Curt Doolittle

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  • PROPERTARIANISM: CORRECTING HEINLEIN ON MORALITY –“Morals — all correct moral l

    PROPERTARIANISM: CORRECTING HEINLEIN ON MORALITY

    –“Morals — all correct moral laws — derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level. The basis of all morality is duty.”– Heinlein

    Terribly imprecise and inadequate use of antique religio-moral language to refer to a purely economic (human) behavior.

    It is not true that morals derive from the instinct to survive, but from the instinct to cooperate, and to gain advantage in consumption through cooperation. It is true that we cannot consider the intertemporally self-genocidal, fratricidal and suicidal to be moral – because that is irrational. But that tells us nothing about the reasons for, and causes of, our moral intuitions.

    Our emotional intuitions tell us to acquire if not to expense, and to avoid prevent even if it is so.

    Our moral intuitions encourage us to cooperate out of self-interest, and to avoid and punish parasitism out of self-interest.

    This is because cooperation is a multiplier on acquisition. And because parasitism eliminates the value of cooperation.

    So, duty, while admirable (and the central proposition of germanic civilization), is correctly stated as the payment of all possible fees into the intellectual, normative, material, and genetic commons.

    Germanic ‘duty’ refers to the total suppression of free riding on the intellectual, normative, material, and genetic commons.

    Men pay a disproportionate percentage of these costs. In no small part, because women largely engage in just the opposite. As has been demonstrated by their voting pattern in all democratic countries.

    Propertarianism solves all questions of human action.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-16 05:37:00 UTC

  • MALINCENTIVES IN POLICE WORK Stop and Frisk doesn’t bother me. Drunk Driving Sto

    MALINCENTIVES IN POLICE WORK

    Stop and Frisk doesn’t bother me. Drunk Driving Stops don’t bother me. Answering questions doesn’t bother me.

    Rent seeking, parasitism, confiscation, ignorance of the law, and physical violence bother me.

    Malincenives bother me. And they should bother everyone. People follow incentives. You cannot ask someone in any capacity not to follow incentives.

    It’s unscientific. It’s immoral. And honestly, it’s idealistic, ignorant and stupid.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-16 05:23:00 UTC

  • “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence

    “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” —H.L. Mencken

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-16 04:58:00 UTC

  • ADVICE: REFORMING POLICE INCENTIVES (1) Rescind the Federal courts-created “doct

    http://tokyotom.freecapitalists.org/2014/10/15/incentives-matter-ferguson-police-abuse-swat-teams-roving-gangs-forfeiture-powers/#sthash.Qx7toLcY.dpufTOM’S ADVICE: REFORMING POLICE INCENTIVES

    (1) Rescind the Federal courts-created “doctrine” of “qualified immunity” under Federal law for cops;

    (2) Cops must, keep and pay for their own private liability insurance (NO municipal/county/state insurance or other citizen-backed “deep pocket”);

    (3) The pension pool of the relevant police department were required to contribute 10-20% of all judgments/settlements related to police abuse claims.

    – See more at: http://tokyotom.freecapitalists.org/2014/10/15/incentives-matter-ferguson-police-abuse-swat-teams-roving-gangs-forfeiture-powers/#sthash.Qx7toLcY.dpuf

    CURT’S ADVICE

    1) Eliminate Forfeiture

    2) Eliminate Entrapment (stings)

    3) Require Truthful Speech

    4) Require body cameras.

    FOR GOOD MEASURE

    5) Eliminate single-officer patrols.

    6) Require military body fat limits.

    AND POSSIBLY

    4) Separate judgement on arrests from investigation and restraint.

    “Truth Telling Is Enough”

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-16 04:30:00 UTC

  • facebook.comGrammarlyThank You, Grammarly!!! I don’t have grammar or spelling is

    facebook.comGrammarlyThank You, Grammarly!!!

    I don’t have grammar or spelling issues, I have typing and proofreading issues. And Grammarly “does it” for me. It’s such a relief. (And my editor thanks you too…)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-16 04:22:00 UTC

  • DENIALISM HAS NO FUTURE IN ECONOMICS (useful arguments)(libertarians should read

    http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2015/04/u-s-taxes-low-compared-with-other-developed-economiesMORAL DENIALISM HAS NO FUTURE IN ECONOMICS

    (useful arguments)(libertarians should read) (conservatives should read)(reactionaries should read)

    BARRY:

    We have high tax efficiency (people pay), high productivity (we work more), higher employment (more of us work, and work longer), vastly more entrepreneurship, risk taking, and innovation, and much, much higher consumption. (We also have counter-productive higher corporate taxation.)

    The left’s argument is that under a democratic government, we can tax – without equilibrating effect – a divided, heterogeneous American domestic empire, via the same means as we do small, homogenous European extended-tribal nation-states that are not responsible for policing the world system of finance and trade, nor of their seas, borders, or neighbors. It is one thing to redistribute to kin, another to redistribute to free riders, and another to redistribute to one’s kin’s competitors

    So what you mean, if stated truthfully (meaning: fully informed), is that we should exchange efficiency, productivity, employment and consumption for the production of additional redistributive commons of unequal desirability, against the wishes of the producers. Yet this would only increase the divisiveness of the heterogeneous population.

    It is true that through immigration, the left, with the support of the academy, has perpetuated a conquest of the European people’s in exchange for income and status signals. And that via this conquest, that it will shortly be possible to engage in further appropriation, and greater dependence upon redistribution, providing fewer incentives to pay, to produce, to employ and to consume.

    But it is not yet certain whether the heterogeneous polity will come to dissolution over it or not. And as we have seen from the success of the austerity movement, people will pay high personal costs to punish free riders. Yet, ignoring human instinctual morality that is necessary for the evolution of cooperation, mainstream economists – and particularly left-leaning mainstream economists – assume that democratic electorates will tolerate inter-cultural redistribution from high productivity to low productivity peoples without invoking moral demand for altruistic punishment.

    Austerity is a normal, irrepressible result of the instinctual and evolutionarily necessary requirement to suppress free-riding.

    It is anti-empirical (unscientific) to suggest (and possibly genocidal to suggest) that we should not, or under democracy that man will not, engage in the punishment of free riders.

    Just how it is. That’s the science. Or has economics evolved from anti-operational, into a full-fledged anti-empirical, anti-rational religion?

    Your opponents succeed politically because of moral intuition, even if they lack a rhetorical language to articulate those intuitions. Some of us are working on giving them that language. We just hope it is not too late to end yet another pseudoscience as we are systematically ending the rest of the progressives pseudosciences.

    Moral denialism has no future.

    Cheers 🙂

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-16 04:15:00 UTC

  • I have had only one circumstance where I had to call the police because of an ar

    I have had only one circumstance where I had to call the police because of an armed individual threatening me and my wife from outside our home. As soon as the police arrived I pulled the magazine, popped the chamber, and left the breach open on the table, and sat cross-legged on the floor. (The guy is a sociopath.)

    I’ve only pulled my weapon twice. Both times because of some freaking high idiot at night: once in Seattle, and once where I won’t mention.

    The cops are generally more scared than you are. They are almost always in novel circumstances.

    Rebel against revenue-raising police enforcement of cultural(normative), administrative and regulatory law at all times – raise the cost of enforcement as high as you can. But not against crimes of life and property. The fact that we have given police mal-incentives, is one thing. That doesn’t mean we rebel against them at all times. If we do, they don’t even have the opportunity to learn the difference between moral police action, and immoral police action.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-16 03:22:00 UTC

  • THE WORKPLACE NEEDS, AND YOU NEED, OVERSING Empirical reputations. Oversing cons

    http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-changing-world-of-work-4-signal.htmlWHY THE WORKPLACE NEEDS, AND YOU NEED, OVERSING

    Empirical reputations. Oversing constructs an empirical reputation.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-16 03:06:00 UTC

  • COLLEGE CERTIFIED, THEN FILTERED, NOW IT DOESN’T EVEN DO THAT And you want to te

    COLLEGE CERTIFIED, THEN FILTERED, NOW IT DOESN’T EVEN DO THAT

    And you want to tell me that every individual in the academy isn’t influenced by (top academics) or driven by (the remaining academics and the bureaucracy) malincenitves?

    As far as I can tell, a middle class (moral) upbringing, and your work ethic, determine your productivity in the workplace.

    The best universities largely just filter. The remainder are largely diploma mills. And we have now lost the generations that sought to convey 5000 years of western intellectual and cultural development in truth-telling.

    GOOGLE DATA

    –“Google is widely viewed as a bellwether of the new economy. It is noteworthy, then, that Google has found that academic success has little correlation with being productive in the workplace. Lazlo Bock, Senior Vice President of People Operations at Google, made the following comments in an interview published by the New York Times in June 2013:

    -One of the things we’ve seen from all our data crunching is that G.P.A.s (grade point averages) are worthless as criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless. Google famously used to ask everyone for a transcript and G.P.A.s and test scores, but we don’t anymore. We found that they don’t predict anything. What’s interesting is the proportion of people without any college education at Google has increased over time as well. So we have teams where you have 14 percent of the team made up of people who’ve never gone to college.-

    Signaling an ability to grind through four or five years of institutional coursework is no longer enough; the signaling needed to indicate an ability to create value must be much richer in information density and more persuasive than a factory model diploma.”–

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-16 03:03:00 UTC

  • THE SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR OF THE ACADEMY –“Google is widely viewed as a bellwether

    THE SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR OF THE ACADEMY

    –“Google is widely viewed as a bellwether of the new economy. It is noteworthy, then,that Google has found that academic success has little correlation with being productive in the workplace. Lazlo Bock, Senior Vice President of People Operations at Google, made the following comments in an interview published by the New York Times in June 2013:

    –One of the things we’ve seen from all our data crunching is that G.P.A.s (grade point averages) are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless. Google famously used to ask everyone for a transcript and G.P.A.s and test scores, but we don’t anymore. We found that they don’t predict anything. What’s interesting is the proportion of people without any college education at Google has increased over time as well. So we have teams where you have 14 percent of the team made up of people who’ve never gone to college.–

    Signaling an ability to grind though four or five years of institutional coursework is no longer enough; the signaling needed to indicate an ability to create value must be much richer in information density and more persuasive than a factory model diploma.”–

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-15 23:57:00 UTC