Curt Doolittle

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  • NO, MORALITY ISN’T SUBJECTIVE PER SE – JUST MINOR VARIATION IN IT IS. —“…JFG

    NO, MORALITY ISN’T SUBJECTIVE PER SE – JUST MINOR VARIATION IN IT IS.

    —“…JFG claimed that morality is subjective entirely…”—

    Well, I corrected him. Personal moral bias is subjective. We compete with others in a market of moral biases. We converge to reciprocity within our local geographic, demographic, familial, social, economic, and political organizations, and we absolutely converge on reciprocity in international affairs where there is no means of enforcement other than boycott, trade war, or war.

    Personal Moral Bias > Local Market Moral Bias > World Market Moral bias.

    We rarely if ever find people who do not engage in reciprocity within the limits of proportionality who are not outcast or imprisoned or worse.

    SO it’s false that we do not practice reciprocity. We just limit the scope of reciprocity that we take to market to avoid others, cooperate with others, or prey upon others.

    But the differences in our scopes of reciprocity narrow as we approach the global BECAUSE THE UTILITY OF OF OUR CHOICE DECLINES WITH SCALE.

    Sociopaths often practice reciprocity just fine. Because it’s useful. Empathics practice reciprocity just fine, because they intuit it. The difference is that the first is by experience and reason, the second is by biological intuition.

    A cooperative species – meaning one that can select whether to cooperate or not – cannot survive without moral intuition.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-03-29 11:44:00 UTC

  • THEY’RE TAKING CARE OF THEIR OWN, NOT US —“DHS Adds Workers for Gunmakers, Gun

    THEY’RE TAKING CARE OF THEIR OWN, NOT US

    —“DHS Adds Workers for Gunmakers, Gun Retailers, and Shooting Ranges to “Essential Critical Infrastructure” List”—

    —“Seems ‘they’ have a plan, otherwise I would expect the opposite of this from Washington.”—@Achtttung

    It’s just as important for first responders as it is for citizens. And this is a reaction to some cities forcing closure of gun shops. But yes, it’s looking like it might get out of hand. And yes it should be glorious if it does.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-03-29 11:38:00 UTC

  • CRISIS ISN”T A MATTER OF CONSUMPTION —“Alabama’s disaster preparedness plan sa

    https://propub.li/2JihhRYBUT CRISIS ISN”T A MATTER OF CONSUMPTION

    —“Alabama’s disaster preparedness plan says that “persons with severe mental retardation, advanced dementia or severe traumatic brain injury may be poor candidates for ventilator support.” https://propub.li/2JihhRY”—

    —“This is eugenics.”—Jeet Heer @HeerJeet

    You say that like it’s a bad thing rather than the correct thing to do.

    “Equality” is a means of directing resources to care rather than consumption. But this isn’t a matter of consumption but of survival of human capital.

    If you say otherwise you’re unfit for public speech.Updated Mar 29, 2020, 11:34 AM

    Source date (UTC): 2020-03-29 11:34:00 UTC

  • Ok. So using civilizational development, demographic, generational, technologica

    Ok. So using civilizational development, demographic, generational, technological, and business cycles I’ve been within a month or two of every major correction (opportunity exhaustion) since I started working (except china). Market timing is impossible. But Antifragility is NOT.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-03-29 11:32:00 UTC

  • MAINTAIN OUR EXPECTATIONS OF ONE ANOTHER. THE BIG IDEAS ARE DIFFICULT OR THEY WO

    MAINTAIN OUR EXPECTATIONS OF ONE ANOTHER. THE BIG IDEAS ARE DIFFICULT OR THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN SOLVED.

    —“Not sure why [censored] JFG, would bring up Manhattan distance something which he clearly doesn’t understand. You were correct in – and multiple times caught him cascading off to some absurdity, as he did against M.”—Hans Hermeme Hoppe @LLaddon

    I like JFG for many personal reasons, but he is an “opiner” (commentator), and entertainer, not a public intellectual (scholar, thought leader, idea generator), and that is one of the reasons his followers are attracted to him – that he speaks to them in their voice (I dont).

    You can try to nudge an opiner and the audience a bit but you can’t really educate them. And thinking about the big questions is hard enough, discussing them with those who don’t or can’t is far harder, and in my case also trying to get people to think in systems is impossible.

    I’m sure JF is a good researcher, but the purpose of learning philosophy is developing a skill in how not to err. After that you need to know enough fields not to err. Knowing math, physics, cog sci, economics, law, and history is hard. … So people rarely learn not to err.

    And we all defend our investments. Because our conceptual investments – especially if they are error loaded – form a map of the conceptual world we cannot travel through life without.

    So loss aversion kicks in and we defend our priors.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-03-29 11:30:00 UTC

  • DENIAL OR HOPE? 😉 —“It’s amazing how few people have really internalised what

    DENIAL OR HOPE? 😉

    —“It’s amazing how few people have really internalised what is coming in the next month. Especially in the US. Not the human damage or the economic damage that is coming.”– Iron Economist

    — “I’m pretty terrified but I think people many people are in a state of hopeful denial”-JayMan @JayMan471

    I’m not in hopeful denial.

    I’m just hopeful that the false promise of the 20th is over.

    The century of utopian pseudoscience, sophistry, and darwinian-denial is done.

    It may be an ‘expensive correction’. But it’s better than the alternatives.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-03-29 11:08:00 UTC

  • Updated Mar 28, 2020, 11:16 PM

    Updated Mar 28, 2020, 11:16 PM

    Source date (UTC): 2020-03-28 23:16:00 UTC

  • MIGHT START PRAYING THAT THIS KEEPS GOING. 😉 20% of police quarantined already.

    https://apnews.com/069d01bafbb1f15b1f6c4a4479ab1456I MIGHT START PRAYING THAT THIS KEEPS GOING. 😉

    20% of police quarantined already.

    Some ‘urbanites’ will eventually ‘take initiative’ and it will spread.

    https://apnews.com/069d01bafbb1f15b1f6c4a4479ab1456Updated Mar 28, 2020, 5:13 PM

    Source date (UTC): 2020-03-28 17:13:00 UTC

  • Constitution. Subject: Territory. Problem: Continents. Under the law one may use

    Constitution. Subject: Territory.

    Problem: Continents.

    Under the law one may use the kin group’s territory to produce preferred commons under the law.

    A group may not divorce the territory from the law.

    A group may not grant competing peoples territory.

    One may only exit the territory.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-03-28 16:58:00 UTC

  • FEEDBACK; It is far more under control than it appears. The people who will suff

    FEEDBACK;

    It is far more under control than it appears. The people who will suffer most are the health care workers who will be devastated by the next few months. Small business will collapse. Fragile large businesses will fail. The very largest will survive and the entire economy will be healthier with fewer stronger companies. We will clear the economy of zombie companies in a way Americans can but Japanese and Chinese wont. Unemployment will be high, but the government will spare no expense in repairing that on a postwar scale – something younger generations haven’t experienced. I know how to do it. I assume others in the government know if I do.

    Expect the election period to be about how to do that.

    If this gets much worse then we may have to take initiative in framing that debate.

    The left will take the other frame.

    We may be able to drive the conversation a bit.

    I may have to change my lifestyle to make it happen.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-03-28 16:53:00 UTC