Curt Doolittle

Theme: Productivity

  • The Nuance of Improved Inputs

    The Nuance of Improved Inputs https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/28/the-nuance-of-improved-inputs/

    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-28 20:37:21 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1266106306747944960

  • Conscientiousness always wins. IQ sometimes wins

    Conscientiousness always wins. IQ sometimes wins. https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/28/conscientiousness-always-wins-iq-sometimes-wins/

    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-28 19:08:30 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1266083949031428097

  • Everything libertarians wrote was in pursuit of unearned gains

    Everything libertarians wrote was in pursuit of unearned gains https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/28/everything-libertarians-wrote-was-in-pursuit-of-unearned-gains/

    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-28 19:06:14 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1266083378991894528

  • Everything libertarians wrote was in pursuit of unearned gains

    Mar 23, 2020, 5:00 PM

    Mises wrote logic of commodities. Learn Hayekian curves instead. Companies don’t need price signals to produce more. They need opportunity to sell more at currently imputed prices.

    Everything libertarians wrote was in pursuit of unearned gains: parasitism by plausible deniability, as a means of avoiding productivity. Why? Well, if you follow me, then you know why.

  • Everything libertarians wrote was in pursuit of unearned gains

    Mar 23, 2020, 5:00 PM

    Mises wrote logic of commodities. Learn Hayekian curves instead. Companies don’t need price signals to produce more. They need opportunity to sell more at currently imputed prices.

    Everything libertarians wrote was in pursuit of unearned gains: parasitism by plausible deniability, as a means of avoiding productivity. Why? Well, if you follow me, then you know why.

  • The Method to The Madness: Our Division of Labor

    The Method to The Madness: Our Division of Labor https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/28/the-method-to-the-madness-our-division-of-labor/

    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-28 03:55:27 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1265854169400987656

  • The Method to The Madness: Our Division of Labor

    May 6, 2020, 11:01 AM

    —“I’ve not spent much of my life in “nerdland” so it’s interesting to observe the language and the operational detail/ complexity in your replies to me. It’s both fascinating and bewildering at the same time. … I am trying to reserve judgment on this form of communication as Curt obviously thinks it’s important for matters of P law and warrantied speech moving forward. It’s not that it’s not decipherable, I simply automatically find myself translating it into plain speech that is much more compact and universally understandable.”—by Stephen Wells

    That’s a good thing. 😉 a) you can tell others in plain language, but; b) if someone comes along with a sophism or deceit you know that there is more behind it than simple language. Think of it this way:

    P is math. Carpenters work by rules of thumb. We falsify false rules of thumb with math. My job and P’s job is to prevent false rules of thumb. Your job is to spread true rules of thumb. Together we win. hugs

  • The Method to The Madness: Our Division of Labor

    May 6, 2020, 11:01 AM

    —“I’ve not spent much of my life in “nerdland” so it’s interesting to observe the language and the operational detail/ complexity in your replies to me. It’s both fascinating and bewildering at the same time. … I am trying to reserve judgment on this form of communication as Curt obviously thinks it’s important for matters of P law and warrantied speech moving forward. It’s not that it’s not decipherable, I simply automatically find myself translating it into plain speech that is much more compact and universally understandable.”—by Stephen Wells

    That’s a good thing. 😉 a) you can tell others in plain language, but; b) if someone comes along with a sophism or deceit you know that there is more behind it than simple language. Think of it this way:

    P is math. Carpenters work by rules of thumb. We falsify false rules of thumb with math. My job and P’s job is to prevent false rules of thumb. Your job is to spread true rules of thumb. Together we win. hugs

  • Why Does It Appear that The Relationship Between Intelligence and Income Disappe

    Why Does It Appear that The Relationship Between Intelligence and Income Disappearing https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/28/why-does-it-appear-that-the-relationship-between-intelligence-and-income-disappearing-2/

    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-28 03:08:28 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1265842349369892864

  • Why Does It Appear that The Relationship Between Intelligence and Income Disappearing

    May 23, 2020, 2:48 PM —“Great study, but very puzzling that intelligence does not predict income in this study. Too young age at follow-up? Intelligence income relationship is confounded by age (at younger ages, lower intelligence people make more money).— https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/wps.20763”—Emil O W Kirkegaard @KirkegaardEmil (Short version: college eduction is no longer a proxy for intelligence). We have a set of problems in making that assessment. (a) between women and underclass preference for pseudoscience, the use of degrees as proxy for intelligence has been eliminated. (b) IQ doesn’t determine wealth: conscientiousness does. (c) IQ determines complexity of work. (d) BUT IQ also determines rate of adaptation, abstractions, error (and FRAUD) detection. So while we can make wealth anywhere on the spectrum there’s an increasing premium on learning, error detection, and abstraction (engineering, tech, law, finance, science, mathematics). (e) the net (uncomfortable truth) is that, confirming tradition, there is a premium on ethics and discipline at the bottom and middle with increasing incentive for ‘cheating’ hidden in complexity at the top (finance, economics, politics), with the middle holding moral high ground. (Which is why I specialize in expansion of the law to reverse the innovations in free riding, cheating, fraud, parasitism, and predation made possible by the expansion of complexity during the 20th century. Particularly using math, econ, and academic pseudosciences. 😉 )