Curt Doolittle

Theme: Demonstrated Interests

  • Why Do You Think It Took So Long For An East Asian To Be A Top Ranked Model?

    Answer is obvious:

    1) Conspicuous consumption is the easiest means of demonstrating signals, and humans determine their self worth and the worth of others by signals just as peacocks do.

    2) Supermodels (models in general) serve the purpose of selling to women by means of self identity) (attainable aspirations) ≥

    3) One must have what we call ‘middle class incomes’ (post-self sufficiency, disposable income) to purchase signal-goods.

    4) Those who look for east asian role models to imitate lacked the economic capacity participate in the market economy.

    5) Asians were lost in the permanent poverty of socialism and communism for most of the 19th and 20th centuries, and could not participate in that market economy.

    6) Western modes of dress are, and for the time being will remain, optimum signal goods on the INTERNATIONAL market.

    7) Enough asian women had to live under western life styles and consumer goods to learn to display the confidence that western women do, and which is so attractive to women who want to increase their signaling.

    In other words, it wasn’t until recently that it was worth pursuing asian models, because asians were too poor to market to.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-do-you-think-it-took-so-long-for-an-east-Asian-to-be-a-top-ranked-model

  • Why Do You Think It Took So Long For An East Asian To Be A Top Ranked Model?

    Answer is obvious:

    1) Conspicuous consumption is the easiest means of demonstrating signals, and humans determine their self worth and the worth of others by signals just as peacocks do.

    2) Supermodels (models in general) serve the purpose of selling to women by means of self identity) (attainable aspirations) ≥

    3) One must have what we call ‘middle class incomes’ (post-self sufficiency, disposable income) to purchase signal-goods.

    4) Those who look for east asian role models to imitate lacked the economic capacity participate in the market economy.

    5) Asians were lost in the permanent poverty of socialism and communism for most of the 19th and 20th centuries, and could not participate in that market economy.

    6) Western modes of dress are, and for the time being will remain, optimum signal goods on the INTERNATIONAL market.

    7) Enough asian women had to live under western life styles and consumer goods to learn to display the confidence that western women do, and which is so attractive to women who want to increase their signaling.

    In other words, it wasn’t until recently that it was worth pursuing asian models, because asians were too poor to market to.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-do-you-think-it-took-so-long-for-an-east-Asian-to-be-a-top-ranked-model

  • Another example of virtue-signal self reporting,which is contrary to demonstrate

    Another example of virtue-signal self reporting,which is contrary to demonstrated preference with checkbook and ballot. The left ended these opportunities by its constant use of incrementalism.The right reacted w/zero-tolerance. You get what seek,but with consequences you don’t.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-04 03:13:00 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/970134987893854208

    Reply addressees: @AaronBlake @JoeNBC

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  • POLLS AND THE PEOPLE WHO ANSWER THEM Replying to @Adsthoughts @pelosimedia and 2

    POLLS AND THE PEOPLE WHO ANSWER THEM

    Replying to @Adsthoughts @pelosimedia and 2 others

    Um. And what have we learned about polls over the past 18 years?

    And what have we learned about reported belief, vs demonstrated action?

    So what has been the consequence of political correctness?

    Divergence between statement and action.

    People still act in their interests. Always

    –“His point is that he suspects there is a difference between how a person tells you they will vote vs how they actually vote. This discrepancy being a key driver of poll inaccuracy; certainly could be a key factor.”–

    1 – (The others being (a) cost of access phone calls, in an era where decreasing numbers of us have them, more of us screen calls, or just hand up on polling. and (b) that there is a high correlation between the category of people who respond to polls and those that don’t. …

    2 – … (c) the kind of people who respond to polls have time to do so which is a charitable way of saying people who have agency don’t waste their time. …

    3 – … The price of political correctness (institutionalizing lying) is that people don’t tell the truth. As expected. And so just as people began to systematically lie under soviet imposed falsehoods, Americans have begun to lie about postmodernist’s imposed falsehoods.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-02-01 08:39:00 UTC

  • Polls And The People Who Answer Them

    Replying to @Adsthoughts @pelosimedia and 2 others Um. And what have we learned about polls over the past 18 years? And what have we learned about reported belief, vs demonstrated action? So what has been the consequence of political correctness? Divergence between statement and action. People still act in their interests. Always –“His point is that he suspects there is a difference between how a person tells you they will vote vs how they actually vote. This discrepancy being a key driver of poll inaccuracy; certainly could be a key factor.”– 1 – (The others being (a) cost of access phone calls, in an era where decreasing numbers of us have them, more of us screen calls, or just hand up on polling. and (b) that there is a high correlation between the category of people who respond to polls and those that don’t. … 2 – … (c) the kind of people who respond to polls have time to do so which is a charitable way of saying people who have agency don’t waste their time. … 3 – … The price of political correctness (institutionalizing lying) is that people don’t tell the truth. As expected. And so just as people began to systematically lie under soviet imposed falsehoods, Americans have begun to lie about postmodernist’s imposed falsehoods.

  • Polls And The People Who Answer Them

    Replying to @Adsthoughts @pelosimedia and 2 others Um. And what have we learned about polls over the past 18 years? And what have we learned about reported belief, vs demonstrated action? So what has been the consequence of political correctness? Divergence between statement and action. People still act in their interests. Always –“His point is that he suspects there is a difference between how a person tells you they will vote vs how they actually vote. This discrepancy being a key driver of poll inaccuracy; certainly could be a key factor.”– 1 – (The others being (a) cost of access phone calls, in an era where decreasing numbers of us have them, more of us screen calls, or just hand up on polling. and (b) that there is a high correlation between the category of people who respond to polls and those that don’t. … 2 – … (c) the kind of people who respond to polls have time to do so which is a charitable way of saying people who have agency don’t waste their time. … 3 – … The price of political correctness (institutionalizing lying) is that people don’t tell the truth. As expected. And so just as people began to systematically lie under soviet imposed falsehoods, Americans have begun to lie about postmodernist’s imposed falsehoods.

  • Um. And what have we learned about polls over the past 18 years? And what have w

    Um. And what have we learned about polls over the past 18 years?
    And what have we learned about reported belief, vs demonstrated action?
    So what has been the consequence of political correctness?Divergence between statement and action. People still act in their interests. Always

    Source date (UTC): 2018-01-31 01:23:08 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/958510930232561669

    Reply addressees: @pelosimedia @Adsthoughts @sapinker @chronicle

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  • Of the people that will engage in discourse, *and* whose arguments demonstrate a

    Of the people that will engage in discourse, *and* whose arguments demonstrate an understanding economics, incentives, reciprocity, and mathematics – you will find almost no one other than @EricRWeinstein, @nntaleb and I. The reason is we are more empirical and less optimistic.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-01-24 16:20:40 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/956200087335645184

    Reply addressees: @DiasporaDiabhal @IllimitableMan @nntaleb

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  • You demonstrate you care. An intellectually and morally honest person would not

    You demonstrate you care. An intellectually and morally honest person would not deny that by your actions you demonstrate such.

    (I type at 150wpm, and it’s not like these take me more than half a second of thought. They provide amusement while I work. Continuous confirmation.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-01-20 01:19:32 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/954523756046770177

    Reply addressees: @Aintezbncheez @hysellaz @TheView

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  • 2-How can we demonstrate popular demands that are possible, and preferable,other

    2-How can we demonstrate popular demands that are possible, and preferable,other than by market means,when the market expresses what is possible and preferable?One can take some portion of the profits of market exchange made possible by natural law and subsidize non-market goods.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-01-12 15:57:57 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/951845716158185473

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