Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • ***Why would you think you can rely on the objective morality of an action using

    ***Why would you think you can rely on the objective morality of an action using introspection rather than empirical measurement, any more than you can rely on the objective measurement of anything else by introspection rather than empirical measurement?***

    Seriously. In the future people won’t.

    Propertarianism and Testimonialism = “Radical Empiricism” in some people’s terms, but as far as I know it consists of ‘complete empiricism’ and every discipline that we call science before now consists of ‘incomplete empiricism’.

    There are only so many existentially possible dimensions to test.

    If we test them all then we have created complete empiricism.

    We stopped people from many forms of introspective reliance.

    The next step in our conceptual evolution is stopping people from introspective reliance on moral questions.

    Which is pretty cool really. Humbling. Terribly humbling. But cool.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-08 07:53:00 UTC

  • Communal Warfare Among Hunter Gatherers (Paper) (For Future Reference) (H/T to w

    http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2016/01/08/proving-communal-warfare-among-hunter-gatherers-paper/Proving Communal Warfare Among Hunter Gatherers (Paper)

    (For Future Reference)

    (H/T to whomever sent it to me. pls let me know so I can credit)

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-08 07:02:00 UTC

  • LETTER TO “SOCIAL DEMOCRACY IN THE 21ST CENTURY” ( ) (posted on site in comments

    http://socialdemocracy21stcentury.blogspot.com/OPEN LETTER TO “SOCIAL DEMOCRACY IN THE 21ST CENTURY”

    ( http://socialdemocracy21stcentury.blogspot.com/ )

    (posted on site in comments section given no link to messaging)

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    Wondering if you’d be willing to do a chat.

    We both started working on similar problems at about the same time. And have come to similar conclusions although not identical through different methods.

    I know that the difference in our work comes down to the difference between aggregates and consumption under the assumption of common good on your end, and truthfulness, morality, and rational cooperation under the assumption of not doing ‘bad’ on mine.

    And perhaps nothing more than the difference between dysgenic and eugenic reproduction as the translation of the criteria we both call that “assumption” of common good or ‘doing bad’.

    With that understanding (if we can achieve it) I feel you are better informed than I am on the consequences of MMT and inflation on prices, credit, debt and possibly information.

    Now I am not an MMT supporter but it is the only referrer I know that has enough meaning to provide a starting point.

    And while I agree that the K/NK movements describe cause and consequence. I do not think it constitutes a full accounting of consequence, and as such is insufficient. Nor do I find agreement with discretionary action rather than rule of law in matters of influencing the economy by policy means. Any more than I find agreement with discretion in rule of law in the practice of law, or policy.

    The problem we (both) face in this subject matter is that there are very few people with broad enough knowledge of the various movements to converse with. Particularly the relatively serious failure of the 20th century thinkers to solve the problem of social science (the Wilsonian Synthesis) and its consequence.

    It would help me a great deal if we could talk through this set of ideas. I would be hopeful it would be equally helpful to you as well.

    Thanks

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-08 06:54:00 UTC

  • Germany Must Abandon her Self Punishment and return to Leadership of the West. I

    Germany Must Abandon her Self Punishment and return to Leadership of the West. I am not at this point sure Germany should bear any guilt in the first place. We were wrong, and Germany was right. I suspect coming to terms with this will be a great challenge for Germans. (It was a great challenge for me.)

    But Germany (Hanseatica) is the heart of the west. Unless she defends us from the east we will die.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-08 06:00:00 UTC

  • “By a continuous process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and

    —“By a continuous process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method, they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. The process engages all of the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner that not one man in a million can diagnose.”— JM Keyens

    Somehow, the “extra-judicial theft of purchasing power and wealth via inflation” (the operative Keynesian mechanism for curing a “lack of aggregate demand”) disappeared from Keynes’ narratives by the 1930s. – Bob Roddis

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-08 05:29:00 UTC

  • Does The Market Produce Truth Telling?

    [D]oes The Market Produce Truth Telling? Every polity possesses a market order – it must. Very few polities produce truth telling – truth telling is extremely expensive. Its expensive because its an investment in a commons (norm). And that investment is easily open to privatization (cheating). Ergo, groups demonstrate the minimum truth possible necessary to survive rather than the highest trust necessary to complete. Cheating is demonstration of a shorter(higher) time preference, and truth telling and longer(lower) time preference. With meritocratic ability (skill talent knowledge) determining the value of common investment(truth telling/production) versus private consumption (cheating/parasitism). Ergo the less genetic pacification (culling of the underclass), and the less pacification of parasitism (rule of law and property), the lower the trust and the greater the parasitism, and the greater the demand for the state. This is compatible with the Nozickian origins of social order (they will emerge out of cooperative necessity). But not with locke,hobbes,rousseu,hume who seem not to have (I could be wrong) identified the equilibrium between pure self interest and cheating and the extraordinary returns on morality and cooperation. Meaning Axelrod is right that the prisonner’s dilemma is the state of nature we must answer. So of all the prior era writers’ imaginings of the state of nature, appear to have been either wrong or insufficient.

  • Does The Market Produce Truth Telling?

    [D]oes The Market Produce Truth Telling? Every polity possesses a market order – it must. Very few polities produce truth telling – truth telling is extremely expensive. Its expensive because its an investment in a commons (norm). And that investment is easily open to privatization (cheating). Ergo, groups demonstrate the minimum truth possible necessary to survive rather than the highest trust necessary to complete. Cheating is demonstration of a shorter(higher) time preference, and truth telling and longer(lower) time preference. With meritocratic ability (skill talent knowledge) determining the value of common investment(truth telling/production) versus private consumption (cheating/parasitism). Ergo the less genetic pacification (culling of the underclass), and the less pacification of parasitism (rule of law and property), the lower the trust and the greater the parasitism, and the greater the demand for the state. This is compatible with the Nozickian origins of social order (they will emerge out of cooperative necessity). But not with locke,hobbes,rousseu,hume who seem not to have (I could be wrong) identified the equilibrium between pure self interest and cheating and the extraordinary returns on morality and cooperation. Meaning Axelrod is right that the prisonner’s dilemma is the state of nature we must answer. So of all the prior era writers’ imaginings of the state of nature, appear to have been either wrong or insufficient.

  • Great people. Met a fellow from another IT company in Lviv. Sweet guy. Talked bi

    Great people. Met a fellow from another IT company in Lviv. Sweet guy. Talked biz.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-07 15:06:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/1300

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-07 15:00:00 UTC

  • The women at my table just toasted to happiness. and each added more detail than

    The women at my table just toasted to happiness. and each added more detail than the last:

    Good Food.

    Good company.

    Good surroundings.

    Good sex. (Laughter)

    Good sex every day. (Loud laughter)

    Omg.

    This is getting dangerous.

    Time to find an excuse to leave. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-07 14:59:00 UTC