If you want me to analyze any people’s history I can find good in those who held kinship territory, and not find good in those who didn’t. It’s really that simple.
If your kin are not disciplined enough to hold territory they will not be disciplined enough to create competitieve commons.
If they cannot create competitive commons there will be nothing to examine – no record of their existence – to comment upon.
Commons create intergeneral capital. Kin groups (genes) create intergenerational capital. And to some degree you must trade off one against the other.
Of course as always, the more eugenic your people the better their history.
Source: Original Site Post
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“Curt Doolittle thoughts on the Dutch?”— They started with a post-pastoralist,
—“Curt Doolittle thoughts on the Dutch?”— They started with a post-pastoralist, migration period ,north sea gene pool untouched by urbanization (urbanization is dysgenic due to lower cost of opportunities. Cities are a trade-off). They started the organized application of manorialism first, and were at it the longest (commons). (And in some sense northern europeans seem to have practiced some variation on manorialism at least back to the corded ware era.) They built necessary and survival-dependent commons early (technology and commons). They built a dominant trading state with a tiny population and small territory using a navy (technology and commons ) They produced some of the finest arts in the late medieval and early modern world (technological innovation in the arts). They avoided the problems of immigration despite their tolerance and trade. (Heavy normative demands) And as far as I know they were (until immigration) the best gene pool on earth for having done so. (see height and skull size) They have taken the pathetic disease of postwar virtue signaling to extremes and committed suicide. (I would live there but I’d be in jail for violating the speed limit so often. I build up hundreds of dollars of tickets every time I go there. lol) -
“Curt Doolittle thoughts on the Dutch?”— They started with a post-pastoralist,
—“Curt Doolittle thoughts on the Dutch?”— They started with a post-pastoralist, migration period ,north sea gene pool untouched by urbanization (urbanization is dysgenic due to lower cost of opportunities. Cities are a trade-off). They started the organized application of manorialism first, and were at it the longest (commons). (And in some sense northern europeans seem to have practiced some variation on manorialism at least back to the corded ware era.) They built necessary and survival-dependent commons early (technology and commons). They built a dominant trading state with a tiny population and small territory using a navy (technology and commons ) They produced some of the finest arts in the late medieval and early modern world (technological innovation in the arts). They avoided the problems of immigration despite their tolerance and trade. (Heavy normative demands) And as far as I know they were (until immigration) the best gene pool on earth for having done so. (see height and skull size) They have taken the pathetic disease of postwar virtue signaling to extremes and committed suicide. (I would live there but I’d be in jail for violating the speed limit so often. I build up hundreds of dollars of tickets every time I go there. lol) -
What Type Of Abnormal Abilities Do You Have When You Have An Extremely High Iq?
We process much more information. That’s the major difference. In general you want a big round head, a lot of neural density, and the lowest possible friction of transmission (white matter).
In addition to processing more information we often identify increasingly subtle (more remote) patterns.
And because of this we can work longer at learning – and some of us (I am certainly one of them) feel anxiety, depression, or pain if we are not learning. So not only can we learn more faster, but we can learn more because we can learn more hours per day.
The more information we have, the more remote the patterns we see, the more we rely on that information and the less on intuition, norm, tradition, and the opinions and ideas of others.
Additionally, some people have better short term memories and can hold larger static models. ( Hawking is a great example, but so are many others). I do not have this particular ability and I find that it is what differentiates me from the people who are above me.
Additionally some people have superior verbal abilities and can describe what they think of more accessibly. (Noam Chomsky is smarter than I am, in both short term memory and verbal ability, and rarely loses his place no matter how convoluted the conversational route. )
Some of us have more discipline, more conscientiousness, and skepticism and we’re possibly more autistic (which is the result of high neuronal density anyway), and we simply make fewer errors than others. This is very rare.
We mature at different rates. Some of us have exceptional abilities in childhood and have nervous breakdowns when we reach young adulthood. (This is a subject I study now and then.) Others mature normally. Others of us mature more slowly.
Normies are quite frustrating really. I had the great fortune to have a very old professor of contract law, who told me my sophomore year that “The world is not meant for us. It is meant for them. We are prisoners of their world. And the best we can do is help them through it.” And I found that advice to be profoundly useful in ending the the feeling that normies run the world, like children at a birthday party running with scissors. 😉
https://www.quora.com/What-type-of-abnormal-abilities-do-you-have-when-you-have-an-extremely-high-IQ
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Was Government Regulation Necessary To Prevent Thalidomide Babies From Increasing?
Governments (almost always)consist of humans, who’s principle function as “Insurer of last resort”.
It is entirely rational for insurers to demand warranty of all products, services, and information, in the marketplace that they insure.
One cannot himself warranty actions for which he cannot pay restitution.
This is the limit of moral action – that which you can pay restitution for.
one cannot pay the cost of restitution for ‘defective’ lives.
And if you study the literature, you’ll quickly understand that very small portions of society cost very large portions of our problems.
https://www.quora.com/Was-government-regulation-necessary-to-prevent-thalidomide-babies-from-increasing
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How Will Iq Skeptics And Social Justice Advocates React If Genome Wide Association Studies Find Strong Genetic Correlations That Explain Much Of The Average Iq Variation Between Population Groups And Between Individuals?
THE STATE OF THE SCIENCE
The evidence exists, however, the causes are more obvious: 1) the size of the underclasses. and 2) neotonic(pedomorphic) evolution – meaning the retention of childhood features, and 3) transfer of female verbal acuity to males because of pedomorphic evolution.Cold Climates, Agrarianism, Manorialism, and the raw Capital Costs of Tools (metals) needed to survive in those conditions, in addition to the aggressive hanging of the underclasses for more than a thousand years, allowed both upward redistribution of calories and reproduction, and the downward population of labor by the middle genetic classes.
So by the time of the industrial revolution (if not the literacy revolution) europe (and west asia) had vast stores of underutilized human capital. However, both had to break free of the church and the bureaucracy which had made the vast majority of capital “dead” (static) and in support of rent seeking (church bureaucracy and chinese imperial bureaucracy).
For the rest of the world, they have been unsuccessful at one or both of two factors: either (a) decimating the underclasses, and (b) developing deflationary grammars (methods) in the sequence math, logics, reason, empirical law (tort), and science.
West europeans and east asians and ashkenazi were able to limit the size of their underclasses and to force upward redistribution of reproduction. East asians have the highest Neoteny, West Europeans, and then Ashkenazi. And less visible testosterone levels to equal more visible morphology(features).
This is the primary difference between the races and subraces: Degree of neoteny, and distribution of male and female traits (brain structures) between the genders. Strangely enough, in the Ashkenazi they have nearly reversed it. Which is why they have such exceptional verbal (if not spatial) skills.
So that’s the state of the science as I understand it.
in other words, the greatest material differences are driven by the size of the underclasses, and therefore the median distribution in the gene pool, and therefore the language, norms, traditions, and institutions necessary or the persistence of such a gene pool with such a distribution.
All of this is very simple. The marxist-postmodernist-feminist attempt at the second dark age – this time of pseudoscience – just made us lose a century and a half to their deceptions.
https://www.quora.com/How-will-IQ-skeptics-and-social-justice-advocates-react-if-genome-wide-association-studies-find-strong-genetic-correlations-that-explain-much-of-the-average-IQ-variation-between-population-groups-and-between
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What Is A Reasonable Rate Of Progress To Expect In A Given System?
Thanks (Michael) for asking me to answer this (very smart) question.
—”Is there something akin to a Law of Progress for systems of people or even the individual? Closer to linear or exponential, incremental or rapid?”—
I assume we mean economic growth rather than progress. Or at least, that we should separate growth from progress so that we understand their causes, and then can reflect on those causes.
In the professional vernacular (economics, and political economy) growth refers to productivity, and progress refers to upward economic class rotation.
Productivity refers to an increase in the amount of goods and services produced per hour worked, (per head of the population) over a period of time – and therefore increases in consumption over time. But it does not differentiate between ‘good productivity’ (innovation and market expansion), fake productivity (results of immigration), fraudulent productivity (rents on transport) and ‘bad productivity’ (spending down assets).
Progress provides discounts on consumption that we interpret as increase in income. In other words, when we are more productive we make better use of our time, in producing goods, services, (and now information), that people want.
Money or money substitutes, (or any trade or barter good) represent (really) a store of time saved. That is why it has value – why any good has value. So money is in fact an exceptional measure of productivity.
Progress is (often) the result of increases in productivity. Most increase in productivity occurs from discovery of means of harnessing energy. (fire, kiln, crucible, coal, steam, fluid hydrocarbons, electricity, gears, relays, transistors, software), and discounts on energy expenditure (pack animals, riding horses, Everything else that occurs in every era
And uncomfortably, the best productivity return – and the one we never think of – is genetic (eugenic reproduction, or upward redistribution of reproduction). Progress is offset by underclass reproduction (malthusian limits), underclass immigration, or upper class under-reproduction. This is because every person at the bottom is six times as costly as each person at the top is over-productive.
In fact, the unstated but obvious failure to increase american incomes after the mid 1960s is due to inflation and immigration. For most of european modernity we have been liberating dead capital (The Church) and distributing it to under utilized capital (european middle classes). But since 1965, we have been using debt to redistribute debt to underclass immigration. And as far as I know this is the entire reason for our condition. Inflation and Immigration creating a false economy.
For all of human history, most people lived on what we call about a dollar a day today. Trade in the first enlightenment prior to the bronze age collapse (prior to 1177bc), and trade during the ancient enlightenment, prior to the Abrahamic and Plague collapse (300–700 ad), then trade after the enlightenment, and prior to the late 20th century (which appears to be either an inflection point or collapse), appears to have produced a great leap in each era which defeated for a time, the fertility of Malthusian underclasses.
So, yes, is there a law of productivity. Sort of. As a rule of thumb, a person can produce about twenty percent more than he can consume, if he works at it. During periods under which we have captured a new form of energy, or a new discount on energy consumption, we can increase this. Otherwise the only means of increasing productivity is to increase the quality of the population (as did europe and china/korea/japan) because by doing so, a people decrease frictions on cooperation, and frictions on cooperation can easily fall into (almost universal) equilibrium with productivity – which is the condition of nearly all of human history.
So, armed with that understanding, China is going through what europe did, and what all post enlightenment peoples did, in the modern(steel), ancient(iron), and early bronze ages – and from what I understand, the late paleo (copper) age expansions.
Why is china different from brazil? Homogeneity of genetics and culture, A highly nationalist military, and a vast store of underutilized human capital. None of which brazil has to work with.
All but very short term opportunities, all of human economic activity is just another extension of the laws of the physical universe. Energy and Time vs Entropy. Or stated more simply; all evolutionary systems grow continuously or they die. And if they grow, they will grow by punctuated equilibriums. (which Michael mentions as ‘graduated then suddenly’.
At present we are having a bit of a debate as to whether we have captured all the low hanging fruit of the capture of hydrocarbon, steam, and electrical energy. And given declining rates of innovation, it appears so. (Information technology eradicates frictions like nothing before it, but does not produce new energy). We are closing in on if not having past, our ability to harness enough energy to advance physics. We have ‘finished’ chemistry. We have just begun biochemistry. And we are scratching the surface of sentience (which is the same problem of three different scales.)
As far as I know the debates over keynesian economics vs the business cycle, and the fallacy of infinite growth (‘technology is our savior’), and the fallacy of are over. As far as I know we are beyond the unmanaged carrying capacity of the planet (which I think is something on the order of 1B people, if not 500M). So given malthusian underclass rates of reproduction, and given the near exhaustion of the political and economic change of the enlightenment and industrial revolution, and given the peak in everything we can see, it certainly appears that productivity will decline everywhere to or under the rate of inflation. Because there is no more underutilized human capital.
If you understand this, then all economic, social, and political behavior today, and in all of history is quite simple.
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev, Ukrainehttps://www.quora.com/What-is-a-reasonable-rate-of-progress-to-expect-in-a-given-system
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What Type Of Abnormal Abilities Do You Have When You Have An Extremely High Iq?
We process much more information. That’s the major difference. In general you want a big round head, a lot of neural density, and the lowest possible friction of transmission (white matter).
In addition to processing more information we often identify increasingly subtle (more remote) patterns.
And because of this we can work longer at learning – and some of us (I am certainly one of them) feel anxiety, depression, or pain if we are not learning. So not only can we learn more faster, but we can learn more because we can learn more hours per day.
The more information we have, the more remote the patterns we see, the more we rely on that information and the less on intuition, norm, tradition, and the opinions and ideas of others.
Additionally, some people have better short term memories and can hold larger static models. ( Hawking is a great example, but so are many others). I do not have this particular ability and I find that it is what differentiates me from the people who are above me.
Additionally some people have superior verbal abilities and can describe what they think of more accessibly. (Noam Chomsky is smarter than I am, in both short term memory and verbal ability, and rarely loses his place no matter how convoluted the conversational route. )
Some of us have more discipline, more conscientiousness, and skepticism and we’re possibly more autistic (which is the result of high neuronal density anyway), and we simply make fewer errors than others. This is very rare.
We mature at different rates. Some of us have exceptional abilities in childhood and have nervous breakdowns when we reach young adulthood. (This is a subject I study now and then.) Others mature normally. Others of us mature more slowly.
Normies are quite frustrating really. I had the great fortune to have a very old professor of contract law, who told me my sophomore year that “The world is not meant for us. It is meant for them. We are prisoners of their world. And the best we can do is help them through it.” And I found that advice to be profoundly useful in ending the the feeling that normies run the world, like children at a birthday party running with scissors. 😉
https://www.quora.com/What-type-of-abnormal-abilities-do-you-have-when-you-have-an-extremely-high-IQ
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Was Government Regulation Necessary To Prevent Thalidomide Babies From Increasing?
Governments (almost always)consist of humans, who’s principle function as “Insurer of last resort”.
It is entirely rational for insurers to demand warranty of all products, services, and information, in the marketplace that they insure.
One cannot himself warranty actions for which he cannot pay restitution.
This is the limit of moral action – that which you can pay restitution for.
one cannot pay the cost of restitution for ‘defective’ lives.
And if you study the literature, you’ll quickly understand that very small portions of society cost very large portions of our problems.
https://www.quora.com/Was-government-regulation-necessary-to-prevent-thalidomide-babies-from-increasing
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How Will Iq Skeptics And Social Justice Advocates React If Genome Wide Association Studies Find Strong Genetic Correlations That Explain Much Of The Average Iq Variation Between Population Groups And Between Individuals?
THE STATE OF THE SCIENCE
The evidence exists, however, the causes are more obvious: 1) the size of the underclasses. and 2) neotonic(pedomorphic) evolution – meaning the retention of childhood features, and 3) transfer of female verbal acuity to males because of pedomorphic evolution.Cold Climates, Agrarianism, Manorialism, and the raw Capital Costs of Tools (metals) needed to survive in those conditions, in addition to the aggressive hanging of the underclasses for more than a thousand years, allowed both upward redistribution of calories and reproduction, and the downward population of labor by the middle genetic classes.
So by the time of the industrial revolution (if not the literacy revolution) europe (and west asia) had vast stores of underutilized human capital. However, both had to break free of the church and the bureaucracy which had made the vast majority of capital “dead” (static) and in support of rent seeking (church bureaucracy and chinese imperial bureaucracy).
For the rest of the world, they have been unsuccessful at one or both of two factors: either (a) decimating the underclasses, and (b) developing deflationary grammars (methods) in the sequence math, logics, reason, empirical law (tort), and science.
West europeans and east asians and ashkenazi were able to limit the size of their underclasses and to force upward redistribution of reproduction. East asians have the highest Neoteny, West Europeans, and then Ashkenazi. And less visible testosterone levels to equal more visible morphology(features).
This is the primary difference between the races and subraces: Degree of neoteny, and distribution of male and female traits (brain structures) between the genders. Strangely enough, in the Ashkenazi they have nearly reversed it. Which is why they have such exceptional verbal (if not spatial) skills.
So that’s the state of the science as I understand it.
in other words, the greatest material differences are driven by the size of the underclasses, and therefore the median distribution in the gene pool, and therefore the language, norms, traditions, and institutions necessary or the persistence of such a gene pool with such a distribution.
All of this is very simple. The marxist-postmodernist-feminist attempt at the second dark age – this time of pseudoscience – just made us lose a century and a half to their deceptions.
https://www.quora.com/How-will-IQ-skeptics-and-social-justice-advocates-react-if-genome-wide-association-studies-find-strong-genetic-correlations-that-explain-much-of-the-average-IQ-variation-between-population-groups-and-between