Curt Doolittle

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  • (oops. no coffee headache. ) 🙂

    (oops. no coffee headache. ) 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-10 13:25:00 UTC

  • DEMONSTRATED PRACTICAL INTELLIGENCE Demonstrated practical intelligence is deter

    DEMONSTRATED PRACTICAL INTELLIGENCE

    Demonstrated practical intelligence is determined by the following properties:

    GENETIC

    1) (g) or General Intelligence (and it’s distribution between faculties)

    2) Short term memory (my weakness)

    CHOICE

    3) General Knowledge (the amount of it that you have – more is better)

    4) Correspondence of Wants with Reality (wanting the possible)

    INCENTIVES

    And the incentives provided by:

    5) Existing Paradigmatic Correspondence with reality.

    6) Existing Paradigmatic rewards (Academic Paradigm, Status Signals, Economic Rewards)

    That’s the answer.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-09 16:32:00 UTC

  • ROTHBARD AS DESTROYER OF LIBERTY? So is liberty defined by voluntary exchange? O

    ROTHBARD AS DESTROYER OF LIBERTY?

    So is liberty defined by voluntary exchange? Or is liberty defined by suppressing all in-group involuntary transfer?

    I’ll help you: it’s the latter.

    Just like the Golden and Silver Rules, these two propositions lead to vastly different conclusions and their application leads to vastly different societies.

    The gnostics were right about ‘Jehova’ and I’m right about ‘Rothbardianism’.

    You couldn’t invent a better way to destroy liberty than a pseudoscience that encouraged passionate devotion to a false theory as a distraction from a scientific answer to a true theory.

    “You oughtta’ think on that a bit” before you repeat one more rothbardian falsehood as a prayer for liberty.

    Rothbardian ethics are immoral and parasitic, and the NAP is immoral, unethical and socially destructive.

    If there is a hell, Jehova is laughing at you every time you quote the NAP.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-09 15:30:00 UTC

  • WHO RULES OVER YOU? —”To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are n

    WHO RULES OVER YOU?

    —”To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize”– Voltaire

    (Even the French get it right once in a while)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-09 14:31:00 UTC

  • THE VIRTUE OF VIOLENCE – THE FAILURE OF THE NAP AND ROTHBARDIAN PROPERTY RIGHTS

    THE VIRTUE OF VIOLENCE – THE FAILURE OF THE NAP AND ROTHBARDIAN PROPERTY RIGHTS

    MORALITY

    – Morality is a property of cooperation.

    – Violence is amoral. (Not immoral, but amoral.)

    – The purpose of the application of violence may or may not be moral.

    – If we are not cooperating then violence is amoral, regardless of purpose.

    – If we are cooperating, violence amoral, but its purpose is not.

    – If we are cooperating and one must obtain restitution then violence is moral.

    – If we are cooperating and violating property rights then violence for that purpose is immoral.

    Although technically speaking:

    1) Criminal violations are against body and property.

    2) Unethical violations are under asymmetry of information.

    3) Immoral violations are against asymmetry of awareness.

    In the construction of property rights by the suppression of free riding in its criminal, unethical, immoral, and conspiratorial forms, violence is not amoral, but a VIRTUE.

    Violence is a virtue not a vice.

    And attempts to obtain liberty without paying the cost of suppressing free riding are acts of fraud – attempts to obtain an expensive end without paying for it.

    Rothbardianism is Parasitism.

    Either the NAP is false or the definition of property is too narrow, because NAP covers criminal but not unethical and immoral actions. As such the NAP is a device for outlawing the moral use of violence in an effort to preserve the immoral and unethical use of deception.

    If instead, we state that property extends to all that humans have acted to obtain as their property by forgoing opportunity for consumption – then NAP against commons would be logical, and a prohibition against unethical and immoral behavior.

    Therefore you must either abandon the NAP or Rothbardian property rights, as immoral, unethical, and illogical.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-09 14:28:00 UTC

  • FAILURE OF YET ANOTHER PROGRESSIVE PSEUDOSCIENCE: “INTERNATIONAL LAW” —“What t

    http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/08/opinion/miller-five-myths-about-ukraine-crisis/index.htmlTHE FAILURE OF YET ANOTHER PROGRESSIVE PSEUDOSCIENCE: “INTERNATIONAL LAW”

    —“What the Ukraine episode demonstrates very clearly is that the post-WW II effort to substitute law for interest has failed. In regard to Russia, China, Brazil, Israel, Europe, and Iran, the issue is what the major powers will agree to–same as it ever was.”—

    There are no international laws, because they are not possible.

    1) Interests

    2) Force

    3) Agreement

    The Pax Ango-Americana is unnatural.

    And it’s ending along with the Postmodern project.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-09 13:14:00 UTC

  • IMPERIALISM Imperialism is defensive when cooperation is structurally impossible

    IMPERIALISM

    Imperialism is defensive when cooperation is structurally impossible. But if cooperation is possible it is preferable. Even then the goal is merely institutional development so that cooperation is possible. Imperialism like violence is an amoral question.

    Extraction is not. Predation is not. Parasitism is not.

    There is a vast difference between teaching people reading, writing, arithmetic, accounting, property rights, and the common law, so that you can cooperate with them rather than either conquer or displace them, and parasitically using them. And since parasitism is a way of life in primitive cultures -which is why they are primitive – it is a very long and difficult lesson to teach them.

    I don’t like imperialism. I don’t like empires at all. I do like cooperative production and trade.

    Respect for others’ property today will mean others may at least attempt to respect your property tomorrow.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-09 11:08:00 UTC

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    http://diversityischaos.blogspot.com/2014/03/roughly-47-of-millennial-women-who-had.html

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-09 10:56:00 UTC

  • SOFTWARE IN PARADISE Most of our team, and their WAGs are in Cyprus now, cleanin

    SOFTWARE IN PARADISE

    Most of our team, and their WAGs are in Cyprus now, cleaning the pool at the villa. Hunkering down to write software in the good weather, warm sun, free of civil war.

    One of the great things about keeping your team small, is that you can do awesome stuff, like decide you want to work on a chaise lounge chair looking at the ocean. 🙂

    After running a large company with all the personnel issues, I just wanted to run something small (and profitable). And this is one of the reasons why.

    Sure it is taking us longer to get this product done, but Oversing is getting more and more amazing by the day.

    Making Jira look like old technology was one thing. Making Microsoft CRM look (and feel like) ancient bloated technology is something else. That will take us a little longer. Making Microsoft Dynamix look like antique technology will take longer still. Making Outlook look and feel like bloated antique software will take us the longest.

    But every single day we move the needle closer to reality.

    Can’t wait to pitch it to investors and watch the lightbulbs come on.

    lol

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-09 07:04:00 UTC

  • CAN WE DEVELOP A PILL FOR NEURO AND SYNAPTOGENESIS? What if we can encourage neu

    CAN WE DEVELOP A PILL FOR NEURO AND SYNAPTOGENESIS?

    What if we can encourage neurogenesis and synaptogenesis? Can we break the brain size problem?

    Not just anti-depressants, but nootropics: increasing synaptogenesis and neurogenesis. Or conversely, discovering what is prohibiting ITGB3 and necessary synaptogenesis and neurogenesis?

    –“..in order to make up for the lull in SER.T, more ITGB3 is produced, which then goes to work in bolstering synaptogenesis and neurogenesis, the true culprits behind depression. “There are many studies proposing that antidepressants act by promoting synaptogenesis and neurogenesis,” Gurwitz says. “Our work takes one big step on the road for validating such suggestions.”–

    (from David Gurwitz and Noam Shomron , Tel Aviv University in Israel)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-09 06:52:00 UTC