Curt Doolittle

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  • BTW: It’s an ordinary work day in Ukraine. Christmas isn’t celebrated until Janu

    BTW: It’s an ordinary work day in Ukraine. Christmas isn’t celebrated until January 8th over here, and New Years is the big holiday instead. They have a St Nicholas Day, which is our Santa Claus, as a separate day for children, on the 15th. So in typical slavic fashion they have WAAAAAY more holidays. lol. St Nicholas for kids, New Year’s Day for everyone, and Orthodox Christmas for the Devoted. Why have two holidays when three will do? More opportunities for food and alcohol. Lviv is much prettier than Kiev, and they have a gorgeous christmas market, that while offering little variation does show a lot of quality control. Apparently, (like the summer art market in Bellevue Washington) the Christmas market is a money-maker.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-25 07:17:00 UTC

  • THE GENETIC ADAPTATION IN FAVOR OF LYING I am wired for correspondence. It isn’t

    THE GENETIC ADAPTATION IN FAVOR OF LYING

    I am wired for correspondence. It isn’t a skill. It’s wiring. So much so that I cant stop trying to solve an unsolved problem if I want to. But I can’t follow lateral thinking very often, and even humor is difficult to understand – because much of humor requires lateral thinking as a vent for the unsolvable or undesirable problems. And it is increasingly clear that westerners have adapted, and are now wired, to demonstrate pathological altruism. (Myself unfortunately included.)

    But it has helped me understand that people can be just as easily wired for lying. That it is not so much a skill but an ability. The ability to lie even unintentionally. The genetic preference to lie. Lying as adaptation. As evolutionary strategy. That sociopathic predation may be a beneficial adaptation, just as sexual impulsivity in certain areas of the lower classes is a beneficial adaptation.

    That some people are naturally intuitive of your incentives such that it does not require effort to attempt to exploit opportunities for parasitism, the same way that it does not require westerners to exert effort at identifying opportunities for altruism.

    Some people, some TRIBES are genetically wired for parasitism – as an adaptation.

    Without laws that protect against parasitism we have no organized means of Training, Suppressing the behavior in, or ostracizing, those who have this trait.

    As I have shown in Propertarianism, as we increase trust by constructing property rights that increasingly prohibit various forms of predation, free riding and parasitism, we must constantly increase the scope of property rights so that the law assists us in suppressing ever expanding talents at predation, free riding and parasitism.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-25 07:09:00 UTC

  • FOUR CLIMATE PREDICTIONS I PUT MONEY ON: New Climate Predictions (from SSRC Pres

    FOUR CLIMATE PREDICTIONS I PUT MONEY ON:

    New Climate Predictions (from SSRC Press Release 4-2014).

    a. The Earth is about to begin a steep drop in global temperatures. The analysis of the level and variability of sunspots in the current solar cycle 24, including the warming of atmospheric temperatures between 2013 and 2014 indicates that the Earth is following a climate change path similar to solar cycle 5, during the last 206 year solar cycle driven solar hibernation.

    b. Average global atmospheric and oceanic temperatures will drop significantly beginning between 2015 and 2016.

    c. The predicted temperature decline will continue for the next fifteen years and likely will be the steepest ever recorded in human history discounting past short term volcanic events.

    d. Global average temperatures during the 2030’s will reach a level of 1-1.5°C lower than the peak year of 1998.

    FURTHERMORE

    We still have no idea if CO2, or other increases in gas concentration produce anticipated outcomes, especially given the geological record.

    HOWEVER

    The reason for increases in pollutants, decreases in competing life forms, and overconsumption is rapid increases in reproduction by the underclasses made possible by the adoption of western technology. As such the only problem the climate and the planet face, and will continue to face, is unchecked human reproduction.

    THERE IS ONLY ONE PROBLEM

    Rates of reproduction of the unproductive underclasses.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-25 06:29:00 UTC

  • MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!!! Thank you for making the world a wonderful place to li

    MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!!! Thank you for making the world a wonderful place to live by sharing your time and attention.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-25 05:23:00 UTC

  • WE CAN RESTORE TRUTH, REASON, AND THE CIVIC SOCIETY FROM THE PEOPLE WHO TAUGHT U

    WE CAN RESTORE TRUTH, REASON, AND THE CIVIC SOCIETY FROM THE PEOPLE WHO TAUGHT US TO LIE

    It took from 1780 to 1980 for the Germans, Jews and Americans to destroy reason. It has taken us from 1980 to the present to incrementally attempt to reconstruct it. And if I am successful, and at some point, rule of law, as a common (organic, self-organizing) law, can be based upon Propertarian logic, then it will no longer be possible to commit such an egregious crime against humanity. Property en toto, protected by a prohibition on transfers not constituting productive, truthful, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary exchange, free of negative externality consisting in the same conditions, and under universal standing, is sufficient to eliminate the need for regulatory governance and all legislation; and reduces the need for government to the production of commons that cannot be produced in the market without insurance against privatization of such commons, socialization of losses into those commons, or free ridging upon the contributions of others who constructed the commons.

    We can reconstruct truth, truthfulness, testimony, and the civic society. Self organizing organically evolutionary law, property en toto under propertarian ethical constraints, and universal standing are enough.

    If a few men are willing to use organized violence to force the implementation of such rule of law over the continued practice of systemic deception, due to the systemic attack on reason, science, and truth telling, by the most ambitious attempt conspiracy of liars in human history outside of the monotheists.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-25 05:21:00 UTC

  • (I just cannot compete with Eli’s ability to argue Propertarianism’s Aristocrati

    (I just cannot compete with Eli’s ability to argue Propertarianism’s Aristocratic Egalitarian Ethos in heroic terms. Congrats man. Humbled as always.)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-25 04:50:00 UTC

  • QUESTION: “Is there an agreed upon definition of liberty?” – Karl ANSWER: Thank

    QUESTION:

    “Is there an agreed upon definition of liberty?” – Karl

    ANSWER:

    Thank you for this great question.

    Etymylogically, we can trace the evolution of the term. (the Cuniform Symbol we refer to as the first statement of liberty says ‘return to the mother’, not liberty per se, but means one’s slavery-service is done, and one is free.) In the historical record it often refers to the right to retain local law and custom while paying taxes to a central authority. (more elsewhere if you want to look it up.) But, as you suggest, because of common usage, ‘liberty’ also used analogistically in general to refer to constraints upon ones will or wishes.

    I think Jan Lester’s argument is quaint, empty, verbal nonsense, and I’ve beaten it up elsewhere. It think Hoppe’s argument is that it is synonymous with property rights, but I disagree with his scope of property rights constitutes liberty. I think Rothbard’s position is also that it is synonymous with property rights, but that he is not advocating liberty but libertinism: the license of immoral and unethical behavior, but the prevention of retaliation for it. I think Hayek’s argument is that it is a product of property rights under the common organic evolutionary law.

    So would say that existential condition of liberty is when the moral constraint that we place upon one another is applied to the organization that we call the government. So liberty merely is a name for the condition of moral constraint by the government regarding our life and property, just as morality is a name for a condition of moral constraint by individuals regarding our life and property. In other words, defense of one’s life and property, individual moral action respecting life and property, and political respect for life and property: liberty , are synonymous terms differentiated only by perspective of the subjective self, objective interpersonal action, and objective political action.

    This I think is a non-allegorical, parsimonious, correspondent, consistent, operational, historically accurate, existentially possible definition of the term. And that all other uses of this term must either equally satisfy these conditions or constitute mere analogy.

    i.e. it doesn’t matter what’s agreed upon, it matters what survives criticism. 😉

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-25 04:49:00 UTC

  • I have always felt that the Austrian inter-temporal structure of the production

    I have always felt that the Austrian inter-temporal structure of the production cycle was a little old fashioned but of metaphor given that firms have evolved to multiple networks of more dynamic investment structures wherein each unit is more perishable, and where each is far less dependent upon a planned structure of production and instead is constantly shuffling portfolios of production among customers.

    And I’ve felt that the problem not just of cycles, nor of exhaustion of opportunities, nor of forming networks to exploit opportunity, but that at some point we approach the problem of having created enough consumption that people are decreasingly willing to trade increases consumption of signals for leisure, or even for doing *nothing*. ( I certainly have reached that point – the sole purpose of money is to associate with peers, and disassociate from undesirables. In that sense my consumption is primarily one of location. ) I mean, american males are exiting society and economy in droves – they can afford to.

    So while there always appears to exist possible increases in consumption, one eventually has to resort to the immigration of underclasses to continue generating consumption. This process too leads to booms and busts and social instability.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-25 03:24:00 UTC

  • ELI ON LIBERTY Asking people to forego parasitism (if they’re weak) or predation

    ELI ON LIBERTY

    Asking people to forego parasitism (if they’re weak) or predation (if they’re strong) is asking them to bear a substantial opportunity cost. They will only do so if someone stands ready to impose a higher actual cost for choosing to engage in them.

    Liberty must be manufactured by violence.

    Libertarians love to sing liberty’s praises, and there is much to be said in its favor. But it does not follow from this that liberty is always in everyone’s best interests. There are many people who stand to lose more from liberty than they would stand to gain. (And not just because they misperceive the situation.) There are still more people for whom the uncertainty over what they would stand to gain or lose would make desiring liberty irrational.

    The incentives that favor liberty do not exist by default, they must be proactively created. And in order for this to happen there must be people likely to benefit from liberty, people who can make good use of it, strong people, capable people, wise people, intelligent people, responsible people, farsighted people; in short, aristocrats. And they must organize to impose liberty on the remainder by force, and in many cases, to their detriment, or to their enduring resentment.

    – Northman

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-24 16:53:00 UTC

  • (INTRODUCTORY READING 6) RATIONALISTS JUST HAVE IT BACKWARDS – JUSTIFICATION RAT

    (INTRODUCTORY READING 6)

    RATIONALISTS JUST HAVE IT BACKWARDS – JUSTIFICATION RATHER THAN CRITICISM.

    “The Silver Rule Wins over The Golden Rule Too – for the same reason.”

    Macro economic phenomenon are emergent and non-deducible even if they are explainable. As such economics is no different from any other constructed upon laws : theories of arbitrary precision open to constant reformation. For economic theories to be testified as true, we must demonstrate that they are open to construction by sympathetic tests.

    As such, just as the golden rule is backwards, and the silver rule is correct, Mises just has praxeology backwards, it’s that we can’t claim something is true unless we can explain it as rational actions, but that does not mean we cannot rely upon observations and instrumentation to help us observe and criticize emergent phenomenon. Empiricists claim that other than some intrinsic simple intuitions (grammar, intention, status signal, and empathy etc), all knowledge is gained from sense experience, and this includes all deductions (cognitive science agrees with this hypothesis). This is obvious to people educated after 1980, when cognitive science began to replace psychology, and accelerated after 2000, when pinker restated cognition.

    Instrumentalists argue, correctly, that phenomenon must be reduced to stimuli open to human sense experience and comparison. This is also obvious.

    But then how do we test our hypothesies? We cannot subjectively test physical phenomenon, nor can we reason with the first principles of the universe – we don’t know them.

    So for physical phenomenon we must create experiments to test our hypothesis, where in human phenomenon the same test results are obtained by introspection: if subject to the same stimuli would a reasonable person come to the same conclusion? We could not judge intent or trust others if we did not have this ability so we are marginally indifferent in our ability to judge intentions if possessed of similar (symmetric) knowledge. (This is why informational symmetry is so important.)

    So in matters of human action where we know the first principles, all phenomenon, whether deducible or emergent, must be explainable as a sequence of rational human actions each of which is subject to subjective testing by means of information and sympathy – or it cannot be true. Just as all measurements (observations) of physical tests must be possible to perform in order for the claims of the test to be true. (Bridgman). Just as all mathematical proofs must be open to construction via basic mathematical operations for them to be true. Just as any propertarian law must be constructed from productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary transfers free of negative externality.

    So all scientific disciplines are identical in dependence upon empirical (sense experience) instrumental (reduction to sense experience) operational (existentially possible) constraints.

    THE COUNTER-PROPOSITION

    No one disagrees that if economic phenomenon are not explainable in rational terms that the theory cannot be true.

    The question of economic science is how we can take advantage of emergent phenomenon to bring forward productivity and consumption (wealth) as a means of improving the commons. This is the purpose of credit and interest. But this principle can be applied in hundreds of permutations throughout the economy.

    The moral (German Austrian) implication, is that this study must eschew immoral manipulation (thefts) and work only to improve the institutional means of moral cooperation without the conduct of thefts.

    The immoral (anglo empirical) implication is that this study should seek Pareto optimums (Rawlsian ethics) by reframing ‘harm’ by discounting loss of choice by some to redistribute choice to others.

    I agree with the German thesis, and expressly disagree with the anglo universalist fallacy which has gotten us to this state entirely because anglos were able to seduce the germans into the world war.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-24 13:30:00 UTC