Curt Doolittle

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  • ASPIES AND EQUALITY Does any one know the working theory on why Aspies tend to b

    ASPIES AND EQUALITY

    Does any one know the working theory on why Aspies tend to be so positive toward others, but moral specialists? Hmmm……

    Caplan has me thinking about this quite a bit. The idea that Libertarians are moral specialists. Why we have so many aspies in the libertarian community. And why aspies appear to prefer to treat others in equal relations. Even why Meyers Briggs INTP’s prefer to work as equals.

    There is something very interesting in this mess if I can untangle it.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-05 04:55:00 UTC

  • Troy Camplin Is there a reference that you can point me to that has say a mathem

    Troy Camplin

    Is there a reference that you can point me to that has say a mathematical proof on one end of a triangle, and a poem on another and a romance novel on the third?

    Someone must have done thus back when thesauruses and the permutations of narrative types were being worked out.

    How does experiential and factual communication map to all the forms we use to communicate?

    Sort of a Nolan chart for written communication. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-03 08:23:00 UTC

  • WONDER: cognitive capacity?

    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar’s_numberI WONDER: cognitive capacity?

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-28 14:19:00 UTC

  • THE ECONOMIC RED QUEEN?

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0393239357/ref=mw_dp_mdsc?dsc=1&qid=1377611476&sr=8-1TECHNOLOGY: THE ECONOMIC RED QUEEN?

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-28 13:56:00 UTC

  • ANSWER NEEDED Although our strategy of blocking worked. PEOPLE WILL SUFFER FOR K

    http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/is-there-any-point-to-economic-analysis/ANOTHER ANSWER NEEDED

    Although our strategy of blocking worked.

    PEOPLE WILL SUFFER FOR KIN.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-04 15:04:00 UTC

  • IF PROACTIVE VIOLENCE IS THE SOURCE, CAUSE, AND PERPETUATION OF PROPERTY RIGHTS

    IF PROACTIVE VIOLENCE IS THE SOURCE, CAUSE, AND PERPETUATION OF PROPERTY RIGHTS

    Then what does that say about violence?

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-02 17:22:00 UTC

  • HOW MANY GREAT BOOKS ARE THERE? I think Adler’s list was too short, and it was a

    HOW MANY GREAT BOOKS ARE THERE?

    I think Adler’s list was too short, and it was an apologia for democracy. The aristocratic list I’ve been keeping is somewhere around 200, but it has a broader range of interest and it requires more books to alter the direction of the enlightenment than to confirm it with selected confirmation biases.

    But lets say that the list requires 250 books, just to pick a number. And lets say that every 15 points of IQ requires a DIFFERENT book in order to communicate the basic principles to each audience. You’d need say, 5 books total, or perhaps 6 including the original idea. So, that’s a library of 1500 books.

    Now, I’m talking non-fiction here. And you can add fiction to that list, and I have, and I was surprised how few survived scrutiny.

    Any given person would need to read 250 books targeted to his or her reading level, and then the great literature in order to ‘taste’ every time period. (without the narrative it is very difficult to grasp the past in any meaningful way.)

    Even if you only read one book a month that would only take twenty years. If you read two books a month, that would take you only ten years. If we taught reading, writing, math and basic physics through age seven, and then the great books, I’m not really sure there is a lot of wiggle room in education.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-02 03:30:00 UTC

  • ARE DEMANDS FOR EMPATHY ATTEMPTED THEFT? If one must empathize with something in

    ARE DEMANDS FOR EMPATHY ATTEMPTED THEFT?

    If one must empathize with something in order to be coerced into action, isn’t that just theft?

    I have been struggling with this idea on and off for years. But I can’t find anything that anyone else has written about it.

    However, from Freud onward, it’s pervasive.

    Trying to read a book by Woolfe. And it’s like Heidegger: bait you into an empathic reaction so that you can be deceived into involunary consent.

    What’s the difference between giving you a drug that increases your agreeablness (oxytocin), telling a story as an empathic and persuasive narrative, and making an argument about producing one outcome or another?

    Isn’t the only honest and transparent and voluntary choice, the latter?

    Source date (UTC): 2013-07-29 09:04:00 UTC

  • SEE THAT COMING. I must be too out of the loop. :). Logical. But what is going i

    http://bloom.bg/12V1URKDIDNT SEE THAT COMING.

    I must be too out of the loop. :). Logical. But what is going in here that I dont understand. This stuff happens due to opportunity or weakness.

    Anyone?

    Source date (UTC): 2013-07-28 12:40:00 UTC

  • GOOGLE AS A PUBLIC GOOD? Anyone seen any data or model or even loose argument ab

    GOOGLE AS A PUBLIC GOOD?

    Anyone seen any data or model or even loose argument about the value of the public good created by Google?

    The marginal difference between google and the next competitor is nontrivial.

    Not just as a search engine but as a network if technologies

    Source date (UTC): 2013-07-27 07:35:00 UTC