult is an insult? It’s a recognition of SUCCESS. (a) a moral license for violence… (b) a set of demands, (c) a plan of transition (d) a threat of sufficient concern that the other parties acquiesce. But better – a scientific religion of intergenerational transmission.

  • DESPERATE JUSTIFICATION —For Aspies, “everything I don’t understand is a lie.”

    DESPERATE JUSTIFICATION

    —For Aspies, “everything I don’t understand is a lie.”—

    Not even close.

    “1 – Anything you claim you understand, particularly for the purpose of deduction, or argument, that you cannot express operationally, you do not in fact understand. 2 – Anything you state can be reduced to one more more hypotheses operational language. 3 – Anything stated as such in operational language can be tested for attempts at avoiding costs of reciprocity. 4 – Anything avoiding such costs is an attempt at fraud (theft). 5 – We are, all of us, unaware, that our biases serve the purpose of conducting opportunistic fraud.”

    The fact that you (or anyone) can claim to have an understanding of the arguments I make, without understanding this, is … well a contradiction in and of itself.

    You can try all you want. You won’t defeat this line of argument. It’s the formal logica of cooperation, and therefore the formal logic of natural law.

    All psychologism is false. Appeals to aspieness are false. It makes no difference if the truth is randomly produced or intentionally derived. Statements are true, false or undecidable. These are just justifications or excuses.

    So while you were raised and trained to search for reasonableness (permissive), I changed that logic into ‘test for theft’ (intolerant).

    So while I am tolerant of criticism which is necessary for the training of others, the discovery of talent, and the improvement of my arguments, I am not terribly tolerant of psychologism to mask opportunities for theft, by the subconscious of anyone who is unconscious of his attempt at discounting or theft.

    What we call ‘Meaning’ must create opportunities for free association. Meaning serves as a search algorithm.

    We can construct meaning (searches) that create positive externalities (see the influence of general scientific rules over rules of specific context ). We can construct meaning (searches) that create helpful externalities (prejudices). And we can construct meaning (searches) that create destructive externalities (what popper called ‘sources of ignorance’), and we can construct meaning (searches) that are suicidal. And we can create anything in between.

    We can and do limit people to speech that produces direct and indirect harms. There is nothing we cannot teach by the hyperbolic and supernormal. The fact that we have not limited people to speech that produces indirect harms by appeal to the supernatural, pseudoscientific, pseudo-rational – at least in matters of commerce, politics, and education is merely a failure of our tradition of incremental suppression via the common law of the means of conducting frauds.

    We (((or others))) industrialized fraud. There is no reason why we cannot end it. If that means depriving storytellers of supernatural, pseudoscientific, and pseudorational prose, the way we have deprived murderers, thieves, frauds, conspirators, and snake oil salesmen of their means of conducting harms, then that just continues the long tradition of suppressing the current means of parasitism and increasing the costs of that parasitism so that it remains more rewarding to participate in the market for productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary transfer, free of imposition of costs externality upon the demonstrated investments of others.

    Drug addicts make excuses. Rent seekers make excuses. Frauds make excuses. And pragmatists make excuses. But theft is not an opinion.

    It’s a truth.

    Thus endeth the lesson.

    —“I hope someone picks up this Propertarianism thing and makes it widespread. It won’t be you Curt. However much I like you.”— Daniel Roland Anderson

    Again you just illustrate my point, by justification, psychologism (ridicule), and evasion.

    Painful truths are not popular.

    The law is the least popular.

    They are however, decidable.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-13 13:33:00 UTC

  • Desperate Justification

      —For Aspies, “everything I don’t understand is a lie.”— Not even close. “1 – Anything you claim you understand, particularly for the purpose of deduction, or argument, that you cannot express operationally, you do not in fact understand. 2 – Anything you state can be reduced to one more more hypotheses operational language. 3 – Anything stated as such in operational language can be tested for attempts at avoiding costs of reciprocity. 4 – Anything avoiding such costs is an attempt at fraud (theft). 5 – We are, all of us, unaware, that our biases serve the purpose of conducting opportunistic fraud.” The fact that you (or anyone) can claim to have an understanding of the arguments I make, without understanding this, is … well a contradiction in and of itself. You can try all you want. You won’t defeat this line of argument. It’s the formal logica of cooperation, and therefore the formal logic of natural law. All psychologism is false. Appeals to aspieness are false. It makes no difference if the truth is randomly produced or intentionally derived. Statements are true, false or undecidable. These are just justifications or excuses. So while you were raised and trained to search for reasonableness (permissive), I changed that logic into ‘test for theft’ (intolerant). So while I am tolerant of criticism which is necessary for the training of others, the discovery of talent, and the improvement of my arguments, I am not terribly tolerant of psychologism to mask opportunities for theft, by the subconscious of anyone who is unconscious of his attempt at discounting or theft. What we call ‘Meaning’ must create opportunities for free association. Meaning serves as a search algorithm. We can construct meaning (searches) that create positive externalities (see the influence of general scientific rules over rules of specific context ). We can construct meaning (searches) that create helpful externalities (prejudices). And we can construct meaning (searches) that create destructive externalities (what popper called ‘sources of ignorance’), and we can construct meaning (searches) that are suicidal. And we can create anything in between. We can and do limit people to speech that produces direct and indirect harms. There is nothing we cannot teach by the hyperbolic and supernormal. The fact that we have not limited people to speech that produces indirect harms by appeal to the supernatural, pseudoscientific, pseudo-rational – at least in matters of commerce, politics, and education is merely a failure of our tradition of incremental suppression via the common law of the means of conducting frauds. We (((or others))) industrialized fraud. There is no reason why we cannot end it. If that means depriving storytellers of supernatural, pseudoscientific, and pseudorational prose, the way we have deprived murderers, thieves, frauds, conspirators, and snake oil salesmen of their means of conducting harms, then that just continues the long tradition of suppressing the current means of parasitism and increasing the costs of that parasitism so that it remains more rewarding to participate in the market for productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary transfer, free of imposition of costs externality upon the demonstrated investments of others. Drug addicts make excuses. Rent seekers make excuses. Frauds make excuses. And pragmatists make excuses. But theft is not an opinion. It’s a truth. Thus endeth the lesson. —“I hope someone picks up this Propertarianism thing and makes it widespread. It won’t be you Curt. However much I like you.”— Daniel Roland Anderson Again you just illustrate my point, by justification, psychologism (ridicule), and evasion. Painful truths are not popular. The law is the least popular. They are however, decidable. Apr 13, 2018 1:33pm

  • Desperate Justification

      —For Aspies, “everything I don’t understand is a lie.”— Not even close. “1 – Anything you claim you understand, particularly for the purpose of deduction, or argument, that you cannot express operationally, you do not in fact understand. 2 – Anything you state can be reduced to one more more hypotheses operational language. 3 – Anything stated as such in operational language can be tested for attempts at avoiding costs of reciprocity. 4 – Anything avoiding such costs is an attempt at fraud (theft). 5 – We are, all of us, unaware, that our biases serve the purpose of conducting opportunistic fraud.” The fact that you (or anyone) can claim to have an understanding of the arguments I make, without understanding this, is … well a contradiction in and of itself. You can try all you want. You won’t defeat this line of argument. It’s the formal logica of cooperation, and therefore the formal logic of natural law. All psychologism is false. Appeals to aspieness are false. It makes no difference if the truth is randomly produced or intentionally derived. Statements are true, false or undecidable. These are just justifications or excuses. So while you were raised and trained to search for reasonableness (permissive), I changed that logic into ‘test for theft’ (intolerant). So while I am tolerant of criticism which is necessary for the training of others, the discovery of talent, and the improvement of my arguments, I am not terribly tolerant of psychologism to mask opportunities for theft, by the subconscious of anyone who is unconscious of his attempt at discounting or theft. What we call ‘Meaning’ must create opportunities for free association. Meaning serves as a search algorithm. We can construct meaning (searches) that create positive externalities (see the influence of general scientific rules over rules of specific context ). We can construct meaning (searches) that create helpful externalities (prejudices). And we can construct meaning (searches) that create destructive externalities (what popper called ‘sources of ignorance’), and we can construct meaning (searches) that are suicidal. And we can create anything in between. We can and do limit people to speech that produces direct and indirect harms. There is nothing we cannot teach by the hyperbolic and supernormal. The fact that we have not limited people to speech that produces indirect harms by appeal to the supernatural, pseudoscientific, pseudo-rational – at least in matters of commerce, politics, and education is merely a failure of our tradition of incremental suppression via the common law of the means of conducting frauds. We (((or others))) industrialized fraud. There is no reason why we cannot end it. If that means depriving storytellers of supernatural, pseudoscientific, and pseudorational prose, the way we have deprived murderers, thieves, frauds, conspirators, and snake oil salesmen of their means of conducting harms, then that just continues the long tradition of suppressing the current means of parasitism and increasing the costs of that parasitism so that it remains more rewarding to participate in the market for productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary transfer, free of imposition of costs externality upon the demonstrated investments of others. Drug addicts make excuses. Rent seekers make excuses. Frauds make excuses. And pragmatists make excuses. But theft is not an opinion. It’s a truth. Thus endeth the lesson. —“I hope someone picks up this Propertarianism thing and makes it widespread. It won’t be you Curt. However much I like you.”— Daniel Roland Anderson Again you just illustrate my point, by justification, psychologism (ridicule), and evasion. Painful truths are not popular. The law is the least popular. They are however, decidable. Apr 13, 2018 1:33pm

  • One of (((Their))) techniques is to create moral hazard by appeal to reasonablen

    One of (((Their))) techniques is to create moral hazard by appeal to reasonableness (optimums) versus appeal to criticism (skepticisms). Whenever someone makes an appeal to reasonableness rather than reciprocity or truth then you know they’re engaging in deception by pilpul.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-12 15:43:00 UTC

  • (a) as ability declines demand for intuitionistic fictions increases, and conver

    (a) as ability declines demand for intuitionistic fictions increases, and conversely as ability increases demand for rationally decidable criteria increases. Meaning those of lesser ability require we appeal to intuitions, and those of greater ability require we appeal to reason. This is because those of lower ability have not been sufficiently domesticated (produced agency) by those of greater ability.

    (b) literary analogy using archetypes and archetypal story lines (we can list both archetypes and story lines) can be decomposed into rational terms and tested. Literary analogy allows loading and framing so that individuals can learn by intuition rather than reason (ie: by suggestion). But if we cannot decompose these analogies to scientific statements we do not know if they are false, or harmful or ‘evil’ as abrahamism has been.

    (d) people require a means of calculating (reasoning, thinking) in the broadest sense, and the most simple units of measure are anthropological. In the absence of tribal feedback they need what we call mindfulness but is better thought of a means of selecting and ignoring impulses (some of us call this agency). and in the absence of tribal community and dependence we need festivals and feasts. And to establish the limits we need an oath. All civilizations address this spectrum of mindfulness to oath, to feast, to festival to compensate for the competition produced by production, and the hierarchy that evolves form that division of knowledge, labor, and advocacy involved in the production of private, commercial, and public goods. This is because too few of us are evolved enough to survive without institutions that provide help to our remaining animal intuitions.

    We teach certain skills but what we do not teach is ‘sacredness of the commons’ that churches did, and we do not teach mindfulness or norms in a rational fashion.

    Religion is dying everywhere. ANd it is being replaced with things that are almost as bad. The question is how we provide the necessary services of religions in a manner not constituted by lies that do not decompose in to scientifically testable, and therefore indisputable prose.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-10 15:21:00 UTC

  • Truth is enough. If you need lies, then why do you need lies?

    Truth is enough. If you need lies, then why do you need lies?


    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-09 15:39:39 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/983368854654062594

    Reply addressees: @TheAustrian_

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  • Very few of us are capable of understanding this, because the desire for closure

    Very few of us are capable of understanding this, because the desire for closure (mathiness) in the pursuit of certainty (justification) is impossible for all but the most confident to tolerate. Taleb says it poorly but “skin in the game” is the only solution to such behaviors.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-09 14:23:28 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/983349680158531585

    Reply addressees: @FriedrichHayek @NakedKeynes

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/983348359485419521


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    @FriedrichHayek

    @NakedKeynes Hayek is right and you are wrong in pointing out that the “invisible hand” is a causal empirical mechanism which explains an empirical problem, and it is not a definition of “value” nor is it a tautological conceptual construction tied any model of “value”. Arrow blundered here.

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/983348359485419521

  • 3 – in the ongoing competition with the consequences of fictionalism, “true enou

    3 – in the ongoing competition with the consequences of fictionalism, “true enough” is no longer “good enough”, it is the entirety of the problem. Every discipline must reform just as during the last revolutions. … –Cheers.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-08 16:12:19 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/983014686303178753

    Reply addressees: @PeterBoettke @pavelkuchar @FerlitoCarmelo

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/983005370657501184


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    @PeterBoettke

    @curtdoolittle @pavelkuchar @FerlitoCarmelo Austrian economics is much more vibrant and varied within the scientific community that you are recognizing Curt. I believe this is because you are looking at it through a certain window, a window I would argue is the least productive of plausible readings of a tradition.

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/983005370657501184