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  • ADVICE FOR NERDS This should be obvious, but for people who excel at learning, a

    ADVICE FOR NERDS

    This should be obvious, but for people who excel at learning, and love to learn, I have a bit of advice that you might want to consider:

    “Your understanding is not a deliverable, it is not productive, it is a cost.”

    There is a big difference between learning and entertainment. There is a big difference between problems and puzzles. There is a big difference between going from problems to books, and from books to problems.

    Whether you chew hallucinogenic roots, drink alcohol, play video games, watch movies, read books, or learn new things, you are just a consumer of other people’s efforts, and not a contributor.

    We do not get paid for consuming. We are paid for producing. Consuming may do little harm, but it does no good.

    So if you are learning, if you are experiencing, it may be rewarding, but it is just entertainment.

    Either one learns – bears a cost – for the production of an output, or one is just a dead weight on one’s peers.

    I have this problem in technology fairly often although because of my current occupation, less so than I used to. But I still hear and see it everywhere in all walks of life.

    Learning is not an intrinsic good. It is a form of conspicuous consumption – a form of hedonism, a luxury, a spending of an inheritance. And in business it is a parasitism.

    So learn only to produce something. That is what we pay each other for.

    If you want to learn for recreational purposes realize that all you’re doing is a more expensive and time consuming and arguably less physically harmful form of recreation.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-22 05:26:00 UTC

  • PROPERTARIAN CLASS STRUCTURES (draft)(note that education is a commercial class)

    PROPERTARIAN CLASS STRUCTURES

    (draft)(note that education is a commercial class)

    Martial Class (suppression of parasitism)

    —Kings and Generals

    —Knights(professionals), Soldiers

    —Judges, and Sherriffs

    Commons Class (Construction of Commons)

    —Infrastructure Institutions

    —Civic Organizations

    —Beauty and Maintenance

    —Disaster Services

    Insurer Class (Insurance)

    —Priesthood and Intellectuals

    —Insurers, and Insurers of last resort

    —Medicine and Nursing

    —Mothering and Child Care

    —Elder Care

    —Poor Care

    Commercial Class (organization and execution of production)

    —Major Corporate Alliances

    —Finance, Banking

    —Business and Entrepreneurship

    —Distribution and Trade

    Producer Classes

    —Calculators

    ——Scientists (discover)

    ——Engineers (build)

    ——Programmers (instruct)

    ——Accountants (measure)

    ——Project Managers (time)

    —Artist Class



    —Labor Class



    —Dependent Class (incapable of engaging in goods and service production)



    —Out of Sight Class (incapable of engaging in commons production)



    Criminal Class (forcing costs on commons and production)


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-22 04:57:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle shared a post

    Curt Doolittle shared a post.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-22 04:24:00 UTC

  • PATERNALISM AND CLASSISM BUT NOT RACISM If you adopt paternalism: that your kin

    PATERNALISM AND CLASSISM BUT NOT RACISM

    If you adopt paternalism: that your kin are an extended family, and that you will work with other extended families to cooperate non-parasitically with all other extended families, and that we produce nations not states, then you get this wonderful ability for us to religion, culture, race, class and caste.

    We struggle with a certain problem: that while small nations are better for the development of community and mutual insurance, large states are materially valuable for the conduct of war and less so for trade bargaining. But once we have nuclear weapons it is very hard to violate borders without committing suicide. So there appears to be no reason for large states other than aggressive warfare.

    And yes, some territory is objectively better than other territory. And some genes are objectively better than other genes. And we start from different levels of development.

    But states are as much a barrier to development as they are to improvement precisely because of scale. Scale increases the ability to engage in corruption. With scale we find anonymity. With anonymity we have informational asymmetry. With informational asymmetry we have opportunity for corruption (privatization of commons).

    So you know, I’m a CLASSIST, in that i recognize the problem of carrying a large and counterproductive underclass, but I am not a RACIST in that I want all groups to transcend the animal, become fully human, and evolve into what we imagine as gods.

    And its possible. We had it right. Unfortunately we blew it. And now we have to fix it.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-22 04:17:00 UTC

  • Near Breeding, Selective Mating, Late Marriage, Suppression of Underclass Reprod

    Near Breeding, Selective Mating, Late Marriage, Suppression of Underclass Reproduction produces constantly improving norms, institutions, and commons.

    I am pretty sure that the evidence is in, that once you pollute a family with less desirable genes, that you can’t cleanse it – ever – unless you isolate and near-breed for centuries.

    In my own family I see Scandinavian (Ellen and I), german celt (me), mixed with Irish Celt, Dark Irish (my uncle John), Western Celt (Jean), Pole, Czech and Slav (John and Pat’s children), Slav and Dark Irish in their children. Most Doolittles carry R1b and look largely Celtic, although german rather than Scott’s Irish. The Oulette’s and Theriaults are poor french farmers from french and english celts. Although my mother’s father is undeniably a proper ‘Gaul’ – they’re big, and they have that Gallic nose. My daughters are different: one very much Celt, the other very much Czech with Celt. My son and my nephew are near clones with that white-blonde hair and round heads you see in Scandinavia and Finland. You can tell a lot from nose, teeth, eyes and skull shape. So we’re pretty typical northern europeans.

    Why do I mention this? Well, some groups have been successful at adopting genes wherever they go (Indo-Iran, Hittite, Greek, Semite, European), and some groups benefit from isolation (japanese, europeans). And some groups suffer from competition against the hordes (the middle east, central asia, africa). And some seem to form castes to overcome competition (india, south america).

    But the only way for genes to ‘correct’ (meaning exit bad genes) is with a small enough population to select for traits, but large enough to avoid near-breeding.

    If you’re White (Ethnically European), Certain west african tribes, Japanese, Korean, Han, there is nowhere to go but down by outbreeding, or incorporating new genes. If you’re not, then there is always a benefit to capturing better genes.

    And no that’s not an opinion, that’s demonstrated human behavior.

    More Symmetrical

    Younger – looking (less maturity)

    Taller (for men, not for women)

    Clearer, Fairer Skin

    Less Impulsive (although impulsivity is reproductively valuable in less desirables)

    More Intelligent (which is complicated)

    Age Better (less accumulated cellular damage)

    So it works like this: the worse genes you possess the more value is breeding up. The better are your genes the more value is in not breeding down. For everyone else – the vast middle – the best strategy is breeding up without breeding out.

    If we preserved the family we would preserve these traits. But we didn’t. So we don’t. Families protect, tribes protect, nations protect, but corporate states don’t.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-22 03:59:00 UTC

  • LIFE ADVICE: “Be the first one to smile.” 🙂 Try it. It works

    LIFE ADVICE:

    “Be the first one to smile.”

    🙂 Try it. It works.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-22 03:30:00 UTC

  • Hey. Where are you? The world is not as good a place without you. 🙂

    Hey. Where are you? The world is not as good a place without you. 🙂


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-22 03:15:00 UTC

  • THE “EXAGGERATED FIGURE” IS HOW THE MIND ‘SEES’, MOVES AND FEELS (aesthetic igno

    THE “EXAGGERATED FIGURE” IS HOW THE MIND ‘SEES’, MOVES AND FEELS

    (aesthetic ignorance)(feminist lack of self control)

    1) Starting with Michelangelo’s David, possibly reaching it’s greatest heights with the works of Rodin, sculptors sought to appeal to our minds, rather than correspond to reality.

    2) We finally understood why humans prefer these dimensions when we learned about the structure of the cortex, and discovered the Cortical Homunculus:

    https://harvesteros.files.wordpress.com/…/homunculus.jpg

    3) We study eye movements of the genders and we look at ‘parts’. Strangely enough women DO look at feet, and men look at waist and eyes.

    As Aesthetic works, Disney figures are ‘perfect’ for appealing to the human mind.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-22 03:09:00 UTC

  • Damn. I love humanity. Every lunatic bit of it

    Damn. I love humanity. Every lunatic bit of it.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-21 15:00:00 UTC

  • YOU CANT UNANCHOR YOURSELF —Tetlock finds that teams of amateurs trained in ga

    YOU CANT UNANCHOR YOURSELF

    —Tetlock finds that teams of amateurs trained in gathering information and thinking about it systematically outperformed experts in assigning probabilities of various events in a competition organized by IARPA, research agency under the Director of National Intelligence. In this conversation, Tetlock discusses the meaning, reliability, and usefulness of trying to assign probabilities to one-time events.—


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-21 14:41:00 UTC