Curt Doolittle

Theme: Education

  • My answer to What is the prerequisite knowledge for democracy?

    My answer to What is the prerequisite knowledge for democracy? https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-prerequisite-knowledge-for-democracy/answer/Curt-Doolittle?share=7e688f95

    Source date (UTC): 2018-01-19 03:16:22 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/954190772001271809

  • lol. Um. here is my reading list for beginners. I recommend you take a look

    lol. Um. here is my reading list for beginners. I recommend you take a look.

    https://propertarianism.com/reading-list/

    Source date (UTC): 2018-01-18 17:22:44 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/954041376429178880

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  • What Do You Think About The Future Of “industrial And Network Economics” Master Program?

    I have a very simple approach to education and I recommend it to everyone.

    Study any STEM (physical science, technology, engineering, economics, and mathematics) that you can manage. It doesn’t matter if you major or minor in it. Take whatever math you must to get through it.

    Engineering is almost never a bad degree. Tech is rewarding at present. Economics will always be rewarding. (Not that in the USA economics is a technical discipline, but in europe and eastern europe it just means ‘business’, and is nonsense.) Physical science and mathematics are only valuable if you want those careers, OR it’s easy for you. THese degrees ‘certify you’ as ‘smart’.

    Take accounting 1 and 2. Take the dumbest finance course you can find. And only one. Take micro and macro economics. Take a business law course. One course is all you will need. Try to take an economic history of the world – it should be two classes. If you can manage two semesters of classical philosophy, or the philosophy of science then you’re done.

    It’s horrible but what I’m recommending is literally remedial education since as far as I know all but engineering can be taught in high school and should be since our emphasis on science and mathematics is overblown compared to our emphasis on economics, accounting, law, and finance – which people will endure every day. And those people that want geeky professions (the hard sciences, mathmatics, economics and statistics) will go for them anyway.

    Take the minimum classes you need to graduate with that experience

    For everything else just read anything but fiction. lol.

    WHY? It is very difficult to see the future right now because we are at an inflection point that happens only during periods of great (and often catastrophic change). There will be vast alterations of the workforce on scales we have not seen since the shift from agrarianism from 1890 to 1930. So any particular career is something I have a hard time judging.

    Right now? Learn javascript and make six figures rapidly without any college. Live in a communal house with five friends, and save more than half of what you make for the first five to ten years. Do not get married until after that. Then you are set for life, and can stop worrying about careers and what not because your house will be paid for, and your total cost of living is below the poverty level if you want it to be, and everything you make, no matter how much, can be used for wahtever purpose you want.

    NEVER BUY VIRTUE SIGNALS.

    https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-think-about-the-future-of-industrial-and-network-economics-master-program

  • What Do You Think About The Future Of “industrial And Network Economics” Master Program?

    I have a very simple approach to education and I recommend it to everyone.

    Study any STEM (physical science, technology, engineering, economics, and mathematics) that you can manage. It doesn’t matter if you major or minor in it. Take whatever math you must to get through it.

    Engineering is almost never a bad degree. Tech is rewarding at present. Economics will always be rewarding. (Not that in the USA economics is a technical discipline, but in europe and eastern europe it just means ‘business’, and is nonsense.) Physical science and mathematics are only valuable if you want those careers, OR it’s easy for you. THese degrees ‘certify you’ as ‘smart’.

    Take accounting 1 and 2. Take the dumbest finance course you can find. And only one. Take micro and macro economics. Take a business law course. One course is all you will need. Try to take an economic history of the world – it should be two classes. If you can manage two semesters of classical philosophy, or the philosophy of science then you’re done.

    It’s horrible but what I’m recommending is literally remedial education since as far as I know all but engineering can be taught in high school and should be since our emphasis on science and mathematics is overblown compared to our emphasis on economics, accounting, law, and finance – which people will endure every day. And those people that want geeky professions (the hard sciences, mathmatics, economics and statistics) will go for them anyway.

    Take the minimum classes you need to graduate with that experience

    For everything else just read anything but fiction. lol.

    WHY? It is very difficult to see the future right now because we are at an inflection point that happens only during periods of great (and often catastrophic change). There will be vast alterations of the workforce on scales we have not seen since the shift from agrarianism from 1890 to 1930. So any particular career is something I have a hard time judging.

    Right now? Learn javascript and make six figures rapidly without any college. Live in a communal house with five friends, and save more than half of what you make for the first five to ten years. Do not get married until after that. Then you are set for life, and can stop worrying about careers and what not because your house will be paid for, and your total cost of living is below the poverty level if you want it to be, and everything you make, no matter how much, can be used for wahtever purpose you want.

    NEVER BUY VIRTUE SIGNALS.

    https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-think-about-the-future-of-industrial-and-network-economics-master-program

  • (I know you’re trying to educate the vox populi on relative risk, but likewise I

    (I know you’re trying to educate the vox populi on relative risk, but likewise I try to do the same by illustrating that comparison of costs requires full accounting of the seen and unseen.)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-01-16 11:52:52 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/953233589738639360

    Reply addressees: @sapinker

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/953224319815045120

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    @sapinker Steven, That reasoning is an instance of false equivalency of costs. A disease that kills even 100k will not escalate to interfere with the velocity of cooperation (externalities) – nor be curable. While terrorism can both escalate and be cured.

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    @curtdoolittle

    @sapinker Steven, That reasoning is an instance of false equivalency of costs. A disease that kills even 100k will not escalate to interfere with the velocity of cooperation (externalities) – nor be curable. While terrorism can both escalate and be cured.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/953224319815045120

  • Have another ‘debate’ coming up. But I’m extremely …. cautious of them. Why? B

    Have another ‘debate’ coming up. But I’m extremely …. cautious of them. Why? Because (I had this conversation with an interviewer recently) it often takes three or four logical steps to get from where advocates today are standing, to understand anything I’m saying. And (as two trolls have succeeded in infuriating me lately), I have reached a point in my life where I am no longer willing to invest in exposing a disingenuous debate partner. And I am not able, in an hour conversation, to move someone across so great a frame. If we still have people that don’t understand the many things that should be obvious (evolution, relativity, justificationism vs science) then why should they be able to understand propertarianism when it rewrites so many pseudoscientific frames of reference?

    Source date (UTC): 2018-01-16 08:31:00 UTC

  • —“Can Someone Put This In Common Language?”—

    —“CAN SOMEONE PUT THIS IN COMMON LANGUAGE?”— Replying to @jordanticus @sapinker (a) We spend a lot of money on anti-terrorism (the islamic counter-revolution against modernity, which is the latest iteration of the Ashkenazi counter-revolution (marx, freud, boaz, cantor), and the German( Kant, Hegel, etc), French v1(Rousseau) and v2 (Derrida et all). Replying to @jordanticus @sapinker (b) Very few people are killed by terrorists. (ie: “6 people”). (c) we have many diseases (actually there are only ten that account for almost all deaths, and they are deaths of accumulated cellular damage). And we might cure those diseases instead with money spent on terror. Replying to @jordanticus @sapinker (d) but the cost disease is slow and does not interfere with the world, economic, political, social, and familial ‘velocity of cooperation’ (stuff we do). While the cost of terrorism and its ability to spread is very high (civilizational). Replying to @jordanticus @sapinker (e) We can easily see the costs of the plagues and major diseases. What has it cost us to cure Abrahamism? And its successors, Marxism, Postmodernism, leaving the compromise social democracy? The SEEN and the UNSEEN.

  • During the early 20th c educators intentionally ‘dumbed down’ education, and ‘ma

    During the early 20th c educators intentionally ‘dumbed down’ education, and ‘marketers’ and the movements of the 1960’s did so further. The purpose was to give the lower middle, working, and underclasses greater confidence – and to do so for a reason. Overconfidence and overestimation of ones abilities and knowledge is an american marxist-postmodern trait. At about 30 points we are incapable of commensurable communication, Every 15 points requires re-translation. And that is ALWAYS true EVERYWHERE in every discipline, and always has been. Ideas across the world flow downward from the fraction of one percent and are tested and succeed or fail in criticism, experiment and implementation. So while some of us still aspire to, and frankly, require, 19th century grammar, as does any technical discipline, we are asked to write to 6th grade education in public. Meanwhile postmodern drivel is published and ignored in volume in sociology, psychology, literature. And no one complains about it. Precisely because it has no material value, or coercive political power. While Logical, empirical, operational, and reciprocal, does. I mean, I read just about every paper on physics, economics, and social science that comes out and makes the rounds, and the average idiot seems to think that we can express technical ideals outside the dominant paradigm in the common language of marketing to peasants and the room temperature IQ crowd. It’s not possible. One of the great disasters is the disconnect between physics and mathematical physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, and computer science, and the metaphysical, psychological, sociological, legal, and political. THe former continue the scientific enlightenment., THe latter are expressly trying to resist and reverse it, just as did the French, Germans, and Ashkenazi. And just as the entire postwar world has tried – forcing what’s left of aristocratic civilization to drag them kicking and screaming out of superstition, ignorance, poverty, starvation, disease, tyranny, and the vicissitudes of a nature that is hostile to expensive life forms (us).

  • During the early 20th c educators intentionally ‘dumbed down’ education, and ‘ma

    During the early 20th c educators intentionally ‘dumbed down’ education, and ‘marketers’ and the movements of the 1960’s did so further. The purpose was to give the lower middle, working, and underclasses greater confidence – and to do so for a reason. Overconfidence and overestimation of ones abilities and knowledge is an american marxist-postmodern trait.

    At about 30 points we are incapable of commensurable communication, Every 15 points requires re-translation. And that is ALWAYS true EVERYWHERE in every discipline, and always has been. Ideas across the world flow downward from the fraction of one percent and are tested and succeed or fail in criticism, experiment and implementation.

    So while some of us still aspire to, and frankly, require, 19th century grammar, as does any technical discipline, we are asked to write to 6th grade education in public.

    Meanwhile postmodern drivel is published and ignored in volume in sociology, psychology, literature. And no one complains about it. Precisely because it has no material value, or coercive political power. While Logical, empirical, operational, and reciprocal, does.

    I mean, I read just about every paper on physics, economics, and social science that comes out and makes the rounds, and the average idiot seems to think that we can express technical ideals outside the dominant paradigm in the common language of marketing to peasants and the room temperature IQ crowd. It’s not possible.

    One of the great disasters is the disconnect between physics and mathematical physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, and computer science, and the metaphysical, psychological, sociological, legal, and political. THe former continue the scientific enlightenment., THe latter are expressly trying to resist and reverse it, just as did the French, Germans, and Ashkenazi. And just as the entire postwar world has tried – forcing what’s left of aristocratic civilization to drag them kicking and screaming out of superstition, ignorance, poverty, starvation, disease, tyranny, and the vicissitudes of a nature that is hostile to expensive life forms (us).

    Source date (UTC): 2018-01-13 10:32:00 UTC

  • During the early 20th c educators intentionally ‘dumbed down’ education, and ‘ma

    During the early 20th c educators intentionally ‘dumbed down’ education, and ‘marketers’ and the movements of the 1960’s did so further. The purpose was to give the lower middle, working, and underclasses greater confidence – and to do so for a reason. Overconfidence and overestimation of ones abilities and knowledge is an american marxist-postmodern trait. At about 30 points we are incapable of commensurable communication, Every 15 points requires re-translation. And that is ALWAYS true EVERYWHERE in every discipline, and always has been. Ideas across the world flow downward from the fraction of one percent and are tested and succeed or fail in criticism, experiment and implementation. So while some of us still aspire to, and frankly, require, 19th century grammar, as does any technical discipline, we are asked to write to 6th grade education in public. Meanwhile postmodern drivel is published and ignored in volume in sociology, psychology, literature. And no one complains about it. Precisely because it has no material value, or coercive political power. While Logical, empirical, operational, and reciprocal, does. I mean, I read just about every paper on physics, economics, and social science that comes out and makes the rounds, and the average idiot seems to think that we can express technical ideals outside the dominant paradigm in the common language of marketing to peasants and the room temperature IQ crowd. It’s not possible. One of the great disasters is the disconnect between physics and mathematical physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, and computer science, and the metaphysical, psychological, sociological, legal, and political. THe former continue the scientific enlightenment., THe latter are expressly trying to resist and reverse it, just as did the French, Germans, and Ashkenazi. And just as the entire postwar world has tried – forcing what’s left of aristocratic civilization to drag them kicking and screaming out of superstition, ignorance, poverty, starvation, disease, tyranny, and the vicissitudes of a nature that is hostile to expensive life forms (us).