Curt Doolittle

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  • LIBERTY? LET ME HELP YOU You possess Liberty when you rule – else you have but p

    LIBERTY? LET ME HELP YOU

    You possess Liberty when you rule – else you have but permission. The purpose of rule is to prevent others from ruling – so that you possess Liberty in fact not permission. But this condition can only survive if you have numbers sufficient to deny competitors the ability to rule. But to work together in numbers we require means of cooperating and means of dispute resolution. But these means cannot allow for discretion or we would no longer possess Liberty. To solve this problem we cooperate using productive fully informed warrantied voluntary exchange. To resolve differences we use rule of natural, judge-discovered common law. So we create a condition of Liberty by creating a condition of sovereignty, by cooperating via fully informed warrantied productive voluntary exchange, and resolving disputes by natural judge discovered common law under which we demand contribution to their defense and restitution for offense. And punish, enslave, remove, or kill those who do attempt to create any condition other than Liberty.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-09-12 09:52:00 UTC

  • SINGLE AGAIN (diary) Well I am not sure we ever were a couple really, but I’m si

    SINGLE AGAIN

    (diary)

    Well I am not sure we ever were a couple really, but I’m single again, if I wasn’t before. 😉 It was … only a little painful. I seem to have a thing for ice-queens. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2016-09-12 09:27:00 UTC

  • WHY? DO WE TEACH RELIGION? COST AND ERROR. – Myth must only be envisioned and ac

    WHY? DO WE TEACH RELIGION? COST AND ERROR.

    – Myth must only be envisioned and accepted.

    – Philosophy must be reasoned and understood to be envisioned and accepted.

    – Science must be measured, reasoned, and understood, to be envisioned and accepted.

    1) Myths are easier to teach than measurement, calculation and reason.

    2) Myths are false in that they are mere analogies, but having stood thd test of time they produce ‘true’ or ‘correspondent’ actions.

    3) it is easy commit error with measurement, calculation, and reason – and hard in myth.

    Why? That which we convey by myth requires only analogy to experience. That which we must measure calculate and reason is de facto outside of our direct experience.

    In other words, there is more falsehood but less error in religion.

    Along the same lines:

    Why do we possess these forms of ethics:

    instinctual, imitated, mythical, virtue, rule, and outcome?

    Answer: Pedagogy.

    Why do we possess fairy tails, myths and legends, history, literature, and philosophy?

    Answer: Pedagogy.

    Why do we teach arithmetic, mathematics, geometry, calculus, non-euclidean geometry, and statistics?

    Answer: Pedagogy.

    Why do we argue with one another using emotive approval and disapproval, morality, reason, rationalism, historical analogy, empirical evidence(direct), economic evidence(indirect), and ratio-operational-empirical argument?

    Answer? ABILITY

    Source date (UTC): 2016-09-12 09:19:00 UTC

  • I swear that in the choice between a Ferrari, Porsche, and another MR2 I’d choos

    I swear that in the choice between a Ferrari, Porsche, and another MR2 I’d choose the last. Only thing I like more about the Porsche is tipronic transmission.

    This damned thing is just the best driving experience per dollar I have found.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-09-12 08:46:00 UTC

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    Source date (UTC): 2016-09-12 06:20:00 UTC

  • WEB SITE UPDATE I’m uploading the posts, one year’s worth of posts at a time, to

    WEB SITE UPDATE

    I’m uploading the posts, one year’s worth of posts at a time, to wordpress.com.

    When done I”ll publish the URL.

    I will have to:

    – upgrade the wordpress hosting to business

    – restore the the DNS.

    – simplify and upload the “Propertarianism theme”

    – figure out how to eliminate a lot of the plugins.

    – upload the ‘book’ progress as I get it ready.

    Current Status

    – I’m working on the site on my laptop.

    – too much stress but getting there.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-09-12 06:18:00 UTC

  • First world problems: When you are accustomed to $15k take home per month and yo

    First world problems: When you are accustomed to $15k take home per month and you spend time with people who take home two hundred. When you are used to generating 50-150M per year, and then you talk to business owners that generate under 500K in revenue per year. When you talk to people who generate billions of dollars in revenue per year and you realize they aren’t actually in business any longer except in the abstract sense. When you talk to politicians and you realize that this whole system works, but nearly everyone is totally incompetent – and those few who are not totally incompetent do the job they don’t really want to, only because they’re aware how totally incompetent everyone else is.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-09-12 06:00:00 UTC

  • ***Liberty is the condition produced by the disciplined identification and enfor

    ***Liberty is the condition produced by the disciplined identification and enforcement of natural, judge-discovered, common law that evolves to prevent and resolve conflict and consequent retaliation spirals, so that we may maintain the disproportionate value of cooperating on production, despite the constant incentive to engage in murder, violence, harm, damage, theft, fraud, fraud by omission, fraud by externality, socialization of losses, privatization of commons, conspiracy, rent seeking, monopoly seeking, statism, conversion-religion-disinformation, displacement-immigration, colonialism-conquest and war.***

    Source date (UTC): 2016-09-11 15:49:00 UTC

  • are all tilting to the Right: Weighing in on the Old Libertine vs New Libertaria

    https://t.co/Cmt2Fik1rZWe are all tilting to the Right: Weighing in on the Old Libertine vs New Libertarian Molyneux @tlot @StefanMolyneux

    Source date (UTC): 2016-09-11 07:20:00 UTC

  • (Sisyphean Tasks) I am writing this (long) piece to the Evonomics tribe in an at

    (Sisyphean Tasks)

    I am writing this (long) piece to the Evonomics tribe in an attempt to support their ends but correct their justifications and means.

    I won’t quite say I see pseudoscience in it, but I do see a failure to understand intellectual history, and a misdiagnosis of the problem of contemporary economics: decidability that can only be provided by the choice between eugenic, compromise, or dysgenic ends.

    While they make a few good criticisms of the financiers – the conversion from market for commons and rule of law to discretionary authoritarian rule by credit/fiat money.

    I’ve been working on it four about three hours? Maybe two and a half. And I”m tired. …. I feel like Sisyphus.

    Everyone wants to do the right thing but they can’t grasp that the only possible right thing is exchange under which no one gets the best they want, we all just get the best we can. (Nash Equilibrium).

    And why can’t they grasp it? They are overwhelmingly incapable of judging that their moral intuitions are ‘correct’ – but they aren’t.

    I have another piece that I haven’t finished on the problems with contemporary economics.

    And you know, I seem to have this limit – that at somewhere between 2500-3500 words I get tired of trying to make these points. But they are probably 4500-9000 word problems. lol.

    Most authors get to where they conceptually think in 750 work chunks. This corresponds to most people’s information assimilation limits (time which they can concentrate on an issue). I’m sort of getting there myself. I tend to think in those terms now. And I like to break arguments into those chunks. And I find that get frustrated if I have to write longer pieces.

    So I am breaking this one into smaller chunks. But I still have to finish before I lose interest in pushing the rock up the hill one more time.

    Sigh.

    Morality isn’t what you think it is. Sorry.

    We can calculate it but you can’t feel it. You’re just one data point. We can know what’s immoral. But choosing the moral is a matter of cooperation, not conviction.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2016-09-11 06:42:00 UTC