Curt Doolittle

Theme: Cooperation

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status. –“Violence is a dictation, not a dialogue.”-

    Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    –“Violence is a dictation, not a dialogue.”– Anne Summers

    That’s true. Dialog consists of a form of cooperation. Violence consists of that which is not.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-08 18:36:25 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status. All groups need the products of cults: strate

    Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    All groups need the products of cults: strategy, decidability, mindfulness, and in-group trust. All groups can achieve these products with Literature, Argument, Oath, Ritual, and Festival.

    But there is no evidence that such cults need falsehoods. And all evidence is that abrahamic monotheisms are nothing but the most destructive lies in history that we have struggled to overcome.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-08 17:40:09 UTC

  • “Cooperation is fine in a protected environment. Let no man call himself politic

    —“Cooperation is fine in a protected environment. Let no man call himself politically educated who has not studied iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma.”— William Frisby

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-08 15:39:00 UTC

  • “Violence is a dictation, not a dialogue.”– Anne Summers That’s true. Dialog co

    –“Violence is a dictation, not a dialogue.”– Anne Summers

    That’s true. Dialog consists of a form of cooperation. Violence consists of that which is not.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-08 14:36:00 UTC

  • All groups need the products of cults: strategy, decidability, mindfulness, and

    All groups need the products of cults: strategy, decidability, mindfulness, and in-group trust. All groups can achieve these products with Literature, Argument, Oath, Ritual, and Festival.

    But there is no evidence that such cults need falsehoods. And all evidence is that abrahamic monotheisms are nothing but the most destructive lies in history that we have struggled to overcome.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-08 13:40:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status. FRAMING A HOSTILE DISCOURSE: WHAT DO YOU WANT

    Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    FRAMING A HOSTILE DISCOURSE: WHAT DO YOU WANT AND WHAT WILL YOU EXCHANGE FOR IT?

    ( Once you memorize these ten points you can use them as replies one at a time as you see fit. )

    Well before we start, let’s state the obvious.

    1) Cooperation is only valuable until it’s not. Cooperation ceases being valuable when alternatives are preferable. The alternatives are preferable for me and mine, regardless of whether they are preferable for you and yours. Ergo: there is no ‘we’.

    2) I cooperate with my family, kin, friends, associates, partners, and allies with whom I share mutually beneficial interests. I am not your family, kin, friend, associate, partner, or ally, but your enemy, and you are mine until demonstrated otherwise.

    3) In other words, I start with the presumption that you are of no value, or worse, a parasite or worse, a predator, and that your pleasure or pain, life or death, are irrelevant to me and mine I discover some reason that you and yours’ non-existence is preferable to your existence.

    4) I solve, and consider moral and ethical for me and mine, only that which is in the interest of me and mine, regardless of whether it is in the interest of you and yours.

    5) As such I solve only for truthful, fully informed, voluntary, mutually beneficial exchanges in the absence of all attempts at harm, theft, coercion, fraud, free riding.

    6) As such criticism, ridicule, shaming, putting words in my mouth, mis-framing my statements, lying, rallying, gossiping, and threats of non-cooperation, or even open hostility are irrelevant to me. They are just attempts at theft, fraud, free riding, and deprivation of opportunity to cooperate with you – despite my and mine’s lack of interest in cooperating with you.

    7) All that matters is what you and yours will exchange with me and mine that benefits me and mine.

    8) If not, Civil War, Separation, Conquest and Genocide are preferable to the status quo.

    9) Again, Cooperation is only valuable until it’s not, and conflict is preferable to parasitism and predation. So either we are seeking a set of truthful, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary exchanges, free of imposition of cost upon others by externality, or you are seeking to engage in theft, fraud, parasitism, or predation.

    10) So what is it you want, and what are you willing to trade for it?

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-07 19:30:34 UTC

  • Framing a Hostile Discourse: What Do You Want and What Will You Exchange for It?

    ( Once you memorize these ten points you can use them as replies one at a time as you see fit. ) Well before we start, let’s state the obvious. 1) Cooperation is only valuable until it’s not. Cooperation ceases being valuable when alternatives are preferable. The alternatives are preferable for me and mine, regardless of whether they are preferable for you and yours. Ergo: there is no ‘we’. 2) I cooperate with my family, kin, friends, associates, partners, and allies with whom I share mutually beneficial interests. I am not your family, kin, friend, associate, partner, or ally, but your enemy, and you are mine until demonstrated otherwise. 3) In other words, I start with the presumption that you are of no value, or worse, a parasite or worse, a predator, and that your pleasure or pain, life or death, are irrelevant to me and mine I discover some reason that you and yours’ non-existence is preferable to your existence. 4) I solve, and consider moral and ethical for me and mine, only that which is in the interest of me and mine, regardless of whether it is in the interest of you and yours. 5) As such I solve only for truthful, fully informed, voluntary, mutually beneficial exchanges in the absence of all attempts at harm, theft, coercion, fraud, free riding. 6) As such criticism, ridicule, shaming, putting words in my mouth, mis-framing my statements, lying, rallying, gossiping, and threats of non-cooperation, or even open hostility are irrelevant to me. They are just attempts at theft, fraud, free riding, and deprivation of opportunity to cooperate with you – despite my and mine’s lack of interest in cooperating with you. 7) All that matters is what you and yours will exchange with me and mine that benefits me and mine. 8) If not, Civil War, Separation, Conquest and Genocide are preferable to the status quo. 9) Again, Cooperation is only valuable until it’s not, and conflict is preferable to parasitism and predation. So either we are seeking a set of truthful, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary exchanges, free of imposition of cost upon others by externality, or you are seeking to engage in theft, fraud, parasitism, or predation. 10) So what is it you want, and what are you willing to trade for it?

  • Framing a Hostile Discourse: What Do You Want and What Will You Exchange for It?

    ( Once you memorize these ten points you can use them as replies one at a time as you see fit. ) Well before we start, let’s state the obvious. 1) Cooperation is only valuable until it’s not. Cooperation ceases being valuable when alternatives are preferable. The alternatives are preferable for me and mine, regardless of whether they are preferable for you and yours. Ergo: there is no ‘we’. 2) I cooperate with my family, kin, friends, associates, partners, and allies with whom I share mutually beneficial interests. I am not your family, kin, friend, associate, partner, or ally, but your enemy, and you are mine until demonstrated otherwise. 3) In other words, I start with the presumption that you are of no value, or worse, a parasite or worse, a predator, and that your pleasure or pain, life or death, are irrelevant to me and mine I discover some reason that you and yours’ non-existence is preferable to your existence. 4) I solve, and consider moral and ethical for me and mine, only that which is in the interest of me and mine, regardless of whether it is in the interest of you and yours. 5) As such I solve only for truthful, fully informed, voluntary, mutually beneficial exchanges in the absence of all attempts at harm, theft, coercion, fraud, free riding. 6) As such criticism, ridicule, shaming, putting words in my mouth, mis-framing my statements, lying, rallying, gossiping, and threats of non-cooperation, or even open hostility are irrelevant to me. They are just attempts at theft, fraud, free riding, and deprivation of opportunity to cooperate with you – despite my and mine’s lack of interest in cooperating with you. 7) All that matters is what you and yours will exchange with me and mine that benefits me and mine. 8) If not, Civil War, Separation, Conquest and Genocide are preferable to the status quo. 9) Again, Cooperation is only valuable until it’s not, and conflict is preferable to parasitism and predation. So either we are seeking a set of truthful, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary exchanges, free of imposition of cost upon others by externality, or you are seeking to engage in theft, fraud, parasitism, or predation. 10) So what is it you want, and what are you willing to trade for it?

  • FRAMING A HOSTILE DISCOURSE: WHAT DO YOU WANT AND WHAT WILL YOU EXCHANGE FOR IT?

    FRAMING A HOSTILE DISCOURSE: WHAT DO YOU WANT AND WHAT WILL YOU EXCHANGE FOR IT?

    ( Once you memorize these ten points you can use them as replies one at a time as you see fit. )

    Well before we start, let’s state the obvious.

    1) Cooperation is only valuable until it’s not. Cooperation ceases being valuable when alternatives are preferable. The alternatives are preferable for me and mine, regardless of whether they are preferable for you and yours. Ergo: there is no ‘we’.

    2) I cooperate with my family, kin, friends, associates, partners, and allies with whom I share mutually beneficial interests. I am not your family, kin, friend, associate, partner, or ally, but your enemy, and you are mine until demonstrated otherwise.

    3) In other words, I start with the presumption that you are of no value, or worse, a parasite or worse, a predator, and that your pleasure or pain, life or death, are irrelevant to me and mine I discover some reason that you and yours’ non-existence is preferable to your existence.

    4) I solve, and consider moral and ethical for me and mine, only that which is in the interest of me and mine, regardless of whether it is in the interest of you and yours.

    5) As such I solve only for truthful, fully informed, voluntary, mutually beneficial exchanges in the absence of all attempts at harm, theft, coercion, fraud, free riding.

    6) As such criticism, ridicule, shaming, putting words in my mouth, mis-framing my statements, lying, rallying, gossiping, and threats of non-cooperation, or even open hostility are irrelevant to me. They are just attempts at theft, fraud, free riding, and deprivation of opportunity to cooperate with you – despite my and mine’s lack of interest in cooperating with you.

    7) All that matters is what you and yours will exchange with me and mine that benefits me and mine.

    8) If not, Civil War, Separation, Conquest and Genocide are preferable to the status quo.

    9) Again, Cooperation is only valuable until it’s not, and conflict is preferable to parasitism and predation. So either we are seeking a set of truthful, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary exchanges, free of imposition of cost upon others by externality, or you are seeking to engage in theft, fraud, parasitism, or predation.

    10) So what is it you want, and what are you willing to trade for it?

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-07 15:30:00 UTC

  • Lessons from The Gulag

    3. I realized that friendship, comradeship, would never arise in really difficult, life-threatening conditions. Friendship arises in difficult but bearable conditions (in the hospital, but not at the pit face). 4. I realized that the feeling a man preserves longest is anger. There is only enough flesh on a hungry man for anger: everything else leaves him indifferent. 6. I realized that humans were human because they were physically stronger and clung to life more than any other animal: no horse can survive work in the Far North. 7. I saw that the only group of people able to preserve a minimum of humanity in conditions of starvation and abuse were the religious believers, the sectarians (almost all of them), and most priests. 8. Party workers and the military are the first to fall apart and do so most easily. 9. I saw what a weighty argument for the intellectual is the most ordinary slap in the face. Excerpt from “Forty-Five Things I Learned in the Gulag”