Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • Curt Doolittle You, by virtue of you occupation create a dense gathering of peop

    Curt Doolittle

    You, by virtue of you occupation create a dense gathering of people that exposes them to risk but which you profit from. Since you can learn to be sufficiently competent with a handgun in just a few lessons, failing to do it is just an excuse not to take responsibility for the defence of the citizenry. As such it is hard to argue that you reap the extraordinary rewards of this society without paying the only cost of enfranchisement: it’s defense.

    Cowardice is merely taking an unearned discount.

    That’s all it is.

    Free riding.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-13 14:04:00 UTC

  • SURRENDER. OR GUILTY IN DEFENSE BE THUS DESTROYED. —“Take pity of your town an

    SURRENDER. OR GUILTY IN DEFENSE BE THUS DESTROYED.

    —“Take pity of your town and of your people,

    Whiles yet my soldiers are in my command;

    Whiles yet the cool and temperate wind of grace

    O’erblows the filthy and contagious clouds

    Of heady murder, spoil and villany.

    If not, why, in a moment look to see

    The blind and bloody soldier with foul hand

    Defile the locks of your shrill-shrieking daughters;

    Your fathers taken by the silver beards,

    And their most reverend heads dash’d to the walls,

    Your naked infants spitted upon pikes,

    Whiles the mad mothers with their howls confused

    Do break the clouds, as did the wives of Jewry

    At Herod’s bloody-hunting slaughtermen.

    What say you? will you yield, and this avoid,

    Or, guilty in defence, be thus destroy’d?”—

    No mercy. Rule of law or heady murder.

    Welcome to the revolution.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-13 08:28:00 UTC

  • I just thought of a curated advertising model that would work within Oversing at

    I just thought of a curated advertising model that would work within Oversing at some point in its distant future. I am surprised no one has done it yet. Maybe they have tried and it’s not effective enough for consumer products. Interesting.

    Also, I’ve been against advertising in the FB and google model. But you know, I’m totally in favor of catalog and magazine subscriptions that don’t cost anything. In other words, if the user wants to subscribe to a ‘page’ sponsored by a company then that’s very different from spamming users.

    Anyway. Just ruminating. (Kirill is fixing bugs. I am testing. We are drinking coffee and Borjomi. It’s wet and cold outside. )

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-13 08:19:00 UTC

  • Good advertising consists in the truth, spoken briefly and eloquently

    –Good advertising consists in the truth, spoken briefly and eloquently.–

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-13 07:39:00 UTC

  • Let me help you. The purpose of surveys is to frame opinion. Don’t be daft

    Let me help you. The purpose of surveys is to frame opinion. Don’t be daft.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-13 07:35:00 UTC

  • QUOTE “…now the economists win the Nobel for explaining to their fellow econom

    http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2015/10/12/angus-deaton-and-modern-economics/QUOTABLE QUOTE

    “…now the economists win the Nobel for explaining to their fellow economists something that the general public has always known, e.g.:

    1 – Politicians care about themselves (Buchanan).

    2 – Don’t put all your eggs in one basket (Markowitz, Miller,and Sharpe).

    3 – You can’t fool all of the people all of the time (Lucas).

    4 – Some people know more than others (Akerlof, Spence, Stiglitz).”

    (h/t Paul Vahur )

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-13 06:21:00 UTC

  • “It’s entirely possible that we are manufacturing these rare particles, not disc

    –“It’s entirely possible that we are manufacturing these rare particles, not discovering them.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-13 06:18:00 UTC

  • PURPOSE IS PACIFICATION: BENDING THE UNIVERSE TO OUR WILL All knowledge is not w

    PURPOSE IS PACIFICATION: BENDING THE UNIVERSE TO OUR WILL

    All knowledge is not welcome. Ignorance is comforting. The least comforting of which is that the universe is not our friend. We defeat the universe’s struggle for entropy with every day we continue exist. To survive, it is our only function – to conquer and bend the universe to our will, for our own purpose, and in doing so make a garden of it, by pacifying that universe that cares nothing for us in the least, and works every day to eliminate us.

    The history of man is the history of pacification of the universe around him.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Philosophy of Aristocracy

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-13 06:18:00 UTC

  • (Facebook ‘features’) Apparently Facebook is kicking up memories of the past on

    (Facebook ‘features’)

    Apparently Facebook is kicking up memories of the past on a random basis. But how do they select good and bad memories? I mean, if you show me a photo from my divorce era I might just start sobbing. Others fill you with joy.

    This photo magically appeared on my timeline today. Amanda is an elegant woman, beautiful and kind. A bit of a fragile flower at times, which makes her all the more desirable. She’ll be beautiful no matter what her age. I couldn’t tolerate living in Canada, and she couldn’t trust me to be dependable enough to follow me. And she was terrified of racism in the states the same way europeans are terrified of guns in the states.

    Men are more sentimental than women. I still love every women I’ve ever been with. Women are not. When we’re gone, they hate us. This makes a kind of reproductive sense really. We still protect them if they don’t mate with us. They refuse to mate with us because for them we’re unreliable, and they spread negative gossip about us to other women, decreasing our reproductive viability.

    All knowledge is not welcome. Ignorance is comforting. The universe is not our friend. We defeat the universe with every day we exist. It is our only function – to conquer and bend the universe to our will, for our own purpose, and in doing so make a garden by pacifying a universe that cares not about us in the least.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-13 06:17:00 UTC

  • FUNCTION OF PROFILES IS TO TEACH YOU ABOUT OTHERS, MORE SO THAN YOURSELF. Strang

    http://www.vox.com/2014/7/15/5881947/myers-briggs-personality-test-meaningless?utm_campaign=vox&utm_content=article%3Afixed&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebookTHE FUNCTION OF PROFILES IS TO TEACH YOU ABOUT OTHERS, MORE SO THAN YOURSELF.

    Strangely enough, the article is an exercise in criticism using pseudoscience which is kind of humorous.

    The fact is this:

    (a) MBT Is not a diagnostic tool, it is an tool for categorizing methods of interpersonal communication and collaboration. It is a tool of interpersonal understanding. It assists you in communicating with others in a common language. And it is entirely POSITIVE in construction (not clinical and critical.) People with similar behavior definitely fall into these categories and we have a LOT OF DATA showing so. We can map this data to career paths and show distributions. The problem with this test is that it is not 600 questions with lie detectors. So variations in marginal scores are large. The 16 types (boxes) are ideal types. but many people sit near the lines, rather than the center of the boxes. this is fine. People come to understand it.

    (b) Yes, big 5 is better – for a totalitarian system of thought – much like freudianism it’s for diagnosing deviations from a mean – this is a tyrannical tool of socialists and feminists for applying critique to western values. The big 5 is a DIAGNOSTIC tool used by psychologists and it’s a frame of reference for them. But then, we also understand that Rorschach tests are pseudoscientific and have no empirical basis but something like 80% of psychologists have been taught to use them.

    (c) Yes, Propertarianism is probably much better than the big 5, as a division of perception, cognition, judgement, knowledge labor and advocacy.

    (d) if you take it a number of times, you will slowly determine how to categorize your behavior according to the categories.

    (e) sixteen categories is about the limit at which it is useful to group people for the average person to use in comparisons.

    (f) It is terribly useful in training people to understand the incentives of others.

    (g) the goal is to train people to think of others as having different incentives than you do. This is the problem. And that is the purpose of these ‘tests’.

    For example, before I came up with propertarianism, I used this series instead:

    (a) dominance / submission

    (b) extroversion / introversion

    (c) patience / impulsivity

    (d) blame acceptance / blame avoidance (Which I still find very useful)

    After propertarianism I just explain things as reproductive strategies in an attempt to acquire resources of which status and cooperative alliances are as important as material goods.

    WHY IT MATTERS

    All that matters is that we train people to be other-focused. It actually doesn’t matter which framework you use.

    The reason I defend MBT is because it is easy enough for non-specialists to use, and sufficiently EXPLANATORY that

    WHAT I PREFER

    1) IQ Test

    2) Haidt’s Moral Foundations Test

    3) Your parent’s social and economic class

    4) Your ethnic, religious, cultural, origins.

    5) Propertarian explanation of your incentives.

    But those things require a lot of understanding to make use of.

    Curt Doolittle

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-13 06:02:00 UTC