Curt Doolittle

Form: Quote Commentary

  • “Yin and Ying are not merely a social construct.”— James Santagata

    —“Yin and Ying are not merely a social construct.”— James Santagata

    Source date (UTC): 2015-02-23 00:07:00 UTC

  • “If you are a CEO, you will understand what it is to manage men. There is a burd

    —“If you are a CEO, you will understand what it is to manage men. There is a burden in that charge. To relieve that burden, I have found the best control is finding someone to manage you and, in that respect, the best answer is a mother. All of my assistants are mother: each one. Without them I would sleep too late and work less than I should. I am grateful for them. One if them will see this, thank you.”— Don Finnegan

    Thank you Mary, Shannon, Jill, Raluca, Aimee, Allora, Veronika and the others.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-02-22 23:32:00 UTC

  • ON ANIMAL CRUELTY (worth repeating) —“My position is that there is no reason t

    ON ANIMAL CRUELTY

    (worth repeating)

    —“My position is that there is no reason to treat animals other than with the maximum possible care that we would demonstrate to our own children – but for pagan reasons: (a) they are a precious resource we do not understand but value, (b) because anyone who would NOT treat an animal with such care is a danger to the rest of us. And (c) that just as Harlan Ellison recommended, I see our aristocratic duty one of transforming the world into the greatest park possible – not because they are in any way equal to us – but because by doing so we demonstrate that we have become gods. And that is the central aristocratic ambition. It certainly is mine. To seek my place, and man’s place, among the gods.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2015-02-22 08:21:00 UTC

  • “Women possess intrinsic value simply be “being”. At an early age and continuing

    —“Women possess intrinsic value simply be “being”. At an early age and continuing up until 32 years old, everyday is a girl’s birthday. Attention is lavished, doors are held open, free drinks, dinners and compliments given and so on. Then the decline begins, albeit slowly before accelerating. Men on the other hand, have no intrinsic value in “being” and can only create their value by “building”. Men are left to their own devices – from birth – to face the crucible, and many don’t make it. But as their value is appraised by what they build, their value appreciates with age and even when the peak is hit, they decline in value slowly. …….. Money is Men’s Botox. …….. Cash flow is a Man’s Fountain of Youth.”—

    James Santagata

    What has changed is that men, through their building, have made it possible for women to also build. So men must build and provide a marginal difference in order to be valuable. And fewer of them can.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-02-22 05:21:00 UTC

  • “Video games, pot, and fluoride destroy men.”—Don Finnegan

    —“Video games, pot, and fluoride destroy men.”—Don Finnegan

    Source date (UTC): 2015-02-21 14:30:00 UTC

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    http://www.nydailynews.com/giuliani-claims-obama-influenced-communism-article-1.2123541

    Source date (UTC): 2015-02-21 08:59:00 UTC

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    http://www.quora.com/North-America/Why-is-the-dominant-racial-ethnic-narrative-between-White-America-and-Black-America-when-the-state-of-Native-America-ought-to-be-addressed-first/answer/Curt-Doolittle?share=1

    Source date (UTC): 2015-02-21 08:58:00 UTC

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    http://www.quora.com/Does-the-U-S-really-have-good-friends/answer/Curt-Doolittle?share=1

    Source date (UTC): 2015-02-21 08:48:00 UTC

  • a couple of centuries or so. Is that really enough time to effect that much gene

    http://pic.twitter.com/EUQafiYnlX—“…just a couple of centuries or so. Is that really enough time to effect that much genetic change according to your theory?”—

    “Yes:

    “One of the simplest models of directional selection, truncation selection, where the bottom (or top) x% for a trait fail to reproduce is easy to model and produces something that closely fits observed situations.

    “Say those 1 standard deviation below average for a trait fail to reproduce – roughly the bottom 16%. (In terms of numbers, this isn’t far off from the fraction of people that fail to reproduce in modern America.)

    “The breeder’s equation gives us the selective effect:

    “[R = h^2 * S]

    “R = response to selection (mean of trait in following generation. S = selection differential (mean of trait of parental population). h^2 = additive heritability of trait.

    “If we assume those 1 s.d. below average fail to reproduce, then the mean of the parental population (assuming trait in question is normally distributed) is the mean of truncated bell curve cut at -1 s.d. which you can find (with some…fancy math) to be +0.29 sd.

    “Since the additive heritability of most traits is 0.5, the response to selection in that case is 0.29 * 0.5 = 0.145 sd/generation. If this were IQ, that would correspond to a ~2.2 point gain per generation. Assuming sustained selection, the population mean would move one whole standard deviation in just 7 generations (or about 200 years)! I mentioned IQ, but this will work just as well for any quantitative trait with a similar additive heritability, including the personality traits associated with a fine manorial serf – which you [could] model collectively as a ‘manorial quotient’ (MQ).”

    …and here…

    “The World Values Survey gives us a neat way to quantify overall mean clannishness around the world:

    Based on #WVS data: Welzel-Inglehart Cultural Map 2015. pic.twitter.com/EUQafiYnlX

    — World Values Survey (@ValuesStudies) January 26, 2015

    “It’s even mapped in standard deviations.

    “Outbreeding has produced an evolutionary shift to the right (maybe to the upper right) for NW Euros on this map. If we assume they started about where the Slavs are now, that means they moved +2 or +3 s.d. over the course of the relevant evolutionary time. Such a change (given the case of strong, sustained directional selection) could take as little as 400-600 years, given the formula above.”

    Source date (UTC): 2015-02-21 07:26:00 UTC

  • “the Stoic way accepted by warrior cultures throughout history, and throughout t

    —“the Stoic way accepted by warrior cultures throughout history, and throughout the world though, is to take responsibility for yourself. Accept that you have absolute control over what you have control over, and don’t worry about the rest of it. If you take the responsibility you need to take, then you will perform. If you don’t, you will fail.

    You cannot control whether you achieve X in XX:XX. What you can control is, “I will do XYZ every day. I will try to perform better and faster, every time I perform XYZ. If I do this, eventually, I will achieve X in XX:XX, then I will continue to improve.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2015-02-20 06:05:00 UTC