Curt Doolittle

Theme: Cooperation

  • Religion, among other things, provides a reason to deny others your cooperation,

    Religion, among other things, provides a reason to deny others your cooperation, and your effort questioning the worthiness of it. #tcot

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-11 19:54:00 UTC

  • QUESTION OF THE DAY: LIFEBOAT How do you answer the lifeboat question? Who goes

    QUESTION OF THE DAY: LIFEBOAT

    How do you answer the lifeboat question? Who goes in the lifeboats first?

    You’re the captain of an ocean liner or cruise ship. Its a Titanic scenario, meaning that the boat will go under before help arrives, and there are not enough seats in the lifeboats for everyone.

    Besides a large crew there are passengers from every walk of life.

    Your crew is asking what to do. What instructions do you give them?

    Remember that they must be able to make those decisions with crowds of people trying to get into the boats.

    And Yes I will delete irrelevant answers:

    (a) “Me” or any variation thereof

    (b) anything that the crew cannot reliably know

    (c) anything vaguely humorous (after I’ve had a chance to laugh).

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-11 19:35:00 UTC

  • Ostrom identified eight “design principles” of stable local common pool resource

    Ostrom identified eight “design principles” of stable local common pool resource management:

    1. Clearly defined (clear definition of the contents of the common pool resource and effective exclusion of external un-entitled parties);

    2. The appropriation and provision of common resources that are adapted to local conditions;

    3. Collective-choice arrangements that allow most resource appropriators to participate in the decision-making process;

    4. Effective monitoring by monitors who are part of or accountable to the appropriators;

    5. A scale of graduated sanctions for resource appropriators who violate community rules;

    6. Mechanisms of conflict resolution that are cheap and of easy access;

    7. Self-determination of the community recognized by higher-level authorities; and

    8. In the case of larger common-pool resources, organization in the form of multiple layers of nested enterprises, with small local CPRs at the base level.

    via Oliver Westcott

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-05 20:47:00 UTC

  • How Does Civilization Lead To Racism?

    As we developed polities, economies, empires, and civilizations we cooperate in greater numbers, with greater anonymity, first across families, then tribes, then nations, and then races.

    People in every region, in every race, in every era act POLITICALLY as a group even if they act pragmatically when acting individually in daily life.

    The more possible it is to use political, economic, or military power to increase status for a group, the more likely it is to cause racial tensions.

    Those states that have been most successful at minimizing racial and tribal tensions have been those that preserve majority control of political, economic, and military institutions such that while people may cooperate as individuals, they cannot compete as groups.

    https://www.quora.com/How-does-civilization-lead-to-racism

  • How Does Civilization Lead To Racism?

    As we developed polities, economies, empires, and civilizations we cooperate in greater numbers, with greater anonymity, first across families, then tribes, then nations, and then races.

    People in every region, in every race, in every era act POLITICALLY as a group even if they act pragmatically when acting individually in daily life.

    The more possible it is to use political, economic, or military power to increase status for a group, the more likely it is to cause racial tensions.

    Those states that have been most successful at minimizing racial and tribal tensions have been those that preserve majority control of political, economic, and military institutions such that while people may cooperate as individuals, they cannot compete as groups.

    https://www.quora.com/How-does-civilization-lead-to-racism

  • Now, if the west relied upon high trust warranty, how could we rely once again o

    Now, if the west relied upon high trust warranty, how could we rely once again on high trust, or must we move to low trust Skin?

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-02 21:38:48 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/837416926099931136

    Reply addressees: @nntaleb

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/837123578634125312

    IN REPLY TO:

    @nntaleb

    Skin in the game, almost finished https://t.co/6sEm1JDeWg

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/837123578634125312

  • Without low trust SKIN IN -or- high trust WARRANTY OUT, western civ kept high tr

    Without low trust SKIN IN -or- high trust WARRANTY OUT, western civ kept high trust population but low trust economics and policy.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-02 21:37:46 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/837416665272942592

    Reply addressees: @nntaleb

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/837123578634125312

    IN REPLY TO:

    @nntaleb

    Skin in the game, almost finished https://t.co/6sEm1JDeWg

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/837123578634125312

  • High trust civilization (the west) could use warranty rather than skin. So what

    High trust civilization (the west) could use warranty rather than skin. So what happened that the west stopped demanding warranty?

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-02 21:36:08 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/837416253845299205

    Reply addressees: @nntaleb

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/837123578634125312

    IN REPLY TO:

    @nntaleb

    Skin in the game, almost finished https://t.co/6sEm1JDeWg

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/837123578634125312

  • THE DISTILLATION OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION If you would be sovereign, you must fig

    THE DISTILLATION OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION

    If you would be sovereign, you must fight.

    If you would be sovereign and win, you must equally confederate.

    If you would be sovereign and confederate, you must equally compromise.

    If you would be sovereign and equally compromise, you must equally forgo opportunities for gain at another’s loss.

    If you would be sovereign and equally forgo equal opportunities to gain at another’s loss, your actions are limited to those that are productive, fully informed, warrantied, and voluntary, and limited to productive externalities.

    If you limit your actions to those, then the ONLY possible rule is rule by Common, judge-discovered, Natural Law of Non Imposition of Costs, and therefore, voluntary markets in everything: association, cooperation, reproduction, production, production of commons, production of dispute resolution, production of institutions, productions of monuments, production of war, productions of generations,

    This is Western Civilization: the choice of Sovereignty once made produces all that we have done. Small things in large numbers have vast consequences.

    If you would be Sovereign, and reap the benefits of Sovereignty, you must fight – fight to deny others all possible alternatives.

    If you will not fight you cannot be sovereign.

    You may beg the Sovereigns for commercial liberty, or physical freedom, or charity, in exchange for compensation. But you may never be in fact sovereign.

    by William Butchman, Eli Harman, and Curt Doolittle

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-01 09:56:00 UTC

  • “Signaling is very important – hence why we must protect it’s integrity.”—Joel

    —“Signaling is very important – hence why we must protect it’s integrity.”—Joel Davis

    Source date (UTC): 2017-02-28 20:49:00 UTC