Curt Doolittle

Theme: Agency

  • WHY I AM NOT GOOD AT ARITHMETIC, MULTIPLICATION, DIVISION AND CHESS I have a lot

    WHY I AM NOT GOOD AT ARITHMETIC, MULTIPLICATION, DIVISION AND CHESS

    I have a lot of friends who are good at chess, and I do think chess is a pretty good determinant of intelligence, and perhaps a better determinant of academic and career success.

    I was in a chess club through seventh or eighth grade, and really never got that good until the first machines came out because they played perfectly – too perfectly.

    But as an illustration, There are three reasons I am not very good at it:

    (a) Puzzles vs Problems ethic: I have a problem with puzzles as wasted effort, when I should be working on problems. Just as I have a problem going from books to problems, rather than from problems to books. So in effect I see playing games that require more than casual attention (cards), as an immoral waste of my time. (Which a certain girlfriend in college beat into me through insults as well.) So I cant make myself spend times on such things without feeling like I’m letting the time run out on my lifespan.

    (b) Working (short term) memory – one of the reasons I became interested in IQ is the understanding of both the myopia of my autistic thinking and what I began to understand was a problem for me in arithmetic calculation despite my abilities in mathematical reasoning. I work on certain categories of problems partly because I seemed to have a fairly weak working memory compared to other students. I have trouble adding and multiplying, or working with a lot of states: like origami requires. I have no problem reasoning. I can detect truth content pre-cognitively, and I can define spectra – lines of causality. I cannot however juggle many independent and as I see it – unrelated – states of things.

    (c) Limited lateral thinking. (which I suppose I could overcome with practice) but not only do I have trouble with humor – which depends upon it, with cunning in a game of chess (i tend to play aggressively with every move and am too concerned with optimum moves and can be baited by them), but I tend not to find ‘shortcuts’ so much as ‘truths’.

    Basically ‘if its in motion in time’ I intuit it. If it exists in states I don’t. Everything consists of flights of arrows.

    This tells me a lot really, because again, I see the world as a division of cognitive labor, with all these variations in smart people producing different ‘sensors’ that detect different ‘bits’ of reality, and our voluntary cooperation and trade as the information system by which we different sensors share that information.

    Man is a gloriously fascinating creature.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-09 06:00:00 UTC

  • PRACTICE IS NOT SUFFICIENT TO EXPLAIN EXPERT PERFORMANCE – IT’S INTELLIGENCE Del

    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289613000421DELIBERATE PRACTICE IS NOT SUFFICIENT TO EXPLAIN EXPERT PERFORMANCE – IT’S INTELLIGENCE

    Deliberate practice: Is that all it takes to become an expert?

    Pages 34-45 David Z. Hambrick, Frederick L. Oswald, Erik M. Altmann, Elizabeth J. Meinz, Fernand Gobet, Guillermo Campitelli

    – Ericsson and colleagues argue that deliberate practice explains expert performance.

    – We tested this view in the two most studied domains in expertise research.

    – Deliberate practice is not sufficient to explain expert performance.

    – Other factors must be considered to advance the science of expertise.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-09 05:09:00 UTC

  • The R-Selection Hierarchy (The Female Reproductive Strategy)

    R-SELECTION HIERARCHY (The Female Reproductive Strategy) —————————————————————————————— Women, Socialists + Communists Libertine Libertarians Ashkenazim Gypsies Tinkers Career Criminals Incompetents Invalids

    TECHNOLOGY: (LIARS AND THIEVES). —————————————————————————————— Lie, Gossip, Rally, Shame, Obscure Conflate, Load, Frame, Overload. PURPOSE —————————————————————————————— Given that the only moral cooperation one can engage in is productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary exchange, free of imposition of cost by externality, then the purpose of the GOSSIPERS is to obtain a discount by imposing costs upon others. Women bear a high cost of reproduction long term and men bear a high risk of death long term. With voluntary exchange this relationship is symmetric. Without voluntary exchange this relationship is predatory. If a relationship is predatory then it is not cooperation it is predation. Neither men nor women may obtain their perfect preferences. We must conduct exchanges that function as compromises between our different strategies and preferences. Granting women equal property rights allowed voluntary exchange between the genders with opposing reproductive strategies. But granting women political privileges empowered them to destroy rule of law, and meritocracy and the compromise between the genders. As such it is a choice for males whether we allow this predation instead of voluntary exchange to persist. He who can destroy a thing controls a thing. We can destroy the government and return to voluntary exchange. We need only choose to. (This ought to get me into trouble all over the place.)

  • The R-Selection Hierarchy (The Female Reproductive Strategy)

    R-SELECTION HIERARCHY (The Female Reproductive Strategy) —————————————————————————————— Women, Socialists + Communists Libertine Libertarians Ashkenazim Gypsies Tinkers Career Criminals Incompetents Invalids

    TECHNOLOGY: (LIARS AND THIEVES). —————————————————————————————— Lie, Gossip, Rally, Shame, Obscure Conflate, Load, Frame, Overload. PURPOSE —————————————————————————————— Given that the only moral cooperation one can engage in is productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary exchange, free of imposition of cost by externality, then the purpose of the GOSSIPERS is to obtain a discount by imposing costs upon others. Women bear a high cost of reproduction long term and men bear a high risk of death long term. With voluntary exchange this relationship is symmetric. Without voluntary exchange this relationship is predatory. If a relationship is predatory then it is not cooperation it is predation. Neither men nor women may obtain their perfect preferences. We must conduct exchanges that function as compromises between our different strategies and preferences. Granting women equal property rights allowed voluntary exchange between the genders with opposing reproductive strategies. But granting women political privileges empowered them to destroy rule of law, and meritocracy and the compromise between the genders. As such it is a choice for males whether we allow this predation instead of voluntary exchange to persist. He who can destroy a thing controls a thing. We can destroy the government and return to voluntary exchange. We need only choose to. (This ought to get me into trouble all over the place.)

  • The Fallacy Of Higher Female Cost of Reproduction

    (worth repeating) (interesting contrarian argument) —**While incorrectly stated as a difference in *COST* of reproduction – since male deaths from production and defense of the tribe are higher than female deaths in birth, and male lifespans are shorter from accumulated injury and cellular damage – the genders differ not in cost but in the *CONTROL* over reproduction. Females can directly control their reproduction, nurture offspring, and rally males and females to her defense, while men can kill or prohibit other males from access, gain access to additional females, and defend females and offspring in order to propagate their and their brother’s genes.**—

    —The female reproductive economic strategy (r-selection) is to bear as many children as she can, to place their cost upon the tribe, and to advocate for their success regardless of their merit. The male economic reproductive strategy is to capture as many females by killing as many opposing tribe’s males, then pairing off with female mates so that all brothers maintain incentives to preserve the group. This paring off is the most effective compromise between the genders (which is institutionalized in marriage). If combined with creative ‘cheating’ by males and females, both social alliance and reproductive improvement can be achieved.— Curt Doolittle The Philosophy of Aristocracy The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine

  • The Fallacy Of Higher Female Cost of Reproduction

    (worth repeating) (interesting contrarian argument) —**While incorrectly stated as a difference in *COST* of reproduction – since male deaths from production and defense of the tribe are higher than female deaths in birth, and male lifespans are shorter from accumulated injury and cellular damage – the genders differ not in cost but in the *CONTROL* over reproduction. Females can directly control their reproduction, nurture offspring, and rally males and females to her defense, while men can kill or prohibit other males from access, gain access to additional females, and defend females and offspring in order to propagate their and their brother’s genes.**—

    —The female reproductive economic strategy (r-selection) is to bear as many children as she can, to place their cost upon the tribe, and to advocate for their success regardless of their merit. The male economic reproductive strategy is to capture as many females by killing as many opposing tribe’s males, then pairing off with female mates so that all brothers maintain incentives to preserve the group. This paring off is the most effective compromise between the genders (which is institutionalized in marriage). If combined with creative ‘cheating’ by males and females, both social alliance and reproductive improvement can be achieved.— Curt Doolittle The Philosophy of Aristocracy The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine

  • Why IQ Matters So Much? For Good Reasons:

    1) Pareto effect requires 20% of the population control production through control of private property. The more talented is that 20%, the higher competitive ability and performance of the economy, and the greater prosperity. 2) Norms MUST reflect the average of the polity, and reflect the Pareto distribution of property. 3) About 106 is the minimum IQ necessary for expression of ideas and abstract concepts. This is the minimum IQ necessary for work with concepts rather than manual operations. It takes an IQ of 106 to ‘repair’ a machine, or articulate your ideas. 4) Lower IQ people demonstrate less moral behavior, and higher IQ people demonstrate more moral behavior. 5) Dunning Krueger effect increases as IQ decreases, increasing discord. In truth it is always present except that the effect is general and disruptive in lower classes, and niche and understood in the upper. 6) Those people with IQ below 106, will find it increasingly difficult to find work requiring other than unskilled manual labor or unskilled service labor. If one cannot make use of abstractions to calculate something or other then one will be unemployable, since anything that does not require abstractions is rapidly open to automation. RESULT IS CONFLICT This six factors MUST lead to social and economic discord. AND WHY IS THIS PROBLEM EXTANT? We have ceased our western program of eugenics both in the aggressive culling of criminals from the gene pool through constant hanging, in the suppression of the reproduction of the lower classes through manorialism, in the use of unskilled labor in frequent war, and in the restriction of immigration to ghettos. Worse, we have transferred rates of reproduction from the middle and upper class to the lower classes through redistribution. The eugenicists were correct – but involuntary surgery is difficult for us to accept. The softer method of practicing eugenics is paying the unemployable not to reproduce; limiting immigration to extremely skilled labor; expanding employment into our later years so that minor service jobs are filled by the aged (keeping them healthier), and expanding it downward to youth, so that minor labor jobs are filled by the young. The evidence is that we should decrease time spent in education and increase labor participation both in the young and old. More time in production and activity and less time sitting and listening to propaganda. We destroyed most of the western intellectual advantage in one century, and we can return in the same amount of time. NO FREE RIDES. The west and east differ from the rest, in aggressive programs of eugenics. The west differs from the east in the consequences of heroism: individualism, truth telling, high trust, elimination of corruption, and the economic velocity that accompanies it. THE UNDERCLASSES ARE MAN’S PROBLEM They always have been. They always will be. Until there is no longer an underclass. We did not oppress the underclasses, we defended mankind, civilization and the earth itself from them. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, ukraine

  • Why IQ Matters So Much? For Good Reasons:

    1) Pareto effect requires 20% of the population control production through control of private property. The more talented is that 20%, the higher competitive ability and performance of the economy, and the greater prosperity. 2) Norms MUST reflect the average of the polity, and reflect the Pareto distribution of property. 3) About 106 is the minimum IQ necessary for expression of ideas and abstract concepts. This is the minimum IQ necessary for work with concepts rather than manual operations. It takes an IQ of 106 to ‘repair’ a machine, or articulate your ideas. 4) Lower IQ people demonstrate less moral behavior, and higher IQ people demonstrate more moral behavior. 5) Dunning Krueger effect increases as IQ decreases, increasing discord. In truth it is always present except that the effect is general and disruptive in lower classes, and niche and understood in the upper. 6) Those people with IQ below 106, will find it increasingly difficult to find work requiring other than unskilled manual labor or unskilled service labor. If one cannot make use of abstractions to calculate something or other then one will be unemployable, since anything that does not require abstractions is rapidly open to automation. RESULT IS CONFLICT This six factors MUST lead to social and economic discord. AND WHY IS THIS PROBLEM EXTANT? We have ceased our western program of eugenics both in the aggressive culling of criminals from the gene pool through constant hanging, in the suppression of the reproduction of the lower classes through manorialism, in the use of unskilled labor in frequent war, and in the restriction of immigration to ghettos. Worse, we have transferred rates of reproduction from the middle and upper class to the lower classes through redistribution. The eugenicists were correct – but involuntary surgery is difficult for us to accept. The softer method of practicing eugenics is paying the unemployable not to reproduce; limiting immigration to extremely skilled labor; expanding employment into our later years so that minor service jobs are filled by the aged (keeping them healthier), and expanding it downward to youth, so that minor labor jobs are filled by the young. The evidence is that we should decrease time spent in education and increase labor participation both in the young and old. More time in production and activity and less time sitting and listening to propaganda. We destroyed most of the western intellectual advantage in one century, and we can return in the same amount of time. NO FREE RIDES. The west and east differ from the rest, in aggressive programs of eugenics. The west differs from the east in the consequences of heroism: individualism, truth telling, high trust, elimination of corruption, and the economic velocity that accompanies it. THE UNDERCLASSES ARE MAN’S PROBLEM They always have been. They always will be. Until there is no longer an underclass. We did not oppress the underclasses, we defended mankind, civilization and the earth itself from them. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, ukraine

  • Professional extemporaneous speakers have trained themselves very differently fr

    Professional extemporaneous speakers have trained themselves very differently from how actors are trained.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-08 09:27:42 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/663286762140213248

    Reply addressees: @washingtonpost

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/663258630536474624

    IN REPLY TO:

    @washingtonpost

    On “SNL,” Donald Trump shows he’s not himself when forced to follow a script https://t.co/Af0ZHfw85T

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/663258630536474624

  • UM NO. CREATIVITY IS NOT SEPARATE FROM INTELLIGENCE. BUT TASK SWITCHING REDUCES

    UM NO. CREATIVITY IS NOT SEPARATE FROM INTELLIGENCE. BUT TASK SWITCHING REDUCES CREATIVITY.

    (hence why i tell everyone that I can teach them to be creative, but not smart)

    Are intelligence and creativity really so different?. Fluid intelligence, executive processes, and strategy use in divergent thinking (Article) Nusbaum, E.C. , Silvia, P.J. Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, United States

    Abstract

    Contemporary creativity research views intelligence and creativity as essentially unrelated abilities, and many studies have found only modest correlations between them. The present research, based on improved approaches to creativity assessment and latent variable modeling, proposes that fluid and executive cognition is in fact central to creative thought. In Study 1, the substantial effect of fluid intelligence (Gf) on creativity was mediated by executive switching, the number of times people switched idea categories during the divergent thinking tasks. In Study 2, half the sample was given an effective strategy for an unusual uses task. The strategy condition interacted with Gf: people high in Gf did better when given the strategy, consistent with their higher ability to maintain access to it and use it despite interference. Taken together, the findings suggest that divergent thinking is more convergent than modern creativity theories presume. © 2010 Elsevier Inc.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-08 08:19:00 UTC