Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • SELLING DYSGENIA FOR PROFIT You just prohibit lying, by requiring truthful speec

    SELLING DYSGENIA FOR PROFIT

    You just prohibit lying, by requiring truthful speech. We do not allow for fomenting a conspiracy, why should we allow for the fomenting of theft for the purpose of profiting from the sale of dysgenia? I man, that’s the left’s program right? Sell dysgenia for profit? SO, unwind it by merely replacing free speech with free truthful speech. One cannot bring a harmful product, physical, service, or speech, to market without warranty against the production of harm.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-02 16:11:00 UTC

  • SO GIVEN THAT FACEBOOK IS A WELL-DRESSED, CLOSED, EMAIL SYSTEM … … for consu

    SO GIVEN THAT FACEBOOK IS A WELL-DRESSED, CLOSED, EMAIL SYSTEM …

    … for consumers, so that it can attract consumer advertising. Then what would a well-dressed closed email system for the workplace look like? In other words: **What would you replace Outlook with?**

    he he he.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-02 16:03:00 UTC

  • TWO QUESTIONS ABOUT RESPECTING OTHERS: 1) Which? (a) Every man must be treated w

    TWO QUESTIONS ABOUT RESPECTING OTHERS:

    1) Which?

    (a) Every man must be treated with respect or he may punish you for disrespect.

    Or

    (b) Every man must earn respect before he may punish you for disrespect.

    2) Which produces a more scientific result? (a) or (b)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-02 14:50:00 UTC

  • SURPRISE FINDING : ANCESTRAL LANDS I knew something was in the back of my head.

    SURPRISE FINDING : ANCESTRAL LANDS

    I knew something was in the back of my head. And I have to translate it a bit from its current state. But I thought people might find this excerpt from the ending of the video interesting:

    —“Therefore I would argue, that you not only possess a universal moral right to your transformed and improved ancestral lands it they were taken from your people by force, but, that assuming you produced and do produce, a higher standard of Propertarian morality than it’s takers, that you possess a universal moral obligation to restore ancestral lands, whether your own lands or otherwise.”—

    Now, you have to understand the rather narrow conditions in support of this argument. But still, if you had asked me going into this analysis I would never have predicted that conclusion at all – and would have said it was crazy. But it’s not. It stands.

    Not sure how long before I get the video out. I keep thinking I will finish it but I didn’t’ get time to work on the script until today – and only for an hour or two.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-02 14:44:00 UTC

  • FB, GOOGLE AND THE PROBLEM WITH MAJOR BRAND ADVERTISING You see, Google merely t

    FB, GOOGLE AND THE PROBLEM WITH MAJOR BRAND ADVERTISING

    You see, Google merely transferred the money spent on yellow pages to a new medium, that provided, like shareware, free advertising (search results – the white pages), and better placement (yellow pages), and much better placement (advertisement position on the page).

    Now I have no idea why google tolerates all these local (sh_t) yellow page listings other than it generates click money for them at the expense of users, instead of creating a very clear means of searching for local services based upon your address, that is edited as the yellow pages were, that places some demand for legitimacy upon the people making the listings. Because it’s impossible to find almost anything local still. So that seems like a ‘miss’ because it’s a hole someone can hurt them with in the future. (Citysearch was awesome and I still miss it)

    But back to the broader picture, this plan to transform the yellow pages business onto the net was fantastic. However, it did not help attract major brands. Major brands cannot find success on google or Facebook, nor can these platforms be used to create local draws – events.

    Next, because they were designed for consumers, it’s very hard for major brands to use these platforms to advertise to businesses that actually want to see those ads. And yes, there are things that businesses want to subscribe to. If I could see the advertising equivalent of Pinterest, as a user, and select what promises

    Now, I’m living in a world where I see mobile as a bit of a misallocation of capital that will come to an end like the housing boom. (or the iPad era). It’s only interesting because like the era where americans immigrated germans into the midwest or the gold rush era in California, or the current migration of Chinese out of the serfdom of rice cultivation.

    So I’m giving some thought to a more static world than we have seen for the past two decades.

    And I’m more interested (as I have been for some time) in big brands, able to sell complex value propositions rather than trying to get attention from the consumer with A.D.D. from overstimulation.

    Now, if we had very detailed profiles on individuals, even if you couldn’t see their names, and you could publish Pinterest-style information (Rich I mean), as a major brand, I would think that would be interesting. I mean, we have all these trivial little publications that try to reach out to people in industries. What if that was always available to them like a separate tab within Facebook?

    We don’t want interruptions. But we all like diversions. And advertising property constructed can be a great diversion.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-02 10:11:00 UTC

  • (Dammit these short daylight hours are killing my productivity…)

    (Dammit these short daylight hours are killing my productivity…)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-02 08:35:00 UTC

  • THE CATHEDRAL’S DEMAND FOR RESPECT I am not sure why I should treat a coward, a

    THE CATHEDRAL’S DEMAND FOR RESPECT

    I am not sure why I should treat a coward, a liar and a thief with respect. Does anyone know the answer to that question? Because I certainly don’t.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-02 07:43:00 UTC

  • FOR HONOR AND GLORY Honor = Remember, Record, and Celebrate Glory = Reward with

    FOR HONOR AND GLORY

    Honor = Remember, Record, and Celebrate

    Glory = Reward with Celebration

    Meaning? Your offspring, your name, AND your deeds will outlive you.

    TERMS

    Thou shalt not lie,

    ….nor permit others to lie.

    Thou shalt not steal,

    ….nor permit others to steal.

    Thou shalt not harm,

    ….nor permit others to harm.

    Thou shalt not cause involuntary cost,

    …nor permit others to cause involuntary cost.

    Thou shalt not conspire,

    ….nor permit others to conspire.

    Thou shalt not conquer,

    ….nor permit others to conquer.

    Thou shalt not evade punishment of offenders,

    ….nor permit others to evade punishment of offenders.

    Thou shalt not forgive an offense until punished or restored,

    ….nor permit others to forgive an offense until punished or restored.

    Thou shalt not end a punishment once begun,

    ….nor permit others to end a punishment once begun.

    Thou shalt remember, record, and celebrate,

    ….the names and deeds of honorable men,

    ….and require others to remember, record, and celebrate,

    ….the deeds of honorable men.

    OATH

    I shalt not lie,

    ….nor permit others to lie.

    I shalt not steal,

    ….nor permit others to steal.

    I shalt not harm,

    ….nor permit others to harm.

    I shalt not cause involuntary cost,

    …nor permit others to cause involuntary cost.

    I shalt not conspire,

    ….nor permit others to conspire.

    I shalt not conquer,

    ….nor permit others to conquer.

    I shalt not evade punishment of offenders,

    ….nor permit others to evade punishment of offenders.

    I shalt not forgive an offense until punished or restored,

    ….nor permit others to forgive an offense until punished or restored.

    I shalt not end a punishment once begun,

    ….nor permit others to end a punishment once begun.

    I shall remember, record, and celebrate,

    ….the names and deeds of honorable men,

    ….and require others to remember, record, and celebrate,

    ….the deeds of honorable men.

    RITUAL

    Memorize names and deeds of the pantheon of heroes in each of the four disciplines, and celebrate them on holidays.

    IT IS THROUGH HONOR WE GAIN IMMORTALITY

    ————–

    (roughly copied from song of roland, with obedience removed)

    To at all times to speak the truth

    To guard the honour of fellow men. (again, force the truth)

    To fight for the welfare of all

    Never to refuse a challenge from an equal

    Never to turn the back upon a foe.

    To persevere to the end in any enterprise begun

    To refrain from the wanton giving of offence

    To protect the weak and defenceless

    To live to obtain honour and glory

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-02 07:42:00 UTC

  • TEACHING US TO SPEAK THE TRUTH AGAIN To some degree, we are confused: the scient

    TEACHING US TO SPEAK THE TRUTH AGAIN

    To some degree, we are confused: the scientists developed the method of truthful speech out of necessity AND out of a lack of malincentives. The problem that other disciplines face is that either the externalities produced are somewhat limited, such as the use of mathematical platonism, or the incentives to lie are greater – far greater – than any incentive to tell the truth: such as in politics, law, advertising, the academy in general, or for public intellectuals.

    So what we have done is created an asymmetry of incentives by our incorrect, inappropriate, and morally mistaken advocacy of free speech.

    It is not that we must possess free speech, it is that we are prohibited from bringing a verbal, written, and conceptual product to the market for the consumption of ideas, without requiring that we warranty that good, in an attempt to insure that we do not harm ourselves through excessive warranty.

    However the jury is in on this matter, and instead of spending two centuries defining truthful speech under the limits of law of warranty, we have spent two centuries learning how to improve our lies. And we have, as evidenced by the pseudoscientific efforts of the marxists, and pseudoscientists, and pseudo-rationalists, dramatically improved our ability to lie.

    But since the cause of this continuous improvement of the technology of lying is something we know, and we know how to fix, then there is little stopping us from fixing it.

    All we need to do is return to treating speech as a product and the commons as property, and one may not pollute the commons any more than one may pollute the land.

    It will take very little time, less than two generations, to teach people to speak the truth again.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-02 07:18:00 UTC

  • THE CULT OF COOPERATION WITHOUT PARASITISM Now what gets lost in my political rh

    THE CULT OF COOPERATION WITHOUT PARASITISM

    Now what gets lost in my political rhetoric at times is that my driving moral bias is **the prevention of conflict without incurring sacrifice**. In other words, by accident of a puritanical family with a lot of internal fighting between my rather spoiled martial upper-class alcoholic father, and my rather disciplined, humble, temperate, and poor catholic mother.

    The pacifist solution is to tolerate substantial losses in order to avoid conflict that has higher losses. And as long as you live poorly and reproduce vastly this strategy works. Conversely, for small numbers, who breed slowly, to live well, they must not tolerate sacrifice or parasitism, and must force productivity. Otherwise they must resort to predation. So this competitive strategy can be represented as a triangular compromise between population, prosperity, and the expense of either submission or prohibition. (Yes I should graph this out. But you know I am kind of overloaded at the moment so it will have to wait. Basically, something on the order of: x=population, y=technology, 00->XY demand is tolerance for parasitism, Y(n), X(n) curve is tolerance which should form an X with tolerance. )

    But so my moral disposition, my moral INTUITION turns out to be an involuntary advocacy for conflict reduction without parasitism.

    As such I see the world as a sort of donut,with the aristocracy from all cultures in the hole, and the classes radiating outward, with further difference from the center representing the degree of normative interdependence of people within a tribal group, and the

    Aristocracy is marginally indifferent the world around, if we mean, demonstrated ability in production, distribution and trade.

    So this means that bringing aristocracy together, and capital APART to people is just a matter of reducing the cost of capital enough, and allowing elites to accomplish this on the behalf of their own people without too much interference from one another.

    It is very costly and dangerous to bring lower classes tog ether, and it is very beneficial to bring aristocracy together. The cost of integrating people who require normative similarities, where those normative similarities reflect biological differences in ability and preference is simply too high for more than fractions of the population. However, the only reason to move people from low trust to high trust is the failure of local governments to construct rule of law sufficient that the people do not require relocation (hiring nobility, or moving to nobility), just as we cannot move capital to people because their upper classes have failed.

    Democracy is of no value whatsoever, since it merely means that we create nothing but negative international incentives. This is counter to common intuition and current mythos, but it is demonstrably true, and logically very difficult to counter.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-02 07:03:00 UTC