Curt Doolittle

Theme: Education

  • MORE ON IQ What would you rather have, a 20 point increase in demonstrated intel

    MORE ON IQ

    What would you rather have, a 20 point increase in demonstrated intelligence because you’ve learned to think empirically, and another 20 point increase in demonstrated IQ because you’ve learned to think Testimonially? Or the belief that your demonstrated IQ is an inescapable limitation on your possibilities? All great eras provide people with the ability to use technology of thought to augment natural abilities.

    Learn testimonialism and stop worrying about your IQ.

    You can’t change how fast you process. But you can dramatically narrow what you must process in order to obtain insight and advantage.

    Acquisitionism(psychology/metaphysics), Propertarianism(sociology/ethics), and Testimonialism(truth/epistemology) and Natural Law(Law/Politics), and Group Evolutionary Strategy (competition/war) will make the world transparent to you.

    And no, it’s not easy. And yes it will take a long time. But when it all ‘starts to click’ you will see a different world.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-24 12:13:00 UTC

  • I don’t know much about you or your options. I would say make money first, get a

    I don’t know much about you or your options. I would say make money first, get a degree second, part time. It usually works.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-18 20:38:12 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/821818998052491265

    Reply addressees: @Edwin_Canning

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/821810215574269954

    IN REPLY TO:

    @Edwin_Canning

    @curtdoolittle I’m not doing university (aka massive debt saddling in uncertain times) to try and become a web dev. Bad idea?

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/821810215574269954

  • (from elsewhere) While students from elite schools will always be in demand, tha

    (from elsewhere)

    While students from elite schools will always be in demand, that does not tell us much about the value of a college degree.

    Just as the American and British Economies experienced purges of middle management built up between the period 1920–1980 because of the influence of ‘managerialism’ (socialism), the entire world is about to go through a set of severe employment contractions between now and at least 2025.

    1 – political management – on a vast scale.

    2 – much more of lower middle management – on a vast scale.

    3 – a little more labor due to automation – perhaps on a perceptible scale.

    and (possibly)

    4 – much, much, much, of the financial sector on a frightening scale.

    In my (rather informed I think) opinion, if you do not possess a STEM degree for employment purposes, and perhaps a philosophy/law minor (so you think clearly), you have very little chances of employability other than “gee I have a degree”.

    Like most things, it’s more (a) who you know, and (b) what industry you can get into early, and (c) how much you can save of your income and invest before you are 30.

    Why? Because the west has held a 500 year military, technical, legal, financial, cultural, literacy, and knowledge advantage over the world, and Because Americans inherited the British empire’s institutions of world finance, trade, and oil. It is quite possible that Americans will descend to european standards of living (which are much lower unfortunately), and even more possible that europeans will descend as well.

    We no longer hold those advantages, and what we have seen since about 1992, a brief boom as we collected the post-cold-war (world communism) dividend, but by 2006 it was fairly evident that ‘the great leveling’ in the world economy would occur at the same time as ‘the great sort’ was occurring in the US population.

    ie: minimum bar for a college degree with any employability is a STEM degree. College degree only tells employers you can follow direction. It is the same bar as a high school diploma used to be before they discounted the high school diploma by lowering the standards. The same has occurred in colleges and universities. This is because while only about 15% of the work force has the IQ necessary to obtain a ‘legit’ college degree, about 50% of our people go to college. Ergo, 2/3 of the people who hold college degrees are meaningless. And of the remaining 1/3, only those with a STEM degree are employable.

    Worse, a PhD is a liability not an asset when seeking employment outside of research or STEM classes.

    Employers need to know you have a degree worth having from a school worth issuing it. The degree itself is now just a permission slip to seek work. Not a criteria for creating demand.

    Cheers

    Curt Doolittle

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-18 14:39:00 UTC

  • kinds of job opportunities are available for people with a PhD in political econ

    https://t.co/o1jJtmEVDEWhat kinds of job opportunities are available for people with a PhD in political economy? https://t.co/o1jJtmEVDE

    ANSWER

    Just as the American and British Economies experienced purges of middle management built up between the period 1920–1980 because of the influence of ‘managerialism’ (socialism), the entire world is about to go through a set of severe employment contractions between now and at least 2025.

    1 – political management – on a vast scale.

    2 – much more of lower middle management – on a vast scale.

    3 – a little more labor due to automation – perhaps on a perceptible scale.

    and (possibly)

    4 – much, much, much, of the financial sector on a frightening scale.

    In my (rather informed I think) opinion, if you do not possess a STEM degree for employment purposes, and perhaps a philosophy/law minor (so you think clearly), you have very little chances of employability other than “gee I have a degree”.

    Like most things, it’s more (a) who you know, and (b) what industry you can get into early, and (c) how much you can save of your income and invest before you are 30.

    Why? Because the west has held a 500 year military, technical, legal, financial, cultural, literacy, and knowledge advantage over the world, and Because Americans inherited the British empire’s institutions of world finance, trade, and oil. It is quite possible that Americans will descend to european standards of living (which are much lower unfortunately), and even more possible that europeans will descend as well.

    We no longer hold those advantages, and what we have seen since about 1992, a brief boom as we collected the post-cold-war (world communism) dividend, but by 2006 it was fairly evident that ‘the great leveling’ in the world economy would occur at the same time as ‘the great sort’ was occurring in the US population.

    ie: minimum bar for a college degree with any employability is a STEM degree. College degree only tells employers you can follow direction. It is the same bar as a high school diploma used to be before they discounted the high school diploma by lowering the standards. The same has occurred in colleges and universities. This is because while only about 15% of the work force has the IQ necessary to obtain a ‘legit’ college degree, about 50% of our people go to college. Ergo, 2/3 of the people who hold college degrees are meaningless. And of the remaining 1/3, only those with a STEM degree are employable.

    Worse, a PhD is a liability not an asset when seeking employment outside of research or STEM classes.

    Employers need to know you have a degree worth having from a school worth issuing it. The degree itself is now just a permission slip to seek work. Not a criteria for creating demand.

    Cheers

    Curt Doolittle

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-18 14:38:00 UTC

  • CONGRATULATE Alberto Zambrano ON BRINGING PROPERTARIANISM TO SPANISH SPEAKERS. F

    https://propertarianism.com/category/attributes/espanol-spanish/PLEASE CONGRATULATE Alberto Zambrano ON BRINGING PROPERTARIANISM TO SPANISH SPEAKERS.

    For the past six months or so Alberto R Zambrano has been producing (a) ORIGINAL WORK in Spanish for Propertarianism.com, and (b) TRANSLATING important articles in to Spanish.

    His original pieces are exceptional. His translations also. I wish we could do the same in Italian, German, Ukrainian, and Russian!!!!!

    In my view this scale of work, and its quality, qualifies him for membership in the propertarian institute. So I’m adding him to the list of contributors.

    Here is a link to the Spanish Language articles:

    https://propertarianism.com/category/attributes/espanol-spanish/

    (I wish I could make this post ‘sticky’!)

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    (I’ll post his most recent article, translated into english, above.)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-18 13:30:00 UTC

  • OVERVIEW OF PROPERTARIANISM FOR SERIOUS NEWBIES

    https://propertarianism.com/2016/01/05/an-overview-of-propertarianism-for-serious-newbies/REMINDER: OVERVIEW OF PROPERTARIANISM FOR SERIOUS NEWBIES

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-18 11:46:00 UTC

  • PROPERTARIANISM – OUR INTRODUCTORY VIDEOS More coming. But these videos contain

    https://www.youtube.com/user/DeAristocratia/videosREMINDER: PROPERTARIANISM – OUR INTRODUCTORY VIDEOS

    More coming. But these videos contain many of the foundational concepts.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-18 11:38:00 UTC

  • What Kinds Of Job Opportunities Are Available For People With A Phd In Political Economy?

    Just as the American and British Economies experienced purges of middle management built up between the period 1920–1980 because of the influence of ‘managerialism’ (socialism), the entire world is about to go through a set of severe employment contractions between now and at least 2025.

    1 – political management – on a vast scale.
    2 – much more of lower middle management – on a vast scale.
    3 – a little more labor due to automation – perhaps on a perceptible scale.
    and (possibly)
    4 – much, much, much, of the financial sector on a frightening scale.

    In my (rather informed I think) opinion, if you do not possess a STEM degree for employment purposes, and perhaps a philosophy/law minor (so you think clearly), you have very little chances of employability other than “gee I have a degree”.

    Like most things, it’s more (a) who you know, and (b) what industry you can get into early, and (c) how much you can save of your income and invest before you are 30.

    Why? Because the west has held a 500 year military, technical, legal, financial, cultural, literacy, and knowledge advantage over the world, and Because Americans inherited the British empire’s institutions of world finance, trade, and oil. It is quite possible that Americans will descend to european standards of living (which are much lower unfortunately), and even more possible that europeans will descend as well.

    We no longer hold those advantages, and what we have seen since about 1992, a brief boom as we collected the post-cold-war (world communism) dividend, but by 2006 it was fairly evident that ‘the great leveling’ in the world economy would occur at the same time as ‘the great sort’ was occurring in the US population.

    ie: minimum bar for a college degree with any employability is a STEM degree. College degree only tells employers you can follow direction. It is the same bar as a high school diploma used to be before they discounted the high school diploma by lowering the standards. The same has occurred in colleges and universities. This is because while only about 15% of the work force has the IQ necessary to obtain a ‘legit’ college degree, about 50% of our people go to college. Ergo, 2/3 of the people who hold college degrees are meaningless. And of the remaining 1/3, only those with a STEM degree are employable.

    Worse, a PhD is a liability not an asset when seeking employment outside of research or STEM classes.

    Employers need to know you have a degree worth having from a school worth issuing it. The degree itself is now just a permission slip to seek work. Not a criteria for creating demand.

    Cheers
    Curt Doolittle

    https://www.quora.com/What-kinds-of-job-opportunities-are-available-for-people-with-a-PhD-in-political-economy

  • What Kinds Of Job Opportunities Are Available For People With A Phd In Political Economy?

    Just as the American and British Economies experienced purges of middle management built up between the period 1920–1980 because of the influence of ‘managerialism’ (socialism), the entire world is about to go through a set of severe employment contractions between now and at least 2025.

    1 – political management – on a vast scale.
    2 – much more of lower middle management – on a vast scale.
    3 – a little more labor due to automation – perhaps on a perceptible scale.
    and (possibly)
    4 – much, much, much, of the financial sector on a frightening scale.

    In my (rather informed I think) opinion, if you do not possess a STEM degree for employment purposes, and perhaps a philosophy/law minor (so you think clearly), you have very little chances of employability other than “gee I have a degree”.

    Like most things, it’s more (a) who you know, and (b) what industry you can get into early, and (c) how much you can save of your income and invest before you are 30.

    Why? Because the west has held a 500 year military, technical, legal, financial, cultural, literacy, and knowledge advantage over the world, and Because Americans inherited the British empire’s institutions of world finance, trade, and oil. It is quite possible that Americans will descend to european standards of living (which are much lower unfortunately), and even more possible that europeans will descend as well.

    We no longer hold those advantages, and what we have seen since about 1992, a brief boom as we collected the post-cold-war (world communism) dividend, but by 2006 it was fairly evident that ‘the great leveling’ in the world economy would occur at the same time as ‘the great sort’ was occurring in the US population.

    ie: minimum bar for a college degree with any employability is a STEM degree. College degree only tells employers you can follow direction. It is the same bar as a high school diploma used to be before they discounted the high school diploma by lowering the standards. The same has occurred in colleges and universities. This is because while only about 15% of the work force has the IQ necessary to obtain a ‘legit’ college degree, about 50% of our people go to college. Ergo, 2/3 of the people who hold college degrees are meaningless. And of the remaining 1/3, only those with a STEM degree are employable.

    Worse, a PhD is a liability not an asset when seeking employment outside of research or STEM classes.

    Employers need to know you have a degree worth having from a school worth issuing it. The degree itself is now just a permission slip to seek work. Not a criteria for creating demand.

    Cheers
    Curt Doolittle

    https://www.quora.com/What-kinds-of-job-opportunities-are-available-for-people-with-a-PhD-in-political-economy

  • Why? Because I’m available to newbies, I have a lot of patience with people, eve

    Why? Because I’m available to newbies, I have a lot of patience with people, even if they’re hostile, as long as they’re genuine. Because I welcome, we welcome, those who are interested in sharing the work. Because we are attracting a certain kind of person (character) with a certain kind of mind (skeptical), with a certain degree of intellectual ability.

    And in no small part because I (we) are not asking people to believe in the value of some proposition so much as teaching the practice of a logical method that demonstrably improves your ability to reason, judge, and argue. WE’re developing and teaching a logic – a skill, that will dramatically change your world view by USING it.

    It is very hard to defeat propertarian (testimonial) arguments. It is hard to learn, yes. But once you do, you will be devastating in debate. Which is exactly what we are trying to accomplish as our first stage.

    There is enormous POWER in sovereignty, propertarianism and testimonialism, market government, and the group evolutionary strategy of truth, high trust, and innovative velocity.

    There is enormous POWER in making use of them. The propertarian revolution is equal in power over correlative empiricism as correlative empiricism was over philosophical rationalism, and philosophical rationalism was over theological rationalism.

    We can complete the scientific enlightenment. A few of us.

    And take credit for it for all of history.

    And save our civilization one argument, one topic, one uprising, one revolution, at a time.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-10 13:59:00 UTC