Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • RECOMMENDED BRONZE AGE EUROPEAN HISTORY BOOKS 1) JP Mallory: In Search of Indo E

    RECOMMENDED BRONZE AGE EUROPEAN HISTORY BOOKS

    1) JP Mallory: In Search of Indo Europeans

    2) The Horse, the Wheel and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World

    3) The Early Germans by Malcolm Todd

    4) The Ancient Paths: Discovering the Lost Map of Celtic Europe

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-08 00:22:00 UTC

  • Definition: Capitalism Refers to a Bias within Government, Not a System of Government.

    [A] couple of thoughts for you:
    GOVERNMENT Is an organization for the purpose of producing commons. In practice that may mean Commons for a few. In practice that may mean Commons for some. In practice that may mean Commons for all. 
    PRODUCTION
    Capitalism isn’t a form of government.
    It’s often inarticulately referred to as an economic system (god knows what that means).
    But operationally, it’s a means of voluntarily organizing production using private property, contract, money, prices, and interest.  
    ORGANIZATION
    We can organize production voluntarily(market capitalism),
    We can organize production semi-voluntarily(mixed economy),
    or We can organize production involuntarily(socialism/slavery).
    DIVIDENDS
    We can leave individuals with all of the proceeds (no commons).
    We can leave the individuals with most of the proceeds (some provision for commons).
    We can leave individuals the minimum proceeds necessary to preserve the incentives required to voluntarily organize production. We can never let the individuals see the proceeds of their production (socialism, slavery).
    In practice all economies are mixed. Out of necessity.  The current attempt at ‘maximizing taxation’ is an attempt to determine the maximum takings that can be appropriated by the government before the incentive to cooperate fails to allow for the rational formation of the voluntary organization of production.  (In other words, they are looking to reproduce slavery.)
    A BIAS
    When we say ‘capitalism’ we are referring to a bias in favor of either the voluntary means of organization, the voluntary means of distributing dividends, or both.AXIS (A Better Nolan Chart):   Organization: capitalism<—->mixed<—->slavery
    vs Distribution: meritocratic (liberty)<—->utilitarian<—>equalitarian(communism) vs Decision: authoritarian<——->republican<——->democratic

    Source: Frequently Asked Questions |

  • Definition: Capitalism Refers to a Bias within Government, Not a System of Government.

    [A] couple of thoughts for you:
    GOVERNMENT Is an organization for the purpose of producing commons. In practice that may mean Commons for a few. In practice that may mean Commons for some. In practice that may mean Commons for all. 
    PRODUCTION
    Capitalism isn’t a form of government.
    It’s often inarticulately referred to as an economic system (god knows what that means).
    But operationally, it’s a means of voluntarily organizing production using private property, contract, money, prices, and interest.  
    ORGANIZATION
    We can organize production voluntarily(market capitalism),
    We can organize production semi-voluntarily(mixed economy),
    or We can organize production involuntarily(socialism/slavery).
    DIVIDENDS
    We can leave individuals with all of the proceeds (no commons).
    We can leave the individuals with most of the proceeds (some provision for commons).
    We can leave individuals the minimum proceeds necessary to preserve the incentives required to voluntarily organize production. We can never let the individuals see the proceeds of their production (socialism, slavery).
    In practice all economies are mixed. Out of necessity.  The current attempt at ‘maximizing taxation’ is an attempt to determine the maximum takings that can be appropriated by the government before the incentive to cooperate fails to allow for the rational formation of the voluntary organization of production.  (In other words, they are looking to reproduce slavery.)
    A BIAS
    When we say ‘capitalism’ we are referring to a bias in favor of either the voluntary means of organization, the voluntary means of distributing dividends, or both.AXIS (A Better Nolan Chart):   Organization: capitalism<—->mixed<—->slavery
    vs Distribution: meritocratic (liberty)<—->utilitarian<—>equalitarian(communism) vs Decision: authoritarian<——->republican<——->democratic

    Source: Frequently Asked Questions |

  • Aristocratic Egalitarian Libertarianism vs Ghetto Separatist Libertinism

    Aristocratic Egalitarian Libertarianism vs Ghetto Separatist Libertinism – http://www.propertarianism.com/i43a2

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-07 16:06:10 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/618450947832971265

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    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-07 14:45:00 UTC

  • SUCCESS? 1) Develop a long-term model that you can use to make endless decisions

    SUCCESS?

    1) Develop a long-term model that you can use to make endless decisions with.

    2) Decide, instruct and act decisively and consistently in accordance with that model. Big decisions are not as impactful as the thousand decisions everyone makes every day.

    3) Reduce your model to a mantra or phrase that all staff can use to make concurrent decisions in the multitudinous tie breakers that face all of us when choosing between relatively equal outcomes. Otherwise they will act in their own interests, or with false economy on those thousand little decisions every day.

    4) Generate opportunities that you can act on far in advance when they are very cheap. (Act on what is important but not urgent.) Make lots of cheap early bets. Plant lots of seeds.

    5) In the face of complexity, choose the solution that covers most bets while accomplishing the central objective, not the most efficient or optimum solution.

    6) Revise your model whenever possible to accommodate new learning.

    7) Act as truthfully, morally and ethically as possible with your peers and subordinates, and as ruthlessly as possible with competitors. A good reputation produces discounts on all actions and transactions.

    8) Attract, Build, and Keep Key Talent. Dispose of weak talent.

    9) Be extremely jealous of your think-time, and make sure you get plenty of it.

    10) Investors are creditors, not friends.

    11) Work in the interests of your customers and staff and they will take care of your investors. You can’t do it any other way.

    12) Work more than anyone else does. Because hard work is all that makes a marginal difference.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-07 11:03:00 UTC

  • What’s on my mind? Money and economy, politics and war. But pretty frustrated to

    What’s on my mind? Money and economy, politics and war.

    But pretty frustrated today. I want to remain accessible. But I really can’t afford to invest in training people without some knowledge of the Philosophy of science. Mathematicians and computer scientists, physicists and to some degree economists are relatively easy. Although in retrospect it is pretty clear that economics is not a practiced as a science of man but as a science of the deception of man. Not how to improve cooperation but how to force productivity.

    And so I am frustrated by conversations with conservatives a

    Just as readily by libertarians. And so I am having one of those down days where I think I am wasting my time. :(.

    On another note:

    Josh Jeppson said something smart last night: that Propertarianism isn’t conservative (reactionary) but innovative. That’s true.

    QUESTION:

    But then, how do I position it?

    ANSWER:

    —“You don’t want to go back to something (maybe some things but not all), so you’re not a reactionary, you don’t want to conserve what we have so you aren’t a conservative, and you don’t want to take what we have further, so you aren’t a progressive. You are (gasp) a revolutionary”—Adam Felix

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-07 04:42:00 UTC

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  • JUSTICE SYSTEM IS FAST AND EFFICIENT!

    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ca5_1436194719#fD7V2FhQdbdX4HjR.01UKRAINIAN JUSTICE SYSTEM IS FAST AND EFFICIENT!

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-07 02:58:00 UTC

  • Critique vs Criticism

    [C]RITIQUE VS CRITICISM


    – Critique is a cosmopolitan discipline(as in Culture of Critique).
    – Criticism is a scientific discipline (as in Popperian Criticism).
    – Criticism is necessary in order to determine whether a theory survives attempts to falsify it. Critique is a means of loading, framing, framing, overloading, and constructing suggestion by means of deceit.

    Moralizing is very different from constructing models of transfers to determine whether thefts have occurred.

    –“Are correct incentives what others have called the kool-aid?”–


    Correct incentives are those that do not create hazards thereby encouraging parasitism (involuntary transfer), but instead construct incentives for productive voluntary transfers. The counter proposition is that deceit and parasitism are somehow objective ‘goods’, rather than providing a disincentive for cooperation, increasing transaction costs, lower trust, lower economic velocity, lower production and lower consumption. In order to counter this argument one would have to provide a different method of decidabily in the conduct of human interactions. (which will be very difficult)

    —“write as more idealistic than moralistic, “—


    Well I don’t have to think of it ‘like’ anything, I can categorize it as analogical appeal to subjective preference rather than operation description without appeal to subjective preference.

    Source: Curt Doolittle