Curt Doolittle

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  • TWO BOOKS CONTAINING DISCUSSIONS OF THE AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER It’s a genetic

    TWO BOOKS CONTAINING DISCUSSIONS OF THE AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER

    It’s a genetic benefit that’s gone too far. But I still cannot find similar work on it’s mirror effect: solipsism.

    “Autism is an interesting phenomenon. Two books that I recommend on this subject are Thomas Sowell’s Late-Talking Children and Tyler Cowen’s Create Your Own Economy. To grossly oversimplify, it appears that clinical autism results from the same gene complexes that, in their less extreme form, result in introversion, a fascination with structure, and spatial reasoning skills. A genetic propensity for autism, like sickle-cell anemia, confers benefits to mild cases despite being maladaptive in its extreme form. Schizophrenia and Manic-Depression have been similarly linked to superior cognitive abilities, and it stands to reason that genes for any mental illness with a genetic component must confer some benefit, whether we understand it or not.”

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-25 01:04:00 UTC

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    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36242.htm

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-24 15:17:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle shared a post

    Curt Doolittle shared a post.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-24 15:15:00 UTC

  • MAN RECESSION CONTINUES Women are back at work. Men, not. We don’t yet know how

    http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/09/gender-jobs-gap-women-have-recovered-all-of-the-jobs-they-lost-during-the-recession-men-are-still-2-14-millions-jobs-short/THE MAN RECESSION CONTINUES

    Women are back at work. Men, not. We don’t yet know how many will never reenter the work force again.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-17 23:30:00 UTC

  • J.C. LESTER CAME CLOSEST TO THE CORRECT ANSWER. He did. Close. Tried too hard to

    J.C. LESTER CAME CLOSEST TO THE CORRECT ANSWER.

    He did. Close. Tried too hard to prove libertarianism was ‘right and proper’. Too fascinated with Popper. Too much of trying to bring books to problems instead of problems to books.

    But he came very close. Closer than Rothbard. He almost had it.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-17 06:10:00 UTC

  • Why? Because Hoppe had ideas. No one else did. Thats why. Beneath Argumentation

    Why? Because Hoppe had ideas. No one else did. Thats why. Beneath Argumentation and Rothbardian ethics were brilliant ideas and rigorous arguments that earlier thinkers, in their attempts to justify democratic government, had failed to produce.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-16 16:47:00 UTC

  • CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS Ok. Well, its not just me. Russians and Ukrainians appear

    CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS

    Ok. Well, its not just me.

    Russians and Ukrainians appear to have senses of irony. But no sense of humor whatsoever. 🙂

    😉

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-16 14:40:00 UTC

  • DEATH PANELS. Told you. You cant control costs any other way. So care will be de

    DEATH PANELS.

    Told you. You cant control costs any other way. So care will be delayed. People will die from delay. People will die because of death panels. High cost experimentation will stop. The R and D will decline. We will export our only remaining technical advantage offshore.

    So top medical care will require medical tourism. Great for me. Sucks for everyone else.

    Should have just given people medical visa cards and subsidized hospitals and clinics to accept them. Create a signaling-only medical economy like we have for all other goods, so that the wealthy continue to pay for R&D and ordinary people benefit from the expenditures of the wealthy.

    Like every other process in human history.

    Sigh.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-16 14:28:00 UTC

  • ON FERTILITY Money = kids Which is how it must be

    http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/09/11/more-money-more-children/MORE ON FERTILITY

    Money = kids

    Which is how it must be.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-16 12:17:00 UTC

  • LIKE IVE BEEN SAYING Solipsism on one end, and autism on the other. ON INTROVERT

    LIKE IVE BEEN SAYING

    Solipsism on one end, and autism on the other.

    ON INTROVERTS

    “the behaviors of introverts and extroverts are due to differences in cortical arousal (the speed and amount of the brain’s activity). Compared with extroverts, introverts have naturally high cortical arousal, and may process more information per second.

    This means, essentially, that if you put introverts into an environment with a lot of stimulation, such as a loud restaurant, they will quickly become overwhelmed or overloaded, causing them to sort of shut down to stop the influx of information. Because of this fact, introverts tend to avoid such active environments. Extroverts, on the other hand, are only minimally aroused, so they seek out highly stimulating environments to augment their arousal levels.”

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-16 10:03:00 UTC