Curt Doolittle

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  • Free Will and Determinism (deterministic Universe)

    Feb 11, 2020, 2:26 PM

    —“Could you say then that free will is a sort of emergent property of determinism?”—Andy Lunn

    Maybe I don’t understand that question enough. We have will. That’s a fact. We evolved for graceful failure in exercise of our will – so that is what we interpret as somtimes lacking free will. We evolved for incremental improvement of our knowledge, and then our will as a consequence. The degree to which we develop our will (ability) into agency (successful application) depends on ability, experience, training and general knowledge. So the question isn’t do we have free will, it’s that we evolved will and the capacity to develop agency with it. But we are limited by our knowledge. We do not appear to be otherwise limited simply because we are so good at building tools that extend our sense, perception and action. Now, within that context, if you mean, that without a deterministic universe (the scientific definition of determinism, not the sophomoric and philosophical definition), then yes, we could never develop agency because there would be no regularity, and without regularity no use for memory, and without memory there would be no use for will reason, or agency. So in that sense, yes. But only in that sense.

  • What Do Pagan(ancestor) and Heathen (nature) Religions Ask of Us?

    Feb 11, 2020, 2:51 PM The only thing heathen (nature) and pagan(archetype) religions ask of us is to acknowledge debts of our inheritance so that we pass that inheritance ‘unspent’ on to others. The rest is an excuse to find relaxation, comfort, entertainment and and joy with others in some activity other than running, hunting, or eating. What you call spiritual is the result of two biological processes. The first is just auto association that is constantly going on in your brain. The human part of our brain never stops, we merely regulate attention or wakefulness to increase or decrease its activity – but it’s always working even in sleep. If It is always engaged in transforming perception into a world model, predicting from that world model, focusing our attention to narrow on some prediction or other, or when not doing so, it’s in continuous rehearsal of short term memory to convert it to long term, and auto association of stimuli to find opportunities. Auto association is like daydreaming. It’s cheap. It’s relaxing. While thinking, reasoning, calculating, and computing with reason is expensive and hard. The second is the old brain constantly worrying about (calculating) social status, advantage, safety. So the experience we call spiritual is the ritual act of sedating the auto-association function of the brain (which is very deep in the bottom center, so that it can fucking relax, and we can feel the safety we feel resting or sleeping with the well fed pack of males (herd of females). Meditation can do this, ritual can do it, prayer can do it exercise can do it, dancing, singing, any group activity that doesn’t force you to calculate status and hierarchy can do it. That’s all it is. A purely mechanical process by which we manage the primitive parts of our brain that evolved prior to reason, and that we gracefully fall back upon when we don’t want to think very hard, or cannot solve a problem, or must act rapidly by instinct. Now how does abrahamic religion work? It creates a false debt to a false god, for false crimes, and asks for us to submit and surrender our reason aspiration and transcendence and instead to ‘stay in place’. So if you wish to worship your evil semitic gods, whose sole purpose is to prevent you from transcendence of man, rather than just to use Jesus as another philosopher that is fine. But for the rest of us Jesus is just another philosophy, and gods are archetypes of our ancestors, and all those archetypes serve as proxies that we can through prayer (conversation), communicate with and obtain wisdom from.

  • What Do Pagan(ancestor) and Heathen (nature) Religions Ask of Us?

    Feb 11, 2020, 2:51 PM The only thing heathen (nature) and pagan(archetype) religions ask of us is to acknowledge debts of our inheritance so that we pass that inheritance ‘unspent’ on to others. The rest is an excuse to find relaxation, comfort, entertainment and and joy with others in some activity other than running, hunting, or eating. What you call spiritual is the result of two biological processes. The first is just auto association that is constantly going on in your brain. The human part of our brain never stops, we merely regulate attention or wakefulness to increase or decrease its activity – but it’s always working even in sleep. If It is always engaged in transforming perception into a world model, predicting from that world model, focusing our attention to narrow on some prediction or other, or when not doing so, it’s in continuous rehearsal of short term memory to convert it to long term, and auto association of stimuli to find opportunities. Auto association is like daydreaming. It’s cheap. It’s relaxing. While thinking, reasoning, calculating, and computing with reason is expensive and hard. The second is the old brain constantly worrying about (calculating) social status, advantage, safety. So the experience we call spiritual is the ritual act of sedating the auto-association function of the brain (which is very deep in the bottom center, so that it can fucking relax, and we can feel the safety we feel resting or sleeping with the well fed pack of males (herd of females). Meditation can do this, ritual can do it, prayer can do it exercise can do it, dancing, singing, any group activity that doesn’t force you to calculate status and hierarchy can do it. That’s all it is. A purely mechanical process by which we manage the primitive parts of our brain that evolved prior to reason, and that we gracefully fall back upon when we don’t want to think very hard, or cannot solve a problem, or must act rapidly by instinct. Now how does abrahamic religion work? It creates a false debt to a false god, for false crimes, and asks for us to submit and surrender our reason aspiration and transcendence and instead to ‘stay in place’. So if you wish to worship your evil semitic gods, whose sole purpose is to prevent you from transcendence of man, rather than just to use Jesus as another philosopher that is fine. But for the rest of us Jesus is just another philosophy, and gods are archetypes of our ancestors, and all those archetypes serve as proxies that we can through prayer (conversation), communicate with and obtain wisdom from.

  • Categories of Religion

    by Luke Weinhagen Maybe play off parasitism with other forms of symbiosis – 1. Mutualitic Religion – benefit to practitioners and benefit to non-practitioners … (Rule of Law)

    1. Commensalitic Religion – benefit to practitioners with no cost to non-practitioner
      … (christianity, buddhism, animism)

    2. Amensalitic Religion – no benefit to the practitioner and harm to the non-practitioner
      ….(islam)

    3. Parasitic Religion – benefit to the practitioner and harm to the non-practitioner
      …. (judaism)

  • Categories of Religion

    by Luke Weinhagen Maybe play off parasitism with other forms of symbiosis – 1. Mutualitic Religion – benefit to practitioners and benefit to non-practitioners … (Rule of Law)

    1. Commensalitic Religion – benefit to practitioners with no cost to non-practitioner
      … (christianity, buddhism, animism)

    2. Amensalitic Religion – no benefit to the practitioner and harm to the non-practitioner
      ….(islam)

    3. Parasitic Religion – benefit to the practitioner and harm to the non-practitioner
      …. (judaism)

  • The Right to Self Determination

    Feb 11, 2020, 5:34 PM We either have the right to self determination – or we have the right to extermination. So choose. (I’m happy either way.) Genomes, genetic distributions, institutions, culture, traditions, norms, manners, ethics, morals, laws, history, myth, legend, monuments, territory, are all assets. Some assets are valuable. Some are not. Some are harmful. If we choose to preserve an asset, we do so. 1) We know that moral intuition is genetic, sex biased, and that only trauma can change it – even then only slightly. We know that all traits are somewhere between 70-80% heritable and the rest is idiosyncratic accumulation rather than patterns of environment. 2) We know that class is genetic, with lower classes accumulating more loads (defects), upper middle the fewest, and aside from noble families, the upper classes random lottery results from the middle – but otherwise there is little to no class rotation. 3) We know that moral biases reflect female (herd, infant-equality, devotion, consumption) strategy and the male (pack, mature-hierarchy, loyalty, capitalization) instinct and that females use social superpredation by undermining, and males political superpredation by violence. 4) We know that each of us is born with a bias in female (lateral breadth) vs male(longitudinal velocity) brain structures, and that the stereotype of male analytic and female empathic is physical construction, and that given freedom to do so we pursue interests fitting our bias. 5) We know that at present we are wealthy enough to want to diverge by the female, empathic, equalitarian, consumptive, infantilized, and underdeveloped strategy and some by the male, analytic, hierarchical, capitalizing, and mature strategy. And so we must separate or civil war. 6) Because while you are of the opinion that you reason, you have very little agency. And if you did, and you had knowledge, you would know that the female strategy is dysgenic, the left’s strategy is dysgenic, and standard of living is dependent on the center of the distribution. 7) So if you want to feel harmony in suicide and bring about another dark age of ignorance, this time with social construction of the myth of possible equality, the only result of which will be dysgenia and decline – we are fine with it. But you can’t take the rest of us with you. 8) Some of us are more than semi domesticated animals sensing, perceiving, feeling, experiencing intuiting, and responding to incentives to hyper consume. And some of us are willing to let you turn your cities into dysgenic favelas. Which is what we plan to let you do.

  • The Right to Self Determination

    Feb 11, 2020, 5:34 PM We either have the right to self determination – or we have the right to extermination. So choose. (I’m happy either way.) Genomes, genetic distributions, institutions, culture, traditions, norms, manners, ethics, morals, laws, history, myth, legend, monuments, territory, are all assets. Some assets are valuable. Some are not. Some are harmful. If we choose to preserve an asset, we do so. 1) We know that moral intuition is genetic, sex biased, and that only trauma can change it – even then only slightly. We know that all traits are somewhere between 70-80% heritable and the rest is idiosyncratic accumulation rather than patterns of environment. 2) We know that class is genetic, with lower classes accumulating more loads (defects), upper middle the fewest, and aside from noble families, the upper classes random lottery results from the middle – but otherwise there is little to no class rotation. 3) We know that moral biases reflect female (herd, infant-equality, devotion, consumption) strategy and the male (pack, mature-hierarchy, loyalty, capitalization) instinct and that females use social superpredation by undermining, and males political superpredation by violence. 4) We know that each of us is born with a bias in female (lateral breadth) vs male(longitudinal velocity) brain structures, and that the stereotype of male analytic and female empathic is physical construction, and that given freedom to do so we pursue interests fitting our bias. 5) We know that at present we are wealthy enough to want to diverge by the female, empathic, equalitarian, consumptive, infantilized, and underdeveloped strategy and some by the male, analytic, hierarchical, capitalizing, and mature strategy. And so we must separate or civil war. 6) Because while you are of the opinion that you reason, you have very little agency. And if you did, and you had knowledge, you would know that the female strategy is dysgenic, the left’s strategy is dysgenic, and standard of living is dependent on the center of the distribution. 7) So if you want to feel harmony in suicide and bring about another dark age of ignorance, this time with social construction of the myth of possible equality, the only result of which will be dysgenia and decline – we are fine with it. But you can’t take the rest of us with you. 8) Some of us are more than semi domesticated animals sensing, perceiving, feeling, experiencing intuiting, and responding to incentives to hyper consume. And some of us are willing to let you turn your cities into dysgenic favelas. Which is what we plan to let you do.

  • Socrates on Declining Population

    Feb 11, 2020, 9:51 PM

    “It seems strange enough to me that a herdsman who lets his cattle decrease and go to the bad should not admit that he is a poor cowherd; but stranger still that a statesman when he causes the citizens to decrease and go to the bad, should feel no shame nor think himself a poor statesman.” – Socrates on declining population

  • Socrates on Declining Population

    Feb 11, 2020, 9:51 PM

    “It seems strange enough to me that a herdsman who lets his cattle decrease and go to the bad should not admit that he is a poor cowherd; but stranger still that a statesman when he causes the citizens to decrease and go to the bad, should feel no shame nor think himself a poor statesman.” – Socrates on declining population

  • Voting

    Feb 12, 2020, 9:50 AM

    —“Universal suffrage was a mistake…and practically everyone knew it would have a great cost, but did it anyway because it’s “right”…the cost was exactly what they predicted it would be: the quality of civilization itself.”—Mike Harvey

    From Alexander Hamilton:

    —“It is also, undeniably, certain, that no Englishman, who can be deemed a free agent in a political view, can be bound by laws, to which he has not consented, either in person, or by his representative. Or, in other words, every Englishman (exclusive of the mercantile and trading part of the nation) who possesses a freehold, to the value of forty shillings per annum, has a right to a share in the legislature, which he exercises, by giving his vote in the election of some person, he approves of, as his representative. “The true reason (says Blackstone) of requiring any qualification, with regard to property in voters, is to exclude such persons, as are in so mean a situation, that they are esteemed to have no will of their own. If these persons had votes, they would be tempted to dispose of them, under some undue influence, or other. This would give a great, an artful, or a wealthy man, a larger share in elections, than is consistent with general liberty. If it were probable, that every man would give his vote, freely, and without influence of any kind, then, upon the true theory and genuine principles of Liberty, every member of the community, however poor, should have a vote, in electing those delegates, to whose charge is committed the disposal of his property, his liberty and life. But since that can hardly be expected, in persons of indigent fortunes, or such as are under the immediate dominion of others, all popular states have been obliged to establish certain qualifications, whereby, some who are suspected to have no will of their own, are excluded from voting; in order, to set other individuals, whose wills may be supposed independent, more thoroughly upon a level with each other.” Hence it appears, that such “of the people as have no vote in the choice of representatives, and therefore, are govern’d, by laws, to which they have not consented, either by themselves or by their representatives, are only those persons, who are in so mean a situation, that they are esteemed to have no will of their own.” Every free agent, every free man, possessing a freehold of forty shillings per annum, is, by the British constitution, intitled to a vote, in the election of those who are invested with the disposal of his life, his liberty and property.”—

    Source: Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, or A more impartial and comprehensive View of the Dispute between Great-Britain and the Colonies. . . . (New York, 1775), in Harold C. Syrett, ed., The Papers of Alexander Hamilton (New York: Columbia University Press, 1961-1979), 1:81-165.