Curt Doolittle

Theme: Education

  • Is It True You Need a High Iq for P? (no)

    Apr 27, 2020, 9:37 AM

    —“If I remember correctly, you once stated that an IQ of 120 is required as a bare minimum for having the most basic understanding of Propertarianism. Is this correct? Be honest”—Korey Savoie

    I almost wouldn’t answer this because of ‘be honest’. WTF do you think I do all day? At great personal cost. lol 😉 THE INFLUENCE OF IQ 1 – IQ determines time and effort in learning something. 2 – Cost benefit prediction determines willingness to invest time and effort in learning the subject. 3 – Cost benefit prediction determines willingness to invest in the time and effort of assisting others in their learning of the subject. So when I say “You need x IQ to understand P” it’s in the context of learning the METHOD along with the group. The 140/150+ crowd can do it quickly. Others not. It is very hard to explain and apply the method. That seems to be a 130/140 requirement. But pretty much anyone can understand everything up to applying it, and I’m not sure other than theoretical mathematicians will understand the underlying logic. UNDERSTAND WHAT PART OF THE PROJECT? EVERYONE The psychology (acquisition) sociology (compatibilism), the Ethics (basic reciprocity, telling the truth), and politics (optimum government)? MOST EVERYONE The foundations of western civ in natural law? The group strategies of different civilizations? The history? The JQ/20th C attack on our civ? SOME The method? Reciprocity? Testimony, the grammars? The legal method? Strict construction of law? The constitution? FEW Applying and arguing with the method VERY FEW The operational description of brain and consciousness? The logical foundations? The geometry of thought?

    —“Excellent. For some reason I thought you or Bill or Brandon posted a few months ago that an IQ of 120 was required just to scratch the surface. I haven’t been tested, but I assumed mine to be somewhere in the 100-109.”— Korey Savoie

    It’s because if someone ARGUES with us, that requires we resort to using the METHOD and if they can’t use the method we can’t conduct an argument. So we can understand what it tells us, vs understand how to use it. You don’t need to undrestand calculus to understand most statistical diagrams. You do if you want to argue against those diagrams. You don’t need to understand operationalism to undrestand the findings of operational analysis using P-law. You do if you want to argue against those findings. Understanding WHAT vs understanding HOW.

  • One Author Isn’t Enough. but That’s Where Many People Stop

    One Author Isn’t Enough. but That’s Where Many People Stop. https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/09/one-author-isnt-enough-but-thats-where-many-people-stop/

    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-09 16:31:38 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1259159100266512384

  • One Author Isn’t Enough. but That’s Where Many People Stop.

    Apr 30, 2020, 4:37 PM (worth repeating) It’s Nietzche, THEN Jung, Frazer, Campbell, Dumezil, Vonnegut, THEN cognitive Science, THEN Haidt, Doolittle. Jung is easily misdirected without nietzsche’s ‘the birth of tragedy’. Campbell misdirected without Dumezil and Vonnegut. Both groups without the grammars, reciprocity, and haidt’s moral intuitions. And western civ lost without all four generations of religion.

  • One Author Isn’t Enough. but That’s Where Many People Stop.

    Apr 30, 2020, 4:37 PM (worth repeating) It’s Nietzche, THEN Jung, Frazer, Campbell, Dumezil, Vonnegut, THEN cognitive Science, THEN Haidt, Doolittle. Jung is easily misdirected without nietzsche’s ‘the birth of tragedy’. Campbell misdirected without Dumezil and Vonnegut. Both groups without the grammars, reciprocity, and haidt’s moral intuitions. And western civ lost without all four generations of religion.

  • We must be patient

    May 1, 2020, 12:12 PM [S]ometimes parents must be patient with their children; spouses must be patient with their mates; teachers must be patient with students; executives must be patient with their employees. Because we all must ‘own’ our decisions and our status-self-image system, as well as our cognitive investment in current network of ideas, plans, and habits resists pressure to adapt – except at our own speed and on our own terms. So people must own their adaptation – because they must weigh the costs and benefits and come to own their choices. Sometimes it takes minutes, sometimes hours, sometimes months, and sometimes years. So plant seeds rather than persuade, convince, or coerce. And leave the door open. And resist the call of pride in saying “I told you so”. Instead deliver the reward of “I hoped you would.”

  • We must be patient

    May 1, 2020, 12:12 PM [S]ometimes parents must be patient with their children; spouses must be patient with their mates; teachers must be patient with students; executives must be patient with their employees. Because we all must ‘own’ our decisions and our status-self-image system, as well as our cognitive investment in current network of ideas, plans, and habits resists pressure to adapt – except at our own speed and on our own terms. So people must own their adaptation – because they must weigh the costs and benefits and come to own their choices. Sometimes it takes minutes, sometimes hours, sometimes months, and sometimes years. So plant seeds rather than persuade, convince, or coerce. And leave the door open. And resist the call of pride in saying “I told you so”. Instead deliver the reward of “I hoped you would.”

  • The Errors of Our Thinking at Both Bottom and Top

    May 2, 2020, 10:19 AM Dunning-Kruger overconfidence expresses a lack of ability. However, educational overconfidence expresses a lack of skepticism. Half truths whether theological, philosophical, historical, scientific, or formal, are sources of ignorance by providing us with overconfidence. Mathiness has been the source of formal, philosophical, and scientific (physical and social) ignorance. Philosophical sophistry has been the source of most of the rest of pseudo intellectual ignorance. And of course theological – a monopoly conflating all the falsehoods plus false promise – is the most ignorance inducing of all. It appears that there are a very small number of fundamental laws that can be taught to everyone at the cost of suppression of the reproduction of the underclasses, and the suppression of the parasitism of the elite classes. Paragraph one – low end of the spectrum Paragraph two – high end of the spectrum Paragraph three – curing the problems of the high AND low ends of the spectrum

  • The Errors of Our Thinking at Both Bottom and Top

    May 2, 2020, 10:19 AM Dunning-Kruger overconfidence expresses a lack of ability. However, educational overconfidence expresses a lack of skepticism. Half truths whether theological, philosophical, historical, scientific, or formal, are sources of ignorance by providing us with overconfidence. Mathiness has been the source of formal, philosophical, and scientific (physical and social) ignorance. Philosophical sophistry has been the source of most of the rest of pseudo intellectual ignorance. And of course theological – a monopoly conflating all the falsehoods plus false promise – is the most ignorance inducing of all. It appears that there are a very small number of fundamental laws that can be taught to everyone at the cost of suppression of the reproduction of the underclasses, and the suppression of the parasitism of the elite classes. Paragraph one – low end of the spectrum Paragraph two – high end of the spectrum Paragraph three – curing the problems of the high AND low ends of the spectrum

  • Twisted Compliments. 😉

    May 2, 2020, 2:52 PM DOH!

    —“If I could get you alone in a room tied to a chair (comfortable of course) and fitted with a shock collar, I could get a lot of good education out of you.”–Daniel Roland Anderson

    I love that man. lol

  • Twisted Compliments. 😉

    May 2, 2020, 2:52 PM DOH!

    —“If I could get you alone in a room tied to a chair (comfortable of course) and fitted with a shock collar, I could get a lot of good education out of you.”–Daniel Roland Anderson

    I love that man. lol