More Thoughts on Operationalism
MORE OPERATIONALISM (economics, philosophy) I’ve been working with framing the debate against naive mathematics as similar to the debate against naive empiricism, because economics makes use of both naive empiricism and naive mathematics. For a very long time – since at least the greeks – we have advanced the fallacy that the universe is written…
Apple Will Have No Choice…
Chris, Great unbiased Venturebeat article on Apple. Thank you. Have a few thoughts to share (and curious if you have any feedback). As someone intimately familiar with the Post-Bill-Gates internal consequences at Microsoft, I see all the same behaviors at Apple, and I suspect we will see the same ‘lost decade’ of results. The difference…
Nothing Should Be Determined Democratically (Israel)
Peace is undesirable in the choice between a homeland at the expense of conflict, and peace at the expense of a second failure to preserve a homeland. Jews must learn to rule – including themselves. Christians must return to rule. Democracy – the abandonment of rule – is a failed experiment. We pretend that democracy…
The Term “Individualism” is a Slur. Sovereignty, not Individualism.
Non-Conflation is the Result of the ‘Sentiment’ of Sovereignty. I realize this is hard to understand, but in the simplest example, most cultures conflate religion and law. Ours maintained the separation. We preserve separation and therefore competition everywhere. Because sovereignty is our founding principle – that which makes us westerners. All other virtues of western…
Why A Monopoly Economic Model? Power. Because there isn’t a need for a monopoly model.
—“Curt , why won’t they let us have economic and cultural systems that are specific to the various cultures around the world? Why the obsession to force one system on differing people, many whom aren’t adept to a foreign survival strategy? Why not let many flowers bloom?”—Ankit Patel? Exactly. You know why? Where religion was…
More Operationalism
(economics, philosophy) I’ve been working with framing the debate against naive mathematics as similar to the debate against naive empiricism, because economics makes use of both naive empiricism and naive mathematics. For a very long time – since at least the greeks – we have advanced the fallacy that the universe is written in mathematical…
If You Want To Knock Me, This Isn’t The Way To Do It.
(Curt Doolittle December 23 at 10:12am · Doniphan, NE · ) —“You’re a 50 something autist who lives in a backwater European country. You studied art history in college, you’ve never been published, and you spend your whole time espousing your ideas on reddit and Facebook. Who is going to ever take you seriously? “—…
A Sentence isn’t false. The Speaker States a Falsehood.
(Bill Joslin – December 17 at 9:38pm) There is sooo much in this small conversation!: Curt Doolittle: A sentence does not speak. A speaker speaks a sentence. A sentence is not false. the speaker’s statement is false. Curt Doolittle: now you understand why we say ‘is true’ rather than “i promise” – to deceive. Moritz…
Why Do Rationalists Avoid Testing via the Empirical, Operational, and Reciprocity?
(Curt Doolittle December 18 at 9:24pm) 1) if we CAN fully expand a sentence, before we test it for internal consistency, and we do not do so, then why? In other words, what is the informational content between an unexpanded sentence, and an expanded sentence? And why would we fail to expand a sentence that can…
Open Borders Produce Forceful Redistribution.
December 19 at 10:11am —“Property norms define superior and inferior claims. The current condition of the “unused” land is subsidized at gun point by victims of tax theft. Those victims therefore have the best objective link to its use. An open border policy is therefore the forceful redistribution of resources from those with superior property claims…
Complexity That Assists in Truth Telling
—-“Complexity is often employed to deceive, obfuscate, and evade the simplest of truths. The proper function of complexity is in the increased precision of truth telling, rather than the enhancement of lying.”—-Adam Houseman
Epistemology: Prediction vs Explanation
(Curt Doolittle December 19 at 11:24am) I classify falsifiability under ‘scope consistency’: limits, parsimony, and falsifiability. Technically they are all properties of scope. But to test scope we must test all dimensions of scope. Also, like internal consistency, I use external correspondence rather than ‘predictability’ since ‘prediction’ generally invites the ludic fallacy (probability). We cannot…
Giving Up On Scientific Thought For Everyone?
(Curt Doolittle December 19 at 12:20pm) NO ARISTOCRACY OF EVERYONE, NOR SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT FOR EVERYONE. I think we need to give up on the hope that all people can be taught to think as we call ‘scientifically’ for the simple reason that as we dip below 105, the challenge becomes insurmountable. If we had the…
Q&A: Martial Epistemology
—“Where did you learn that the roots of science are in martial epistemology? Who on your reading list?”— Well, it’s not a novel idea. I just frame it more precisely. I think I intuitively understood it just because of all the history I’ve read. But it was the sequence Marija Gimbutas > J. P. Mallory…
Application of the Rule: Any Unlimited Organization Will Swim Left.
( Ely Harman December 20 at 11:45pm · ) Tell me where I’m wrong. Mixed male/female institutions and spaces of any size under feminism will tend to end up female dominated, or at least dominated by feminine sensibilities, if not female persons. Why? Because in any conflict between a man and a woman the woman…
Sequence: Scale and Boundaries
—“This scales along a continuum (with increasing fragility and negative effects as scale increases): The tribe is a softening of family boundaries through intermarriage and mutually beneficial collective action. The nation state is a dissolution of tribal boundaries through ideology or forced submission. Globalism is the suppression of nation state boundaries through fraud and deceit.”—…
Globalism Enables our Worst.
(by Bill Joslin December 18 at 2:30am )· Violence occurs at the boundary between in-group and out-group. Globalism attempts to create world peace by dissolving national sovereignty and thus dissolving the in-group out-group boundary on the global scale. By doing so, violence is transferred to non-state actors(rioting, ISIS etc). By destroying formal institutions (the state)…
The Game Theory of Sovereignty
Game Theory of Sovereignty (by William Butchman) a) Eli’s Theorem: “If you would be SOVEREIGN, you must fight. If you would win, you must confederate. If you would confederate, you must compromise. If you would compromise, you must accept limits on your actions. SOVEREIGNTY will be won only by those who desire to exercise it…
Why Am I Blocked from FB for Sharing a Meme Where Someone Ridicules Me?
Stoicism as a response to increase in scale.
(by James Augustus Berens ) JA BERENS ON STOICISM AND SCALE —“Stoicism functions as a tool for limiting the scope of human cognitive processes (cognition & responses to perceived changes in state) to the consequential (actionable at individual scale). The scope of man’s cognitive processes evolved under tribal/local scale with limited complexity. Under more complex…
Podcast with Richard Heathen
“I Killed Anarcho Capitalism” — Curt Doolittle Liberty Machine News December 5 at 6:46pm · On the 16the episode of the Liberty Machine Unleashed! podcast Richard Heathen interviews Curt Doolittle, the Director of the Propertarian Institute and a philosopher of Epistemology, Ethics, Politics, Economics, and Natural Law, in the Conservative Libertarian tradition. LINK: http://www.libertymachinenews.com/i-killed-anarcho-capitalism-wcurt-doolittle-liberty-machine-unleashed-episode-16.html
The Functions of the Classes
THE FUNCTIONS OF THE CLASSES (propertarian class theory) ——UPPER——- TOOL OF COERCION: FORCE – MILITARY, LAW, SHERIFF 1) UPPER – PRODUCTION OF ORDER (SOVEREIGNTY) Rule Economyt (Aristocracy Profit from the Organization of Labor+K) ——MIDDLE——- TOOL OF COERCION – REMUNERATION – ORGANIZATION, DISTRIBUTION AND TRADE 2) UPPER MIDDLE – ORGANIZATION OF PRODUCTION (LIBERTY) Capitalism ( Organization…
Punishing Columbia University?
WHAT SHALL BE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY’S PUNISHMENT FOR THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL? For crimes against humanity, against western civilization, against the united states of america, what shall be the punishment for Columbia University? 1) Sponsorship of a Natural Law School and Degree? 2) “Cornell Style” Forcible Restructuring of Curriculum and Staff? 3) Total Purge of Staff and…
Constitutional Convention? How about Hanging-Trees?
ON LIBERAL CALLS FOR A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION: WE HAVE OTHER IDEAS – HANGING TREES FOR THE LIARS. No we are not having a constitutional convention. 1) Liberals have destroyed the constitution’s rule of law by arguing that we can pass whatever laws we want. The 14th amendment alone invalidated the constitution. What damage wasn’t done…
I don’t get involved in ‘****gates’
( I don’t get involved in ‘***gates’. Rallying and shaming is for common folk. Sorry. The substantive problem is the lack of rule of law under natural law with which we can prosecute by violence acts of harm, theft, fraud, and deceit. Everything else is just monkeys hooting at one another across territories. So either…