Curt Doolittle

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  • Never Trust a Thinker. only Determine the Truth or Falsehood of His Theories.

    —“I just don’t trust him.”—Arnold Brunson

    You should never trust a thinker. You should only determine the truth or falsehood of his theories. If you cannot determine that truth or falsehood of his statements two things are occurring: either you lack the knowledge and ability, or the thinker is uninterested in bearing the expense of teaching you sufficient knowledge that you, with your ability, are able to determine the truth or falsehood of the statement. You must trust a person who has made you a promise, but you falsify an argument. There is no trust involved except in yourself, and your ability to comprehend that argument. What you mean is that a person does not share your emotional reactions to statements, or agree with your frame of reference. But at every standard deviation of ability we are incompatible, and at every two standard deviations we are incomprehensible to one another. I don’t pander, which is what you want: someone you feel comfortable controlling you. Instead, I practice the aristocratic strategy of seeking for men who can rise above needing control. So, I don’t want your trust. I want you to have sufficient agency so that you don’t need to. Because if you need to trust, then you lack the agency to determine the truth or falsehood yourself. My goal is only to give you that agency. I will only ‘lead’ as a last resort, for having to fail to manufacture by my work, leaders better than I at leading. That’s the goal of western civilization: men who develop agency sufficient to insure one another and police the private and common. We created the only civilization that industrialized the development of agency regardless of rank. Every other did not – although the chinese did try at least for the bureaucratic class. So understand my arguments or don’t. But don’t trust me. It means you have failed – and so have I. And if you must trust, you deserve the fate those you trust deliver unto you – which so far, it appears, you have chosen poorly.

  • Never Trust a Thinker. only Determine the Truth or Falsehood of His Theories.

    —“I just don’t trust him.”—Arnold Brunson

    You should never trust a thinker. You should only determine the truth or falsehood of his theories. If you cannot determine that truth or falsehood of his statements two things are occurring: either you lack the knowledge and ability, or the thinker is uninterested in bearing the expense of teaching you sufficient knowledge that you, with your ability, are able to determine the truth or falsehood of the statement. You must trust a person who has made you a promise, but you falsify an argument. There is no trust involved except in yourself, and your ability to comprehend that argument. What you mean is that a person does not share your emotional reactions to statements, or agree with your frame of reference. But at every standard deviation of ability we are incompatible, and at every two standard deviations we are incomprehensible to one another. I don’t pander, which is what you want: someone you feel comfortable controlling you. Instead, I practice the aristocratic strategy of seeking for men who can rise above needing control. So, I don’t want your trust. I want you to have sufficient agency so that you don’t need to. Because if you need to trust, then you lack the agency to determine the truth or falsehood yourself. My goal is only to give you that agency. I will only ‘lead’ as a last resort, for having to fail to manufacture by my work, leaders better than I at leading. That’s the goal of western civilization: men who develop agency sufficient to insure one another and police the private and common. We created the only civilization that industrialized the development of agency regardless of rank. Every other did not – although the chinese did try at least for the bureaucratic class. So understand my arguments or don’t. But don’t trust me. It means you have failed – and so have I. And if you must trust, you deserve the fate those you trust deliver unto you – which so far, it appears, you have chosen poorly.

  • Taleb, Women, and The Cathedral

    Taleb, Women, and The Cathedral https://t.co/J30hIG0qpk

  • Taleb, Women, and The Cathedral

    TALEB, WOMEN, AND THE CATHEDRAL Taleb’s early books are an effort to feed his ego (self image) His later works are an effort to defend his ego (self image). He made a career popularizing mandelbrot. He DID successfully restore ‘whatever doesn’t kill you only serves to make you stronger” as anti-fragility to the popular will but was unsuccessful in turning it into political policy or mandate – because it is contrary to female instinct and females control both the vote, consumer spending, the academy revenues. So females control the cathedral complex: state, academy, advertising, marketing, consumption, and males control military, finance, and production which services them. Which has led to this problem. As I remind us constantly – everything is institutions and incentives, and incentives always boil down to reproductive strategy, from which the rest of life is merely an exaggerated representation. Edit

  • Taleb, Women, and The Cathedral

    TALEB, WOMEN, AND THE CATHEDRAL Taleb’s early books are an effort to feed his ego (self image) His later works are an effort to defend his ego (self image). He made a career popularizing mandelbrot. He DID successfully restore ‘whatever doesn’t kill you only serves to make you stronger” as anti-fragility to the popular will but was unsuccessful in turning it into political policy or mandate – because it is contrary to female instinct and females control both the vote, consumer spending, the academy revenues. So females control the cathedral complex: state, academy, advertising, marketing, consumption, and males control military, finance, and production which services them. Which has led to this problem. As I remind us constantly – everything is institutions and incentives, and incentives always boil down to reproductive strategy, from which the rest of life is merely an exaggerated representation. Edit

  • Equilibrating Gender Cognitive Load: Tribes

    Equilibrating Gender Cognitive Load: Tribes https://t.co/e9gw6NN2sG

  • Equilibrating Gender Cognitive Load: Tribes

    EQUILIBRATING GENDER COGNITIVE LOAD: TRIBES

    —“I’ve thought of who’s the most clearsighted of all. Is it married mothers with many children? Or is it some male category?”— atalay oral @baetsailray

    WOMEN grow rational increasingly with each child, and my … educated guess .. is that female cognitive load evolved for five to six children, which his how many can survive at once in most conditions. Male nervous systems evolved to include the tribe, territory, and resources, of which females are a resource. So we deal with collections. Female nervous systems evolved to include her offspring: individuals. Until she ‘average’s a ‘tribe’ like males, she is not able to produce intuitive averages similar to males: TRIBE.

  • Equilibrating Gender Cognitive Load: Tribes

    EQUILIBRATING GENDER COGNITIVE LOAD: TRIBES

    —“I’ve thought of who’s the most clearsighted of all. Is it married mothers with many children? Or is it some male category?”— atalay oral @baetsailray

    WOMEN grow rational increasingly with each child, and my … educated guess .. is that female cognitive load evolved for five to six children, which his how many can survive at once in most conditions. Male nervous systems evolved to include the tribe, territory, and resources, of which females are a resource. So we deal with collections. Female nervous systems evolved to include her offspring: individuals. Until she ‘average’s a ‘tribe’ like males, she is not able to produce intuitive averages similar to males: TRIBE.

  • Solving the Problem of Demand for Leaders vs Agency

    Solving the Problem of Demand for Leaders vs Agency https://t.co/d9B2fJsIcG

  • Solving the Problem of Demand for Leaders vs Agency

    —“I wonder what percentage of people just want to be comfortable with their master?”—Andrew M Gilmour

    It’s a lot easier for certain, and this is why we must have hierarchies, competing classes, but a market for cooperation between the classes as we increase in scale, to compete with those doing the same.