Curt Doolittle

Form: Short Note

  • of three fathers

    http://diversityischaos.blogspot.com/2015/05/more-than-60-of-males-in-modern-day.htmlSons of three fathers

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-20 08:12:00 UTC

  • WE HAVE A NEW MEMBER : PAUL ROMER (important) Paul hasn’t grasped **IT** quite y

    WE HAVE A NEW MEMBER : PAUL ROMER

    (important)

    Paul hasn’t grasped **IT** quite yet, but he’s on the right track. He calls it “mathiness” but he doesn’t get the Operational Revolution yet.

    I’m going to try to help him make the leap, but I suspect that he’ll not get it either. Time is a painful thing. I soldier onward.

    Fortunately, I’m outside of the academy and the academy’s perverse incentives don’t affect me.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Romer

    MATHINESS PAPER

    http://paulromer.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Mathiness.pdf

    CURRENT LIST OF THE PEOPLE REFORMING THE CENTURY OF PSEUDOSCIENCE:

    The Emerging Consensus :

    – Paul Romer (mathematics or ‘Mathiness’ )

    – Nassim Taleb (anti-fragility) or, information requirements.

    – Ricardo Duchesne (uniqueness of western man)

    – Kevin Macdonald (group evolutionary strategies)

    – Curt Doolittle (Truth, Trust, Law, and Institutions)

    — Jonathan Haidt’s (morality)

    — Pinker (who started it all – psychology)

    — Daniel Kahneman (mind)

    – Stephen Hicks (Postmodernism) (Reluctantly Associated I’m sure)

    – Nial Ferguson (Economics) (Possibly Reluctantly Associated)

    – Martin van Creveld (The Culture of Warfare)

    – Emmanuel Todd (The Evolution of Western Morality and Identity)

    — Meng Hu (statistics ‘anecdote is not data’)

    – Steven Hsu (statistics, intelligence and genetics)

    – Jayman (genetics and history)

    – HBD Chick (the institutions of marriage and family)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-20 05:21:00 UTC

  • Territorial, Institutional, Normative,  and Technological Competitive Value

    (profound) [I]’ve been arguing for two decades that we have had 500 years of ‘unusual’ as we spread the voluntary organization of production around the world (often by force), and conquered and exploited two new continents. And that what we see is the new normal. There aren’t enough asymmetries to exploit any longer to maintain the prior asymmetry of wealth.

    Or rather, normative asymmetries (institutions) are terribly productive and last for generations if maintained, territorial asymmetries are almost as productive, and can last for generations if trade routes are maintained, while technological asymmetries are decreasingly durable. Or as technologists tend to say: “technology is not a competitive advantage” because it is so easily neutralized. Conversely, territorial, trade route, and normative asymmetries produce for the long run. Hence my (and Taleb’s) concern about fragility. And my concern that the progressive fantasy of technology as savior, and norm as inhibitor is backwards.

    Source: Curt Doolittle

  • The Cost of Learning Propertarianism

    (worth repeating) [P]ropertarianism is like learning any other formal logic. It is non-trivial. But what you get from the effort of learning it is explanatory power. Unfortunately I am a much better philosopher than a teacher, or it would be easier to understand. Also, I’m just finishing it, so you’re trying to learn mid-stream. If I finished the book and you could go back to it for reference, then life would be easier for you (and me.)

    ‪#‎propertarianism‬

    Source: Curt Doolittle

  • The Cost of Learning Propertarianism

    (worth repeating) [P]ropertarianism is like learning any other formal logic. It is non-trivial. But what you get from the effort of learning it is explanatory power. Unfortunately I am a much better philosopher than a teacher, or it would be easier to understand. Also, I’m just finishing it, so you’re trying to learn mid-stream. If I finished the book and you could go back to it for reference, then life would be easier for you (and me.)

    ‪#‎propertarianism‬

    Source: Curt Doolittle

  • THE COST OF LEARNING PROPERTARIANISM (worth repeating) Propertarianism is like l

    THE COST OF LEARNING PROPERTARIANISM

    (worth repeating)

    Propertarianism is like learning any other formal logic. It is non-trivial. But what you get from the effort of learning it is explanatory power. Unfortunately I am a much better philosopher than a teacher, or it would be easier to understand. Also, I’m just finishing it, so you’re trying to learn mid-stream. If I finished the book and you could go back to it for reference, then life would be easier for you (and me.)

    #propertarianism

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-18 05:35:00 UTC

  • OMG. AI. It’s not how we associate ownership to things. It’s how we associate pr

    OMG. AI.

    It’s not how we associate ownership to things. It’s how we associate properties to that which is owned.

    That’s the answer.

    RE: David Trowbridge + Martin Fowler

    I knew it in 2006 when you told me about the manifolds. But I had it backwards like everyone else.

    That’s it.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-18 05:18:00 UTC

  • ABSOLUTE NUCLEAR AND NUCLEAR FAMILIES (worth repeating) It may have required the

    ABSOLUTE NUCLEAR AND NUCLEAR FAMILIES

    (worth repeating)

    It may have required the ANF and NF to EVOLVE liberty outside of the aristocracy, but once we understand that all rights are expressible as property rights, because all criminal, ethical, moral and conspiratorial prohibitions are reducible to property rights, we can use the single law of property whether we would have evolved(invented) it or not.

    Once you have invented something you are not bound by the path of invention.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-18 04:23:00 UTC

  • 2015 ECONOMIC RISK PERIODS August (vacations cause contemplation) October (Fed +

    2015 ECONOMIC RISK PERIODS

    August (vacations cause contemplation)

    October (Fed + remaining-quarter-analysis)

    January (post-holiday contemplation)

    You see, workplace momentum has an exaggerated effect on economies. It’s more prevalent (and an unstated virtue of american work environments) that there is less room for contemplation, and high pressure of momentum. So what we see in august and in January, are periods of contemplation wherein people assess their recent memory, and change their plans.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-17 06:39:00 UTC

  • TERRITORIAL, and TECHNOLOGICAL COMPETITIVE VALUE (profound) I’ve been arguing fo

    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/upshot/dont-be-so-sure-the-economy-will-return-to-normal.html?smid=tw-upshotnyt&_r=0&abt=0002&abg=0NORMATIVE, TERRITORIAL, and TECHNOLOGICAL COMPETITIVE VALUE

    (profound)

    I’ve been arguing for two decades that we have had 500 years of ‘unusual’ as we spread the voluntary organization of production around the world (often by force), and conquered and exploited two new continents. And that what we see is the new normal. There aren’t enough asymmetries to exploit any longer to maintain the prior asymmetry of wealth.

    Or rather, normative asymmetries (institutions) are terribly productive and last for generations if maintained, territorial asymmetries are almost as productive, and can last for generations if trade routes are maintained, while technological asymmetries are decreasingly durable.

    Or as technologists tend to say: “technology is not a competitive advantage” because it is so easily neutralized.

    Conversely, territorial, trade route, and normative asymmetries produce for the long run.

    Hence my (and Taleb’s) concern about fragility. And my concern that the progressive fantasy of technology as savior, and norm as inhibitor is backwards.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-17 06:36:00 UTC