Curt Doolittle

Form: Mini Essay

  • ACTUALLY I’M NOT AN ATHEIST. (important piece) (on the existence of gods) —“Yo

    ACTUALLY I’M NOT AN ATHEIST.

    (important piece) (on the existence of gods)

    —“You’re one of my favorite Catholic Atheists”—

    Well, thank you.

    Although, while a scientist, I am not an atheist. I am just what is called a Naturalist, and not a Supernaturalist. I understand that Gods exist. They exist as numbers exist. If I was an atheist you wouldn’t catch me praying (talking to god) regularly. Which I do. Often. I just have a very esoteric concept of the nature of a god’s existence. And I separate the existence of gods from primitive notions of religion.

    I am not sure what the difference is between a supernaturally existential deity, and a worldwide knowledge of socrates, or a regional knowledge of a saint, or a local knowledge of ancestors, and praying to the knowledge of that personality, and those memories, for love, support, advice, and counsel.

    For various reasons I am fairly certain prayer ‘works’. I am fairly certain gods ‘work’. I am fairly certain that gods, ritual, and prayer are a competitive advantage. And whether one chooses to explain away all of this scientifically as psychology, or accept it metaphysically, or embody it supernaturally, is merely a function of one’s abilities, biases, and preferences.

    As far as I know gods exist as numbers exist, and gods ‘work’ for the same reason numbers work. There are consequences to the existence and use of numbers that transcend human abilities to perceive and conceptualize. If you construct various axioms, the resulting patterns can be rich sources of information – especially when combined with new experiences. If you construct stories of gods, heroes and saints there is no difference. So as far as I know, the study of gods, heroes and saints literally reconstructs them in your mind, and you can ask them questions if you learn how. It is even more useful to do the same with one’s ancestors since you carry not only those ideas but their genes, and the biases and benefits that they passed down to you.

    Our ancestors thought in physicality or spirituality because they did not have the concept of INFORMATION that is the model we use today to understand the physical world. And it is INFORMATION that economists, philosophers and behaviorists such as myself use as the model for describing the human world, and not spirituality or physicality.

    I have no idea if information in my head, yours, and others, interacts in some quantum fashion. I can’t state it one way or the other. I suspect that if it does it is so subtle that it is only accessible to us in periods of self honesty. But if in fact the information in our heads creates synchronicity when we are subject to similar stimuli then that would produce an equal effect. So either way it is irrelevant. It just works. And group prayer or ritual would construct new axioms and biases and produce similarly synchronous knowledge in all of us.

    Now religion – as in a ritualistic group gathering – is something else altogether because the repetition of ritual, the submission to the throng, and the gregariousness we fell to the pack, all of which are present in the church or temple, produces a profound feeling of safety similar to that felt by our animal cousins when running with the herd or pack. It is this feeling we call ‘spiritual’ or ‘submission’: it’s a mild euphoria that spiritualists seek to amplify through practice. And it is one of the most universal and desired feelings of mankind.

    Combining this experience of mild euphoria with knowledge of gods, heroes and saints produces a form of honesty within the self that we cannot produce by other means. It is this clarity or honesty that gives religions their power. We can, if we pray, or contemplate, use the mythological structure of information, along without our existing knowledge, to find solutions – too seek and obtain answers as ‘insights’. And at worst we can find comfort in the throng. (Which we now overload with consumption until we realize it is meaningless, and that we have been deceived – if not drugged – by commercial information.)

    As yet we do not know how to produce the same effect as religion and prayer by any other means. I suspect I know how to do it. The question is whether it is possible to provide sufficient incentive to train enough people to do it to cause a reformation of the methods by which we teach every generation the Christian Discipline of Love into something more modern. I struggle with this problem and it’s probably the hardest problem I’ve tried to solve.

    And that’s saying something…..

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-21 11:24:00 UTC

  • There is no guarantee to the progress of knowledge. Dark ages are as common as a

    There is no guarantee to the progress of knowledge. Dark ages are as common as are enlightenment. The greeks lost literacy for what 600 years, and their knowledge of history with it? The greeks had just about started the industrial revolution by the first century and we spent almost two thousand more years before the west again discoverd it. The plagues and islamic conquest more so than the germanic invasions caused the fall of roman empire and while civilization progressed in the dark ages, the spread of mysticism and ignorance followed the prior spread of law, commerce and literacy. Greek knowledge (truth) was invented only once in all of human history and if not for the enlightenment rediscovery and the printing press it might not have returned to us. Yet with it, in 500 years we dragged humanity kicking and screaming out of disease, poverty, and ignorance.

    Yet in the past century and a half we have seen a second attempt to impose pseudoscience instead of mysticism for the purpose of deception: Marx, Freud, Boaz, Cantor, Keynes, Mises, Rothbard.

    Science again attempts to save us from pseudoscientific mysticism just like it saved us from religious mysticism.

    But the opposition, having failed with pseudoscience, has merely imported new hosts for their lies in vast numbers by incentivizing us with hyperconsumption.

    No, knowlege is often lost, and dark ages common in history. Many more civilizations have died than those that survive today.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-20 06:26:00 UTC

  • THIS WEEK’s ASPIE POST Aspies tend to love everyone. The difficulty in empathizi

    THIS WEEK’s ASPIE POST

    Aspies tend to love everyone. The difficulty in empathizing, common rejection, and desire for connection with others makes all successful connections more enjoyable. The hard part to manage comes in three:

    1) It’s hard to find relations since listening to others most of their language consists of signals we consider either meaningless, tedious or confusing. So you must learn patience to listen and try to ask about how and why people feel the way they do. Most of us understand spoken emotions. Meanwhile the autistic impulse tries to control you into avoiding exactly what you are trying to accomplish. This is why ssri’s are so effective: they dull the impulse and allow you to practice building the strength of will over the autistic impulse. Social anxiety disorder is controlled by the same means. We must see the autism spectrum as excess in uterine suppression of the growth of the self. And that we must assist the growth of the self to compensate. We tend to think as engineers today rather than gardeners and foresters. The mind is constructed more like a tree and some artful bonsai may be needed.

    2) It is easy to alienate relations via over sharing minutia fascinating to the autistic mind because system-thought provides constant touch stones amidst sensory chaos in socially and emotionally dense environments. So developing self monitoring is necessary and it’s very hard work. Again the problem is severity: some of us are weakly affected and can rely on will. Others more so and require help in training. Others need chemical assistance to suppress the autistic impulse. And some of us lack sufficient self to imagine the very idea of self monitoring – and it is those people that are non functional.

    3) Once you mature having not experienced all the “silly” distractions of normal minds, you can gain this sense of superiority that comes with expertise in anything, and you can lose your desire to engage with (boring, dull, stupid) normals. This requires acceptance that only comes with age: normals have different feelings and needs and they usually fail to mature intellectually as far as we do – or rather they stop maturing at much earlier ages. So the only technique I have developed is love. I keep working a problem in my head in order to keep the big black scary machine busy, and I merely enjoy the company of people like a warm bath or sunny day. But what has surprised me is that simple and good people do not engage in as much signaling with false intellectualism. So I prefer the company of common people for my emotional health, and the company of competitive and intellectual people for my mental health.

    So how do we socialize? The trick for us is to develop something we can share with others that is interesting. So that we are valuable to the conversation.

    My strategy is to seek to help everyone I encounter in some small way. This usually involves getting to know them while looking for some opportunity to assist.

    And in that act of inquiry I show interest in others: seeking to understand, not to agree.

    That’s my lesson for this week to aspies.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-20 03:54:00 UTC

  • The Templars Did It Right: Room And Board

    [Y]OU SEE THE TEMPLARS HAD A GOOD DEAL: ROOM AND BOARD. And you see ISIS doing the same. And we see Ukrainian Volunteers dong the same. And you saw american revolutionary soldiers doing it. And you saw european soldiers throughout history do it. The central problem of raising an army is not weapons, it is merely the money necessary to supply room and board for those men who prefer to fight for change rather than do whatever it is at their disposal. If you ask men to bring a weapon, they will. But you must be able to feed, shelter, and direct them. Once you have men and weapons, you have an army, and an army can take whatever it wants or needs. And by the act of merely taking, it disrupts the economy so significantly that little else need be done. What the Islamists do well is (a) live on few resources, and (b) distribute money effectively through channels, and (c) make use of a vast surplus of men. Western men are in surplus. Money, Distribution, and Communication are not complicated. Moral authority. A set of Demands, A plan. Room and Board. Simple men think in tactics. General think in logistics. You see, the more advanced an economy, the more fragile it is.

  • The Templars Did It Right: Room And Board

    [Y]OU SEE THE TEMPLARS HAD A GOOD DEAL: ROOM AND BOARD. And you see ISIS doing the same. And we see Ukrainian Volunteers dong the same. And you saw american revolutionary soldiers doing it. And you saw european soldiers throughout history do it. The central problem of raising an army is not weapons, it is merely the money necessary to supply room and board for those men who prefer to fight for change rather than do whatever it is at their disposal. If you ask men to bring a weapon, they will. But you must be able to feed, shelter, and direct them. Once you have men and weapons, you have an army, and an army can take whatever it wants or needs. And by the act of merely taking, it disrupts the economy so significantly that little else need be done. What the Islamists do well is (a) live on few resources, and (b) distribute money effectively through channels, and (c) make use of a vast surplus of men. Western men are in surplus. Money, Distribution, and Communication are not complicated. Moral authority. A set of Demands, A plan. Room and Board. Simple men think in tactics. General think in logistics. You see, the more advanced an economy, the more fragile it is.

  • The Evolution of Everything That Man Uses To Do Everything

    (very important concepts) (important piece) [W]eber was right, in that the evolution of civilization was achieved through improvements in various kinds of ‘calculation’ – a term which will not sufficiently convey the depth of importance or meaning to the uninitiated. CALCULATION (ability to ‘think’ and plan)– Perception, Comparison, Decidability, and Memory We are somewhat aware of the vast leaps in Perception, Comparison, Decidability, and Memory: that arose from Writing, Numbers and Arithmetic, Accounting, Mathematics, Calculus, and Statistics (which are different disciplines). – Planning (production) Those of us who learn economics understand the institutions of Money, Prices, Credit, Interest, Banking, Bonds, Stocks, Financial Insurance, and how they assist us in cooperating at vast scales. – Evolution and Equilibria (discovery) And some of us are aware of the vast change in human thinking that arose from the concept of evolution (self organizing). This is not limited to biological evolution (information organization in equilibria), but also to economics(information organization in equilibria), but also to the evolution of scientific knowledge (information organization in equilibria) in which knowledge is that which survives from free association, to hypothesis, to theory, and to law; – Existence (operational naming) And I think fewer people are aware of the vast change in human thinking that arose from the act of programming (existential necessity), and database development (existential dependency), – Truth (removal of imagination, error, bias, wishful thinking, and deception) and very very few of us are aware of my work in Truth (testimonial organization in equilibria) in which Truth is what survives criticism, and testimony a warranty of due diligence, not a warranty of truth itself, and ultimate truth merely the most parsimonious statement possible. PRODUCTION OF REPRODUCTION And some of us in familial organizations: – State Enforced Individual Monetary Union (feminism) – Nuclear Family, Egalitarian Nuclear – Extended Family, Stem Family, Authoritarian Family – Traditional Family, Communitarian Family – Hetaeristic Monogamy – Pairing Family, Serial Marriage – Punaluan Family – Consanguine Family PRODUCTION OF ORGANIZATIONS OF PRODUCTION ITSELF And some of us are aware of the evolution in productive organizations: – Military Hierarchical (simple production) – Bureaucratic Hierarchical (capital production) – Professional (talent production) PRODUCTION OF ORGANIZATIONS OF PRODUCING COMMONS Some of us are aware of the vast difference in state organizations: – Authoritarian Socialist Economy. ( Dysgenic – Minimize Holdings ) – Social Democratic Mixed Economy ( Dysgenic – maximize takings ) – Private Capitalistic Libertarian Economy (Eugenic – maximize holding) WEAPONS OF INFLUENCE IN ORGANIZATION (reputations) – Cooperation (ordinary cooperation in the process of production) (personal reputation in memory) – Religion (normative promise) (demonstrated behavior) ostracization – Law (criminal reputations) (writing and record keeping) Violence – Credit (economic reputations) (computers) deprivation of consumption – ‘Software Reputations’ (the most detailed yet – the internet) ???? (deprivation of relations) DO YOU SEE THE PATTERN? We already constitute the equivalent of a hive mind. The problem for our collective consciousness is in reducing error. And that error is the product of dysgenia.

  • The Evolution of Everything That Man Uses To Do Everything

    (very important concepts) (important piece) [W]eber was right, in that the evolution of civilization was achieved through improvements in various kinds of ‘calculation’ – a term which will not sufficiently convey the depth of importance or meaning to the uninitiated. CALCULATION (ability to ‘think’ and plan)– Perception, Comparison, Decidability, and Memory We are somewhat aware of the vast leaps in Perception, Comparison, Decidability, and Memory: that arose from Writing, Numbers and Arithmetic, Accounting, Mathematics, Calculus, and Statistics (which are different disciplines). – Planning (production) Those of us who learn economics understand the institutions of Money, Prices, Credit, Interest, Banking, Bonds, Stocks, Financial Insurance, and how they assist us in cooperating at vast scales. – Evolution and Equilibria (discovery) And some of us are aware of the vast change in human thinking that arose from the concept of evolution (self organizing). This is not limited to biological evolution (information organization in equilibria), but also to economics(information organization in equilibria), but also to the evolution of scientific knowledge (information organization in equilibria) in which knowledge is that which survives from free association, to hypothesis, to theory, and to law; – Existence (operational naming) And I think fewer people are aware of the vast change in human thinking that arose from the act of programming (existential necessity), and database development (existential dependency), – Truth (removal of imagination, error, bias, wishful thinking, and deception) and very very few of us are aware of my work in Truth (testimonial organization in equilibria) in which Truth is what survives criticism, and testimony a warranty of due diligence, not a warranty of truth itself, and ultimate truth merely the most parsimonious statement possible. PRODUCTION OF REPRODUCTION And some of us in familial organizations: – State Enforced Individual Monetary Union (feminism) – Nuclear Family, Egalitarian Nuclear – Extended Family, Stem Family, Authoritarian Family – Traditional Family, Communitarian Family – Hetaeristic Monogamy – Pairing Family, Serial Marriage – Punaluan Family – Consanguine Family PRODUCTION OF ORGANIZATIONS OF PRODUCTION ITSELF And some of us are aware of the evolution in productive organizations: – Military Hierarchical (simple production) – Bureaucratic Hierarchical (capital production) – Professional (talent production) PRODUCTION OF ORGANIZATIONS OF PRODUCING COMMONS Some of us are aware of the vast difference in state organizations: – Authoritarian Socialist Economy. ( Dysgenic – Minimize Holdings ) – Social Democratic Mixed Economy ( Dysgenic – maximize takings ) – Private Capitalistic Libertarian Economy (Eugenic – maximize holding) WEAPONS OF INFLUENCE IN ORGANIZATION (reputations) – Cooperation (ordinary cooperation in the process of production) (personal reputation in memory) – Religion (normative promise) (demonstrated behavior) ostracization – Law (criminal reputations) (writing and record keeping) Violence – Credit (economic reputations) (computers) deprivation of consumption – ‘Software Reputations’ (the most detailed yet – the internet) ???? (deprivation of relations) DO YOU SEE THE PATTERN? We already constitute the equivalent of a hive mind. The problem for our collective consciousness is in reducing error. And that error is the product of dysgenia.

  • The Secrets of the West’s Success

    (important piece) [W]e can finally piece together the west’s struggle to ‘transcend’ the human animal, and to become our gods. Truth is the common thread. THE SECRETS OF THE WEST’S SUCCESS: AXIS 1) Militarism, Militia, Heroism, Truth, AXIS 2) Sovereignty. Private Property, Voluntary Exchange, Contract AXIS 3) Jury, Common Law, Rule of law & Universal Standing, Natural Law AXIS 4) Debate, Reason, Philosophy, Logic, Science, Medicine AXIS 6) Near Breeding Eugenics, Manorial Eugenics, Criminal Eugenics CLASSES The People Who Fight (defense – order) Aristocratic. The People Who Farm (capital – production) Libertarian. The People Who Gather (labor – consumption) Socialist. THE CATASTROPHE’S The Follies: Athenian/Spartan and Anglo/German civil wars. The Plagues: i) Justinian / Arab ii) The Black Death The Invasions: The demographic invasions of Greece, Of Rome, Of the Roman Empire, of Europe and Americas. The Great Lies: i) Jewish Christianity, ii) Jewish Pseudoscience, iii) Islamism The Great Losses: Arab and Turkish Conquests of The East , The Communist Revolution in Russia, Russian Conquest of Eastern Europe, TECHNOLOGIES (undone) 1) Narrative, Writing, The Story, The Dramatic Play, The Novel, The Serial. 2) Counting, Positional Numbering, Arithmetic, Accounting, Computerized Accounting, 3) Mathematics (sets), Geometry (space), Calculus (relative change), Statistics (probability), 4) (physics) 5) (evolutionary biology) 6) (economics) 7) (truth) Syllogism, ..(correspondence).. Critical Rationalism, Testimonialism, …

  • The Secrets of the West’s Success

    (important piece) [W]e can finally piece together the west’s struggle to ‘transcend’ the human animal, and to become our gods. Truth is the common thread. THE SECRETS OF THE WEST’S SUCCESS: AXIS 1) Militarism, Militia, Heroism, Truth, AXIS 2) Sovereignty. Private Property, Voluntary Exchange, Contract AXIS 3) Jury, Common Law, Rule of law & Universal Standing, Natural Law AXIS 4) Debate, Reason, Philosophy, Logic, Science, Medicine AXIS 6) Near Breeding Eugenics, Manorial Eugenics, Criminal Eugenics CLASSES The People Who Fight (defense – order) Aristocratic. The People Who Farm (capital – production) Libertarian. The People Who Gather (labor – consumption) Socialist. THE CATASTROPHE’S The Follies: Athenian/Spartan and Anglo/German civil wars. The Plagues: i) Justinian / Arab ii) The Black Death The Invasions: The demographic invasions of Greece, Of Rome, Of the Roman Empire, of Europe and Americas. The Great Lies: i) Jewish Christianity, ii) Jewish Pseudoscience, iii) Islamism The Great Losses: Arab and Turkish Conquests of The East , The Communist Revolution in Russia, Russian Conquest of Eastern Europe, TECHNOLOGIES (undone) 1) Narrative, Writing, The Story, The Dramatic Play, The Novel, The Serial. 2) Counting, Positional Numbering, Arithmetic, Accounting, Computerized Accounting, 3) Mathematics (sets), Geometry (space), Calculus (relative change), Statistics (probability), 4) (physics) 5) (evolutionary biology) 6) (economics) 7) (truth) Syllogism, ..(correspondence).. Critical Rationalism, Testimonialism, …

  • YOU SEE THE TEMPLARS HAD A GOOD DEAL: ROOM AND BOARD. And you see ISIS doing the

    YOU SEE THE TEMPLARS HAD A GOOD DEAL: ROOM AND BOARD.

    And you see ISIS doing the same.

    And we see Ukrainian Volunteers dong the same.

    And you saw american revolutionary soldiers doing it.

    And you saw european soldiers throughout history do it.

    The central problem of raising an army is not weapons, it is merely the money necessary to supply room and board for those men who prefer to fight for change rather than do whatever it is at their disposal.

    If you ask men to bring a weapon, they will. But you must be able to feed, shelter, and direct them.

    Once you have men and weapons, you have an army, and an army can take whatever it wants or needs. And by the act of merely taking, it disrupts the economy so significantly that little else need be done.

    What the Islamists do well is (a) live on few resources, and (b) distribute money effectively through channels, and (c) make use of a vast surplus of men.

    Western men are in surplus. Money, Distribution, and Communication are not complicated.

    Moral authority. A set of Demands, A plan. Room and Board.

    You see, the more advanced an economy, the more fragile it is.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-19 06:06:00 UTC