Author: Curt Doolittle

  • I HAVE BEEN AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE CORRECT ON BITCOIN’S FUTURE This video start

    I HAVE BEEN AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE CORRECT ON BITCOIN’S FUTURE
    This video starts with reflections on china but ninety percent of the content explains the vulnerability of bitcoin.

    Now, I’ve been ‘on message’ since something like 2012, and I know the fanboys are religious zealots. But like I said, a central bank can gut the system instantly, and they have multiple reasons to do so. In fact, as the speaker says in the video, the fact that bitcoin sucks at liquidity is the only reason Organized Crime has limited its use. There isn’t any ‘post-state’ world comging about. Instead the USA’s ‘connection’ of the world as an economy is coming about and the conflict of civilizations and the fragility of trade is returning along with the ’empires’ that failed to make the transition to federations: russia, china, and islam.

    So if you think you are smart enough to ride bitcoin up, and then time your exit that’s fine. I probably could do that if I was interested. That’s because the reaction time of governments and banks is slow.

    I am not anti-crypto. If it solved the ‘bankless’ problem alone I’d be thrilled with it. If it was used to force banks to hold their loans, but sell shares in them to restore their lending cycle I’d be even more thrilled. If it solved replacing the (corrupt) stock market I’d be more thrilled – it’s totally unnecessary. If it was used to create title registries for property of all sorts, I’d be thrilled with it – god knows how much a pain that is. I don’t put a lot of faith in ‘smart contracts’ but for some cases that might be good for commodity deals. And I love the idea of a traceable currency for the simple reason that it would provide solid economic data and allow the central bank and the state to move ahead of rather than behind the data. And as some of you know I’ve been a proponent of new accounting software that did the same internally – so that executives could understand how money REALLY flowed through their businesses without the human cost of creating vast numbers of complex transactions in existing accounting systems. All of those are good things.

    But if you think govts are going to give up control of borrowing and liquidity you’re clearly living in an archaic delusion. And if you think that if digital currency solves the transaction speed and volume problem sufficient to compete with a central currency, that they won’t give a 30 day window to buy fedcoins before they shut down the possibility of extracting the value, you’re just ignorant and delusional.

    I haven’t been wrong. I won’t be wrong. The only ‘miss’ I’ve had over the past decade is the rather ‘odd’ rescue of bitcoin by institutions – which I just didn’t expect. I understand why they’ve done it. I just also understand why they think they’ll be able to time it.

    Video (wrong title, about china, ignore it)
    https://t.co/ytccoGoO2b


    Source date (UTC): 2024-02-26 21:41:23 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1762231410503405568

  • Example of Psychologizing – from a photo of all things. (sigh) RE: All psycholog

    Example of Psychologizing – from a photo of all things. (sigh)
    RE: https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-788754
    All psychologizing is projection. He’s just enduring stress from the work and it’s importance. That doesn’t mean anything. He isn’t exactly someone who’s intellectually challenged,…


    Source date (UTC): 2024-02-26 20:30:28 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1762213563018461226

  • Example of Psychologizing – from a photo of all things. (sigh) RE: All psycholog

    Example of Psychologizing – from a photo of all things. (sigh)
    RE: https://t.co/UYRk00j4Fg
    All psychologizing is projection. He’s just enduring stress from the work and it’s importance. That doesn’t mean anything. He isn’t exactly someone who’s intellectually challenged, morally ambiguous, confused about his mission for his people and his country, or afraid of hard work. However, we all tire under the combination of those burdens. He’s still one of the greatest statesmen of the past fifty years. So I find this kind of psychologizing insulting. Not only as an intellectual myself, but in defense of a man that those of us in the west wish we had so dedicated to our interests.


    Source date (UTC): 2024-02-26 20:30:28 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1762213562901016576

  • I live to serve

    I live to serve.


    Source date (UTC): 2024-02-26 20:28:29 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1762213066266021984

    Reply addressees: @lerpclide40920 @spaceangelvoice

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1762212118185791941

  • Example of Psychologizing – from a photo of all things. (sigh) RE: All psycholog

    Example of Psychologizing – from a photo of all things. (sigh)
    RE: https://t.co/UYRk00j4Fg
    All psychologizing is projection. He’s just enduring stress from the work and it’s importance. That doesn’t mean anything. He isn’t exactly someone who’s intellectually challenges, morally ambiguous, confused about his mission for his people and his country, or afraid of hard work. However, we all tired under the combination of those burdens. He’s still one of the greatest statesmen of the past fifty years. So I find this kind of psychologizing insulting. Not only as an intellectual myself, but in defense of a man that those of us in the west wish we had so dedicated to our interests.


    Source date (UTC): 2024-02-26 20:28:04 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1762212960934494208

  • Is stoicism a religion?

    Is stoicism a religion?


    Source date (UTC): 2024-02-26 20:19:42 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1762210852332048431

    Reply addressees: @ouroborosKXM @Gundissemenator

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1762210692323504285

  • THE GRADUAL CONVERGENCE OF VALUES AND THE LIMIT OF THAT CONVERGENCE You know the

    THE GRADUAL CONVERGENCE OF VALUES AND THE LIMIT OF THAT CONVERGENCE
    You know there are plenty of scholars who can answer many of the questions I do. The difference is that I have a conservative and judicial agenda of truth-before face regardless of cost. So one develops a trust in certain public intellectuals because you have an affinity for their moral bias. The reason this distribution of intellectuals is necessary is the problem of directly accessing and synthesizing the information from the sciences and history.

    If you follow my or my good friend Rudyard Lynch (@whatifalthist) you will find we have the same moral intuition, and same understanding of history, but I am concerned about governing and he is concerned about the governed. Even if we agree on everything our position will vary by this degree. So even people who agree on most everything still emphasize some set of dimensions of value vs others.

    But just as we see the physical sciences converge on a universal paradigm of universal commensurability, we also see the convergence in the behavioral sciences, and eventually morality – that if moral should and almost must, be consistent with the physical behavioral and physical sciences if we are to claim it is true.

    I do see this convergence. Though I do expect that the IQ and neotenic differences between major populations (races, ethnicities) to persist and as such the utilitarian composition of m oral rules in those polities must meet the needs of the demographic distribution within those communities.

    hugs all.


    Source date (UTC): 2024-02-26 20:16:53 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1762210144895590400

  • (Great question by the way) 😉

    (Great question by the way) 😉


    Source date (UTC): 2024-02-26 20:08:10 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1762207950502830470

    Reply addressees: @lerpclide40920 @spaceangelvoice

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1762206197753794848

  • Thinking across the spectrum from auto-association > reason > calculation(in the

    Thinking across the spectrum from auto-association > reason > calculation(in the broad sense) > computation (in the narrow sense) consists of wayfinding using some number of anchors of attention to achieve some objective.
    Intuiting (cognitive-predictive) and feeling (emotional-valuative) occur prior to conscious observation of those effects.
    I would say that intuitions(and feelings) produce a field of possibilities and that reason is used to focus on and work through them.
    If you have to make a choice, it’s necessary to exert the cost of reason (thinking) to resolve the conflict brought about by the uncertainty.

    Reply addressees: @lerpclide40920 @spaceangelvoice


    Source date (UTC): 2024-02-26 20:07:22 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1762207748278697984

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  • I’ve read enough. He’s typical of someone not educated in the sciences and so he

    I’ve read enough. He’s typical of someone not educated in the sciences and so he speaks in typical french philosophical prose loaded with emotion about that which is trivially simple and well known in the literature. My primary complaint is that he justifies manipulation -…


    Source date (UTC): 2024-02-26 20:03:25 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1762206753926545899

    Reply addressees: @DokicNathanial @ouroborosKXM

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1762197408195481731