Curt Doolittle

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  • Is It Ok To Be Socialistic Or Anti-capitalistic Sometimes?

    All societies consist of mixed economies. We have abandoned the experiment with socialism world wide (the central organization of the economy) and instead have settled on the federal production of commons, the mixed production of core industries, and the private production of goods, services, and information. So there exist no socialist and no capitalist economies – only mixed economies. And we debate how much production of commons, how much investment in core industries, and how much liberty in the private sector economy, and how much taking from private production to give out as redistribution for unproductive periods due to age, unemployment, and care-taking.

    The first problem that we face is human nature. Everyone will take all the free rides he can get. Secondly, we face a great lie: that is that the wealthier we become, the lower the demand for people who cannot learn on their own (people who cannot handle college level independent learning) and that all people can achieve middle income status if even if they cannot produce middle income market value.

    So it is not OK to be ignorant and have an opinion about such things if you lack the knowledge to hold such an opinion. The fact of the matter is that economics is not very different from hydraulics. Where small changes can produce very large changes elsewhere – and visa versa. And where any ‘gap’ or will fill in with water at the first opportunity, just like all people will seek to make theirs whatever they can at every opportunity.

    https://www.quora.com/Is-it-OK-to-be-socialistic-or-anti-capitalistic-sometimes

  • Has Anyone Described A Simple Iq Capability Table?

    Plenty of people have. This one is readable:

    I.Q. ranges and real-life functioning.

    As a general rule, IQ affects rate and therefore cost of learning, but also affects everything else like longevity, health, accidents, and income.

    And I find it most helpful to speak in those terms. For about every ten points in IQ we dramatically change the ability of people to learn.

    BELOW AVERAGE

    • 60’s are mildly retarded. May still function with supervision. usually socially inept
    • 70’s are borderline retarded. They have problems with basic literacy and instructions, and require supervision.
    • 80’s are problematic. Because the ‘evil 80s’ are where most violence comes from, and the average intelligence of most backward communities is in the 80’s. This is because people in this range are unable to compete but still able to plot and execute simple crimes.

    AVERAGE

    • 90 is the minimum for following written instructions, and operating machines. This is the minimum employability for routine work.
    • 100 to learn from written materials and 105 capable of repairing machines. (Arguably 106 to articulate your own ideas). 106 appears to be the minimum median IQ for the formation of a high trust polity.

    ABOVE AVERAGE

    • 110 to manage one’s learning from instructors (college format). The closer we get in median IQ to 110 the more likely we are to have a golden age.
    • 120 to investigate and learn on one’s own (graduate format) and 125 capable of designing machines. It is probably impossible to achieve a median IQ in this range.
    • 130 capable of synthesizing ideas and communicating them (low level phd in soft subjects). The good to great authors are in this range.

    INTELLIGENT

    • 140+ capable of discovering and inventing new ideas using highly structured reasoning. (PhD in hard subjects)

    RULES OF THUMB

    • One standard deviation is 15 points. We can usually communicate within one standard deviation of one another. By two standard deviations we cannot generally communicate successfully.
    • If we look at loose averages, our social and economic classes roughly reflect this distribution.
    • In my experience, and according to most professionals, 140 is the limit of IQ tests, and over that we must test specific abilities. Some would say that 130 is the limit of meaningful testing. Above those levels we start to see dispersion of traits so that while we might demonstrate exceptional ability in some area or other, we tend not to possess the full suite of abilities in balanced form.

    HEDGING A BIT

    But let me qualify it a bit and say that while the theory of multiple intelligences is nonsense, intelligence is just one property of personality that affects demonstrated behavior.

    The combinations of low impulsivity, high conscientiousness, and high intelligence need to go together. One can be less intelligent, but highly disciplined, conscientious, and work very hard, and someone can be highly intelligent, impulsive, and devoid of conscientiousness.

    A lot of things must ‘go right’ for high intelligence to produce positive outcomes in life. (the good stuff kicks in at 115 and above). A lot of things can ‘go wrong’ and we end up with dim(90’s), dangerous (80’s), and untrainable (70’s and below).

    For example, I read Neal Ferguson and I realize he has a better memory than I do and is more organized. I read Hayek and identify myself almost perfectly in every way – even speech pattern. I read Chomsky and it’s obvious he’s more intelligent than I am. But of those people the most ‘whole’ or ‘balanced’ person is definitely Ferguson.

    There are people I can tell are quite a bit faster than I am especially at mathematical operations, or maintaining sets of states in short term memory. And others who have higher reading comprehension than I do – and greater patience with it. But what I see most often is that people with increasingly high ‘scores’ tend to possess side effects. Not all of them (Norman Schwartzkopf).

    So this is why being smart isn’t enough. And this is why the ‘great families’ control reproduction and marriage so carefully, and only hand down assets to those that demonstrate performance. It’s hard work to make things ‘go right’ for generations.

    Thankfully we tend to marry and reproduce within genetic classes if not within social and economic classes, and this tends to limit the damage done by the lower classes to the gene pool. That was until redistribution which took rates of reproduction from the working, middle, and upper classes and replaced it with reproduction and immigration from the lower classes.

    It matters more for a society to have the smallest possible number of people at the bottom than it does to increase the number of people at the top. Context in everything affects everything else.

    And in real life, it matters more that you have few “bads”, than that you have tremendously outlying “goods”.

    FWIW: the evidence is clear that average people are almost always far happier than smart people. Mostly, we’re frustrated. The world doesn’t exist for us. We’re tools for the majority. And the world exists for them.

    Curt Doolittle
    The Propertarian Institute
    Kiev, Ukraine

    https://www.quora.com/Has-anyone-described-a-simple-IQ-capability-table

  • Do You Believe Racism And Racial Bias Will Exist In The Future?

    Always and everywhere, since it is merely an extension of kin selection.

    https://www.quora.com/Do-you-believe-racism-and-racial-bias-will-exist-in-the-future

  • What Is The Difference Between Race And Ethnicity?

    Kin selection by morphology.

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-race-and-ethnicity

  • How Do We Improve Race Relations In America?

    Stop pretending that race is irrelevant and look at the data. It’s not.

    https://www.quora.com/How-do-we-improve-race-relations-in-America

  • How Will The United States Look In 2027?

    We will be entering a period of civil war with the conflict over how to devolve into regional nation states while preserving the military and social security apparatus.

    https://www.quora.com/How-will-the-United-States-look-in-2027

  • What Is The Military Intelligence Unit Within The Pentagon That Specifically Works To Create Plans For Hypothetical Conflicts With All Other Nations?

    In order to be able to respond quickly to unforeseen or unlikely circumstances, all countries with substantial militaries possess a General Staff. A General Staff is not an intelligence unit. The purpose of a General Staff is to envision scenarios, create plans for handling them, and to file them in case they might be needed. The more ‘creative’ and unlikely the plan the better. It consumes inputs and makes requests of intelligence services. These plans are updated regularly and discarded if they no longer make any sense. For example, Norman Schwartzkopf had written a plan for Desert Storm, and they pulled it out. More recently, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and capture of Crimea was the result of previously made plans. Countries have absurd numbers of them.

    The government also conducts ‘war games’ (Or did back when I was involved) where they invite you and a few others to role play various scenarios. Sometimes they are testing these plans or considering new ones.

    Most of the “whacky” reporting you hear about some “plan” originates in one of these ‘unlikely’ plans. And while ‘odd’ it is exceptionally good training for top talent. Particularly for the USA because the USA has such a logistics problem – the USA is an island. Getting weapons, people, and supplies off the island and to a location is hard and expensive work.

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-Military-Intelligence-unit-within-the-Pentagon-that-specifically-works-to-create-plans-for-hypothetical-conflicts-with-all-other-nations

  • Is The United States On The Brink Of A Political Revolution?

    Of course it is. In fact, quite a few of us are working to make it happen.

    https://www.quora.com/Is-the-United-States-on-the-brink-of-a-political-revolution

  • Can Vancouver, Bc Become A New Silicon Valley?

    It’s unlikely. (Spoken as someone who has purchased a Canadian tech company)
    1. Canadian work ethic and 100 hour weeks at startups are incompatible.
    2. Employment regulations place too high a burden on small businesses.
    3. Shareholder requirements in Canada are too burdensome for high risk opportunities.
    4. Consumer banking in Canada is exceptional but commercial banking is like dealing with the government – depressing, incompetent, and ignorant.
    5. The VC community (if you want to call it that) is not competent in tech – better in mining and resources.
    6. The university system has no peer to California or NY/Boston
    7. Canada lacks sufficient population to produce sufficient engineers, capable of taking sufficient risks. At present it takes 500M people in a market to produce competitive intellectual work products at the level of global powers.

    https://www.quora.com/Can-Vancouver-BC-become-a-new-Silicon-Valley

  • Do You Believe Racism And Racial Bias Will Exist In The Future?

    Always and everywhere, since it is merely an extension of kin selection.

    https://www.quora.com/Do-you-believe-racism-and-racial-bias-will-exist-in-the-future