Curt Doolittle

Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

  • Retweeted Pew Research Center (@pewresearch): The share of mothers in the labor

    Retweeted Pew Research Center (@pewresearch):

    The share of mothers in the labor force increased steadily from 1975 to 2000 but has leveled off since then https://t.co/NyVL2BRa7Z https://t.co/t1gHYBQ80z

    Source date (UTC): 2017-05-12 18:03:00 UTC

  • DIFFERENCES IN SEXUALITY AND THE SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES (important) Male sexuality

    DIFFERENCES IN SEXUALITY AND THE SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES

    (important)

    Male sexuality differs from female sexuality (which is ‘mental’) in that it is physical… a need … that increases in intensity with the degree of testosterone (in both sexes by the way).

    Women cannot grasp this whatsoever. In general, women can’t empathize except in social matters. I tell women to compare how a male feels about sex to a MUCH stronger version of the moodiness or ‘cranky-ness’ they feel during their PMS – except it’s ten times more aggressive, and it returns ‘returns’ gradually within three to seven days after the last time they had sex. In other words, men tend to ‘cycle’ about two to four times as fast as women do. And that men have no more control over that impulse than women do over their PMS impulses.

    This explanation tends to help women understand it. We are both victims of those cycles. But we feel attraction very differently. Women cycle slower, and men faster. Men physically and women mentally. Men visually and women experientially. It’s not very complicated.

    So a male with reasonably high testosterone but who, for genetic, psychological, intellectual, cultural, personal, or age reasons is unable to gain access to sex, will seek outlets for this ‘anger’ – and will be a happier and more peaceful person because of it.

    I usually suggest that between low cost protein, msg-saturated foods, video games, and pornography, it appears that we can explain the decline in violence, crime, and particularly sex crimes over the past three decades. Adding ‘robotic sex’ will only increase this effect. (BTW: anti-depressants can solve this problem for men as well, while physical exercise may increase it.)

    Single men unable to obtain sex are very dangerous between 15-25 in the white population, and 13-29 in the black population. They impose DIRECT costs on the society by their frustration and aggression.

    Single women under 25 without children are just as dangerous, but INDIRECTLY dangerous – their ‘crimes’ are those that impose costs on society by externality rather than directly.

    And this is the problem with our education system providing very little value after 6th grade, the extension of childhood rather than incremental participation in the economy, and the reduction of marriage because of extended childhood.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2017-05-12 11:54:00 UTC

  • WE ARE GREAT AT TESTING ONE ANOTHER’S ARGUMENTS, BUT NOT OUR OWN – AND THAT’S A

    http://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6338/589?utm_campaign=toc_sci-mag_2017-05-11&et_rid=224559666&et_cid=1321806YES WE ARE GREAT AT TESTING ONE ANOTHER’S ARGUMENTS, BUT NOT OUR OWN – AND THAT’S A GOOD THING

    Markets in everything.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-05-11 20:06:00 UTC

  • MORE ON POLYGAMY (possibly important) Polygamy provides an UNDERCLASS and OUTLIE

    MORE ON POLYGAMY

    (possibly important)

    Polygamy provides an UNDERCLASS and OUTLIER solution to specific problems given general failures of the society. At present, that I know of, something like 5% of white westerners have some sort of continuous non exclusive relationship; some larger percentage ‘cheats’ frequently, at least 1/3 ‘cheat’ at some point, and about half of marriages end in divorce.

    As we move down the IQ spectrum to increasingly ‘darker’ peoples, we see the center of the distribution change, so that the percentage of long term exclusivity decreases proportionally with intelligence and discipline. We should see increases in polyamory(promiscuity), polygamy(limited promiscuity), serial marriage (more limited promiscuity), and divorce (more limited promiscuity)… and that is what we DO see.

    So it is more appropriate to say that we observe a normal distribution of exclusivity and non-exclusivity, with declines in promiscuity and increases in monogamy as the quality of the gene pool increases. But we will never see an end to some % of promiscuity at the top and bottom of the spectrum no matter what we do.

    So as an individual and a libertarian I hold the position that

    (a) you should do what you want to do.

    (b) what you want to do may or many not be ‘good’ objectively, merely preferable for you.

    (c) that the community will always favor exclusivity except at the bottom where it is impossible and top where it is unnecessary.

    (d) and that as a political question the ‘interests’ of the social group are absolutely in favor of limited promiscuity, which increases the responsibility of intergenerational care taking to the clan, rather than redistributing it to the society.

    That said, some of us have shitty families and shitty gene pools so collecting together into polygamous contractual relationships is simply good evolutionary strategy even if it is a bad normative strategy, and as such we should not interfere with those relations, even if we do not sanction them.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-05-11 18:02:00 UTC

  • ON POLYGAMY I’ve answered this question repeatedly. So here we go again: (a) the

    ON POLYGAMY

    I’ve answered this question repeatedly. So here we go again:

    (a) the community will not insure it.

    (b) the community might ostracize it.

    (c) the ostracization is rational since it is not in their kin’s interests, and poses a normative risk to their kin.

    (d) there is nothing stopping you from creating a corporation with the identical properties of a marriage EXCEPT for the community insurance of the relationship.

    (e) so effectively you trade a decrease in normative social status in exchange for polygamy. And I have no reason to think this is not exactly the optimum condition.

    (f) i might argue that such a private contract might have higher value than the marriage contract since it is unregulated.

    In other words, IMO, marriage is an ancient natural law contract between a man and a woman for the formation of a corporation of community property that produces offspring who later care for the parents in old age.

    Every other relationship is not marriage but a contract that grants:

    (a) reciprocal exclusivity of resources of all kinds

    (b) reciprocal power of attorney over the community assets including one another.

    (c) reciprocal insurance against the vicissitudes of life.

    (d) reciprocal insurance of offspring.

    The difference being that the community will warranty non interference in the relationship and therefore the contract of marriage, and the community will not warranty the same of the alternative contract, since it is not in the interests of the community to foster these relationships. (no it’s not. sorry).

    Source date (UTC): 2017-05-10 20:04:00 UTC

  • Women aren’t evil, they’re just practical. As men, it’s our function to reach be

    Women aren’t evil, they’re just practical. As men, it’s our function to reach beyond the practical in the hope of producing extra returns.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-05-10 18:49:00 UTC

  • “THE TALK” FOR WOMEN —RE: “In priority she is higher for us and her children a

    “THE TALK” FOR WOMEN

    —RE: “In priority she is higher for us and her children are higher for her.” I Had this fight many times. I am a monster apparently.” — Jerrick Harald

    1) I am a man. You are a woman. We are different. We are not the same. We are not equal. We are compatible. In our compatibility we can make each other better and happier than each of us can be alone. We have interests. I have interests. You have interests. We have shared interests. You likely cannot understand many of my interests. I will appreciate your interests. You can only appreciate that my interests that differ from yours are as important to me as those that differ from mine are as important to you. I am a man. I have a man’s interests. And I will devote my time to my interests, you will devote your time to your interests, and we will devote our time to our shared interests. Hopefully we have and we create many shared interests.

    2) If you want a woman to live with, get your mother or a sister, or share a home with another woman – one that you will fight with all the time for alpha bitch status. If you want a compliant male to share a home with, to tread your wants first among others, and to treat your children first among all others, then you need to understand that the price of that compliance is a man, and a man is not a woman. So you cannot have the luxury of both a man and a woman unless you can coerce your mother to live with you, since she is the only woman who will not try to dominate you for the benefit of herself and her children – if you’re lucky. I am a man.

    3) You women have a tribe of children. We men have a tribe of women and their children. We both gain a tribal monopoly thru marriage. I fight no other men for dominance and priority for sex and affection. You fight no other women for dominance and priority for you and your children. This is the smallest tribe we can both construct under which we are both alphas and both obtain what we require for survival and reproduction.

    4) So, I am not a life support system for a vagina or its outputs. I am a man. I assist in making your life better than it would be otherwise; and you assist in making my life better than it would be otherwise. Either a relationship is of continuous value to me, in sex, affection, care, friendship, economic utility, and late life insurance, or it is not. I expect you to find the same.

    5) My function as a man, is to provide defense, resources, friendship, affection, care, sex, and to manipulate the exterior world for your benefit in exchange for friendship, affection, care, sex, and your manipulation of the nest for my benefit.

    6) I am not a girlfriend. I am a man. I solve problems. I understand facts, not experiences. I gain nothing from experiences – they merely confuse and annoy me. I cannot share many of your feelings, I can only appreciate and respect them. I try to make you happy in exchange for rewards of appreciation. I enjoy making you happy. I listen for ways to make you happy. I prefer if you do not ask me to guess. And I prefer that you ask rather than expect me to remember. And while you train children by reminding, every time you nag me I take it as a criticism not help.

    7) This is honestly spoken. This is truth. We can color this truth in romantic promises so that our emotions convey additional weight. However, everything else is just a comforting lie, and comforting lies are a means of obtaining what one desires without paying for it, or constructing a promise that current asymmetries will be paid for with future returns.

    8) Women lie for resources and status and men lie for sex. But there is no reason to lie unless we try to obtain an unearned discount.

    9) But history illustrates that men are more sentimental and loyal than women in all walks of life. And if you will enter into this agreement with me for the long term, I will enter into it with you for the long term, and I will not break it if you do not break it.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-05-10 14:50:00 UTC

  • ARE YOU A MAN OR A CHILD? Children talk about good and should, bad and shouldn’t

    ARE YOU A MAN OR A CHILD?

    Children talk about good and should, bad and shouldn’t, moral and immoral. Adults talk about incentives, what people demonstrably do, and the development of institutions that take advantage of both, and the prosperity, trust, reduction of parasitism that results.

    Curt Doolittle

    Source date (UTC): 2017-05-10 14:41:00 UTC

  • (I realize that you might get a skewed impression of how i much value women and

    (I realize that you might get a skewed impression of how i much value women and what ends I will go to for them. But I am working to solve the problem of conflict between the genders, and the tragedy of democracy. I have a decidedly unhealthy need to care for women and feel unhappy when I don’t.)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-05-10 13:29:00 UTC

  • PARENTING THE VERY YOUNG Men are more likely to play ‘trick’ games with children

    PARENTING THE VERY YOUNG

    Men are more likely to play ‘trick’ games with children, and women are more likely to play ‘supportive’ games with children. Men are more likely to encourage them to take risks (cheerleaders), and women are more likely to monitor risks (lifeguards). It’s the competition between these two sets of ideas that educates a child in ‘how to choose’.

    Always choose competition when teaching a child.

    ALWAYS. IN EVERYTHING.

    EQUILIBRIA IN EVERYTHING.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-05-10 12:56:00 UTC