Curt Doolittle

Form: Mini Essay

  • What Races Are The Most Racist?

    We actually have quite a bit of data. The data I have seen is cross compiled from a number of surveys and has something just under 100K samples – which is about what you need for something of this size. (No studies of less than 1000 are meaningful, and at 10,000 we begin to see some value

    The top ten most racist and bigoted countries, in descending order, are the following:

    1. India,
    2. Lebanon,
    3. Bahrain,
    4. Libya,
    5. Egypt,
    6. Philippines,
    7. Kuwait,
    8. Palestine,
    9. South Africa, and
    10. South Korea.

    In american, the most racist people are

    1. Blacks
    2. Jews
    3. Hispanics
    4. Asians
    5. Whites

    White people are the most tolerant and accepting – in the world.

    White people are just the most likely to be INVADED because they produce the best *Commons* in the world, and therefore the best life experience.

    So whites experience the PROBLEM of racial conflict more often. So the question arises more frequently.

    Anyway. It’s the opposite of what you’d think.

    https://www.quora.com/What-races-are-the-most-racist

  • Why Is Russia, With This Great Potential (140 Million Intelligent People, Large Country With Natural Resources, Great Geography And Climate Etc.) Still Relatively Poor?

    A) Um, all aggregate measurements are misleading. If in a country of 1M people, they make $1 a day and I make $1B a day, the GDP/Population will be 365M + 365B/1M, giving the impression that everyone in the country is making more than $300K per year.
    B) Resources are a curse, because they lead to corruption, rent seeking, subsidy, and a lack of innovation.
    C) Putin does not get credit for his expansion of rule of law. But corruption is pervasive. It is not like corruption in the states – which is invisible – it’s visible. And in some ways that’s more tolerable. But it is very hard to start and keep a business running, and it’s middle class and business that drives a people out of low income.
    B) Russia is a VERY big place. I mean, the USA is big. But Russia is 11 time zones big, and like canada, the population is largely along the borders. Imagine the cost of infrastructure in Belgium or Denmark vs the cost of infrastructure in Russia? For example, I spent some time with the founder and ‘president’ of one of the popular mega sports store chains. And what do you do when you run a business across that many time zones, and telephone, internet, and power, are often unreliable? What do you do when you must pay (bribe) people in the government just to get basic things done – not even privileges, but just to do their job? I tried to buy a company in moscow, and i literally couldn’t find one to buy. Not because there weren’t any. But because you can’t keep ‘legit’ books and survive. And it’s never clear who owns anything. Until the past few years it was difficult to trust the courts so contracts were difficult, and cash rather than credit slows the economy. So all of these ‘frictions’ add up.
    C) Moscow is a VERY expensive city (I wish I lived there, I love it and I love russian people). But people outside the major cities are still quite poor. (And Belarus and Ukraine are even worse.)
    D) Russians were virtually slaves 150 years ago. Under the soviets it varied quite a bit from murderous, to horrible to comfortable, to exceptionally good. And then they had a catastrophic event (collapse), and then dragged themselves out of it.

    The only difference I have found between ‘white’ russians and ‘white’ americans is that americans are foolishly optimistic and trusting, and russians are foolishly pessimistic and untrusting. The rest of the western world has turned effeminate in the french(postmodern) and jewish(marxist) and outside of Australians, White americans, and White Russians, Christendom is in a catastrophe.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Russia-with-this-great-potential-140-million-intelligent-people-large-country-with-natural-resources-great-geography-and-climate-etc-still-relatively-poor

  • What Races Are The Most Racist?

    We actually have quite a bit of data. The data I have seen is cross compiled from a number of surveys and has something just under 100K samples – which is about what you need for something of this size. (No studies of less than 1000 are meaningful, and at 10,000 we begin to see some value

    The top ten most racist and bigoted countries, in descending order, are the following:

    1. India,
    2. Lebanon,
    3. Bahrain,
    4. Libya,
    5. Egypt,
    6. Philippines,
    7. Kuwait,
    8. Palestine,
    9. South Africa, and
    10. South Korea.

    In american, the most racist people are

    1. Blacks
    2. Jews
    3. Hispanics
    4. Asians
    5. Whites

    White people are the most tolerant and accepting – in the world.

    White people are just the most likely to be INVADED because they produce the best *Commons* in the world, and therefore the best life experience.

    So whites experience the PROBLEM of racial conflict more often. So the question arises more frequently.

    Anyway. It’s the opposite of what you’d think.

    https://www.quora.com/What-races-are-the-most-racist

  • Thought: Constant Contingent Relations “All The Way Down”

    THOUGHT: CONSTANT CONTINGENT RELATIONS “ALL THE WAY DOWN” All human thought consists of the physical production of constant yet contingent relations. That is all neurons can store: constant yet contingent relations. Relations between stimuli. Those relations begin with stimuli and through sequential layers, accumulate in increasingly combinatory relations, and through iterations, in real time, create a ‘persistence of vision’ (a model or models) that we experience as the culmination of continuous stimulation of our senses, and the admixture of those senses with upward associations, and downward models. When we say consciousness, we refer to the difference between our ability to judge changes in state (a few times a second) with the iterations of stimuli, memory, and synthesis into models. Neurons can fire two hundred times a second. It takes about one hundred ms to cause your body to physically act (depending upon the distance). It takes about about a half a second to react to a scare. It takes approximately one to three seconds of continuous stimulation to construct a new model (during surprise, or walking into a new room). And the persistence of vision effect (on memory) has a half life of something on the order of half a second. Although variation in short term memory is one of the abilities that vastly differentiates us. When someone uses the term logical they mean (whether they understand it or not, that the network of constant relations between the universe, the stimuli, their neural memory (relations), memory (categories) and models (networks of categories), remains consistent (internally), correspondent (externally), and coherent (free of conflict or contradiction).

  • THOUGHT: CONSTANT CONTINGENT RELATIONS “ALL THE WAY DOWN” All human thought cons

    THOUGHT: CONSTANT CONTINGENT RELATIONS “ALL THE WAY DOWN”

    All human thought consists of the physical production of constant yet contingent relations. That is all neurons can store: constant yet contingent relations. Relations between stimuli. Those relations begin with stimuli and through sequential layers, accumulate in increasingly combinatory relations, and through iterations, in real time, create a ‘persistence of vision’ (a model or models) that we experience as the culmination of continuous stimulation of our senses, and the admixture of those senses with upward associations, and downward models. When we say consciousness, we refer to the difference between our ability to judge changes in state (a few times a second) with the iterations of stimuli, memory, and synthesis into models.

    Neurons can fire two hundred times a second. It takes about one hundred ms to cause your body to physically act (depending upon the distance). It takes about about a half a second to react to a scare. It takes approximately one to three seconds of continuous stimulation to construct a new model (during surprise, or walking into a new room). And the persistence of vision effect (on memory) has a half life of something on the order of half a second. Although variation in short term memory is one of the abilities that vastly differentiates us.

    When someone uses the term logical they mean (whether they understand it or not, that the network of constant relations between the universe, the stimuli, their neural memory (relations), memory (categories) and models (networks of categories), remains consistent (internally), correspondent (externally), and coherent (free of conflict or contradiction).

    Source date (UTC): 2017-12-14 14:51:00 UTC

  • Thought: Constant Contingent Relations “All The Way Down”

    THOUGHT: CONSTANT CONTINGENT RELATIONS “ALL THE WAY DOWN” All human thought consists of the physical production of constant yet contingent relations. That is all neurons can store: constant yet contingent relations. Relations between stimuli. Those relations begin with stimuli and through sequential layers, accumulate in increasingly combinatory relations, and through iterations, in real time, create a ‘persistence of vision’ (a model or models) that we experience as the culmination of continuous stimulation of our senses, and the admixture of those senses with upward associations, and downward models. When we say consciousness, we refer to the difference between our ability to judge changes in state (a few times a second) with the iterations of stimuli, memory, and synthesis into models. Neurons can fire two hundred times a second. It takes about one hundred ms to cause your body to physically act (depending upon the distance). It takes about about a half a second to react to a scare. It takes approximately one to three seconds of continuous stimulation to construct a new model (during surprise, or walking into a new room). And the persistence of vision effect (on memory) has a half life of something on the order of half a second. Although variation in short term memory is one of the abilities that vastly differentiates us. When someone uses the term logical they mean (whether they understand it or not, that the network of constant relations between the universe, the stimuli, their neural memory (relations), memory (categories) and models (networks of categories), remains consistent (internally), correspondent (externally), and coherent (free of conflict or contradiction).

  • Can We Argue That Improving Dispensation Of Social Justice And Social Equity Has A Positive Linear Relationship With The Ability Of A Society To Participate And Benefit From A Free Market?

    PAINFUL TRUTH

    You can’t define Social Justice, and you probably can’t define Social Equity, or describe how either could come about. And if you did, you would of necessity define injustice and inequity.

    However;

    You can desire that your genetic, behavioral, social, economic, and political ‘status’ relative to others is more or less visible, and that you are more or less treated independent of that status by others. (Signaling or ‘Association and Cooperation’.)

    You can desire that you are not ignored, dismissed, outcast, or treated according to your reproductive value to others. (Genetic)

    You can desire that you are not avoided, ignored, dismissed, outcast or treated according to your behavior which is determined by your genetic, behavioral, social, economic, and political value to others.(Behavioral)

    You can desire that you are not prohibited from use of commons, regardless of your genetic, behavioral, social, economic and political value to others. (Social)

    You can desire that you are given dividends via taxation to compensate for your lower genetic, behavioral, social, economic, and political value to others. (Economic)

    You can desire that you are given political influence over the production of commons to compensate for your lower genetic, behavioral, social, economic, and political value to others. (Political)

    So you can desire many false (non-market) forms of compensation from others, or you can reap many true (market) forms of compensation from others.

    So far as I know (and we know, and we can demonstrate) you require:
    1) rule of law that protects property rights (self, spouse, kin, investments, assets, property) from involuntary transfer (we call this tort, common, or natural law) regardless of you genetic, behavioral, social, economic, and political value to others.
    2) A military, police, sheriff, and judiciary that will not violate that rule of law, but enforce it regardless of you genetic, behavioral, social, economic, and political value to others.
    3) A bureaucracy that acts according to rule of law and accepts no payment, advantage, or influence, to bias their decisions, and treats all individuals identically regardless of their genetic, behavioral, social, economic, and political value to others.

    And the reason to make use of MARKETS, is because they produce greater wealth than all possible alternatives, and as such, provide us with means of providing the luxury of law, enforcement, and bureaucracy, and market, treating you as equally as your willingness to demonstrate market-normative behavior warrants, despite your genetic, behavioral, social, economic, and political value to others.

    Curt Doolittle
    The Propertarian Institute
    Kiev, Ukraine

    https://www.quora.com/Can-we-argue-that-improving-dispensation-of-social-justice-and-social-equity-has-a-positive-linear-relationship-with-the-ability-of-a-society-to-participate-and-benefit-from-a-free-market

  • If The Usa Is The Leade Of The ‘free World’, Who Is The Leader Of The ‘muslim World’ Now?

    The current battle for leadership, if not the historical battle for leadership, is between the Saudis and the Iranians. The west’s preferences for leadership were 1) A Secular Turkey that led by commercial growth, 2) A Secular Iran that led by political power, 3) an expansion of the arab monarchies in the Saudi model that would reflect the old european monarchies.

    What the west did not want was the spread of communism, or the spread of fundamentalism.

    At present, Turkey has decided to abandon it’s secularization program, iran has sought imperial status by unification of syria, iraq, iran, and to compete on the world stage as a fundamentalist hostile power.

    So at present we see The Monarchies/Israel/the USA, against Iran/Turkey/Russia.

    All civilizations require at least one core state to limit the danger exposed by their own on the world stage, while defending their own on the world stage.

    The last civilization to ‘mature’ is islam, because it was the farthest developmentally behind AND had a devolutionary religion to preserve that backwardness.

    Africa was technologically farther behind, and economically more disadvantaged, but they are not held back by an institutionalized religion bent on preserving it’s power over society.

    https://www.quora.com/If-the-USA-is-the-leade-of-the-Free-World-who-is-the-leader-of-the-Muslim-world’-now

  • Holochain – Ceptr is pretty much ‘there’. I love that I don’t go thru holochain

    Holochain – Ceptr is pretty much ‘there’.

    I love that I don’t go thru holochain docs and say “well, that’s gonna fail” or, “well that’s not true”, or “well, that’s bordering on fraud”.

    Tho, I wish these people would include an architecture section on the site where they write pseudocode for basic transactions as they work thru the system, so that we don’t have to sit through hours of nonsense-jargon to deduce it, but … that said, I’m glad someone’s putting it together. My favorite part of Holochain is that are can write a GOOD UI, whereas with the various ‘coins’ it’s nearly impossible.

    Secondly, I like that it’s a freaking ACCOUNTING system (Journal) rather than a BTC style LEDGER. I mean. YOu can build grownup applications that way.

    ( I could for example, improve our product (oversing/runcible) dramatically by basing it on Holochain. it would dramatically simplify the backend architecture, which, for all intents and purposes, consists of a single enormous journal->ledger class.

    I played a very small part in the database replication era via MSFT. Replication and Federation have always been a problem. And as someone who builds tech for business and industry (usually user interface or marketing heavy) I like the problems the tech solves.

    Now, when they produce a js, php, or python app framework, that’s the biggie. Because it will make the tech available to the masses of programmers (vs engineers). Building ‘plumbing’ is really boring…. Frameworks let you build whatever you want.

    The first product that I “owned” (and only one) at microsoft was a suite of sample applications for developers. These were fully capable apps. And as I watched the universe of apps roll out, they were very frequently built on top of one of the sample apps or the libraries. Now, today we have app frameworks everywhere. And the data is pretty clear that the framework sells the technology.

    So I’ll say that again: frameworks sell technology…..

    ( Something I wasn’t able to get thru to MSFT server and tools mgmt or the VS team. Even though there were advocates there at the time. This was something Borland and other tech companies understood. And it’s something that the framework producers understand. )

    Source date (UTC): 2017-12-10 08:41:00 UTC

  • Holochain – Ceptr is pretty much ‘there’. I love that I don’t go thru holochain

    Holochain – Ceptr is pretty much ‘there’. I love that I don’t go thru holochain docs and say “well, that’s gonna fail” or, “well that’s not true”, or “well, that’s bordering on fraud”. Tho, I wish these people would include an architecture section on the site where they write pseudocode for basic transactions as they work thru the system, so that we don’t have to sit through hours of nonsense-jargon to deduce it, but … that said, I’m glad someone’s putting it together. My favorite part of Holochain is that are can write a GOOD UI, whereas with the various ‘coins’ it’s nearly impossible. Secondly, I like that it’s a freaking ACCOUNTING system (Journal) rather than a BTC style LEDGER. I mean. YOu can build grownup applications that way. ( I could for example, improve our product (oversing/runcible) dramatically by basing it on Holochain. it would dramatically simplify the backend architecture, which, for all intents and purposes, consists of a single enormous journal->ledger class. I played a very small part in the database replication era via MSFT. Replication and Federation have always been a problem. And as someone who builds tech for business and industry (usually user interface or marketing heavy) I like the problems the tech solves. Now, when they produce a js, php, or python app framework, that’s the biggie. Because it will make the tech available to the masses of programmers (vs engineers). Building ‘plumbing’ is really boring…. Frameworks let you build whatever you want. The first product that I “owned” (and only one) at microsoft was a suite of sample applications for developers. These were fully capable apps. And as I watched the universe of apps roll out, they were very frequently built on top of one of the sample apps or the libraries. Now, today we have app frameworks everywhere. And the data is pretty clear that the framework sells the technology. So I’ll say that again: frameworks sell technology….. ( Something I wasn’t able to get thru to MSFT server and tools mgmt or the VS team. Even though there were advocates there at the time. This was something Borland and other tech companies understood. And it’s something that the framework producers understand. )