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  • ? Autism. I didn’t want to go to college. I felt unready, and I thought it was u

    ? Autism. I didn’t want to go to college. I felt unready, and I thought it was unnecessary. If I went, I wanted to be close to home. It was the closest engineering school. Once I got into college I studied a year of engineering, year of pre-law, and then four years of fine art.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-02-25 15:40:56 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1232329641819545600

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  • “Why couldn’t you get into a good college Curt? Not smart enough?”— Hardly. Sc

    —“Why couldn’t you get into a good college Curt? Not smart enough?”—

    Hardly. School was trivially easy. But, Autism. I didn’t want to go to college. I felt unready, and I thought it was unnecessary. I wanted to work and travel. And go when ready. If I went, I wanted to be close to home. It was the closest engineering school. Once I got into college I studied a year of engineering, year of pre-law, and then four years of fine art. And I went to one of the best art schools.

    I find education pedantic? Infantile? Like most autodidacts, I prefer self study. Only fine art was deeply interesting. Although I should have gone into the literature or philosophy departments when they asked me. I was too immature to understand what being asked meant.

    Art is perhaps the most effete and elegant path by which to study the evolution of man – writers lie like hell because authoring like gossip is cheap. Arts are costly. Architecture especially, and all arts evolve to decorate architecture. (ie: the decline in architecture and art)

    Net result is that autistics take longer to develop and this is partly because of the simple increase in neurons, as well as the narrowness specialization of the brain.Hence why autism can often be ‘cured’ by high investment parenting. Now, I’m not that autistic. But I was definitely lagging socially.

    Now, you’ve got to understand, that delay in youth buys you what I have, and what many aspies have later in life, just as all neoteny buys you greater ability in exchange for slower maturity. Nature is up against a natural conflict – autistics are certainly the next level of evolution of man. The problem is that the cost of educating aspies-autists through to maturity is much longer in exchange for their talents.

    Now I know that you actually don’t care, because you’re just an infantilist practicing a little GSRRM. But the proof is in the pudding so to speak.I built multiple successful companies, explored the world, and contributed a major innovation in the history of thought. Evidence is.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-02-25 11:02:00 UTC

  • (Do you have any idea how not-fun it was running all those king of the hill game

    (Do you have any idea how not-fun it was running all those king of the hill games on sensitive and taboo subjects just so that I could understand them? I am so glad to be working on sh-t people care about instead of basic research. )


    Source date (UTC): 2020-02-22 14:47:00 UTC

  • (Ok. I wrote two important pieces this morning before breakfast. Does that mean

    (Ok. I wrote two important pieces this morning before breakfast. Does that mean I can take the rest of the day off? No? Damn. That’s ok. I’d rather work some more anyway. lol)


    Source date (UTC): 2020-02-21 09:21:00 UTC

  • Breakfast. Couple. Twenties. Man clearly lifts big and often. Women, very scary

    Breakfast. Couple. Twenties. Man clearly lifts big and often. Women, very scary hot feminine. I feel need to do my thing (talk him up). Put my hand on his shoulder. Look at her “Now THIS is a man.” Look at him. “You know man, you’re looking good. But you make short guys like me feel like we can’t compete. It’ hard on us man. Mercy?” Him: “We’re all men”. (I am thrilled at this man-tier response). Me: “Well, you two need to have lots of kids. Do the world a favor. We need you to help us out.” (thankful laughter). I move on quickly without waiting for a response.

    Breakfast. Another couple. “Damn you two are good looking. Do the rest of us a favor. Have lots of kids. Make the world a beautiful place”. Girl: (blush). I move on. Guy: to my back “I’ll get working on it”. (laughter)

    Breakfast. Two little old ladies. (70’s or 80’s). Dressed for church. Me: “Well, I didn’t realize there were so many good looking women around here. How are you today?” (smiles) One: “I know your mother. I lived around the corner on — street.” Me: “And you’re talking to me? You can’t know her very well.” (more chit chat).

    Attention, kindness, compliment, and humor are the cheapest means of contributing to the commons and it always works as long as you are dressed well and aren’t looking for confirmation or attention in return. It’s got to be charity.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-02-16 14:36:00 UTC

  • (started out well, but I let churchy people and leftist make me lose my temper t

    (started out well, but I let churchy people and leftist make me lose my temper today. maybe its time for bad sci-fi tv or something. lol)


    Source date (UTC): 2020-02-11 17:41:00 UTC

  • A life of solving this category of thought: civilizational crisis -requires we f

    A life of solving this category of thought: civilizational crisis -requires we forgo most other forms of consumption into a stoic, epicurean, and spartan devotion of our lives exclusively to calculation by means of internal interpersonal and group argument: evolution by survival from competition. It is a costly means of obtaining immortality. But it is one of the only means of doing so. 😉 And once you transcend the animal it is one of the most rewarding.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-30 10:37:00 UTC

  • I don’t have a classroom so I use the public as my classroom. It was an experime

    I don’t have a classroom so I use the public as my classroom. It was an experiment. it’s been ridiculously rewarding, even if the number of overconfident ignorant young men is … tedious.

    We have a course going at the Institute where people singn up and get the content as I release it. It’s a drip process but it works.

    I use a particularly interesting teaching method (king of the hill) more suitable for men so I attract a certain audience.

    And so far the project is largely complete. It’s a matter of editing it down (simplification).

    Some people (example: Taleb) publish a book every few years, and finally get to their philosophical project. Some people publish a book every ten years. I’m sort of on the ten year plan. And if you look through history (kant etc) it takes about ten years. Duchsene took ten years. It takes time. The first book is done but I don’t want to release it first. It’s too targeted to libertarians. The second book is at 80%+. The constitution is somewhere in the 50% range. It’s getting there.

    I don’t see the point in lecturing until something this complicated can be published. Although we will undoubtably start this year.

    And I’m far better in person when teaching real time than I am on video – it’s just my nature to interact with the class. So I assume that the videos of those presentations will be more effective than the online content, the courses so far, or the book.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-23 12:11:00 UTC

  • Richmond reset my brain a bit on strategy so I’m not talking about it yet. But t

    Richmond reset my brain a bit on strategy so I’m not talking about it yet. But the drive down and back, plus the pure spirituality of ‘all our men’ gave me needed think time.

    Mostly on european aesthetics and commons and our ‘group-think’ (formation sensitivity?) And how that’s possibly a cognitive european bias.

    Second was how evident it is that I love our people but that they just … they just need answers. I need understanding but they just need answers.

    I used some of it to re-listen to Fukuyama on bureaucracy and that gave me a few ideas too – not the least of which is that he doesn’t understand the correlation between anglo adversarial government and sovereignty. He doesn’t grasp that the inefficiency is a trade off for adaptability. But he’s right that the left has destroyed rule of law. He just doesn’t see that it’s fixable. He comes close but doesn’t get there. Sometimes it’s better to re-read these long works a few times because you get fresh ideas out of every read.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-21 12:10:00 UTC

  • Best day in years. Our people. Rally. John Mark. Just….. wonderful

    Best day in years. Our people. Rally. John Mark. Just….. wonderful.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-20 23:21:33 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1219399595941298177