Curt Doolittle

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  • Roughly, What Percentage Of Historical Humans Have Procreated?

    Historically, as a general rule of thumb, something on the order of a third of men and two thirds of women.

    With periods of punctuated equilibriums where a small number of men generate a vast number of offspring.

    https://www.quora.com/Roughly-what-percentage-of-historical-humans-have-procreated

  • If You Were Given 10 Trillion Dollars, A Team Of The World’s Best Scientists And The Use Of Any Scientific Facility Or Facilities In The World And You Were Told To Solve One Scientific Problem What Would It Be?

    There are a few well known ‘hard problems’.

    1) The unnecessary senescence of cells
    2) A battery with the energy density of gasoline.
    3) The constitution of dark matter (the missing ‘charges’)
    4) General Artificial Intelligence.

    I suspect that we will solve them in reverse order.
    All of the problems are seemingly solvable – just very expensive.

    https://www.quora.com/If-you-were-given-10-trillion-dollars-a-team-of-the-worlds-best-scientists-and-the-use-of-any-scientific-facility-or-facilities-in-the-world-and-you-were-told-to-solve-one-scientific-problem-what-would-it-be

  • When Was A The White Man Made, And By Whom?

    Whiter skin developed gradually beginning about 20k years ago.
    White People (West Eurasians) developed in ‘generations’ or ‘waves’.

    In our current form (genetic composition), ‘Whites’ (ethnic europeans) developed between west ukraine, and southern russia north of the black and caspian seas, when they combined Horse, Bronze, and Wheel.

    As whites moved westward they almost entirely replaced peoples.
    As they moved eastward they were able to settle or conquer, but were eventually outbred and have disappeared.

    3500–2300 Yamnaya (Pit Grave Culture)
    2900– 2350 Corded Ware Culture

    Corded Ware Culture encompassed most of continental northern Europe from the Rhine on the west to the Volga in the east, including most of modern-day Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Switzerland, northwestern Romania, northern Ukraine, and the European part of Russia, as well as coastal Norway and the southern portions of Sweden and Finland.

    In this sense, whites are a fairly ‘new’ people.

    (While it’s impolitic, some of us consider humans were in the process of speciation outside of africa and that this process was incomplete due to the development of metalworking -which rapidly accelerated informational, technological, and social evolution.)

    https://www.quora.com/When-was-a-the-white-man-made-and-by-whom

  • Someone is really stalking me. They found an ancient post. Reported it. And anot

    Someone is really stalking me. They found an ancient post. Reported it. And another 30 days. lol OMG Well, they are just creating a market – that I’ll filll.

  • Someone is really stalking me. They found an ancient post. Reported it. And anot

    Someone is really stalking me. They found an ancient post. Reported it. And another 30 days. lol OMG Well, they are just creating a market – that I’ll filll.

  • Great morning statistic: 10% of your lifespan is determined by clinical care. 30

    Great morning statistic: 10% of your lifespan is determined by clinical care. 30% by your genetic code. 40% by your location. –CEO of Aetna.

  • Great morning statistic: 10% of your lifespan is determined by clinical care. 30

    Great morning statistic: 10% of your lifespan is determined by clinical care. 30% by your genetic code. 40% by your location. –CEO of Aetna.

  • Is Conflict Costly?

    —“Conflict is too costly to be anything but an absolutely last resort.”— A friend Thats not true. (It’s a common libertarian trope.) We have MADE conflict increasingly costly. However, predation is incredibly rewarding and every expansionary empire in history is evidence of it. Hell, american ascendence, and american quality of life is perhaps the best example in history. I can’t think of any condition in history where expansionary conquest wasn’t the most profitable endeavor possible. I think we can say that SYMMETRIC conflict is costly, but ASYMMETRIC conflict is extraordinarily rewarding – hence the eternal arms race from the dawn of time. Conquest and Rule are THE MOST PROFITABLE INDUSTRIES ever invented by man. And we invented it.

  • Is Conflict Costly?

    —“Conflict is too costly to be anything but an absolutely last resort.”— A friend Thats not true. (It’s a common libertarian trope.) We have MADE conflict increasingly costly. However, predation is incredibly rewarding and every expansionary empire in history is evidence of it. Hell, american ascendence, and american quality of life is perhaps the best example in history. I can’t think of any condition in history where expansionary conquest wasn’t the most profitable endeavor possible. I think we can say that SYMMETRIC conflict is costly, but ASYMMETRIC conflict is extraordinarily rewarding – hence the eternal arms race from the dawn of time. Conquest and Rule are THE MOST PROFITABLE INDUSTRIES ever invented by man. And we invented it.

  • “Agency does not exist in a vacuum. Aggregate agency of multiple individuals cre

    —“Agency does not exist in a vacuum. Aggregate agency of multiple individuals creates limiting checks and balances, producing a market for cooperative, competitive and pro-social applications of agency.”—Simon Ström Although I would be careful to note that pro-social is a term from marxism, psychology and sociology that refers to working to benefit others (altruism) when there is no evidence of altruism in nature – only kin selection and option buying. Mutually beneficial Cooperation (which I think is the appropriate term here) is simply in our self interests, and we feel endorphins rewards for engaging in it – in part to encourage it, and in part to counter the natural fears of interaction with ‘others’ whether kin or non.