Curt Doolittle

Category: Civilization, History, and Anthropology

  • We lost our civilization by trying to signal to women and avoid the high cost of

    We lost our civilization by trying to signal to women and avoid the high cost of using violence to impose morality and liberty. #NewRight

    Source date (UTC): 2016-04-17 05:08:00 UTC

  • In London or Seattle you can borrow an iPhone charger from anyone sitting around

    In London or Seattle you can borrow an iPhone charger from anyone sitting around you in a coffee shop.

    In Ukraine you can borrow a Samsung charger but not an iPhone charger.

    iPhone vs Samsung country. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2016-04-16 03:48:00 UTC

  • The Middle Class Thinkers could not solve social science. Why? It would have bee

    The Middle Class Thinkers could not solve social science. Why? It would have been an admission their enlightenment was a failure. #NewRight

    Source date (UTC): 2016-04-15 14:22:21 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/720980587679522817

  • Q&A: Curt, Why Is There White Trash?

    [W]HY IS THERE WHITE TRASH?

    —Curt: Can you explain the whole white trash phenomenon? How can a country so wealthy and full of opportunities have white trash? I anticipate that your answer is likely to be “it’s all IQ” or something along these lines, but aren’t there opportunities for dumb people as well?—-

    “All happy families are the same. All unhappy families are different”
    “All domesticate-able animals are the same. All un-domesticate-able animals are different”
    “All ‘good’ people are the same, all ‘bad’ people are different”

    IQ is correlative, but insufficient explanation for cause. But personality is sufficient.

    If we take all these variables:

    Visualization challenged vs Visualization/spatial intelligence
    Communication challenged vs Verbal intelligence
    autistic vs solipsistic
    introversion vs extroversion

    constancy vs novelty
    disciplined vs undisciplined
    secure/calm vs nervous/sensitive

    compassionate/cooperative vs suspicious/antagonistic
    Impulsivity vs non-impulsivity
    submissive vs aggressive

    With just these variables, we humans have the ability to construct cooperative, disciplined and satisfied minds, or aggressive, undisciplined and unsatisfied minds.

    The reason people in the bottom classes are generally difficult to employ MIGHT be intelligence, but all research I have read of late (when we see pseudoscience slowly receding in social science) is pretty consistent in stating that the unemployable people are just ‘bad personalities’. Much of the time it is that they constantly get negative feedback for their behaviors, and this effectively drives all of us into frustration.

    White trash is a minority in western civilization but in many cultures it’s the majority. Our culture systematically eliminated these people over many centuries. So they are smaller in number, but now rapidly breeding.

    It’s not all IQ. It is just that IQ and ‘good’ behaviors very often increase accordingly. Or that IQ allows us to COMPENSATE for our bad behaviors while lack of it forces us to give into those bad behaviors.

    INFORMATION
    I use the information model to study human behavior. And so I focus on the fact that all of these behaviors are constructed by the ability to organize and process information that gives us hormonal (chemical) rewards. Broken people have less ability to gain psychic rewards. Healthy people have more opportunity to gain psychic rewards.

    Each of us has a frustration budget.
    People at the bottom burn through that budget pretty frequently.
    you can have a dumb person with all good traits, and a smart person with all bad traits. It just isn’t that common.

  • Q&A: Curt, Why Is There White Trash?

    [W]HY IS THERE WHITE TRASH?

    —Curt: Can you explain the whole white trash phenomenon? How can a country so wealthy and full of opportunities have white trash? I anticipate that your answer is likely to be “it’s all IQ” or something along these lines, but aren’t there opportunities for dumb people as well?—-

    “All happy families are the same. All unhappy families are different”
    “All domesticate-able animals are the same. All un-domesticate-able animals are different”
    “All ‘good’ people are the same, all ‘bad’ people are different”

    IQ is correlative, but insufficient explanation for cause. But personality is sufficient.

    If we take all these variables:

    Visualization challenged vs Visualization/spatial intelligence
    Communication challenged vs Verbal intelligence
    autistic vs solipsistic
    introversion vs extroversion

    constancy vs novelty
    disciplined vs undisciplined
    secure/calm vs nervous/sensitive

    compassionate/cooperative vs suspicious/antagonistic
    Impulsivity vs non-impulsivity
    submissive vs aggressive

    With just these variables, we humans have the ability to construct cooperative, disciplined and satisfied minds, or aggressive, undisciplined and unsatisfied minds.

    The reason people in the bottom classes are generally difficult to employ MIGHT be intelligence, but all research I have read of late (when we see pseudoscience slowly receding in social science) is pretty consistent in stating that the unemployable people are just ‘bad personalities’. Much of the time it is that they constantly get negative feedback for their behaviors, and this effectively drives all of us into frustration.

    White trash is a minority in western civilization but in many cultures it’s the majority. Our culture systematically eliminated these people over many centuries. So they are smaller in number, but now rapidly breeding.

    It’s not all IQ. It is just that IQ and ‘good’ behaviors very often increase accordingly. Or that IQ allows us to COMPENSATE for our bad behaviors while lack of it forces us to give into those bad behaviors.

    INFORMATION
    I use the information model to study human behavior. And so I focus on the fact that all of these behaviors are constructed by the ability to organize and process information that gives us hormonal (chemical) rewards. Broken people have less ability to gain psychic rewards. Healthy people have more opportunity to gain psychic rewards.

    Each of us has a frustration budget.
    People at the bottom burn through that budget pretty frequently.
    you can have a dumb person with all good traits, and a smart person with all bad traits. It just isn’t that common.

  • (And why aren’t Nine Nations, Albion’s seeds, Civil War, agrarian depopulation,

    (And why aren’t Nine Nations, Albion’s seeds, Civil War, agrarian depopulation, declining economic advantage the cause?)

    Source date (UTC): 2016-04-13 19:11:11 UTC

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  • Our advantage is not so much taht we are better, it is that we killed off more o

    Our advantage is not so much taht we are better, it is that we killed off more of our bads.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-04-13 16:04:58 UTC

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  • institutions evolved due to local necessities

    institutions evolved due to local necessities.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-04-13 16:03:55 UTC

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  • Birth rates in cities are too low, so highly urbanized countries such as Singapo

    http://marginalrevolution.com/#sthash.B4q5ryeH.dpuf1. Birth rates in cities are too low, so highly urbanized countries such as Singapore and South Korea will have difficulty sustaining themselves. Making cities nice, while it brings human benefits, does not solve this problem and in some ways makes it worse.

    2. Lots of high-density, vertical building doesn’t really make cities cheaper. In fact it sucks more talent in, and more business activity, and in the longer run makes cities more expensive. Just look at Seoul and Singapore, which have built plenty but are nonetheless considered some of the most expensive cities to live in. After all, isn’t that the increasing returns to scale story?

    If I read Kotkin correctly (and this post is my interpretation of him, not a summary), he is not criticizing the policy choices of Seoul and Singapore, which have elevated those countries, or in nerdier terms you could say they have brought significant infra-marginal benefits. He is simply pointing out that liberal building does not solve the problems it is supposed to solve, most of all the margins looking forward.

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    Source date (UTC): 2016-04-13 14:13:00 UTC

  • Meaning different racial groups have been less successful at eugenic institution

    Meaning different racial groups have been less successful at eugenic institutions than we and chinese have.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-04-13 13:50:45 UTC

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