Curt Doolittle

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  • (Worth Watching) @BobMurphyEcon , @ProfSteveKeen Great Video

    (Worth Watching)

    @BobMurphyEcon
    ,
    @ProfSteveKeen

    Great Video

    Source date (UTC): 2025-12-26 01:15:26 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2004360371642200533

  • True. Look at the origins of the lawfare in the USA. If you can stomach the volu

    True. Look at the origins of the lawfare in the USA.
    If you can stomach the volume of detail in the impact of Jewish intellectuals read Kevin Macdonald’s series including the People Who Shall Dwell Alone, and the heavily suppressed Culture of Critique.
    If you want an unbiased view read Stephen Hicks’ Explaining Postmodernism.
    If you want to higher level view read Ricardo Duchesne’s The Uniqueness of Western Civilization.
    If you want world context, read Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations and our present return to it’s dominance.
    My work on group evolutionary strategies and their cognitive and biological origins is almost ready for publication, but much of my thinking is publicly available.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-12-26 01:10:43 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2004359186377748725

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    Source date (UTC): 2025-12-25 20:49:31 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2004293453342298532

  • Who created the red lines?

    Who created the red lines?

    Source date (UTC): 2025-12-24 23:53:24 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2003977339986981046

  • ANOTHER THOUGHT OF THE DAY There is a tendency of humans, illustrated by both le

    ANOTHER THOUGHT OF THE DAY
    There is a tendency of humans, illustrated by both left center and right, that attempts to reduce causality to a single dimension whether left (psychological-non-adaptive), center (capacity-practical), right (responsibility-adaptive), or to claim relativism because of causal density they can neither undersand nor resist falsification of their priors. Instead, ‘adults’ so to speak, think in systems of causal dimensions that seek some sort of equilibrium. In my understanding failure to teach behavioral economics incrementally in grade and high-school – which is value neutral – is the greatest source of ignorance among the general population, even if, likewise, mathiness is the greatest source of ignorance in the hard sciences and the spillover has affected all other sciences.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-12-24 22:26:20 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2003955428946792496

  • NOTE FOR ALL: There is a relationship between culture and genome that is self-re

    NOTE FOR ALL: There is a relationship between culture and genome that is self-reinforcing, but mostly in the direction of neotenic evolution (domestication syndrome). So the [R1b > R1a > I] cline have been co-evolving for millennia – at least since the end of the ice age.
    We might argue that genome is just a proxy for civilization because civilizations reflect the demands of their genetic distributions, and the primary axis of genetic distribution in both sexual rate and depth of maturity, sexual dimorphism, temperament (personality) and intelligence.
    But all that would mean is that it’s the distribution of the population under that culture evolved under that genome evolved under that degree of neotenic evolution, made possible by isolation and sub-speciation.
    This is the correct explanation of the correlation of integration possibility rather than purely attributing it to genetics.
    When we account for the entire sequence we see causal clarity and ends the criticism of reliance on genetic determinism.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-12-24 22:20:37 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2003953988144930884

  • Not without an argument it isn’t. It’s an accusation without substantiation. It’

    Not without an argument it isn’t. It’s an accusation without substantiation.

    It’s also extremely unlikely that I’m wrong. I may have been incomplete because it’s a post on a holiday and I’m in a rush, but I don’t do ‘wrong’ almost ever. It’s my job to make up for the rest of you….

    Source date (UTC): 2025-12-24 22:09:21 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2003951152648671624

  • Not an argument

    Not an argument.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-12-24 22:07:55 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2003950793242894508

  • AN IMPORTANT THOUGHT Because our modeling of the world evolved from the physical

    AN IMPORTANT THOUGHT
    Because our modeling of the world evolved from the physical to the economic, we tend to think that’s a dependency. And instead, I might extend my argument by saying that for human reasoning, the physical world and how we think of it in cardinal indexing and measure by mathematical reduction is a subset of the economic world and we think of it in natural indexing and measure by satisfaction of supply and demand.
    It helps us humans a bit to grasp that all cardinality and ordinality is effectively a statistical game rather than the purity we presume in mathematical reasoning. And that naturality is effectively the neural equivalent of a statistical game (predictive) by dendritic computation that we can barely observe.
    I put all this ‘error’ in the category of ‘mathiness’ which is one of the principle traps in both physics, and philosophy, and possibly why philosophy stalled until we developed twenty first century cognitive science to escape the failure of the non-sciences.
    I hope this has some value to you.
    Curt Doolittle

    Source date (UTC): 2025-12-24 21:49:12 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2003946084604039502

  • Signaling Goods and Services (~30–40% of budget; real costs up 200–1,000% since

    Signaling Goods and Services (~30–40% of budget; real costs up 200–1,000% since 1960): These involve status competition, where “more” signals investment in a child’s future success (e.g., elite credentials). The “parenting arms race” has normalized extras, raising fertility barriers and inequality—e.g., extracurriculars now cost $3,000+/year on average, up from negligible in 1960. Much of the child care/education surge (from 2% to 16–18%) is signaling-driven.
    Advanced Child Care/Education (core driver): Private preschools, tutors, test prep, elite colleges—+1,175%; e.g., SAT coaching ($1,000+) or travel sports ($5,000/year) signal “ambitious parenting.” Public basics are sufficient; extras are positional.
    Enrichment/Extracurriculars (in Misc): Music lessons, camps, gadgets—+20% overall, but signaling subset up 300%+; e.g., competitive robotics vs. free playground time.
    Premium Housing: Homes in top school districts—part of housing’s stability, but signaling adds 20–50% premium ($50k+ over 18 years) for “good zip codes.”
    Specialty Health/Wellness: Elective therapies, orthodontics for aesthetics—subset of health’s +155%; signals health-conscious status.

    This split explains why costs feel “out of control” despite modest totals: signaling inflates via social norms, not just needs. For instance, fertility drops in high-inequality areas correlate more with relative costs (e.g., affording Ivy signals) than absolutes. To mitigate, policies like universal pre-K could compress the arms race. For personalized breakdowns, USDA’s tool at
    http://
    CNPP.usda.gov is useful.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-12-24 21:24:55 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2003939970470567952