Curt Doolittle

Form: Short Note

  • BODYGUARDS You now, I actually enjoy anonymity. But nothing draws attention like

    BODYGUARDS

    You now, I actually enjoy anonymity. But nothing draws attention like bodyguards. Or as we call it over here “security”.

    I mean, it’s like the Ferrari. Once you realize that having one means every jackoff-nutjob is going to notice you and try to start a conversation, the emotional benefits dissipate rapidly. Same with Bodyguards. You know, it’s all well and cool to wish you could have them until you realize that it’s not really cool that you NEED them. Or it’s like being manager, director, General, CEO or President. Yeah. You know, it seems like something cool until you realize that the negatives always come very close to outweighing the positives. And that only the money makes it worth it – because you can go into hiding afterward.

    The only difference here, is that the ‘Security’ is most likely a couple of guys you wouldn’t mind spending an evening with anyway. 🙂

    Anyway. Sigh….

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-29 11:48:00 UTC

  • CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS : GENDER CONCEPTS Amazing conversations with Ukrainian wom

    CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS : GENDER CONCEPTS

    Amazing conversations with Ukrainian women the past few days. Pretty consistent:

    (a) Men are, in the main, smarter than women – but when they say this, it means a compartmentalized view of intelligence – it’s technical and political. This opinion has taught me a little bit about american view of intelligence for women – it’s a very administrative and sales based view of the world world. Over here it’s a political and technical view.

    (b) Women are much better at details – “this is a woman’s job, I must do this”. Meaning, “men are not able to do this well, women must do it”.

    (c) Men smack each other. That is like women being emotional.They are things that happen.

    I have heard this version of compatibilism a lot over here. There is nothing ‘negative’ about it at all. No animosity. No conflict. In fact, celebration of differences.

    But I wonder – as a society becomes increasingly white collar and under greater rule of law, is gender competition then a natural evolution?

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-29 11:34:00 UTC

  • Dear women over 40. If you keep your hair long and your weight down you still go

    Dear women over 40. If you keep your hair long and your weight down you still got it. Maybe not so easy. But you still got it.

    If you are lucky enough to be from a family that taught you grace rather than feminism, you never lost it, and will always have it.

    Youth is cheap and accidental. Grace is priceless and accumulated.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-29 07:33:00 UTC

  • You can keep your whole foods and QFC. I’ll take my Ukrainian supermarket Kosmos

    You can keep your whole foods and QFC. I’ll take my Ukrainian supermarket Kosmos.

    Awesome.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-29 07:33:00 UTC

  • I dunno if math is signaling. I kind of suspect it’s not. I dunno if programming

    I dunno if math is signaling. I kind of suspect it’s not.

    I dunno if programming and engineering are signaling. I kind of suspect not.

    I am pretty sure that philosophy when it’s’ not seeking algorithms, but persuasion, is in fact MOSTLY SIGNALING.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-29 05:36:00 UTC

  • (Really do gotta stay off the alcohol. Three drinks on Thursday and I’m still no

    (Really do gotta stay off the alcohol. Three drinks on Thursday and I’m still not ‘all there’ today.)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-29 04:13:00 UTC

  • MEANING AND RATIONALISM : THE TOOLS OF LYING

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc073RIC7_MLANGUAGE MEANING AND RATIONALISM : THE TOOLS OF LYING

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-29 04:04:00 UTC

  • MEANING AND RATIONALISM: THE TOOLS OF LYING

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSHCdalj3FoLANGUAGE, MEANING AND RATIONALISM: THE TOOLS OF LYING

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-29 04:02:00 UTC

  • Relax. I Can Stop Criticizing Critical Rationalism Now

    [I]t is merely a convenient language for science. A pidgin -just as mathematical Platonism is a convenient pidgin for mathematics.

    I apologise to my friends an ex friends for the experiments that I had to run in order to solve the superior problem.

    I appreciate all your efforts and patience.

    But I think it was worth it.

    Although science as a discipline will undoubtably disapprove of its loss of philosophical status, and possibly of the imposition of limited constraints upon what constitutes moral and legal pronouncements.

    But that is a necessary consequence of suppressing deception – and an even more important objective than suppressing mysticism.

    Cheers.

    Curt Doolittle 
    The Propertarian Institute 
    Kiev Ukraine.

  • Relax. I Can Stop Criticizing Critical Rationalism Now

    [I]t is merely a convenient language for science. A pidgin -just as mathematical Platonism is a convenient pidgin for mathematics.

    I apologise to my friends an ex friends for the experiments that I had to run in order to solve the superior problem.

    I appreciate all your efforts and patience.

    But I think it was worth it.

    Although science as a discipline will undoubtably disapprove of its loss of philosophical status, and possibly of the imposition of limited constraints upon what constitutes moral and legal pronouncements.

    But that is a necessary consequence of suppressing deception – and an even more important objective than suppressing mysticism.

    Cheers.

    Curt Doolittle 
    The Propertarian Institute 
    Kiev Ukraine.