Curt Doolittle

Theme: Agency

  • MAN IS AMORAL Man is wired (evolved) to know what is in his interests, what will

    MAN IS AMORAL

    Man is wired (evolved) to know what is in his interests, what will cause retaliation, and what will purchase options on future cooperation, and that he must punish cheaters(defectors).

    It’s just in our interests, increasingly, to act morally, because of the returns on moral cooperation, but if you look at history and if you look at the total absence outside of western civilizatino of high trust other than perhaps japane (which sacrifices truth for it), then the answer is just the opposite.

    If I accomplish anything I hope to eradictate is christian/rousseauian/feminine fantasy that man is wired for morality.

    Man evolved to be eminently practical: the act predatorially, parasiticlaly, reciproccally, and to invest, as opportunity presents itself.

    We are just an extension of the laws of physics, and our only difference is the ability to use memory to keep accounting of whether we’re gaining or losing over time in an environment of possible cooperation.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-05 17:06:00 UTC

  • FARMERS’ CHILDREN DEFEAT THE MARSHMALLOW TEST (a friend just sent this)

    https://www.sciencenews.org/article/african-farmers-kids-conquer-marshmallow-testAFRICAN FARMERS’ CHILDREN DEFEAT THE MARSHMALLOW TEST

    (a friend just sent this)

    https://www.sciencenews.org/article/african-farmers-kids-conquer-marshmallow-test

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-05 16:55:00 UTC

  • FARMERS’ CHILDREN DEFEAT THE MARSHMALLOW TEST (a friend just sent this)

    https://www.sciencenews.org/article/african-farmers-kids-conquer-marshmallow-testAFRICAN FARMERS’ CHILDREN DEFEAT THE MARSHMALLOW TEST

    (a friend just sent this)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-05 16:55:00 UTC

  • THE ANSWER TO CHRISTIANITY: CHOOSING GODHOOD AS OUR OWN. There is good Christian

    THE ANSWER TO CHRISTIANITY: CHOOSING GODHOOD AS OUR OWN.

    There is good Christianity and bad. There are good christians and bad. This [set of statements] is very good christianity, and I’m not going to criticize good Christians – at least unless good Christians (a) violate natural law (unlikely), or (b) seek to use faith in argument rather than faith in self confirmation (too commonly). Faith is for the faithful, literature for those without faith. Aristotle for those who have no need for, and science and law for those of us who rule and cannot afford it. Render under each, that which is needed by each, and natural law of men, and physical law of science to decide the conflicts between them.

    My objective is to institutionalize the insights (habits) of christianity in scientific prose, and provide means of ritual mindfulness for those that cannot or will not tolerate ‘magic’. And a set of festivals that all of us chan participate in.

    Those insights are (a) the daily discipline of personal humility, (b) the elimination of hatred from the human heart, (c) the extension of kinship love to non kin, (d) the exhaustion of personal forgiveness as a means of training the most misguided, and (e) the empiricism of direct, personal charity as a means of achieving, and testing both, and (f) the political intolerance of those who do otherwise, (g) the limiting of government to the natural law of reciprocity leaving only market harmony and charity for the achievement of goods, and (h) surrender of defense and rule to the aristocracy who master in violence what we master in love and charity.

    And I know that this is the ultimate strategy for optimum human cooperation because science and logic tell me so.

    There is an ever declining percentage of educated people that find value in the parables of underclass semitic pastoralists, depending on magic and an after life to escape lack of agency in this one, and an ever increasing percentage of people that find value in scientific exposition of the same virtues, and historical and mythical ideas of OUR PEOPLE, for whom their ‘book’ was that of homer (the trials of achilles), the great greek and roman heroes, the carolingian, germanic, arthurian, scandinavian pagan myths, and the REAL accomplishments of OUR people, which begins with the cult of non-submission of those with agency. Just as the cult of submission is the retreat of those lacking it in islam and christianity.

    There is nothing in the world of faith that is not available to those who practice natural science, natural law, the histories, rituals of self authoring, and the festivals of the heroes and seasons – except a greater need to negotiate between different wants, and greater demand for mindfulness against the saddening, and a greater demand for agency and reason in taking actions in the world.

    Among the poor, feeble, and lacking agency in the world, christianity is the compromise position between barbarism and science that Augustine intended to make it. And among those who are increasingly joining the prosperous, the able, and those with agency, it is increasingly unnecessary. Among the prosperous, the able, and those with agency, that compromise is harmful. And this is what we have seen.

    Morality is fully contained in individual sovereignty, physical and law natural law and the markets for cooperation, and exhaustive forgiveness in bringing the immoral into both.

    The only people that need comforting lies are those that cannot look the only ultimate truth in the face without fear: the universe is a hostile place, we are an nothing but a deterministic accident, and it is we who shall be the gods who transform it into the edent we desire.

    We must only choose godhood as our own.

    – My love as always.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-05 16:49:00 UTC

  • i like intj’s in charge. i’m happy to play merlin for an arthur

    i like intj’s in charge. i’m happy to play merlin for an arthur….

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-04 20:56:00 UTC

  • Against Those Who Counter Signal Revolt: —“What you mean is that you are proje

    Against Those Who Counter Signal Revolt:

    —“What you mean is that you are projecting, and you’re a coward. Plenty of us revel in these opportunities. The way you get people involved is to take from them. you take from them by removing their futures, opportunities, property, people, home, relationships, and most of all ‘certainty’. Humans have very little idea how much of their illusion of self confidence and control is dependent upon regularity over which they have no control. if you knew anything about civil war and revolution you would know that. To get people involved in a revolution, you take from them. Even if its only their sense of predictability.”—

    The herd will run from the pack.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-04 18:48:00 UTC

  • —“WHAT WERE YOU LIKE AT 20?”—

      When I was 20? I don’t know if I can answer truthfully I was in college, I had a hot girlfriend I was crazy about, had good friends, was doing ok art, had not much money but enough, and was otherwise pretty happy as far as I know. I had the same sensibilities. but like most aspies my mind was still forming and in retrospect that’s how I see that period. In my mind I was not very different from today. But that’s probably just my mind playing tricks on me. I think 22 sucked after breaking up with my girlfriend, and it ruined my college experience also. So I threw myself into business and women and it worked out after a bit. But I had a bit of personal confusion in there for a bit. I made a couple of mistakes. First was not transferring to philosophy, and second putting too much investment into my girlfriend. Third was I was just too tired all the time….. If I could do it over I would take out more loans and work follow my interest in argument and philosophy. The problem is wouldn’t have ended up where I have with all this amazing life experience having done so much amazing crazy stuff. TRUTH: While I had the benefit of being more than a little good looking, and a lot of confidence, I had a very hard time as a high functioning aspie and I used girlfriends (devotedly) to build my social circle, and to some degree to keep me attached to civil reality. I have continued to do this throughout my life. This was a mistake. Most of the men I respect avoid ‘entanglements’ and build assets and that was my original disposition. I should have stayed with it. In other words, women are extremely expensive and a poor return until after you accumulate assets. So rent rather than buy the merchandise. The problem is your testosterone misleads you as much as estrogen misleads women.

  • —“WHAT WERE YOU LIKE AT 20?”—

      When I was 20? I don’t know if I can answer truthfully I was in college, I had a hot girlfriend I was crazy about, had good friends, was doing ok art, had not much money but enough, and was otherwise pretty happy as far as I know. I had the same sensibilities. but like most aspies my mind was still forming and in retrospect that’s how I see that period. In my mind I was not very different from today. But that’s probably just my mind playing tricks on me. I think 22 sucked after breaking up with my girlfriend, and it ruined my college experience also. So I threw myself into business and women and it worked out after a bit. But I had a bit of personal confusion in there for a bit. I made a couple of mistakes. First was not transferring to philosophy, and second putting too much investment into my girlfriend. Third was I was just too tired all the time….. If I could do it over I would take out more loans and work follow my interest in argument and philosophy. The problem is wouldn’t have ended up where I have with all this amazing life experience having done so much amazing crazy stuff. TRUTH: While I had the benefit of being more than a little good looking, and a lot of confidence, I had a very hard time as a high functioning aspie and I used girlfriends (devotedly) to build my social circle, and to some degree to keep me attached to civil reality. I have continued to do this throughout my life. This was a mistake. Most of the men I respect avoid ‘entanglements’ and build assets and that was my original disposition. I should have stayed with it. In other words, women are extremely expensive and a poor return until after you accumulate assets. So rent rather than buy the merchandise. The problem is your testosterone misleads you as much as estrogen misleads women.

  • by William J Mullen The logistical issue is that while men should always work on

    by William J Mullen

    The logistical issue is that while men should always work on themselves and actualize, they are competing for women who consider 80% of men to be below average. This high bar to female attraction incentivizes both a male strategy of actualization AND the lowering of standards. The problem on the horizon is that VR Sexbots will be amazing and therefore will reduce the incentive to lower standards overmuch. A real 10 is superior to a virtual 10, but is a real 6 superior to a virtual 10? Not to me, and not to most men, I suspect. And if not, there is no incentive to opt for the real 6, nor incentive to do the significant amount of self-work necessary to attract a real 10. No incentive except children, that is, except Artificial Wombs (and designer genes!) are also on the horizon.

    —

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-04 16:11:00 UTC

  • SORRY, BUT BOOMER > [JONES] > GEN X > [GEN Y] > MILLENNIAL. by Steven Kolpek Gen

    SORRY, BUT BOOMER > [JONES] > GEN X > [GEN Y] > MILLENNIAL.

    by Steven Kolpek

    Gen Y is the bridge generation.

    That’s me, Zuckerberg, Phelps, Gadot and such.

    We’re the ones who grew up with the oil wars, waco, and school shootings, the birth of the internet, the launch of ISS, and the berlin wall.

    Did you have a Nintendo? Gameboy? Tomagotchi? Pikachu? Playstation?

    Was the movie “american psycho” your career ambition? Were you called a loser? Did you wear skinny jeans? Punk Music? Did you see the first matrix, jurassic park, and titanic in the theate? Did you read harry potter and game of thrones when they came out and try to bring that world about?

    The problem is that demographers use the rates of population and sociologists use the experiences and motivations. My generatoin has none of the identity politics of millennials, just the opposite.

    We were raised with the highest expectations and promises, only to emerge into our teens to see the catastrophe of 9/11/2001, the consequences of the Feminist movement, the crime, the drugs, the decay, the unemployment, the obama administration and we sought opportunity in the internet revolution to work our asses off and make it big’

    WHY IS THIS HAPPENING TO ME. Hence the name.

    (CD: This is awesome. Need one for GenX. 50’s Boomers, 60’s Boomers)

    ( See Generation Jones: https://www.facebook.com/curt.doolittle/posts/10156331144097264 )

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-04 07:44:00 UTC