Curt Doolittle

Theme: Agency

  • I REALLY DISLIKE RACISM One should blame one’s own people for their failures, no

    I REALLY DISLIKE RACISM

    One should blame one’s own people for their failures, not others for taking advantage of them. If you are occupied and conquered by others through immigration or displacement, it is no different from being occupied or conquered by others through religious conversion, political usurpation, or military conquest. It is your failure to prevent it. Not theirs for taking advantage of it.

    I see the world as families and tribes that can all prosper if we cooperate productively, without free riding, parasitism and predation. Unfortunately, free riding, parasitism and predation are much easier than mutually beneficial production. So humans prefer free riding, parasitism and predation whenever possible.

    I agree that the distribution of talents in the races is different, and that performatively, we can see that the median distribution of talents is indeed hierarchical.

    I agree that people act as political groups, acting in the favor of their group at the expense of other groups, whenever possible. I believe that the evidence tells us that race is on of the most influential factors in determining group membership, if not the most influential factor.

    I agree that because of those differences, our means and ends are different. But that does not mean that the different classes of all the races, and tribes, particularly the upper classes, cannot work together for the benefit of each tribe rather than abandoning the lower classes to conflict over resources and opportunities. The lower classes exist, and without their upper classes to grant them opportunities through superior competitiveness and cooperation, then they lose the competitive advantage that elites provide.

    The most heinous crime that an upper class can commit is to prey upon it’s own people, rather than provide competitive value for it’s lower classes, in relation to other lower classes.

    This is one of the primary reasons why the middle and lower classes support their elites and act as a group: because its in their interest to do so.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-01 06:01:00 UTC

  • I support trusting people with self determination. But hold them accountable for

    I support trusting people with self determination. But hold them accountable for what they do with it.Not everyone is worthy of that trust.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-30 21:17:55 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/461615454185074688

  • ITS ALL GENES – THE WORLD IS A MUCH FAIRER PLACE THAN IT SEEMS. –” 1) First, it

    ITS ALL GENES – THE WORLD IS A MUCH FAIRER PLACE THAN IT SEEMS.

    –“

    1) First, it means the world is a much fairer place than we intuit. Innate talent, not inherited privilege, is the main source of economic success.

    2) Second, it suggests that the large investment made by the upper classes in the care and raising of their children is of no avail in preventing long-run downward mobility: the wealthy Manhattan attorneys who hire coaches for their toddlers to ensure placement in elite kindergartens cannot prevent the eventual regression of their descendants to the mean.

    3) Third, government interventions to increase social mobility are unlikely to have much impact unless they affect the rate of intermarriage between levels of the social hierarchy and between ethnic groups.

    4) Fourth, emphasis on racial, ethnic, and religious differences allows persistent social stratification through the barriers they create to this intermarriage. In order for a society to increase social mobility over the long run, it must achieve the cultural homogeneity that maximizes intermarriage rates between social groups.

    “–

    Justification. Dunning Kreuger. Envy. Reproductive Strategy. All guarantee that despite the fact his is true, it is in the lower majority’s interests to deny it. Unless we pay them well to have but one child, and punish them severely for having more. Personally I think that’s a pretty good deal. I’d have just one child if someone would pay me 10-20K a year for it, and would take it away if I had more.

    I don’t advocate redistribution for the purpose of equality. I advocate it for the purpose of suppressing breeding, and paying people to assist in the construction of property rights and the commons that facilitates the voluntary organization of production.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-30 12:57:00 UTC

  • WHY DIDN’T I SAY THAT? –“It seems to me that ethics(/”morals”) dependently “exi

    WHY DIDN’T I SAY THAT?

    –“It seems to me that ethics(/”morals”) dependently “exist” ONLY so long as there also exists at least TWO cognitively willful physical actors … who can volitionally interact. Physics “exists” independently. I think.”–

    Frank Lovell

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-30 10:40:00 UTC

  • Worth Repeating: The Choice Of Nobility

    WORTH REPEATING : THE CHOICE OF Nobility “Nobility is a choice we make, and a burden we carry, in exchange for the freedom to flourish to the best of our abilities. Yet we cannot ask those whose flourishing depends on collective efforts to adopt individual risk and reward.” Curt Doolittle The Philosophy of Aristocracy The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine

  • Worth Repeating: The Choice Of Nobility

    WORTH REPEATING : THE CHOICE OF Nobility “Nobility is a choice we make, and a burden we carry, in exchange for the freedom to flourish to the best of our abilities. Yet we cannot ask those whose flourishing depends on collective efforts to adopt individual risk and reward.” Curt Doolittle The Philosophy of Aristocracy The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine

  • THE META ETHICS OF EUROPA 1) Man’s purpose is to leave the world better than he

    THE META ETHICS OF EUROPA

    1) Man’s purpose is to leave the world better than he entered it.

    2) Man’s purpose is to bend nature to our will.

    3) Man’s purpose is to question everything.

    OR HEGEL’S VERSION

    –“The principle of the European mind is self-conscious Reason which is

    confi dent that for it there can be no insuperable barrier and which therefore

    takes an interest in everything in order to become present to itself

    therein…In Europe, therefore, there prevails this infinite thirst for

    knowledge…The European is interested in the world, he wants to know it,

    to make this Other confronting him his own, to bring to view the genus,

    law, universal, thought, the inner rationality, in the particular forms of

    the world. As in the theoretical, so too in the practical, the European

    mind…subdues the outer world to its ends with an energy which has

    ensured for it the mastery of the world. Hegel, Philosophy of Mind”–

    Source date (UTC): 2014-04-27 14:55:00 UTC

  • Extending Kahneman: “System 0” Is Property.

    (interesting)(important piece)

    [O]ur logical capacity extends to the limits defined by the flight of an arrow. For more complex multi-dimensional relations we resort to the cartesian representations. And if the problem is more complicated than that, then our reason, and ability to envision causal relations, is terribly frail.

    And if I am correct (and it appears at present that I am), then “System 0″ is little more than a producer of reward and punishment endorphins in response to increases or decreases in an individual’s inventory of “property”. Property that is necessary for his life, cooperation and reproduction.

    Emotions are reactions to changes in state. Changes in state are determined by changes in property. Humans act to acquire that which improves their condition. Humans resent, and punish, at great personal expense, appropriations of that which they have acted to acquire.

    Reason (Kahneman’s System “2”) rides on the elephant of intuition (Kahneman’s System “1”), whose objects of consideration (System “0”) are what we call ‘property’. Our brains are difference engines. And we calculate differences in property: that which we have acted to obtain.

    Curt Doolittle
    The Propertarian Institute
    Kiev.

    COMMENTS
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    Curt Doolittle
    I wrote, I think, about six months ago, that property was the missing necessary means of commensurable data representation required for functional AI to simulate the behavior of man. I knew this back when David Trowbridge and I were thinking about Runcible.
    April 17 at 9:38am · Like

    William L. Benge Utterly fascinating interview of Kahneman by Charlie Rose.
    April 17 at 5:28pm · Like · Remove Preview

    William L. Benge
    This really is an amazing post, Curt. Grateful for your work.
    April 17 at 5:34pm · Like

    Curt Doolittle
    Thank you william. That means a lot to me.
    April 17 at 6:20pm · Like

  • Extending Kahneman: "System 0" Is Property.

    (interesting)(important piece)

    [O]ur logical capacity extends to the limits defined by the flight of an arrow. For more complex multi-dimensional relations we resort to the cartesian representations. And if the problem is more complicated than that, then our reason, and ability to envision causal relations, is terribly frail.

    And if I am correct (and it appears at present that I am), then “System 0″ is little more than a producer of reward and punishment endorphins in response to increases or decreases in an individual’s inventory of “property”. Property that is necessary for his life, cooperation and reproduction.

    Emotions are reactions to changes in state. Changes in state are determined by changes in property. Humans act to acquire that which improves their condition. Humans resent, and punish, at great personal expense, appropriations of that which they have acted to acquire.

    Reason (Kahneman’s System “2”) rides on the elephant of intuition (Kahneman’s System “1”), whose objects of consideration (System “0”) are what we call ‘property’. Our brains are difference engines. And we calculate differences in property: that which we have acted to obtain.

    Curt Doolittle
    The Propertarian Institute
    Kiev.

    COMMENTS
    William L. Benge likes this.

    Curt Doolittle
    I wrote, I think, about six months ago, that property was the missing necessary means of commensurable data representation required for functional AI to simulate the behavior of man. I knew this back when David Trowbridge and I were thinking about Runcible.
    April 17 at 9:38am · Like

    William L. Benge Utterly fascinating interview of Kahneman by Charlie Rose.
    April 17 at 5:28pm · Like · Remove Preview

    William L. Benge
    This really is an amazing post, Curt. Grateful for your work.
    April 17 at 5:34pm · Like

    Curt Doolittle
    Thank you william. That means a lot to me.
    April 17 at 6:20pm · Like

  • Extending Kahneman: “System 0” Is Property.

    (interesting)(important piece)

    [O]ur logical capacity extends to the limits defined by the flight of an arrow. For more complex multi-dimensional relations we resort to the cartesian representations. And if the problem is more complicated than that, then our reason, and ability to envision causal relations, is terribly frail.

    And if I am correct (and it appears at present that I am), then “System 0″ is little more than a producer of reward and punishment endorphins in response to increases or decreases in an individual’s inventory of “property”. Property that is necessary for his life, cooperation and reproduction.

    Emotions are reactions to changes in state. Changes in state are determined by changes in property. Humans act to acquire that which improves their condition. Humans resent, and punish, at great personal expense, appropriations of that which they have acted to acquire.

    Reason (Kahneman’s System “2”) rides on the elephant of intuition (Kahneman’s System “1”), whose objects of consideration (System “0”) are what we call ‘property’. Our brains are difference engines. And we calculate differences in property: that which we have acted to obtain.

    Curt Doolittle
    The Propertarian Institute
    Kiev.

    COMMENTS
    William L. Benge likes this.

    Curt Doolittle
    I wrote, I think, about six months ago, that property was the missing necessary means of commensurable data representation required for functional AI to simulate the behavior of man. I knew this back when David Trowbridge and I were thinking about Runcible.
    April 17 at 9:38am · Like

    William L. Benge Utterly fascinating interview of Kahneman by Charlie Rose.
    April 17 at 5:28pm · Like · Remove Preview

    William L. Benge
    This really is an amazing post, Curt. Grateful for your work.
    April 17 at 5:34pm · Like

    Curt Doolittle
    Thank you william. That means a lot to me.
    April 17 at 6:20pm · Like