Curt Doolittle

Theme: Agency

  • (diary)(thoughts on radicalism) When you’re the CEO of a popular services compan

    (diary)(thoughts on radicalism)

    When you’re the CEO of a popular services company with fortune 1000 customers, you really can’t be a radical. You can write controversial things, if couched correctly, but you really don’t have all that much intellectual freedom. You can’t be ‘angry’. You can be controversial but not angry.

    Most CEO’s are pretty cautious. But I was surprised. First, you stick out to customers. Second, *if you’re willing to say naked truths in public you are more likely to say naked truths to your customers*. So that is what happened.

    I much prefer writing as a radical. It’s just more… honest. I feel more honestly myself than I have ever felt before. Unconstrained.

    I kind of think that the controversial aspect of my work will actually help my new company. Because the product’s managerial point of view is libertarian – self organizing. It’s a revolutionary way to run a business.

    I’ll just spin it as crazy visionary nonsense and I’m sure it will work out.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-21 12:44:00 UTC

  • LIBERTY IS UNNATURAL —“THE THIRST for liberty does not seem to be natural to m

    LIBERTY IS UNNATURAL

    —“THE THIRST for liberty does not seem to be natural to man. Most people want security in this world, not liberty. Liberty puts them on their own, and so exposes them to the natural consequences of their congenital stupidity and incompetence. Historically, it has always been forced upon the masses from above. Whenever they have formulated demands of their own, it has been demands for privileges, not for liberty.”— H. L. Mencken

    (thx Thomas J. Flannery) 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-21 00:17:00 UTC

  • CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS : ADAPTING – BECOMING UKRAINIAN 🙂 I just walked by a woma

    CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS : ADAPTING – BECOMING UKRAINIAN 🙂

    I just walked by a woman taking out the trash in heels. Now, for most of my adult life I would have demanded she let me take it for her, completely unconsciously. But locals think helping like that is kinda weird if you offer to help them and dont know them personally. I’ve actually seen old ladies get mad ,and strike at men for trying to help them. Which is just the chivalrous thing to do.

    I don’t think women grok that paying us in status for helping them is a way for us to get status (and attention) by acts of service without getting status (and attention) for acts of violence and aggression. I mean, we are gonna do one or the other, or we going to completely check out of society and play video games.

    Controling males is a central problem of human organization. Men change the state of things. They are going to change the state of things. The only question is, what state will they change them to?

    Women create a market for attention, care, affection and sex.

    What market are women currently creating for men?

    And before you intuit the answer to that, you might want to look at the data….

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-20 08:08:00 UTC

  • UNDERSTANDING ASPIE DIFFICULTIES – AND OVERCOMING THEM The problem with understa

    UNDERSTANDING ASPIE DIFFICULTIES – AND OVERCOMING THEM

    The problem with understanding the autism spectrum is two fold: first, we have to understand that this ‘exaggerated maleness’ is the product of damage to the brain, or at least, inhibited growth to the brain, in utero. And second, that with that damage, comes a very narrow means of obtaining normal chemical rewards. Furthermore, the normal process of male maturation via testosterone in puberty further decreases the ability to obtain rewards. Leaving information as one of the only available forms of stimuli.

    So, with very narrow means of obtaining positive rewards, the maturing male aspie is highly susceptible to simple depression if he cannot find any means of stimulation, or to information based obsession if he finds a sufficiently rewarding interest, or to mania if he encounters frustration, exhaustion or depression followed by extremes stimuli as a means of escaping frustration, exhaustion or depression – to the same degree that many males are susceptible to periods of aggression, or risk taking to obtain their rewards. Whereas their female counterparts have the opposite problem – they can’t shut off all the sensations.

    The only cure I know of is, if one cannot find a sufficiently obsessive interest, is to limit chaotic over-stimulation which can easily cause exhaustion or depression, and get regular exercise, rest, and neurogenic stimulation via SSRI’s. SSRI’s are called anti-depressants, because that’s what we use them for, but a good number of them largely facilitate neurogenesis. And whether we are generating new neurons, or just improving the connectivity of neurons, we have greater success in creating rewards by experience and association with better neural pathway generation.

    I finally got control of mine after a great deal of effort. And my distraction was that I actually love working. I love everything about it. Because work is physical and social and aspies want social contact, even if we are bad at it. We will usually try hard to learn. And people will help you if you ask them, and don’t take yourself too seriously. I mean, some people are hard of hearing, some are color blind, and some of us just are a bit clueless. But most other human beings are pretty forgiving if you’re just honest with them and say “Did I just say or do something stupid? Oh..Ok. Sorry. Thanks.” Laugh when everyone else does. Always support the group decision even if you don’t agree with it. Voluteer to help or work at every opportunity. And pay the tolls that we must pay for social participation when we have less to contribute to social signals.

    Aspieness is pretty easy to grow out of, but through your twenties, it’s pretty difficult to live with. And it’s tyranny to live with between twelve and twenty two.

    But we would be much better off if we understood that it is caused by a difference in the rate of growth of areas of the brain. And that until we create new neural pathways that allow us new means of positive solutions, we are, like those who are tone deaf or color blind, equally unable to perceive many of the senses that others take for granted, many of those senses contain reward and punishment signals we cannot learn from, and we are extremely susceptible to problems that arise from the lack of rewards and information.

    If we restated therapy as tutoring for aspies, then I’d accept it. I don’t have much respect for the profession. But neurogenic drugs, and education, will grow new means of achieving stimulation. It’s kind of unnecessary and unpleasant to wait until your late twenties or early thirties before you start experiencing life comfortably.

    I hope this helps someone, somewhere, just a little bit.

    Curt Doolittle

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-20 04:39:00 UTC

  • Sad Revelations And The End Of Hero Worship

    [I] just realized the my intellectual hero is not interested in liberty, he is interested in obtaining status by demonstrating that he is an alpha. Libertarianism was just a vehicle for demonstrating it. And that is why his arguments are so heavily loaded and framed. Sure, there is also valuable content there, but it is obscured by signal seeking, sycophancy, ridicule, empty verbalism, anti-empiricism, deceptive framing, shoddy selective reasoning, and obscurantist fallacy. So apparently one can learn a lot about the method of argument from Marxists if you study them. By contrast, I don’t matter. I don’t need to earn a living from my philosophical work. I’ve obtained my status already – and frankly I’d rather live simply having done it. My goal is not recognition, not status, but to obtain liberty. This is war for the soul if not survival of the west. I’m just a warrior. And I want to win. Not just for me, but for all of us.

  • Sad Revelations And The End Of Hero Worship

    [I] just realized the my intellectual hero is not interested in liberty, he is interested in obtaining status by demonstrating that he is an alpha. Libertarianism was just a vehicle for demonstrating it. And that is why his arguments are so heavily loaded and framed. Sure, there is also valuable content there, but it is obscured by signal seeking, sycophancy, ridicule, empty verbalism, anti-empiricism, deceptive framing, shoddy selective reasoning, and obscurantist fallacy. So apparently one can learn a lot about the method of argument from Marxists if you study them. By contrast, I don’t matter. I don’t need to earn a living from my philosophical work. I’ve obtained my status already – and frankly I’d rather live simply having done it. My goal is not recognition, not status, but to obtain liberty. This is war for the soul if not survival of the west. I’m just a warrior. And I want to win. Not just for me, but for all of us.

  • SAD REVELATIONS AND THE END OF HERO WORSHIP I just realized the my intellectual

    SAD REVELATIONS AND THE END OF HERO WORSHIP

    I just realized the my intellectual hero is not interested in liberty, he is interested in obtaining status by demonstrating that he is an alpha. Libertarianism was just a vehicle for demonstrating it. And that is why his arguments are so heavily loaded and framed. Sure, there is also valuable content there, but it is obscured by signal seeking, sycophancy, ridicule, empty verbalism, anti-empiricism, deceptive framing, shoddy selective reasoning, and obscurantist fallacy. So apparently one can learn a lot about the method of argument from Marxists if you study them.

    By contrast, I don’t matter. I don’t need to earn a living from my philosophical work. I’ve obtained my status already – and frankly I’d rather live simply having done it. My goal is not recognition, not status, but to obtain liberty. This is war for the soul if not survival of the west. I’m just a warrior. And I want to win. Not just for me, but for all of us.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-19 02:44:00 UTC

  • While you cannot intrinsically possess a right, you do intrinsically possess abi

    While you cannot intrinsically possess a right, you do intrinsically possess abilities. One of them that is the most decisive is violence.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-12 22:39:00 UTC

  • A PLACE IN THE NATURAL ARISTOCRACY I consider myself a warrior – a physical, com

    A PLACE IN THE NATURAL ARISTOCRACY

    I consider myself a warrior – a physical, commercial and intellectual competitor. I have no desire to participate in an effete, affluent, managerial aristocracy. But I desire that others do, so that I need not. I prefer to have a leader who takes care of leadership duties. I just prefer to choose my leader from the best available. I prefer to choose a leader who is better than I.

    The upper class – the perpetuating nobility – the natural aristocracy – produce families of consistent quality, as long as they demonstrate retention of their position by commercial, military, and intellectual performance.

    This family scope is a very different burden from that of the individual warrior, who wishes to achieve his greatest personal possibilities. It is a very different thing to seek to build a noble family, from that which it is to seek to build great arts, great sciences, great commerce.

    So the philosophy of aristocracy does not require that all of us seek the status of intergenerational familial nobility. But instead, that we pursue our excellences – only one of which is intergenerational familial nobility.

    To be a great thinker, artist, tradesman, investor, warrior, scientist, does not require that my siblings do. Only that I have the will to demonstrated excellence – aristocracy – myself.

    If I succeed and reproduce with others of the same ilk, then over time, perhaps my genes can participate in the natural aristocracy of families. And that is the greatest aspiration I care to dream of. Because it is the greatest aspiration that is possible for me to act upon.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-11 07:11:00 UTC

  • PROGRESS: I DID IT. (SHOCKED) It’s been an interesting week. I couldn’t write mu

    PROGRESS: I DID IT. (SHOCKED)

    It’s been an interesting week. I couldn’t write much because of all the asthma therapy, but I did read and think quite a bit, while struggling with ‘correcting’ Hoppe’s apriorism.

    But damn. I did it. I really did it. I’ll bet it takes me less than six months to get it all into digestible form with enough examples that I can communicate the concepts to at least those with scientific rather than rational frames of language.

    But, whether it takes me one month or six, if I simply state that **the problem of information absence or loss that affects the logic of physics, mathematics, and language never occurs in statements of demonstrated action – the logic of action and by consequence, the logic of cooperation***, then that is all that needs to be stated. Actions by definition and necessity correspond to reality. They are a bridge between imagination and reality. A test of correspondence. They are the only test of correspondence with reality. Human actions are, because of shared intentionality, and the biomechanical similarities between all men, universally open to subjective testing. Even if cognitive abilities differ dramatically – perhaps logarithmically – demonstrated actions do not. Since cognitive abilities can be expressed as functions consisting of a hierarchy of more simplistic operations each of which is reducible to perceptible form, then the problem of cognition is always reducible to more simplistic form, and the difference between lesser and greater minds is merely the scope of the function (network) that is testable at any given time. (This corresponds with what we know of neurological processes: aggregation)

    If we take (a) the reduction of information into perceptible form (instrumentalism), (b) subjective testing when stated as action (operations), (c) cooperation via shared intentionality and the consequential prohibition on free riding / imposed costs / involuntary transfer (ethics), then we are done.

    By ‘done’ I mean that all logical fields, categories, names, words, relations, causality, ethical action and deduction, can be united into a single consistent framework of instrumentation whose only differences are the choice of which properties we wish to inspect, and which we can and must ignore, for the purpose of testing internal consistency of statements where we are not cognitively able to construct sets without the help of such instrumentation, given the limits of our short term memory, and the composition of our intuition (thinking) as a perpetual and recursive search engine.

    COMMUNITY HELP ON ONE ISSUE OF TERMINOLOGY

    I need to ask the community to help me with the choice of terminology, or I need to at least articulate the point of view for each term, under the general category of free riding. We only free ride by the imposition of costs without contribution to production. So free riding may contribute to confusion even if its anthropologically, and in context of the problem of cooperation, the most precise term.

    THE PROBLEM OF NASH EQUILIBRIUM IN THE PURSUIT OF LIBERTY

    (I am trying to solve the problem of eliminating demand for the state, while preserving the greatest liberty, and requiring that all exchanges remain voluntary, productive, and …)

    The issue for any polity then is to control the population (distribution of abilities) such that the Nash equilibrium is actually possible and productive. This seems to be the threshold problem that primitive trust societies can’t get beyond.

    Monogamous Marriage is a Nash equilibrium problem. And Pareto efficient optimums are a Nash problems. But since we cannot test the aggregates meaningfully against any constant, all we can do is rely upon volition.

    Eh….

    ENGLISH: GETTING IT MOSTLY RIGHT

    If I were to say that the english got it mostly right. And that if we had evolved the multi-house system of private government for the provision of investments in the commons by adding a house of labor, retained the common law as inviolable by the government, allowed the church to evolve into social insurer, and NOT adopted the Napoleonic/Rothschildian credit-state and total war, then I am not sure that we would have gone very wrong. In fact, we were very close. One of the arguments that I’ve kept running across is that the agrarian and industrial revolutions happened so fast, that we could not evolve our institutions as organically as we had in the past. And that while conservative institutions are ‘scientific’ (proven by experience) they require time to evolve, and the disruption caused by the rapid economic progress overwhelmed our prior conservatism.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-11 06:46:00 UTC