Curt Doolittle

Theme: Responsibility

  • All human moral intuitions are reducible to prohibitions on imposition against v

    All human moral intuitions are reducible to prohibitions on imposition against various inventories (property).

    Source date (UTC): 2016-05-23 15:02:31 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/734761432374509568

    Reply addressees: @aparanjape @pmarca

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/734611335783272449

    IN REPLY TO:

    @aparanjape

    “Google is doubling down on Artificial Intelligence as the next great phase of Computing” https://t.co/m3h0dcf7oV .. @pmarca

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/734611335783272449

  • How Can Human Rights Be Taken Away?

    Rather foolish question.

    The question is how do we create them in the first place.

    Human rights consist in a list of things we seek to create.

    We are not all that good at creating them.

    And I think the question is still open whether we should create them, or whether people should earn them by their thoughts, words, and deeds.

    https://www.quora.com/How-can-human-rights-be-taken-away

  • How Can Human Rights Be Taken Away?

    Rather foolish question.

    The question is how do we create them in the first place.

    Human rights consist in a list of things we seek to create.

    We are not all that good at creating them.

    And I think the question is still open whether we should create them, or whether people should earn them by their thoughts, words, and deeds.

    https://www.quora.com/How-can-human-rights-be-taken-away

  • DISBARS JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEES HE CAN, AND SENDS THE REST TO ETHICS CLASSE

    http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/judge-orders-ethics-classes-for-deceptive-justice-dept.-attorneys/article/2591815JUDGE DISBARS JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEES HE CAN, AND SENDS THE REST TO ETHICS CLASSES

    —LIARS ALL—

    Source date (UTC): 2016-05-20 05:13:00 UTC

  • CRITICISMS/GOSSIP Post from a friend on the destructive power of gossip really b

    CRITICISMS/GOSSIP

    Post from a friend on the destructive power of gossip really bothered me today. I sympathized.

    I pretty much always have very good intentions. It’s just my nature from growing up in a hostile environment.

    On the other hand, if I did not have good intentions, I would be a very scary person. And worse, I would be exceptionally good at it. “if I wanted to fuck you, then you’d never even know.”

    Why? On the whole, people are not very smart.

    So why not? On the whole, I want to protect them from evil.

    What I have learned however, is that loyalty is rarely rewarded, and creativity is rarely acknowledge, and people universally give themselves disproportionate credit for group achievements.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-05-18 06:35:00 UTC

  • A SHORT COURSE IN PROPERTARIAN ETHICS AND MORALITY

    A SHORT COURSE IN PROPERTARIAN ETHICS AND MORALITY

    http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2015/07/27/a-short-course-in-propertarian-morality-2/

    Source date (UTC): 2016-05-12 13:08:00 UTC

  • Given that we know that even the very stupid fool, the well meaning ignorant, we

    Given that we know that even the very stupid fool, the well meaning ignorant, well intentioned educated, the messianic, sociopathic, and psychopathic, do not always know that they are in fact doing ill, or even if doing evil, then how do any of us know we are good or evil?

    In my mind I try to do good. But how do we know?

    According to Montaigne, we never know we have lived a good life until the moment we die – since we can reverse it with a single action. Worse, he argues that we are most often criticized for the unintended consequences of our moral ambitions, but rarely for those evils we intend. Worse yet, the greater ambition you attempt the more spectacular can be the failure. (The Nazis, Napoleon and the Bolsheviks the most obvious examples.)

    I take bigger risks. most of them work. some of them don’t.

    How does one know?

    We cannot trust the opinions of others. We cannot trust our own opinions. How do we know?

    Source date (UTC): 2016-05-07 09:51:00 UTC

  • The Oath

    “[I] shall not lie, cheat, steal, impose costs upon others or the commons, nor shall I let go unpunished those who do.”

  • The Oath

    “[I] shall not lie, cheat, steal, impose costs upon others or the commons, nor shall I let go unpunished those who do.”

  • ( I often watch crash videos before bed. I love motorcycles. But it’s hard not t

    ( I often watch crash videos before bed. I love motorcycles. But it’s hard not to notice that nearly every single accident is the motorcyclist’s fault. You are invisible. You are small. You are fragile. You are unexpected. WTF is wrong with these people. )

    Source date (UTC): 2016-04-29 14:54:00 UTC