Curt Doolittle

Theme: Agency

  • STOMPING ON THE BUNNIES OF YOUR SELF WORTH (important if your self worth can tol

    STOMPING ON THE BUNNIES OF YOUR SELF WORTH

    (important if your self worth can tolerate it)

    —“Religion is what you do every day . doctrine and dogma are your expressions of your mental interpretations of your belief system.”— Ken Duggan

    Well, again,that’s a falsehood.

    A religion consists of a false presumption or more, a false promise or more, a set of narratives within those falsehoods, a set of rituals that demonstrate your investments in them, and a group strategy produced by all of the above.

    One can theorize (science and history), philosophize (reason and ideals), or fictionalize (theology and myths).

    A scientist doesn’t lie about that distinction. Both philosophers and theologians do.

    The reason you resort to religion is because the painful truth of your market value to others is too low to rely on philosophy (reason and ideals) or science science and the real).

    This illusion of self worth, social worth, market worth, is the ‘payment’ you receive in the form of mindfulness, in exchange for investing in training your intuition to calculate in falsehoods.

    Because in reality – few of us have much worth other than that we do no harm. And the benefits of the market created by doing no harm exist for us despite the fact that we have little or no value other than doing no harm.

    If that does not crush your ego, I don’t know what will.

    But that is the undeniable, painful, undesirable truth.

    Most people are dead weight on Mankind and The Planet, and the Universe.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-11 11:32:00 UTC

  • “There is only one personal, operational sacred center and it is called kin. All

    —“There is only one personal, operational sacred center and it is called kin. All other proclamations are lies meant to undermine nature.”—Bill Joslin

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-11 02:25:18 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1061444728712036352

  • A WARNING When all of us reach a stage of enlightenment we tend to feel both the

    A WARNING

    When all of us reach a stage of enlightenment we tend to feel both the epiphany and the euphoria given the seemingly limitless ease of new networks of understanding. Yet, in this we sew our own defeat – by forgetting the rigour that got us here, and in doing so, anchoring our progress until we fail.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-10 21:27:00 UTC

  • “There is only one personal, operational sacred center and it is called kin. All

    —“There is only one personal, operational sacred center and it is called kin. All other proclamations are lies meant to undermine nature.”—Bill Joslin

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-10 21:24:00 UTC

  • WOMEN FOR SUPERGEEKS Women are easy. Take them shopping. Be nice to their friend

    WOMEN FOR SUPERGEEKS

    Women are easy. Take them shopping. Be nice to their friends, and make her look good in front of them. Listen. Give them permission to feel. Say “yes: to anything that you can easily do so. Say “no I can’t or won’t do that” – not, “no that’s a bad idea” – and don’t ask forgiveness or permission or agreement to say that kind of “no.” That is what it means to be a man and different from a woman. In addition, have male friends and many of them.

    I love talking through thoughts and issues and ideas with a woman. And honesty in those things makes them feel safe with you.

    In other words, bring them into your emotional world but not your cognitive world. Bringing them into your cognitive world is a form of selfishness. It makes you needy. If you bring them into your emotional, personal, and social, world, you make them successful in bonding with you.

    My particular issue is that I can be anchored if I talk about something before I am ready – and being anchored takes away my superpower so to speak. So I can’t talk about some issues until I am ready, and this can create the perception that I am hiding something.

    Worse, not everyone can understand what I am thinking, so I try to humor people to save myself effort, frustration, and potential alienation, which can also create the impression that I have ‘plans’.

    Worse, I managing one’s creativity is different from managing one’s work. Creativity is a manageable process but time consuming, and cannot, like ordinary task work, be forced. So it is not always clear that I am in fact (as taleb also laments) ‘working’, when in fact I am, under almost all circumstances, ‘working’ and only vaguely ‘present’. Stuff spills out of your fingertips when it’s ready, not when you want it to.

    So lots of intimate, in that I mean, ‘us time’ talking is necessary to preserve trust and connection to compensate. And that is what I learned to do.

    Women give AMAZINGLY GOOD ADVICE on anything personal, emotional, social, and ‘real’. so much so that at least for me it’s very hard to function without it.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-10 19:21:00 UTC

  • PERCEPTION OF MAN (from elsewhere) The general rule is this: 1) we are super-pre

    PERCEPTION OF MAN

    (from elsewhere)

    The general rule is this:

    1) we are super-predators that have evolved a VAST web of proxies for violence in order to retain the REPEATED benefits of cooperation over the LIMITED returns on predation.

    2) if you participate in the cooperative market you will observe the effects of these proxies as the REFLECTION of regular demonstration of human behavior.

    3) if you participate in the CONFLICT market you will observe the effect of these proxies as OBSCURING the regular demonstration of human behavior.

    4) Manners, lack of access to competitors, because of the affinities of people in social groups, and the threat of local ostracization and violence prevent us from and OBSCURE human behavior.

    5) Internet (the series travel > written word > media > internet) access to ALLIES and COMPETITORS because of the affinity for combatants (political activists) to seek combat (argument).

    6) Therefore, real world social interactions are necessary for safety and for value creation and obscure the vast differences in behavior we can experience directly. Knowledge of competitors (media) exacerbates it. the influence of activists on media exacerbates it. Access to competitors for direct conflict exacerbates it.

    7) we solve the problem of cooperation by the blind men eating the elephant. we can only work with what we can touch, and we can only cooperate with those next to us but if we ever come to understand that those who we don’t out of necessity cooperate with will seize the benefits of not doing so whenever the distance from our physical violence permits, they will.

    I don’t watch television News because it is the worst possible means of obtaining knowledge. I don’t read magazines because they were (are no longer) useful. I don’t really read the news (or pop culture). I do however monitor the social science data and economic data. What changed my mind about following current events, was the proximity of revolution and interest in watching it unfold.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-10 18:08:00 UTC

  • In working through a strategy, which I usually do while just walking around, dri

    In working through a strategy, which I usually do while just walking around, driving, listening to others, or writing, I do not shy from unethical and immoral options any more than I do moral or costly options. Once you find a solution the problem lies only in finding a solution that is not UNETHICAL or IMMORAL. This is the problem with moralizm. You limit yoru scope of conception. Or, you are too weak of character to eliminate the unethical and immoral choices until you find an amoral or moral means of achieving the same end.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-10 12:02:00 UTC

  • “Do what is instrumental. The end has always justified the means. Virtue deliver

    —“Do what is instrumental. The end has always justified the means. Virtue delivers nothing if it is not accompanied by an iron will. Systems are applicable for a particular time, place, and people. Be Machiavelli in a world of Mother Teresas. Only fools abide by the rules of defeatists.”— @[724441849:2048:Charlie Delta]

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-10 10:19:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    WOMEN FOR SUPERGEEKS Women are easy. Take them shopping. Be nice to their friends, and make her look good in front of them. Listen. Give them permission to feel. Say “yes: to anything that you can easily do so. Say “no I can’t or won’t do that” – not, “no that’s a bad idea” – and don’t ask forgiveness or permission or agreement to say that kind of “no.” That is what it means to be a man and different from a woman. In addition, have male friends and many of them. I love talking through thoughts and issues and ideas with a woman. And honesty in those things makes them feel safe with you. In other words, bring them into your emotional world but not your cognitive world. Bringing them into your cognitive world is a form of selfishness. It makes you needy. If you bring them into your emotional, personal, and social, world, you make them successful in bonding with you. My particular issue is that I can be anchored if I talk about something before I am ready – and being anchored takes away my superpower so to speak. So I can’t talk about some issues until I am ready, and this can create the perception that I am hiding something. Worse, not everyone can understand what I am thinking, so I try to humor people to save myself effort, frustration, and potential alienation, which can also create the impression that I have ‘plans’. Worse, I managing one’s creativity is different from managing one’s work. Creativity is a manageable process but time consuming, and cannot, like ordinary task work, be forced. So it is not always clear that I am in fact (as taleb also laments) ‘working’, when in fact I am, under almost all circumstances, ‘working’ and only vaguely ‘present’. Stuff spills out of your fingertips when it’s ready, not when you want it to. So lots of intimate, in that I mean, ‘us time’ talking is necessary to preserve trust and connection to compensate. And that is what I learned to do. Women give AMAZINGLY GOOD ADVICE on anything personal, emotional, social, and ‘real’. so much so that at least for me it’s very hard to function without it.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    PERCEPTION OF MAN
    (from elsewhere)
    The general rule is this: 1) we are super-predators that have evolved a VAST web of proxies for violence in order to retain the REPEATED benefits of cooperation over the LIMITED returns on predation. 2) if you participate in the cooperative market you will observe the effects of these proxies as the REFLECTION of regular demonstration of human behavior. 3) if you participate in the CONFLICT market you will observe the effect of these proxies as OBSCURING the regular demonstration of human behavior. 4) Manners, lack of access to competitors, because of the affinities of people in social groups, and the threat of local ostracization and violence prevent us from and OBSCURE human behavior. 5) Internet (the series travel > written word > media > internet) access to ALLIES and COMPETITORS because of the affinity for combatants (political activists) to seek combat (argument). 6) Therefore, real world social interactions are necessary for safety and for value creation and obscure the vast differences in behavior we can experience directly. Knowledge of competitors (media) exacerbates it. the influence of activists on media exacerbates it. Access to competitors for direct conflict exacerbates it. 7) we solve the problem of cooperation by the blind men eating the elephant. we can only work with what we can touch, and we can only cooperate with those next to us but if we ever come to understand that those who we don’t out of necessity cooperate with will seize the benefits of not doing so whenever the distance from our physical violence permits, they will. I don’t watch television News because it is the worst possible means of obtaining knowledge. I don’t read magazines because they were (are no longer) useful. I don’t really read the news (or pop culture). I do however monitor the social science data and economic data. What changed my mind about following current events, was the proximity of revolution and interest in watching it unfold.