Curt Doolittle

Theme: Institution

  • THE MODEL IS INFORMATION There is no steady state. the rules are not stateful, b

    THE MODEL IS INFORMATION

    There is no steady state. the rules are not stateful, but adaptive. There is no ‘done’. genes and culture and norms and institutions all store past information that we can express when needed. It’s not that we are machines that adapt to a fixed set. but that we store a broad range of possibilities that we can express through genetic, cultural, normative, personal, political and institutional SELECTION.

    We are still thinking in terms of mechanical models rather than informational models. man and the universe are correctly represented as information.

    This is what Hayek was trying to tell us but he was too early, and the crisis too early. It took Turing and two or three generations of programmers to understand what he and popper had intuited: information is not only the model for the physical sciences, but we are part of the physical sciences, and information is the current model we must work from.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-16 08:11:00 UTC

  • Democracy created the age of monopoly rule, where the west had forever suppresse

    Democracy created the age of monopoly rule, where the west had forever suppressed it. Houses of government created a market, not monopoly.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-15 12:36:00 UTC

  • Markets are simply the only means of preserving asymmetry and removing asymmetry

    Markets are simply the only means of preserving asymmetry and removing asymmetry of power and information. Courts are the only means of preserving asymmetry of warranty of performance.

    I don’t think markets are subordinate to hierarchy in any sense other than I think that they themselves prohibit hierarchy by permitting the meritocratic rise and fall of the classes by means of DEMONSTRATED ACTIONS.

    I don’t think a market for commons divided by the classes of production is a hierarchy, it is just a means of recognizing the forms of production that the meritocratic families have managed to produce and hold onto: families, business, enterprises, territories, and monarchy.

    The fact that there is greater SCALE OF MERIT in each class is simply a fact of the market operating to ensure that we demonstrate the greatest rotation and maintain the families businesses, enterprises, and institutions, with the greatest merit.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-15 12:32:00 UTC

  • Religion is a NECESSARY institution for the provision of decidability by narrati

    Religion is a NECESSARY institution for the provision of decidability by narrative, which is the loosest theoretical structure we currently know how to construct.

    The question is whether we claim religious narratives are true(history), are myths(parables), or are supernatural(falsehoods).

    History and Myths are enough without resorting to lies.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-15 10:40:00 UTC

  • WHY IS RELIGION – MEANING MYTH AND RITUAL – NECESSARY? —“Why is mythology and

    WHY IS RELIGION – MEANING MYTH AND RITUAL – NECESSARY?

    —“Why is mythology and ritual necessary?”—Doug

    Decidability, opportunity costs and transaction costs.

    —“??????”—Doug

    We coordinate our actions a little bit by clear deliberate choices.

    But mostly we cooperate by many thousands of tie-breakers that we default to loose theories of the ‘good’: narratives.

    In other words, religions provide means by which, in those many thousands of choices, where no choice is preferable to us, to prefer the choice that contributes to the advancement of the commons.

    Otherwise like Bouridan’s Ass we must find some method of choosing.

    This insight is profoundly important.

    Think of religions as a wishing well into which we toss the spare change of choice.

    But these choices reflect a group evolutionary strategy. And these strategies are not equal.

    THE MANY SMALL DEFEAT THE FEW GRAND.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-15 09:02:00 UTC

  • Definitions of Relations

    EMPLOYEE Responsible for own provision of room and board and care from the product of one’s wages.

    FARMER Holds sufficient land and labor to produce goods not only for consumption but for sale in the market, as personal property. PEASANT Holds a small plot of land farmed by the family, for family consumption, as family property (this is an important distinction) – one does not have control over the property – the family does.. SERF Holds access to a portion of land for family in exchange for a combination of labor on the manor’s holdings, in addition to some percentage of his personal production. And is bound to the land, having little or no right of exit except under certain conditions. INDENTURED SERVITUDE Receives room and board, and possible small spending money, in exchange for labor. But loses right of exit. SLAVE Bound to the land, manor, and or family, providing room board and clothing, but holds no title or rent, and no discretion. slavery as we understand it is an historical fabrication. one could be everything from the equivalent of a full-time household employee treated as a cherished member of the family, to a farm hand, to a disposable laborer, to a prisoner with no chance of survival working in the mines. PRISONER (SLAVE) terrible conditions which you might not be expected to survive, under hard labor, as a form of punishment.

  • Definitions of Relations

    EMPLOYEE Responsible for own provision of room and board and care from the product of one’s wages.

    FARMER Holds sufficient land and labor to produce goods not only for consumption but for sale in the market, as personal property. PEASANT Holds a small plot of land farmed by the family, for family consumption, as family property (this is an important distinction) – one does not have control over the property – the family does.. SERF Holds access to a portion of land for family in exchange for a combination of labor on the manor’s holdings, in addition to some percentage of his personal production. And is bound to the land, having little or no right of exit except under certain conditions. INDENTURED SERVITUDE Receives room and board, and possible small spending money, in exchange for labor. But loses right of exit. SLAVE Bound to the land, manor, and or family, providing room board and clothing, but holds no title or rent, and no discretion. slavery as we understand it is an historical fabrication. one could be everything from the equivalent of a full-time household employee treated as a cherished member of the family, to a farm hand, to a disposable laborer, to a prisoner with no chance of survival working in the mines. PRISONER (SLAVE) terrible conditions which you might not be expected to survive, under hard labor, as a form of punishment.

  • The Three Orders: Kin, Cult, State

    I would say that the Cathedral Complex (state, academy, media) are all engaged in customer seeking – an incrementalist form of rent seeking. They profit from the building of customers and rents. The interesting question not discussed is that because we humans make use of law, religion, and market, but we choose a dominant bias with which to employ them in our social orders, yielding:

    (1)kin/law, (2)cult/religion, or (3)state/corporatism; depending upon homogeneity or heterogeneity of the population; to overcome resistance to the creation and preservation of commons – so that why is it that one bias in the order is always better off than the others? And why does not social-criticism and intellectual-decidability limit itself to the order desired by the population? of course, we know the answer is genetic in both desire for construct, and in the expression of that desire for construct as a will to power. I frequently ask the same question: why do economists vary in bias of decidability? for the same reason: austrian-social-science and rule of law preserving sovereignty, freshwater limits of rule of law as a commons against harm, and saltwater abandonment of rule of law in favor of preferential discretion in order to acquire customers for the state. If it isn’t clear to you, then the answer is this: anything other than kin/law is nothing more than an act of war by slower means. We have been at war. We are at war. Time to win the war.

  • The Three Orders: Kin, Cult, State

    I would say that the Cathedral Complex (state, academy, media) are all engaged in customer seeking – an incrementalist form of rent seeking. They profit from the building of customers and rents. The interesting question not discussed is that because we humans make use of law, religion, and market, but we choose a dominant bias with which to employ them in our social orders, yielding:

    (1)kin/law, (2)cult/religion, or (3)state/corporatism; depending upon homogeneity or heterogeneity of the population; to overcome resistance to the creation and preservation of commons – so that why is it that one bias in the order is always better off than the others? And why does not social-criticism and intellectual-decidability limit itself to the order desired by the population? of course, we know the answer is genetic in both desire for construct, and in the expression of that desire for construct as a will to power. I frequently ask the same question: why do economists vary in bias of decidability? for the same reason: austrian-social-science and rule of law preserving sovereignty, freshwater limits of rule of law as a commons against harm, and saltwater abandonment of rule of law in favor of preferential discretion in order to acquire customers for the state. If it isn’t clear to you, then the answer is this: anything other than kin/law is nothing more than an act of war by slower means. We have been at war. We are at war. Time to win the war.

  • State = Assets. Govt = Management. Everything else is just determined by the inc

    State = Assets. Govt = Management. Everything else is just determined by the incentives of the govt.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-13 21:50:51 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/797919681764098048

    Reply addressees: @ThisMachin

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/797916020270776320

    IN REPLY TO:

    @ThisMachin

    @curtdoolittle I am very familiar with Libertarian ideas about this . We can start conversation at a hight level. Or we can read Webster.

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/797916020270776320