Curt Doolittle

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  • MEN, WOMEN, FRIENDSHIPS, OPPORTUNITIES, AND DISCOUNTS Men tend to have a larger

    MEN, WOMEN, FRIENDSHIPS, OPPORTUNITIES, AND DISCOUNTS

    Men tend to have a larger number of looser friendships, and women a small number of deeper friendships.

    This is partly because of how we judge each other – women need psychological similarity whereas men need utilitarian similarity.

    It is also a matter of what we do with friends. And what we need friends for. Women put men in the friend zone for certain reasons: capital extraction. (discounts).

    Men put women in the friend zone for three reasons: long options on sex, long options on her associations, long options on her emotional support (as a psychologist).

    And men put men in the friend zone for lots of reasons: the safety of the pack. assistance in self improvement. Options on opportunities. And someone to imitate or learn one or more skills from.

    Now also, men have many strategies available to us: research information to create opportunities. Create relationships and collect and exchange information to identify opportunities. Organize in pursuit of opportunities. Produce and opportunistically seize identifiable opportunities. Produce consistently independent of possible opportunities. Produce as little, consume as little, and relax as much as possible. These strategies depend upon our natural abilities. (this is probably something that doesn’t occur to people)

    I would say that if you mean that we should be cautious with others rent-seeking and discounting, that this is true as far as it goes.

    I think it is better to seek to understand the individual male’s strategy, and to limit one’s self to it.

    I mean, those guys in college that figure out how to make money doing just about everything – they are amazing. But so is the scientist and so is the craftsman, and so is the laborer.

    I think what isn’t amazing – what we must watch out for – is a disconnect between a man’s abilities and his strategy.

    The same for women. I think we are too easily led (I certainly am) by their attention, when we have zero option of obtaining returns.

    Parasitism is not unique to gender. We are just wired to tolerate the parasitism of women because options (lottery tickets) on sex are so valuable to us.

    Men give women attention, the way that the poor buy lottery tickets: a very, very, very remote hope that they know will never occur. So that they buy the experience of the fantasy.

    So I think your (James) message is to preserve all your capital. But I am too well aware that every person I meet is a cheap put on opportunity, and I treat them as such. Hence, make a good impression but always be too busy to invest in the fulfillment of others’ opportunities unless it benefits you as much or more than them.

    In business I usually say this “Work with partners with whom you have equal economic interest”. Otherwise you do not have the same interests.

    Cheers

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-25 02:44:00 UTC

  • THE SNAKE EATS ITS TAIL: THE SIGNAL-CRASH OF SOCIALISTS —“Bakunin – more than

    THE SNAKE EATS ITS TAIL: THE SIGNAL-CRASH OF SOCIALISTS

    —“Bakunin – more than a century ago – observed that socialists are liable to under-cut each other under the influence of tribalism. It’s all good music to me.”— Ayelam Valentine Agaliba

    There are many variations of “you eventually run out of other people’s money”… You also run out of civilizational, institutional, cultural, economic, normative, and genetic capital.

    If you want more, produce more.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-25 02:20:00 UTC

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    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-24 16:29:00 UTC

  • THE PURPOSE OF A UNIVERSITY EDUCATION: SORTITION There is no course in universit

    THE PURPOSE OF A UNIVERSITY EDUCATION: SORTITION

    There is no course in university that is not better found in books – for much less money. But education is not the purpose of the university: filtering is.

    University does provide an environmental laundry with which to cleanse yourself of the idiocy of the majority, and carry on discourse in non-colloquial terms. It allows you to associate with the ’employable’.

    So, if you are talented, employable, or able to employ others, then the purpose of university is to seek opportunity. And to leave as soon as you have found it there.

    If you are untalented but conformist, the purpose of university is not to fail – to show you can endure following direction ( “sucking dick” ). Most of life requires calmly and predictably following direction.

    If you are both talented and can enjoy following direction, then you can do a term as slave labor, and increase your debt, by going to graduate school.

    If you are untalented, and unwilling to follow direction (“suck dick”), then the purpose of university is to take the only four year vacation that you will have for the rest of your life.

    At the end of your ‘tour’ you will be certified as employable for having found a way to muddle through without getting ‘fired’ (discharged).

    And you will have been property sorted into unemployable, tolerably employable, beneficially employable, training others to be employable, and entrepreneurial.

    The university sorts. In truth, the university sorts before the first day in the classroom. After that it’s just survival.

    Because wage labor is a matter of survival.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-24 16:26:00 UTC

  • Creative enterprises require the decision maker of last resort to be a master of

    Creative enterprises require the decision maker of last resort to be a master of the craft.

    All fashion is art. If the future is quantifiable the opportunity has passed.

    Twitter is analogous to fashion.

    Twitter is art, not operations.

    Operational management is for invariant networks.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-24 16:11:00 UTC

  • TRUMP VS PROGRESSIVES – DIFFERENCE IN TECHNIQUES (Contrast conservative aristocr

    TRUMP VS PROGRESSIVES – DIFFERENCE IN TECHNIQUES

    (Contrast conservative aristocratic mythology that demonstrates intertemporal effects, with progressive underclass pseudoscience that obscures intertemporal effects.)

    Lets look at his technique:

    a) He uses hyperbole to get media attention, and draw criticism, which they then use to distribute his meme. He has the most airtime. And spends nothing to get it.

    b) Nothing he says is substantially false – it’s hyperbolic. It’s not false.

    c) His tactic (and the conservative tactic) is to shame against extracting resources to transfer from good families to bad.

    d) Conservatives (aristocracy) use hyperbole to illustrate the intertemporal effect of scale: Kant’s “if everyone did this” test.

    Ergo: CONSERVATIVES SPEAK IN THE LANGUAGE OF MYTHOLOGY

    The progressive trick is to do the OPPOSITE.

    a) state something that is technically true but practically false.

    b) almost everything they say is substantially false.

    c) their tactic is to shame into extracting resources from good families to bad families.

    d) Progressives (socialists), use pseudoscience and pseudo-rationalism to obscure intertemporal effects “so that as many people as possible can get away with this.”

    Ergo: PROGRESSIVES SPEAK IN THE LANGUAGE OF PSEUDOSCIENCE.

    Hence: My work on Testimonialism….. Fix them both. Truth is enough to restore the west. But truth and hyperbole are compatible, while truth and pseudoscience are not.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Philosophy of Aristocracy

    The Propertarian Institute, Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-24 15:57:00 UTC

  • “Unless Donald Trump is elected, we’re never going to have another Republican pr

    —“Unless Donald Trump is elected, we’re never going to have another Republican president,” Coulter added, warning that having another Democrat in the White House would mean that “it’s over” and “the country is finished” because there will be a “Supreme Court of nine Ruth Bader Ginsburgs.”

    “What is the point of talking about abortion or anything else unless you get Donald Trump in to build the wall, deport illegals, end this ‘anchor baby’ nonsense, stop importing 100,000 Muslims a year, in addition to two million Third Worlders per year,” she said. “It’s madness what this country has been doing.”— Ann

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-24 15:13:00 UTC

  • ON CREATIVITY – TRAINING YOURSELF INTO ‘THE ZONE’ (worth repeating) You get much

    ON CREATIVITY – TRAINING YOURSELF INTO ‘THE ZONE’

    (worth repeating)

    You get much better at getting into “the Zone” that you find in the shower (or as you’re just waking up), if you practice writing. I can get almost the same experience just writing. But it’s true that either the shower or driving is hard to beat.

    After the first year or two of writing an hour a day it takes declining effort, finally approaching zero, to write what’s in your brain – shower or no. Why? Because you train yourself to stay in ‘the zone’ and not ‘come out of it’. I used to run from the shower and write it down as fast as I could, by reciting it to myself. I just did what every writer recommended. Don’t try to be better. Just write. You will get better. Best advice I can give is to ignore spelling, puncutation, sentences, and just write a stream of consciousness. then go back and make sense of it. Over time you will get better at organizing your stream of consciousness without effort.

    The real problem that most of us have to overcome is that our imagined visions FEEL like they’re sensible. But until you write them down you haven’t TESTED whether they’re sensible.

    This experience is a cognitive illusion – or bias – that lets us get inspired by an opportunity, yet work to obtain more information until it’s born out or not. It’s evolution at work. Our brain gives us a chemical reward that says ‘keep investigating this opportunity’.

    But we can’t confuse that intuition with understanding. If you can’t state something, you only intuit that there is a relation. You don’t in fact understand that relation, nor can you test it by articulating it.

    I ‘knew’ a lot of what I am doing today in 1986. I knew it in 2001. I knew it in 2006. I knew it in 2009. And I knew it in 2012. But what I learned in each of those drafts, was that I knew nothing at all. I intuited something. But it wasn’t until 2012-2013, and maybe into 2014, that I knew what I intuited. Meaning, that I could write down the roadmap that I intuited as a mere direction in …. what… when I was twelve?

    Your mind is always path-finding. Train yourself to use it.

    It takes a lot of time.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-24 15:08:00 UTC

  • in the day, Corbis was on of the running jokes in Seattle. It had the reputation

    http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-corbis-m-a-vcg-idUKKCN0V101LBack in the day, Corbis was on of the running jokes in Seattle. It had the reputation of being one of the worst run companies, so that consultants could consistently farm them for hours, with zero accountability, because nothing ever was completed, nothing ever worked, and it didn’t matter.

    Now I’m not really slandering them here, ’cause it’s true. And I have no idea what’s happened over the past ten years. But before then, it was what it was. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-24 14:00:00 UTC

  • (Health Diary) So wait. If I ingest sulfites or msg then my immune system reacts

    (Health Diary)

    So wait. If I ingest sulfites or msg then my immune system reacts to it. I get dizzy, disoriented, confused, sleep, then wake up between 1 and 12 hours later, usually with the whole can’t breathe, running nose, sneezing, thing.

    But I get the SAME reaction of dizziness, disorientation and sleepiness when I come down with a cold or flu, except I also feel extremely depressed for a few hours beforehand for no reason at all (which is extremely annoying, I have to tell you.)

    So both of these effects are my immune system at work – right?

    I have always thought that the short intense depression was a reaction developed when I was ill for so long – the cancer was very slow growth. But maybe there is something to learn here.

    I know that there is a relationship between the immune system, chronic tiredness, depression, manic depression, and schizophrenia. In that these are all immune-system related disorders of some type or other.

    I am also uncomfortable with the dompaminergenic theory of evolution.

    I am also uncomfortable with the clear relationship between these diseases and exceptionally creative thinkers.

    So it seems increasingly likely that some childhood diseases, or what our immune systems consider poisonings, cripple our immune systems. And that we live out our lives having obtained our ‘blessing’ at fairly high cost.

    I notice rothbard’s asthma when he is speaking. Although I understand similar effects can be achieved by smoking AND that smoking can medicate the effects. I know Hayek was troubled particularly late in life. And the stories about Socrates, Smith, and Kant as well as most poets, and many writers, is legendary.

    I know that fasting repairs immune systems, and that in general, fasting for short periods is awfully good for you. I also know that my intellectual performance is near zero when I am hungry.

    Sleep, exercise, water, lower stress, the love of good people.

    And a good austrian doctor … lol

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-24 12:51:00 UTC