Curt Doolittle

Form: Mini Essay

  • WOMEN FOR SUPERGEEKS Women are easy. Take them shopping. Be nice to their friend

    WOMEN FOR SUPERGEEKS

    Women are easy. Take them shopping. Be nice to their friends, and make her look good in front of them. Listen. Give them permission to feel. Say “yes: to anything that you can easily do so. Say “no I can’t or won’t do that” – not, “no that’s a bad idea” – and don’t ask forgiveness or permission or agreement to say that kind of “no.” That is what it means to be a man and different from a woman. In addition, have male friends and many of them.

    I love talking through thoughts and issues and ideas with a woman. And honesty in those things makes them feel safe with you.

    In other words, bring them into your emotional world but not your cognitive world. Bringing them into your cognitive world is a form of selfishness. It makes you needy. If you bring them into your emotional, personal, and social, world, you make them successful in bonding with you.

    My particular issue is that I can be anchored if I talk about something before I am ready – and being anchored takes away my superpower so to speak. So I can’t talk about some issues until I am ready, and this can create the perception that I am hiding something.

    Worse, not everyone can understand what I am thinking, so I try to humor people to save myself effort, frustration, and potential alienation, which can also create the impression that I have ‘plans’.

    Worse, I managing one’s creativity is different from managing one’s work. Creativity is a manageable process but time consuming, and cannot, like ordinary task work, be forced. So it is not always clear that I am in fact (as taleb also laments) ‘working’, when in fact I am, under almost all circumstances, ‘working’ and only vaguely ‘present’. Stuff spills out of your fingertips when it’s ready, not when you want it to.

    So lots of intimate, in that I mean, ‘us time’ talking is necessary to preserve trust and connection to compensate. And that is what I learned to do.

    Women give AMAZINGLY GOOD ADVICE on anything personal, emotional, social, and ‘real’. so much so that at least for me it’s very hard to function without it.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-10 19:21:00 UTC

  • PERCEPTION OF MAN (from elsewhere) The general rule is this: 1) we are super-pre

    PERCEPTION OF MAN

    (from elsewhere)

    The general rule is this:

    1) we are super-predators that have evolved a VAST web of proxies for violence in order to retain the REPEATED benefits of cooperation over the LIMITED returns on predation.

    2) if you participate in the cooperative market you will observe the effects of these proxies as the REFLECTION of regular demonstration of human behavior.

    3) if you participate in the CONFLICT market you will observe the effect of these proxies as OBSCURING the regular demonstration of human behavior.

    4) Manners, lack of access to competitors, because of the affinities of people in social groups, and the threat of local ostracization and violence prevent us from and OBSCURE human behavior.

    5) Internet (the series travel > written word > media > internet) access to ALLIES and COMPETITORS because of the affinity for combatants (political activists) to seek combat (argument).

    6) Therefore, real world social interactions are necessary for safety and for value creation and obscure the vast differences in behavior we can experience directly. Knowledge of competitors (media) exacerbates it. the influence of activists on media exacerbates it. Access to competitors for direct conflict exacerbates it.

    7) we solve the problem of cooperation by the blind men eating the elephant. we can only work with what we can touch, and we can only cooperate with those next to us but if we ever come to understand that those who we don’t out of necessity cooperate with will seize the benefits of not doing so whenever the distance from our physical violence permits, they will.

    I don’t watch television News because it is the worst possible means of obtaining knowledge. I don’t read magazines because they were (are no longer) useful. I don’t really read the news (or pop culture). I do however monitor the social science data and economic data. What changed my mind about following current events, was the proximity of revolution and interest in watching it unfold.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-10 18:08:00 UTC

  • The difference is, that because I look for negative externalities, frauds, theft

    The difference is, that because I look for negative externalities, frauds, thefts, exchanges, positive transfers, and positive externalities I CALCULATE that an action is immoral, amoral, or moral, and you INTUIT it.

    I have the AGENCY to consider all possibilities and choose the moral, amoral, or the immoral as required.

    This is the lesson of sun tzu, machiavelli, and aristotle – as well as every other general: morals are not truths but utilities, not knowledge but habits. The great books of wisdom and strategy are written so that we do not make the mistakes of christians and allow ourselves to be conquered, for having forgotten how to fight.

    They are written to ensure that we are civilized by reason not by habit..

    I have agency. I am not an animal. My intuitions provide information only. My reason rules my decisions. Moral, amoral, immoral, as needed.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-10 09:51:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    WOMEN FOR SUPERGEEKS Women are easy. Take them shopping. Be nice to their friends, and make her look good in front of them. Listen. Give them permission to feel. Say “yes: to anything that you can easily do so. Say “no I can’t or won’t do that” – not, “no that’s a bad idea” – and don’t ask forgiveness or permission or agreement to say that kind of “no.” That is what it means to be a man and different from a woman. In addition, have male friends and many of them. I love talking through thoughts and issues and ideas with a woman. And honesty in those things makes them feel safe with you. In other words, bring them into your emotional world but not your cognitive world. Bringing them into your cognitive world is a form of selfishness. It makes you needy. If you bring them into your emotional, personal, and social, world, you make them successful in bonding with you. My particular issue is that I can be anchored if I talk about something before I am ready – and being anchored takes away my superpower so to speak. So I can’t talk about some issues until I am ready, and this can create the perception that I am hiding something. Worse, not everyone can understand what I am thinking, so I try to humor people to save myself effort, frustration, and potential alienation, which can also create the impression that I have ‘plans’. Worse, I managing one’s creativity is different from managing one’s work. Creativity is a manageable process but time consuming, and cannot, like ordinary task work, be forced. So it is not always clear that I am in fact (as taleb also laments) ‘working’, when in fact I am, under almost all circumstances, ‘working’ and only vaguely ‘present’. Stuff spills out of your fingertips when it’s ready, not when you want it to. So lots of intimate, in that I mean, ‘us time’ talking is necessary to preserve trust and connection to compensate. And that is what I learned to do. Women give AMAZINGLY GOOD ADVICE on anything personal, emotional, social, and ‘real’. so much so that at least for me it’s very hard to function without it.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    PERCEPTION OF MAN
    (from elsewhere)
    The general rule is this: 1) we are super-predators that have evolved a VAST web of proxies for violence in order to retain the REPEATED benefits of cooperation over the LIMITED returns on predation. 2) if you participate in the cooperative market you will observe the effects of these proxies as the REFLECTION of regular demonstration of human behavior. 3) if you participate in the CONFLICT market you will observe the effect of these proxies as OBSCURING the regular demonstration of human behavior. 4) Manners, lack of access to competitors, because of the affinities of people in social groups, and the threat of local ostracization and violence prevent us from and OBSCURE human behavior. 5) Internet (the series travel > written word > media > internet) access to ALLIES and COMPETITORS because of the affinity for combatants (political activists) to seek combat (argument). 6) Therefore, real world social interactions are necessary for safety and for value creation and obscure the vast differences in behavior we can experience directly. Knowledge of competitors (media) exacerbates it. the influence of activists on media exacerbates it. Access to competitors for direct conflict exacerbates it. 7) we solve the problem of cooperation by the blind men eating the elephant. we can only work with what we can touch, and we can only cooperate with those next to us but if we ever come to understand that those who we don’t out of necessity cooperate with will seize the benefits of not doing so whenever the distance from our physical violence permits, they will. I don’t watch television News because it is the worst possible means of obtaining knowledge. I don’t read magazines because they were (are no longer) useful. I don’t really read the news (or pop culture). I do however monitor the social science data and economic data. What changed my mind about following current events, was the proximity of revolution and interest in watching it unfold.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    CHRISTIAN TOLERANCE AS FREE RIDING – FAILING TO PAY FOR THE COMMONS —“In my estimation, most of what passes for Christian ‘turning the other cheek’ in our time is just cowardice and or weakness and decadence. Its the indecision that people like Joslin have recently written about… the inability to act. In order for such to be a truly valid moral action it would require strength of character and a context in which it was appropriately enacted leading to the betterment of relations between individuals and not just apathy or passivity on the part of the restrainer for evil others benefit.”— Chris Novalis

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    THE NORMAL WORLD VS THE ABNORMAL HIGH TRUST WEST —“Japanese are basically as irreciprocal and asymmetric as jews – but with a twist. In that, while they don’t like cheating, defrauding, lying, and stealing, etc. that would cause retaliation, they are always asking the question “is it good for japan?” the way jews ask “is it good for jews?” India does that too – the question is always “is it good for india? And they are very clear on ingroup vs outgroup in everything – and not just race, but family. There are different pronouns for things like mother, father, our company, your company, etc. depending on how you are talking to and your relative position. The Vietnamese language is same way. In vietnam its blatantly clear that everything inside is from your fathers side: patriarchy.”– James

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    WOMEN FOR SUPERGEEKS Women are easy. Take them shopping. Be nice to their friends, and make her look good in front of them. Listen. Give them permission to feel. Say “yes: to anything that you can easily do so. Say “no I can’t or won’t do that” – not, “no that’s a bad idea” – and don’t ask forgiveness or permission or agreement to say that kind of “no.” That is what it means to be a man and different from a woman. In addition, have male friends and many of them. I love talking through thoughts and issues and ideas with a woman. And honesty in those things makes them feel safe with you. In other words, bring them into your emotional world but not your cognitive world. Bringing them into your cognitive world is a form of selfishness. It makes you needy. If you bring them into your emotional, personal, and social, world, you make them successful in bonding with you. My particular issue is that I can be anchored if I talk about something before I am ready – and being anchored takes away my superpower so to speak. So I can’t talk about some issues until I am ready, and this can create the perception that I am hiding something. Worse, not everyone can understand what I am thinking, so I try to humor people to save myself effort, frustration, and potential alienation, which can also create the impression that I have ‘plans’. Worse, I managing one’s creativity is different from managing one’s work. Creativity is a manageable process but time consuming, and cannot, like ordinary task work, be forced. So it is not always clear that I am in fact (as taleb also laments) ‘working’, when in fact I am, under almost all circumstances, ‘working’ and only vaguely ‘present’. Stuff spills out of your fingertips when it’s ready, not when you want it to. So lots of intimate, in that I mean, ‘us time’ talking is necessary to preserve trust and connection to compensate. And that is what I learned to do. Women give AMAZINGLY GOOD ADVICE on anything personal, emotional, social, and ‘real’. so much so that at least for me it’s very hard to function without it.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    PERCEPTION OF MAN
    (from elsewhere)
    The general rule is this: 1) we are super-predators that have evolved a VAST web of proxies for violence in order to retain the REPEATED benefits of cooperation over the LIMITED returns on predation. 2) if you participate in the cooperative market you will observe the effects of these proxies as the REFLECTION of regular demonstration of human behavior. 3) if you participate in the CONFLICT market you will observe the effect of these proxies as OBSCURING the regular demonstration of human behavior. 4) Manners, lack of access to competitors, because of the affinities of people in social groups, and the threat of local ostracization and violence prevent us from and OBSCURE human behavior. 5) Internet (the series travel > written word > media > internet) access to ALLIES and COMPETITORS because of the affinity for combatants (political activists) to seek combat (argument). 6) Therefore, real world social interactions are necessary for safety and for value creation and obscure the vast differences in behavior we can experience directly. Knowledge of competitors (media) exacerbates it. the influence of activists on media exacerbates it. Access to competitors for direct conflict exacerbates it. 7) we solve the problem of cooperation by the blind men eating the elephant. we can only work with what we can touch, and we can only cooperate with those next to us but if we ever come to understand that those who we don’t out of necessity cooperate with will seize the benefits of not doing so whenever the distance from our physical violence permits, they will. I don’t watch television News because it is the worst possible means of obtaining knowledge. I don’t read magazines because they were (are no longer) useful. I don’t really read the news (or pop culture). I do however monitor the social science data and economic data. What changed my mind about following current events, was the proximity of revolution and interest in watching it unfold.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    CHRISTIAN TOLERANCE AS FREE RIDING – FAILING TO PAY FOR THE COMMONS —“In my estimation, most of what passes for Christian ‘turning the other cheek’ in our time is just cowardice and or weakness and decadence. Its the indecision that people like Joslin have recently written about… the inability to act. In order for such to be a truly valid moral action it would require strength of character and a context in which it was appropriately enacted leading to the betterment of relations between individuals and not just apathy or passivity on the part of the restrainer for evil others benefit.”— Chris Novalis