Curt Doolittle

Theme: Agency

  • Parenting? What’s the issue with parenting? (And I still argue your group select

    Parenting? What’s the issue with parenting? (And I still argue your group selection position is confusing genetic with behavioral.)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-09 03:32:21 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/895125569918181376

    Reply addressees: @JayMan471

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/894936790422958082

    IN REPLY TO:

    @JayMan471

    Alt-right hates blank slatism you’re wrong about scientific accuracy. Just ask about group selection or parenting https://t.co/OiEBAkNKBs

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/894936790422958082

  • FOR SCIENTISTS: UNDERSTANDING JORDAN PETERSON’S INNOVATIONS 1) SYNTHESIS OF LITE

    FOR SCIENTISTS: UNDERSTANDING JORDAN PETERSON’S INNOVATIONS

    1) SYNTHESIS OF LITERATURE, PSYCHOLOGY, AND BIOLOGY

    Peterson has identified the relationship between the monomyth>Archetypes>Plots>Virtues> Personality > Reward systems > Brain structure. So he has converted Jung’s loose (pseudo-scientific) assumptions into a scientific description and integrated it into literary theory.

    In other words, he has found that by use of transformational (monomyth) narratives we circumvent the near impossibility of direct self-reflection, and learn, correct, and relearn by empathy with third party ‘characters’ instead – thereby using mirroring (empathy) to circumvent the challenges of self reflection.

    2) RESTORATION AND EXPRESSION OF STOICISM IS SCIENTIFIC TERMS

    He has taken it further into restoring our natural european religion of Stoicism by suggesting that we can use myth, literature, and self-authoring to accomplish the mindfulness of stoicism, and abandon the abrahamic superstitions that result in ignorance and decline, without moving into buddhism or other forms of ritual. That means only Stoicism produces a mindfulness of *innovation* (adaptation) of the self through action, rather than through disconnection.

    3) REFORMATION OF THERAPY(Error Correction), EDUCATION (Market Skills), AND RELIGION (Normative Discipline)

    The restoration of the stoic program and the use of literature would allow us to reform religion (trainning in the extension of kinship love, training in mindfulness, restoration of natural holidays and heroes), Education (teaching mindfulness as another ordinary discipline like vocabulary and grammar, reading, essay and argument (logic and rhetoric), measurement and mathematics).

    DEFLATING THE CENTRAL INNOVATION IN CHRISTIANITY

    Christianity trains people in only one thing: the extension of kinship love outside of immediate kin to ‘invest in’ (purchase) cooperation that otherwise would not be possible to acquire. But so does the simple imposition of common law, and the development of a middle class by commerce. In that sense, christianity (like judaism, and islam) is a primitive method of cooperation using charity and virtue signals rather than commercial interaction and material reward seeking to build trust in one another.

    THE INTEGRATION OF CHRISTIANITY AND WESTERN DEFLATIONARY TRUTH

    The uniqueness of the west is that we combined deflationary truth, deflationary institutions, and continuous competition ALONG WITH extension of kinship love. And it was that combination that allowed us to both unify in cooperation and remain separate in government and institutions.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-08 16:56:00 UTC

  • I DON’T KNOW, ACTUALLY. IS THE TERM POLYMATH? OR IS IT JUST SPECIALIZING IN TRUT

    I DON’T KNOW, ACTUALLY. IS THE TERM POLYMATH? OR IS IT JUST SPECIALIZING IN TRUTH REGARDLESS OF FIELD?

    I don’t like the term polymath either. The problem is, I have had to master the theoretical content of nearly every field, even if I have not had to (nor would I in one lifetime be able to) master the application of that theoretical content. Because while it takes quite a bit of effort, it’s possible to deflate the ‘nonsense language’ in each field, into what constitutes a truth claim in this field, and how is it *not in fact true*.

    I’m clearly an expert in truthful speech across the fields – all of them. Which required understanding the criteria of decidability in each of them. So I would go with specialization in truthful speech across all fields, contributing to all fields. But I don’t claim to be a very good mathematician, chemist or physicist. just a judge of decidability in those fields.

    —“Don’t mathematicians specialise in being truthful in their fields? What do you mean when you say you are ‘specialised’ at determining truth in all these fields?”— Rik Storey

    No. And one of the top mathematicians will tell you that. They specialize in PROOFS, not truth. “We leave truth to philosophers, we create proofs”.

    Just as top scientists don’t say they create truth. They practice science. And science produces hypotheses, theories, and laws.

    Just as jurists don’t produce truths, they produce law (decisions).

    —“Precisely so then in what sense do you claim to specialise in truth in all these fields?”—Rik Storey

    FAILURES IN FIELDS

    – Mathematical failure of operationalism and the construction of platonism.

    – Physical science (Critical Preference) failure of parsimony and cost.

    – Law failure of natural law of decidability and strict construction.

    – Economic failure of full accounting and limits.

    – Money failure of full transition to multiple currencies.

    – Accounting failure of pooling and laundering (traceability).

    – Politics (many) failures of economics vs natural law, failure of

    monopoly and ascent vs market and legal dissent. Many, many.

    – Sociology failure of reciprocity and limits.

    – Psychology and failure of Acquisitionism.

    – Metaphysics and failure of action. the errors in philosophy are so fast that I could spend the rest of my life about it.

    – Aesthetics failure of tripartite valuation, measurement by triangulation, and reduction to acquisition.

    – Literature failure of morality and cognitive science.

    – Religion failure to abandon abrahamism for literature and cog sci.

    And that’s just touching the surface.

    I mean, this is why it’s taking a whole book. I have to produce a f-cking chapter on each damned field….sigh.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-08 14:52:00 UTC

  • by Simon Ström We may choose at all times to cooperate, disassociate or aggress.

    by Simon Ström

    We may choose at all times to cooperate, disassociate or aggress. The market equilibrium of such agency produces an institutional phenotype which reflects the distribution of agency, and tends to approximate the highest possible degree of voluntary cooperation between peers, because that is most mutually beneficial.–Until it’s not.

    A great discrepancy in agency between agents creates more incentives for the superior part to aggress, to the point of *that* no longer being most profitable (e.g. destruction of the subjugated).

    Natural law maximizes cooperation but only among those who willingly cooperate–the militia.

    It does so as much as it discourages the granting of discounts to outgroups for a reason that in no way is profitable for the ingroup.

    A militia of sovereigns is contingent on some degree of homogeneity of agency which is why its membership is generally limited to a subset of a population.

    And, is why the age of American ‘liberty’ was also one of colonialism, ethnic cleansing and conquest, and slavery and segregation.

    (curt: well done)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-08 14:17:00 UTC

  • FOR SCIENTISTS: UNDERSTANDING JORDAN PETERSON’S INNOVATIONS 1) SYNTHESIS OF LITE

    FOR SCIENTISTS: UNDERSTANDING JORDAN PETERSON’S INNOVATIONS

    1) SYNTHESIS OF LITERATURE, PSYCHOLOGY, AND BIOLOGY

    Peterson has identified the relationship between the monomyth>Archetypes>Plots>Virtues> Personality > Reward systems > Brain structure. So he has converted Jung’s loose (pseudo-scientific) assumptions into a scientific description and integrated it into literary theory.

    In other words, he has found that by use of transformational (monomyth) narratives we circumvent the near impossibility of direct self-reflection, and learn, correct, and relearn by empathy with third party ‘characters’ instead – thereby using mirroring (empathy) to circumvent the challenges of self reflection.

    2) RESTORATION AND EXPRESSION OF STOICISM IS SCIENTIFIC TERMS

    He has taken it further into restoring our natural european religion of Stoicism by suggesting that we can use myth, literature, and self-authoring to accomplish the mindfulness of stoicism, and abandon the abrahamic superstitions that result in ignorance and decline, without moving into buddhism or other forms of ritual. That means only Stoicism produces a mindfulness of *innovation* (adaptation) of the self through action, rather than through disconnection.

    3) REFORMATION OF THERAPY(Error Correction), EDUCATION (Market Skills), AND RELIGION (Normative Discipline)

    The restoration of the stoic program and the use of literature would allow us to reform religion (trainning in the extension of kinship love, training in mindfulness, restoration of natural holidays and heroes), Education (teaching mindfulness as another ordinary discipline like vocabulary and grammar, reading, essay and argument (logic and rhetoric), measurement and mathematics).

    DEFLATING THE CENTRAL INNOVATION IN CHRISTIANITY

    Christianity trains people in only one thing: the extension of kinship love outside of immediate kin to ‘invest in’ (purchase) cooperation that otherwise would not be possible to acquire. But so does the simple imposition of common law, and the development of a middle class by commerce. In that sense, christianity (like judaism, and islam) is a primitive method of cooperation using charity and virtue signals rather than commercial interaction and material reward seeking to build trust in one another.

    THE INTEGRATION OF CHRISTIANITY AND WESTERN DEFLATIONARY TRUTH

    The uniqueness of the west is that we combined deflationary truth, deflationary institutions, and continuous competition ALONG WITH extension of kinship love. And it was that combination that allowed us to both unify in cooperation and remain separate in government and institutions.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-08 12:14:00 UTC

  • Yes, if you want to criticize me, I am an arrogant, discriminating, polymathic,

    Yes, if you want to criticize me, I am an arrogant, discriminating, polymathic, elitist, cultured, artistic, snob – but one that despite depression era parents and grandparents, was raised with sufficient Noblesse Oblige to avoid the defects of the proud, effete, intolerant, and petty; to appreciate and honor my betters; and to use my achievements, and advantages of birth, for the benefit of my people – and other peoples should they wish to make use of it. I know of no better strategy to adopt that would not result in the production of false signals, to accumulate false status, by the deception of others. It is, in fact, an ascetic and skeptical personal philosophy: Truth is truth is truth. It is just a personal philosophy that takes more intellectual and emotional courage(‘guts’) than all but a few can handle. So, be careful how you criticize me. Because I can look in the mirror. But can you? If not I will make you.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-08 09:59:00 UTC

  • It is very hard to do what Eli and I do. To speak in truthful terms about that w

    It is very hard to do what Eli and I do. To speak in truthful terms about that which we desire not to speak truthfully about. You must have a degree of mental discipline and emotional courage that most people simply cannot muster. And therein is the rub between the king, warrior, judge, scientist, and financier, and the mere soldier or citizen, or worker. We calculate.

    To forgo the supernatural, wishful, felt, and ideal, and simply calculate, is very … difficult.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-07 21:24:00 UTC

  • DEVELOPING AGENCY: THE SEARCH FOR PEAK HUMAN We probably reached peak physical h

    DEVELOPING AGENCY: THE SEARCH FOR PEAK HUMAN

    We probably reached peak physical human prior to the selection pressures of agrarianism.

    We probably reached peak domesticated human in northern europe during the late medieval period. If not by the corded ware era (more likely).

    We reached peak natural animal domestication a long time ago.

    We domesticated the last natural plants nearly two hundred years ago.

    We probably reached peak natural territorial capital by the early 20th century.

    We probably reached peak mobilization of natural human capital in the west by the 1950’s.

    We probably have not reached peak cooperative (economic) technology as such – our monetary systems are lagging. We can improve cooperation in commerce.

    We certainly have not reached peak political technology – our political systems are lagging. We can improve cooperation in the commons.

    We seem to have reached not reached peak information distribution – the central problem being that the market has not curated the inventory of human knowledge (Brought it into scientific prose) yet.

    To ‘peak’ we can largely only remove bads, rather than create goods. Meaning that all advancement will be in improving human capital itself.

    The primary means of improving human capital is reduction of the unproductive (under) classes.

    The secondary means of improving human capital is genetic modification.

    I suspect that I understand the limits of improving human information access and processing and that will

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-07 08:17:00 UTC

  • TRANSCENDENCE (transcendence in fact: evolution) … AGENCY (physical, emotional

    TRANSCENDENCE (transcendence in fact: evolution)

    … AGENCY (physical, emotional, intellectual)

    … … SOVERIEGNTY (Via Negativa Limits)

    … … … Violence

    … … … … Law

    … … … … Allies

    … … … … Fighting (handed)

    … … … … War fighting (Armed)

    … … INVENTORY (Via Practica Limits )

    … … … Memory

    … … … … Metaphysics (Unknown assumptions)

    … … … … Information (Knowledge / Relations)

    … … … … Judgements (Values / Prejudices)

    … … … … Skills (Operations / Transformations)

    … … … … Habits (Behavior, manners)

    … … … … Will (discipline: mental and emotional)

    … … … Body

    … … … … Fitness (Physicality / Age / Desirability)

    … … … … Morphology

    … … … … Genetics

    … … … Assets

    … … … … Interests (‘paper capital’ / contracts etc.)

    … … … … Portable Capital

    … … … … Fixed Capital (inc. built / territorial)

    … … … … Organizational Capital (biz)

    … … … … Shareholder Commons (biz/etc)

    … … … Relations (Kin and Kith)

    … … … … Mate

    … … … … Offspring

    … … … … Kin

    … … … … … Clan, Tribe, Nation, Race, Mankind

    … … … … Kith

    … … … … … Friends, Neighbors, etc.

    … … … Productive Assets

    … … … … Reputation

    … … … … Customers (employment)

    … … … … Rents (yes, many of them)

    … … … … Associations

    … … … Political Assets

    … … … … Interest Holder Commons (public assets)

    … … … … Normative Commons (informal institutions)

    … … … … Civic Institutions (Banks, Insurers, Producers)

    … … … … Institutional Commons ( branches of govt )

    … … … … Citizenship Commons (insurance)

    … … … Generative Assets

    … … … … Rates of Transcendence (population ability distribution)

    … … … … Rates of Reproduction

    … … … … Rates of Production

    … … … … Rates of Adaptation

    … … … … Rates of Innovation

    … … … … Rates of Accumulation of capital

    … … … … Rates of Expansion

    … … … … Rates of Competition

    … … TRUTH (Via Positiva Limits)

    … … … Testimony

    … … … … Narratives (opportunities)

    … … … … Recipies (methods)

    … … … … Science (Measurements)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-05 17:43:00 UTC

  • Transcendence is the objective, Agency is the capital and the offense, sovereign

    Transcendence is the objective, Agency is the capital and the offense, sovereignty is but a defensive method. So agency is the capital we want to accumulate that we want to achieve it by incremental expansion of sovereignty…. yeah…. OK. I got it now.

    Bill Joslin

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-04 16:26:00 UTC