Curt Doolittle

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  • INTENTIONS ARE A CHEAT AND A FANTASY : ONLY CONSEQUENCES EXIST A psychological a

    INTENTIONS ARE A CHEAT AND A FANTASY : ONLY CONSEQUENCES EXIST

    A psychological and hormonal trick that lets you do nothing meaningful, and possibly plenty that’s harmful, in exchange for the cheap high of feeling that you made a difference in the world.

    Because if you tried to so something that people actually wanted, by producing something people actually wanted, you’d fail.

    The only altruism is teaching someone to fish. Because if you try and succeed it was your victory. And if you try and fail, it is your failure. Rather than risk failure people try to obtain good feelings about themselves by good intentions.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-05 05:04:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    Northern California County votes to secede, form new state called “Jefferson”

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-05 04:56:00 UTC

  • ASPIES AND EQUALITY Does any one know the working theory on why Aspies tend to b

    ASPIES AND EQUALITY

    Does any one know the working theory on why Aspies tend to be so positive toward others, but moral specialists? Hmmm……

    Caplan has me thinking about this quite a bit. The idea that Libertarians are moral specialists. Why we have so many aspies in the libertarian community. And why aspies appear to prefer to treat others in equal relations. Even why Meyers Briggs INTP’s prefer to work as equals.

    There is something very interesting in this mess if I can untangle it.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-05 04:55:00 UTC

  • “NIETZSCHE ENVY” Nietzsche and the joy of wandering. When I came to the Ukraine,

    “NIETZSCHE ENVY”

    Nietzsche and the joy of wandering.

    When I came to the Ukraine, my idea, was that I would either start the business, or I would buy a toyota truck and drive from london to mongolia by the most dangerous and uncivilized route possible before there were no such routes left to travel. The sort of minimalist adventure travel that I would use to cleanse my soul (and body) of the 2000’s.

    For most of my childhood I had mini-bikes and small motorcycles, and my sense of freedom was sated by exploring on them, or on bicycles. Today, I realize the range I covered was less than ten miles in all directions. But that was what freedom meant to me: exploration.

    But you know, I know Nietzsche had health problems, and I have had plenty of them too. And he spent a lot of time ‘wandering around’. And you know, it turns out that if all you want to do is think, then wandering around is a pretty good way of doing it.

    And then, you sort of remember how awesome life is on a motorcycle, and you’re actually connected with the world rather than insulated from it. And you read a few articles by people who have spent a year traveling. And, then, you think, that even if your soul is already cleansed, maybe there is room now to fill it with joy.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-04 08:44:00 UTC

  • AWESOME TIMES 1) The product is…. utterly amazing. I love products with richne

    AWESOME TIMES

    1) The product is…. utterly amazing. I love products with richness and depth. It is …. awe inspiring to work on it. I find most software today is beautiful but mediocre – taking advantage of increases in user interfaces created by the touch experience, but not actually adding depth to any meaningful business software, which mostly is still stuck in the 90’s.

    2) I’ve had a few very useful insights over the past two months.

    a) My hunch that I could attack postmodernism via mathematics played out.

    b) What I didn’t expect is that I would further my argument on the morality of calculability (preservation of causality in monetary exchanges). I have been struggling to develop an argument with this for two years.

    c) I’ve been able to ‘correct’ the ‘calculation and incentives and property’ argument used by libertarians in the battle against socialism in order to focus us on Postmodernism now that socialism is dead.

    d) I ended up with a pretty good theory of truth. That I think is out of scope for my book but useful as a separate bit of work. If I can distill it down and it still feels like it fits, I’ll use it. But right now the book is pretty much on-topic and I don’t want to add unnecessary weight to it unless I really need to. I can see that I might when I get around to it. But right now I’m not sure.

    3) My major investment will at least survive until Christmas. lol. I had expected to lose a few million more this year. 🙂 And I’m not quite done with creating a new revenue stream yet. 🙂 lol

    4) I have wonderful friends that I love and get to share the experience of life with.

    Cheers

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-03 09:51:00 UTC

  • INSIGHT Why do autists swing libertarian and solipsists progressive? Thats the a

    INSIGHT

    Why do autists swing libertarian and solipsists progressive?

    Thats the answer you know.

    Its that simple.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-03 08:51:00 UTC

  • Troy Camplin Is there a reference that you can point me to that has say a mathem

    Troy Camplin

    Is there a reference that you can point me to that has say a mathematical proof on one end of a triangle, and a poem on another and a romance novel on the third?

    Someone must have done thus back when thesauruses and the permutations of narrative types were being worked out.

    How does experiential and factual communication map to all the forms we use to communicate?

    Sort of a Nolan chart for written communication. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-03 08:23:00 UTC

  • POLITICS IS MORE POWERFUL THAN ECONOMICS I do not know why economists fail to gr

    POLITICS IS MORE POWERFUL THAN ECONOMICS

    I do not know why economists fail to grasp it.

    I’m not writing a book on economics. I’m writing a book on morality. Morality is the economy of politics.

    Money is just its expression.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-02 17:08:00 UTC

  • DID IT ON PURPOSE: THE POWER OF POLITICS I love you Paul. I really do. You’re br

    http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/pages/books/how-the-economy-was-lost-the-war-of-the-worlds/WE DID IT ON PURPOSE: THE POWER OF POLITICS

    I love you Paul. I really do. You’re brilliant. You’re an incredible critic.

    But the conservatives figured out that we had to bankrupt the state before it destroyed us. So what did we do? Everything possible to bankrupt it. What will we do once it’s bankrupt?

    Gut the state.

    And I plan to dance on its entrails.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-02 17:07:00 UTC

  • IMMIGRATION IS ONLY “GOOD” IF YOU EXICLUDE THE COST OF NORMS. What was the cost

    http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2013/Kuehnimmigration.html#.UiT7RV9yIDw.facebook(SIGH) IMMIGRATION IS ONLY “GOOD” IF YOU EXICLUDE THE COST OF NORMS.

    What was the cost to america of the violation of the 14th amendment?

    What is the cost to america of political friction?

    Without accounting for ALL COSTS it’s NOT economics.

    It’s finance.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-02 16:57:00 UTC