Curt Doolittle

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  • Revolution: Remember when You Told Me It Couldn’t Happen?

    https://propertarianinstitute.com/2017/11/01/cooperation-is-only-useful-until-it-is-not/
    REMEMBER WHEN YOU TOLD ME IT COULDN’T HAPPEN? VIA RASUMSSEN Wednesday, June 27, 2018 “That which appears inconceivable is merely a function of the determinacy of human behavior and the ignorance of the incentives” —“Thirty-one percent (31%) of Likely U.S. Voters say it’s likely that the United States will experience a second civil war sometime in the next five years, with 11% who say it’s Very Likely. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 59% consider a second civil war unlikely, but that includes only 29% who say it’s Not At All Likely. (To see survey question wording, click here.) Democrats (37%) are more fearful than Republicans (32%) and voters not affiliated with either major party (26%) that a second civil war is at hand. But 59% of all voters are concerned that those opposed to President Trump’s policies will resort to violence, with 33% who are Very Concerned. This compares to 53% and 28% respectively in the spring of Obama’s second year in office. Thirty-seven percent (37%) don’t share that concern, including 16% who are Not At All Concerned. Fifty-three percent (53%) are concerned that those critical of the media’s coverage of Trump will resort to violence, with 24% who are Very Concerned. Forty-two percent (42%) are not concerned about violence from media opponents, including 17% who are Not At All Concerned.”— “REVOLUTION IS ALWAYS SUSPECT IN PROSPECT BUT DETERMINISTIC IN RETROSPECT”

  • Revolution: Remember when You Told Me It Couldn’t Happen?

    https://propertarianinstitute.com/2017/11/01/cooperation-is-only-useful-until-it-is-not/
    REMEMBER WHEN YOU TOLD ME IT COULDN’T HAPPEN? VIA RASUMSSEN Wednesday, June 27, 2018 “That which appears inconceivable is merely a function of the determinacy of human behavior and the ignorance of the incentives” —“Thirty-one percent (31%) of Likely U.S. Voters say it’s likely that the United States will experience a second civil war sometime in the next five years, with 11% who say it’s Very Likely. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 59% consider a second civil war unlikely, but that includes only 29% who say it’s Not At All Likely. (To see survey question wording, click here.) Democrats (37%) are more fearful than Republicans (32%) and voters not affiliated with either major party (26%) that a second civil war is at hand. But 59% of all voters are concerned that those opposed to President Trump’s policies will resort to violence, with 33% who are Very Concerned. This compares to 53% and 28% respectively in the spring of Obama’s second year in office. Thirty-seven percent (37%) don’t share that concern, including 16% who are Not At All Concerned. Fifty-three percent (53%) are concerned that those critical of the media’s coverage of Trump will resort to violence, with 24% who are Very Concerned. Forty-two percent (42%) are not concerned about violence from media opponents, including 17% who are Not At All Concerned.”— “REVOLUTION IS ALWAYS SUSPECT IN PROSPECT BUT DETERMINISTIC IN RETROSPECT”

  • Commensurability and decidability between individuals

    —“Without shared mythology, values, rituals, signals, institutions, language, culture, and kinship …. without some local commonality in these, there is no commensurability or decidability possible between individuals, and no coincidence of interests, and therefore no cooperation, only conflict.”— Eli Harman Eli hitting it out of the park on that one.

  • Commensurability and decidability between individuals

    —“Without shared mythology, values, rituals, signals, institutions, language, culture, and kinship …. without some local commonality in these, there is no commensurability or decidability possible between individuals, and no coincidence of interests, and therefore no cooperation, only conflict.”— Eli Harman Eli hitting it out of the park on that one.

  • *Always Use Series*.

    Tip that some people get and some people fail to get: *Always Use Series*. —“mythology, values, rituals, signals, institutions, language, culture, and kinship”— —“ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, obscurantism, fictionalism, and deceit”— —“murder, violence, theft, fraud, free riding, socialization of losses, privatization of the commons, conspiracy, statism, conversion, immigration, conquest”— —“Idealism, abrahamism, pilpul vs critique, sophism, justificaitonary rationalism, propaganda”— —“Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Rousseauianism, Kantianism, Marxism, Keynesianism, Frankfurt School, Feminism, Postmodernism, Outright Lying”—- —” logic, math, accounting, algorithms, recipes(protocols), science (operations), testimony, written prose, ordinary language, idiomatic speech, storytelling, fiction, fictionalisms, deceits”— —“Sovereignty, Reciprocity, Truth, Duty, Natural Law and Markets in Everything”— Each of these series contains all the information necessary to construct very complex arguments. and the virtue of repeating them, and any other series of definitions, is that it is extremely hard to play word games when all words as such are subject to competition in each such series.

  • *Always Use Series*.

    Tip that some people get and some people fail to get: *Always Use Series*. —“mythology, values, rituals, signals, institutions, language, culture, and kinship”— —“ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, obscurantism, fictionalism, and deceit”— —“murder, violence, theft, fraud, free riding, socialization of losses, privatization of the commons, conspiracy, statism, conversion, immigration, conquest”— —“Idealism, abrahamism, pilpul vs critique, sophism, justificaitonary rationalism, propaganda”— —“Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Rousseauianism, Kantianism, Marxism, Keynesianism, Frankfurt School, Feminism, Postmodernism, Outright Lying”—- —” logic, math, accounting, algorithms, recipes(protocols), science (operations), testimony, written prose, ordinary language, idiomatic speech, storytelling, fiction, fictionalisms, deceits”— —“Sovereignty, Reciprocity, Truth, Duty, Natural Law and Markets in Everything”— Each of these series contains all the information necessary to construct very complex arguments. and the virtue of repeating them, and any other series of definitions, is that it is extremely hard to play word games when all words as such are subject to competition in each such series.

  • Single Mothers Data: I Try, but Sometimes I Don”t Succeed.

    —“Evidence seems to suggest that children with single mothers grow up to be a menace whereas children with single fathers grow up just fine.”—Alba Rising Um… that’s not the case. It’s that single mothers are at much higher risk of unstable environments and higher risk of insecure (guilty) mother’s psychology affecting children negatively than single fathers for the simple reason that single fathers are more likely to cohabitate and produce a healthier environment lacking guilt, instability, and insecurity. Or conversely, that single mothers try too hard to control and influence their children at the expense of fathers who are high maintenance but produce healthier children even by dedicating far less attention to them. The fact single mothers produce the majority of problem adults doesn’t equal that the majority of single mothers produce problem adults. In other words, TWO PARENTS ARE BETTER THAN ONE. I thought I got this across but apparently not…..

  • Single Mothers Data: I Try, but Sometimes I Don”t Succeed.

    —“Evidence seems to suggest that children with single mothers grow up to be a menace whereas children with single fathers grow up just fine.”—Alba Rising Um… that’s not the case. It’s that single mothers are at much higher risk of unstable environments and higher risk of insecure (guilty) mother’s psychology affecting children negatively than single fathers for the simple reason that single fathers are more likely to cohabitate and produce a healthier environment lacking guilt, instability, and insecurity. Or conversely, that single mothers try too hard to control and influence their children at the expense of fathers who are high maintenance but produce healthier children even by dedicating far less attention to them. The fact single mothers produce the majority of problem adults doesn’t equal that the majority of single mothers produce problem adults. In other words, TWO PARENTS ARE BETTER THAN ONE. I thought I got this across but apparently not…..

  • The Animal Majority Provides Survival by Incremental Graceful Failure

    The evolutionary reason some of us have agency and most of us do not, is because reason is subject to temporal failure, and information is subject to intertemporal failure, and instinct provides a very successful method of graceful failure. Meanwhile selection for success of those with agency allows others to adopt new knowledge and understanding by imitation without abandoning their dependence upon intuition. This is the same reason we still have cheaters. While cooperation is most beneficial under ordinary circumstances, cheating (immorality), and predation (violence), are extremely valuable methods of graceful failure. The animal majority is insurance in case we fail. But they are not to be taken seriously whatsoever.

  • The Animal Majority Provides Survival by Incremental Graceful Failure

    The evolutionary reason some of us have agency and most of us do not, is because reason is subject to temporal failure, and information is subject to intertemporal failure, and instinct provides a very successful method of graceful failure. Meanwhile selection for success of those with agency allows others to adopt new knowledge and understanding by imitation without abandoning their dependence upon intuition. This is the same reason we still have cheaters. While cooperation is most beneficial under ordinary circumstances, cheating (immorality), and predation (violence), are extremely valuable methods of graceful failure. The animal majority is insurance in case we fail. But they are not to be taken seriously whatsoever.