Curt Doolittle

Theme: Cooperation

  • HOMO SAPIENS ARE PLENTIFUL BUT HUMANS ARE RARE Instead, if we abandon the falseh

    HOMO SAPIENS ARE PLENTIFUL BUT HUMANS ARE RARE

    Instead, if we abandon the falsehoods of the enlightenment, we find that we can dramatically reduce our conflicts, and dramatically reduce our frustration with much of mankind. At every 15 points of IQ we begin, and at every 30 points complete, speciation. And as far as I can tell, below 106, where man loses the ability to create and repair tools, and speak in his ideas in rational terms, we are merely talking about decreasingly domesticated homo sapiens, not ‘humans’ in the sense that we mean it: aware, conscious and self determinant independent of impulse. man cooperates using hierarchy because he must. while homo sapiens are plentiful, humans are all too rare.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-28 10:03:00 UTC

  • ***Your approval is undesirable. Your productive exchange is. And if that’s unat

    ***Your approval is undesirable. Your productive exchange is. And if that’s unattainable, your submission is preferable, and failing that, your extermination necessary.***

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-27 09:50:00 UTC

  • The first question of ethics (cooperation) is ‘why do I not kill you and take yo

    The first question of ethics (cooperation) is ‘why do I not kill you and take your things?’

    The first question of debate is also ‘why do I not kill you and take your things’?

    The answer to both questions is, “Because cooperation is disproportionately rewarding for both parties – at least over the medium and long term.”

    But if we we lie, if we cast insults, then we are de-facto, not cooperating, to produce disproportionately rewarding ends. So ethics ends.

    And if we tolerate the existence of people who engage in lie, insult, and fraud, then we are not cooperating with those with whom we cooperate. So Morality Ends.

    So, unbound by cooperation, unbound by ethics, and unbound by morality, we return to violence as of greater benefit than suffering lie and insult and non-cooperation.

    So it is only moral that I kill you and take your things.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-27 08:31:00 UTC

  • LOWER ORDER / HIGHER ORDER In my work I use the incremental, evolutionary, suppr

    LOWER ORDER / HIGHER ORDER

    In my work I use the incremental, evolutionary, suppression of parasitism in all its forms via natural judge discovered common law, as a means of causing the gradual increase in trust, and the gradual increase in the production of goods, at gradually increasing rates. (you can see this in Fukuyama’s work as well, although as an asian he prefers the monopoly bureaucracy instead of the western model of a market of sovereigns under the common law of sovereigns.)

    So I refer to higher orders as those with higher trust (lower corruption) and the corresponding institutions.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-27 08:22:00 UTC

  • Josh: I think maybe this is the difference between our perceptions: I favor the

    Josh: I think maybe this is the difference between our perceptions: I favor the cost of institutional solutions that produce incentives by self interest that make the cost of providing the high cost of violence unnecessary. Because while violence alters immediacy, the cost of diligence and the distraction of shocks means the incentive to retaliate against you remains. Yet if institutions exist at all times and cause people to monitor each other, vastly more dramatic shocks are necessary to cause a change in state, and when you are otherwise occupied you do not leave an opening for retaliation and change in state.

    I express this sometimes as the difference between strategy and tactics. But perhaps I needed to say this in terms of costs and opportunities.

    If men(or women) are incapable of sovereignty, then maturing them into freemen by the use of institutions is merely cheaper, more competitive, more rewarding, and safer than the alternatives.

    This is nothing except a statement of the cost of domesticating animals.

    The Spartans were never as safe as the Romans. The Romans over extended. But the Spartans couldn’t even extend.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-23 13:46:00 UTC

  • If you’re selfish, stupid, and ugly, you’re undesirable for cooperation, associa

    If you’re selfish, stupid, and ugly, you’re undesirable for cooperation, association, reproduction, and employment. I realize this frustrates the female intuition. Because just as a gay man desires the attention we give to females and is ‘hurt’ by its absence – because men are disposable, and their sexual attention unwanted – an undesirable woman feels the same ‘hurt’.

    But because of the reproductive necessity of feminine solipsism, these women lack agency: they are unable to distinguish between, or unable to tolerate, their undesirability and need for self-reformation, from active hostility toward them. Absence of attention is not the same as the presence of malice. Instead, the fact is, that if you are impulsive, selfish, stupid, and ugly, you’re just a dead weight cost on the rest of humanity. And no one pays you any attention until you change yourself.

    (The more I understand the differences in male and female agency the more disappointed I become with the prospects. men evolved greater agency because we’re dangerous to one another if we can’t develop it. Women’s lack of agency was tolerable before politics and nearly disappeared when they had multiple children. In that sense women’s lack of agency is an evolutionary asset for women with three or more children, and a detriment without them.)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-23 10:05:00 UTC

  • WHAT’S “FAIR”? Q&A: What is ‘fair’ or ‘unfair’? — Jason Cockrell Fair (moral):

    WHAT’S “FAIR”?

    Q&A: What is ‘fair’ or ‘unfair’? — Jason Cockrell

    Fair (moral): reciprocity. meaning actions limited to (a) productive, (b) fully informed, (c) warrantied, (d) voluntary transfers, (e) limited to productive externalities.

    This prohibits profiting from another’s loss, and the construction of hazards: parasitism.

    It’s an easier comparison when we think of adult vs child (asymmetry of knowledge and understanding). We tend to be more ‘ok’ with fucking over other adults. We are not ‘ok’ with fucking over children.

    But this is because we falsely consider other adults ‘equal’ or ‘peers’ under christianity and the enlightenment. When in fact, the adult-child disparity in knowledge and understanding increases rapidly in a division of knowledge, and labor.

    I was taught ‘noblesse oblige’ which is that we don’t take advantage of the lower classes, but we hold those above us to the same standard we hold ourselves to in relation to those below us.

    Judgement flows downhill, and so does forgiveness. The ignorant cannot judge and since they cannot judge they cannot forgive.

    Hence the value of christianity in creating divisions of knowledge and labor.

    Christianity + Aristocracy is a good combination. Forgive because you cannot judge, and take responsibility, because you can judge.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-23 09:56:00 UTC

  • RT @JimmyTrussels: @jordanbpeterson @curtdoolittle incremental mastery of truth

    RT @JimmyTrussels: @jordanbpeterson @curtdoolittle incremental mastery of truth telling as a coop/ruling tech for federated warriors -> Wes…

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-22 13:07:05 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/823155023081250817

  • Retweeted Jim Trussels (@JimmyTrussels): @jordanbpeterson @curtdoolittle increme

    Retweeted Jim Trussels (@JimmyTrussels):

    @jordanbpeterson @curtdoolittle incremental mastery of truth telling as a coop/ruling tech for federated warriors -> Western Civ strategy

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-22 08:07:00 UTC

  • THE “UNDESIGN” OF THE COMMON LAW (the source of catallaxy) Philosophers argue mo

    THE “UNDESIGN” OF THE COMMON LAW

    (the source of catallaxy)

    Philosophers argue mostly, as do theologists, via positiva.

    Meanwhile the common law of sovereign men, via negativa, without any design or intent, forces us to produce wonders we could not have imagined. Because we do not need to know what is good. What is good is a preference. We need only to rally around preferences and to cooperate to produce those ends. And to remove all frictions from doing so, by prohibiting all those inhibitions we place upon each other whenever we can get away with it, because parasitism is preferable to production.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-18 15:20:00 UTC