October 12th, 2018 12:47 PM IQ BY MAJOR (COLLEGES DO NOT PRODUCE THIS DATA ON PURPOSE) [T]here are five different measures we use to answer this question: 1) the iq of high school students applying for university (we have their iq scores from standardized tests) 2) the sat scores of college students by major 3) the gre scores of grad students by major 4) the long term tracking of students from high school to life. 5) the lifetime performance of all degree holders by socio economic status. Most of these tests show volatility because 1) weschler is the best measure but only available in high school students, 2) mathematics appears to be the best functional test of intelligence at the high end, and ‘verbal ability’ was added to raise the measure of girls/women on tests, 3) the personality trait ‘industriousness’ is so influential on performance 4) sat scores test education, gre scores select upward, 5) colleges and universities vary vastly in the capability of students they attract and the difficulty of the major they provide. 6) smaller numbers of men go to college and tend to have higher abilities, and larger numbers of women go to college regardless of their abilities. 7) girls mature much earlier, and boys much later, so IQ stabilizes in adulthood (and any advances evaporate), and we have no means of IQ testing after 23 when this stabilization occurs other than lifetime performance. The numbers in the the OP reflect an effect which is well understood in the data: more women go to college than men by far now, and that lowers the score of women to the median because of regression to the mean at scale. Moreover, some degrees have a negative impact on lifetime earnings (social work, sociology, education). This is important for the simple reason that most published proxies for intelligence of gender and occupation use the number of degrees independent of major as a proxy for IQ which tends to vastly overstate or understand the biological intelligence, functional intelligence, of demographic areas. None of which is complicated. But the reminder needs to be out there constantly that this is how aggregates are produced.
Source: Original Site Post
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Lean Mean Information Processing Machines
October 12th, 2018 4:48 PM LEAN MEAN INFORMATION PROCESSING MACHINES
—“Researchers discovered Aspergers individuals scores are much higher when they are evaluated by a test called Ravens Progressive Matrices, which encompasses reasoning, novel problem-solving abilities, and high-level abstraction. By comparison, scores for non-Aspergers individuals are much more consistent across different tests. Interestingly, Asperger participants performance on Ravens Matrices was associated with their strongest peaks of performance on the traditional Wechsler. A previous study by the same group found very similar results for autistic individuals as well, whose peaks of ability are perceptual, rather than verbal as in Asperger individuals. This observation suggests that individuals with autism spectrum disorders have a common information processing mechanism for different aspects of information (verbal vs. perceptual).”—
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0025372 (h/t: @[100011784153824:2048:Drew Schibsted] )
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Genocide is the rule, not the exception
October 12th, 2018 10:16 AM
[A]bsorption, Displacement and Genocide are the rule in human history, not the exception.
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The Constitution of Religion
October 12th, 2018 3:43 PM THE CONSTITUTION OF RELIGION – “THOSE WHO COME UPON US IN OUR WILDER DAYS NOT KNOWING WHAT USE WE MADE OF THEM. 😉 “
—“Curt Doolittle, you confessed to some aspergerism. Asperger people tend to be general intelligences, and fail to see archetypes, swiss-knife like cognitive schemata, and therefore, the value of religion. Can you explain where I’m wrong?”—- Giego Caleiro
[W]ell, instead, I would say that those of us at the edge of the spectrum are more fully human (dependent upon reason), and those of you who are not, are less fully human (still dependent on animal impulse and intuition). I am not the first person to say that aspie-ness is the next step in evolution since it simply means there is more introspective capacity than neuro-commoners possess, and greater ability to process volumes of information, and that we are perfectly happy with one another, and that it’s neuro-commoners that are no longer ‘fit’ for socialization. That said, to address your question about associative (pre-cognitive) rather than rational or calculative (cognitive) relations: you know, you can find VALUE in archetypes and I’ve argued about reforming stoicism to make use of archetypes and thereby limit ‘religious’ literature to heroic rather than submissive and supernatural content. This is the future of ‘Religion’ as I undrestand it since it is not dependent on professed belief in and dedication to ritualization of falsehoods. But when we talk about SOCIAL and POLITICAL and ECONOMIC orders, which is my job, “Meaning” is how you coerce people to agree with your FRAME while TRUTH is how you render disputes and limit people to that which is not parasitic and predatory and deceitful with the UNIVERSAL FRAME (what we call scientific frame). So what you call religion and are indoctrinated to think of religion as monotheism, I (correctly) understand that it is just a method of training the intuition (emotions) such that they conform to the group’s evolutionary strategy. And this same process can be achieved through many ways – some of which are nearly perfect (stoicism), some a be less so (greco-roman polytheism, shintoism, ritual, ancestor worship), some quite a bit less so (buddhism), some outright bad (christianity), some outright catastrophic (islam) and some outright evil (judaism). So while my ‘gift’ allows me to see subtle patterns independent of emotional and cognitive bias better than the vast majority of people, it doesn’t mean I don’t understand (or practice) some version of religion. It means, that like Nietzsche, I undrestand the depth of the evil of abrahamic religions and that we are still struggling to release ourselves from the dark ages that they imposed upon this world, through the use of a particular frailty of the human mind when open to suggestion. So I specialize in VIA NEGATIVA (law, decidability) which says only what you must not do, not what you must do. Whatever you do that doesn’t violate that law is either amoral (irrelevant) or moral (not bad), or good (additive to the commons). One can, VIA POSITIVA (meaning, education) train the body, intuition(emotions), and mind (calculation) and memory (general knowledge) by various means. And I judge those means and the law judges those means not by how easy it is or familiar it is to transfer meaning – but, via-negativa, by the damage caused by any falsehood, parasitism, predation therein. Ergo, abrahamic religions are all evil – the greatest evil man has faced other than the great plagues. The question is how can we produce a literature (“Wisdom Literature” is the name for this category of education) that is absent those ‘bads and falsehoods’. Stoicism was eventually invented by the late greeks and romans and it was the combination of stoicism and mithraism that should have resulted in the ideal man, and the ideal virtues – for the simple reason that Homer provided a hero of the aristocracy, zeno a hero of the new middle class, and the jews a hero for the slaves women and underclass. The problem is, that the underclass hero was authoritarian slave owner and judaism a rebellion, christianity an undermining, and islam a conquest of the great civilizations – destroying aristocracy wherever it went, and knowledge and learning with it. We have ancestors worthy of worship – hundreds if not a thousand. Those who have shit ancestors make up gods. Those of us with ancestors (Odin) or archetypes (greco-roman-egyptian) need not fabricate false heroes from the leftover scraps of their betters. If you are not capable of having this discussion I will understand. Few are. Which is why these religions are evil. There is no difference between cigarette addiction, alcohol addiction, drug addiction, and monotheistic abrahamic addiction, other than the means by which the opiates are released into the system. That is why religious people demonstrate addiction responses and withdrawal symptoms when they are confronted with the fact that their mindfulness (training of their emotions) can be performed by many means, but they lack the will courage and honor to leave superstition behind. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine
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Democracy: a massive spoliation of resources from the producer
October 12th, 2018 10:00 AM
—“Democracy should be understood as an institutionalised collective crime and a massive spoliation of resources from the producers to the free riders: A vast pigouvian tax, but in a reverse sense.”—Jose Francisco Mayora
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The Prussian Order (martial) vs Others
October 12th, 2018 2:51 PM THE PRUSSIAN ORDER (MARTIAL) VS OTHERS [R]ussia longs for the Prussian Order but cannot produce it – loyalty for russians is a matter of family not state. Germany has been castigated for it, and broken to prevent its revival. Britain virtue-spirals her pretense of superiority to it meanwhile dying off after 500 years of rule. France is it’s feminine enemy to the last. America produces it and would maintain it if not for underclass immigration and population replacement. Some of us simply prefer the martial established male order. some of us the commercial ascendent male order, and some of us the cult feminine order. It’s semitic universalism in french postmodern and jewish marxist, russian orthodox, and western utopianism that resists it. Greek, Roman, German, British, American, Australian Masculinism of the Militia. Russia has missed her window when she allowed the jewish bolsheviks to kill her own. France lost it in 1789 when she killed her own. There is a small chance that we can restore germany if we leave her to her own devices. There is a good chance we can restore the british empire if we make the right choices. But that choice will come at the point of a gun. Therefore “SO BE IT.”
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To Understand Something, Attack It Exhaustively and Mercilessly
October 12th, 2018 2:24 PM
[I]f you want to understand something, attack it exhaustively and mercilessly until you can’t attack anything that remains. There is always a grain of truth in there somewhere under the layers of value laden virtue signals and fraud. 😉
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A Question About Hoppe, and Private States as Corporations
October 12th, 2018 1:56 PM (good read for libertarians esp, but all in general.)
—“Hey Curt, I have a question about a subject I’ve been rolling around in my mind for a while, and you said you’re always happy to answer questions, so here goes: I’m starting from Hoppe’s incentives-based analysis which showed a monarchy is preferable to a democracy when running a State. What’s been bugging me about that, is how do you prevent the fall and decline of a new monarchy, just like the way all other monarchies collapsed?”—
[W]ell, monarchies collapsed because of 1) gunpowder crushing the value of professional warriors who were committed to preservation of the hierarchy, 2) the conversion from agrarian production to trade as the source of wealth, and therefore the rise of middle/upper-middle class power and influence, 3) the failure to adapt to that power change at the rate it was occurring, 4) the french conquest of europe forcing the unification of germany, 5) the use of democracy by the middle class to seize power from the monarchies, by extending the franchise, 6) the communist-socialist movement, attempt to overthrow middle class rule and 7) the american prevention of the restoration of the monarchies after the first and second world wars: “There never would have been a hitler if a Hohenzollern had been on the throne.” I mean. Monarchies are still extant where americans(anglos) or communists(jews) didn’t destroy them. And those are the most successful countries. America wold not be in current position if she had a constitutional monarchy instead of a bureaucratic oligarchical presidency.
—“Since there wasn’t any model I knew of in history (and that’s perhaps a dark spot you could illuminate) which answered this issue, I had to synthesize a new model, injecting some ideas from Moldbug’s formalism. “—
As an aside, Most men, I would give the same advice: “Read more and deduce from a position of ignorance less.”
—“Since the base rationale of running a State as a monarchy is keeping it in trust and for profit why not literally run the monarchy as a corporation? The king can be both the owner and CEO, the aristocracy can be the board of directors, and instead of treating the people like subjects, you treat them like employees, which keeps them more vested in the well being of the organization, aligned with its purposes, and leaves more room for meritocratic advancement.”—
I guess I’m confused but that was Hoppe’s point right? That a monarchy was a privately held corporation and the territory and capital its assets and the people could move between these territories, and monarchies competed for productive talent (the way current states compete for rent seekers). Therefore the monarchy would have intergenerational incentives to preserve and accumulate capital (mutliple-producing-commons), where ‘rentiers’ would try to (and did) consume all that capital – and are now consuming even genetic capital. The problem is the difference between via-positiva (government producing commons), and via-negativa (law producing limitations on actions). As you grow from small to large the monarch like a ceo must distribute the labor of governance until his only remaining function is ‘judge of last resort’ in matters that cannot be resolved by others: usually great questions of the day, and whether to go to war. So the monarchies (france in particular) that modernized (Prussia, most germany, everyone other than france and italy which were endemically corrupt), were able to produce professional administrators (ministers) and bureaucracies (bureaucrats), that worked in the people and monarchy’s interests – and were successful. But as scale increases this becomes increasingly harder. So many small kingdoms (market) that trade is preferable to one large empire that manages (monopoly), except in war, but napoleon and russia set off the wars of expansion, with germany (wwii) trying to reverse that conquest of central europe (german civilization). The problem is in producing those organizations that perform the functions of investor in competitive commons and industries, justice, treasury, insurer of last resort. And the argument is that privately held services do a better job than do bureaucracies because bureaucracies are not subject to market competition. However, like all start ups, it may require a investment in producing the capability before the service is capable of functioning in the market. So the optimum appears to be in creating a monopoly bureaucracy until it is competent, then privatizing that industry by selling it to investors, while retaining majority interest (in control of it). Ergo. yes private market organizations that compete for the accumulation of intergenerational capital are in the long term in the interests of the people within them, just as collectivist corporations that constitute monopolies that consume all capital and intergenerational compaital are in the long term againsts the intersets of the people in them.
—“It also seems rather conductive to promoting a “libertarian social order”.”—
Well that’s his point now, isn’t it? 😉
—“There are also historical small scale examples where this was attempted in the form of company towns or campuses run by corporations, which as far as I know usually turned up pretty well.”–
That’s libertarian nonsense. The only such organizations exist as border regions under the protection of strong states. No examples in history exist otherwise. Fringe players assume risks in order to settle border territories and hold them in the State’s name against settle ment by competitors, and in exchange pay little or no taxes because of the service they are providing the state. This same activity is not possible without state protection. this is why all libertarianism is nonsense: one holds territory because one can fight to hold it from competitors. That is reality. Economies make it possible to afford the men, resources, and tools to fight to hold that territory, and use the surpluses for consumption and capital accumulation.
—“I’m really curious to hear your thoughts on the idea, and if there is any literature on the model”—
Well now you have them. 😉 Your intuition was on but I think you missed hoppe’s point. Hoppe wanted to create ‘free cities’ of germany like rothbard wanted to create ‘free cities’ of ukraine. The similarity is that germany and ukraine were territories under the protection of great powers. And that is the only reason free cities were allowed: to hold (reserve) territory in the name of a power. Hoppe and rothbard both practice the same denialism: war is the most profitable industry for the winner. The military comes first before all other commons. The military makes possible rule of law. Rule of law makes possible commerce. Commerce makes possible wealth. Wealth attracts population and reproduction and trade continuously, and the military capacity and legal capacity must keep pace with the increasing demand by others to conquer and tax that territory.
—“Keep up the excellent work, I really enjoy your posts”—
Hugs. Let’s fight the good fight. 😉
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France Is the Enemy of Europe (really) and The West
October 12th, 2018 1:26 PM FRANCE IS THE ENEMY OF EUROPE (Really) AND THE WEST [L]ong term, while She can feed herself, and provide her own energy, and capture enough taxation to project local power, France has been, and will continue to be, the Enemy of European civilization – attempting at all times to drag her into feminine mediterraneanism and semiticism, while Germany must continuously expand her trade to maintain her position, and integrate with eastern europe, and russia for agrarian production (poland, ukraine), labor (poland, ukraine, russia), and resources (russia), while maintaining her relations with italy (seaports, aesthetics). Only Russia understands the threat to eurasia because only Russia faces it all along her borders. France has surrendered to it, but then France of the north may be German, but France of the south is Mediterranean, and Paris is but new Jerusalem in postmodern sophist rather than semitic supernatural prose, sold to gullible women and men of the academy who cannot produce by commercial, scientific, and military means. (WHY IS CURT STARTING THIS DISCUSSION? France, not Germany, is positioned to dominate europe upon the withdrawal of the USA from functioning as the word’s police force.)
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A Note to All Young Men Searching for Political Answers
—(response to email request for help)—
[I]t is in the nature of ambitious young men to rush to an hypothesis of their own construction upon their first few encounters with enlightenment – accompanied by the desperate wish to share their revelation. It is in the nature of great theorists to develop a question or hypothesis, and to survey the great thinkers of history to date, and those similar innovations in related fields, to inform, correct, or falsify that hypothesis – with extraordinary effort and thoroughness – and all but those few we remember, fail. All of us write to learn. It is the most effective way of learning that we know of. It is easy to fool yourself in your imagination. A little less so in speech. Far harder in the written word. And very challenging in the published word – where your cherished efforts are the subject of misunderstanding, legitimate criticism and often, legitimate ridicule. We are in a period of change. There is vast pent up demand during these periods. Ours is a more catastrophic period than most due to invasion and population collapse due to the policies of the last century. And so you, like many others, are searching for an answer that the thinkers of the last century, and the present, failed to provide. We generate demand for types of social orders (the suite of cooperative economies), governments (means of production of commons, insurer of last resort), and rule (decision making of last resort) with the geography, capital, demographics, and military capacity to produce those we desire, and to deny alternatives – by seizing opportunistic moments in time. We do not have undiscovered countries (borderlands, continents) to settle as greenfields under the protection of distant empires. So just as we must work with the people we have, we must work with the opportunities we have, and the social orders that are possible to bring about with them. At present western advantage in other than demographic distribution has been liquidated through redistribution to the rest of the world. Nationalism is returning – largely in reaction to islamism, the same way we reacted to communism. And as strange as it might seem at the moment, with Chinese leadership, what looks very much like national socialism with communist dress of some sort, is emerging rapidly as the principle model of the 21st century. There is a reason that libertarian thought consists largely if not entirely of introductory books. There is a reason that geostrategy, economics, law, and war, do not. There is reason all Sovereignty (european aristocracy), Liberty (Anglo), Free City (German), Libertarian (the Pale), and Libertine (French) opportunities existed, and why they no longer do so. What all of these systems share is Sovereignty of the Individual under our ancient european customary laws (tort), and a Demand for Reciprocity to produce that sovereignty. The result of doing so is Rule of Law. What we differ in, is the GROUP COMPETITIVE STRATEGY, and the POSSIBLE organization of rule, government, economy, and social order within it that allows that social order to survive in competition with the other social orders. A general fights with the resources available, not the one he wishes to have. A people fight with the social, economic, political, and military order they have, not the one they wish they had. An activist fights with the available conditions by applying, like a general, the most force in the weakest places, to steer a more favorable outcome than the one at present, but not the most optimum he desires. A theorist fights with the knowledge available not the knowledge he wishes he had. A man is sovereign because he has the power to be so, because he has sufficient insurers to guarantee so. A man has liberty by permission of the sovereign. A man has freedom because he is a more profitable asset to the sovereign than a serf or slave. A man is a serf or slave because he has no alternative. The uniqueness of western civilization is the militia. The organized application of violence, by sovereign men, producing rule of law, and as a consequence, no alternative but markets in every aspect of life. There is no theory you can construct to sell. In the market for sale of political orders, you will find liberty is the want of the few even if its proceeds are the want of the many, and freedom is a synonym for theft from some and gifts to others. There is only one means of producing sovereignty: a sufficient number of men willing to use violence to deprive everyone else of imposing any alternative. Suggest you watch George Friedman and Peter Zeihan’s videos from this year and last. They are accessible summaries of work from around the world. This will help you understand the environment in which we are producing the upcoming social orders. IF YOU WANT THE INSTITUTE’S HELP Our reading list is here and there is none better to choose from: http//Propertarianism.com/reading-list/. Most if not all of the books, plus hundreds more, are in our library and can be read for free online. We will be offering courses in “The education you wish you had” beginning in January. They will include: The Uniqueness of Western Civilization: European History from the ice age forward. The Theory and History of The Arts The Theory and History of the Conduct of War The Natural Law (of Sovereign Men): The history of our law, and the Strictly Constructed Natural Law of Reciprocity (which is my restatement of hoppe’s german rationalist method in anglo scientific prose) The Means of Cooperation: Micro, Social(human Capital), and Macro Economics (they way econ should be taught) The Perfect Government: The various possible political orders given the conditions in which one produces the private and common. The Group Evolutionary Strategies of Competing Groups, Cultures, and Civilizations Online Courseware. Video. Short Readings. Assignments(essay). Discussion. Feedback. More Discussion. This is not feel good material. It is US 300-600 level material. And requires work. Otherwise, if you have very specific questions I’m available on FB pretty much all the time. Cheers.