Curt Doolittle

Theme: Agency

  • On Convincing Others

    [C]HALLENGING THOUGHT OF THE DAY
    (useful)

    0 – We are unequally desirable mates – this is necessary for evolutionary adaptation.
    1 – We evolved a reproductive division of labor – the genders.
    2 – We evolved an inter-temporal division of reproductive labor:
    4 – We demonstrate short, medium, and long term preferences; 
    5 – We demonstrate short, medium, and long term moral biases;
    6 – We evolved, quite naturally, lower(<95), middle(<125) and upper(>125) classes;
    7 – We need virtue(imitative), rule (rational), and outcome (scientific) ethics;
    8 – We need sacred(religious), moral(normative), and calculative (legal) rules;
    9 – We rely upon intuitive(experiential), conscious(rational), and instrumental(calculative) tools to made decisions.
    10 – Our moral biases reflect our reproductive strategies.
    11 – Our normative biases reflect our reproductive strategies.
    12 – Our formal and informal institutions reflect our group-competitive strategies.
    13 – All universalist strategy is to extend group-competitive strategies to dominate other group competitive strategies.

    Short term strategy is in the interest of the lower classes (socialism – labor)
    Medium term strategy is in the interest of the middle classes (classical liberty – trade)
    Long term strategy is in the interests of the upper classes (aristocracy – order)

    Some people are only CAPABLE of sentimental talk and argument.
    Some people are only CAPABLE of rational talk and argument.
    Some people are CAPABLE of scientific talk and argument.

    So what does all of this tell us about persuading others? It tells us that we cannot (and should not) try. It tells us to create institutions that allow cooperation across moral codes and reproductive strategies. It tells us that the majority cannot understand these matters except experientially – once implemented.

    Curt Doolittle 
    The Propertarian Institute 
    Kiev, Ukraine.

  • CHALLENGING THOUGHT OF THE DAY (useful) 0 – We are unequally desirable mates – t

    CHALLENGING THOUGHT OF THE DAY

    (useful)

    0 – We are unequally desirable mates – this is necessary for evolutionary adaptation.

    1 – We evolved a reproductive division of labor – the genders.

    2 – We evolved an inter-temporal division of reproductive labor:

    4 – We demonstrate short, medium, and long term preferences;

    5 – We demonstrate short, medium, and long term moral biases;

    6 – We evolved, quite naturally, lower(<95), middle(<125) and upper(>125) classes;

    7 – We need virtue(imitative), rule (rational), and outcome (scientific) ethics;

    8 – We need sacred(religious), moral(normative), and calculative (legal) rules;

    9 – We rely upon intuitive(experiential), conscious(rational), and instrumental(calculative) tools to made decisions.

    10 – Our moral biases reflect our reproductive strategies.

    11 – Our normative biases reflect our reproductive strategies.

    12 – Our formal and informal institutions reflect our group-competitive strategies.

    13 – All universalist strategy is to extend group-competitive strategies to dominate other group competitive strategies.

    Short term strategy is in the interest of the lower classes (socialism – labor)

    Medium term strategy is in the interest of the middle classes (classical liberty – trade)

    Long term strategy is in the interests of the upper classes (aristocracy – order)

    Some people are only CAPABLE of sentimental talk and argument.

    Some people are only CAPABLE of rational talk and argument.

    Some people are CAPABLE of scientific talk and argument.

    So what does all of this tell us about persuading others? It tells us that we cannot (and should not) try. It tells us to create institutions that allow cooperation across moral codes and reproductive strategies. It tells us that the majority cannot understand these matters except experientially – once implemented.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-27 04:37:00 UTC

  • My Position on Race

    [I] don’t care about your race. I care about your IQ, impulsivity, aggression, time preference, degree of suppression of free riding, and total integration into every possible aspect of the culture.

    You are not going to find anyone, me included, caring about the immigration of smart, un-impulsive, non-aggressive, low time preference (long term thinking), individuals. Not only because they’re rare. But because they’re nice to have around.

    But everything else is costly invasion for a high trust polity.

    So I don’t care about race. I care that there are differences in the distribution of these properties in the races, and that people from races act as blocs in politics, economics, society, and reproduction.

    Integrate entirely or leave. Absolute nuclear family. High trust ethics. Religion and myths, institutions and norms.

    Period.


    NO SEPARATISM. PERIOD. IF YOU CHOOSE TO BE SEPARATE I AM HAPPY TO SEPARATE YOU FROM THE REST OF US WHO AGREE WITH YOUR CHOICE.

    (I think this is very close to my position on racism. I just don’t like it. if it’s present, that’s because something else is wrong: invasion, non-integration, material difference in distribution, and an impact on norms.)

  • My Position on Race

    [I] don’t care about your race. I care about your IQ, impulsivity, aggression, time preference, degree of suppression of free riding, and total integration into every possible aspect of the culture.

    You are not going to find anyone, me included, caring about the immigration of smart, un-impulsive, non-aggressive, low time preference (long term thinking), individuals. Not only because they’re rare. But because they’re nice to have around.

    But everything else is costly invasion for a high trust polity.

    So I don’t care about race. I care that there are differences in the distribution of these properties in the races, and that people from races act as blocs in politics, economics, society, and reproduction.

    Integrate entirely or leave. Absolute nuclear family. High trust ethics. Religion and myths, institutions and norms.

    Period.


    NO SEPARATISM. PERIOD. IF YOU CHOOSE TO BE SEPARATE I AM HAPPY TO SEPARATE YOU FROM THE REST OF US WHO AGREE WITH YOUR CHOICE.

    (I think this is very close to my position on racism. I just don’t like it. if it’s present, that’s because something else is wrong: invasion, non-integration, material difference in distribution, and an impact on norms.)

  • I don’t care about your race. I care about your IQ, impulsivity, aggression, tim

    I don’t care about your race. I care about your IQ, impulsivity, aggression, time preference, degree of suppression of free riding, and total integration into every possible aspect of the culture. You are not going to find anyone, me included, caring about the immigration of smart, un-impulsive, non-aggressive, low time preference (long term thinking), individuals. Not only because they’re rare. But because they’re nice to have around.

    But everything else is costly invasion for a high trust polity.

    So I don’t care about race. I care that there are differences in the distribution of these properties in the races, and that people from races act as blocs in politics, economics, society, and reproduction.

    Integrate entirely or leave. Absolute nuclear family. High trust ethics. Religion and myths, institutions and norms.

    Period.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-25 04:45:00 UTC

  • TO THE DEATH I never settle. Ever. It is a moral conviction. I drag it out and d

    TO THE DEATH

    I never settle. Ever. It is a moral conviction. I drag it out and drive up the costs, hire private investigators to create a story of a pattern of behaviour.

    I have found that in American courts that the moral high ground almost always prevails.

    But I am willing to pay high personal costs to create the reputation of litigiousness on moral grounds.

    The problem is that the law and the state have created perverse incentives by not holding to loser pays, or triple damages for lying.

    This is what we must fix: it is not that you just lose if you are caught in lying – but that you pay costs plus triple it ten times damages.

    We have seen in employment law how much piercing the corporate veil and triple damages have done for us

    So I agree with Don that scumbags are a waste of time and money.

    But personally, so are property rights and government.

    Violence and tyranny are better investments for the strong. But the commons requires the strong pay high costs of construction.

    For me – power is the game and nobility the objective. I do not see virtue through a Christian lens. I see it through Nietzsche: that I can only serve man by excellence, and that the record of my life on Earth is not one of pragmatism or compromise but of demonstrated excellence in the furtherance of moral man: the total suppression of free riding leaving only voluntary, productive, exchange as a possible action.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-24 09:22:00 UTC

  • Sometimes I just do what the gods tell me to do. And when I don’t know what to d

    Sometimes I just do what the gods tell me to do. And when I don’t know what to do, that seems to be a much better way to decide than reason. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-24 03:49:00 UTC

  • Had a great chat with a thoughtful friend a bit earlier. Some points that I thou

    Had a great chat with a thoughtful friend a bit earlier. Some points that I thought I’d share:

    1) I cannot work faster than I am. I know people want me to. But I can’t. I work pretty much around the clock now, and I cannot produce faster than I do now. So I can’t accelerate the program.

    2) Yes I am open to future expansion of the Propertarian Institute. I don’t view propertarianism as ‘mine to control’ but a formal logic that is part of nature.

    3) I am not an anti-theist, and I do not classify myself as an atheist, although I think most religious people would disagree with me because my concept of god is rather esoteric – and I talk to my god all the time. Pretty much daily. So for my purposes, my god exists.

    4) Throwing over governments is trivial. The problem isn’t throwing over the government. I can write how to do that in ninety days. The problem is giving people something to overthrow it FOR, and a moral justification for doing it and paying the high costs of doing it.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-22 14:30:00 UTC

  • Propertarianism is a threat to multiple intellectual identities. I didn’t realiz

    Propertarianism is a threat to multiple intellectual identities.

    I didn’t realize that.

    In a complex world where we are disenfranchised and alienated, we need and value our identities as means of calculation – the means by which we make decisions that we deem ‘moral’ (right, useful, just, status-producing).

    But if truth is a hierarchical construct, and the pyramid is turned, then all those illusory identities: all that ‘cunning verbalism’ that we so cherish as cult-signaling is reduced to little more than the mental equivalent of fashion clothes or tribal paint.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-22 08:25:00 UTC

  • de.aristocratia –“How can one be a free man all his life? “By feeling contempt

    de.aristocratia

    –“How can one be a free man all his life? “By feeling contempt for death.”–

    Source date (UTC): 2014-11-17 05:32:00 UTC