Curt Doolittle

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  • WHY AFRICA?: ‘CAUSE DISEASE GRADIENTS. It’s freaking HOSTILE there

    WHY AFRICA?: ‘CAUSE DISEASE GRADIENTS. It’s freaking HOSTILE there.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-21 09:46:00 UTC

  • CAN YOU GUESS? FOUR DIFFERENT POLITIES, FOUR DIFFERENT STRATEGIES. If a group of

    CAN YOU GUESS? FOUR DIFFERENT POLITIES, FOUR DIFFERENT STRATEGIES.

    If a group of people evolved under a sufficient language, so that it was possible to speak operationally, so that one could testify to the truth of a statement, then what would that culture look like? Would that behavior be captured in their genes? If so, then how?

    If a group of people evolved under a deficient language, so that it was impossible to speak sufficiently operationally so that one could testify to the truth of a statement, what would that culture look like? Would that behavior be captured in their genes? If so, how?

    If a group of people evolved specifically to use language to conduct loading, framing, overloading, and deception in order to lie cheat and steal, what would that culture look like? Would that behavior be captured in their genes? How?

    If a group of people evolved specifically to use behavior, not language, to conduct theft by preying upon empathy and altruism, such that they were unable to even distinguish the truth necessary for testimony, and would never give it, even if they did, then what would that culture look like? Would that behavior be captured in their genes? If so, then how?

    Truth, morality, and productivity, represents one end of the evolutionary spectrum. But, does that mean that it is the optimum COMPETITIVE strategy, even if it is the optimum ECONOMIC strategy? Or is it an evolutionary dead end, because it is so weak at competing?

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-21 08:05:00 UTC

  • SCARY IDEAS FROM AN ACCIDENTAL PROCESS OF DEDUCTION…. (I need to write about t

    SCARY IDEAS FROM AN ACCIDENTAL PROCESS OF DEDUCTION….

    (I need to write about the immorality of the feminist movement, given that it breaks the contract for cooperation between the genders in a division of labor. I can support his with the evidence that women have universally acted to impose immoral laws. I can then demonstrate that it is possible to construct institutions that allow us to cooperate without the systemic theft enacted by women at the encouragement of feminists. And demonstrate yet again that we act almost entirely as gene machines, and all our language is merely justification for one theft or another, or the prevention of one theft or another: a complex negotiation.

    Now if morality is objective, and if we can conquer and subjugate pirates, and thieves, why can we not conquer and subjugate all thieves? Even purely immoral ones?

    Worse…. IS THAT WHAT MEN ACTUALLY DID?

    Roll that one around in your head for a minute: was monogamous, propertarian, paternalism merely the only available solution to prevent the natural thievery of women, as a natural expression of their genetic intuitions, which favor their genetic strategy even at the expense of in-group members. While the male strategy comes only at the expense of out-group members?

    Very weird. I have to think about this a bit more.)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-21 07:29:00 UTC

  • TRUTH IS ENOUGH: ARGUMENTATIVE FRAGMENTS Over the past day, I have accumulated t

    TRUTH IS ENOUGH: ARGUMENTATIVE FRAGMENTS

    Over the past day, I have accumulated the following posts, started by Michael Phillip’s excellent short piece on the persistence of marxism, but which taken together compose an argument: That we pursue status signals by the use of verbal justification; that very bright people use their intelligence to signal; that this cognitive bias promotes immorality; and that there is but one cure for our cognitive bias: truthful speech; and that truthful speech is only possible to conduct operationally; and that truthful speech is the necessary and sufficient criteria for constructing a moral polity; where morality is defined as avoidance of breaking the incentives to cooperate, by the total prohibition upon free riding.

    Immorality is a Competitive Advantage

    https://www.facebook.com/curt.doolittle/posts/10152813033212264

    The Incentives Of Marxists

    https://www.facebook.com/curt.doolittle/posts/10152808947787264

    Education Makes one Cunning but Not Moral

    https://www.facebook.com/curt.doolittle/posts/10152812455752264

    What Must A Moral Man Do?

    https://www.facebook.com/curt.doolittle/posts/10152813014372264

    My Own Bias for Truth Telling As Conflict Suppression (Gene Machine’s and Unconscious Justification)

    https://www.facebook.com/curt.doolittle/posts/10152813003142264

    BUT THE ARGUMENTS THAT ARE MISSING FROM THE LIST:

    1) That arguing truthfully is merely tedious, and burdensome, not difficult. It is moral, not cunning.

    ***2) it is logically impossible pursue a cunning moral strategy, and it is ONLY Possible to pursue a moral society using Propertarianism and Aristocratic Egalitarianism.***

    This last statement is profound. I have merely captured in scientific and modern language the ancient aristocratic egalitarian practice that we have developed for as much as 8000 years, but certainly no less that 4000. I am the first to do it. And the only reason I could do it was because science gave us the tools that were unavailable to previous generations.

    ***THE TRUTH IS ENOUGH***

    It has been, and is, and it always will be.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-21 07:22:00 UTC

  • THE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE OF IMMORALITY (repost) –“Moral rules are objectively

    THE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE OF IMMORALITY

    (repost)

    –“Moral rules are objectively expressible and universal to man. It is more that acting morally is an advantage for groups with superior abilities and resources, and acting immorally is an advantage for groups with inferior abilities and resources. Parasitism is a successful strategy. It’s immoral, but then, all people who practice it, justify their immorality.”—

    If others can exercise their competitive advantage by lying, cheating and stealing – even if by complex means, then why cannot truth tellers exercise their competitive advantage by the organized application of violence to ostracize, evict, conquer, enslave, or kill them?

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-21 02:49:00 UTC

  • A TALE OF TWO PEOPLES Which cultures attempt the following? Peoples who build co

    A TALE OF TWO PEOPLES

    Which cultures attempt the following?

    Peoples who build commons try to get you to delay consumption if not save and entirely forgo consumption. To delay, and to save, requires that you produce, and over-produce. They are moral.

    Peoples who survive off of trade try to get you to consume, and consume hedonistically, so that they can profit from your consumption.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-21 02:43:00 UTC

  • IF YOU CANNOT CONVINCE OTHERS, WHAT MUST YOU DO? Suppress their Propaganda. Defe

    IF YOU CANNOT CONVINCE OTHERS, WHAT MUST YOU DO?

    Suppress their Propaganda.

    Defeat their arguments.

    Punish them for their lies.

    Speak the truth.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-21 02:29:00 UTC

  • MY OBSESSION WITH ARISTOCRATIC EGALITARIAN LIBERTY IS JUST ANOTHER IN A LONG LIN

    MY OBSESSION WITH ARISTOCRATIC EGALITARIAN LIBERTY IS JUST ANOTHER IN A LONG LINE OF GENE EXPRESSIONS

    Liberty is a genetic bias, and in my family it’s not a subtle one.

    *edited for clarity*

    –“The name occurs nowhere else in the world save among a family of Norman knights. But the roots of the Doolittle’s from the Kidderminster area are lost in

    the fog of time.

    In 19th century England the census shows clumps in Ireland, Kidderminster and Birmingham, Lancashire and Yorkshire, and London. There was some evidence that the northern group came there from Ireland. The London family is the Dollittle line and traces to Kidderminster – through the census and B/M/D documents. The Y DNA ties the Irish group, the American group (all descended from Abraham of Wallingford) and Maurice’s line together. There was some evidence that they may have all come from Kidderminster, and apparently they all did.

    So many of that family died, that there aren’t many branches. But, artsy folk and restaurant waiters in Victorian London – it would almost be a surprise if they were really all sons of their mothers’ husbands.(Eds: Markers say no, believe it or not.)

    I did learn by a half dozen different methods that most similar haplotypes are found in the Netherlands and central Europe, including Italy, which suggests that this

    DNA could have followed only around 50 migratory paths to southwestern

    England. Their town is where the Stour and Severn Rivers joined.

    The entire family group are the sort of ferociously emotional people that

    one would really like to have its story better pinned down than that. They appear in medieval Kidderminster as “husbandmen” on a baronial farm, and as weavers and then clothiers in a town that in late medieval times specialized in textile manufacture.

    Multiple lines of them became particularly over the edge Puritans, and they were intimately involved in the Puritan revival there in about the mid 17th century. Abraham was in Connecticut by 1641, and why is quite a mystery, even given that Rev. Davenport could have selectively appealed to this particular man right

    across the ESP waves from hundreds of miles away.

    I’m not aware of Puritans from the Kidderminster and Birmingham areas participating in the New England migration, despite the appearance in Massachusetts of a town called Worcester. Birmingham may have been a Puritan stronghold, but people there preferred to stay put, organize locally, and fight it out, and soon after Abraham left they actually took over Kidderminster, and it seems that those who left were more likely to go to Ireland.”–

    Troublemakers. In Normandy, In Surrey, In the English Revolution, in the Puritans. In the American Revolution.

    Liberty is a genetic bias, and in my family it’s not a subtle one.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-21 02:14:00 UTC

  • EDUCATION: CUNNING VS MORAL The Perverse Incentives of the Academy. –“education

    EDUCATION: CUNNING VS MORAL

    The Perverse Incentives of the Academy.

    –“education makes one cunning, not wise, and not moral”–

    I was kind of ‘moved’ by Michael Philip’s post today on the motives of members of the academy. It’s been bothering me all day because not only is it true, but I think it qualifies as a bias, and a formal bias at that. Or rather, I think status-biases are probably a category of cognitive bias that I (we) should investigate, document, expand upon, and communicate with some frequency. Because most of the progressive status signals are constructed of cognitive biases (falsehoods).

    Cunning favors complexity. Dishonesty favors complexity. Speaking truthfully is in fact laborious – it requires a lot of effort. Speaking the truth however, is a very simple strategy, that requires very little cunning – maybe none at all. Because prohibiting the imposition of costs is a very simple rule. Voluntary exchange is a very simple rule. The rule of law under Propertarian Property Rights (Property-in-toto), is a very simple rule. That demand for the state will increase if their is a lag in the development of property rights, is a very simple rule. These are all very simple rules.

    If all moral propositions are decidable, (under propertarian logic, they are), then there is no room for cunning, except to lie. I fact, cunning is a contrary indicator of truth, and of morality.

    Yet cunning is such an attractive means of dominance display. For those of us trying to eliminate cunning, we can temporarily display dominance, but only in the art of refuting loading, framing, overloading and suggestion. And since I have no illusions that the incentives to construct complex lies via cunning verbalisms will ever disappear, then I suspect that the defense against cunning will always require wisdom and cunning.

    So I have a new to-do, which is to enumerate the cognitive biases we fall victim to in the pursuit of status signals.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-20 19:25:00 UTC

  • (Thought was having a bad allergy day. Now it seems like I have caught some kind

    (Thought was having a bad allergy day. Now it seems like I have caught some kind of nasty flu. kicking my a___. But thank god for laptops and the internet. Watching bad television as a child was so awful by comparison.)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-20 15:59:00 UTC