Curt Doolittle

Theme: Incentives

  • MARKETS SERVE THE DEMANDS OF COMPLEXITY by Jim Leis So as a very simple example,

    MARKETS SERVE THE DEMANDS OF COMPLEXITY

    by Jim Leis

    So as a very simple example, complexity structurally demands trial. And also innately breaks up large populations in preference for smaller ones; large ant hills and wolf packs split at certain sizes. Actually, complexity demands it.

    So, on a very base level, globalism is too hierarchical and statist for complexity. Globalism, socialism, communism, will never work because it drives complexity out of a society. Which will kill it.

    Put another way, a king’s power is in upholding the rule of law. If he amasses too much power, regulating business, property, etc., he relegates his fellow citizens to robots and kills complexity, and then kills society.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-10 10:05:00 UTC

  • Um. I think I could do it on a napkin if I thought about it for a bit. I mean…

    Um. I think I could do it on a napkin if I thought about it for a bit. I mean… just taxing imports on the the german car industry would crash germany and take europe with it. Everyone knows this…. The problem is, how can they incrementally build a credible military?

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-09 23:29:03 UTC

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  • Virtue signaling

    Virtue signaling is bad enough. Virtue signaling with your husband’s money is worse. Virtue signaling with other investor’s money is even worse. Virtue signaling with taxpayer’s money is worst of all. Women, for reasons we understand, demonstrate conspicuous consumption and virtue signaling with other people’s money, for nothing other than psychological gratification. It’s an expression of dominance by feminine means.

  • Virtue signaling

    Virtue signaling is bad enough. Virtue signaling with your husband’s money is worse. Virtue signaling with other investor’s money is even worse. Virtue signaling with taxpayer’s money is worst of all. Women, for reasons we understand, demonstrate conspicuous consumption and virtue signaling with other people’s money, for nothing other than psychological gratification. It’s an expression of dominance by feminine means.

  • Attention Economy (f) Position Economy (m)

    Attention Economy (f)
    Position Economy (m)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-09 15:23:39 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1005470486275526656

  • Attention Economy (f) Opportunistic, Intuitionistic, Position Economy (m) Strate

    Attention Economy (f) Opportunistic, Intuitionistic,

    Position Economy (m) Strategic, Empirical.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-09 11:23:00 UTC

  • Virtue signaling is bad enough. Virtue signaling with your husband’s money is wo

    Virtue signaling is bad enough.

    Virtue signaling with your husband’s money is worse.

    Virtue signaling with other investor’s money is even worse.

    Virtue signaling with taxpayer’s money is worst of all.

    Women, for reasons we understand, demonstrate conspicuous consumption and virtue signaling with other people’s money, for nothing other than psychological gratification.

    It’s an expression of dominance by feminine means.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-09 08:47:00 UTC

  • NUCLEAR WEAPONS ARE A BIT LIKE MONUMENTS. They are terribly expensive, but produ

    NUCLEAR WEAPONS ARE A BIT LIKE MONUMENTS.

    They are terribly expensive, but produce extraordinary returns.

    Now, think about this for a second. Russia invested overly in military and in particular nuclear weapons. Of all the investments in sovereignty Russia made, the only durable one has been those nuclear weapons.

    Any polity with a few nuclear weapons and an armed populace, with stores of RPG’s, Man portable Missile Launchers, and enough artillery to protect lines of invasion, is relatively safe from conquest. So a relatively small number of professional warriors, a sufficiently trained militia, and the cost of military can be below the 3-4% Switzerland, which arguably benefits from the ‘mountainous terrain discount’, only spends 0.8% per year. The additional benefit of being a small nuclear state operating on international markets is that it is very hard for you to create sufficiently international dependencies that you need war to protect them.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-08 08:49:00 UTC

  • Our Inequality Requires Juridical Equality

    We are unequal by every possible measure, but to preserve the incentive to, and benefits of, cooperation, the law must adjudicate our interests equally. For this reason the law must always and everywhere treat our interests as equal and our abilities and value to one another unequally.

  • Our Inequality Requires Juridical Equality

    We are unequal by every possible measure, but to preserve the incentive to, and benefits of, cooperation, the law must adjudicate our interests equally. For this reason the law must always and everywhere treat our interests as equal and our abilities and value to one another unequally.