Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • of three fathers

    http://diversityischaos.blogspot.com/2015/05/more-than-60-of-males-in-modern-day.htmlSons of three fathers

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-20 08:12:00 UTC

  • (germany) (mindfulness) (stoicism) (european religion) I had a couple of convers

    (germany) (mindfulness) (stoicism) (european religion)

    I had a couple of conversations this morning on the German Secret, and I still don’t think I get it.

    Just why is it that Germany has managed to create ‘mindfulness’ out of duty? How is it taught, instilled, socialized, institutionalized, and maintained?

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-20 07:05:00 UTC

  • PROPERTARIANISM AS IMPROVEMENT ON THE DARK ENLIGHTENMENT Hayek’s: new era of mys

    PROPERTARIANISM AS IMPROVEMENT ON THE DARK ENLIGHTENMENT

    Hayek’s: new era of mysticism (in science).

    Mencius’s: age of propaganda (in politics).

    Doolittle’s: age of pseudoscience (in philosophy)

    Truthfully: the age of deceit.

    From Mencius (Curtis Yarivn)

    —“The basic premise of [The Dark Enlightenment] is that all the competing 20th-century systems of government, including the Western democracies which came out on top and which rule us to this day, are best classified as Orwellian. They maintain their legitimacy by shaping public opinion. They shape public opinion by sculpting the information presented to the public. As part of that public, you peruse the world through a lens poured by your government. ….

    Thus the red pill: any stimulus or stimulant, pharmaceutical or literary, that fundamentally compromises said system of deception. That sounds very medical, but let’s be clear: you are not taking our pill as a public service. At least with our present crude packaging, the remedy is not accessible to any politically significant percentage of citizens. Rather, you are dosing up because you’d rather be high. Despite the agony of ingestion, it’s just too much fun to see your old reality from the outside. This, rather than “society,” is why you will return to UR again and again.”—

    HOWEVER: WE HAVE A CURE

    The thing is, that we cure this ‘age of deceit’ through (a) operationalis (operational language and e-prime, (b) truth telling and warranty of truth telling, (c) making the informational commons into defensible property. Or more positively, outlawing lying in the commons.

    If we did that the entire edifice of lies would collapse in a decade.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-20 06:52:00 UTC

  • Operation (action): Recipe for existential action (name) Empirical (observable)

    Operation (action): Recipe for existential action (name)

    Empirical (observable) : one’s perception of change in state (description)

    Theoretical (deductive, hypothetical, and unobservable) : allegory (general rule) independent of context

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-20 05:33:00 UTC

  • WE HAVE A NEW MEMBER : PAUL ROMER (important) Paul hasn’t grasped **IT** quite y

    WE HAVE A NEW MEMBER : PAUL ROMER

    (important)

    Paul hasn’t grasped **IT** quite yet, but he’s on the right track. He calls it “mathiness” but he doesn’t get the Operational Revolution yet.

    I’m going to try to help him make the leap, but I suspect that he’ll not get it either. Time is a painful thing. I soldier onward.

    Fortunately, I’m outside of the academy and the academy’s perverse incentives don’t affect me.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Romer

    MATHINESS PAPER

    http://paulromer.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Mathiness.pdf

    CURRENT LIST OF THE PEOPLE REFORMING THE CENTURY OF PSEUDOSCIENCE:

    The Emerging Consensus :

    – Paul Romer (mathematics or ‘Mathiness’ )

    – Nassim Taleb (anti-fragility) or, information requirements.

    – Ricardo Duchesne (uniqueness of western man)

    – Kevin Macdonald (group evolutionary strategies)

    – Curt Doolittle (Truth, Trust, Law, and Institutions)

    — Jonathan Haidt’s (morality)

    — Pinker (who started it all – psychology)

    — Daniel Kahneman (mind)

    – Stephen Hicks (Postmodernism) (Reluctantly Associated I’m sure)

    – Nial Ferguson (Economics) (Possibly Reluctantly Associated)

    – Martin van Creveld (The Culture of Warfare)

    – Emmanuel Todd (The Evolution of Western Morality and Identity)

    — Meng Hu (statistics ‘anecdote is not data’)

    – Steven Hsu (statistics, intelligence and genetics)

    – Jayman (genetics and history)

    – HBD Chick (the institutions of marriage and family)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-20 05:21:00 UTC

  • SOME CULTURES SOLVE THE SOCIAL PROBLEM WTH MARRIAGE AND THE LONG TERM PROBLEM OF

    http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature14419.htmlHOW SOME CULTURES SOLVE THE SOCIAL PROBLEM WTH MARRIAGE AND THE LONG TERM PROBLEM OF DYSGENIA – AND HOW OTHER CULTURES DON’T

    (profound) (#hbd)(marriage)

    Marriage (monogamy and pairing off), is not an evolutionary advantage unless at the same time we limit the reproduction of the lower classes (which at this point begins at 95, but I think will soon more visibly occur at 105 or so. ) So the reason for the rapid rates of western evolutionary progress despite their distance from the source of civilization, is (a) selection by attraction / women’s liberty (b)manorialism – which delays reproduction, increases the skills of women, and suppressed the lower class reproduction. Warmer climates must rely upon war and disease for selection, and the competition between so many eurasiatic tribes creates incentives for inbreeding. What it DOES select for is aggression.

    So marriage is a good thing, iff and only iff, it is accompanied by reproductive suppression of the lower classes, and penalties for the upper classes for not reproducing. Every other possible scenario is dysgenic.

    We don’t need to engage in evil medicine. We can simply redistribute only to those with one child who cannot produce, and heavily tax those who produce but do not reproduce. In four generations – one century – your civilization dramatically increases its potential far more than any other technological or social advantage.

    —-Here we test this theory experimentally by comparing whether populations with histories of strong versus weak sexual selection purge mutation load and resist extinction differently…..Lineages from populations that had previously experienced strong sexual selection were resilient to extinction and maintained fitness under inbreeding, with some families continuing to survive after 20 generations of sib × sib mating. By contrast, lineages derived from populations that experienced weak or non-existent sexual selection showed rapid fitness declines under inbreeding, and all were extinct after generation 10.—-

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-20 04:15:00 UTC

  • RESEARCH INTO THE OBVIOUS SUBMISSION

    http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10818-015-9200-9TODAY’S RESEARCH INTO THE OBVIOUS SUBMISSION

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-19 22:06:00 UTC

  • THE GENOME BY OTHER THAN BREEDING IS VERY DIFFICULT – AND A LOT LESS FUN —-The

    http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/05/dont-fear-crispr-babies-2.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+marginalrevolution%2Ffeed+%28Marginal+Revolution%29#sthash.BoxnDvpg.dpufALTERING THE GENOME BY OTHER THAN BREEDING IS VERY DIFFICULT – AND A LOT LESS FUN

    —-The largest ever survey of genes associated with IQ found 69 separate genes, which together accounted for less than 8% of the variance in IQ scores, implying that at least hundreds of genes, if not thousands, involved in IQ. (See paper, here.) As Nature reported, even the three genes with the largest individual impact added up to less than two points of IQ:

    The three variants the researchers identified were each responsible for an average of 0.3 points on an IQ test. … That means that a person with two copies of each variant would score 1.8 points higher on an intelligence test than a person with none of them.—-

    http://www.pnas.org/content/111/38/13790.full.pdf

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-19 21:57:00 UTC

  • CORRUPTION DOESN”T GREASE THE WHEELS. IT”S RUST. —Whether demands for bribes f

    http://wber.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/05/12/wber.lhv001.abstractNO. CORRUPTION DOESN”T GREASE THE WHEELS. IT”S RUST.

    —Whether demands for bribes for particular government services are associated with expedited or delayed policy implementation underlies debates around the role of corruption in private sector development. The “grease the wheels” hypothesis, which contends that bribes act as speed money, implies three testable predictions. First, on average, bribe requests should be negatively correlated with wait times. Second, this relationship should vary across firms, with those with the highest opportunity cost of waiting being more likely to pay and facing shorter delays. Third, the role of grease should vary across countries, with benefits larger where regulatory burdens are greatest. The data are inconsistent with all three predictions. According to the preferred specifications, ceteris paribus, firms confronted with demands for bribes take approximately 1.5 times longer to get a construction permit, operating license, or electrical connection than firms that did not have to pay bribes and, respectively, 1.2 and 1.4 times longer to clear customs when exporting and importing. The results are robust to controlling for firm fixed effects and at odds with the notion that corruption enhances efficiency.—

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-19 21:27:00 UTC

  • UPPER CLASS INSIGHTS

    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/opinion/sunday/poor-little-rich-women.htmlAMERICAN UPPER CLASS INSIGHTS

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-19 21:23:00 UTC