Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • UNEXPECTED DESITINATIONS IN LIFE’S JOURNEY When I started out on my journey, I n

    UNEXPECTED DESITINATIONS IN LIFE’S JOURNEY

    When I started out on my journey, I never anticipated that the end result would be that I would specialize in the technology of truth-telling. Given my passionate advocacy for deceit in war, I would have thought that I would end up doing just the opposite.

    Just as critical rationalists conduct a challenging battle against justification, I have to conduct a challenging battle against rationalism.

    I see where all of this evolves (assuming we do not have another dark age emerging) and by avoiding the error of linear extrapolation of trends, and instead, invoking the necessity of equilibrating forces, the result is artificial intelligence that is logical and humans that are rational. Either that or our march toward scientific language will continue apace, and we will need different humans than the ones we have today in order to speak that language.

    It is simply too hard for the masses to learn except by environmental immersion.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-03-23 03:20:00 UTC

  • POSITION ON GENETIC MODIFICATION (good read)(from elsewhere) Hiroshi: We are ope

    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/20/science/biologists-call-for-halt-to-gene-editing-technique-in-humans.htmlPROPERTARIAN POSITION ON GENETIC MODIFICATION

    (good read)(from elsewhere)

    Hiroshi: We are opening Pandora’s Box.

    Curt: Or are we achieving our potential?

    Hiroshi: Yes, but potential for good or evil?

    Curt: Good and evil are technical terms in my universe. And this technology, like violence, is neutral.

    The question is whether the ends produce risk to the genome. But since at all times when we suppress the reproduction of the underclasses, or when upper classes migrate to new areas, mankind evolves rapidly; and because morality increases and impulsivity decreases and time preference lengthens with intelligence, our only choice between Brazil on one end and Star Trek on the other in a populated planet is this one.( Superior intelligence does not breed superior ambition or aggression. )

    As far as I know aggression defeats intelligence and Huntington missed that observation.

    Hegel was wrong as well – heroism and by consequence, sovereignty, jury and truth telling are the cause of western rates of development.

    Hiroshi: In my universe, good and evil are not technical terms. Imagine a universe in which no human beings exist. In that universe there is neither good nor evil: everything is technical and neutral. Good and evil can exist only when human beings exist. Good and evil become important terms when human beings decides their mode of being or make “judgment” in the sense of Hannah Arendt. (See my short essay above on Arendt’s conception of judging)

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    Curt: Sorry, I meant ‘technical’ in the sense of objective. And objective in the sense of independent of introspection. I also use the term ‘decidable’, appropriated from mathematics, to avoid the loading on the term ‘judgement’. The difference being that introspection and therefore subjectivity is present in judgement, and not present in decidability. So good and evil are decidable propositions.

    In this sequence: One can be lax. One an err. One can privatize. One can engage in predation. One can engage in destruction without benefit to the self. One can engage in destruction that produces a chain of destructive externalities. The last is my definition of ‘evil’ and immoral.

    If on the other hand, one warrants defense against externalities (takes all possible known precautions), in order to create a chain of beneficial externalities – then this is ‘good’ and moral.

    The concepts of good and evil, judgement, justice, and morality, have been inherited from our ancient past and remain loaded with introspective demands, because of our failure to articulate the necessary and sufficient properties of cooperation. But the necessary and sufficient properties of cooperation are no longer unknown but trivial.

    What remains is the analysis of strategies. Western (scientific) Truth, Anglo-Jewish Political Correctness, Russian-Jewish Postmodernism, Chinese Delay-Deceit, Hindu Avoidance, and Muslim Denial and rebellion. Each is a strategy for group persistence.

    In the context of this question, the positive externalities of improving the genome, and creating supermen – or at least, highly intelligent, attractive (symmetrical) and with a moral bias, is hard to argue with.

    This technology exists already. We do it by assortative mating. We call it ‘castes’ or ‘classes’. A race to the top (selective breeding) has always produced better ends than a race to the bottom (through excess reproduction of the lower classes).

    So my question is instead the non-intuitive: we are now engaged in an experiment called ‘redistribution’ which increases the rates of the lower classes, and suppresses the rates of the middle classes, and has isolated our upper classes. This experiment has evolved (through advocacy of democracy under the ‘enlightenmemt’) into a dysgenic disaster that one can easily call ‘evil’, and it’s promotors ‘evil’ as well, by the very technical criterion I proposed above. Society has become ordered to value a negative by use of a ‘judgement’ that democracy is a good, when the consequences are an evil.

    So why is it not beneficial to reorder society around a judgement that improves man, rather than devolves him?

    I would much rather have a public debate, and a ‘judgement’ about how to handle the improvement of man, than the current debate about how to degenerate him.

    So in this sense, suppressing this technology is to persist an evil.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    ( Eli Harman: add this to the weapons cache)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-03-23 03:03:00 UTC

  • Feminists: Be Careful What You Wish For

    [T]he first problem for any society is to find positive incentives for men.

    Feminism seeks to position men as oppressors – instead of our traditional roles as a compromise. But it is a compromise for both genders.

    For most of us, Islamic paternal domination, and daily tribal warfare, or African enslavement of women is a more desirable way to live than the tedium of labor, office, tax, law and family.

    In the family, women compromise and men compromise. But, If not, then men will no longer compromise either. They will first abandon society. Then family. Then pursue self interest.
    5%,unhappy women just complain. 5% unhappy men without access to sex and marriage cause revolutions every time.

    And or tribes are not equal in aggression. The relative docility of Asian males should not obscure the relative aggressiveness of steppe and desert males.

    So we compromise or be subjugated. None of us gets our ideal.

    Any soldier will in confidence confess that robbing, raping and pillaging is far preferable to sedentary life.

    The Romans made a business of it. The Muslims are currently making entertainment out of it.

    Men build the world for the benefit of and approval of women.

    We can just as easily destroy it if that incentive ends.

    Women are along for the ride.

    Be careful what you wish for.

  • Feminists: Be Careful What You Wish For

    [T]he first problem for any society is to find positive incentives for men.

    Feminism seeks to position men as oppressors – instead of our traditional roles as a compromise. But it is a compromise for both genders.

    For most of us, Islamic paternal domination, and daily tribal warfare, or African enslavement of women is a more desirable way to live than the tedium of labor, office, tax, law and family.

    In the family, women compromise and men compromise. But, If not, then men will no longer compromise either. They will first abandon society. Then family. Then pursue self interest.
    5%,unhappy women just complain. 5% unhappy men without access to sex and marriage cause revolutions every time.

    And or tribes are not equal in aggression. The relative docility of Asian males should not obscure the relative aggressiveness of steppe and desert males.

    So we compromise or be subjugated. None of us gets our ideal.

    Any soldier will in confidence confess that robbing, raping and pillaging is far preferable to sedentary life.

    The Romans made a business of it. The Muslims are currently making entertainment out of it.

    Men build the world for the benefit of and approval of women.

    We can just as easily destroy it if that incentive ends.

    Women are along for the ride.

    Be careful what you wish for.

  • LOL QUOTE (H/T to my ex in SF) —“I try not to flex my sex appeal too much arou

    LOL QUOTE (H/T to my ex in SF)

    —“I try not to flex my sex appeal too much around the engineers, it’s like feeding bears…always ends in disaster.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2015-03-22 17:11:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    http://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/op-ed/george-woloshyn-putins-worst-nightmare-384089.htmlYES

    Source date (UTC): 2015-03-22 16:41:00 UTC

  • The principle good that must be achieved in the world, is the dissolution of the

    The principle good that must be achieved in the world, is the dissolution of the american empire, the dissolution of the EU, and the return to western inter-dependence.

    Once the current system of rents is eliminated, opportunity will be available everywhere, and seizing it necessary – particularly in the states. But also in Europe which lives parasitically upon american military hegemony.

    The question is whether we achieve this as our dying breath, or whether we save our people from the dustbin of history.

    The anglos were wrong – about everything.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-03-22 15:28:00 UTC

  • “Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adhe

    —“Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.”—

    Obama.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-03-22 14:17:00 UTC

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    Source date (UTC): 2015-03-22 03:29:00 UTC

  • Um. It’s IQ first, Impulsivity and Aggression Second, and Culture Third. —“Big

    Um. It’s IQ first, Impulsivity and Aggression Second, and Culture Third.

    —“Big Five traits and IQs of various cultures statistically explained 70% of a nation’s gross domestic product (GDP) per capita. The most important predictors of economic success were intelligence and extraversion, which proved to be strongly positively related to GDP.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2015-03-22 02:20:00 UTC