Curt Doolittle

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    photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_SxeO6JU-xg/49347972_10156899555122264_7525335018206396416_o_10156899555112264.jpg GOALS IN ACCORDANCE WITH OUR AGENCY AS WELL AS NATURE.

    I prefer we target the virtue spectrum from stoicism (little agency), to epicureanism (personal agency, to aristocracy (political agency) rather than a universal. The technique serves the mind no matter what virtues we seek to give it, but that does not mean ‘monotheism’ so to speak in that we must all seek the same. We each have different agency. We require goals that provide mindfulness in accordance with our agency.Scott ClaremontDo you apply agency as a god/Demi god/hero in the sense as the Romans did? How does one grasp the spectrum of agency?Jan 7, 2019, 4:25 AMCurt Doolittlecan you reprase the question because I can interpret that far too many ways to provide an answer….Jan 7, 2019, 8:48 AMScott Claremontwhat bearings can one use to gauge his agency along the way? Is there a living example of god ? *the guy who has nothing but agency/no animal nature so to speak. A guy who has great agency but is still evolving his agency. Then a guy who has less than him, then all the way down to females and then the animalJan 7, 2019, 3:58 PMCurt Doolittlewe are gods. if we sat before aristotle and alexander today they would believe our claim – that at least we were demigods. They did not believe in the gods as we imagine, the simple people did just as the simple people do today. the demand for gods is iversely proportional to one’s agencyJan 7, 2019, 4:08 PMScott ClaremontCurt Doolittle who do we look to to model agency ? Our groupJan 7, 2019, 4:44 PMCurt DoolittleWhy would you ‘look’ to anyone?Jan 7, 2019, 4:45 PMScott ClaremontCurt Doolittle to know what agency looks like. How does one know if he’s doing it right or where he needs to growJan 7, 2019, 4:51 PMCurt DoolittleBill Joslin ^Jan 7, 2019, 6:37 PMBill JoslinWhat might clear up some confusion would be thinking of agency as the substrate which can’t be negotiated independent of structure (nature, social, institutional influences etc) and instead swap out the terms agency for autonomy. Where agency/structure are a pair within a constant relation (like supply/demand are a pair which have a constant relation) and autonomy is one phase or location along to curve.

    By doing so agency in the way you are using it, or autonomy in the way I’m suggesting as an alternative, starts to become synonymous with soveriegnty.

    We can obtain autonomy via institutional protection (law, individual rights) and social circumstances (enriched environment, opportunity, education etc) – or via our own industriousness, influence and power. (And combinations of each)

    The former would be liberty, the later soveriegnty. The former demigods, the later gods.

    Then on the other end of the spectrum from Soveriegnty would be those whose use of agency forces others to constrain and restrict their behaviour – they wouldn’t obtain much autonomy by way of consequences of their use of agency.Jan 7, 2019, 7:13 PMScott ClaremontIt is easier using the word autonomy. I have struggled with my own as I tend to look outside myself for intuitive feelings I know the answer, but cannot absorb the feelings so I look for an elder to talk about them.

    Do you elders have elders to talk to or have you reached complete autonomy ?Jan 7, 2019, 9:13 PMBill JoslinScott Claremont me? I’m a flipp’n meathead. Hahahaha

    I’m inhabited by Curt’s ideas, with the occasional meager innovation of my own. So no, I’m not autonomous, but with help of other have had a taste. Like soveriegnty via a network of allied men skilled in violence, together we can generate autonomy with each other via a network of minds which are skilled in disambiguation: Force multipliers together.Jan 7, 2019, 9:27 PMScott ClaremontBill Joslin who does Curt turn to ? Megan I bet..Jan 7, 2019, 10:04 PMScott ClaremontMegan K. Usui thanks babe. I appreciate your feedbackJan 9, 2019, 12:47 AMBill JoslinWhat? The palace whisperer deleted her tracks?Jan 9, 2019, 1:37 AMScott ClaremontBill Joslin yeah don’t get it. Maybe she thought she was a little too harshJan 9, 2019, 2:13 AMBill Joslin(you are too kind in your assessments- more.like managing the appearances of her affiliations)Jan 9, 2019, 2:15 AMGOALS IN ACCORDANCE WITH OUR AGENCY AS WELL AS NATURE.

    I prefer we target the virtue spectrum from stoicism (little agency), to epicureanism (personal agency, to aristocracy (political agency) rather than a universal. The technique serves the mind no matter what virtues we seek to give it, but that does not mean ‘monotheism’ so to speak in that we must all seek the same. We each have different agency. We require goals that provide mindfulness in accordance with our agency.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-06 14:58:00 UTC

  • ARE THE MOST ACCURATE MEASURE IN SOCIAL SCIENCE via Brandon Hayes, via Rosenborg

    http://www.spsp.org/news-center/blog/stereotype-accuracy-response?fbclid=IwAR02Jlx5CLeUKLE4ovolOnAI3UMKZCxwAjVfBayrt1UKCvlhBoiDuu_hpTsSTEREOTYPES ARE THE MOST ACCURATE MEASURE IN SOCIAL SCIENCE

    via Brandon Hayes, via Rosenborg Predmetsky

    (worth repeating) (just like IQ the most accurate measure in psychology).

    from: http://www.spsp.org/news-center/blog/stereotype-accuracy-response/

    THE EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE

    This blog is not the place to review the overwhelming evidence of stereotype accuracy, though interested readers are directed to SPSR and our updated reviews that have appeared in Current Directions in Psychological Science (Jussim et al, 2015) and Todd Nelson’s Handbook of Stereotypes, Prejudice and Discrimination (Jussim et al, 2016). Summarizing those reviews:

    Over 50 studies have now been performed assessing the accuracy of demographic, national, political, and other stereotypes.

    Stereotype accuracy is one of the largest and most replicable effects in all of social psychology. Richard et al (2003) found that fewer than 5% of all effects in social psychology exceeded r’s of .50. In contrast, nearly all consensual stereotype accuracy correlations and about half of all personal stereotype accuracy correlations exceed .50.[1]

    The evidence from both experimental and naturalistic studies indicates that people apply their stereotypes when judging others approximately rationally. When individuating information is absent or ambiguous, stereotypes often influence person perception. When individuating information is clear and relevant, its effects are “massive” (Kunda & Thagard, 1996, yes, that is a direct quote, p. 292), and stereotype effects tend to be weak or nonexistent.

    This puts the lie to longstanding claims that “stereotypes lead people to ignore individual differences.”

    There are only a handful of studies that have examined whether the situations in which people rely on stereotypes when judging individuals increases or reduces person perception accuracy. Although those studies typically show that doing so increases person perception accuracy, there are too few to reach any general conclusion. Nonetheless, that body of research provides no support whatsoever for the common presumption that the ways and conditions under which people rely on stereotypes routinely reduces person perception accuracy.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-06 14:41:00 UTC

  • THE SECRET TO TEACHING MEN: EXHAUSTIVE KING OF THE HILL. Teaching men is really

    THE SECRET TO TEACHING MEN: EXHAUSTIVE KING OF THE HILL.

    Teaching men is really easy: Bait them into dominance play.

    Just as exhaustive forgiveness in tit-for-tat is the optimum cooperative strategy, exhaustive baiting for dominance play is the optimum MALE cooperative strategy.

    WTF do you think shit-talking amounts to? Are you fking thick?

    (See what I did there?)

    Set up King of the Hill games where ANY forward progress gets the men recognition. Do not criticize failure, only cowardice, attention seeking, or time wasting.

    If you are too predictable you will ruin the game. You must present a variety of challenges.

    We cannot feel ‘good’ about learning by conformity the way girls and women do. We must play at fighting or it’s not worth our time.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-06 14:13:00 UTC

  • THIS YEAR … We are going to need: … (a) coaches/mentors for young men, and a

    THIS YEAR …

    We are going to need:

    … (a) coaches/mentors for young men, and a way to filter those coaches to eliminate the quacks and losers, and we will seek to concentrate income in small numbers of them.

    … (b) a class in teaching mindfulness (self authoring) in the three points of the spectrum: stoicism, epicureanism, and aristocracy (the amount of available agency). Again, concentrating income in small numbers.

    … (c) a participating network of Paintball/Airsoft groups

    … (d) a participating network of firearms instructors/ranges that teach not TARGET shooting but fight-shooting (i have specific requirements for this).

    … (e) a VERY select group of fire-and-movement trainers in the SWAT rather than MILITARY experience. (De-emphasizing patrol and emphasizing strikes and raids. )

    … (f) a VERY select group of martial arts (striking, wrestling)

    … (g) “the idiots guide to lifting heavy things.”

    … (h) ” organized hiking, camping, marching etc” events with barbeques or sandwitches. afterward.

    … (i) political event participation in the assistance of others without drawing specific attention to the institute or the movement.

    Fighting and shooting are high returns for the first 20%. In other words, 80% of the benefit of training is in the first 20% of the training.

    This is how we make men fit.

    Most young men who need this kind of thing do not have a lot of extra money. We need to make sure we are using scale so that we keep the prices down for them.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-06 13:12:00 UTC

  • Remodeling a home…. Woman, applying muscle: “Why am I the man in this relation

    Remodeling a home….

    Woman, applying muscle: “Why am I the man in this relationship?”

    Man, with power tool: “Why are you the man in all your relationships?”

    Doh!!!!

    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-06 12:52:00 UTC

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    photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_SxeO6JU-xg/49625832_10156899333252264_2996912618758733824_o_10156899333247264.jpg Does this mean I can take a vacation day? (Made my day)Andrea RoyallI wishJan 6, 2019, 1:49 PMDoes this mean I can take a vacation day? (Made my day)

    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-06 12:47:00 UTC

  • ( Well all, looks like we found a heavy hitter to teach our classes on WAR. WHOO

    ( Well all, looks like we found a heavy hitter to teach our classes on WAR. WHOO HOOO!!!! )

    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-06 12:33:00 UTC

  • “One genius can change the world, a million smart guys can not.”—John Jones Um

    —“One genius can change the world, a million smart guys can not.”—John Jones

    Um…. not quite. One genius can REVOLUTIONIZE the world, a million smart people can and do change it constantly.

    Even such, lone geniuses are almost non-existent, since it appears to take three generations to cook a genius in a field, and we tend to memorialize the first when it’s usually two or three that result from that cooking.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-06 11:55:00 UTC

  • SIMPLE ANSWERS DEPARTMENT —“The Spanish empire was centrally run. The British

    SIMPLE ANSWERS DEPARTMENT

    —“The Spanish empire was centrally run. The British was based on free enterprise.”—Richard Hall

    The british empire was based upon rule of law, which results in free enterprise.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-06 10:56:00 UTC

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    photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_SxeO6JU-xg/49398148_10156899123602264_3828070867359760384_o_10156899123597264.jpg DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN ITALIAN IQ

    —“30% southern admixture in Piemonte lowered the IQ by 2.2 points. Thus the genotypic difference between Northern and Southern Italy is 2.2/0.3= 7.33 IQ points.”—

    A lot of this was literacy. This is the reason for china vs india.

    Literacy = programming.

    ITALY VS INDIA (SIMILAR STORIES)

    Truthful testimony, literacy, hard science, and hard social science (tort law) eliminate error.Göran DahlMore genetic diversity in Italy than in all other European countries combined – save for Finland.Jan 6, 2019, 10:55 AMZach MattoWhat’s often missed is that a huge portion of southern Italy’s economy is underground (it’s always been this way), thus economic and employment figures do not match on-the-ground reality.Jan 6, 2019, 11:04 AMFrancesco PrincipiWhat italian peninsula should be (politically).Jan 6, 2019, 11:54 AMCurt Doolittleyes.Jan 6, 2019, 11:55 AMMike HessGöran Dahl How is Italy more diverse than Greece . They are middle eastern and European mixed .Jan 6, 2019, 11:59 AMCurt DoolittleI FOUND HEAVEN FOR ROADSTERS AND IT IS HERE:

    And you stay here when in heaven:

    The Hotel Bellevue Syrene, Sorrento.Jan 6, 2019, 12:01 PMFrancesco PrincipiNo doubtJan 6, 2019, 12:02 PMFrancesco PrincipiThis part is not negletted like the rest of the region (Campania) only beause the Anglo tourism.Jan 6, 2019, 12:05 PMGöran DahlIt’s the other way around; Italy has that mixture while Greece doesn’t; and on top of that, Northern Italy has a lot of Germanic admixture (around 40%). This creates a long genetic line between Sicilians/Southern Italians and Venetians, where the middle (Tuscany et al) probably resembles Iron Age Romans the most, though we need a good amount of ancient samples to determine that question.Jan 6, 2019, 12:18 PMCurt Doolittleagreed. ANd I had to have a Bodyguard in Naples.Jan 6, 2019, 12:24 PMFrancesco PrincipiVesuvio has many fans in the rest of ItalyJan 6, 2019, 12:27 PMJayant BhandariIndia vs China… China’s iq is 105. India’s is 82. India can get to 91 with literacy and nutrition. So the huge gap that will stay cannot be solved with education.Jan 6, 2019, 12:34 PMArthur Spidoneeds a few generations, thoJan 6, 2019, 12:35 PMNicholas ManousosInteresting case. They didn’t even speak the same language until they unified in the 1860s. Naturally they chose the Firenze dialect to become the national language; Dante was from Firenze. People from Firenze had a headstart because it was their native language.Jan 6, 2019, 12:43 PMCurt DoolittleJayant, there is a wonderful book, the Arthashastra by Rangarajan. I don’t remember who recommended it to me but it was the most helpful book I’ve ever read on indian history. This is political science at its best.

    If I wanted to trace western thought in political (and military) science it would be a very limited set of authors and a very small number of books. Aristotle, Caesar, machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Smith, Hume, Darwin and Milsom’s Law with Jefferson/Adam’s constitution.

    I can do a fair job with Chinese political thought since I studied it in college.

    I can’t do the same for indian. Is there a ‘small’ selection of books that are as painfully secular (scientific and practical) as Rangarajan’s? And I assume they would be available in english?Jan 6, 2019, 2:39 PMJayant BhandariMy friend Madhusudan Raj is an expert on this. He is also one of those extremely open minded people you want to be friends with. Madhusudan… Can you give some names to Curt please?Jan 6, 2019, 3:12 PMCurt DoolittleJayant Bhandari (thank you)Jan 6, 2019, 4:03 PMNicholas ManousosContinued…

    Greece, after its independence from the Ottoman Empire, chose the Peloponese dialect as its national language. Lucky, that’s where I’m from.

    In England it probably happened earlier, around the Elizabethan/King James Era when printing force them to standardize the language. But I don’t know which dialect they chose in England.Jan 6, 2019, 4:40 PMMadhusudan RajCurt Doolittle Arthashastra is a book by an ancient teacher of 4th century BC, who used to head Takshshila learning center and his name was Vishnugupta also popularly known as Chanakya or Kautilya. I will make the list of some books and post here later in the day.Jan 6, 2019, 10:11 PMScott ClaremontCurt if every nation had the same access to education, would all nations have similar iq averages? Asking for a friendJan 7, 2019, 4:17 AMMadhusudan RajCurt Doolittle This book of Himanshu Roy briefly covers major Indian thinkers and distills their political thoughts: https://www.amazon.in/Indian-Political-Thought-Himanshu-Roy/dp/9332587337/ref=dp_ob_image_bk. After reading Chanakya, another book that you can read is Manu’s laws (caste is systematized by him), which is another formative book which defines India even today: https://www.amazon.in/dp/0140445404/?coliid=I1I5S53BDJR69K&colid=24Q4Q9SAUWT15&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it#reader_0140445404.Jan 7, 2019, 7:01 AMMadhusudan RajCurt Doolittle Also, A L Basham’s, a well known Indologist, book “The Wonder that Was India” also has a chapter on politics that will be helpful: https://archive.org/details/TheWonderThatWasIndiaByALBasham/page/n15.Jan 7, 2019, 7:09 AMԴավիդ ՎելլաThey still almost don’t. Unification was also imposed from the Piedmont in the north and southern Italy was plundered.Jan 7, 2019, 7:16 AMNicholas ManousosDawid Wella Most multi generational Italians in the diaspora, especially from Calabria and Sicily, still don’t speak proper Italian.Jan 7, 2019, 7:25 AMԴավիդ ՎելլաI’m aware, I have family in Sicily. I heard that at one point southern Italians used to come to my country, Malta, to learn Italian because of the level of Italian that was spoken by the educated class.Jan 7, 2019, 7:42 AMԴավիդ ՎելլաSicilian and Neapolitan almost sound like entirely different languages from standard Italian.Jan 7, 2019, 7:45 AMԴավիդ ՎելլաA lot of the wealth in Italy is hidden or stored as assets even in regions like Tuscany.Jan 7, 2019, 7:49 AMBrendan HegartyNo. Unless a meat grinder is used for those who cant survive the universalized education standard you suggest.Jan 7, 2019, 10:02 AMBrendan HegartyReminds me of this

    “I love black people I hate terroni (Southerners(“Jan 7, 2019, 10:05 AMErik LukovskyThere’s that many migrants in Italy?Jan 7, 2019, 9:12 PMDIFFERENCE BETWEEN NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN ITALIAN IQ

    —“30% southern admixture in Piemonte lowered the IQ by 2.2 points. Thus the genotypic difference between Northern and Southern Italy is 2.2/0.3= 7.33 IQ points.”—

    A lot of this was literacy. This is the reason for china vs india.

    Literacy = programming.

    ITALY VS INDIA (SIMILAR STORIES)

    Truthful testimony, literacy, hard science, and hard social science (tort law) eliminate error.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-06 10:54:00 UTC