Curt Doolittle

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  • EMPHASIS ON GOVERNMENT RATHER THAN JURIDICAL DEFENSE FROM IT We are always ruled

    EMPHASIS ON GOVERNMENT RATHER THAN JURIDICAL DEFENSE FROM IT

    We are always ruled. We are often governed. The law is the minimum rule. We can never escape law and commons and hold territory.

    We spend far too much ink on how to insure good rule, government, rulers, and governors.

    And we cannot make a good ruler or governor. We spend too little ink on universal standing and juridical defense from rulers and governors.

    This is because we not only seek advocacy of political orders in order to rally allies with whom me seek advantage from both rule and government – but would be constrained ourselves by rule of law if our preferred leaders obtained it.

    All political advocacy in favor of one form of rule, or one form of government, and another, is an attempt to circumvent the cost of exchange.

    But if I am correct – and the science increasingly suggests so – then we libertarians are partly morally blind, progressives are almost entirely morally blind (libertarians and progressives) and conservatives not only see clearly but are over-sensitive. And all attempts at political power are merely attempts to circumvent voluntary exchanges of cooperation that occur in the family, tribe and market.

    Rule that prohibits parasitism in the tribe, market and government forces us to conduct voluntary exchanges (compromises) none of which are optimum for the long term capital accumulators (conservatives), medium time frame producers (libertarians) and short time frame consumers(progressives).

    Just as we use voluntary exchange in the market to organize production, distribution, trade, and consumption, we organize the production of commons via government. But if government is not a vehicle for the facilitation of trade between the long(conservative), medium(libertarian), and short(progressive) factions, it is no different from not possessing a free market for the production goods and services, an not possessing money to signal demand.

    When free market advocates call for infinitely open markets this imposes costs on the other factions. When socialists call for redistribution this imposes costs on the other factions. When Conservatives call for the payment of normative costs, this imposes a cost on the other factions.

    But if we instead of imposing costs upon one another, conduct trades, then those costs are the expenses that we pay to cooperate on means despite our cognitively biased different ends.

    Cooperation lets a species specialize. Cooperation by voluntary exchange lets us specialized without dying off and producing a new generation.

    Cooperation by voluntary exchange collects information from the specialists in intertemporal reproduction: short consumption progressives, medium productive libertarians, and long term, conservative capital accumulators.

    By satisfying the wants of all through voluntary exchange, together we ‘calculate’ the optimum possible reproduction for all, the same way that the market calculates the optimum possible production for all.

    If I have not converted you to market production of commons (a market government) consisting of at least four if not five houses, each of which splits by gender, then hopefully at least I will help you understand mankind’s long struggle to increase the scope and rewards of cooperation by the use of market and voluntary exchange to produce the information necessary for us to act in our collective interests.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Philosophy of Aristocracy

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine (Tallinn, Estonia)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-08-12 09:41:00 UTC

  • LOYALTY: Not seizing opportunities that impose costs upon the capital structure

    LOYALTY: Not seizing opportunities that impose costs upon the capital structure (genetic, normative, physical, institutional, territorial) that you and others have been contributing to. The limit of opportunity. (The family, tribe, and nation)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-08-12 07:51:00 UTC

  • CONTRA TECHNO COMMERCIALISM While technology (a)decreases the cost of relationsh

    CONTRA TECHNO COMMERCIALISM

    While technology (a)decreases the cost of relationship acquisition, (b)decreases the cost of property registries, (c) decreases the cost of and often need for, escrow services (financial transaction costs), (d) reduces the need for regulation, (e) decreases the cost of geographic and temporal constraints, technology does NOT change the fundamental problem of cooperation: the incremental suppression of parasitism and the decidability of conflicts across different or competing regulations, norms, property allocations, and institutional processes. Technology reduces costs. Good law reduces costs. And that is the best that we can do. Everything else is achieved by trial and error. Because we cannot necessarily know what is good. We can only know with confidence that which is bad: parasitism.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-08-12 07:50:00 UTC

  • LOVE REDUCES COSTS –“Love reduces transaction costs, just as truth reduces tran

    LOVE REDUCES COSTS

    –“Love reduces transaction costs, just as truth reduces transaction costs, just as law reduces transaction costs. Love is an economically rewarding investment.”—

    That’s the secret to western christendom.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-08-12 07:16:00 UTC

  • WORTH REPEATING (INDIVIDUAL, FAMILY, NATION) —“The individual must be the subj

    WORTH REPEATING (INDIVIDUAL, FAMILY, NATION)

    —“The individual must be the subject of law; the family the subject of policy; and the nation the subject of the military. Misapplication of individualism is the origin of western suicide. An economy merely produces consumption. A family produces reproduction. Our purpose is either reproductive and perpetual or consumptive and temporary”—

    Source date (UTC): 2015-08-12 07:14:00 UTC

  • “A smile is almost never the wrong thing to say.”

    —“A smile is almost never the wrong thing to say.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2015-08-12 07:09:00 UTC

  • ERROR OF ANGLO UNIVERSALISM – CONVERSATION WITH NICHOLAS CARDACI ON EVOLUTIONARY

    https://egtheory.wordpress.com/2013/06/30/how-ethnocentrics-rule/THE ERROR OF ANGLO UNIVERSALISM – CONVERSATION WITH NICHOLAS CARDACI ON EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGIES

    NICK

    Were you aware of this series of experiments that were carried out on evolutionary strategies competing with one another? I found them very useful:

    https://egtheory.wordpress.com/2013/06/30/how-ethnocentrics-rule/

    CURT

    Yes. Axelrod and followers have been working on this model for many years. I include him in my reading list.

    This particular set of studies is interesting in that it addresses the value of ethnocentrism.

    While economic utility CAN be expressed as reproduction, it is not always the case as Sweden shows today.

    But I should probably comment on the study so that I draw the connection with propertarianism.

    NICK

    Were you surprised that the mechanism of ethnocentric ascension was straight up robbery of humanitarians, rather than limitation of free riding?

    I think there’s definitely both going on, but the weakness of the mediation (?) hypothesis surprised me.

    CURT

    No, it’s obvious. One of the values of modeling that Axelrod (and other life-models) brought to the debate (with the aid of computer science) was equilibrial modeling rather than linear projection.

    It’s great stuff. I think I read him first … I dunno. It seems like the 80’s or maybe early 90’s. My wife and I were travelling in the UK at the time and I read it in the wee hours of the morning.

    It was one of the most influential pieces that I read.

    Actually, maybe i’ll write a post about the relationship between axelrod in cooperation and mandelbrot in stock markets, and taleb in risk, and equilibrium in prices. These behaviors are all the same: before we had data and computers we could not conduct these measurements and we could not see them.

    This means that unless one can describe an idea as a supply and demand curve, that one is engaging in idealism.

    NICK

    I’ve been pondering this topic recently, mulling over the conflict between the moral universalism and ethnocentrism.

    One thing that’s readily obvious to me, especially being around alot of southern europeans, is that this ethnocentrism though isn’t always great. As it seems to me that it’s always accompanied with high family nepotism. Italy, is extremely regionalist and nepotistic within the family, and seriously limits how big their commons can be I think. The country is way too big as it is, with that level of heterogeneity.

    Some of it seems to be the greater levels of inbreeding that’s gone on historically.

    The bolded text in this post by hbd chick pretty much nails the kinship/family nepotism that goes on down there.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarcho_Reaction/comments/3gckby/the_reality_of_deep_southern_euro_inbreeding_is/

    Even in the anglo countries, I still see it going on, with italians from the same region letting eachother off parking fines

    It makes them more impervious to outside infiltration, but they can never reach the same commons as their northern neighbors.

    CURT

    Nepotism (family corporialism) is not the same as corruption or deceit. if one biases opportunities toward the family in maters not in the commons then that is not an imposition of costs upon others.

    If one exercises corruption in the production of commons, then that is another thing altogether.

    So you’d distinguish those then?

    CURT

    Yes. Favoring market opportunity is different from imposing costs upon the commons.

    Even the innocent nepotism, seems to be harmful to an extent. Like you mentioned on the Shoah, it limits a society’s ability to put the best person in the job.

    There was a good article recently outlining how in Romance Europe, family owned corporations are far more dominant than in the Anglo markets, where there’s ‘market-based management’, meritocracy essentially.

    So just as anglo model works under great opportunity (and as the model shows) the family model (and aristocracy which is also a family model) defeats the anglo over time.

    that’s what Axelrod’s model shows.

    NICK

    This is true. As they cooperate with people defecting against them. Yes. It seems to me to be both a gift and a curse. That’s cliched, but its the only way I can think do describe attitudes in southern europe.

    CURT

    It’s just that no principle of measurement is infinitely extensible. A rule acts as a means of measurement (decidability). There are not infinitely true rules. There are limits to every rule. (Which is a very complex bit of philosophy, but the reason why apriorism can’t be true.)

    The tactics you use in one circumstance and those in another are different. It is probably short term better to use universal ethics until your competitors catch up, and then return to familial ethics in order to prevent defectors from becoming parasites.

    (this is a very good discussion we should probably post for others to follow)

    NICK

    Yes. That’s what it seems to me. Southern europeans are capped in what they can do, but what they have is far more robust and secure than what the anglos and co have achieved.

    Should we post it on the Subreddit?

    CURT

    Yes. It’s a pretty good conversation that we can probably use to educate others. We are touching on a set of very big ideas here that are not obvious: the limits to any evolutaionary strategy, the advantage of familialism over universalism in the long term, the conceptual problem of training people to models and demand curves instead of ideal types and linear progressions.

    What we are saying is that we must increase the complexity of the basis of moral argument.

    NICK

    Yes, we cant simply pretend to have moral arguments among ourselves (as europeans) in isolation any longer. It’s eating away at us.

    I went through my finance textbook and found the study about family ownership I mentioned.

    Faccio & Lang, “The Ultimate Ownership of Western European Corporations” (1997)

    A bit older than I thought

    Also, there’s a study indicating their outperformance over more anglo style firms, strangely enough.

    Anderson & Reeb, “Founding Family Ownership and Firm Performance from the S&P500” (2003)

    Going to head off.

    CURT

    Cheers

    Source date (UTC): 2015-08-12 07:02:00 UTC

  • REFRAMING THE DEBATE Conversation on positioning with Don Finn the other night.

    REFRAMING THE DEBATE

    Conversation on positioning with Don Finn the other night. This is how I came away with a minor tweak to the positioning.

    Cosmopolitan Ashkenazi, Low Trust, Un-landed, Authoritarian, Anarcho Capitalism

    vs

    Aristocratic, Anglo, High Trust, Landed, Legal, Anarcho Capitalism

    vs

    Martial, Germanic, High Trust, Landed, Hierarchical, Tribal/Familial Capitalism.

    As far as I can tell the germans were right prior to the conquest of the german civilization by it’s heretical offshoot the anglo civilization.

    The anglo method of law is correct but the strategy is incorrect. The german social order strategy is correct, but the justificationary kantian method is incorrect. The Ashkenazi social strategy is incorrect AND the pseudoscientific method is incorrect.

    Everyone got the enlightenment at least half wrong.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-08-12 06:31:00 UTC

  • LYING IS OBVIOUS. I can’t read a lot of subtle emotions in facial expressions. B

    LYING IS OBVIOUS.

    I can’t read a lot of subtle emotions in facial expressions. But by contrast, I can read lying at a glance. The only people who can fool me are those who overload me with distractions (I know a few women who can do that.)

    Two ‘investors’ this morning. Coffee. One american, one german. Their body language was “i am prepared to lie”. Then the american lied first. They also signaled two things that people with money don’t: they’re too old to be doing discovery that’s an analysts job, and they’re not healthy looking from either alcohol, smoking, or stress – none of which say they are in control of their lives.

    Signals matter.

    ( It also explains to me some of the subconscious stress I have in Ukraine. )

    Source date (UTC): 2015-08-12 06:15:00 UTC

  • Cardaci sent this update on Axelrod’s work on the competitive value of ethnocent

    https://egtheory.wordpress.com/2013/06/30/how-ethnocentrics-rule/Nicholas Cardaci sent this update on Axelrod’s work on the competitive value of ethnocentrism, and how entho-centrism always wins. I had assumed this was fairly obvious, but while axelrod also focuses on cooperation, I want to convert this into propertarian language and therefore make it more compatible with ethics and political economy. So over the next few months I’ll try to write a few posts that make use of this argument.

    (Thanks Nick)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-08-12 04:46:00 UTC