Curt Doolittle

Form: Mini Essay

  • The “Will of The Gods” Was a Convenient Escape of The Responsibility of Liability.

    Jan 2, 2020, 1:18 PM by JWarren Prescott The concept of the supernatural, ie. beyond nature, outside our reality, magical, being independent of logic and inexplicable by science because it defies the laws of physics, is from the infancy of human civilization where we had no idea what the natural world was. It was our attempt to fill the gaps of understanding. The unintended consequences of the lack of understanding was the rise of the huckster class – the priests, those apex parasitical manipulators of mankind’s fears of the unknown. They leveraged their verbal skills to political power as rulers were the only ones capable of protecting them from scrutiny of their failed predictions and the liability of malpractice. The hucksters always knew that the warlords, kings and rulers were generally far more gullible to the supernatural as it was a legitimation of, and a securing of their right to rule and a comfort to their insecurities of bad decisions. The “will of the gods” was a convenient escape of the responsibility of liability.

  • When All Other Knowledge, Reason, and Experience Fails, We Are Left with Intuition – Bias.

    Jan 2, 2020, 6:36 PM We do not dispute the obvious, only the intuitive. Men and women do not differ in task performance: the concrete – at least over time, but we differ in bias: the intuitionistic – at least in the immediate. When all other knowledge, reason, and experience fails, we are left with intuition, and the female herd empathic-interpersonal consumptive dysgenic of numbers will compete with the male analytic-political pack productive eugenic of quality for the simple reason that these are our reproductive strategies. Even as such, they are useful like most generalizations at scale, when we are discussing aggregates and biases, since men and women each contain a portfolio of traits and various masculine to feminine biases. This axis (protecting children regardless of males who are in charge versus protecting assets including territory, resources, women, children from other men who would deprive us of them) is pervasive and when a bias is evident and it is counter-rational, it is this bias driving it.

  • When All Other Knowledge, Reason, and Experience Fails, We Are Left with Intuition – Bias.

    Jan 2, 2020, 6:36 PM We do not dispute the obvious, only the intuitive. Men and women do not differ in task performance: the concrete – at least over time, but we differ in bias: the intuitionistic – at least in the immediate. When all other knowledge, reason, and experience fails, we are left with intuition, and the female herd empathic-interpersonal consumptive dysgenic of numbers will compete with the male analytic-political pack productive eugenic of quality for the simple reason that these are our reproductive strategies. Even as such, they are useful like most generalizations at scale, when we are discussing aggregates and biases, since men and women each contain a portfolio of traits and various masculine to feminine biases. This axis (protecting children regardless of males who are in charge versus protecting assets including territory, resources, women, children from other men who would deprive us of them) is pervasive and when a bias is evident and it is counter-rational, it is this bias driving it.

  • Rates of Reproduction

    Jan 4, 2020, 11:17 AM

    1. Family members in USA and Canada. from 1500’s onward.
    2. Common eight, ten, twelve children. Almost universal.
    3. Common to lose a wife in childbirth and have two.
    4. Birthrate Lasts through civil war, industrial revolution. Then drops to six then to four, then three, now to two or even one.
    5. Almost universally husband and wife 5 years apart.
    6. Very common for english protestant men to marry french protestant then french catholic women. (disagreeableness an obedience)
    7. But very class driven.
    8. Both sides of family start out military. Paternal stays military. As usual, middle ranks.
    9. Prosecution of French proceeded that of Irish.
    10. English tended to be more middle class, french more lower classes.
    11. Both sides of the family originate in normandy, Dolietta’s going to England with the norman conquest, but then to the states, and the french left to Newfoundland, New Brunswick, or the Quebec settlements on the St Laurence river. After the french lose, 1M french move to the states.
    12. Poor French women were ‘russian brides’ of New France (Quebec). I only see one or two of those. All colonies were private entrepreneurial ventures, not state funded until they became strategic. Families were recruited. Men recruited, and when necessary, women (wives) recruited. The farther north the more likely they were to return to europe upon fulfillment of their contract. This is important since we don’t think of mothering and running a household as a career, but a woman’s choice was to be some other house-owning woman’s servant, or to get her own house, and so it was almost always preferable to have your own house, husband, and children to assist in the labor of running a household and farm.
    13. My family’s ‘legendary’ prosecution of the catholics in every way possible is somewhat funny since a lot of the maternal line is french, and a lot of it is clearly catholic, and at least one of my maternal great-x grandmothers was prohibited from practice of her religion upon marriage.
    14. No ‘irish’ until my paternal grandmother’s era, but they were pre-famine colonists, all from the east of Ireland, and it was three or four generations after integration.
    15. The men in my family are all over the middle class – probably because they’ve been literate since at least the 900s – military, reverends, lawyers, craftsmen, businessmen, fewer “ordinary” farmers, but even artists. The english tradition was farming in farm season and craftsmanship in off season, and warfare during the warring (high testosterone) summer months.
    16. All new englanders are inbred. Seriously. Until the Irish and Italians everyone was somehow related. 😉
    17. I love my NE people. they’re political ass clowns. But I love them anyway. And they make good business people and soldiers. They just need a monarchy to keep from virtue signaling themselves to death.

  • Rates of Reproduction

    Jan 4, 2020, 11:17 AM

    1. Family members in USA and Canada. from 1500’s onward.
    2. Common eight, ten, twelve children. Almost universal.
    3. Common to lose a wife in childbirth and have two.
    4. Birthrate Lasts through civil war, industrial revolution. Then drops to six then to four, then three, now to two or even one.
    5. Almost universally husband and wife 5 years apart.
    6. Very common for english protestant men to marry french protestant then french catholic women. (disagreeableness an obedience)
    7. But very class driven.
    8. Both sides of family start out military. Paternal stays military. As usual, middle ranks.
    9. Prosecution of French proceeded that of Irish.
    10. English tended to be more middle class, french more lower classes.
    11. Both sides of the family originate in normandy, Dolietta’s going to England with the norman conquest, but then to the states, and the french left to Newfoundland, New Brunswick, or the Quebec settlements on the St Laurence river. After the french lose, 1M french move to the states.
    12. Poor French women were ‘russian brides’ of New France (Quebec). I only see one or two of those. All colonies were private entrepreneurial ventures, not state funded until they became strategic. Families were recruited. Men recruited, and when necessary, women (wives) recruited. The farther north the more likely they were to return to europe upon fulfillment of their contract. This is important since we don’t think of mothering and running a household as a career, but a woman’s choice was to be some other house-owning woman’s servant, or to get her own house, and so it was almost always preferable to have your own house, husband, and children to assist in the labor of running a household and farm.
    13. My family’s ‘legendary’ prosecution of the catholics in every way possible is somewhat funny since a lot of the maternal line is french, and a lot of it is clearly catholic, and at least one of my maternal great-x grandmothers was prohibited from practice of her religion upon marriage.
    14. No ‘irish’ until my paternal grandmother’s era, but they were pre-famine colonists, all from the east of Ireland, and it was three or four generations after integration.
    15. The men in my family are all over the middle class – probably because they’ve been literate since at least the 900s – military, reverends, lawyers, craftsmen, businessmen, fewer “ordinary” farmers, but even artists. The english tradition was farming in farm season and craftsmanship in off season, and warfare during the warring (high testosterone) summer months.
    16. All new englanders are inbred. Seriously. Until the Irish and Italians everyone was somehow related. 😉
    17. I love my NE people. they’re political ass clowns. But I love them anyway. And they make good business people and soldiers. They just need a monarchy to keep from virtue signaling themselves to death.

  • The Unreasonable Effectiveness of P-Logic(law)

    Jan 4, 2020, 12:01 PM THE UNREASONABLE EFFECTIVENESS OF P-LOGIC(LAW) IN HUMAN SCIENCES: PARADIGMS(METAPHYSICS), PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY, ECON, LAW, AND POLITICS P-Logic (Law) is (a) universally commensurable (b) value neutral, ( c) operational logic, of (d) decidability. Read that a few times and make sure you undrestand it. Universally commensurable, value neutral, operational logic, of decidability. The profound depth of that set of properties isn’t at all obvious, but just as saying math has extraordinary explanatory power in the physical sciences of constant temporal relations: P-logic (law) has equally extraordinary explanatory power in the cognitive sciences: paradigms(metaphysics), psychology, sociology, politics, group competitive strategy, ethics, and law. Physical sciences are mathematically predictive because categories and relations at a given resolution are constant both in and across time. The physical world can’t choose. Economic sciences are mathematically un-predictive, and only mathematically descriptive, and only operationally explanatory because relations (categories, weights(values), and operations) are inconstant across time – the consequence of Humans scheming and choosing with fragmentary and asymmetric information. Social Sciences are only operationally explanatory, not mathematically descriptive, nor mathematically predictive because while operations and incentives are constant, subject categories and values are inconstant, and unpredictable because humans scheme and choose using fragmentary and asymmetric information. P-Logic(law) provides universal explanatory power across the disciplines. Predictive power decreases with the inconstancy of relations over time. Many can create arbitrary relations within the limits of his perception, cognition, incentives, negotiation, and action, to plot and scheme against the course of events such that by some action or inaction he captures more caloric gains or opportunity for those gains, or prevents losses of opportunity or gains, than he would by not acting or acting.

  • The Unreasonable Effectiveness of P-Logic(law)

    Jan 4, 2020, 12:01 PM THE UNREASONABLE EFFECTIVENESS OF P-LOGIC(LAW) IN HUMAN SCIENCES: PARADIGMS(METAPHYSICS), PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY, ECON, LAW, AND POLITICS P-Logic (Law) is (a) universally commensurable (b) value neutral, ( c) operational logic, of (d) decidability. Read that a few times and make sure you undrestand it. Universally commensurable, value neutral, operational logic, of decidability. The profound depth of that set of properties isn’t at all obvious, but just as saying math has extraordinary explanatory power in the physical sciences of constant temporal relations: P-logic (law) has equally extraordinary explanatory power in the cognitive sciences: paradigms(metaphysics), psychology, sociology, politics, group competitive strategy, ethics, and law. Physical sciences are mathematically predictive because categories and relations at a given resolution are constant both in and across time. The physical world can’t choose. Economic sciences are mathematically un-predictive, and only mathematically descriptive, and only operationally explanatory because relations (categories, weights(values), and operations) are inconstant across time – the consequence of Humans scheming and choosing with fragmentary and asymmetric information. Social Sciences are only operationally explanatory, not mathematically descriptive, nor mathematically predictive because while operations and incentives are constant, subject categories and values are inconstant, and unpredictable because humans scheme and choose using fragmentary and asymmetric information. P-Logic(law) provides universal explanatory power across the disciplines. Predictive power decreases with the inconstancy of relations over time. Many can create arbitrary relations within the limits of his perception, cognition, incentives, negotiation, and action, to plot and scheme against the course of events such that by some action or inaction he captures more caloric gains or opportunity for those gains, or prevents losses of opportunity or gains, than he would by not acting or acting.

  • Markets Not Majoritarianism

    Jan 4, 2020, 12:07 PM by Martin Štěpán

    Why do people keep assuming we only want to make slight changes to universal suffrage? The optimum outcome is scraping the whole thing and putting in several houses for classes with different interests that have to negotiate.

    They have been indoctrinated into the fallacy of the good of democracy’s majoritarian tyranny, and made ignorant of the market as a means of calculating optimums despite differences.

  • Markets Not Majoritarianism

    Jan 4, 2020, 12:07 PM by Martin Štěpán

    Why do people keep assuming we only want to make slight changes to universal suffrage? The optimum outcome is scraping the whole thing and putting in several houses for classes with different interests that have to negotiate.

    They have been indoctrinated into the fallacy of the good of democracy’s majoritarian tyranny, and made ignorant of the market as a means of calculating optimums despite differences.

  • Could We Falsify All Human Speech in Court?

    Jan 5, 2020, 2:48 PM We can, and do, falsify all human action in court. The question was, could we falsify all human speech in court. The answer is yes. The usual problem is that someone wants an ideology(political) philosophy (secular theological), or theology (supernatural theological) solution – which is impossible. Because Science (truthful testimony) is falsificationary. As far as I know, P is complete. And there are no false or ir-reciprocal statements that can survive its falsification. That fact that people can’t get their noggins around the fact that all science (testimony) like markets (competition) is falsificationary is a common problem. But it stems from a failure to understand that science is falsificationary, then demanding P, like philosophy, ideology, or religion be justificationary. It’s not. So they criticize P for not being a science on the one hand by false presumption science is justificationary, and then complain P isn’t justificationary. Kind of silly really, but you can see where they get it from. Most people are stuck in the error of “Mathiness” because they don’t grasp the constitution of, or limits of, mathematics. Math breaks down in all three directions: the very small, the very large, and the very-human (cognitive): economics. If you need a positive theology, philosophy, ideology, sophism, or pseudoscience, then I understand the via-positiva is necessary for simple minds. But grownups are not afraid of via-negativa (skepticism), because we know all non trivial non tautological propositions are contingent, because we may always or nearly always, discover some novel parsimony that allows us to reorganize our paradigms for greater consistency, correspondence, coherence, completeness and parsimony than before.