Curt Doolittle

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  • The Nazarene? Hard to imagine the man did not exist. Easy to imagine he was very

    The Nazarene? Hard to imagine the man did not exist.

    Easy to imagine he was very different from how we imagine him.

    Easier yet to imagine that his words, intentions, and memory were heavily manipulated for personal and political ends.

    But despite all that it is also hard to deny the consequences of extending kinship love to non-kin and the systematic extirpation of hatred from the human heart.

    Even if the forcible Christianization of Europe was one of the great moral crimes in history.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-09 09:20:00 UTC

  • “The Stoic would not give much consideration to simple pleasures–enjoy them whe

    —“The Stoic would not give much consideration to simple pleasures–enjoy them when they present themselves but don’t actively pursue them. The ideal is to be completely indifferent to externals (things outside our control), to not have any preferences concerning those things. Amidst all externals, one should try to keep one’s attention occupied with the things that are under one’s control.”—

    –vs–

    —“Lord, grant me the strength to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”—

    –vs–

    —“Be impeccable with your word. Don’t take anything personally. Don’t make assumptions. Always do your best”—

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-09 09:07:00 UTC

  • Great point. If we are not really self aware then why would we think machines wo

    Great point.

    If we are not really self aware then why would we think machines would have to be?

    I know how to make a benevolent AI.

    The Problem isn’t creating a benevolent AI.

    The problem is preventing people from making non benevolent ai’s despite their obvious utility.

    So it’s not machines we need to worry about. In large they are just search engines just as your brain is en large a search engine.

    It’s people who want to use machines for ill.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-09 08:48:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle shared a post

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    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-09 07:45:00 UTC

  • ***Western Man. Hegel’s Wrong. We need purpose. Truth, pacification and transcen

    ***Western Man. Hegel’s Wrong. We need purpose. Truth, pacification and transcendence are a positive purpose. Rather than every other groups parasitism as a negative purpose.***

    Women have been our downfall.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-09 07:15:00 UTC

  • Once you get to the point where you recognize genes make us puppets on their beh

    Once you get to the point where you recognize genes make us puppets on their behalf, and that all speech is justification and negotiation, and that we have limited means of coercion of one another, then human behavior as well as all human history is easily comprehended.

    Empathy works somewhat to overload us. Suggestion can be used to invoke empathy and sympathy and therefore overload us.

    We thought the world was flat.

    We though we were self aware.

    But they are both errors in observation.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-09 04:27:00 UTC

  • PACIFICATION AND TRANSCENDENCE GIVE US PURPOSE (Generally I date in my gene pool

    PACIFICATION AND TRANSCENDENCE GIVE US PURPOSE

    (Generally I date in my gene pool. But I dated a half-amerindian woman for years. They are wired differently. It’s kind of beautiful and tragic: dream state and reality are not so separate as they are in us. I have also dated three jewish women for long enough periods to understand them – and I thought the differences were cultural – but it’s genetic. They’re just wired differently. Probably from only recently giving up frequent husband swapping (serial marriage) relatively late in the late middle ages, combined with higher semitic aggression, combined with higher distaste for outsiders, combined with lower trust. It taught me a lot about what we ‘do wrong’ in our civilization. Just because you’re better politically doesn’t mean you’re competitive against every other group. It’s a weakness. And this is one of the origins of my emphasis on expansionary pacification and transcendence. We need purpose. Pacification and transcendence are a positive purpose for change rather than every other groups parasitism as a negative purpose. This is important.)

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-09 04:05:00 UTC

  • WHY THE NAP/IVP IS JUSTIFICATION FOR THIEVERY AND FRAUD —“you remove the NAP f

    WHY THE NAP/IVP IS JUSTIFICATION FOR THIEVERY AND FRAUD

    —“you remove the NAP from the class of individual choice”—

    Then if NAP is just a means of individual choice, and not a moral proposition, then why would one choose to avoid moral choices? Except to act immorally? Which is my criticism. The NAP was adopted by rothbard as a half truth in order to perpetuate ghetto ethics.

    It’s a logical box. You wont’ get out of it. Rothbardianism is objectively immoral.

    It is insufficient for a personal determination of rational action. It is insufficient for interpersonal moral decidability. And it is insufficient for a political basis for law. And its insufficient for the basis of anarchic polity, and therefore it is insufficient for the basis of liberty.

    So if it is insufficient for each of these criteria: decision, non-retaliation, and economic and political cooperation, and sufficient basis of cooperation for the formation of a voluntary polity in the absence of the state as method of decidability… then what is it’s function other than to allow one to engage in deceits?

    So the NAP is a fraud by suggestion, just as I have stated, because it is nothing more than an attempt to escape paying the high cost of liberty, through the mutual defense of one another’s property-en-toto from the imposition of costs, by organized application of violence to demand and enforce restitution for those costs.

    So it’s not just that the NAP is insufficient for moral action, it is that the NAP is an attempt both to justify parasitism by non violent means, and justify non payment of insurance.

    That is not liberty. That’s cunning thievery.

    That’s the end you know. You can try all you want. But rothbardian immoralism falsely labeled with the term liberty is merely another great cosmopolitan lie.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-09 03:53:00 UTC

  • My experience is that most purchasing departments exist to cause vendors to fail

    My experience is that most purchasing departments exist to cause vendors to fail, engage in political positioning, and/or rent seeking. A good purchasing department functions like a lawyer who is too busy: they make sure you don’t hurt yourself. But a young lawyer trying to prove himself, or a purchasing agent trying to prove himself is something very different. They create problems by trying to create value. I was too naive about big business in my early life. The optimum behavior is to find out what makes the agent successful and give him what he wants even if it is bad for his business. I find this immoral. I want to give organizations what they need regardless of whether they understand it or not. This is most visible in the construction industry where the architects and primary contractors do not possess the knowledge to construct the building, only the suppliers do. But purchasing engages in all sorts of schemes to get reduced prices then trap vendors into bankruptcy by enforcing bids made without sufficient information. And while construction may be the most corrupt field in this regard outside of state dependent contractors, and then state employees – and their corruption the reason for the existence of most code and regulation – the same thing happens at CocaCola, Nabisco, Comcast, Dell, ATT, Intel, Microsoft (less so – they have management problems instead) and dozens more I could name (and not TMobile in my experience). Running a moral business takes more effort but it almost always ends up in your favor in the long term.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-09 03:43:00 UTC

  • FROM AGGRESSION TO NON AGGRESSION This should help people understand how the NAP

    FROM AGGRESSION TO NON AGGRESSION

    This should help people understand how the NAP was a cunning lie.

    -3) – You can choose to aggress against the property en toto of others. This is called predation. But you must defend yourself against retaliation and extermination. (Usual criticism of Islamists)

    -2) – You can choose to aggress against the private and common property but not life of others. This is called thievery. But you will experience retaliation for it. (usual criticism of gypsies)

    -1) – You can choose not to aggress against the life and physical property of others but retain the possibility of parasitic existence through deception. But you will experience retaliation. (usual criticism of jews)

    0) – You can choose not to aggress against the property en toto of others and by doing so it is almost impossible to invoke retaliation. This is called boycott. But you cannot defend your property en toto, private property, or life from those of superior means who wish to deprive you of it.

    +1) – You can engage in productive exchange with others, both benefit and not invoke retaliation. This is called trade. But you cannot defend your property en toto, private property, or life from those of superior means who wish to deprive you of it.

    +2) – You can engage in reciprocal insurance of others and thereby obtain insurance from them. This is called Liberty. So that you can defend your property en toto, private property, and life from those who wish to deprive you of it.

    +3) – You can invest your profits in the commons in exchange for status (increased opportunity and discounts), or productivity (increased returns), and cooperate for the defense of those commons from privatization and destruction. This is called a polity. (Europa)

    +4) – You can actively impose property-en-toto upon others both to reduce your costs and to improve your returns. This is called pacification. (Usual example is Rome, British Empire, American Empire)

    Non Aggression against property-en-toto (demonstrated property), is sufficient for non-retaliation. Reciprocal insurance of property-en-toto is sufficient for defense and the formation of a polity. Contribution to the commons is sufficient for obtaining compound intergenerational returns. Pacification is sufficient for the evolution of civilization.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-09 02:54:00 UTC