Curt Doolittle

Theme: Agency

  • Actually. Wanna do the world violent good? Spend a year researching some scumbag

    Actually. Wanna do the world violent good? Spend a year researching some scumbag in your free time, and figuring out how to end his reign of scumbagism. And do something about it either above board or below.

    Even if you did only one scumbag every two or three years, over the course of your lifetime you would change the world dramatically for the better.

    Get your testosterone and anger out in sports or the gym. Never discuss your hobby.

    Every man a warrior. Every man a Sheriff. Every man a Judge.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-01 04:48:00 UTC

  • Q&A: “CAN I BECOME A ‘MR WOLF?” JAMES BOND DOESN”T EXIST EITHER —“in the movie

    Q&A: “CAN I BECOME A ‘MR WOLF?” JAMES BOND DOESN”T EXIST EITHER

    —“in the movie Pulp Fiction there is a character played by Harvey Keitel who is referred to as the Wolf. Excepting the blatantly illegal stuff, how would a guy go about making himself this “fountain of utility” to men of sufficient power who require such an option?”—

    These men exist in law, public relations, finance, business, and politics. In business there is an entire class of CEO’s who ‘turnaround’ (clean up and sell) failed businesses. There are PR people who help actors and public people recover their images. In ever sector there are ‘cleaners’. We had a guy in my company that recovered blown customers who were mad at us. Some project managers specialize in project recovery. Some technologists in technology recovery. Some engineers who rescue ships. Some doctors who specialize in trauma.

    Where these people do not really exist, just like ‘hit men’ do not exist, is in the lower classes, where such things are to reality what myths are to reality: illustrations that we learn from.

    The evidence is in that the government doesn’t use spies it uses special forces to kill people. That there are no ‘cleaners’ in crime other than borderline lawyers. That there are few if any ‘hit men’,. Those that do exist are very rare, lead very bad lives, and are not someone you can seek to become. And moreover that the men who do usually kill are merely throwaways, and usually the dumbest guy that they can find, who they have the least regret in offing in order to preserve silence.

    The reason is that such people would be caught unless they were employed by an organization with sufficient work for them. And organizations of any scale have been under assault by the FBI since the 1930’s and particularly since the 1960’s.

    And moreover the economics prohibit it. Underground activity suppresses the option of scale by reputation. Above ground activity facilitates scale by reputation. Anonymity requires rather small organizations free of ‘leaking’. This means that a ‘market’ for services like those of ‘the cleaner’ do not exist. In fact, if we look at the data, the series CSI has done more to educate criminals in how to operate cleanly than any individual ever has.

    There is a longstanding tradition in hollywood to place middle class characters in lower class roles, and equally to place lower class characters in upper middle or upper class roles. This technique is always an interesting device for creating mythical characters.

    So, the way to do this is to literally study any area of inquiry and to learn to specialize in recovering failures rather than creating innovations.

    The Pinkerton organization does the closest to this kind of work on a professional and above board basis. They both act as corporate spies and they prevent corporate spying. (I have used them in the distant past both to conduct ‘research’ – espionage – and to prevent it. And it’s very common in R&D and legal organizations to do so.)

    Now, as a confession, I have taken down organizations run by:

    a) Elliot and Robert Koenig (racketerring), b) Stephen Golub (wire fraud), c) Wayne Seminoff (tax evasion), and now d) Rothbardianism(deception) (all jewish names you might note) for illegal or immoral activity. And there was a time that I considered making a career out of it because it suited my autistic hyper moralism and subconscious need for revenge. And that was why I joined the Justice department for a very short time.

    But I decided that I would rather not spend my life around bad people because it tended to make me angry, and I don’t particularly like hanging around scumbags and getting angry about it.

    So such things CAN be done. They are just not done at low levels of sophistication. they are done at high levels of sophistication.

    Reading a few rudimentary books on the ACTUAL operation of the law is pretty useful. After that you study how to recover projects that have failed. then just a little accounting. And then how to win friends and influence people.

    Then the trick is going and looking for the dirt. If you start looking for dirty people in this world it won’t take you that long to find them. 🙂

    Curt Doolittle

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-01 04:42:00 UTC

  • Actually women and men’s product evolution is a little different. Men tend to co

    Actually women and men’s product evolution is a little different. Men tend to copy tools and signals that work, just like women do. But their tools and signals are narrower than women’s just as men’s consumption is narrower than women’s. They also tend to be more expensive. And (honestly) women are the most expensive signal we work to ‘buy’.

    So men usually perform discretion at the top and then are copied, while women perform discretion nearly everywhere and try to preserve individualism. (Roughly). This means that men wear uniforms and women customize. It means that men buy cars and women clothes and shoes and purses. It means men build companies and women build offspring. And yes we overlap a bit.

    But this produces different kinds of ‘waste’. Women’s clothing and accessories are more expensive, and men’s tools are more expensive than women’s.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-27 06:14:00 UTC

  • This Week’s Aspie Post: The Process Of Maturing Your Mind

    [T]HIS WEEK’s ASPIE POST Aspies tend to love everyone. The difficulty in empathizing, common rejection, and desire for connection with others makes all successful connections more enjoyable. The hard part to manage comes in three: 1) It’s hard to find relations since listening to others most of their language consists of signals we consider either meaningless, tedious or confusing. So you must learn patience to listen and try to ask about how and why people feel the way they do. Most of us understand spoken emotions. Meanwhile the autistic impulse tries to control you into avoiding exactly what you are trying to accomplish. This is why ssri’s are so effective: they dull the impulse and allow you to practice building the strength of will over the autistic impulse. Social anxiety disorder is controlled by the same means. We must see the autism spectrum as excess in-uterine suppression of the growth of the self. And that we must assist the growth of the self to compensate. We tend to think as engineers today rather than gardeners and foresters. The mind is constructed more like a tree and some artful bonsai may be needed. 2) It is easy to alienate relations via over sharing minutia fascinating to the autistic mind because system-thought provides constant touch stones amidst sensory chaos in socially and emotionally dense environments. So developing self monitoring is necessary and it’s very hard work. Again the problem is severity: some of us are weakly affected and can rely on will. Others more so and require help in training. Others need chemical assistance to suppress the autistic impulse. And some of us lack sufficient self to imagine the very idea of self monitoring – and it is those people that are non functional. 3) Once you mature having not experienced all the “silly” distractions of normal minds, you can gain this sense of superiority that comes with expertise in anything, and you can lose your desire to engage with (boring, dull, stupid) normals. This requires acceptance that only comes with age: normals have different feelings and needs and they usually fail to mature intellectually as far as we do – or rather they stop maturing at much earlier ages. So the only technique I have developed is love. I keep working a problem in my head in order to keep the big black scary machine busy, and I merely enjoy the company of people like a warm bath or sunny day. But what has surprised me is that simple and good people do not engage in as much signaling with false intellectualism. So I prefer the company of common people for my emotional health, and the company of competitive and intellectual people for my mental health. So how do we socialize? The trick for us is to develop something we can share with others that is interesting. So that we are valuable to the conversation. My strategy is to seek to help everyone I encounter in some small way. This usually involves getting to know them while looking for some opportunity to assist. And in that act of inquiry I show interest in others: seeking to understand, not to agree. That’s my lesson for this week to aspies.

  • This Week’s Aspie Post: The Process Of Maturing Your Mind

    [T]HIS WEEK’s ASPIE POST Aspies tend to love everyone. The difficulty in empathizing, common rejection, and desire for connection with others makes all successful connections more enjoyable. The hard part to manage comes in three: 1) It’s hard to find relations since listening to others most of their language consists of signals we consider either meaningless, tedious or confusing. So you must learn patience to listen and try to ask about how and why people feel the way they do. Most of us understand spoken emotions. Meanwhile the autistic impulse tries to control you into avoiding exactly what you are trying to accomplish. This is why ssri’s are so effective: they dull the impulse and allow you to practice building the strength of will over the autistic impulse. Social anxiety disorder is controlled by the same means. We must see the autism spectrum as excess in-uterine suppression of the growth of the self. And that we must assist the growth of the self to compensate. We tend to think as engineers today rather than gardeners and foresters. The mind is constructed more like a tree and some artful bonsai may be needed. 2) It is easy to alienate relations via over sharing minutia fascinating to the autistic mind because system-thought provides constant touch stones amidst sensory chaos in socially and emotionally dense environments. So developing self monitoring is necessary and it’s very hard work. Again the problem is severity: some of us are weakly affected and can rely on will. Others more so and require help in training. Others need chemical assistance to suppress the autistic impulse. And some of us lack sufficient self to imagine the very idea of self monitoring – and it is those people that are non functional. 3) Once you mature having not experienced all the “silly” distractions of normal minds, you can gain this sense of superiority that comes with expertise in anything, and you can lose your desire to engage with (boring, dull, stupid) normals. This requires acceptance that only comes with age: normals have different feelings and needs and they usually fail to mature intellectually as far as we do – or rather they stop maturing at much earlier ages. So the only technique I have developed is love. I keep working a problem in my head in order to keep the big black scary machine busy, and I merely enjoy the company of people like a warm bath or sunny day. But what has surprised me is that simple and good people do not engage in as much signaling with false intellectualism. So I prefer the company of common people for my emotional health, and the company of competitive and intellectual people for my mental health. So how do we socialize? The trick for us is to develop something we can share with others that is interesting. So that we are valuable to the conversation. My strategy is to seek to help everyone I encounter in some small way. This usually involves getting to know them while looking for some opportunity to assist. And in that act of inquiry I show interest in others: seeking to understand, not to agree. That’s my lesson for this week to aspies.

  • Q&A: The Bicameral Mind?

    —“Q: I came to be aware [of] Julian Jaynes’ thesis materials. Seems to jive with your theme, Curt. You alluding to a similar theme when referencing the Pentateuch, or the Bible?”—Mark Palmer

    [G]reat question Mark. Great Question. Well, I don’t really agree with how Jaynes is stating it, but I agree that the ‘separateness’ of the mind, and it’s self criticism, is a fairly recent invention in human history. You can see it if you talk to native americans and unexposed south american indians. Their distinction between the dream world and the rational (self critical) world is not bifurcated. It took me a while to understand this. They’re also far less verbally capable. So I suspect that the evolution of language and the evolution of the mind from from intuition are produced by the same evolutionary consequences. I mean women are definitely unable to control the noise in their heads as well as men are – this is the difference in our operating methods. I’d have a nervous breakdown if I had to be a woman for a day. Well, I’m trying to make the statement that the both the hebrew and the christian-greek-roman bible were constructed by means very similar to the construction of the constitution. But why is there such a difference between the content of archaic religion and the content modern of law? Or between the regulation of the roman empire, and the regulation of women, slaves, and the masses of mediterranean poor? The difference is PROPERTY. The asset of poor people is charity and cooperation. The asset of propertied people is property. Religion for regulation of norms (opportunity and insurance) and law for regulation of property (physical things). So what does that mean for our future? I think I have that figured out. But I want to eliminate the artificial distinction between Law(aristocracy), Philosophy(middle class) and Religion(poor). These technologies all serve the same purpose: regulation of classes. Curt

  • Q&A: The Bicameral Mind?

    —“Q: I came to be aware [of] Julian Jaynes’ thesis materials. Seems to jive with your theme, Curt. You alluding to a similar theme when referencing the Pentateuch, or the Bible?”—Mark Palmer

    [G]reat question Mark. Great Question. Well, I don’t really agree with how Jaynes is stating it, but I agree that the ‘separateness’ of the mind, and it’s self criticism, is a fairly recent invention in human history. You can see it if you talk to native americans and unexposed south american indians. Their distinction between the dream world and the rational (self critical) world is not bifurcated. It took me a while to understand this. They’re also far less verbally capable. So I suspect that the evolution of language and the evolution of the mind from from intuition are produced by the same evolutionary consequences. I mean women are definitely unable to control the noise in their heads as well as men are – this is the difference in our operating methods. I’d have a nervous breakdown if I had to be a woman for a day. Well, I’m trying to make the statement that the both the hebrew and the christian-greek-roman bible were constructed by means very similar to the construction of the constitution. But why is there such a difference between the content of archaic religion and the content modern of law? Or between the regulation of the roman empire, and the regulation of women, slaves, and the masses of mediterranean poor? The difference is PROPERTY. The asset of poor people is charity and cooperation. The asset of propertied people is property. Religion for regulation of norms (opportunity and insurance) and law for regulation of property (physical things). So what does that mean for our future? I think I have that figured out. But I want to eliminate the artificial distinction between Law(aristocracy), Philosophy(middle class) and Religion(poor). These technologies all serve the same purpose: regulation of classes. Curt

  • SPEAKING OF BOWDEN Bowden had a nervous breakdown (which is the outcome of stres

    SPEAKING OF BOWDEN

    Bowden had a nervous breakdown (which is the outcome of stress and depression). Your brain basically gives up trying to solve whatever problem is bothering you and just disassociates from reality in order to save itself. Which is kinda cool when you think about it: Sort of the human version of a computer crashing and rebooting.

    —“Mental breakdown (also known as a nervous breakdown) is a general term for an acute, time-limited psychiatric disorder that manifests primarily as severe stress-induced depression, anxiety, or dissociation in a previously functional individual, to the extent that they are no longer able to function on a day-to-day basis until the disorder is resolved. A nervous breakdown is defined by its temporary nature, and often closely tied to psychological burnout, severe overwork, sleep deprivation, and similar stressors, which may combine to temporarily overwhelm an individual with otherwise sound mental functions.”—

    I had a roommate have a breakdown in College – I think due to a relationship failure. I’m not sure. Also possibly due to rather egregious consumption of alcohol and LSD. I mean, i watched him eat three SHEETS of blotter acid at a club in Westchester. Obviously I immediately found another way home… lol We didn’t see him for at least three days I think. (I am not into drugs.)

    I try to relate to the experience. I developed terrible panic attacks in my mid 20’s and it took a long time to figure out that it was caused by sleep deprivation from sleep apnea created by my food allergies. (I still have to be careful about allergens keeping me awake all night.) And I was very scared that something was seriously wrong with me at the time, and that affected my behavior significantly.

    There was this ridiculous desire of the psychological profession to attribute it to my abusive childhood. Which I had overcome largely by the time I was in college, and certainly by my mid twenties. But it turned out that I was sucking on adrenaline all night to stay in a state of half-sleep but never really resting. (I sleep with a plastic bite guard type thing that eliminates the problem assuming my weight doesn’t get out of hand.) And you know, sleep deprivation sucks. It causes visual and auditory interference. (It didn’t help that I was working like crazy). You can’t think straight at all, and out of nowhere you go from feeling ok, to tragically exhausted in an instant.

    So I can understand what it’s probably like for your entire mind and body to lose it for a bit. I know the feeling of wanting a vacation because my autistic OCD sort of does that to me regularly.

    Anyway, my roommate called me from the hospital having obviously mostly recovered already. “Curt, these people are crazier than I am! They keep asking me if I think I’m Jesus Christ! Please get me out of here!” His parents had sent him in after he was no longer being logical (although I didn’t think he was illogical – he was talking about harmonies on violins, so he must have been acting out of character during the conversation – a behavior which I had seen start to develop despite having moved out and in with my girlfriend by then.)

    I actually felt closer to ‘crazy’ when I got the cancer diagnosis. I just fell into depression and confusion for a long time. Everyone I know does to some degree. But we soldier onward. 🙂

    Anyway, my tragedies in life, other than my divorce, are all largely health related. In my view, I seem to accumulate trauma with each tragic event, and it adds some kind of mental weight that you have to drag around like Marley’s chains. But on the other hand each tragedy has given me CLARITY as to what is more important in life. And while I wish I learned that lesson without the tragedy and trauma, I am still happy to learn what is important in life:

    Friends, Family, Something Interesting To Do, A safe place to do what you want, and the Health and Resources to afford them.

    What isn’t important in life, is things. Which was hard for me to ‘get’. Signals being powerful influences upon us.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-23 05:36:00 UTC

  • Q&A: SEPARATENESS OF THE MIND? —“Q: I came to be aware [of] Julian Jaynes’ the

    Q&A: SEPARATENESS OF THE MIND?

    —“Q: I came to be aware [of] Julian Jaynes’ thesis materials. Seems to jive with your theme, Curt. You alluding to a similar theme when referencing the Pentateuch, or the Bible?”—Mark Palmer

    Great question Mark. Great Question.

    Well, I don’t really agree with how Jaynes is stating it, but I agree that the ‘separateness’ of the mind, and it’s self criticism, is a fairly recent invention in human history. You can see it if you talk to native americans and unexposed south american indians. Their distinction between the dream world and the rational (self critical) world is not bifurcated. It took me a while to understand this. They’re also far less verbally capable. So I suspect that the evolution of language and the evolution of the mind from from intuition are produced by the same evolutionary consequences.

    I mean women are definitely unable to control the noise in their heads as well as men are – this is the difference in our operating methods. I’d have a nervous breakdown if I had to be a woman for a day.

    Well, I’m trying to make the statement that the both the hebrew and the christian-greek-roman bible were constructed by means very similar to the construction of the constitution.

    But why is there such a difference between the content of archaic religion and the content modern of law? Or between the regulation of the roman empire, and the regulation of women, slaves, and the masses of medeterranean poor?

    The difference is PROPERTY. The asset of poor people is charity and cooperation. The asset of propertied people is property.

    Religion for regulation of norms (opportunity and insurance) and law for regulation of property (physical things).

    So what does that mean for our future? I think I have that figured out. But I want to eliminate the artificial distinction between Law(aristocracy), Philosophy(middle class) and Religion(poor).

    These technologies all serve the same purpose: regulation of classes.

    Curt

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-23 04:07:00 UTC

  • ADVICE FOR NERDS This should be obvious, but for people who excel at learning, a

    ADVICE FOR NERDS

    This should be obvious, but for people who excel at learning, and love to learn, I have a bit of advice that you might want to consider:

    “Your understanding is not a deliverable, it is not productive, it is a cost.”

    There is a big difference between learning and entertainment. There is a big difference between problems and puzzles. There is a big difference between going from problems to books, and from books to problems.

    Whether you chew hallucinogenic roots, drink alcohol, play video games, watch movies, read books, or learn new things, you are just a consumer of other people’s efforts, and not a contributor.

    We do not get paid for consuming. We are paid for producing. Consuming may do little harm, but it does no good.

    So if you are learning, if you are experiencing, it may be rewarding, but it is just entertainment.

    Either one learns – bears a cost – for the production of an output, or one is just a dead weight on one’s peers.

    I have this problem in technology fairly often although because of my current occupation, less so than I used to. But I still hear and see it everywhere in all walks of life.

    Learning is not an intrinsic good. It is a form of conspicuous consumption – a form of hedonism, a luxury, a spending of an inheritance. And in business it is a parasitism.

    So learn only to produce something. That is what we pay each other for.

    If you want to learn for recreational purposes realize that all you’re doing is a more expensive and time consuming and arguably less physically harmful form of recreation.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-22 05:26:00 UTC