Curt Doolittle

Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

  • PERSONAL ADVICE (worth repeating) It is not helpful to think of others as fools,

    PERSONAL ADVICE

    (worth repeating)

    It is not helpful to think of others as fools, idiots or malcontents, which presumes human equality of ability, but to think of others as different breeds of human with better and lesser abilities, each of whom does the best it can competing against the mean of human abilities that we call ‘society’.

    Instead of wishing for lower transaction costs, which one cannot possibly achieve, it is better to recognize one’s superiority, and choose between helping the demonstrably inferior, ignoring them, or admonishing them a little bit in order to ‘correct’ their behavior – a necessary and beneficial contribution to the commons.

    The illusion of equality under the enlightenment fallacy has produced negative conceptual norms even in the best of us. So those of us with Aristocratic abilities and sentiments should not fall victim to the fallacy ourselves.

    My approach is to assume everyone is making constant errors, and to try to help them. It’s an aristocratic duty, and taking priestly, professorial, or philosophical, or whatever approach you wish to call ‘teaching’ or ‘training’ has improved my life dramatically. In my twenties I decided to help everyone I cam in contact with in some small way – usually by helping them understand the world as it is, rather than as they wish it to be.

    Helping others removes frustration, and brings you and others joy. You will always be happier helping than being frustrated. And yes, helping is a high cost. On the other hand the more helping you do the better you get at it, and it is wonderfully rewarding to experience how you are treated by others when they expect that you will try to help rather than confront them.

    We have a lot of work to do. The enlightenment fallacy, the errors of the socialists and the lies of the postmodernists can be countered with recent scientific evidence, and by learning a few arguments from Aristocratic Egalitarianism, Propertarianism, and Testimonial Truth and Operationalism.

    They created a fallacy by talking. The cure is truth. And truth is helpful.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-08 07:36:00 UTC

  • CLARK DOES IT AGAIN: CLASS IS GENETIC

    http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/141932/gregory-clark/the-american-dream-is-an-illusionGREGORY CLARK DOES IT AGAIN: CLASS IS GENETIC

    http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/141932/gregory-clark/the-american-dream-is-an-illusion

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-02 04:06:00 UTC

  • “CRITIQUE IS WEAPONIZED GOSSIP” It’s interesting. Fascinating really. Gossip evo

    “CRITIQUE IS WEAPONIZED GOSSIP”

    It’s interesting. Fascinating really.

    Gossip evolved as a means by which to control alphas. So that females could control reproduction again. Or at least exert some control over their reproduction.

    One of the theories is that we learned to speak in order to gossip. In that sense, the theory that language was invented to lie, has some merit.

    Gossip consists mostly of lies and deception. It is an attempt to to provoke rallying and shaming.

    If you combine hermeneutic analysis of scripture (psychologizing), Gossip (control), Rallying and Shaming, and dual ethics (justified immorality) you can develop critique. The left’s technique.

    The left’s war on truth and meritocracy.

    Truth and violence are the cure for deception and critique.

    (See. I am still making progress. Slowly. Slowly. But progress none the less.)

    Quite the opposite of the rationalists, as far as I can tell, all language that is other than unloaded factual description is largely justification.

    Quite the opposite of the platonists, truth is constituted in testimony, and testimony is demonstrated by recipes. That we use general theories to describe recipes is merely a device for simple memories to create generalizations – patterns. But the net is, that only recipes that work are correspondent with reality, and all words are merely allegories.

    One thing the left did, with its hermeneutics, and its psychologizing, and its platonism, is to intentionally confuse words with actions.

    It’s time to end the second war of mysticism. First was the christianization of the west and the second is was the mystification of science and reason.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Philosophy of Aristocracy

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-01 08:14:00 UTC

  • It’s really interesting to live in a country where mothering isn’t a chore, burd

    It’s really interesting to live in a country where mothering isn’t a chore, burden, or interference with life and career, but is the purpose of life, and something to be enjoyed, and cherished. It’s one thing to say that women may not enter the work force, and another to say that they must. There is no economic evidence that they must. In fact, all it does is cause job displacement and higher taxation. That’s it. Oh.. and it makes a lot of wimpy male and spoiled female children.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-29 05:10:00 UTC

  • Watching the news. British cultures is the HEIGHT of altruistic punishment. It’s

    Watching the news. British cultures is the HEIGHT of altruistic punishment. It’s a national pastime to show how one is holier than thou.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-28 10:21:00 UTC

  • Consequences: The Unloaded Language of Autistics

    [I]t is interesting, as an autistic, who thinks in almost entirely spatial terms, and who, for many, many years, as struggled to find a language for communicating those ideas in as unloaded form as I visualize them (and found it), to watch one’s own skill improve with constant practice, to the point where one sees all humans making similar mistakes using loaded language of convention that they do not understand except as loose associations. Whereas as an autistic a loose association is extremely uncomfortable, if not disturbing – something to be avoided at all costs. We lacked (prior to the work I’m doing) a language for communicating ‘loaded’ social concepts in unloaded form, and had to rely on the closest analogies available (physics and science) as proxies. But those analogies are only that – not descriptions, but analogies, and human behavior is not, like the physical universe, insulated from heuristic and constant changes in relations, methods, and properties.

    I have always been able to identify autistic speech, but it wasn’t until recently that I understood that we all do exactly the same thing – sense a reality that we have no words for, and cannot quite complete, and frustratingly use analogies unsuited to the application to express those ideas. These analogies are useful because they lack the loading that rather ‘poetic’ human discourse develops with use, like the marks in an old an still functioning machine part – still useful for the original purpose but no longer suitable for the fine work it was originally designed to produce.

    Normals do not shy from loaded speech – they revel in it. They use it to attempt to persuade or lie to one another that the world is, or should be one way or another. Truth is undesirable unless it advances that world view. And our world views are but representations that suit our reproductive strategies. Truth is for aristocracy.

    Is propertarianism but the logical consequence of attempting to solve autistic speech in the social sciences? Its Propertarianism – the formal logic of cooperation – merely the natural result of an autistic mind’s frustration at the inability to express ideas in unladen form? Am I just a genetic machine, probabilistically, if not deterministically, producing an available output given that the patterns developed in multiple fields of inquiry made such a leap possible given human ability to form parallels between patterns of limited difference?

    I don’t really like to think about life in those terms, because it’s dehumanizing. But I suspect that is closer to the truth than not.

    I wonder if propertarianism can help all autistics, as it can help normals. But I suspect that the truth it provides us with is further alienating.

    He who breeds wins, and the locusts breed better than the lions.

  • Consequences: The Unloaded Language of Autistics

    [I]t is interesting, as an autistic, who thinks in almost entirely spatial terms, and who, for many, many years, as struggled to find a language for communicating those ideas in as unloaded form as I visualize them (and found it), to watch one’s own skill improve with constant practice, to the point where one sees all humans making similar mistakes using loaded language of convention that they do not understand except as loose associations. Whereas as an autistic a loose association is extremely uncomfortable, if not disturbing – something to be avoided at all costs. We lacked (prior to the work I’m doing) a language for communicating ‘loaded’ social concepts in unloaded form, and had to rely on the closest analogies available (physics and science) as proxies. But those analogies are only that – not descriptions, but analogies, and human behavior is not, like the physical universe, insulated from heuristic and constant changes in relations, methods, and properties.

    I have always been able to identify autistic speech, but it wasn’t until recently that I understood that we all do exactly the same thing – sense a reality that we have no words for, and cannot quite complete, and frustratingly use analogies unsuited to the application to express those ideas. These analogies are useful because they lack the loading that rather ‘poetic’ human discourse develops with use, like the marks in an old an still functioning machine part – still useful for the original purpose but no longer suitable for the fine work it was originally designed to produce.

    Normals do not shy from loaded speech – they revel in it. They use it to attempt to persuade or lie to one another that the world is, or should be one way or another. Truth is undesirable unless it advances that world view. And our world views are but representations that suit our reproductive strategies. Truth is for aristocracy.

    Is propertarianism but the logical consequence of attempting to solve autistic speech in the social sciences? Its Propertarianism – the formal logic of cooperation – merely the natural result of an autistic mind’s frustration at the inability to express ideas in unladen form? Am I just a genetic machine, probabilistically, if not deterministically, producing an available output given that the patterns developed in multiple fields of inquiry made such a leap possible given human ability to form parallels between patterns of limited difference?

    I don’t really like to think about life in those terms, because it’s dehumanizing. But I suspect that is closer to the truth than not.

    I wonder if propertarianism can help all autistics, as it can help normals. But I suspect that the truth it provides us with is further alienating.

    He who breeds wins, and the locusts breed better than the lions.

  • For Aspies: Understanding Normals

    FOR ASPIES: UNDERSTANDING NORMALS
    (Normals talk about meaningless nonsense all the time. we can learn to talk about meaningless nonsense too. it’s kind of hard at first to imagine meaningless nonsense, or even why you’d care about it. but it’s a product that the market wants, and if you want to obtain attention in the market, you have to use the currency of choice, and the currency of attention is meaningless nonsense: signals that do not require much of the recipient. once you try to talk about nonsense enough, it’s really just returning served pingpong ball with a little spin, not adding much to it at all. You sort of pick five topics that normals know something about, and keep informed about those in some niche, so you can always add niche info to a conversation. Most aspies specialize. But specializing in nonsense is unprofitable. So it is good to spread your specialization to something popular like fashion, music, politics, news, and spend the rest of your time on your specialization. This will let you talk to normals about meaningless stuff and enjoy it, as long as you simply understand that the entire purpose is NOT to share meaning, but pleasant images, and positive associations. we really like to talk about things that require thinking. normals have to work at thinking. we just think at the same volume that they feel. so they want to free associate with feelings, not with facts. when we free associate with facts, we look for contradictions. when they free associate with experiences they look for confirmations. when we look for dominance in our facts, they look for submissions in their experiences, so that they signal ‘I’m safe’ to one another. We find safety in knowledge and understanding, they find safety in shared experiences. They find pleasure in experiential novelty, and we find pleasure in informational novelty. Conversely, they find discomfort in the unknown information, and we in the unknown experience. It is far easier for us to work at contributing to the experiential association of normals, than it is for normals to work at contributing to the informational association of autistics. don’t be hard on normals for being dim. but don’t be easy on yourself for being dim either. Imagine that each of us sees a slightly different section of the spectrum of radiation, and that normals see most of the visual spectrum, and some of them are a little color blind. We on the other hand see in the equivalent of infrared. It is a much simpler view of the universe with clearer lines of delineation between entities that are meaningful (heat) and hose that are not (cold). But that is our only difference. Our world must be constructed of perceptions and analogies to perception. But with instrumentation and practice we can observe each other’s worlds. It just has to be cost effective. It isn’t really cost effective for them to perceive our world. But it is usually very cost effective for us to learn to perceive their world. It was very hard for me, and I am very bright and I worked very hard, but it is possible.

  • For Aspies: Understanding Normals

    FOR ASPIES: UNDERSTANDING NORMALS
    (Normals talk about meaningless nonsense all the time. we can learn to talk about meaningless nonsense too. it’s kind of hard at first to imagine meaningless nonsense, or even why you’d care about it. but it’s a product that the market wants, and if you want to obtain attention in the market, you have to use the currency of choice, and the currency of attention is meaningless nonsense: signals that do not require much of the recipient. once you try to talk about nonsense enough, it’s really just returning served pingpong ball with a little spin, not adding much to it at all. You sort of pick five topics that normals know something about, and keep informed about those in some niche, so you can always add niche info to a conversation. Most aspies specialize. But specializing in nonsense is unprofitable. So it is good to spread your specialization to something popular like fashion, music, politics, news, and spend the rest of your time on your specialization. This will let you talk to normals about meaningless stuff and enjoy it, as long as you simply understand that the entire purpose is NOT to share meaning, but pleasant images, and positive associations. we really like to talk about things that require thinking. normals have to work at thinking. we just think at the same volume that they feel. so they want to free associate with feelings, not with facts. when we free associate with facts, we look for contradictions. when they free associate with experiences they look for confirmations. when we look for dominance in our facts, they look for submissions in their experiences, so that they signal ‘I’m safe’ to one another. We find safety in knowledge and understanding, they find safety in shared experiences. They find pleasure in experiential novelty, and we find pleasure in informational novelty. Conversely, they find discomfort in the unknown information, and we in the unknown experience. It is far easier for us to work at contributing to the experiential association of normals, than it is for normals to work at contributing to the informational association of autistics. don’t be hard on normals for being dim. but don’t be easy on yourself for being dim either. Imagine that each of us sees a slightly different section of the spectrum of radiation, and that normals see most of the visual spectrum, and some of them are a little color blind. We on the other hand see in the equivalent of infrared. It is a much simpler view of the universe with clearer lines of delineation between entities that are meaningful (heat) and hose that are not (cold). But that is our only difference. Our world must be constructed of perceptions and analogies to perception. But with instrumentation and practice we can observe each other’s worlds. It just has to be cost effective. It isn’t really cost effective for them to perceive our world. But it is usually very cost effective for us to learn to perceive their world. It was very hard for me, and I am very bright and I worked very hard, but it is possible.

  • It's Not Anti-Black, It's Anti-Male

    [T]he unpleasant truth is that the USA is anti masculine; and black males are more masculine – with much more testosterone and much more impulsivity – so black males endure disproportionate suppression of their masculinity, and exhibit a disproportionate intolerance for submission to the state.

    This is the real, unstated, incognizant origin of black criminalization: suppression of natural male behavior.

    In no other country is it so prohibited. In no other country are black males so suppressed. In no other country are males so suppressed.

    I will leave America because I understand that the war on black men is just the front line of the war on men, in the most feminist country on earth.

    God forbid men should resist enslavement by the state, and suppression of their masculinity so that privileged white men and their silly women can feel a sense of superiority through altruistic punishment.

    Free all masculinity and take black men off the front lines of the war against masculinity.

    The first problem is to know the correct enemy, and your enemy’s motivations.

    Fight the right battle.