Curt Doolittle

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  • Um. I would say this analysis is exceptionally well done, other than i mean ‘cal

    Um. I would say this analysis is exceptionally well done, other than i mean ‘caloric’ in the broader sense of literally ‘anything’ that changes the state of the individual’s possessions, property, assets, capital (property in toto), either as a premium or discount, gain or loss.

    So the first sentence I’d cut. Otherwise ‘this is how it is done’.

    by James Augustus Berens

    —“[CUT:] Caloric shortages shouldn’t be given too much weight as a selection pressure for cooperative human groups.[/CUT]

    Cooperation arose from intergroup warfare: cooperative groups out-compete less-cooperative groups, increasing the frequency of genes, norms and institutions that encourage and maintain cooperation.

    However, this brings into question free-ridership. An individual can benefit by defecting from his groups expensive war efforts. Groups with high-proportions of free-riders, those unwilling or unable to fight, were out-completed by more cooperative and able groups. Hence, altruistic punishment becomes adaptive insofar as it allows groups to discourage defection, desertion & free-ridership. Punishment occurs even in small-scale societies [1]. And there are some suggestions that cooperation, sharing, raiding and defense, punishing free-riding or other violations of social norms are a costly signals of an individuals fitness [2].

    Again, caloric-shortages likely had a negligible impact–as an incentive for cooperation–by the time we were anatomically modern humans. Cooperation evolved via group-selection; and warfare was the major selection-pressure. Along with cooperation, we have a a co-evolution of prosecution and punishment. Which brings us to the crux of the issue: scale. (I will leave the treatment of asymmetric warfare for a later date)

    As cooperation increases, so to does complexity, and so to the cost we must pay to IDENTIFY the more abstract forms of human parasitism (because they simply no longer occur on a human scale). So rather than a shift from caloric shortage to caloric surplus as the impetus for the formal suppression of parasitism (as shown above we have been prosecuting/punishing since we’ve been cooperating), it is the increased scale (complexity) of the post-industrial ‘information’ age that necessitates extending the domain of law to be inclusive of the production of information–the latest, and most complex human endeavor.

    The problem and solution are the same: free-riding and suppression, respectively. What’s novel is that because of cooperation, we’ve surpassed human scale, and so to has parasitism. Before propertarianism, we had no means of resisting, identifying and prosecuting impositions of costs on the informational commons.

    We do now.

    Postscript (bonus for the autistes): The Evolution of the Scope of Natural Law

    |—–cooperation—->

    |—–complexity—–>

    …………..Law

    |—(0)(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)->

    0. Domestication of alphas (in-group elimination of asymmetric violence)

    1. Reproduction

    2. Inter-subjectively verifiable property.

    3. Normative and Institutional Commons.

    4. Capital & Credit

    5. Information

    [1] Punishment sustains large-scale cooperation in prestate warfare

    http://m.pnas.org/content/108/28/11375.short

    [2] Costly Signaling and Cooperation

    http://www.sciencedirect.com/…/pii/S0022519301924063

    “— James Augustus Berens

    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-12 17:05:00 UTC

  • “Ahhhhh ah ha!. Calorie shortage acted as an incentive for cooperation which out

    —“Ahhhhh ah ha!. Calorie shortage acted as an incentive for cooperation which outweighed ingroup predation and parasitism. An increase in cooperative innovations occurs. New and improved ways to cooperate overcomes calorie shortage. As calorie shortage diminishes parasitism becomes a more viable option due to an absence of a natural inhibitor! Thus the need for institutional (formal) suppression of parasitism.”—Bill Joslin

    —in response to—

    Cooperation boils down to property transfer?

    Via negativa.

    It’s more that the violations of cooperation boil down to involuntary transfer of property.

    We cannot imagine all the ways we can cooperate.

    We can however, catalog all the ways we had found to irritate. 😉

    By avoiding the false and bad and ugly we leave room for all varieties of true, good, and beautiful

    We have been programming ourselves forever for finding cooperation and rallying cooperation (via positiva). The problem of calorie shortage reinforces the value of that strategy.

    But we are not living in an era of calorie shortage where we must IDENTIFY opportunities, and instead, in an era where we CHOOSE FROM plentiful opportunities by eliminating error, bias, wishful thinking, and deceit.

    I think this change from rallying to criticism is very important. A very important change in thought.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-12 09:14:00 UTC

  • “A pattern on the left emerges and repeats itself, that manifests as idealism an

    —“A pattern on the left emerges and repeats itself, that manifests as idealism and ends in nihilism, that starts with a rent-seeking reproductive strategy.

    It’s success depends on cooperating with productive classes, but it tends to get full enough of itself to think it can take the helm, before running aground. It has no realistic positive ethic, and now and again refuses to acknowledge natural law. When the left tries to reconcile it’s failure, all it can muster is intellectual nihilism and sometimes literal suicide.

    Leftists in America needed labor unions, the place where it’s idealism accomplished something mutually beneficial. It betrayed those union constituents because it got full of its own global cosmopolitan rhetoric. Like the Russians inciting class guilt to incite hate for the kulaks when the proletariat didn’t bring itself round to revolution. Luckily instead of creating famine, this time it created a Trump presidency.”—Steve Lacasse

    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-12 08:00:00 UTC

  • “By identifying and suppressing the immoral, the moral can take any form. Wherea

    —“By identifying and suppressing the immoral, the moral can take any form.

    Whereas defining the moral, the definition restricts the moral (which is kinda immoral).

    Much like law, you are free do do as you please as long as it is not illegal – to do otherwise compels action.”— Bill Joslin

    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-12 01:58:00 UTC

  • Cooperation boils down to property transfer? Via negativa. It’s more that the vi

    Cooperation boils down to property transfer?

    Via negativa.

    It’s more that the violations of cooperation boil down to involuntary transfer of property.

    We cannot imagine all the ways we can cooperate.

    We can however, catalog all the ways we had found to irritate. 😉

    By avoiding the false and bad and ugly we leave room for all varieties of true, good, and beautiful

    We have been programming ourselves forever for finding cooperation and rallying cooperation (via positiva). The problem of calorie shortage reinforces the value of that strategy.

    But we are not living in an era of calorie shortage where we must IDENTIFY opportunities, and instead, in an era where we CHOOSE FROM plentiful opportunities by eliminating error, bias, wishful thinking, and deceit.

    I think this change from rallying to criticism is very important. A very important change in thought.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-12 01:54:00 UTC

  • i wish there were three of me. one for oversing. one for philosophy, and one for

    i wish there were three of me. one for oversing. one for philosophy, and one for machine morality “*MM”.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-11 22:29:00 UTC

  • Not sure who invited me but, hello, and cheers. 🙂 -Curt Doolittle -The Properta

    Not sure who invited me but, hello, and cheers. 🙂

    -Curt Doolittle

    -The Propertarian Institute

    -Kiev Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-11 22:08:00 UTC

  • (Um. Everyone in this house is … well, celebrating the whole legalization thin

    (Um. Everyone in this house is … well, celebrating the whole legalization thing. My car is shop-bound so I used Uber for the first time today. And Redmond is now NYC – except all the drivers are stoned.

    Talking to some other guys today. Their budget for smoking is about parallel to that of their food budget.

    The whole world has changed here.

    Not for the good either.)

    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-11 19:22:00 UTC

  • Alt right rhetoric in a nutshell ” Fuck you, Pay Me”

    Alt right rhetoric in a nutshell ” Fuck you, Pay Me”

    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-11 17:34:00 UTC

  • I’ve been corrected:@jordanbpeterson=via Positiva, @JonHaidt=via Practica, @nnta

    I’ve been corrected:@jordanbpeterson=via Positiva, @JonHaidt=via Practica, @nntaleb=via Negativa and #curtdoolittle=grammar,logic,rhetoric.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-12-11 16:52:00 UTC