Curt Doolittle

Theme: Reciprocity

  • THE FOURTH SECRET OF LEARNING PROPERTARIANISM. Reciprocity is the only rational,

    THE FOURTH SECRET OF LEARNING PROPERTARIANISM.

    Reciprocity is the only rational, ethical, moral, and evolutionarily possible, means of cooperation over the long term. Or put more honestly, it is the only means by which cooperation is preferable to predation, parasitism, enslavement.

    Where reciprocity refers to productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary exchange, free of imposition of costs upon the investments of others by externality.

    The more reciprocity, the faster cooperation, the greater the production, the more time we compress through cooperative production, the cheaper is every calorie we need not expend, and every calorie we consume.

    In other words, we make everything cheaper by removing obstacles to cooperation. This form of reasoning is called ‘via-negativa’, and is the same reasoning common law of tort. But the opposite of justificationism (excuse making).

    That is contrary to all human intuition, but it how science works: that which is false or ungood, is certain, but that which is not false and not bad, is just preference.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-01-28 11:25:00 UTC

  • The Fourth Secret Of Learning Propertarianism.

    Reciprocity is the only rational, ethical, moral, and evolutionarily possible, means of cooperation over the long term. Or put more honestly, it is the only means by which cooperation is preferable to predation, parasitism, enslavement. Where reciprocity refers to productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary exchange, free of imposition of costs upon the investments of others by externality. The more reciprocity, the faster cooperation, the greater the production, the more time we compress through cooperative production, the cheaper is every calorie we need not expend, and every calorie we consume. In other words, we make everything cheaper by removing obstacles to cooperation. This form of reasoning is called ‘via-negativa’, and is the same reasoning common law of tort. But the opposite of justificationism (excuse making). That is contrary to all human intuition, but it how science works: that which is false or ungood, is certain, but that which is not false and not bad, is just preference.

  • The Fourth Secret Of Learning Propertarianism.

    Reciprocity is the only rational, ethical, moral, and evolutionarily possible, means of cooperation over the long term. Or put more honestly, it is the only means by which cooperation is preferable to predation, parasitism, enslavement. Where reciprocity refers to productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary exchange, free of imposition of costs upon the investments of others by externality. The more reciprocity, the faster cooperation, the greater the production, the more time we compress through cooperative production, the cheaper is every calorie we need not expend, and every calorie we consume. In other words, we make everything cheaper by removing obstacles to cooperation. This form of reasoning is called ‘via-negativa’, and is the same reasoning common law of tort. But the opposite of justificationism (excuse making). That is contrary to all human intuition, but it how science works: that which is false or ungood, is certain, but that which is not false and not bad, is just preference.

  • We can do one thing no other people can do. And that is rule by natural law. Rul

    We can do one thing no other people can do. And that is rule by natural law. Rule has always been our most profitable occupation. And it is time we return to Moral Rule For Profit.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-01-26 17:28:00 UTC

  • We can do one thing no other people can do. And that is rule by natural law. Rul

    We can do one thing no other people can do. And that is rule by natural law. Rule has always been our most profitable occupation. And it is time we return to Moral Rule For Profit.

  • We can do one thing no other people can do. And that is rule by natural law. Rul

    We can do one thing no other people can do. And that is rule by natural law. Rule has always been our most profitable occupation. And it is time we return to Moral Rule For Profit.

  • Of the people that will engage in discourse, *and* whose arguments demonstrate a

    Of the people that will engage in discourse, *and* whose arguments demonstrate an understanding economics, incentives, reciprocity, and mathematics – you will find almost no one other than @EricRWeinstein, @nntaleb and I. The reason is we are more empirical and less optimistic.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-01-24 16:20:40 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/956200087335645184

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  • natural law of cooperation. outside it does not apply. i am only interested in m

    natural law of cooperation. outside it does not apply. i am only interested in maximizing returns as long as the increase martial dominion. my talk of markets is not pacifist but as means of dominion

    Source date (UTC): 2018-01-24 03:40:39 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/956008820051972098

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    @curtdoolittle I feared you may have taken my reference of Indios as moralizing on their behalf. I wasn’t. I was merely trying to see how you’d apply your argument in a historical context, where, I hoped, you’d be able to demonstrate the difference between “discretion” & Natural law when….

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  • well thats not logical since right only carries meaning in cooperation. outside

    well thats not logical since right only carries meaning in cooperation. outside it has none. its just utility and preference. my point is that one cannot possess competitive violence without the wealth to acquire martial advantage. you can raid to that point but aftermust rule.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-01-24 03:38:20 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/956008236485922816

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    @curtdoolittle I submit to that fact, probably more than you would, which is why I go further & say that might is always & everywhere right. I mean…if we operationalized “might”, in the modern context, it would be impossible to produce w/o superior genetic, institutional & cultural capital

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  • Sorry but I can’t untangle that… But I think you might mean that without warra

    Sorry but I can’t untangle that… But I think you might mean that without warranty of reciprocal insurance the incentive to refrain from imposition of costs doesn’t exist – and without sufficient scale is unenforceable. One needs enough insurers in order to ward off competitors.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-01-24 01:19:36 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/955973324844224512

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    @curtdoolittle Under the “default aggression principle”, no person or group is entitled to a state of non-aggression without providing the necessary incentives to *not* “conquer, kill or enslave” them (reciprocity). So might gives a positional advantage that would make distinguishing between…

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