Curt Doolittle

Form: Short Note

  • Wisdom that Has Survived Market Competition

    There is a reason the operational name of mythology is “Wisdom Literature”. Because it contains wisdom that has survived market competition for centuries if no millennia. I have a rather defensive posture with regard to the term ‘truth’. So in order to defend the word ‘truth’ from abuses, the correct term is not ‘truth’ (most parsimonious description in operational terms) but ‘wisdom’ (analogy or general rule). It is the survival of this wisdom from market competition over time that provides the empirical evidence of the wisdom therein.

  • Wisdom that Has Survived Market Competition

    There is a reason the operational name of mythology is “Wisdom Literature”. Because it contains wisdom that has survived market competition for centuries if no millennia. I have a rather defensive posture with regard to the term ‘truth’. So in order to defend the word ‘truth’ from abuses, the correct term is not ‘truth’ (most parsimonious description in operational terms) but ‘wisdom’ (analogy or general rule). It is the survival of this wisdom from market competition over time that provides the empirical evidence of the wisdom therein.

  • 1976. Mosh Pit. Hard Rock Cafe. Punk. Sweat. Bruises. Awesome

    1976. Mosh Pit. Hard Rock Cafe. Punk. Sweat. Bruises. Awesome.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-11 13:02:00 UTC

  • MOST IMPORTANT SINGLE PAPER YOU CAN READ (repost, via John Mark)

    http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/16/3/7.htmlTHE MOST IMPORTANT SINGLE PAPER YOU CAN READ

    (repost, via John Mark)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-11 12:49:00 UTC

  • MOST IMPORTANT SINGLE PAPER YOU CAN READ (repost, via John Mark)

    http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/16/3/7.htmlhttp://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/16/3/7.htmlTHE MOST IMPORTANT SINGLE PAPER YOU CAN READ

    (repost, via John Mark)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-11 12:49:00 UTC

  • ARGUMENTATIVE WEAPONRY —“I know it’s public, but I thought it’d still be polit

    ARGUMENTATIVE WEAPONRY

    —“I know it’s public, but I thought it’d still be polite if I asked. Would it bother you if I used a specific comment you made on one of your statuses in a conversation? You make some really good points.”— A Friend

    Look. Here is how this deal works. I get to use the public as a testing ground, and in exchange (a) you get to learn how to argue, and (b) you get to use my work products as you see fit.

    My job, our job, is to create argumentative weaponry in order to provide libertarians and aristocrats (conservatives) a post-moralizing (and therefore scientific) means of argument against the pseudoscience, pseudorationalism, and outright lying of leftists.

    It’s a good deal for both of us. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-11 11:54:00 UTC

  • Um. I can’t emphasize this enough. 1) *While Prices drive to Equilibrium, Market

    Um. I can’t emphasize this enough.

    1) *While Prices drive to Equilibrium, Markets drive to Disequilibrium*.

    2) Loose credit (monetary expansion) increases disequilibrium necessary for causing corrections (discovering limits).

    3) The debate between conservatives and progressives is whether the cumulation of short term gains exceeds the costs of the correction. In my opinion, this is rather obviously ‘no’, but that is because the economics profession does not measure changes in ALL capital and instead cherry picks measures of capital.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-11 10:04:00 UTC

  • Evolutionary Dominance an Extension of Axelrod’s Work

    I’ve had Axelrod’s evolution of cooperation on my recommended reading list for years. If you want a book length treatment of the subject of modeling cooperation so that you have an even better grasp of The Evolutionary Dominance of Ethnocentrism, then after you read the paper below, get Axelrod from our digital library (free). https://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Cooperation-Robert-Axelrod/dp/0465021220/

  • Evolutionary Dominance an Extension of Axelrod’s Work

    I’ve had Axelrod’s evolution of cooperation on my recommended reading list for years. If you want a book length treatment of the subject of modeling cooperation so that you have an even better grasp of The Evolutionary Dominance of Ethnocentrism, then after you read the paper below, get Axelrod from our digital library (free). https://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Cooperation-Robert-Axelrod/dp/0465021220/

  • UKRAINIANS DOING IT RIGHT!!! 87-year-old has 346 living descendants with 13 chil

    UKRAINIANS DOING IT RIGHT!!!
    87-year-old has 346 living descendants with 13 children, 127 grandchildren, 203 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-11 01:47:41 UTC