Curt Doolittle

Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

  • SOCIAL ORDER: ADULTS AND LOGIC, CHILDREN AND BELIEFS Children talk of beliefs. A

    SOCIAL ORDER: ADULTS AND LOGIC, CHILDREN AND BELIEFS

    Children talk of beliefs.

    Adults talk of institutions.

    Children talk of “Want and Belief”

    Adults of “Expectations and Habits”.

    The mind plans with what it has available.

    We need develop means of creating habits that produce expectations.

    People then plan with those expectations – because that is what is available to them.

    As far as I know only property, homesteaded and voluntarily exchanged, allows such planning by the individual, and decidability by third parties in the case of conflict.

    And far as I know the only means of creating ‘scientific’ rules of human cooperation is the organically evolved common law, constructed upon the one rule of property and the one operation of voluntary exchange.

    Just as with mathematics we can take the concept of a single unit and simple operations we create all of mathematics, with the concept of property and the simple operation of voluntary exchange, we can create all of human cooperation in equally rich variety.

    In the logic of human cooperation that we inarticulately call moral prohibitions and ethical rules, and which we can easily embody in law, we need only one unit “property” and one operation “exchange”.

    All commons can be constructed as long as the principles of existence, calculability, and operation-ability are maintained, such that all propositions are decidable without dependence upon information external to the operation.

    The only moral society is one in which property, morality and law are synonyms.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev Ukraine.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-03 10:27:00 UTC

  • QUESTION A lot of people hate white people. I have been discriminated against by

    QUESTION

    A lot of people hate white people. I have been discriminated against by Jews, Asians and Blacks in particular. But I have a lot of options within my tribe. So it’s an outlier condition. But it begs the question: Why don’t others have so many options within their tribes? Why isn’t opportunity in white organisations an outlier?

    Or as Yali asked: why do white people have cargo?

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-02 03:50:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    http://pumpkinperson.com/2014/10/05/iq-and-autism/

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-01 07:29:00 UTC

  • It is important to make women happy out of compassion: they struggle with mainta

    It is important to make women happy out of compassion: they struggle with maintaining rationality in the face of even the most trivial of uncomfortable truths. But that is different from taking them seriously. Rarely should a man take a woman seriously – they live in a world of chaos.

    ;).

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-01 07:27:00 UTC

  • FACE CONTOL Interesting half hour conversation with the guys who do the face con

    FACE CONTOL

    Interesting half hour conversation with the guys who do the face control at the clubs here. And it is what you would expect: just about all the girls but only guys with money, and nobody with a hint of color.

    Reason? Only the girls matter. And the Girl’s only want to see money.

    Damn.

    Men are irrelevant. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-30 13:43:00 UTC

  • for high I Q genomes

    http://drjamesthompson.blogspot.com/2014/10/special-offer-to-readers.html?m=1Request for high I Q genomes

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-30 10:31:00 UTC

  • YOU CAN’T FIX STUPID I get a lot of criticism from my friends for trying to ‘hel

    YOU CAN’T FIX STUPID

    I get a lot of criticism from my friends for trying to ‘help’ idiots. And yes, it is often a waste of time in the sense that you can’t change their thinking (much). On the other hand, I learn a lot about how to debate when I do argue with simple folk.

    I saved today’s conversation with (well meaning person) Wes Lysander, and some other twits or two. I can’t post a pdf here so I’ll put it on my site.

    But when I criticize ‘meaning’ rather than ‘truth’, and require definitions, that’s because meaning is dependent upon the imbecile’s abilities and knowledge, whereas truth is not.

    Now, truth is yet another problematic word whose ‘meaning’ is degraded into analogy after analogy. Because the truth content of a term is that which survives testing, not that from which we derive meaning.

    This is why I ask people in propertarianism to use terms only when they understand the entire spectrum in which that terminological point addresses a limited context. This is to ensure that we are not making argument by loose imprecise analogy.

    Often arguments require multiple axis of causality and therefore multiple spectra.

    So meaning is an exceptional device for deception, self deception, and error. (Yes I think I have settled that matter now – self deception is possible by intuitive desire.)

    And the reduction of any term to that which survives the process of elimination by the use of multiple axis of constraint, defines the necessary properties of the term (true), and not the abuses of that term (meaning).

    Just because I can use a shoe to hammer a nail does not mean it is honest to refer to a shoe as a hammer.

    That is what appeals to ‘meaning’ attempt to do.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-30 04:50:00 UTC

  • CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS : GENDER CONCEPTS Amazing conversations with Ukrainian wom

    CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS : GENDER CONCEPTS

    Amazing conversations with Ukrainian women the past few days. Pretty consistent:

    (a) Men are, in the main, smarter than women – but when they say this, it means a compartmentalized view of intelligence – it’s technical and political. This opinion has taught me a little bit about american view of intelligence for women – it’s a very administrative and sales based view of the world world. Over here it’s a political and technical view.

    (b) Women are much better at details – “this is a woman’s job, I must do this”. Meaning, “men are not able to do this well, women must do it”.

    (c) Men smack each other. That is like women being emotional.They are things that happen.

    I have heard this version of compatibilism a lot over here. There is nothing ‘negative’ about it at all. No animosity. No conflict. In fact, celebration of differences.

    But I wonder – as a society becomes increasingly white collar and under greater rule of law, is gender competition then a natural evolution?

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-29 11:34:00 UTC

  • The Portfolio of Privileges and Underprivileges

    Guest Post by Michael Phillip


    [S]ince social status is conferred in many different ways — everything from race to geography to class — all people are both privileged and non-privileged in certain aspects of their life. Furthermore, since dynamics of social status are highly dependent on situation, a person can benefit from privilege in one situation while not benefiting from it in another. It is also possible to have a situation in which a person simultaneously is the beneficiary of privilege while also being the recipient of discrimination in an area which they do not benefit from privilege.

  • The Portfolio of Privileges and Underprivileges

    Guest Post by Michael Phillip


    [S]ince social status is conferred in many different ways — everything from race to geography to class — all people are both privileged and non-privileged in certain aspects of their life. Furthermore, since dynamics of social status are highly dependent on situation, a person can benefit from privilege in one situation while not benefiting from it in another. It is also possible to have a situation in which a person simultaneously is the beneficiary of privilege while also being the recipient of discrimination in an area which they do not benefit from privilege.