Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • QUESTION: ON IMPULSIVITY (TIME PREFERENCE) AND POPULATIONS What is the percentag

    QUESTION: ON IMPULSIVITY (TIME PREFERENCE) AND POPULATIONS

    What is the percentage of individuals with high time preference (high impulsivity) that will block the creation of norms, and therefore institutions, consisting of low time preference (low impulsivity)?

    I have been trying to get my arms around this problem for the past few years, and my travels lately, into a low trust, but low impulsivity society have helped me understand it a bit more clearly.

    Unless groups with low time preference have the right of exclusion (ostracization) then there is no defense against even ten percent of the population having a high time preference.

    I know that at something under ten percent, populations stop integrating and start seeking identity and political power. But at what point do populations of high time preference individuals, regardless of identity or power seeking (no elites to represent their interest) prevent the formation of low time preference norms and therefore low time preference institutions?

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-15 13:06:00 UTC

  • PROPERTY, IN ALL ITS FORMS RENDERS ALL HUMAN ACTION MORALLY COMMENSURABLE. While

    PROPERTY, IN ALL ITS FORMS RENDERS ALL HUMAN ACTION MORALLY COMMENSURABLE.

    While PREFERENCES and SUBJECTIVE VALUE are not commensurable, that does not mean that moral actions in favor of, or against, NORMS are cannot be commensurable.

    Norms are a market. They are, perhaps, our first market. And our commercial market exists, as an analogistic response to it. This is somewhat supportable by comparing the normative economies, political economies, and commercial economies of different civilizations.

    If I can distill the significance of propertarianism down to something I can communicate this simply, then it will serve a function that we have been searching for, since the invention of politics.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-15 13:01:00 UTC

  • HEALTH UPDATE : DRINKING? OK. I can apparently drink like a fish now without han

    HEALTH UPDATE : DRINKING?

    OK. I can apparently drink like a fish now without hangover or other nefarious repercussions. I still have a lower tolerance than most people but I’m no longer afraid of going out on the town with Max Romanenko and ending up in the hospital.

    A close friend has always teased me that normal people, when they have a bad day, just have a drink and are done with it. And I had to invent more creative means of getting to a cerebral reset.

    Thankfully, as a side effect of surgery, I’ve joined the club of ethanol tolerance.

    I feel a little guilty commenting on this topic so frequently, but as my body adapts I feel like an alien transported to a worldly garden of Eden where everything is no longer poisonous, where I can breathe without effort most of the time, and where the autistic reactions that took a week to vent, can be shut down with a class of scotch and a cup of coffee in thirty minutes.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-15 10:53:00 UTC

  • FROM ELSEWHERE: ON RORTY AND THE POST ANALYTIC MOVEMENT Rorty is not important i

    FROM ELSEWHERE: ON RORTY AND THE POST ANALYTIC MOVEMENT

    Rorty is not important in the traditional contexts. If we consider the metaphysical and epistemological efforts in philosophy, then certainly the epistemological program has been fruitful, even if the metaphysical program has been a failure (in the sense of philosopher’s attempts to render philosophy into a science.)

    Rorty, and the post-analytic program have been important in specifically abandoning the metaphysical program, first, and even the epistemic program, in order to return philosophy to meaningful use as a tool by which we can determine right actions both public an private.

    The criticisms above do not account for the relative abandonment of philosophy outside of the discipline, specifically because the analytical program, which attempts to integrate physical sciences, while maintaining the dream of solving the metaphysical program, and therefore rendering philosophy into a science, and as a science, return it to legitimacy as an influential social program, which in turn will convey status upon its advocates – status that was lost when science and empiricism became dominant tools, abandoning philosophy altogether.

    The post-analytical movement is an attempt to correct this problem in philosophy and to return it to its relevance in society. Experimental psychology, biology and economics are providing us the answers that philosophical introspection cannot.

    While Rorty and others have not sufficiently divorced post analytic from analytic as thoroughly as analytic has been divorced from continental, and, continental and enlightenment from religion, they have at least acknowledged and attempted to work at solving the problem of making philosophical reasoning once again useful, by applying it to practical matters, and treating scientific information first and foremost, using philosophy to assist us in properly understanding that scientific information.

    I believe it is possible to create a unified philosophical framework for discussion of meaningful ideas

    I also realize that to make this argument forces those indoctrinated and habituated into philosophy that attempts to solve the metaphysical program to consider that their fascinations, problems, hobbies and careers are an outdated technology akin to cobol programming or water wheel construction. 🙂

    But then, an economist would argue that this makes sense, because it is too great an effort to change one’s point of view without material incentives. 🙂

    Cheers

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-15 02:59:00 UTC

  • IN INCIDENCE OF AUTISM THE RESULT OF ASSORTIVE MATING. (personally I’m not sure

    http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/11/childhood-autism-and-assortative-mating.htmlINCREASE IN INCIDENCE OF AUTISM THE RESULT OF ASSORTIVE MATING. (personally I’m not sure that thus isn’t a ‘good’)

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-12 06:56:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle shared a photo

    Curt Doolittle shared a photo.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-11 17:19:00 UTC

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    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-11 16:41:00 UTC

  • I LOVE THESE PEOPLE Seriously. I want to just hug them at random. And I’d give i

    I LOVE THESE PEOPLE

    Seriously. I want to just hug them at random. And I’d give into impulse and do it if I thought I could get away with it.

    Now, sure, I’m not yet sensitized to the cacophony of signals. And sure, I tend to broadcast my own, which positively colors the reactions of others to me in this environment.

    But that said. It seems that a smile and consideration are more valuable currencies here. More like the small towns that some of us still remember growing up in.

    I’m working on a bit of theory here that I’m trying to convert into propertarian language. I can’t quite do it yet.

    But we know that there is a small and maximum diversity if race, religion and culture that allows normative excellences to develop before these same interpersonal “calculations’ must be diverted to accommodative compromises.

    One easily visible example is the loss of rhyme, poetic expression, alliteration, subtlety and allegory, especially literary allegory from american English And it has had and will continue to have extraordinary consequences for not only norms, but the structure of the physical mind, and for the unarticulated habitual metaphysics of the population.

    We have diverted extraordinary efforts to accommodate diversity for no other reason than to preserve the monolithic state. Yet that monolithic state exists entirely for the purpose of conducting warfare. First to conquer and profit from the continent. Second to protect that continent from European adventurism. And finally to protect the west after its suicide, from communism.

    Now these habits are norms, and these norms embodied in socialist myth and political institutions. And our pursuit of excellences is abandoned in favor of compromises. not just in our language. But in dysgenic breeding and outbreeding.

    One can lament a ones culture. We have been lamenting ours for a century now.

    But lamenting is romantic. Institutions grounded in norms are functional technologies.

    We lost mortar and cement for what, the better part of thousand years? We lost reason for approximately the same.

    We lost literacy for as long

    The first Greeks lost writing for six hundred years.

    The path of civilization through time is not linear. It includes cataclysmic boundaries.

    The most expensive technologies to develop in any civilization are norms.

    Yet we treat them as given.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-11 07:49:00 UTC

  • SORT OF “Despite this fast growth among “catching-up” countries, the rankings of

    http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/economics/comments/unit-4-macro-looking-to-2060-a-global-vision-of-long-term-growth?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+economics_news+%28tutor2u+Economics+Blog%29#When:09:48:54ZCONVERGENCE : SORT OF

    “Despite this fast growth among “catching-up” countries, the rankings of GDP per capita in 2011 and 2060 are projected to remain very similar”

    I hate to share a link from one of the two sites that have banned me. But the article and external links are worth it.

    While progressives look for reasons to justify their one world fantasy, those of us who know better see reduced western privilege leading to resurgent nationalism, and permanent friction as large poor countries remain permanently unequal. And as such doom the western lower classes to exactly the opposite future that they and their absurd egalitarian policies fantasizes about.

    Only innovation defeats Malthus. And with innovation comes greater intellectual demand on citizens.

    The fact that we have held Malthus at bay is a temporary product of asymmetric development and the conversion of farm to industrial labor. And that is a temporary conversion since labor is just as rapidly replaced both technically through productivity and geographically through labor competition.

    We will get either a eugenic or disgenic result from our egalitarian universalist fantasy.

    What we will not get is a harmonious egalitarian world order.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-11 07:15:00 UTC

  • CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS : MOTHERS, USELESS MALES AND MISSING CHIVALRY A country wh

    CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS : MOTHERS, USELESS MALES AND MISSING CHIVALRY

    A country where the men stand around, watch what’s going on, direct the women as if they are somehow adding value to the obvious, and the women humor the men, mollify them sufficiently as if they’re afraid of being beaten, and then do all the work as if the men weren’t there anyway.

    I am not a feminist. I also do not believe that men should willingly abandon their wealth of violence in order to become subjects of a mythical common good. But the fact is, that more than 1/3 of men are unnecessary unless we rely on manual labor, and they are entirely useless to society.

    However, they are born to and raised by mothers whose genes and choice of mates is insufficient for producing individual males capable of production in post-labor societies.

    “Choice” means that a woman has full control of breeding, and that the compromise “peace” that was achieved by the nuclear family under agrarianism, where the farm was a family business, and the family was the smallest tribe that it is possible to form, and where both male and female breeding strategies could be satisfied with limited compromise.

    Men are what mothers breed, and make them. While they have innate tendencies that are very different from those of women, most of what we call civilization is creating rules and incentives that direct men’s energies to the pursuit of status and behavior that is beneficial for all.

    So who is to blame for the behavior of men here?

    They have not abandoned their wealth of violence. That’s obvious. Neither domestically, politically, economically or socially. And for that I admire them. HOwever, without chivalry, they have no means of directing their energies to service of others.

    And without mothers who understand chivalry, they have no one to teach them.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-11 03:44:00 UTC