Curt Doolittle

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  • The West Is Unique, and Its Genetic

    Jan 30, 2020, 9:45 PM by Tom Creo Prof Robert Plomin, best behavioral and population geneticist on the planet, summarises 40 years of behavioral and population genetics in his wonderful book “Blueprint” last year. Despite being a massive leftist he states that it is definitive that, in the West at least, it is genetics that makes us who we are and that the environmental contributions to each of us are random noise; unknowable, unpredictable, and uncontrollable in principle. There are essentially no systemic or institutional environmental effects on individual’s in the West. If there was this research would have found it by now – and as we all know leftist geneticists are highly ideologically incentivised to look for it. Genetics is indeed all that matters.

    CD: we’re superior in what we do (invent). That does not mean we cannot be defeated.

  • The West Is Unique, and Its Genetic

    Jan 30, 2020, 9:45 PM by Tom Creo Prof Robert Plomin, best behavioral and population geneticist on the planet, summarises 40 years of behavioral and population genetics in his wonderful book “Blueprint” last year. Despite being a massive leftist he states that it is definitive that, in the West at least, it is genetics that makes us who we are and that the environmental contributions to each of us are random noise; unknowable, unpredictable, and uncontrollable in principle. There are essentially no systemic or institutional environmental effects on individual’s in the West. If there was this research would have found it by now – and as we all know leftist geneticists are highly ideologically incentivised to look for it. Genetics is indeed all that matters.

    CD: we’re superior in what we do (invent). That does not mean we cannot be defeated.

  • Our Dysfunctional Family of Gods

    Jan 30, 2020, 9:46 PM

    —“In fact the family is dysfunctional on purpose, to give us examples of how to solve problems with various personalities and issues.”—Greg Hamilton

  • Our Dysfunctional Family of Gods

    Jan 30, 2020, 9:46 PM

    —“In fact the family is dysfunctional on purpose, to give us examples of how to solve problems with various personalities and issues.”—Greg Hamilton

  • Yes We Can Falsify All Human Speech in Court.

    Jan 30, 2020, 10:11 PM We can, and do, falsify all human action in court. The question was, could we falsify all human speech in court. The answer is yes. The usual problem is that someone wants an ideology(political) philosophy (secular theological), or theology (supernatural theological) solution – which is impossible. Because Science (truthful testimony) is falsificationary. As far as I know, P is complete. And there are no false or ir-reciprocal statements that can survive its falsification. That fact that people can’t get their noggins around the fact that all science (testimony) like markets (competition) is falsificationary is a common problem. But it stems from a failure to understand that science is falsificationary, then demanding P, like philosophy, ideology, or religion be justificationary. It’s not. So they criticize P for not being a science on the one hand by false presumption science is justificationary, and then complain P isn’t justificationary. Kind of silly really, but you can see where they get it from. Most people are stuck in the error of “Mathiness” because they don’t grasp the constitution of, or limits of, mathematics. Math breaks down in all three directions: the very small, the very large, and the very-human (cognitive): economics. If you need a positive theology, philosophy, ideology, sophism, or pseudoscience, then I understand the via-positiva is necessary for simple minds. But grownups are not afraid of via-negativa (skepticism), because we know all non trivial non tautological propositions are contingent, because we may always or nearly always, discover some novel parsimony that allows us to reorganize our paradigms for greater consistency, correspondence, coherence, completeness and parsimony than before. Edit

  • Yes We Can Falsify All Human Speech in Court.

    Jan 30, 2020, 10:11 PM We can, and do, falsify all human action in court. The question was, could we falsify all human speech in court. The answer is yes. The usual problem is that someone wants an ideology(political) philosophy (secular theological), or theology (supernatural theological) solution – which is impossible. Because Science (truthful testimony) is falsificationary. As far as I know, P is complete. And there are no false or ir-reciprocal statements that can survive its falsification. That fact that people can’t get their noggins around the fact that all science (testimony) like markets (competition) is falsificationary is a common problem. But it stems from a failure to understand that science is falsificationary, then demanding P, like philosophy, ideology, or religion be justificationary. It’s not. So they criticize P for not being a science on the one hand by false presumption science is justificationary, and then complain P isn’t justificationary. Kind of silly really, but you can see where they get it from. Most people are stuck in the error of “Mathiness” because they don’t grasp the constitution of, or limits of, mathematics. Math breaks down in all three directions: the very small, the very large, and the very-human (cognitive): economics. If you need a positive theology, philosophy, ideology, sophism, or pseudoscience, then I understand the via-positiva is necessary for simple minds. But grownups are not afraid of via-negativa (skepticism), because we know all non trivial non tautological propositions are contingent, because we may always or nearly always, discover some novel parsimony that allows us to reorganize our paradigms for greater consistency, correspondence, coherence, completeness and parsimony than before. Edit

  • On Spirituality (Try to grok it)

    On Spirituality (Try to grok it)
    Hmm. Spirituality isn’t magic. Nor is love, nor Consciousness. These are biological processes that serve biological functions, for evolutionary reasons. The “Church” Fireside feast experience is necessary in post- tribal world but false religion is a drug that isn’t good for you.So, yes science can explain spirituality, but that explanation differs from the experience just as the science of colors differs from the experience of colors. We evolved a biological demand for ‘mindfulness’ across a spectrum of conditions. The question is how we satisfy demand. An historical religion, a dramatic religion, even a mythical religion where we pay the same debts to the past satisfy demand. But just as heroin is a substitute for sexual addiction to a partner, theological religion is a substitute for addiction to the polity – to very bad ends. And I use that analogy for very specific reasons. Because that is the closest analogy. Membership, Friendship, Joh, Sex, Love, Spirituality, Mindfulness, are causally related. 50 how can we produce mindfulness in all those conditions without the externalities of false religions? And conversely, why did the christians resist, suppress, and violently eradicate the joyous religion of the ancient world, and the secular evolution of philosophy (libertarian), stoicism (masculine), epicureanism(feminine) – to drag everyone like islam to equality at the bottom.

  • People Just Need a Binding Narrative and Mindfulness

    Jan 31, 2020, 7:12 AM People Just Need a Binding Narrative and Mindfulness. They do not have to come from the same sources. I just stick with (a) jesus’ teaching is reducible to five points, (b) the ten commandments are just the law of tort, ( c) and europeans don’t need to lie about either because we’ve always practiced sovereignty, reciprocity, truth, jury, tripartism, and aristocratic egalitarianism. It’s just that each of those ideas takes a standard deviation higher intelligence than the semitic religions to grasp. And that’s the net of it right there. There is no evidence people need faith. It’s a normative conclusion. People need a binding intergenerational narrative. It must have an embedded ambition. But most of the world did quite well before nonsense-religions. Ancestor worship and buddhism for the east, and ancestor worship and stoicism for the west are obvious examples. Jesus fits into the indo-european trinary religion just fine and if he had been included into the pantheon we wouldn’t have this problem – but the semites wanted to undermine the great, joyous, greco roman empire (and persian, and egyptian..) with a mandatory authoritarian universalist religion so that they could encourage (warring, lying, cheating, malicious, awful) middle eastern tribal people. But judaism succeeded by separatism, and christianity failed among tribal people, and islam evolved out of a christian sect into a conquering rather than undermining version of abrahamism.

  • People Just Need a Binding Narrative and Mindfulness

    Jan 31, 2020, 7:12 AM People Just Need a Binding Narrative and Mindfulness. They do not have to come from the same sources. I just stick with (a) jesus’ teaching is reducible to five points, (b) the ten commandments are just the law of tort, ( c) and europeans don’t need to lie about either because we’ve always practiced sovereignty, reciprocity, truth, jury, tripartism, and aristocratic egalitarianism. It’s just that each of those ideas takes a standard deviation higher intelligence than the semitic religions to grasp. And that’s the net of it right there. There is no evidence people need faith. It’s a normative conclusion. People need a binding intergenerational narrative. It must have an embedded ambition. But most of the world did quite well before nonsense-religions. Ancestor worship and buddhism for the east, and ancestor worship and stoicism for the west are obvious examples. Jesus fits into the indo-european trinary religion just fine and if he had been included into the pantheon we wouldn’t have this problem – but the semites wanted to undermine the great, joyous, greco roman empire (and persian, and egyptian..) with a mandatory authoritarian universalist religion so that they could encourage (warring, lying, cheating, malicious, awful) middle eastern tribal people. But judaism succeeded by separatism, and christianity failed among tribal people, and islam evolved out of a christian sect into a conquering rather than undermining version of abrahamism.

  • I Argue Against Abrahamism

    Jan 31, 2020, 7:28 AM I don’t argue against christian ethics (outcome) – I argue against abrahamism (justification). I want them to be christians. I just don’t want them to argue with me by claiming that their preference for conveying Christian ethics is a truth or a necessity – It’s neither. it’s a good, and a preference. that’s fine. 😉 But theology isn’t true or even close to it. It’s a false and unwarrantable promise to bait you into following christian ethics. I just tell them that christianity when stated in scientific terms is in fact the scientific optimum ethics. The way that they argue it and justify it is rather ridiculous for those of us who are fine with the scientific truth being enough of a reason to act according to christian ethics. If you need different incentives to follow christian ethics that’s just a psychological difference. Otherwise, natural law and Christian ethics are the optimum. Largely, need for faith is a biological bias to empathy (feminine minds); need for theological argument is a biological bias for (weak) male minds. And the lack of need for faith is a biological basis for analytic (male) minds. And given that regardless of sex we almost all share some distribution of masculine and feminine biases. So no matter which reason you choose christianity: emotional faith, authoritarian rational, or scientific acknowledgment, all that matters is that people who AREN’T CHRISTIAN always and everywhere have more questionable (worse) ethics that are incompatible with western civilization.