Curt Doolittle

Form: Short Note

  • It matters that I take so long – really. This morning, at the request of Jose, I

    It matters that I take so long – really.

    This morning, at the request of Jose, I have been writing about ‘what’s wrong with economics’.

    And I finally feel I know how to say it clearly enough. I mean, It’s what, almost three years it’s taken me to ‘get it right’?

    And it’s pretty mind blowing really.

    You will be able to see how Mises ‘felt’ but got it wrong. And why modern macro is immoral and destructive.

    And I think I’ve said it simply enough that most people who have some familiarity with economics and the hard sciences will be able to reiterate it.

    And I think it’s the test case for testimonialism. Because it uses testimonialism as the framework for explaining the issue.

    Happy Day.

    My brain continues to return…. slowly.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-05 03:29:00 UTC

  • Sometimes, with some people, you just gotta admit defeat: it just isn’t gonna wo

    Sometimes, with some people, you just gotta admit defeat: it just isn’t gonna work no matter what you do.

    You just realize that you’ve crossed that line between ease, effort, work, and futility. And that any chance of reward is beyond the investment and maintenance cost.

    Amazing thing about this planet. There are a lot of other people on it.

    Options everywhere. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-04 09:25:00 UTC

  • We get all this cool free stuff because google sells advertising – replacing the

    We get all this cool free stuff because google sells advertising – replacing the yellow pages.

    We get all this cool free stuff because facebook sells advertising and in doing so pays for our favorite replacment for ’email’.

    We get all this cool expensive stuff because Apple sells iPhones – and hardly any computers.

    All three of these companies are disruptable by technolgical competiton that is not difficult to envision.

    But will we get all this cool ‘free stuff’.

    Like I said, apple will break first. The question is, whether they will use the ‘opportunity’ to take out Microsoft or not.

    I konw how to do it. I assume people at Apple do.

    But you know, they might consider it slumming.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-04 03:38:00 UTC

  • **But if you want to know what will make you successful in life (a) being reason

    **But if you want to know what will make you successful in life (a) being reasonably attractive, (b) placing high value on self-grooming, (c) Practicing good manners and compassion, (d) being well read, (e) being as honest as possible, and (f) having high intelligence and (g) applying intelligence and effort to produce a group advantage.***

    (from elsewhere)

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-04 03:04:00 UTC

  • ON IQ: Sorry but I did the research. Liberals test higher than Conservatives Rep

    ON IQ:

    Sorry but I did the research.

    Liberals test higher than Conservatives

    Republicans test higher than Democrats

    Libertarians test highest of all.

    Notice that the media doesn’t compare liberals with libertarians but with conservatives. Notice that they don’t compare democrats with republicans. That would mean comparing apples to apples. Instead they compare apples and oranges.

    What separates these groups is the size of the group, and the size of the underclass that self-identifies with the label. There are a LOT of self-identifying democrats, republicans, and conservatives, but there are very few self-identifying libertarians and liberals.

    Statistics are like our imaginations. They help us see patterns. But like our imaginations they help us see patterns we wish to see. Its up to us to use criticism and operationalism to determine whether what we wish to see is what exists, or whether we use what we wish to see to lie to ourselves and others.

    Statistical correlation is the most effective means of lying in modernity because the claims are not subjectively testable – which is why we use statistics in the first place: to attempt to sense patterns that we cannot sense on our own.

    But, If you cannot explain a statistical correlation operationally and existentially then you don’t know what you’re talking about.

    And by the use of miscategorization, one can easily be an outright liar, a wishful-thinking fool, or the tool of liars and wishful thinking fools.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-04 01:52:00 UTC

  • I understand that for the lower and working class that the 88 movements are aest

    I understand that for the lower and working class that the 88 movements are aesthetically, genetically, and morally appealing. I understand that the militancy is emotionally empowering. But that time has passed. Each era requires a different political technology. That era of combatting communism required fascism under industrialism competitively at its peak. This urgent era of combating invasion, dilution, progressivism, postmodernism and pseudoscience, in the information era, competitively on the way down, requires different solutions.

    Now my solution might not be the best one. But it’s a solution. And it’s not as though western man has done well at producing solutions to this problem.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-03 23:31:00 UTC

  • THANK YOU TO WHOMEVER SENT ME THE “INTENSE WORLD THEORY” OF AUTISM Ive always sa

    THANK YOU TO WHOMEVER SENT ME THE “INTENSE WORLD THEORY” OF AUTISM

    Ive always said it’s that we’re ‘very everything’. But the author of the stuidies has produced some profoundly interesting insight into how this ‘intense perception’ is constructed during early brainstem development, and how it contributes to intense localization of phenomenon.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-03 14:44:00 UTC

  • HE WAS WRONG: WAR IS NOT AN EXTENSION OF POLITICS Clausewitz was pretty much wro

    HE WAS WRONG: WAR IS NOT AN EXTENSION OF POLITICS

    Clausewitz was pretty much wrong about everything. War is not an extension of politics. Politics is a means by which we limit war. It is not politics that is the basis of human interaction, but the ever present rational choice between war, conflict, boycott, cooperation, insurance, and kin-sacrifice. Political organizations exist to defend the interests of the group from competitors, and if possible convert the group to the most successful competitor, and therefore the competitor with the greatest discounts on negotiations with other groups. Politics is the extension of cooperation, and when politics fails, we return to the prior state – whatever is in our rational self-interest. But, as we are strong when organized gainst competitors, and weak when disorganized in the fact of competitors, when political solutions fail, we merely choose politically organized conflict of large numbers rather than otherwise organized conflict of smaller numbers – thus allowing us to concentrate our full resources on the conflict in question.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-03 06:32:00 UTC

  • MORE ON SPAIN I have learned this mostly from my friends in south america. And w

    MORE ON SPAIN

    I have learned this mostly from my friends in south america. And we now have the genetic data, testing data, and economic data to confirm it. But the problem facing south america is that there are just toooooo many people at the bottom for the people at the top to provide sufficient incentives to the middle class, who in turn will provide sufficient incenties to the lower class, so that it’s possible to productively organize society.

    It’s not as bad as islamic countrires, where people are highly illiterate and where Islam teaches people that they can be emotionally expressive and emotionally impulsive. At least south american s are still christian. But it’s just almost impossible to create a window within which the people can be organized, and a sufficient middle class developed, to raise the population out of poverty.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-03 02:33:00 UTC

  • I just did something you should never do. I checked in a file on a Friday night

    I just did something you should never do.

    I checked in a file on a Friday night when I was fried.

    And I just realised that I was teasing the wrong URL.

    Sigh.

    Never check in code on Friday night.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-01 12:52:00 UTC