Curt Doolittle

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  • September 5th, 2018 10:09 AM —“Debunking Paul Krugman is a little like beating

    September 5th, 2018 10:09 AM

    —“Debunking Paul Krugman is a little like beating up the special ed kid”– Joe Redtree

  • The Poverty of Philosophy

    September 5th, 2018 1:14 PM THE POVERTY OF PHILOSOPHY [T]heology exists because philosophy excludes its fallacies, and philosophy exists because science excludes its falsehoods. Science exists because math excludes its fallacies. Math exists because logic excludes its fallacies. The question is why there is a demand for those excluded fallacies? Why? Either to bridge the gap between one stage of ignorance and the next, or to use fallacies for the purpose of conducting some sort of fraud. Philosophy just means ‘we don’t know enough to write history, law, science, and mathematics yet’. Philosophy serves as young adult literature that prepares you for adult literature: history, law, science, and mathematics, just as children’s stories, fables, and fairy tales prepare you for young adult literature. Its storytelling. Stories provide context for history, law, science, and math. So in that sense, the reason philosophy is largely dead, is that history, law, science, mathematics, and logic has rendered it young adult moral fantasy literature. The knowledge required at each state of declining ignorance is much greater than the previous. (I’ve had to master a lot of fields as a judge if not as a craftsman. It took a very long time. I had the luxury of the wealth and time necessary to invest that time.)

  • Nietzsche, Rand, Marx, and The Adolescent Right

    September 5th, 2018 9:47 AM
    NIETZSCHE, RAND, MARX, AND THE ADOLESCENT RIGHTThere are a lot of young men who are active on the right and they are all looking for an ideal to rally around because they lack the skill, sociability, talents, relationships, and resources to rally men by material outcomes. So I view fascination with Nietzsche like fascination with rand (or harry potter for that matter) as a necessary phase of young adulthood. A lack of maturity. And driven by a lack of sexual social economic and political market value. This small group of adolescent males otherwise unsuccessful in life due to lack of talent, skill, character, and resources, who attempt to persuade me to justify their urges for dominance that they cannot achieve in real life. And I won’t. Men will revolt and act on change not because some microscopic group of social malcontents want justification for their failure of market value, but because the social, economic, and political change is achievable by implementation of institutional change. Teaching young men on the internet is a bit like running a class in a fourth grade locker room. I assume however that these men will eventually own homes, have children, find gainful employment or run businesses and at that point grow from reading moral fictionalism to reading balance sheets, contracts, constitutions, and papers on business, economics, engineering and science. There is no difference between Marxists, Randians and Nietzscheans other than the degree of desperation and unsatisfied aggression. Rulers use law. Because they have the power to. Because the organized incentives of enough men to apply force to obtain that power.

  • September 5th, 2018 11:55 AM QUESTION : —“Hi Curt, if you don’t mind I’ve got

    September 5th, 2018 11:55 AM QUESTION:

    —“Hi Curt, if you don’t mind I’ve got a question on Sovereignty after reading your recent posts. Is Sovereignty only achieved through combing agency and reciprocity (I think I’ve seen you say this somewhere)? In which case, thinking about this in terms of individualism vs collectivism: -Groups of people who lack individual agency, but act as a collective can only ever beg for what they want (the herd). -Individuals who possess agency, but are unwilling to reciprocate with one another will be unable to achieve results at scale (lone wolves). -Therefore it’s not individualism vs collectivism; it’s agency AND reciprocity which when combined creates Sovereignty (the pack). Not sure if I’m stretching things here?”—- Andy Lunn

    ANSWER: Um. (a) very well structured argument, (b) correct conclusion. (c) nice work! A+

  • Degrees Creating a Serf Class

    Tue, 04 Sep 2018 17:48:34 GMT

    —“Issuing guaranteed loans that can never be discharged to the cognitively deficient, mass producing baristas with $100k degrees, has effectively created a serf class out of what could have been productive lower middle-middle class workers with apprenticeships and vocational preparation. If that’s not moral hazard I’m not sure what is.”—Joseph Smith

  • Degrees Creating a Serf Class

    Tue, 04 Sep 2018 17:48:34 GMT

    —“Issuing guaranteed loans that can never be discharged to the cognitively deficient, mass producing baristas with $100k degrees, has effectively created a serf class out of what could have been productive lower middle-middle class workers with apprenticeships and vocational preparation. If that’s not moral hazard I’m not sure what is.”—Joseph Smith

  • Told Ya. There Is No Alternative

    September 4th, 2018 10:43 PM [W]e need 300 new plants (there are 104 @20%) and a new grid. We can be petroleum independent. Without exhaustion.

    —“The authors of a new MIT study say that unless nuclear energy is meaningfully incorporated into the global mix of low-carbon energy technologies, the challenge of climate change will be much more difficult and costly to solve. “—

    https://scienceblog.com/503133/mit-energy-initiative-study-reports-on-the-future-of-nuclear-energy/

  • Tue, 04 Sep 2018 16:30:32 GMT I suppose it’s not clear that: neural competition

    Tue, 04 Sep 2018 16:30:32 GMT

    I suppose it’s not clear that: neural competition and computational efficiency; reciprocity and natural law; and markets in everything, to a eugenic high trust polity – function together as a continuous and consistent hierarchy of optimum decidability from sense perception to collective human action.

  • Told Ya. There Is No Alternative

    September 4th, 2018 10:43 PM [W]e need 300 new plants (there are 104 @20%) and a new grid. We can be petroleum independent. Without exhaustion.

    —“The authors of a new MIT study say that unless nuclear energy is meaningfully incorporated into the global mix of low-carbon energy technologies, the challenge of climate change will be much more difficult and costly to solve. “—

    https://scienceblog.com/503133/mit-energy-initiative-study-reports-on-the-future-of-nuclear-energy/

  • Tue, 04 Sep 2018 16:30:32 GMT I suppose it’s not clear that: neural competition

    Tue, 04 Sep 2018 16:30:32 GMT

    I suppose it’s not clear that: neural competition and computational efficiency; reciprocity and natural law; and markets in everything, to a eugenic high trust polity – function together as a continuous and consistent hierarchy of optimum decidability from sense perception to collective human action.