Curt Doolittle

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  • A Short Course in Propertarian Reasoning

    (introduction to propertarianism)

    Note: this is a sketch of propertarian reasoning I’ve put together to satisfy some of your requests. If you follow me you will recognize the technique as the application of the scientific method and amoral economic language to questions of social science.

    [P]RINCIPLES
    1) Everyone acts to acquire. Life is an expensive means of defeating entropy. Acting improves acquisition – at additional cost. Memory improves acquisition – at additional cost. reason improves acquisition – at additional cost. cooperation improves acquisition – at additional cost.

    2) We act in furtherance of our reproductive strategy.

    3) Male and Female reproductive strategies are in conflict. The female seeks to breed impulsively where it benefits her lineage, and then force the cost of her offspring on the tribe, and to further her offspring regardless of merit. The male seeks to breed impulsively wherever it does not harm his lineage, and to create a tribe capable of resisting conquest by other males – and as such males act meritocratic-ally. Men are political and divided into kin and non-kin – the universe is male. For women, men are marginally indifferent herdsmen of women. Women live in a world of women, and both men and the universe are alien.

    4) Humans compete for status because status provides discounts on opportunities to acquire – especially mates and allies in cooperation. We can identify at least three horizontal axis of class division: biological (reproductive desirability), social (status desirability), economic (wealth desirability) – as well as their undesirable opposites.

    5) There exist only three means of coercing other humans to cooperate with on one means or end vs cooperate with others on different means or ends. These three means of coercion can be used to construct three vertical axis of class specialization: coercion by force(conservatism/masculine), coercion by gossip(progressivism/feminine), coercion by remuneration (libertarianism / neutral masculine). Human elites are formed by those who specialize in one or more of these means of coercion. (gossip: public intellectuals and priests. force: military and political. exchange: voluntary organizations, including the voluntary organization of production.

    6) Language is purely justificationary negotiation in furtherance of our acquisition by these three means. ergo: All ‘belief’ is justification to the self and others in furtherance of acquisition. It is meaningless. Statements of justification only provide us with information necessary to deduce what it is that we wish to acquire.

    7) Cooperation is a disproportionately more productive means of acquisition than individual production.

    8) We seek discounts in our acquisitions. Some of these discounts are productive and moral and encourage cooperation, and some of them are unproductive and immoral, discourage cooperation, and invite retaliation.

    9) The only moral acquisition is one in which one either homesteads something new, or obtains it by productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary exchange, where external transfers are limited to the same criteria.

    10) Aristotle’s ‘golden mean’ is an inarticulate primitive expression of the supply-demand curve. All human acquisition takes place within the pressures of supply and demand. As such all explanations of human action must be produced using supply and demand curves: the golden mean.

    11) All human considerations and consequent actions take place in high causal density, choices determined by means of opportunity costs, and any analysis requires we show the choices that an individual or group is considering. (Full Accounting).

    12) We cooperate and coerce in large numbers, as classes with common reproductive interests to using narratives at every scale. Science and moral law are the only means of resolving conflicts between these narratives. Propertarian analysis provides means of amoral analysis, argument and decidability between these loaded, framed, and obscured arguments.

    13) Groups evolve evolutionary strategies and supporting narratives. While none of these strategies by any given group is fully moral, it is still true that we can compare strategies as more and less objectively moral. We can measure the differences in objective morality by the degree of suppression of free riding in that given society.

    14) In all political matters ultimate decidability is provided by a bias to suicidal, proletarian and dysgenic, or competitive, aristocratic and eugenic reproduction. The myth of equality (the christian mythos) was let loose by the middle class takeover of the aristocratic governments, and the eventual enfranchisement of women whose reproductive strategy under industrial production is dysgenic – reversing 7,000 years of indo european genetic pacification (eugenic evolution). This is a very unpleasant and impolitic topic. But it is where we find decidability.

    [L]IST OF PROPERTY-EN-TOTO: THAT WHICH WE ACT TO AQUIRE (DEMONSTRATED PROPERTY)
    http://www.propertarianism.com/demonstrated-property/

    [T]HE SIMPLE METHOD: INCENTIVES AS ACQUSITION
    1) take any circumstance in which someone is attempting to persuade someone else.
    2) identify the reproductive strategy of the speaker (largely by gender, class, and coercive technique.)
    3) identify the property-en-toto that the speaker is attempting to acquire.
    4) determine if his or her method is advocating a moral transfer(productive) or an immoral transfer (parasitism).
    5) Determine which discounts (thefts) he or she is attempting to engage in, or which premiums (payments) he or she is offering in exchange.
    6) State the user’s request in amoral propertarian terms free of loading, framing, or overloading. In other words, make a purely logical argument free of sentimental loading.

    [A]DVANCED: AN EXAMPLE OF EMPLOYING THE PROPERTARIAN METHOD ON ADVANCED CONCEPTS
    http://www.propertarianism.com/…/the-propertarian-methodol…/

    This example addresses the term ‘evil’ in propertarian terms, and provides an example of how highly loaded terms from antiquity can be converted into scientific (propertarian) terms.

    TERMINOLOGY
    Demonstrated Property / Property en Toto
    Exchange / Transfer / Voluntary Transfer / Involuntary Transfer
    Parasitism / Free Riding / Imposed Costs
    Productive / Unproductive
    Fully Informed / Asymmetric Information
    Warrantied / Un-warrantied
    Discount / Premium
    Coercion / Influence
    Voluntary Organization of Production
    Incremental Suppression of free riding
    Truth / Truthfulness / Honesty
    Moral / Amoral / Immoral
    Morality / Cooperation / Retaliation

  • A Short Course in Propertarian Reasoning

    (introduction to propertarianism)

    Note: this is a sketch of propertarian reasoning I’ve put together to satisfy some of your requests. If you follow me you will recognize the technique as the application of the scientific method and amoral economic language to questions of social science.

    [P]RINCIPLES
    1) Everyone acts to acquire. Life is an expensive means of defeating entropy. Acting improves acquisition – at additional cost. Memory improves acquisition – at additional cost. reason improves acquisition – at additional cost. cooperation improves acquisition – at additional cost.

    2) We act in furtherance of our reproductive strategy.

    3) Male and Female reproductive strategies are in conflict. The female seeks to breed impulsively where it benefits her lineage, and then force the cost of her offspring on the tribe, and to further her offspring regardless of merit. The male seeks to breed impulsively wherever it does not harm his lineage, and to create a tribe capable of resisting conquest by other males – and as such males act meritocratic-ally. Men are political and divided into kin and non-kin – the universe is male. For women, men are marginally indifferent herdsmen of women. Women live in a world of women, and both men and the universe are alien.

    4) Humans compete for status because status provides discounts on opportunities to acquire – especially mates and allies in cooperation. We can identify at least three horizontal axis of class division: biological (reproductive desirability), social (status desirability), economic (wealth desirability) – as well as their undesirable opposites.

    5) There exist only three means of coercing other humans to cooperate with on one means or end vs cooperate with others on different means or ends. These three means of coercion can be used to construct three vertical axis of class specialization: coercion by force(conservatism/masculine), coercion by gossip(progressivism/feminine), coercion by remuneration (libertarianism / neutral masculine). Human elites are formed by those who specialize in one or more of these means of coercion. (gossip: public intellectuals and priests. force: military and political. exchange: voluntary organizations, including the voluntary organization of production.

    6) Language is purely justificationary negotiation in furtherance of our acquisition by these three means. ergo: All ‘belief’ is justification to the self and others in furtherance of acquisition. It is meaningless. Statements of justification only provide us with information necessary to deduce what it is that we wish to acquire.

    7) Cooperation is a disproportionately more productive means of acquisition than individual production.

    8) We seek discounts in our acquisitions. Some of these discounts are productive and moral and encourage cooperation, and some of them are unproductive and immoral, discourage cooperation, and invite retaliation.

    9) The only moral acquisition is one in which one either homesteads something new, or obtains it by productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary exchange, where external transfers are limited to the same criteria.

    10) Aristotle’s ‘golden mean’ is an inarticulate primitive expression of the supply-demand curve. All human acquisition takes place within the pressures of supply and demand. As such all explanations of human action must be produced using supply and demand curves: the golden mean.

    11) All human considerations and consequent actions take place in high causal density, choices determined by means of opportunity costs, and any analysis requires we show the choices that an individual or group is considering. (Full Accounting).

    12) We cooperate and coerce in large numbers, as classes with common reproductive interests to using narratives at every scale. Science and moral law are the only means of resolving conflicts between these narratives. Propertarian analysis provides means of amoral analysis, argument and decidability between these loaded, framed, and obscured arguments.

    13) Groups evolve evolutionary strategies and supporting narratives. While none of these strategies by any given group is fully moral, it is still true that we can compare strategies as more and less objectively moral. We can measure the differences in objective morality by the degree of suppression of free riding in that given society.

    14) In all political matters ultimate decidability is provided by a bias to suicidal, proletarian and dysgenic, or competitive, aristocratic and eugenic reproduction. The myth of equality (the christian mythos) was let loose by the middle class takeover of the aristocratic governments, and the eventual enfranchisement of women whose reproductive strategy under industrial production is dysgenic – reversing 7,000 years of indo european genetic pacification (eugenic evolution). This is a very unpleasant and impolitic topic. But it is where we find decidability.

    [L]IST OF PROPERTY-EN-TOTO: THAT WHICH WE ACT TO AQUIRE (DEMONSTRATED PROPERTY)
    http://www.propertarianism.com/demonstrated-property/

    [T]HE SIMPLE METHOD: INCENTIVES AS ACQUSITION
    1) take any circumstance in which someone is attempting to persuade someone else.
    2) identify the reproductive strategy of the speaker (largely by gender, class, and coercive technique.)
    3) identify the property-en-toto that the speaker is attempting to acquire.
    4) determine if his or her method is advocating a moral transfer(productive) or an immoral transfer (parasitism).
    5) Determine which discounts (thefts) he or she is attempting to engage in, or which premiums (payments) he or she is offering in exchange.
    6) State the user’s request in amoral propertarian terms free of loading, framing, or overloading. In other words, make a purely logical argument free of sentimental loading.

    [A]DVANCED: AN EXAMPLE OF EMPLOYING THE PROPERTARIAN METHOD ON ADVANCED CONCEPTS
    http://www.propertarianism.com/…/the-propertarian-methodol…/

    This example addresses the term ‘evil’ in propertarian terms, and provides an example of how highly loaded terms from antiquity can be converted into scientific (propertarian) terms.

    TERMINOLOGY
    Demonstrated Property / Property en Toto
    Exchange / Transfer / Voluntary Transfer / Involuntary Transfer
    Parasitism / Free Riding / Imposed Costs
    Productive / Unproductive
    Fully Informed / Asymmetric Information
    Warrantied / Un-warrantied
    Discount / Premium
    Coercion / Influence
    Voluntary Organization of Production
    Incremental Suppression of free riding
    Truth / Truthfulness / Honesty
    Moral / Amoral / Immoral
    Morality / Cooperation / Retaliation

  • SHORT COURSE IN PROPERTARIAN REASONING (introduction to propertarianism) Note: t

    http://www.propertarianism.com/ideas/the-propertarian-methodology/A SHORT COURSE IN PROPERTARIAN REASONING

    (introduction to propertarianism)

    Note: this is a sketch of propertarian reasoning I’ve put together to satisfy some of your requests. If you follow me you will recognize the technique as the application of the scientific method and amoral economic language to questions of social science.

    PRINCIPLES

    1) Everyone acts to acquire. Life is an expensive means of defeating entropy. Acting improves acquisition – at additional cost. Memory improves acquisition – at additional cost. reason improves acquisition – at additional cost. cooperation improves acquisition – at additional cost.

    2) We act in furtherance of our reproductive strategy.

    3) Male and Female reproductive strategies are in conflict. The female seeks to breed impulsively where it benefits her lineage, and then force the cost of her offspring on the tribe, and to further her offspring regardless of merit. The male seeks to breed impulsively wherever it does not harm his lineage, and to create a tribe capable of resisting conquest by other males – and as such males act meritocratic-ally. Men are political and divided into kin and non-kin – the universe is male. For women, men are marginally indifferent herdsmen of women. Women live in a world of women, and both men and the universe are alien.

    4) Humans compete for status because status provides discounts on opportunities to acquire – especially mates and allies in cooperation. We can identify at least three horizontal axis of class division: biological (reproductive desirability), social (status desirability), economic (wealth desirability) – as well as their undesirable opposites.

    5) There exist only three means of coercing other humans to cooperate with on one means or end vs cooperate with others on different means or ends. These three means of coercion can be used to construct three vertical axis of class specialization: coercion by force(conservatism/masculine), coercion by gossip(progressivism/feminine), coercion by remuneration (libertarianism / neutral masculine). Human elites are formed by those who specialize in one or more of these means of coercion. (gossip: public intellectuals and priests. force: military and political. exchange: voluntary organizations, including the voluntary organization of production.

    6) Language is purely justificationary negotiation in furtherance of our acquisition by these three means. ergo: All ‘belief’ is justification to the self and others in furtherance of acquisition. It is meaningless. Statements of justification only provide us with information necessary to deduce what it is that we wish to acquire.

    7) Cooperation is a disproportionately more productive means of acquisition than individual production.

    8) We seek discounts in our acquisitions. Some of these discounts are productive and moral and encourage cooperation, and some of them are unproductive and immoral, discourage cooperation, and invite retaliation.

    9) The only moral acquisition is one in which one either homesteads something new, or obtains it by productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary exchange, where external transfers are limited to the same criteria.

    10) Aristotle’s ‘golden mean’ is an inarticulate primitive expression of the supply-demand curve. All human acquisition takes place within the pressures of supply and demand. As such all explanations of human action must be produced using supply and demand curves: the golden mean.

    11) All human considerations and consequent actions take place in high causal density, choices determined by means of opportunity costs, and any analysis requires we show the choices that an individual or group is considering. (Full Accounting).

    12) We cooperate and coerce in large numbers, as classes with common reproductive interests to using narratives at every scale. Science and moral law are the only means of resolving conflicts between these narratives. Propertarian analysis provides means of amoral analysis, argument and decidability between these loaded, framed, and obscured arguments.

    13) Groups evolve evolutionary strategies and supporting narratives. While none of these strategies by any given group is fully moral, it is still true that we can compare strategies as more and less objectively moral. We can measure the differences in objective morality by the degree of suppression of free riding in that given society.

    14) In all political matters ultimate decidability is provided by a bias to suicidal, proletarian and dysgenic, or competitive, aristocratic and eugenic reproduction. The myth of equality (the christian mythos) was let loose by the middle class takeover of the aristocratic governments, and the eventual enfranchisement of women whose reproductive strategy under industrial production is dysgenic – reversing 7,000 years of indo european genetic pacification (eugneic evolution). This is a very unpleasant and impolitic topic. But it is where we find decidability.

    LIST OF PROPERTY-EN-TOTO: THAT WHICH WE ACT TO AQUIRE (DEMONSTRATED PROPERTY)

    http://www.propertarianism.com/demonstrated-property/

    THE SIMPLE METHOD: INCENTIVES AS ACQUSITION

    1) take any circumstance in which someone is attempting to persuade someone else.

    2) identify the reproductive strategy of the speaker (largely by gender, class, and coercive technique.)

    3) identify the property-en-toto that the speaker is attempting to acquire.

    4) determine if his or her method is advocating a moral transfer(productive) or an immoral transfer (parasitism).

    5) Determine which discounts (thefts) he or she is attempting to engage in, or which premiums (payments) he or she is offering in exchange.

    6) State the user’s request in amoral propertarian terms free of loading, framing, or overloading. In other words, make a purely logical argument free of sentimental loading.

    ADVANCED: AN EXAMPLE OF EMPLOYING THE PROPERTARIAN METHOD ON ADVANCED CONCEPTS

    http://www.propertarianism.com/ideas/the-propertarian-methodology/

    This example addresses the term ‘evil’ in propertarian terms, and provides an example of how highly loaded terms from antiquity can be converted into scientific (propertarian) terms.

    TERMINOLOGY

    Demonstrated Property / Property en Toto

    Exchange / Transfer / Voluntary Transfer / Involuntary Transfer

    Parasitism / Free Riding / Imposed Costs

    Productive / Unproductive

    Fully Informed / Asymmetric Information

    Warrantied / Un-warrantied

    Discount / Premium

    Coercion / Influence

    Voluntary Organization of Production

    Incremental Suppression of free riding

    Truth / Truthfulness / Honesty

    Moral / Amoral / Immoral

    Morality / Cooperation / Retaliation

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-24 06:49:00 UTC

  • I WOULD LIKE A POLITICAL ORDER OF EXCHANGES I would like to construct a politica

    I WOULD LIKE A POLITICAL ORDER OF EXCHANGES

    I would like to construct a political order in which we attempted to persuade one another to conduct voluntary exchanges in the construction of commons, rather than a political oder in which we attempt to persuade one another that an abstract bit of moralizing is somehow ‘true’.

    But then that would lead to empirical and scientific government without the need for so many public intellectuals and politicians and that would increase unemployment. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-06 07:57:00 UTC

  • Mind: Against The Puppeteer

    [O]r:

    • System G (genes),
    • System 0 (property),
    • System 1 (intuition/search),
    • System 2 (reason)

    The ‘puppeteer’ (returns search results constantly) The mind handles exceptions (or disparate choices) Negotiation (morality) is an exception handler.

    I disagree with Chomsky, and I am fairly sure that Jeff Hawkins, and Kahnemann and his references, are correct: we just constantly search and re-search memory, and we pre-load any sequence of actions that have high value and then we become aware of the predicted outcome, and we choose to accept the proposition of our search, or we reject it, or we weigh it (research it, and reason with it). I don’t like the ‘puppeteer’ metaphor as much as I like the “systems” metaphors. We act on behalf of our genes. The conscious mind (system 2: reasoning search) rides on the elephant of intuition (system 1: intuitionistic search), which is informed by our desire to acquire, inventory, and defend, which is biased by our reproductive strategy, which is biased by our genes.

  • Mind: Against The Puppeteer

    [O]r:

    • System G (genes),
    • System 0 (property),
    • System 1 (intuition/search),
    • System 2 (reason)

    The ‘puppeteer’ (returns search results constantly) The mind handles exceptions (or disparate choices) Negotiation (morality) is an exception handler.

    I disagree with Chomsky, and I am fairly sure that Jeff Hawkins, and Kahnemann and his references, are correct: we just constantly search and re-search memory, and we pre-load any sequence of actions that have high value and then we become aware of the predicted outcome, and we choose to accept the proposition of our search, or we reject it, or we weigh it (research it, and reason with it). I don’t like the ‘puppeteer’ metaphor as much as I like the “systems” metaphors. We act on behalf of our genes. The conscious mind (system 2: reasoning search) rides on the elephant of intuition (system 1: intuitionistic search), which is informed by our desire to acquire, inventory, and defend, which is biased by our reproductive strategy, which is biased by our genes.

  • AGAINST THE PUPPETEER : MIND Or System G (genes), System 0 (property), System 1

    AGAINST THE PUPPETEER : MIND

    Or System G (genes), System 0 (property), System 1 (intuition/search), System 2 (reason)

    The puppeteer (returns search results constantly)

    The mind handles exceptions (or disparate choices)

    Negotiation (morality) is an exception handler.

    I disagree with Chomsky and I am fairly sure that Jeff Hawkins and Kahnemann and his references are correct: we just constantly search and re-search memory, and we pre-load any sequence of actions that have high value and then we become aware of the predicted outcome, and we choose to accept the proposition of our search, or we reject it, or we weigh it (research it, and reason with it).

    I don’t like the ‘puppeteer’ metaphor as much as I like the “systems” metaphors.

    We act on behalf of our genes. The conscious mind (system 2: reasoning search) rides on the elephant of intuition (system 1: intuitionistic search), which is informed by our desire to acquire, inventory, and defend, which is biased by our reproductive strategy, which is biased by our genes.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-01 04:41:00 UTC

  • ECONOMIC VELOCITY AND TRUST: (important concept) American Utopianism (absurdly h

    ECONOMIC VELOCITY AND TRUST:

    (important concept)

    American Utopianism (absurdly high trust)

    British Moralism (very kinship trust)

    German Realism (high trust)

    Catholic Familialism (medium trust)

    Eastern European Skepticism (low trust)

    Russian Nihilism (no trust)

    Chinese Deceive and Delay (negative trust)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-01 02:06:00 UTC

  • SKETCH (Trying to find a way to describe uniting organizing(business), productio

    SKETCH (Trying to find a way to describe uniting organizing(business), production(engineering), investigationI(science), and decision making(law), and philosophy(truth).

    – Dreaming

    – Daydreaming

    – Imagining

    – Free-Associating

    – Reasoning

    – Hypothesizing

    – Testifying

    – Theory

    – Decidability

    – Law

    – Truth

    – Tautology

    –

    Source date (UTC): 2015-08-11 09:46:00 UTC

  • Grid: Three Group Evolutionary Strategies

    Feminine: Aggressive Gossip: (jewish) Libertarian: Aggressive Trade (anglo neo-puritan) Masculine: Aggressive Violence (muslim)

    Russian = ++Gossip +Violence -Trade Chinese = +Gossip +Violence -Trade I suppose that we can graph all cultures on these three dimensions.