Curt Doolittle

Theme: Cooperation

  • NATURAL LAW VS SOCIAL CONSTRUCT John Mark “Xyz is a social construct” carries no

    NATURAL LAW VS SOCIAL CONSTRUCT

    John Mark

    “Xyz is a social construct” carries no testable content. What they mean to say is “Human groups don’t actually need xyz to be successful. People have told us we need xyz but we would be better off without it.”

    Insert “legislation” or “rule of law based on natural law of reciprocity” for “xyz” and we have a testable statement.

    As far as I know, rule of law based on natural law of reciprocity with full accounting (of all forms of property) can and would adapt to social conditions – meaning that regardless of what actions people are taking in a polity, such a system of law would provide legal recourse and restitution for individuals or groups who experienced others violating reciprocity in dealings with them.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-20 16:05:00 UTC

  • (repost) Cities = Markets = Decreased Opportunity Cost. It’s the ability to comm

    (repost)

    Cities = Markets = Decreased Opportunity Cost. It’s the ability to communicate that decreases opportunity cost.

    Opportunity cost = increasing choices. The question is whether increasing choices produces increasing outcomes.

    For business it does. For genes it does not. This is the fundamental problem. Cities Destroy Genes in exchange for lower opportunity costs of consumption.

    So we have a choice: (a) continue to bring people to capital at the cost of genes (genetic capital), or (b) bring capital to people to preserve genetic capital.

    In other words, redistribute the opportunity costs.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-19 12:47:00 UTC

  • The Basis of Community Is Self Interest

    The underlying basis of community is self interest, and the production of commons because commons provide returns for self interest. It is, as far as I know, not possible to contradict morality as stated in propertarianism (reciprocity) since it is both a logical necessity and empirically evident in all judicial proceedings known to man.

  • The Basis of Community Is Self Interest

    The underlying basis of community is self interest, and the production of commons because commons provide returns for self interest. It is, as far as I know, not possible to contradict morality as stated in propertarianism (reciprocity) since it is both a logical necessity and empirically evident in all judicial proceedings known to man.

  • Punishing Free Riders Begins Early

    http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797618779061?journalCode=pssa
    —“… children as young as 4 years old negatively evaluate and sanction free riders … “— (Via James Santagata) “Human flourishing depends on individuals paying costs to contribute to the common good, but such arrangements are vulnerable to free riding, in which individuals benefit from others’ contributions without paying costs themselves. Systems of tracking and sanctioning free riders can stabilize cooperation, but the origin of such tendencies is not well understood. Here, we provide evidence that children as young as 4 years old negatively evaluate and sanction free riders. Across six studies, we showed that these tendencies are robust, large in magnitude, tuned to intentional rather than unintentional noncontribution, and generally consistent across third- and first-party cases. Further, these effects cannot be accounted for by factors that frequently co-occur with free riding, such as nonconforming behaviors or the costs that free riding imposes on the group. Our findings demonstrate that from early in life, children both hold and enforce a normative expectation that individuals are intrinsically obligated to contribute to the common good.” http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797618779061?journalCode=pssa&

  • Punishing Free Riders Begins Early

    http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797618779061?journalCode=pssa
    —“… children as young as 4 years old negatively evaluate and sanction free riders … “— (Via James Santagata) “Human flourishing depends on individuals paying costs to contribute to the common good, but such arrangements are vulnerable to free riding, in which individuals benefit from others’ contributions without paying costs themselves. Systems of tracking and sanctioning free riders can stabilize cooperation, but the origin of such tendencies is not well understood. Here, we provide evidence that children as young as 4 years old negatively evaluate and sanction free riders. Across six studies, we showed that these tendencies are robust, large in magnitude, tuned to intentional rather than unintentional noncontribution, and generally consistent across third- and first-party cases. Further, these effects cannot be accounted for by factors that frequently co-occur with free riding, such as nonconforming behaviors or the costs that free riding imposes on the group. Our findings demonstrate that from early in life, children both hold and enforce a normative expectation that individuals are intrinsically obligated to contribute to the common good.” http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797618779061?journalCode=pssa&

  • Curt Doolittle shared a link. PUNISHING FREE RIDERS BEGINS EARLY —“… childre

    Curt Doolittle shared a link.

    PUNISHING FREE RIDERS BEGINS EARLY

    —“… children as young as 4 years old negatively evaluate and sanction free riders … “—

    (Via James Santagata)

    “Human flourishing depends on individuals paying costs to contribute to the common good, but such arrangements are vulnerable to free riding, in which individuals benefit from others’ contributions without paying costs themselves. Systems of tracking and sanctioning free riders can stabilize cooperation, but the origin of such tendencies is not well understood. Here, we provide evidence that children as young as 4 years old negatively evaluate and sanction free riders. Across six studies, we showed that these tendencies are robust, large in magnitude, tuned to intentional rather than unintentional noncontribution, and generally consistent across third- and first-party cases. Further, these effects cannot be accounted for by factors that frequently co-occur with free riding, such as nonconforming behaviors or the costs that free riding imposes on the group. Our findings demonstrate that from early in life, children both hold and enforce a normative expectation that individuals are intrinsically obligated to contribute to the common good.”

    http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797618779061?journalCode=pssa&

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-17 17:57:53 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status. THE BASIS OF COMMUNITY IS SELF INTEREST The u

    Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    THE BASIS OF COMMUNITY IS SELF INTEREST
    The underlying basis of community is self interest, and the production of commons because commons provide returns for self interest. It is, as far as I know, not possible to contradict morality as stated in propertarianism (reciprocity) since it is both a logical necessity and empirically evident in all judicial proceedings known to man.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-17 17:00:24 UTC

  • FREE RIDERS BEGINS EARLY —“… children as young as 4 years old negatively eva

    http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797618779061?journalCode=pssahttp://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797618779061?journalCode=pssaPUNISHING FREE RIDERS BEGINS EARLY

    —“… children as young as 4 years old negatively evaluate and sanction free riders … “—

    (Via James Santagata)

    “Human flourishing depends on individuals paying costs to contribute to the common good, but such arrangements are vulnerable to free riding, in which individuals benefit from others’ contributions without paying costs themselves. Systems of tracking and sanctioning free riders can stabilize cooperation, but the origin of such tendencies is not well understood. Here, we provide evidence that children as young as 4 years old negatively evaluate and sanction free riders. Across six studies, we showed that these tendencies are robust, large in magnitude, tuned to intentional rather than unintentional noncontribution, and generally consistent across third- and first-party cases. Further, these effects cannot be accounted for by factors that frequently co-occur with free riding, such as nonconforming behaviors or the costs that free riding imposes on the group. Our findings demonstrate that from early in life, children both hold and enforce a normative expectation that individuals are intrinsically obligated to contribute to the common good.”

    http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797618779061?journalCode=pssa&

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-17 13:57:00 UTC

  • FREE RIDERS BEGINS EARLY —“… children as young as 4 years old negatively eva

    http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797618779061?journalCode=pssaPUNISHING FREE RIDERS BEGINS EARLY

    —“… children as young as 4 years old negatively evaluate and sanction free riders … “—

    (Via @[525087895:2048:James Santagata])

    “Human flourishing depends on individuals paying costs to contribute to the common good, but such arrangements are vulnerable to free riding, in which individuals benefit from others’ contributions without paying costs themselves. Systems of tracking and sanctioning free riders can stabilize cooperation, but the origin of such tendencies is not well understood. Here, we provide evidence that children as young as 4 years old negatively evaluate and sanction free riders. Across six studies, we showed that these tendencies are robust, large in magnitude, tuned to intentional rather than unintentional noncontribution, and generally consistent across third- and first-party cases. Further, these effects cannot be accounted for by factors that frequently co-occur with free riding, such as nonconforming behaviors or the costs that free riding imposes on the group. Our findings demonstrate that from early in life, children both hold and enforce a normative expectation that individuals are intrinsically obligated to contribute to the common good.”

    http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797618779061?journalCode=pssa&

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-17 13:57:00 UTC