Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • Mind: Against The Puppeteer

    [O]r:

    • System G (genes),
    • System 0 (property),
    • System 1 (intuition/search),
    • System 2 (reason)

    The ‘puppeteer’ (returns search results constantly) The mind handles exceptions (or disparate choices) Negotiation (morality) is an exception handler.

    I disagree with Chomsky, and I am fairly sure that Jeff Hawkins, and Kahnemann and his references, are correct: we just constantly search and re-search memory, and we pre-load any sequence of actions that have high value and then we become aware of the predicted outcome, and we choose to accept the proposition of our search, or we reject it, or we weigh it (research it, and reason with it). I don’t like the ‘puppeteer’ metaphor as much as I like the “systems” metaphors. We act on behalf of our genes. The conscious mind (system 2: reasoning search) rides on the elephant of intuition (system 1: intuitionistic search), which is informed by our desire to acquire, inventory, and defend, which is biased by our reproductive strategy, which is biased by our genes.

  • Economic Velocity and Trust

    (important concept) [S]pectrum: American Utopianism (absurdly high trust) British Moralism (very kinship trust) German Realism (high trust) Catholic Familialism (medium trust) Eastern European Skepticism (low trust) Russian Nihilism (no trust) Chinese Deceive and Delay (negative trust)

  • Economic Velocity and Trust

    (important concept) [S]pectrum: American Utopianism (absurdly high trust) British Moralism (very kinship trust) German Realism (high trust) Catholic Familialism (medium trust) Eastern European Skepticism (low trust) Russian Nihilism (no trust) Chinese Deceive and Delay (negative trust)

  • Reviewing the Last Six Years of Progress on Propertarianism

    [M]y first draft in 2006, in retrospect, is almost embarrassing. My second draft in 2010, was fairly complete, but when I got to the section where I requried truth telling in government, I’d focused on ‘calculability’ and ‘traceabilty’ as means of preventing abuses of funds, and abuses of the law. My third draft in 2013 still had me stuck with the same problem. I had no idea at the time, that six years of work later, I would have taken that early intuition and turned it into Operationalism as a test not only of truthfulness but of existential possibility. It was another year before I made it through truth. And another year to develop the intertemporal division of perception, cognition, knowedge, labor and advocacy resulting in the market for commons..

    And while I was pretty sure in 2009 that the solution to government was a market, and I knew strict construction was required, I did not know the philosophical basis for it. I knew that moral intuitions were reducible to property rights, and that variations in moral intuitions reflected the property rights necessary for each reproductive bias. But from today’s vantage point I’ve come very far in the ability to articulate these ideas as necessary, and I am certainly better at communicating them, the fact of the matter is that most of what I have done is improve explanation of why such things are true and necessary. But the original understanding that the solution to the deceit of the 20th century, as the second attempt at mysticism of the west, was truth telling, and that we had to create a market for commons to accommodate the emerging heterogeneous interests of any polity with any sufficiently complex division of perception, cognition, labor and advocacy. I did’nt expect to end up advocating eugenic reproduction. I did not expect the racial differences to be (largely) rates of suppression of the underclasses. I did not expect to come out so strongly in favor of the family. I did not expect to demand a revolution. I viewed my work as libertarian and institutionally progressive yet it is the right that finds my work most interesting (because it proves that their intuitions are correct.) So I will finish The Politics this year, and possibly aesthetics. That means I will write up draft constitutions for various forms of propertarian political orders (honest and truthful regardless of whether collective or libertarian). A few people have asked me to address what I will call personal philosophy, even if I view my work as political and that inspiration is not my job – that’s positivist. My job is preventing deceit and error. So maybe I will do that or not. I will also deal with the DARK SUBJECTS: revolution, and war. But I do not want to do that until last. So that I think will be next year. Hopefully in time for the election.

  • Reviewing the Last Six Years of Progress on Propertarianism

    [M]y first draft in 2006, in retrospect, is almost embarrassing. My second draft in 2010, was fairly complete, but when I got to the section where I requried truth telling in government, I’d focused on ‘calculability’ and ‘traceabilty’ as means of preventing abuses of funds, and abuses of the law. My third draft in 2013 still had me stuck with the same problem. I had no idea at the time, that six years of work later, I would have taken that early intuition and turned it into Operationalism as a test not only of truthfulness but of existential possibility. It was another year before I made it through truth. And another year to develop the intertemporal division of perception, cognition, knowedge, labor and advocacy resulting in the market for commons..

    And while I was pretty sure in 2009 that the solution to government was a market, and I knew strict construction was required, I did not know the philosophical basis for it. I knew that moral intuitions were reducible to property rights, and that variations in moral intuitions reflected the property rights necessary for each reproductive bias. But from today’s vantage point I’ve come very far in the ability to articulate these ideas as necessary, and I am certainly better at communicating them, the fact of the matter is that most of what I have done is improve explanation of why such things are true and necessary. But the original understanding that the solution to the deceit of the 20th century, as the second attempt at mysticism of the west, was truth telling, and that we had to create a market for commons to accommodate the emerging heterogeneous interests of any polity with any sufficiently complex division of perception, cognition, labor and advocacy. I did’nt expect to end up advocating eugenic reproduction. I did not expect the racial differences to be (largely) rates of suppression of the underclasses. I did not expect to come out so strongly in favor of the family. I did not expect to demand a revolution. I viewed my work as libertarian and institutionally progressive yet it is the right that finds my work most interesting (because it proves that their intuitions are correct.) So I will finish The Politics this year, and possibly aesthetics. That means I will write up draft constitutions for various forms of propertarian political orders (honest and truthful regardless of whether collective or libertarian). A few people have asked me to address what I will call personal philosophy, even if I view my work as political and that inspiration is not my job – that’s positivist. My job is preventing deceit and error. So maybe I will do that or not. I will also deal with the DARK SUBJECTS: revolution, and war. But I do not want to do that until last. So that I think will be next year. Hopefully in time for the election.

  • APOLOGIES FOR TARDINESS I know that I owe about ten people different responses t

    APOLOGIES FOR TARDINESS

    I know that I owe about ten people different responses to questions, or feedback on articles or documents, and I am just slammed with business work right now. I promise I have you in my list of to-do’s and I’ll get the answers out as soon as possible. – Curt

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-02 10:24:00 UTC

  • OVERSING UPDATE: CLOSING IN ON THE LAST FEW NITS Today Vitalii and Kirill finish

    OVERSING UPDATE: CLOSING IN ON THE LAST FEW NITS

    Today Vitalii and Kirill finished the filters for staffing: scheduled/unscheduled, staffed/unstaffed, and Late/overdue.

    Kirill has finished the SLA’s (Service Level Agreement) functionality for the workflows (it’s awesome). Very very rich solution.

    Alexey is working on finishing permissions and uniting them with the workflows.

    Roman is writing the help on different project types. (and nagging us about remaining tweaks for ease of use).

    I am working on the Exec Summary. Then onto the video. The purpose of the video is just to make you say ‘omg there is a lot here!’. It’s more of a video-feature list.

    One last big usability issue is that workflow choices must be usable by multiple objects, so that we cut down on the work involved in complex workflows.

    Lots of little, little nits here and there. But in general, we’re thrilled. 🙂

    Meanwhile Atlassian, Mavenlink, Trello, Wrike, Asana, and Slack are not exactly sitting still. But I am pretty sure we’ve jumped to the top of the enterprise pack. We’ll see. I am pretty confident competing against atlassian in the enterprise and Mavelink (and previous generations of PPM) in the SME. But it’s going to be more difficult to increase ease of use sufficiently for Small businesses and hobbyists to choose us over Trello. On the other hand it’s going to take a lot more work for consumer grade products to enter the enterprise than it is for us simplify Oversing for entry level users.

    Anyway, we’re really closing in now.

    Curt

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-02 10:17:00 UTC

  • REVOLUTION: “THE PLAN” Western Man is moral man, and moral men need: 1 – A Moral

    REVOLUTION: “THE PLAN”

    Western Man is moral man, and moral men need:

    1 – A Moral Justification for the application of Violence to institute change. (They are being lied to, and stolen from, and conquered systematically, and I explain how, why, and how to stop it.) (Ideologies require promise of actionable results within the current lifetime.)

    2 – A Solution to Demand: a set of institutional changes (concentration of effort) (an expansion of the classical liberal legal order to suppress lying, wishful thinking, bias and error in matters of the political commons; and a reconstruction of the houses of government as a market for the voluntary construction of commons.)

    3 – A means of transition from one order to another. (An ordered means of rapid transformation within the status quo.)

    4 – A set of tactics for raising the cost of the status quo: insurrection via: nullification (gradual disempowerment and transition to new government), secession(construction of a new government retaining the previous competitor), revolution (replacement of the people in government and modification of institutions eliminating the previous competitor) and civil war (destruction of the government and replacement with an entirely new one, eliminating the previous competitors).

    5 – A set of leaders (speakers) to rally action. (I need 100 people. That’s all. I need only twelve who are very good.) Propertarianism and Testimonialism will be a more complete framework than has been produced before, even if we take into account all of Locke,Hume,Smith and Jefferson as a set.

    And if I fail, then the work sits in books and records until someone decides to use it or create something better. But I will have my good service.

    One leads a horse to water, but cannot make it drink.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Philosophy of Aristocracy

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-02 03:13:00 UTC

  • THE PURPOSE OF PRIVATIZATION? (important evolutionary hierarchy) 1) To prohibit

    THE PURPOSE OF PRIVATIZATION?

    (important evolutionary hierarchy)

    1) To prohibit consumption (create a commons – the ongoing production of a good or service).

    2) To increase cooperation by reducing opportunity for conflict.

    3) To eliminate rents and fictions on use of such resources in production.

    4) To create efficient organizational use of these resources through competition.

    5) To permit rational planning (economic calculation) and therefore complex production.

    6) To provide individuals with incentives to produce in order to survive without parasitism, and thereby reducing the incentive to cooperate.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Philosophy of Aristocracy

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-02 03:07:00 UTC

  • PRIVATIZATION? IT’S NOT AN INTRINSIC GOOD. Well, the Nobility in western Europe

    PRIVATIZATION? IT’S NOT AN INTRINSIC GOOD.

    Well, the Nobility in western Europe privatized everything and in doing so virtually enslaved Western Europeans. They were civilized by the church, each other and competition for commerce, and eventually displaced, or as in the case of France – murdered wholesale. The rest of Europe surrendered rather than face the same fate.

    The “Nobles” in eastern Europe privatized everything and in doing so enslaved the eastern europeans. They and their ‘administrators’ were either executed or run out of Europe.

    The Russian Boyars and Oligarchs privatized everything, and enslaved Russians. They were either massacred (frequently) or imprisoned for it. Now they have been exterminated.

    Although Putin’s privatization of the commons seems to be holding up relatively well – but it will likely end in similar fashion.

    How many Arab tribes have privatized everything, yet have been recently tortured and dismembered?

    PRIVATIZATION

    Privatization is not an intrinsic good. Privatization is only valuable if it both decreases costs and improves services through competition. Privatization is not so much a good, as much as a monopoly bureaucracy is a bad. That does not mean that common assets managed by competing contractors, in the care of a monarchy is not better than both. (it is).

    RULE OF LAW

    Privatization is a distraction from the only source of liberty: rule of law, universal standing, under the common law, under the total prohibition on the imposition of costs against the demonstrated property of any other. This scope of law eliminates all possibility of extra-legal retaliation, and eliminates all demand for the state for the discretionary choice of fault, and all demand for the state as a prohibitor of retaliation for those impositions that humans universally retaliate against.

    COMMONS

    Commons are the most effective means of competing against other groups. The west progressed faster in both the ancient and modern periods when they produced the most competitive commons. Property rights and rule of law, the jury process, truth telling and honesty are all normative commons that are exceptionally expensive to construct. Commons prevent rent seeking by private agents. That’s what define’s a private (corporate) or public (civic) commons: something you can’t force costs upon, yet from which all of us gain “fructus” (fruits. Benefits)

    THE ‘PRESTIGE’: VERBAL SLIGHT OF HAND OF MORAL ‘MAGICIANS’

    Conversely, privatization is just another excuse to recreate the oligarchical parasitism of Russia and eastern Europe.

    We have had enough deceit for one century. The Cosmopolitans were a failure in all their forms: Socialists, Rothbardians, Freshwater economists, and Neocons. The only liberty that is existentially possible is that which was practiced between european aristocracy: rule of law, universal standing, and property-en-toto. While the effort to create an aristocracy of everyone failed, that does not mean that we cannot create an aristocratic rule of law that everyone must adhere to.

    And why not? The only reason to practice the ethics of libertines (Block and Rothbard) are to license parasitism, and prohibit retaliation. There is no noble ambition here. It is to restore the parasitism of eastern Europe. So, leave the Russians and The Eastern Europeans to their own history. It continues to be a tragedy they struggle to exit from.

    Liberty is the product of the aristocratic militia: the organized application of violence to institute rule of law such that all parasitism is prohibited, thereby forcing all humans into the market for the productive, fully informed, warrantied exchange of goods and services free of external imposition of costs.

    Rule of law: Universal constraint, universal standing, strict construction, total prohibition on parasitism, expressed as rights to property en toto, and ‘every man a sheriff’ to enforce it.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Philosophy of Aristocracy

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-01 19:30:00 UTC