Curt Doolittle

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  • ROLLA, MO—Stressing that he doesn’t care what anyone thinks of him, 16-year-old

    ROLLA, MO—Stressing that he doesn’t care what anyone thinks of him, 16-year-old modern-day rebel Anthony Clark revealed to sources close to him Thursday his wild plans to grow up, get married, and be a productive member of society. “I want to be someone who acts like a man and takes responsibi…

  • honor works because the radius of cooperation, and therefore reputation are narr

    honor works because the radius of cooperation, and therefore reputation are narrow. We create measurements as we scale. The problem with credit scores is not that they are incorrect, but that the financial system is organized to create moral hazards. Today we have criminal, civil-legal, credit, tax, property title, voting, education, and income scores. And now we’ve added google and social media ‘scores’. We create records everywhere. And we have no ‘right to be forgotten’ that the europeans do.

  • honor works because the radius of cooperation, and therefore reputation are narr

    honor works because the radius of cooperation, and therefore reputation are narrow. We create measurements as we scale. The problem with credit scores is not that they are incorrect, but that the financial system is organized to create moral hazards. Today we have criminal, civil-legal, credit, tax, property title, voting, education, and income scores. And now we’ve added google and social media ‘scores’. We create records everywhere. And we have no ‘right to be forgotten’ that the europeans do.

  • Suppose I Am The Prime Minister Of A Low Income Insular Island Country Of About 2 Million People. What Are Policies Needed To Achieve The Same Economic Success Of South Korea Rapidly?

    1. Learn from “Duarte, Putin, Mao” and hang the criminals and drug users.
    2. “Eliminate” everyone with an IQ under 95 – quickly, or at least sterilize them.
    3. Limit reproduction to married couples who own property, or face prison and fines in the chinese model.
    4. Replace your entire judiciary with American Lawyers. They are cheap and americans are almost impossible to bribe – the law is our ‘religion’ so to speak.
    5. Have those lawyers draft an uninterpretable (strictly constructed) constitution by which to adjudicate laws.
    6. Do not under any circumstances produce anything like a democracy.
    7. Instead, give universal standing to the citizenry to file civil suits against any member of the government or the bureaucracy.
    8. Declare yourself and your family a constitutional monarchy bound by that constituion so that no one can use politics to obtain status, only economic service of others.
    9. Give yourself 10% of GDP to spend on the commons (the territory) at your own discretion.
    10. Give the people 10% of GDP as redistribution (‘dividends’).
    11. Perform a Domesday Inventory, and produce a single universal title registry and implement it using blockchain technology.
    12. Use the treasury to bypass the financial sector and issue debit cards to adult citizens, so that they can spend their ‘dividends’ directly as income.
    13. Use the treasury to bypass the consumer credit system, and issue loans for fixed capital goods (houses, etc) at the rate of inflation for one half of whatever american loan durations are. For capital goods, (cars, appliances) at one percent. Do not issue credit for consumption purposes.
    14. Use the 13 week month in your accounting, the overhead cost of the 12 month year is absurd.
    15. Take a small percentage of all sales transactions, and financial transactions.
    16. Take income and property taxes that are the lowest that you can survive on.
    17. Create a tax haven, and a central bank, and a fiat currency.
    18. Keep banks open seven days a week, 24 hours a day.
    19. Teach everyone english with native british speakers, with extra emphasis on diction. Do the same with Emily Post’s Etiquette. It isn’t obvious to … ahem… the ‘common folk’ that etiquette is a test of your ability to respect other people’s property in all its forms.
    20. You will compete with Monaco in less than five years. (Really)
    21. Move to tourism to encourage large scale investment. You won’t have to. You will be buried in money.

    Remember that every person at the bottom is six times as costly as the people at the top. In america, already, ‘whites, jews and asians’ are a for-profit polity, and america would have no debt if limited to them. Single motherhood, and broken families, criminals, and drug users will destroy your economy, and the lives of your ‘good people’.

    https://www.quora.com/Suppose-I-am-the-Prime-Minister-of-a-low-income-insular-island-country-of-about-2-million-people-What-are-policies-needed-to-achieve-the-same-economic-success-of-South-Korea-rapidly

  • If Quora No Longer Exists, What Website That Is Very Similar To Quora You Would Use Instead?

    Quora consists very heavily of ‘fake’ questions produced by bots, low wage workers, ‘students’ (too lazy to use google), and volunteers. Originally it was closer to Medium today. There were good people here, and it was worth answering questions – a bit like Medium is today.

    Quora does not create a ‘wikipedia’ competitor which retains good answers as a form of capital. (See Stack Overflow and it’s related sites instead).

    Wikipedia is about as biased and cultish as an organization can get. I don’t bother editing pages any longer.

    There are many startups trying to solve this problem (over-democratization produces decreasing returns on intellectual investment.) or stated otherwise, the bigger you get the dumber you need to be.

    I think most of us are choosing Medium right now – but as I understand it they’re a hobby business that is under threat. Their pricing is out of line.

    I do most of my work on facebook, and have thousands of followers there.

    Unfortunately there is no good solution YET. Although people are working on them.

    https://www.quora.com/If-Quora-no-longer-exists-what-website-that-is-very-similar-to-Quora-you-would-use-instead

  • What Will Happen If All The Black People Become White And Vice Versa, Permanently On The 1st Of February 2018?

    The world economy would crash, the justice system and the government would collapse. Why? look at the data.

    https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-will-happen-if-all-the-black-people-become-white-and-vice-versa-permanently-on-the-1st-of-February-2018

  • Why Do Americans Buy So Many Pick Ups? In Europe, Hardly Anybody Has Them And I Personally Could Not Think Of Much That Cannot Be More Conveniently Transported In A Van Or A Similar Vehicle.

    Um. Overlay the map of the united states on the map of europe.
    Germany and the netherlands are extremely dense places.
    Americans are responsible for more ‘commons’ and more ‘property’ than germans.
    Shops are awfully far away.
    Many of our men are independent businessmen (contractors).
    Many of our people have farms.
    Trucks can ‘go anywhere’, and we have a large country with much inclement weather.
    And honestly, it’s an extremely comfortable ride with high visibility, and once you are comfortable with it – it’s hard to give it up.
    They’re relatively cheap.
    They don’t depreciate as much as cars.
    That’s why.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-do-Americans-buy-so-many-pick-ups-In-Europe-hardly-anybody-has-them-and-I-personally-could-not-think-of-much-that-cannot-be-more-conveniently-transported-in-a-van-or-a-similar-vehicle

  • If Quora No Longer Exists, What Website That Is Very Similar To Quora You Would Use Instead?

    Quora consists very heavily of ‘fake’ questions produced by bots, low wage workers, ‘students’ (too lazy to use google), and volunteers. Originally it was closer to Medium today. There were good people here, and it was worth answering questions – a bit like Medium is today.

    Quora does not create a ‘wikipedia’ competitor which retains good answers as a form of capital. (See Stack Overflow and it’s related sites instead).

    Wikipedia is about as biased and cultish as an organization can get. I don’t bother editing pages any longer.

    There are many startups trying to solve this problem (over-democratization produces decreasing returns on intellectual investment.) or stated otherwise, the bigger you get the dumber you need to be.

    I think most of us are choosing Medium right now – but as I understand it they’re a hobby business that is under threat. Their pricing is out of line.

    I do most of my work on facebook, and have thousands of followers there.

    Unfortunately there is no good solution YET. Although people are working on them.

    https://www.quora.com/If-Quora-no-longer-exists-what-website-that-is-very-similar-to-Quora-you-would-use-instead

  • Why Do Americans Buy So Many Pick Ups? In Europe, Hardly Anybody Has Them And I Personally Could Not Think Of Much That Cannot Be More Conveniently Transported In A Van Or A Similar Vehicle.

    Um. Overlay the map of the united states on the map of europe.
    Germany and the netherlands are extremely dense places.
    Americans are responsible for more ‘commons’ and more ‘property’ than germans.
    Shops are awfully far away.
    Many of our men are independent businessmen (contractors).
    Many of our people have farms.
    Trucks can ‘go anywhere’, and we have a large country with much inclement weather.
    And honestly, it’s an extremely comfortable ride with high visibility, and once you are comfortable with it – it’s hard to give it up.
    They’re relatively cheap.
    They don’t depreciate as much as cars.
    That’s why.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-do-Americans-buy-so-many-pick-ups-In-Europe-hardly-anybody-has-them-and-I-personally-could-not-think-of-much-that-cannot-be-more-conveniently-transported-in-a-van-or-a-similar-vehicle

  • Is Being Racist Edgy?

    You know, I have built a reputation out of answering the uncomfortable questions using the language of economics to explain human evolution, development, behavior, and thought.

    And providing uncomfortable but true information is always ‘edgy’. And working on ‘edgy’ subjects draws attention.

    Despite writing rather prolifically against racism (particularly racism against whites), I have ended up as a bit of a …. spokesman on the matter, quite by accident.

    And honestly it’s not something I care for.

    The truth is I hate the subject, I don’t care if I’m edgy, I just want to know the truth. And the truth is that every single claim of racism is just a postmodern form of ridicule, shaming, gossiping and rallying.

    The fact is that steriotypes are the most accurate measure in the social sciences.

    So what will we do to change the fact that stereotypes are profoundly accurate descriptions of behavioral distributions among people with similar features. The reason is very simple: the scale of the underclasses of warmer climates that did not undergo manorialism is larger than the scale of the underclasses of the colder climates that went through manorialism (west europe, and east asia).

    Agrarianism was a genetic meat grinder. It made a profound difference. And the plague, and hte fact that europeans hanged so significatn proportions of the population every year, and the east asians (chinese) used the axe with equal profligacy let the middle classes move downward and create higher median distributions of abilities and behaviors.

    https://www.quora.com/Is-being-racist-edgy