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[T]he Good, the useless and the bad. —“But my experience is that language, like traditions, and genes, grows to contain useful, useless, and damaging content.”— Curt Source: Curt Doolittle

 [A] criticism from Bruce, on my failure to make clear that Operationalism is a means of conducting a test of falsification. –“This monotheistic passion for reduction to operations seems to lead to cul-de-sacs.”— Bruce Caithness Bruce, 1) Operationalism is an attempt at falsification. Just as in math, if we can construct a statement through operations…

Q&A: “Curt, What do you say about soul? And its relation to property?” – Mahmoud B. [Y]our indisputable Property is that which you act to obtain without forcing involuntary transfers upon others. Meaning: without {violence,theft, fraud, suggestion, obscurantism, omission, indirection (externality), free riding, socializing losses and privatizing commons, conspiracy, conversion, immigration, war, conquest, and genocide.}…

[F]reedom requires: 1 – Right of Entrance / Exit. 2 – Right of Association / Disassociation. 3 – Right of Trade / Boycott If you cannot exit, determine, association and disassociation, choose whom to trade and whom to boycott, then you are a slave. Period.

[I]slam is a more aggressive evolutionary strategy. In that sense it is a superior competitive strategy. That does not mean it produces a superior mankind. It mereley means it is more competitive. 1) hatred is proscribed / hatred is prohibited 2) punishment is prescribed / punishment is prohibited 3) lies are permissible / lies are…

[M]an. 1 – Man must acquire resources.2 – Man must act to acquire resources.3 – Man must act cooperatively to disproportionately improve acquisition of resources.4 – Man must act to preserve and extend cooperation to preserve the disproportionate rewards of acquisition through cooperation.5 – Man acts to preserve and extend cooperation by the suppression of…

[T]he Church federalized the Aristocracy into The Christian Monarchies. And the Church amplified our hunter-gatherer lack of aggression. But that is very different from saying that the Church created western civilization. The Church was an amplifier, not a creator. The Church did good – but it has done both damage and good. And the enlightenment…

[T]o say that European Aristocracy is Egalitarian is somewhat of a tautology.  An aristocracy requires numbers, and has an interest in creating large numbers in a hierarchy of aristocratic peers.  So aristocracy is egalitarian – open to meritocratic entry.

[I] know that you want to feel emotionally vindicated, and that you want to vent your frustrations when conducting an argument, but the fact of the matter is Propertarianism and Testimonialism are constructed amorally (( amoral adjective “not involving questions of right or wrong; without moral quality; neither moral nor immoral.” )) so that all moral…

[I]nequality is a good. In evolves man. Invention is a good. In increases our ability to consume. If we were all equal, we would have nothing to trade. And we would be poor. As are extant people who are in practice equal. To create an economy to sustain man we must create equality constantly. To…

[I]f you don’t feed the tree of liberty frequently, then you must infrequently feed it a lot. Thus endeth the lesson. (Aristocratic Egalitarianism.)

[B]een trying to work on constructing Propertarian definitions for these terms. Ran across this gem, that is very, very close. —“Civilization is fundamentally a cultural infrastructure of information and knowledge that serves survival and continuity. What distinguishes a civilization from a culture is that this infrastructure, having reached a critical level of complexity, becomes autonomous…

[Y]ou can invest your neuronal development in increasing the explanatory power of very narrow concepts, or invest your neuronal development in increasing the explanatory power of very broad concepts. There are THREE reasons why we produce many very smart people in narrow niches, and very few very smart people in broad concepts. 1) First, the…

(second draft) (full cycle) (still needs third section) [W]e both perceive, and remember stimuli, and construct and remember relations from that stimuli, and construct and remember layers upon layers of those relations. The acts of planning, calculating, hypothesizing, searching, freely-associating, daydreaming, dreaming, and subconscious association attempt to imagine relations between the entire spectrum of memories…

SYSTEMS G-GENES, 0-PROPERTY, 1-INTUITION, 2-REASON, 3-COOPERATION(REPRODUCTIVE DIVISION OF PERCEPTION, COGNITION, KNOWLEDGE, LABOR) (profound) (worth repeating) [O]ur logical capacity extends to the limits defined by the flight of an arrow. For more complex multi-dimensional relations we resort to the cartesian representations. And if the problem is more complicated than that, then our reason, and ability to…

(By: Curt Doolittle, Johannes Meixner and Andy Curzon) [W]e learn actions by doing. But we learn metaphysics by observation: our most effective learning-by-doing comes from recognizing patterns and habits of others in the environment. Things we take for granted as static, rather than open to our modification. So I tend to see something like programming…