Curt Doolittle

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  • by Propertarian Frank (1) Language and human action are inseparable, i.e. one ca

    by Propertarian Frank

    (1) Language and human action are inseparable, i.e. one cannot understand language separately from action (this reveals most of philosophy to be contentless)

    (2) Names make sense exactly to the extent and via the structure they refer to actions (spectrum of measurements determine the scope and limits of names)

    (3) Commensurability is the best language can do, because:

    (i) To discern is an ACT of measurement

    (ii) Indiscernible things are informationally null

    (iii) Ergo one can only fully convey (without informational loss) names discernible to one’s interlocutor

    (iv) Ergo we can only talk in dimensions of commensurability (measurements both parties can enACT)

    Apply (i-iv) reflexively (talking to oneself): informational content in conceptualization is determined by the set of novel measurements (and ways thereof: meta-measurements or measurement-measurements, recursively) introduced.

    In other words, commensurability exhausts the reach of language.

    In other words, magic don’t real.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-04 06:23:00 UTC

  • Poverty and the brain. Hard to judge cause. stress effects yes. but poverty is t

    Poverty and the brain.

    Hard to judge cause. stress effects yes. but poverty is the norm and the question is why are so many people not poor? Intelligence .7, and industriousness .4+ and conscientiousness .4. Prosperity in modernity requires a combination of personality traits of which intelligence is but one. And if any of those traits is inadequate the person cannot succeed in a market economy requiring the service of the needs of others FIRST in order to serve the needs of themselves SECOND. Worse, the cost of educating people at each std deviation of intelligence is dramatically higher, and if accompanied by shortages of necessary personality traits, then it only increases. If we then account for different rates of maturity based on the geography of ethnic origin necessary to fight infant mortality, we run into extremely high costs per individual with extremely low returns, and increasing chances of failure. The uncomfortable truth that we have learned over the past twenty years, is that the prosperity of any people is largely due, not to its smartest, but to the decrease in the population of the underclasses and the extraordinary burden they place on societies. The bottom is a drag on the rest so severe that most gorps of people in non-hostile climates cannot escape it.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-03 15:28:00 UTC

  • OMG I wold LOVE it if the democrats tried to push the bill to remove Trump. Now,

    OMG I wold LOVE it if the democrats tried to push the bill to remove Trump. Now, it’s not going to succeed. But isn’t that the perfect excuse we need to start a civil war?

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-03 14:44:00 UTC

  • Stay on Message: “I Deliver”. Add message “Why do Americans need media to tell t

    Stay on Message: “I Deliver”. Add message “Why do Americans need media to tell them what to think?” #Trump @realDonaldTrump

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-03 14:42:00 UTC

  • How do we play this? Use of actresses and models is one way we are undermined. B

    How do we play this?

    Use of actresses and models is one way we are undermined.

    But if you look at WAG’s that’s an empirical market.

    It’s not open to manipulation.

    If you look at WAGS you find something very different from actresses and models. You find real women you would want to be married to.

    How do we redirect “Fandom” to WAGS (who are far better looking and of better character than the models and actresses).

    IN other words, how do we increase the returns for real people, marriage/WAGS and decrease the value of individual artificial products?

    how do we increase the status of market demonstrated excellence (wags) and decrease the status of artificial products?

    It seems pretty easy to me.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-03 14:38:00 UTC

  • REPOSTED ON REQUEST: BASIC IDEAS OF PROPERTARIANISM ( i wish there was a way to

    REPOSTED ON REQUEST: BASIC IDEAS OF PROPERTARIANISM

    ( i wish there was a way to post links on our fb pages for quick reference.)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-03 12:18:00 UTC

  • ( Health update: I’ve been ‘recovering’ for nine months now. I’m watching my wor

    ( Health update: I’ve been ‘recovering’ for nine months now. I’m watching my work and it’s almost back to pre-disaster mode. Not quite. I’m still a bit fragile in a lot of ways. I have to work at maximizing my sleep, eat enough, drink enough water, limit my working hours, and be liberal with anti-histamines. I have to keep my obligations limited. But I’m slowly recovering. The big self-hurt was in trying to maintain such a heavy work schedule without recovering first. I’ve recovered more in the past six weeks than in the previous eight months. And going forward I am going to have to deal with the fact that I am no longer physically capable of the same workload in my twenties, thirties, and forties. Negative returns on investment when I try. I’ve been able to exercise a bit and get some sun. I am pretty sure that if I can increase my cardio and a bit of my strength that will improve also. But at least I am recovering quickly whenever I exercise. And that wasn’t happening before. )

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-03 10:31:00 UTC

  • by Steve Pender What other good can exist than that which expands the only known

    by Steve Pender

    What other good can exist than that which expands the only known form of life that has power to delay/counteract entropic forces? Only intelligent life seems to be aware that life even exists.

    Some policies can be tough (require more steps) to demonstrate their higher survival value, but most don’t require being a rocket surgeon or a brain scientist. Island morality (whatever extends life on a deserted island for the most people for the long-term) looks to be a useful micropropertarian guide to develop macropropertarian policy.

    Example: 80 IQ mother of 5 can’t afford to feed her babies but wants another baby

    Dysgenic left argument typically assumes that further expansion of intelligent life in the universe isn’t necessary, that we can feed endlessly using extant food. It takes for granted a level of food/resource stability/surplus that it doesn’t contribute to.

    Eugenic right wants symbiosis, mutually beneficial trade. What do we get for feeding someone who does not contribute to our global “island’s” resource surplus? A big nothing burger for ourselves.

    We can also point to traditions that increased the survival of the people who followed them, and at least have data points that show that an anticipated good has indeed been a past outcome for a disputed policy.

    We can’t point to any cultures that normalized children being sexualized at a very early age, or encouraged to be gay, or transgender, for instance, and showing positive results. We can’t point to *any* cultures that ever existed doing so, so on that policy, we have a whole world of cultures who were, in practice, uniformly against such policies, that continue to expand in the absence of that desired policy.

    We can’t point to any culture that disarmed the bulk of their population, and successfully expanded their *own* culture afterwards.

    Some policies have been “scientifically tested” and failed. Dysgenic leftists are therefore more like alchemists and conspiracy theorists who offer no evidence for their arguments.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-03 10:19:00 UTC

  • INTERTEMPORAL DIVISION OF ABILITY AND BIAS (NOT LABOR) We should try to kill off

    INTERTEMPORAL DIVISION OF ABILITY AND BIAS (NOT LABOR)

    We should try to kill off the term ‘division of labor’. Principally because it implies the labor theory of value and relative equality of individuals in laboring.

    The problem is, labor – meaning transformation of physical state – is of little value (and we are of little difference to one another), where as the organizing people into networks of production, distribution, trade, using incentives, where those incentives require the application of credit, money, and reward, is extremely difficult – and we differ in our ability to form networks of trust to do that, dramatically.

    So I use the series: the intertemporal division of perception, ability, bias, cognition, knowledge, labor, negotiation, and advocacy. Which is quite wordy. But the short version might be reducible to “the intertemporal division of bias and ability”.

    This is one of those memory devices that might take me six months or six hours. I have no idea.

    But the intertemporal division of ability and bias, draws our attention to our marginal differences, where the division of labor draws attention to our marginal indifferences.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-03 10:12:00 UTC

  • It is *soooo* much easier to discuss philosophical ideas using mathematics than

    It is *soooo* much easier to discuss philosophical ideas using mathematics than it is language. The problem is, ordinary folk don’t know enough of mathematics, so you can’t reach them.

    Thankfully Property is a good enough proxy. It’s the unit of commensurability in a division of perception, cognition, knowledge and labor.

    The problem with property is you can try to guild rally and shame using it. And that’s almost impossible with positional numbering. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-03 10:06:00 UTC