Curt Doolittle

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  • Mr. Doolittle, Would you be willing to offer a counter view?

    Mr. Doolittle, Would you be willing to offer a counter view?

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-19 16:58:00 UTC

  • REGARDING BIG What if I can make an unassailable argument that anyone who respec

    REGARDING BIG

    What if I can make an unassailable argument that anyone who respects property rights, speaks the language, and adheres to basic manners, ethics, morals and norms, is in fact, entitled to some portion of the net proceeds of the overall marketplace?

    ‘Cause I can.

    BHL do not know how to construct such an argument from property rights. So they must rely on sentimental or utilitarian arguments. But it is quite possible to make an argument from property rights.

    The BIG cannot be constructed as a fixed benefit.

    I don’t like it. But it is possible to make that argument, and I am fairly sure that BIG, at the expense of a multitude of other programs, would in fact, produce libertarian ends.

    And I am quite sure that if the conservatives positioned a BIG in exchange for shutting down a whole host of services, that it is a political argument that could be sold.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-13 06:10:00 UTC

  • DO TANNING BOOTHS COMPENSATE AT ALL FOR LIGHT DEPRIVATION? (personal question) T

    DO TANNING BOOTHS COMPENSATE AT ALL FOR LIGHT DEPRIVATION?

    (personal question)

    The whole melatonin thing kills me. 8000u of vitamin D seems to help but this time of year is murderous for me. Do tanning booths help? Or do I basically need to find a snow-scene and stay there in the sun?

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-12 15:26:00 UTC

  • WHAT IF THE ARABS ARE RIGHT? What if, Arabic Paternalism under Islam, is not the

    WHAT IF THE ARABS ARE RIGHT?

    What if, Arabic Paternalism under Islam, is not the most backward reproductive family system – but in fact, the most mature? What if, as others have suggested, the Greeks invented inbreeding to keep property in the family as a reaction to the disintegrating state amidst urban diversity? And the arabs adopted it as part of their conquest of the eastern roman empire?

    What if an individualistic, highly distributed division of labor and a mobile work force, is a reproductive ‘dead end’?

    And that ‘their way’, with all it’s defects, is in fact, the natural course of all cultures as they mature?

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-12 12:52:00 UTC

  • WHY DOES THE MONOPOLY STATE FEAR COMPETITION? All conflicts are resolvable if pr

    WHY DOES THE MONOPOLY STATE FEAR COMPETITION?

    All conflicts are resolvable if private property rights are respected. So why can’t groups with different sets of property rights join different groups (unions, parties) and made contracts with one another?

    There isn’t any reason that they can’t.

    Except that the state, and democracy, and bureaucracies, are a monopoly.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-08 09:46:00 UTC

  • YOU TELL WHAT TRIBES THESE STRANGERS ARE FROM?

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2268040/Francois-Brunelle-portraits-Photographer-sets-shoot-200-fascinating-portraits-strangers-look-like-TWINS.htmlCAN YOU TELL WHAT TRIBES THESE STRANGERS ARE FROM?

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-08 08:58:00 UTC

  • ONCE YOU REALIZE DEMOCRACY IS JUST MOB RULE AND THE SLOW ROAD TO COMMUNISM, WHAT

    ONCE YOU REALIZE DEMOCRACY IS JUST MOB RULE AND THE SLOW ROAD TO COMMUNISM, WHAT IS THE NEXT FORM OF GOVERNMENT?

    Most theorists, Especially Plato, but certainly enlightenment proponents, obsess over the means of creating people to suit our form of government. But what form of government is possible given the very real and variable people that we actually have?

    This is where I make people unhappy. Because i want to understand the question: What people do we actually have?

    And that’s uncomfortable.

    But it’s the only way to design institutions that facilitate the cooperation between the people we actually have.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-08 02:07:00 UTC

  • OK, so how do I redraw the Asplundt/Nolan chart for families, or is my original

    OK, so how do I redraw the Asplundt/Nolan chart for families, or is my original diagram accurate enough?

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-07 08:31:00 UTC

  • WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MUTUAL INSURANCE, FREE-RIDING AND PARASITISM? And

    WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MUTUAL INSURANCE, FREE-RIDING AND PARASITISM?

    And how does one know those points of demarcation?

    The central problem of human cooperation is not violence, it is free-riding. Violence and theft in-group, turns out to be fairly easy to suppress. But free-riding in-group is very hard to suppress.

    So, to use a common libertarian philosophical error, lets look at Crusoe’s island. Why? Because the central problem of cooperation for any human being is that he is born into a tribe that raises him, whether that tribe is a pair or few dozen parents. So the model we must work from instead, is an island evenly distributed with individuals of different ages and abilities, all of whom naturally try to free-ride on one another. Free riding is a useful strategy for a multi-generational animal that requires high investment parenting.

    1) Rearing and Care-taking

    2) Mutual Insurance

    3) Free-Riding

    4) Parasitism

    5) Fraud by omission

    6) Fraud by misrepresentation

    7) Entrapment

    8) Theft

    9) Violence

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-06 08:34:00 UTC

  • The Cognitive Biases In The Empirical Fields

    THE COGNITIVE BIASES OF THE EMPIRICAL FIELDS? (question) (see  The Smart Fraction Theory of IQ and the Wealth of Nations  at www.lagriffedulion.f2s.com) What is the difference in the the cognitive biases of the different disciplines? 1) Engineering and engineers 2) Computer science and computer scientists, 3) Economics and economists (statistics) 4) Physics and physicists 5) Mathematics and mathematicians? How would you stack-rank these five by: i) The weight given to understanding of human hubris vs human rationality? ii) The use of obscurant versus operational language iii) The use of platonist versus naturalistic language. iv) The requirement that people adapt to new knowledge, versus adapt technology to suit the needs and wants of people? v) The tendency to favor statist versus libertarian solutions? ON IQ Now, we have to understand some variations in the data. Mostly it’s a hierarchy of IQ. But Economists usually skew lower than the other disciplines because a) they are paid less, and b) the criteria for what is called an economics degree varies a lot. (It is very hard to make less than 100K as a computer scientist. It is very easy to make 150K. And not difficult to make 200K.) Given the damned rigor of the discipline I find this sort of thing interesting. DISCLAIMER I am educated as a fine artist, in Art Theory. (The philosophy of art and art history). Essentially as an art critic. Art just isn’t generally good enough to critique any more. Although the art-craft movement is still creative and beautiful. The movie business is the great sucking sound for artistic talent in America. And art has become a lower middle class occupation with an upper proletarian work force. It is not in the least bit aristocratic.