Curt Doolittle

Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

  • Um. As Always, If It Doesn’t Make Sense, Look for the Costs

    Conservatives are more likely to use an adultery site than liberals, and libertarians much more likely than Conservatives. Why? Um. Let me help y’all. It’s COSTS. For libertarians especially, and conservatives in general, interpersonal connections come at higher costs. These web sites effectively suggest that they offer opportunities at lower interpersonal COST. (All behavior is cost driven & costs vary.) Liberals are always on the market, and the price is cheap. Conservatives are on the market and the price is expensive, and libertarians are on the market and price is most expensive. (via Skye Stewart, via Rolf Degen)

  • Um. As Always, If It Doesn’t Make Sense, Look for the Costs

    Conservatives are more likely to use an adultery site than liberals, and libertarians much more likely than Conservatives. Why? Um. Let me help y’all. It’s COSTS. For libertarians especially, and conservatives in general, interpersonal connections come at higher costs. These web sites effectively suggest that they offer opportunities at lower interpersonal COST. (All behavior is cost driven & costs vary.) Liberals are always on the market, and the price is cheap. Conservatives are on the market and the price is expensive, and libertarians are on the market and price is most expensive. (via Skye Stewart, via Rolf Degen)

  • Beauty Does Not Indicate Health.

    Isn’t this a simple verbalism? Fitness (intertemporal) and Health (Temporal)? Height, Morphology, Symmetry, and shoulder, waist, hip and all other ratios provide an exceptional test of Neoteny / Pedomorphism, which indicate accurate genetic potential. Health is transitory. Skin and eyes and movement tell everything.

  • Beauty Does Not Indicate Health.

    Isn’t this a simple verbalism? Fitness (intertemporal) and Health (Temporal)? Height, Morphology, Symmetry, and shoulder, waist, hip and all other ratios provide an exceptional test of Neoteny / Pedomorphism, which indicate accurate genetic potential. Health is transitory. Skin and eyes and movement tell everything.

  • Winning the World: Do It.

    What wins in this world. Simple. 1. Internal locus of control. 2. Individual sovereignty (I own me). 3. High Agency. 4. Intolerance. 5. A refusal to seek validation. 6. A refusal to seek approval. 7. The ability to think out to 2nd and 3rd order effects. 8. The ability to understand Requisite Variety — the one with the most options wins. As soon as you are limited by your own values, beliefs and morals against an enemy that wields dual-moralism or is polymorphic and peddles lies, you lose. The church offers confessions for a reason, win and then confess. There is no value in losing or dying with “honor”. 9. The understanding that you were dead the day you were born. And you have a duty and role to play. 10. Do it.

  • Winning the World: Do It.

    What wins in this world. Simple. 1. Internal locus of control. 2. Individual sovereignty (I own me). 3. High Agency. 4. Intolerance. 5. A refusal to seek validation. 6. A refusal to seek approval. 7. The ability to think out to 2nd and 3rd order effects. 8. The ability to understand Requisite Variety — the one with the most options wins. As soon as you are limited by your own values, beliefs and morals against an enemy that wields dual-moralism or is polymorphic and peddles lies, you lose. The church offers confessions for a reason, win and then confess. There is no value in losing or dying with “honor”. 9. The understanding that you were dead the day you were born. And you have a duty and role to play. 10. Do it.

  • Fulfilling Your Needs

    The reason you want a narrative and an ideology is so that you can feel in a group and in control in a world where you have none. But the only control you have is over your understanding of that world and your interpretation of that world. So narratives are inhibitors not enablers. Propertarianism (Natural Law) will absolutely positively provide you with a consistent, correspondent, and coherent science, grammar, and logic with which to understand describe and interact with the world. Stoicism (Self authoring in goals and virtues) will absolutely positively provide you with the mindfulness to control your interpretation of that world. Restoration of our historical civilization to sovereignty, reciprocity, duty, truth, and markets in all aspects of life will allow us to achieve our individual interests within the limits of available knowledge and resources, as well as defend ourselves from primitive competitors, and if necessary conquer and govern them, and if left no other choice, to eliminate them.

  • Fulfilling Your Needs

    The reason you want a narrative and an ideology is so that you can feel in a group and in control in a world where you have none. But the only control you have is over your understanding of that world and your interpretation of that world. So narratives are inhibitors not enablers. Propertarianism (Natural Law) will absolutely positively provide you with a consistent, correspondent, and coherent science, grammar, and logic with which to understand describe and interact with the world. Stoicism (Self authoring in goals and virtues) will absolutely positively provide you with the mindfulness to control your interpretation of that world. Restoration of our historical civilization to sovereignty, reciprocity, duty, truth, and markets in all aspects of life will allow us to achieve our individual interests within the limits of available knowledge and resources, as well as defend ourselves from primitive competitors, and if necessary conquer and govern them, and if left no other choice, to eliminate them.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status. —“Dunbar’s Number is a suggested cognitive

    Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    —“Dunbar’s Number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships—relationships in which an individual knows who each person is and how each person relates to every other person.”—

    Roman (Wall) 8 men x 10(80) x 6(480) x 10(4800) (legion)
    American (Packs) 10 x 4(40) x 4.x (175) x 4(700) (battalion) x 6.4(4500+) (Brigade)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-13 18:14:58 UTC

  • THE MOST IMPORTANT MEASURE IS THE EXTRAORDINARY CREATIVITY OF THE OUTLIERS. (I d

    THE MOST IMPORTANT MEASURE IS THE EXTRAORDINARY CREATIVITY OF THE OUTLIERS.

    (I don’t think of myself as smart so much as having this very strange ‘gift’ that I have for patterns that I’ve learned to make very good use of. )

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-13 17:22:46 UTC