Curt Doolittle

Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

  • What Is The Underlying Psychological Reason For Racism? Looking Different Is A Part Of It, But There Must Be More To It.

    THE CORRECT ANSWER

    1. the evolutionary necessity of the social dominance hierarchy.
    2. the primacy of status in that dominance hierarchy above all other values. Our loss aversion to status is our highest sensitivity after loss of access to mates. Any creature that cannot compete in its dominance hierarchy will see its pool driven to extinction.
    3. the primacy and necessity of kin selection (any kin group that does not will be driven to extinction.)

    Give up on equality. It’s an evolutionary dead end. Make the best of what you have to work with. We are wealthier than at any point in history, but each of us is less important than we ever have been in history. This lowers our risk but provides us near zero status rewards that are under our control other than consumption signals.

    which is why people are driven to consumption.

    and it is why the poorer you are the more driven to consumption you are.

    which is why the buddha and the stoics taught what they did.

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-underlying-psychological-reason-for-racism-Looking-different-is-a-part-of-it-but-there-must-be-more-to-it

  • Why Do People Discriminate Against Others But Dislike It When They Are Discriminated?

    It’s called the SOCIAL DOMINANCE HIERARCHY OF PRIMATES. Its the reason you have serotonin.

    We all do it, every waking moment. There is no case where one is not higher than the other. Period. Sorry. That’s just the science. And it’s a biological necessity.

    We are more sensitive to status than any other perception.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-discriminate-against-others-but-dislike-it-when-they-are-discriminated

  • As A White Person, Can You Describe A Personal Realization That You Were Treating Minorities Differently Than Other Whites And What You Did To Make A Change?

    I was raised not to do so. I do not. However, I also know that most of use make friendships, businesses, and mate, within three degrees of our relations. And that this only changes when disparate peoples meet under periods of economic change.

    In the end, races are justifiably treated differently because of the medians of their distributions – that’s just empirical behavior. It is far cheaper to work with people you understand than invest heavily in those who are different and whom you cannot estimate.

    People are not special. At best there are far, far, too many of us.

    https://www.quora.com/As-a-white-person-can-you-describe-a-personal-realization-that-you-were-treating-minorities-differently-than-other-whites-and-what-you-did-to-make-a-change

  • What Are Physically Strongest And Weakest Races In The World?

    That is a great question, but I don’t know … hmm.. Certainly Africans have the physique that evolved in harshest conditions requiring the greatest durability, and in all tests in the real world they are certainly the most durable. Certainly some native south americans have extraordinary cardiovascular capability. And as far as I know they are the strongest per cm of height. Certainly southeast asians appear to be the smallest and finest other than the Pygmies. I’ve seen massive strength from every gene pool. The greatest weight lifting isn’t a good measure because it appears to be a matter of training. And the training requires a certain kind of mind, and those minds are produced by cultures. So I would expect that definition of strength to come from ethnic anatolians-persians or ethnic germans-scandinavians-slavs. Arabs have been breeding with africans since they diverged from indo-iranians. But given their extreme poverty and lack of military tradition we haven’t seen them in the ranks of competitors.

    https://www.quora.com/What-are-physically-strongest-and-weakest-races-in-the-world

  • Which Is A Bigger Problem In The Us Classism Or Racism?

    —-”Which is a bigger problem in the US classism or racism?”—

    Neither is a problem. Both are uncircumventable evolutionary, reproductive, social, economic, and political realities and necessities. Humans organize that is our principal ability, and our intelligence evolved only for the purpose of increasing the complexity of our cooperation – even across gender, family, clan, classes, tribes, nations(in the genetic sense), subraces, and races.

    The classes demonstrate different genetic, social, economic, and political abilities. Unfortunately everyone at the bottom quartile is six times as costly as everyone at the top two quartiles can compensate for.( the third quartile appears to be neutral or at least a tolerable loss.

    Those tribes, nations, subraces, and races unable to limit the reproduction of their underclasses (as have europeans and east asians through manorialism or extraordinary prosecution), or have expelled their underclasses (Ashkenazis) or have been able to concentrate sufficient capital to drag people out of permanent malthusian (population) and dysgenic(distribution) poverty.

    Those tribes, nations, subraces, and races unable to limit the reproduction of their underclasses, and who have not engaged in martial, juridical, or economic (manorialism), have ended up as the levant, india, southeast asia, and now south america, with underclasses so large that they cannot be organized into a voluntary organization of production capable of producing marketable goods.

    Worse, in the current era, as the low hanging fruit of petrochemical energy, mechanical technology, and now computational utility has been captured, likewise, labor has evaporated as a market good, mechanical capital has dramatically depreciated as market good, and at present calculation labor (what we call clerical and white collar work) is depreciating as a market good. And without markets to provide information to us, we cannot cooperate at scale. And there are few if any multipliers on service provision.

    All technology can be implemented quickly and easily and the marginal competitive advantage between groups eliminated.

    So as the world continues to adopt the inventions of western civilization – not the least of which is Aristotelian (scientific) reasoning, and the Anglo (Germanic) natural law of torts, and the Italian(Templar) method of banking, the relative standard of living of peoples will decline, because the only competitive advantage a population has, is genetic.

    The primary competitive advantage that does not produce regression into Malthusian and dysgenic poverty is genes. And the difference in one standard deviation is so profound it is the HIGHEST POSSIBLE RETURN for any group – as well as for all mankind.

    The data is in. The 20th century experiment with social economic and political pseudoscience is over. We misspent that capital on reversing at least 1300 years of improving human genetic, cultural, and institutional capital.

    There are three known magic bullets. A battery with the energy density of gasoline. The reduction of the size of the underclass through one child policies for the underclasses, and the development of artificial general intelligence that means he with the most capital and the lowest population wins.

    The individual human is quickly approaching not only malthusian and genetic equilibrium but political, economic, social, damage. We outran the productivity of nature and resorted to farming. We outran the productivity of farming and turned to industry. We out ran the productivity of industry and turned to information. There is nowhere to go beyond information, and as such the only gains are to be obtained from the reduction of negative human capital.

    Via-negativa in all things at scale. Once you maximize returns on any set of operations, the only improvement possible is to remove costs and defects.

    More is not better. Fewer people with more, is better than more people with less.

    That’s unavoidable.

    Curt Doolittle
    The Propertarian Institute
    Kiev, Ukraine

    https://www.quora.com/Which-is-a-bigger-problem-in-the-US-classism-or-racism

  • What Do You Call A Black Person? What Do You Call A White Person?

    I call them by their names if they are desirable people. If they are undesirable I call them names. That’s what we all do. it’s called the primate dominance hierarchy and it’s necessary for all creatures who mate.

    https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-do-you-call-a-black-person-What-do-you-call-a-white-person

  • If White People Came From Neanderthals, Why Do They Have Such Nice Features?

    —-”If white people came from Neanderthals, why do they have such nice features?”——

    White features, like East Asian features, are due to paedomorphic selection (read about it). Largely by decreasing testosterone, it appears. Which is also how we domesticate and produce paedomorphic traits in domesticated animals. The difference is that east asians evolved from an earlier branch out of africa, and progressed even farther (hence reduced sexual development) and migrated from the south while whites evolved (apparently) either from a later group, a different group, or as the product of groups interacting between africa, the levant, and europe, causing greater competition than was available in east asia.

    White people do not come from Neanderthals. A very small number of West Eurasians PRIOR TO BEING WHITE reproduced with Neanderthals – and most likely in the Levant.

    White skin developed around 20K years ago, and Neanderthals were extinct long before that. White people in their current condition developed sometime before the indo european expansion (the inventors of Horse, Chariot, and Bronze) around 4000BC, and likely in the european plain between poland and european russia (the urals) in that borderland that is now Ukraine.

    1 – West Asian europeans with darker skin were exterminated in europe.
    2 – White people with black hair were almost exterminated in europe.
    3 – White people with brown eyes were partly exterminated in northern europe.

    In other words, (the data from last year confirms) the Yamna expansion appears to have not been one of continuous integration, but outright replacement.

    Whites – at least northern european whites (North Sea) – are super-predators, even among humans. Which is why everyone fears them. (See Hansen). Probably because of our relatively high detachment compared to other genetic groups. (Which accounts for certain psychological benefits and defects common in Europeans: psychopathy and neuroticism in the extremes.) The only people close to europeans in evolutionary progress are east asians and they have lower verbal acuity in exchange for higher non verbal acuity. (We tend to think of the japanese as at least equals – and that is ‘rare’.)

    Curt Doolittle
    The Propertarian Institute
    Kiev, Ukraine

    https://www.quora.com/If-white-people-came-from-Neanderthals-why-do-they-have-such-nice-features

  • What Is The Underlying Psychological Reason For Racism? Looking Different Is A Part Of It, But There Must Be More To It.

    THE CORRECT ANSWER

    1. the evolutionary necessity of the social dominance hierarchy.
    2. the primacy of status in that dominance hierarchy above all other values. Our loss aversion to status is our highest sensitivity after loss of access to mates. Any creature that cannot compete in its dominance hierarchy will see its pool driven to extinction.
    3. the primacy and necessity of kin selection (any kin group that does not will be driven to extinction.)

    Give up on equality. It’s an evolutionary dead end. Make the best of what you have to work with. We are wealthier than at any point in history, but each of us is less important than we ever have been in history. This lowers our risk but provides us near zero status rewards that are under our control other than consumption signals.

    which is why people are driven to consumption.

    and it is why the poorer you are the more driven to consumption you are.

    which is why the buddha and the stoics taught what they did.

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-underlying-psychological-reason-for-racism-Looking-different-is-a-part-of-it-but-there-must-be-more-to-it

  • Why Do People Discriminate Against Others But Dislike It When They Are Discriminated?

    It’s called the SOCIAL DOMINANCE HIERARCHY OF PRIMATES. Its the reason you have serotonin.

    We all do it, every waking moment. There is no case where one is not higher than the other. Period. Sorry. That’s just the science. And it’s a biological necessity.

    We are more sensitive to status than any other perception.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-discriminate-against-others-but-dislike-it-when-they-are-discriminated

  • As A White Person, Can You Describe A Personal Realization That You Were Treating Minorities Differently Than Other Whites And What You Did To Make A Change?

    I was raised not to do so. I do not. However, I also know that most of use make friendships, businesses, and mate, within three degrees of our relations. And that this only changes when disparate peoples meet under periods of economic change.

    In the end, races are justifiably treated differently because of the medians of their distributions – that’s just empirical behavior. It is far cheaper to work with people you understand than invest heavily in those who are different and whom you cannot estimate.

    People are not special. At best there are far, far, too many of us.

    https://www.quora.com/As-a-white-person-can-you-describe-a-personal-realization-that-you-were-treating-minorities-differently-than-other-whites-and-what-you-did-to-make-a-change