Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • ETHICS : PRAXEOLOGY AND THE EQUILIBRIA OF VOLUNTARY TRANSFER COMPENSATE FOR LACK

    ETHICS : PRAXEOLOGY AND THE EQUILIBRIA OF VOLUNTARY TRANSFER COMPENSATE FOR LACK OF CARDINALITY IN SUBJECTIVITY

    The structural problem with the discipline of ethics, and perhaps philosophy in general, which is understandable given its period of origin, is not so much it’s lack of measurement – which given the ordinal nature of preferences is irrelevant – but it’s lack of equilibrial concepts with which to compensate for lack of measurement – even if it does account for externalities, albiet differently in european, asian and magian frameworks. This absence manifests itself in ideal types, general rules, and attempts at statements of perfection. When in fact, the ‘golden mean’, which Aristotle gave us, teaches us to consider ideas on a spectrum. Ideas with optimums can be compared with each other. Furthermore, voluntary and involuntary transfers – which are the source of all human cooperative behavior – can be used to inform us about whether our optimums will be demonstrably true, or ideological falsehoods.

    Ethics without praxeology is idealism, not analysis. Ethics without equilibrial forces of property, voluntarily transferred, is simply deception.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-04 06:55:00 UTC

  • “THE POLARIZED STATES OF AMERICA” Why don’t we put that on our money instead?

    “THE POLARIZED STATES OF AMERICA”

    Why don’t we put that on our money instead?

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-04 05:11:00 UTC

  • THE MARKET FOR AFFECTION : RANDOM THOUGHTS Yes, ladies, you can manipulate us. Y

    THE MARKET FOR AFFECTION : RANDOM THOUGHTS

    Yes, ladies, you can manipulate us. Yes, we understand that you can manipulate us. Yes, we know when you are manipulating us. Yes, we pretend that we don’t know you are manipulating us. The fact is, we like it. It’s attention. And attention from women is almost always good (except nagging). It’s a mutually beneficial game if played well. Understand? Good. I’m glad we got that out of the way. Now lets get back to the game. OK?

    🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-04 04:09:00 UTC

  • know, when a friend writes something good, it’s just natural to be complimentary

    http://evolutionaryaesthetics.blogspot.com/You know, when a friend writes something good, it’s just natural to be complimentary. The problem is, that when it’s really good, no one pays attention, because your opinion is discounted. For this reason, compliments from the opposition are more valuable than those from friends.

    Troy has written a thesis that (of course I agree with) but which is the rare exception: a dissertation worth reading.

    The couple we’re going to dinner with is late, and I had a few minutes, and just randomly started reading something in my queue and was rewarded for it.

    Thanks Troy, for turning me on to your dissertation. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-03 15:50:00 UTC

  • The youngest libertarian

    The youngest libertarian …

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-02 12:44:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle shared a post

    Curt Doolittle shared a post.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-02 05:14:00 UTC

  • STRATEGY ON WALL STREET Conservatives and republicans seek to protect wall stree

    http://www.nextnewdeal.net/rortybomb/what-explains-wall-streets-shift-away-obama-fat-cat-comments-or-dodd-frankCONSERVATIVE STRATEGY ON WALL STREET

    Conservatives and republicans seek to protect wall street as a defense against the socialist state.

    It is the only defense they have. They rely upon: small business, family conservatives, evangelicals, the military, and the financial sector.

    This is another example of how people will pay very high costs to punish ‘cheaters’.

    And it at least appears that the republicans have been successful in recruiting wall street.

    If this hypothesis is true, it will mean a watershed moment has occurred.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-02 03:37:00 UTC

  • MORAL SPATIAL REASONING I might have been wrong about something interesting. For

    MORAL SPATIAL REASONING

    I might have been wrong about something interesting.

    For years I have understood that Europeans have superior spatial reasoning especially in the perception of the locations of others in real time. Europeans are followed by east Asians.

    But I assumed that this was a product of military or hunting selection.

    It didn’t occur to me that it is the product of morality: understanding of the intentions of others, and that hunting and fighting superiority, particularly in Europe and Asia evolved as extensions of the moral instinct.

    So does it mean that our concept of time preference should be restated in moral terms?

    We know that time preference, impulsivity and morality are correlated with social class. And that intelligence is also.

    We know that Europeans and east Asians are the least impulsive people. Asians less impulsive than Europeans.

    We know that only east Asians and europeans were able to create advanced societies and that only Europeans were able to break familial bonds.

    But are these all simply effects of greater sensitivity to and priority given to, the detection of intentions for the purpose of seizing opportunities to cooperate : morality?

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-02 02:19:00 UTC

  • CONSERVATIVE STRATEGY IS TO STARVE THE BEAST Linda doesn’t quite get it. I’ll ha

    http://www.angrybearblog.com/2012/10/starve-state-support-traditional.htmlTHE CONSERVATIVE STRATEGY IS TO STARVE THE BEAST

    Linda doesn’t quite get it. I’ll have to write a response. But finally some progressives understand the conservative strategy. No thtat they can do anything about it. Because the middle class is too moral to adopt the progressive philosophy.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-01 13:17:00 UTC

  • EXPERIMENT: MEDIUMS OF ACCOUNT AND EXCHANGE

    http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2012/10/medium-of-account-vs-medium-of-exchange.htmlTHOUGHT EXPERIMENT: MEDIUMS OF ACCOUNT AND EXCHANGE

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