Curt Doolittle

Form: Quote Commentary

  • Every Man A …

    EVERY MAN A STUDENT A TEACHER, FATHER A SON, A SHERIFF A JUDGE, A SOLDIER A WARRIOR, A MAN TRANSCENDENT

    —“Damn you’re good lol. FYI I had a twitter spat with you a few years ago when I was more of a continental philosophy type. Needless to say upon reflection and reading more of your work I have certainly been humbled.”— A friend

    This is the ‘Rite of Men’. Be a Father of your People. Play king of the Hill. Ask only intellectual honesty. Let men learn at their rate. Defeat the enemy.  

    —“To be old and wise you must first be young and stupid, right? Hah thanks again Curt, you the man.”— A Friend

  • Agency vs Submission.

    Curt Doolittle 1st November 2018 at 6:08 pm It’s a very simple difference. Agency vs Submission. Heathens (Pagans in the pejorative) in western civilization are imagined heroes in competition with the spirits(dead), non-humans(green man, primitive man), demigods(powerful but mortal), and gods (powerful and immortal), and can, by effort and cunning outwit them – or – negotiate (bribe) them. This is a universal artifact of the conquest and replacement of european peoples by the westward expansion of the indo-europeans (Yaman, Corded ware et al) and their Militaristic, Expansionist, Sky Worshipping, Metalsmithing, business of profiting from the domestication of animal man, with horse, bronze, wheel and their very visible power over nature. It is a religion of agency not submission. Demand for a “religion of empires” increases with the distribution of peoples under rule, and the group strategies of those people under rule, and the compatibilities of those group’s strategies under such a universal rule. The semitic methodology of INVERTING the aristocratic (western) ethos by converting the bible of greco roman civilization (iliad of homer) which occupied the vast majority of writings in the greco roman period, with a ‘hero’ of ‘submission and resistance’ was an interesting strategy by which the vast underclasses of the old european (byzantine), and greco-anatolian, syrian levantine world could create a resistance movement by the cultural destruction of their superiors, Just as the Marxists (Marx, Boas, Freud, Cantor, Mises, Adorno et al, Rothbard, and the neocons) repeated 1700 years later (monopoly marxism of private property, monopoly marxism of common property, monopoly marxism of identity-property (culture)). The Semitic method of undermining was as successful in the Modern world (undermining colonialism) as it was in the ancient world (undermining colonialism). False promise of salvation after death. False promise of economic salvation. False promise of cultural (identity) salvation. The method of using sophism (false promise + sophism (Pilpul) + Straw Manning (Critique) is in fact a successful method of undermining a civilization that is overwhelmed by overextension, and profiting from overextension through commerce, and the dependence of commerce at international scales on trust. Christianity succeeded because trade collapsed in europe after (a) undermining by jewish-christian vanguard, (b) enforcement by byzantine (old world, greek) defeat of rome, and (c) collapse of world trade under arab-muslim expansion, (d) and the eventual consumption of all capital of the great civilizations of the ancient world, and the destruction of all those civilizations as a consequence. So, as trade and knowledge increased, europeans gradually (expectedly) extracted themselves from Semitic superstition, the church’s’ monopoly on information and literacy, the 50% of dead capital in europe under the church. and the corruption of the church as a monopoly federal government selling false receipts of salvation the way the current academy sells false diplomas. Given that the remains of Christianity are what leave us vulnerable to Semiticism (abrahamic monotheism, marxism-socialism-postmodernism-feminism, and the use of false promise, sophism, straw-manning, and the discount on disapproval, shaming, ridicule, moralizing, rallying as a substitute for truthful (scientific, rational) argument. It is only logical that the aristocratic right in Europe (using literary philosophy, moralism, and history) and aristocratic right in the States (using law and, economics, and science) should produce arguments to restore our native religion of the hearth to one that is heroic and expansionary rather than submissive and assisting in our surrender. Nothing in human behavior or history is difficult. It’s all simple. Once you understand that nearly all use of language is simply means of lying in order to obtain discounts on the acquisition of the power to alter the probability of outcomes in one’s favor. And all we do is search for narratives to echo (script). Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine

  • Agency vs Submission.

    Curt Doolittle 1st November 2018 at 6:08 pm It’s a very simple difference. Agency vs Submission. Heathens (Pagans in the pejorative) in western civilization are imagined heroes in competition with the spirits(dead), non-humans(green man, primitive man), demigods(powerful but mortal), and gods (powerful and immortal), and can, by effort and cunning outwit them – or – negotiate (bribe) them. This is a universal artifact of the conquest and replacement of european peoples by the westward expansion of the indo-europeans (Yaman, Corded ware et al) and their Militaristic, Expansionist, Sky Worshipping, Metalsmithing, business of profiting from the domestication of animal man, with horse, bronze, wheel and their very visible power over nature. It is a religion of agency not submission. Demand for a “religion of empires” increases with the distribution of peoples under rule, and the group strategies of those people under rule, and the compatibilities of those group’s strategies under such a universal rule. The semitic methodology of INVERTING the aristocratic (western) ethos by converting the bible of greco roman civilization (iliad of homer) which occupied the vast majority of writings in the greco roman period, with a ‘hero’ of ‘submission and resistance’ was an interesting strategy by which the vast underclasses of the old european (byzantine), and greco-anatolian, syrian levantine world could create a resistance movement by the cultural destruction of their superiors, Just as the Marxists (Marx, Boas, Freud, Cantor, Mises, Adorno et al, Rothbard, and the neocons) repeated 1700 years later (monopoly marxism of private property, monopoly marxism of common property, monopoly marxism of identity-property (culture)). The Semitic method of undermining was as successful in the Modern world (undermining colonialism) as it was in the ancient world (undermining colonialism). False promise of salvation after death. False promise of economic salvation. False promise of cultural (identity) salvation. The method of using sophism (false promise + sophism (Pilpul) + Straw Manning (Critique) is in fact a successful method of undermining a civilization that is overwhelmed by overextension, and profiting from overextension through commerce, and the dependence of commerce at international scales on trust. Christianity succeeded because trade collapsed in europe after (a) undermining by jewish-christian vanguard, (b) enforcement by byzantine (old world, greek) defeat of rome, and (c) collapse of world trade under arab-muslim expansion, (d) and the eventual consumption of all capital of the great civilizations of the ancient world, and the destruction of all those civilizations as a consequence. So, as trade and knowledge increased, europeans gradually (expectedly) extracted themselves from Semitic superstition, the church’s’ monopoly on information and literacy, the 50% of dead capital in europe under the church. and the corruption of the church as a monopoly federal government selling false receipts of salvation the way the current academy sells false diplomas. Given that the remains of Christianity are what leave us vulnerable to Semiticism (abrahamic monotheism, marxism-socialism-postmodernism-feminism, and the use of false promise, sophism, straw-manning, and the discount on disapproval, shaming, ridicule, moralizing, rallying as a substitute for truthful (scientific, rational) argument. It is only logical that the aristocratic right in Europe (using literary philosophy, moralism, and history) and aristocratic right in the States (using law and, economics, and science) should produce arguments to restore our native religion of the hearth to one that is heroic and expansionary rather than submissive and assisting in our surrender. Nothing in human behavior or history is difficult. It’s all simple. Once you understand that nearly all use of language is simply means of lying in order to obtain discounts on the acquisition of the power to alter the probability of outcomes in one’s favor. And all we do is search for narratives to echo (script). Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine

  • State Bureaucracies Must Organize for War

    Apr 1, 2020, 2:36 PM I make the same argument. the CDC, Homeland Security, and Disaster Relief Organization, and The Treasury are either creating war plans and holding war games or they are wasting our time and money. Bureaucracies run by constant process rather than project deliverables, war plans, and shocks

    —“In 2015, I urged world leaders in a TED talk to prepare for a pandemic the same way they prepare for war — by running simulations to find the cracks in the system,” Gates wrote. “As we’ve seen this year, we have a long way to go. But I still believe that if we make the right decisions now, informed by science, data and the experience of medical professionals, we can save lives and get the country back to work.”–

  • State Bureaucracies Must Organize for War

    Apr 1, 2020, 2:36 PM I make the same argument. the CDC, Homeland Security, and Disaster Relief Organization, and The Treasury are either creating war plans and holding war games or they are wasting our time and money. Bureaucracies run by constant process rather than project deliverables, war plans, and shocks

    —“In 2015, I urged world leaders in a TED talk to prepare for a pandemic the same way they prepare for war — by running simulations to find the cracks in the system,” Gates wrote. “As we’ve seen this year, we have a long way to go. But I still believe that if we make the right decisions now, informed by science, data and the experience of medical professionals, we can save lives and get the country back to work.”–

  • Artificial Intelligence: “You Can’t Get There from Here”

    Apr 1, 2020, 2:56 PM

    —“We can’t approach anything like intelligence with artificial neural networks … not in their current form.”— Hawkins —“All the trickly things we have done over the past seventy years hasn’t mattered – we’ve just taken advantage of moore’s law … it’s all short term gains.”— Rich Sutton (“Bitter Lesson”) —“If we scale up the current technology it won’t make any difference.”— —“You can’t mathematically model anything as complex as the brain, only mathematically explain why the biology does what it does, but it can’t be analyzed completely… it’s out of the realm of possibility. (we can build )”– —“Sparse Representations”– The neural networks of excitatory and inhibitory neurons, and preparatory dendrites, compete over time to ‘announce’ a winner that’s passed forward for integration into the current hierarchy of models. Very hard to fool, very robust networks. —“Machine learning… the next step has to be orthogonal to what we’re doing, because we’re at its limit.”— —“and ANN needs a lot of data. The human brain doesn’t. It’s extremely efficient.”—

    WHY I MOVED ON FROM AI This is why I stopped working on AI in the 80’s. Intelligence requires completely different computer architectures. It’s interesting that I got so close with the “before(state) during(change) after(state)” data structure: sequences; and with a hierarchy of geometric representations. But at <5mhz and 64k, even working in assembly language, I could already tell that it couldn’t be done with existing computers. We would need to invert the entire architecture to millions of tiny cores with local durable memory, at low power. If I had instead written and published a paper at the time rather than ‘moving on’ I would have bragging rights today. lol. If we had followed turing’s advice and made logical computers rather than numerical, we would be closer. but our emphasis on mathematics (the math trap again!!!) pushed engineering of computers in the wrong direction.

  • Artificial Intelligence: “You Can’t Get There from Here”

    Apr 1, 2020, 2:56 PM

    —“We can’t approach anything like intelligence with artificial neural networks … not in their current form.”— Hawkins —“All the trickly things we have done over the past seventy years hasn’t mattered – we’ve just taken advantage of moore’s law … it’s all short term gains.”— Rich Sutton (“Bitter Lesson”) —“If we scale up the current technology it won’t make any difference.”— —“You can’t mathematically model anything as complex as the brain, only mathematically explain why the biology does what it does, but it can’t be analyzed completely… it’s out of the realm of possibility. (we can build )”– —“Sparse Representations”– The neural networks of excitatory and inhibitory neurons, and preparatory dendrites, compete over time to ‘announce’ a winner that’s passed forward for integration into the current hierarchy of models. Very hard to fool, very robust networks. —“Machine learning… the next step has to be orthogonal to what we’re doing, because we’re at its limit.”— —“and ANN needs a lot of data. The human brain doesn’t. It’s extremely efficient.”—

    WHY I MOVED ON FROM AI This is why I stopped working on AI in the 80’s. Intelligence requires completely different computer architectures. It’s interesting that I got so close with the “before(state) during(change) after(state)” data structure: sequences; and with a hierarchy of geometric representations. But at <5mhz and 64k, even working in assembly language, I could already tell that it couldn’t be done with existing computers. We would need to invert the entire architecture to millions of tiny cores with local durable memory, at low power. If I had instead written and published a paper at the time rather than ‘moving on’ I would have bragging rights today. lol. If we had followed turing’s advice and made logical computers rather than numerical, we would be closer. but our emphasis on mathematics (the math trap again!!!) pushed engineering of computers in the wrong direction.

  • The Purpose of The Legitimate State

    Apr 3, 2020, 8:51 PM

    —“Third, safeguard the principles of the liberal world order. The founding legend of modern government is a walled city protected by powerful rulers, sometimes despotic, other times benevolent, yet always strong enough to protect the people from an external enemy. Enlightenment thinkers reframed this concept, arguing that the purpose of the legitimate state is to provide for the fundamental needs of the people: security, order, economic well-being, and justice. Individuals cannot secure these things on their own. The pandemic has prompted an anachronism, a revival of the walled city in an age when prosperity depends on global trade and movement of people.”—Kissinger

    NO. The purpose of the legitimate state is (a) to defend the people against the barbarian hordes, (b) defend the future generations against the fashions of the people. (c) increase the intergenerational human cultural civilizational capital. (d) adapt to crisis, peace, and windfalls. (((Cosmopolitianism))) is just barbarism.

  • The Purpose of The Legitimate State

    Apr 3, 2020, 8:51 PM

    —“Third, safeguard the principles of the liberal world order. The founding legend of modern government is a walled city protected by powerful rulers, sometimes despotic, other times benevolent, yet always strong enough to protect the people from an external enemy. Enlightenment thinkers reframed this concept, arguing that the purpose of the legitimate state is to provide for the fundamental needs of the people: security, order, economic well-being, and justice. Individuals cannot secure these things on their own. The pandemic has prompted an anachronism, a revival of the walled city in an age when prosperity depends on global trade and movement of people.”—Kissinger

    NO. The purpose of the legitimate state is (a) to defend the people against the barbarian hordes, (b) defend the future generations against the fashions of the people. (c) increase the intergenerational human cultural civilizational capital. (d) adapt to crisis, peace, and windfalls. (((Cosmopolitianism))) is just barbarism.

  • Moral Defense of The Informational Commons

    Apr 5, 2020, 12:55 PM by Tim Kay (well done)) Making an argument is a service to the intellectual commons (or to put it better, it’s at least not imposing a cost on the commons). Failure to do so imposes a cost of maintaining the intellectual commons onto others. Reciprocity demands mutual norm maintenance, which is violated by GSRRM. The reason GSRRM is permissible in self-defence, and commons-defence, is that it is a) reciprocal, but more importantly b) like violence, no means of achieving one’s ends is off the table, but it must be directed responsibly. You can’t extirpate GSRRM anymore than you can violence (working with nature not against) but you can make a proportional response which returns the favour of costs against reputation. Individuals of this type whose arguments (such that they are) amount to ‘you just want a more technical excuse to use GSRRM yourself’ need to understand the answer is: yes, sort of. I retain all means necessary to defend myself and the commons, whether it be shaming, or violence. In light of the point about violence one may then say ‘you just want a more technical excuse to use violence’ and we can better see the nature of that statement. I say: no, we want a more technical reason NOT to use it. Because using it is the default. Why should I not use all means necessary in self-defence, when you’re effectively stealing from me and others?