Curt Doolittle

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  • Is Social Conforming A Form Of Lying?

    THE BEST ANSWER YOU WILL FIND.

    In display (dress, manner) conformity is a form of taxation. (cost)

    In action (behavior) conformity a form of taxation. (cost)

    In word, the question is whether the statement is true (scientifically), or false, not conforming or non conforming. If you state the truth, it’s a form of taxation. (cost)

    In Religion, it’s both lying and taxation. All cults other than Aristotelian (science and law) require payment of taxation by display, word, and action, as a cost of membership in the cult.

    The means of distinguishing between a theocratic government and society and a scientific (rule-of-law) government and society is whether you must pay a cost of display, action, and word that is false in order to obtain or maintain membership in the organization – where government, cult, society are all forms of organization.

    The problem is, that conformity may amplify or reduce your relative status signals (perceived market value to others). And so the lower your genetic, social, economic, and political capital, the greater your demand for obtaining signals (positive attention) by non conforming means. This is why people ‘with’ tend to conform, and people ‘without’ tend not to. Search for status signals in some other group than the dominant genetic, social, and economic status hierarchies

    All humans are rational actors. That’s necessary for evolutionary persistence.
    They just may not understand the rationality of their actions.

    https://www.quora.com/Is-social-conforming-a-form-of-lying

  • What Do Libertarians Think About The Modern Monetary Theory?

    MMT is an interesting thought experiment.
    The problem is we can’t test the theory very easily.
    And the underlying question is whether it would just generate runaway inflation.
    And as far as I can tell it would.

    HOWEVER
    I will put money on the fact that governments will, sometime in the next few decades, distribute liquidity directly to citizens via debit cards, rather than attempt to manage interest rates.

    I will further put money on the fact that governments will, shortly thereafter, provide zero interest loans for the purpose of increasing consumption.

    And that as a consequence the consumer lending sector will all but disappear.

    https://www.quora.com/What-do-Libertarians-think-about-the-Modern-Monetary-Theory

  • Do Middle East Countries Consider Themselves Asian?

    Strange question. Technically they are west asians, west asians with some indo european genes, west asians with some arabic, and arabic and west asian with some african.

    It’s at the crossroads of the large races and subraces. There has been rampant inbreeding and slave trading and inbreeding with slaves.

    Asia is a very large continent. We usually separate the main subraces into groups, and in particular, separate east asians (chinese, han chinese in particular, korean, and japanese, from indian-asians, the turkic, and the (large number) of steppe peoples, from the southeast asians (brown, wide nose, almond eyes),

    Genetic history is fascinating.

    https://www.quora.com/Do-Middle-East-countries-consider-themselves-Asian

  • What Are Good Introductory Books To Study About States, Politics, And Public Laws?

    THE BEST ANSWER I KNOW OF

    The reason we are in this post-enlightenment political and pseudoscientific debacle is that Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche had very different beliefs about human nature – they expressed their own Aristocratic, Middle Class, and Underclass perceptions of man. And today we see Nietzschean(‘Aryan’), Hobbesian (authoritarian), Lockean (libertarian), Rousseauian (Social-Democratic) and Marxist(socialist and communist) SELF PROJECTIONS of the nature of man. When in reality, our physical brains are structured in a spectrum from the very masculine(Aryan), to the very feminine (Marxist), and we are totally incognizant of our cognitive biases.

    So the first problem is understanding MAN before we can judge rule, government, politics, economics, norms, and religion. And that is provided by science. Then we can understand Politics.

    OUR MINDS (PREPARE YOU)
    Jeff Hawkins: On Intelligence (The Brain)
    Daniel Kahneman: Thinking, Fast and Slow (The Mind)
    Simon Baron-Cohen: The Essential Difference (The Cognitive Biases)
    Jonathan Haidt: The Righteous Mind (The Moral Intuition)
    Paul Fussell: Class (the class biases)
    Francis Fukuyama: Trust (The Political Objective)

    MAN (POLITICAL ORDERS)
    Matt Ridley: The Red Queen
    Dale Petersen: Demonic Males
    William Tucker: Marriage and Civilization
    Nicholas Wade: A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History
    Peter Turchin: Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth
    Garett Jones: Hive Mind: How Your Nation’s IQ Matters So Much More Than Your Own
    Francis Fukuyama: Political Order and Political Decay

    THE UNIQUENESS OF THE WEST (IF YOU ARE INTERESTED)
    Ricardo Duchesne: The Uniqueness of Western Civilization
    JP Mallory: In Search of Indo Europeans
    John Keegan: A History Of Warfare
    Emmanuel Todd: The Explanation of Ideology
    Emmanuel Todd: The Invention of Europe
    Karen Armstrong : The Great Transformation
    Bryan Ward-Perkins: The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization

    THE NATURAL COMMON LAW (Rule of Law)
    Milsom: Natural History of the Common Law.
    Plucknett: A Concise History Of The Common Law.
    Hayek’s: The Constitution of Liberty

    20th CENTURY CONTEXT (WHAT WENT WRONG)
    Stephen Hicks : Explaining Postmodernism
    Hans Hoppe: Democracy The God That Failed

    https://www.quora.com/What-are-good-introductory-books-to-study-about-states-politics-and-public-laws

  • What’s The Difference Between Communism And Libertarianism?

    In Communism private property is abolished in order to create exclusively common property. (Rule By Discretion)

    In Libertarianism, common property is abolished in order to create exclusively private property. (Anarchy)

    In Classical Liberalism (Rule of Law), the houses of government constitute a market for the voluntary production of commons between the people who pay for them with sacrifice of their private property. (Rule of Law)

    https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-difference-between-communism-and-libertarianism

  • Do Women From Ukraine Interested In Dating Indian Men?

    I ANSWER THE HARD, UNPLEASANT, AND IMPOLITIC QUESTIONS

    Not at all. And If I am honest you will not like the answer at all.

    1. Eastern european women are attracted to traditional masculinity. I had problems as an american because I treat women as equals. It means you’re weak and unreliable. They don’t understand or like it. “Men should be men, and women should be women”. Indian men are considered effeminate (they are also in the west – it’s just not ‘a problem’.). They find turkish men tolerable. But they prefer slavic or german men. The problem is that slavic countries are still recovering from communism, and Ukraine in particular is the only poor ‘white’ country remaining. So their choices are limited. The only eason ukrainian women are not more valued than nordic is that they are too poor to know their value at present. It won’t last long. Furthermore while russian women may be fairly ‘easy’ that is not true of Ukrainian women and it is more true the more west you go. I’m short but fairly good looking, charismatic, and ‘smell like money’ and I had a much harder time seducing Ukrainian women. They use the “N-word” all the time and they consider westerners ridiculous fools at times.
    2. Ukraine in general is, like russia and the baltics, a pretty conservative culture, and they still have ‘face control’ at most clubs. And if you’re not white you might not get in, unless it’s a place that specializes in hookers. (Which is where you will go, because it’s NOT where Ukrainians go).
    3. Sex tourism in ukraine is entirely possible and it’s probably great (I dunno, I met someone within a few days of arriving.) But if you spend any time doing business in hotels the hookers are freaking gorgeous and obvious. Think of it this way. $600–1500 for an evening means she has to ‘work’ once a week at most, in a country where the average salary is $200-$300 a month and she owns her own house and her own cars, and isn’t dependent upon an unreliable man. I have studied the club (i tried to buy one), strip club (I tried to buy one), and prostitution (No interest whatsoever – too much bribery required) business in ukraine.
    4. The bad girls will chew you up and spit you out. (You have no idea.) But the ‘good girls’ are suspicious of foreigners. I was dancing with a very attractive young woman but as soon as she found out I was american she crossed her arms, and walked away. (that’s the ‘nope’ sign and you can’t ignore it without getting beaten up).

    That said, I love ukraine, ukrainians and russians, and I am a bit protective of them so I may see the world through that lens.

    https://www.quora.com/Do-women-from-Ukraine-interested-in-dating-Indian-men

  • What Are The Different Branches Of Economics?

    I’m going to give you a different answer from the rest. Which is the group evolutionary strategy advanced by the different schools.

    Ostensibly, all schools study every scale of human interaction from behavior through micro, thru macro, through the world economic system. We teach the fundamentals with micro and macro. But these are just entry level disciplines.

    But just as people have intellectual, moral, and political biases in every field, so do they in economics.

    “SCHOOLS OF ECONOMICS”
    The schools of economics reflect the culture and class of their origins. These groups do not acknowledge that their strategies and biases are as I”ve stated them here but their research evidence states the contrary. So I have tried to provide a general Spectrum of the institutions by what I understand is their culture/class bias.

    a) “Austrian / Rothbardian” (“Jewish”, Separatist) : Rule of Credit, Parasitic Optimum, Separatist / Anarchism.
    +Financial Class Bias. Anti-Commons Bias.
    (As far as I know, no university teaches the Jewish Austrian method.)

    b) “Mason-ism” (“Anglo Libertarian”, Right ) : Optimum Rule of Law, Nash Optimum, Minimal State / Christian Monarchy
    +Entrepreneurial Class Bias.
    (the only University I know of using this program is George Mason.)
    The “Mason-Libertarian” school places greater emphasis on maximizing the voluntary cooperation of individuals and organizations through reduction of impediments to ethical and moral cooperation.

    c) “Classical” (“Chicago”, Anglo, Center Right), Rule of Law, Insured Nash Optimum, Parliamentary State / Classical Liberalism.
    +Middle classes bias. (I would argue ‘not biased’)
    All other things being equal, the Chicago school places greater emphasis on policy that insures against error and failure by seeking formulas and rules that investors, businesses, and consumers can predict, thereby preserving rule of law, and maintaining the prohibition on discretionary rule.

    d) “Mainstream” (“Saltwater”, Center Left) : Mixed Discretionary Rule, Pareto Optimum, Social Democracy
    +Working Class Bias, Consumer Bias, Female bias(anti-male bias). Minority(anti-white) bias. Underclass Bias (anti-entreprenurial bias).
    All other things being equal the mainstream seeks to optimize consumption at all times, using every lever available, and favors abandoning rule of law, and adopting rule that is increasingly empirical, reactive, and discretionary.

    e) “Left Mainstream” (“Saltwater”, “Jewish left”) : Authoritarian Rule, Anti-Aristocracy(War), Extractive Maximum (Predatory), Socialism/Communism
    +Underclass (outsider) Bias. This is the Krugman/Stiglitz/Delong club of leftist economists maximizing both consumption and financial extraction as a means of undermining western aristocratic civilization and western norms and traditions and rule of law.

    https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-different-branches-of-economics

  • Should We Try To Encourage The Belief That Black Africans Are The Master Race? They Really Don’t Have A Lot Going For Them, And Life In Africa And Among Black Americans Is So Hard. I Think It Would Be Uplifting For Them.

    There is no master race. There are races that have evolved in different geographies that produced different demands. Each geography produced variations of the human animal suitable to those conditions.

    All people should love their own and take care of their own – self doubt is useless. The greatest inhibitor of black americans is that their culture was just getting started in the south, and the leftists brought them to cities and destroyed that culture. (They were imitating the Soviets. It didn’t work for the soviets, and russians are by and large the same race.)

    There are very minor but very meaningful differences (largely endocrinological) between the races, and those of the african communities in america are earlier and deeper rates of maturity (necessary for evolution in africa), higher extroversion (necessary for warm climate hunter gatherers and subsistence farmers), and lower verbal ‘fascination’ (the opposite of the Ashkenazi for example).

    Northern europeans evolved in a very different environment, and have very different intuitions and norms. ALL GROUPS are better off in homogenous cultures where they reciprocally provide what the group needs. The competition between races is not helpful except among the most highly talented and skilled global elite whose means of survival is purely economic and not at all social. Most of us are, and will always be, social creatures dependent upon one another for not only a division of labor, but a division of understanding and knowledge. Universalism is a fantasy of foolish semi-elites.

    People from the African continent have a number of claims to be proud of:
    1- Physical Superiority (Especially Durability). (True)
    2- Higher in-group sociability (True)
    3- Because of these traits, they are the only people that could survive in Africa, which by all measures is a very hostile environment for human beings.
    4- And because of oceans and deserts, africans were largely cut off from the technological innovations on the northern hemisphere across the eurasian-asian continents

    Love your own. Respect your people for what they have done. Understand that each of us had to evolve in our geography. And give africans time to catch up in institutional and normative technology. It’s taking time. But it’s happening. Not fast enough maybe. But pretty fast by historical standards.

    The fundamental problem for all peoples is the size of the underclass. People in colder climates could not survive winters if they ‘lacked industry and discipline’. People in the far east and the west have killed off the underclasses for thousands of years, either by starvation, disease, war, or ‘hanging’ in large numbers.

    Very few peoples have been able to shrink the size of the underclass: largely westerners and east asians. It should not be a surprise that westerners and east asians have the highest standards of living. Because each person at the bottom , no matter how well intentioned, is six times as costly as each person at the top is productive.

    So the most important thing countries can do is to decrease the rates of reproduction of the underclasses. And now that most of the world has adopted western technologies, it will be increasingly hard for people with large underclasses to ‘carry them’ as the demand for unskilled labor declines. (This is africa’s real problem. the talented classes cannot organize such large numbers of underclasses using capitalism (voluntary organization of production). And even so, it is not universal. (Look at Nigeria, Ghana, and Ethiopia.)

    Africans have plenty to be proud of: they conquered the largest and most difficult continent, despite its terrible hostility to human life, and its near isolation from trade, technology, and information routes – and the use of africa as a source of STRONG DURABLE slave labor by neighboring peoples during the entirety of the agrarian age so dependent upon human labor.

    It pains me every time I have to encourage african self respect, when there are so many other groups on this earth who have so much self respect – yet are so undeserving of it.

    (The greatest danger to africa is Islam, which glorifies the unproductive underclass. It is very seductive, and it has destroyed at least five major civilizations by the same means: expanding the underclasses.)

    https://www.quora.com/Should-we-try-to-encourage-the-belief-that-black-Africans-are-the-master-race-They-really-dont-have-a-lot-going-for-them-and-life-in-Africa-and-among-black-Americans-is-so-hard-I-think-it-would-be-uplifting-for-them

  • What Do Libertarians Think Of A Progressive Global Wealth Tax?

    Why would we want to end capital flight? It tells governments that they are managing badly.

    https://www.quora.com/What-do-libertarians-think-of-a-progressive-global-wealth-tax

  • If Mathematics Is An Exact Science, Why Are There Assumptions?

    As far as I know, mathematics consists not of science but of a logic. A logic meaning a grammar of decidability. And in the case of mathematics, the grammar of decidability consists of reduction of all references to positional names, and therefore all relations to positional relations. And we can do so with an unlimited number of dimensions,

    A science is necessary when we do not know the first principles (causal relations) of phenomenon and seek to identify them. Science therefore consists of theories and laws.

    A logic is necessary when we do know the first principles (causal relations). Ergo, logics consist of axioms.

    You can declare an axiom, but only identify a law.

    Once a law is known you may model it with axioms.

    That I know of there are only two assumptions in mathematics, and both are necessary for the simple reason that independent of context (applied mathematics) we have no means of decidability in matters of scale independence.

    The law of the excluded middle.
    The need for choice.

    Mathematics is actually quite simple. Its that because it is so simple, consisting only of positional relations, we can describe any set of constant relations with it.

    https://www.quora.com/If-mathematics-is-an-exact-science-why-are-there-assumptions