Curt Doolittle

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  • the crypto market, especially if (a) there are no more big thefts, and (b) some

    the crypto market, especially if (a) there are no more big thefts, and (b) some of the tech problems are solved, (c) will continue to grow. It’s not a matter of whether it will grow now. It’s a matter of whether 1) bitcoin will be replaced, or 2) the government takes it over or hyper regulates it, 3) or regulates it into a crash. I can promise you that it will be regulated. I can almost promise you that the govt will resort to some sort of BTC like currency at some point in the future because it’s simply too cheap and information-producing compared to paper and credit fiat money. And so for the near term I would consider it a short term speculative investment opportunity if bought on the dips AND if you are keeping track of competitors that solve the technological problems – including proof of work, zeroing at a certain market value/accumulating fragment-values, and archiving (cataloging) chains.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-09-02 11:38:00 UTC

  • FOR NEW FRIENDS I don’t care about your race, ethnicity, language or culture. Bu

    FOR NEW FRIENDS

    I don’t care about your race, ethnicity, language or culture.

    But I am a prosecutor of ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking suggestion, obscurantism, fictionalism and deceit. In particular I prosecute pseudoscience, philosophy and religion. And in particular I prosecute abrahamic religions as the worst crime of human history (judaism, christianity, and islam).

    My opinion, which I think is about as well informed as is possible, is that science is a universal language of truthful speech; reciprocity is a universal ethic; nationalism is an extension of the family and the optimum social order;

    My opinion is that the only meaningful differences between the races, subraces, and tribes, is the size of our underclasses, our degree of neoteny, and our degree of sexual dimorphism.

    And that we can all transcend into the gods we imagine if we practice truth, reciprocity, nationalism, and a gentle reduction of the size of our underclasses.

    But to do so we must rebel against, disempower, and replace all leadership that uses the top and the bottom against the middle, instead of the middle to constrain the top and the bottom.

    Any man who will fight with me shall be my brother.

    Curt Doolittle

    Source date (UTC): 2017-09-01 13:55:00 UTC

  • Propertarianism isn’t a panacea. It’s not an ideology. It’s not even a philosoph

    Propertarianism isn’t a panacea. It’s not an ideology. It’s not even a philosophy per se. It’s just “Here is the completed scientific method. If I apply the completed scientific method to the full scope of human knowledge, organized by combining categories of philosophy and social science into a single hierarchy, the result is *all of these ideas*.”

    Everything else I do is just (a) generating conflict so that I can (b) test it in argument, (c) identify a few smart people with long term potential, (d) generate marketing interest for the published work and courses. With the ambition of funding the institute and teaching natural law as a discipline. (and creating a revolution if possible).

    Right now I’m just in book mode. Although every day or so I come up with some little nuance that I have to peck away at. But it’s going really fast and it’s beautiful (at least, from my nerdy perspective.)

    And as michael said, the word-to-idea ratio is really low, so there is a lot of bang in every chapter so to speak.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-09-01 13:46:00 UTC

  • “The fact is that, there are still zillions of things which the human mind can d

    —“The fact is that, there are still zillions of things which the human mind can do but have not been done yet”—Frederick Xose Magni Mensah

    Hmmmm….. I think I could convince you that the best of human minds are unlimited in patterns they can accumulate, deflate, apply, and distribute as re-framings to the hierarchy of masses who can later make use of them by rational choice, being taught, or environmental saturation and indoctrination.

    But I am pretty sure the ability to IDENTIFY patterns will be (in the next few decades or century) measurable. And that the measure will consist of distances in dimensions of change between the current and future state.

    So the illusion we are getting terribly smarter is simply a product of the fact that the universe’s sets of laws: physical, cooperative, and sentient, are *simple* and we are deducing them backwards from complex effects, a ‘generation’ at a time – ever more precisely – then set back by errors, failures, political and religious movements and dark ages.

    But the problem we face and will continue to, is that inorder to make incremental leaps in understanding, we must reduce cmoplexity to an analogy to experience that the brain can work with, and the brain can work with experiences within the realm of possible human action.

    I know this is quantifiable but I don’t yet know how to quantify it without producing an AI that we can measure ourselves against.

    So you are right to some degree. But I am simply inserting a bit of caution: we are not unlimited. But we are unlimited enough that over time we will exceed most limits. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2017-09-01 13:17:00 UTC

  • (If I haven’t said it lately, love you my friend.)

    (If I haven’t said it lately, love you my friend.)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-09-01 13:13:00 UTC

  • DON’T BE STUPID. Look. Do you understand Locke/Smith/Hume? What about Kant/Marx?

    DON’T BE STUPID.

    Look. Do you understand Locke/Smith/Hume? What about Kant/Marx? Or Darwin/Menger/Spencer/Nietzche? The history of epistemology? Or Hayek/Popper/Turing? Do you understand the foundations of mathematics, logic, economics? Do you understand the limits of logic and mathematics? What about cognitive science, and experimental psychology? What about the history and logic of the common law? Do you understand comparative institutional, economic, and demographic history? If you do, do you understand one of those series? Two of them, or all of them?

    Of course you don’t. You’re a normal person. You’re probably a smart normal person. You might even be a smart well read person. But its nearly impossible to master all of those fields sufficiently to identify how to reform them so that they operate scientifically.

    But why the hell, if you don’t understand ALL of those disciplines, do you think you’re going to understand my work in Propertarianism without some serious effort over more than a year? I mean, I cover the *entire* spectrum from metaphysics to aesthetics. Everything. ALL OF IT.

    You won’t reduce my work to a single idea that you can easily understand, because the central idea is the completion of the scientific method using testimonial truth – which itself is something you can spend a couple of years thinking about all on its own.

    Learning propertarianism is pretty similar to learning law. It requires at least the same intellectual capacity, and at least the same amount of work *UNLESS* you have already been very lucky in life or born with precisely the right combination of personality traits.

    And it turns out that some people are smart enough or lucky enough that they can both identify patterns of problems it solves, and learn it more quickly because they’ve had the experience or the raw intellectual talent. But those people are few and far between.

    So don’t be a dork. Learn what you can. Learn what you can use. If this was easy someone would have been done by now. It’s a really, really hard problem and some of the greatest minds of the last century didn’t solve it. And the problem has been around for at least 2500 years.

    Truth is enough. But understanding what that means might take a long time. Which is why its so important to institutionalize these ideas. Because it’s far better to learn them environmentally then have to learn to CORRECT the errors of thought and RELEARN what truth means – and relearn the entire spectrum of knowledge in new terms.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-09-01 12:15:00 UTC

  • Увага українських друзів. Російський професор показує фотографії України в Худож

    Увага українських друзів. Російський професор показує фотографії України в Художній галереї Університету

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    “Photographing the New East”

    Sasha Rudensky, Assistant Professor of Art

    Wesleyan University, Middletown Connecticut, USA

    Opening reception and gallery talk

    Wednesday, September 13, 2017, 5:00 pm

    Gallery talk by Sasha Rudensky, Assistant Professor of Art, 5:30 pm

    At the Border of Truth: Photographing the New East

    Sasha Rudensky, Assistant Professor of Art

    Tuesday, September 26, 2017, 5:00 pm

    Ring Family Performing Arts Hall, Center for the Arts

    Sasha Rudensky will give an artist’s lecture focusing on her series of photographic and video projects completed in Russia, Ukraine, and the greater New East region between 2004 and 2017. These projects examine the slow dissolution of Soviet consciousness, the ideological vacuum left in its wake, and the reconstitution of new post-Soviet identities.

    Panel Discussion

    Wednesday, November 1, 2017, 5:00 pm

    Ring Family Performing Arts Hall, Center for the Arts

    Speakers include author Sophie Pinkham; Sasha Rudensky; Peter Rutland, Colin and Nancy Campbell Professor in Global Issues and Democratic Thought, and Professor of Government, the College of Social Studies (CSS), and Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REES); Victoria Smolkin, Assistant Professor of History, CSS, and REES; and moderated by Clare Rogan, Curator, Davison Art Center, and Susanne Fusso, Chair and Professor of REES.

    Panel discussion sponsored by the REES Program and the Davison Art Center.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-09-01 12:04:00 UTC

  • IT’S TIME FOR VIKING!!! The purpose of raids is not accumulation of capital but

    IT’S TIME FOR VIKING!!!

    The purpose of raids is not accumulation of capital but defeat of the enemy through attrition. All that is necessary to target in each raid is that which is sufficient to fund the next raid.

    Increase your cash, your equipment, your weapons.

    And burn everything else to the ground. (so to speak)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-09-01 11:17:00 UTC

  • “The biggest practical problem we face is bad parenting. The children of high In

    —“The biggest practical problem we face is bad parenting. The children of high Investment Parenting today will be the rulers in 2040. Idiocracy is the most important political influence affecting the ground.”–Durfee House

    (Parenting like Soldiering is a non-substitutable good.)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-09-01 10:57:00 UTC

  • “All one needs to do is apply a little propertarian analysis to understand the h

    —“All one needs to do is apply a little propertarian analysis to understand the hype behind Bitcoin. It is a wider push by sovereign men against the establishment in a digital format. It’s Acquisitionism… but they are acquiring code, binary nothingness.”—Nick Zito

    Source date (UTC): 2017-09-01 10:44:00 UTC