Curt Doolittle

Form: Short Note

  • The Reason You’re Poor

    [Y]ou are not a landlord or rentier.  So, I understand why you are not rich. But why are you poor and always broke? The answer is that you or the society you belong to, have – for various reasons- a very short time preference. You will rather spend now than save. And you prefer to consume now than delay gratification. — Haille Mariam-Lemar

  • The Reason You’re Poor

    [Y]ou are not a landlord or rentier.  So, I understand why you are not rich. But why are you poor and always broke? The answer is that you or the society you belong to, have – for various reasons- a very short time preference. You will rather spend now than save. And you prefer to consume now than delay gratification. — Haille Mariam-Lemar

  • Eli Apologizes for American Yankees

    [I] want to formally apologize to the world for the part America has played in pushing women’s rights, gay rights, civil rights, egalitarianism, democracy, and all the other hallmarks of progressivism. We didn’t kill enough Yankees. That’s a mistake I hope we can someday rectify. But in the meantime, I’m deeply and sincerely sorry. We’ve done as much harm to the world with this crap as the French, the Russians, the English, or the Jews.  — Eli Harmon

  • Eli Apologizes for American Yankees

    [I] want to formally apologize to the world for the part America has played in pushing women’s rights, gay rights, civil rights, egalitarianism, democracy, and all the other hallmarks of progressivism. We didn’t kill enough Yankees. That’s a mistake I hope we can someday rectify. But in the meantime, I’m deeply and sincerely sorry. We’ve done as much harm to the world with this crap as the French, the Russians, the English, or the Jews.  — Eli Harmon

  • Institutions not Genetics. Epigenetic or Otherwise.

    [E]pigenetics is interesting but it doesn’t help me with institutions. As far as I can tell, we don’t need to ‘persuade’ anyone of anything. We just need to outlaw the entire spectrum of lying in addition to fraud theft violence and murder and to create universal standing in matters of the commons, and natural incentives will take care of the rest.

    I differ from the right in the sense that while our personalities may in fact be 80/20 genetic, I am not sure that the resulting genetic composition isn’t 80/20 institutions. In fact, I’m pretty sure of it.

    So we can use institutions to produce genetic outcomes.

    That is better than warfare. 

  • Institutions not Genetics. Epigenetic or Otherwise.

    [E]pigenetics is interesting but it doesn’t help me with institutions. As far as I can tell, we don’t need to ‘persuade’ anyone of anything. We just need to outlaw the entire spectrum of lying in addition to fraud theft violence and murder and to create universal standing in matters of the commons, and natural incentives will take care of the rest.

    I differ from the right in the sense that while our personalities may in fact be 80/20 genetic, I am not sure that the resulting genetic composition isn’t 80/20 institutions. In fact, I’m pretty sure of it.

    So we can use institutions to produce genetic outcomes.

    That is better than warfare. 

  • Speciation is Less Genetic and More Philosophical, Normative and Institutional

    (important) (alternate theory of man) [M]an adapts through ideas. Speciation in man is determined by his ideas: philosophical, normative and institutional. Man’s genes adapt largely through changes in distributions of reproductive desirability, aggression, intelligence, and impulsivity. These differences do not show up in our current level of genetic study, yet they determine our futures, because our futures are determined by how we compete with one another’s tribes.

    Different civilizations are different species. This defeats the genetic argument to the similarity of man. Forever. That argument is dead. This one reigns.

    Source: (4) Curt Doolittle

  • Speciation is Less Genetic and More Philosophical, Normative and Institutional

    (important) (alternate theory of man) [M]an adapts through ideas. Speciation in man is determined by his ideas: philosophical, normative and institutional. Man’s genes adapt largely through changes in distributions of reproductive desirability, aggression, intelligence, and impulsivity. These differences do not show up in our current level of genetic study, yet they determine our futures, because our futures are determined by how we compete with one another’s tribes.

    Different civilizations are different species. This defeats the genetic argument to the similarity of man. Forever. That argument is dead. This one reigns.

    Source: (4) Curt Doolittle

  • The Alternate History and Future of Man: Aggression. (We have passed peak human.)

    [T]HE ALTERNATE HISTORY OF MAN. (important) (inflammatory)

    • Each wave of man was more aggressive than the previous.
    • Each wave of man exterminated the previous wave of man, whenever advantageous.
    • Hunter-Gatherers had bigger brains but were less numerous and less aggressive.
    • Northern Europeans with big brains are smarter with bigger brains and less aggressive.
    • The Steppe/Desert/Levant has been kicking off waves of increasingly aggressive peoples for thousands of years.
    • The newer peoples are less intelligent, more reproductive, and more aggressive.
    • They are the future of man.
    • Unless we change again, to keep them at bay.
    • The future isn’t one of achieving supra-human intelligence.
    • It’s one of decreasing intelligence and increasing aggression.
    • And the world is running out of the old species with calmer, smarter, bigger brains.

    Source: Curt Doolittle

  • The Alternate History and Future of Man: Aggression. (We have passed peak human.)

    [T]HE ALTERNATE HISTORY OF MAN. (important) (inflammatory)

    • Each wave of man was more aggressive than the previous.
    • Each wave of man exterminated the previous wave of man, whenever advantageous.
    • Hunter-Gatherers had bigger brains but were less numerous and less aggressive.
    • Northern Europeans with big brains are smarter with bigger brains and less aggressive.
    • The Steppe/Desert/Levant has been kicking off waves of increasingly aggressive peoples for thousands of years.
    • The newer peoples are less intelligent, more reproductive, and more aggressive.
    • They are the future of man.
    • Unless we change again, to keep them at bay.
    • The future isn’t one of achieving supra-human intelligence.
    • It’s one of decreasing intelligence and increasing aggression.
    • And the world is running out of the old species with calmer, smarter, bigger brains.

    Source: Curt Doolittle