Curt Doolittle

Theme: Sex Differences

  • MORAL INTUITION IS JUST YOUR GENES TALKING That’s it. You might be able to intui

    MORAL INTUITION IS JUST YOUR GENES TALKING

    That’s it. You might be able to intuit very simple common moral values, but your gender, social class, economic class, and family structure are reflections of your genes, genetic history, and are simple expressions of those genes.

    And your genes are competing with other genes – either with more numerous “worse” genes, or less numerous “better” genes, for higher status, better allies, and better mates. And as such we advocate if not outright demand adherence to our moral code in order to cooperate with others. We offer cooperation to those who benefit our genes, and deny it to those who compete with our genes.

    And what little reason we can muster, and struggle to put under the discipline of our will, is subject to the multitudinous whispers of those genes as they influence our intuition (subconscious), and our intuition influences our perception (consciousness), and our consciousness influences our reason.

    Our will is vastly outnumbered by an invisible hierarchy of secret police that conspires to serve our genes regardless of our reason and will.

    And so we cannot rely upon our moral intuition to determine what is best for anything other than ourselves. We require measures of everyone else’s moral intuitions – the voices of their genes.

    But even if we possess such data does that mean that there is some optimum moral code for all of us to adhere to? Not really. We are optimistic cooperators, and constant competitors.

    While we cannot agree upon ends, since that would mean the willing sacrifice of some of our genes for those of others, and result in dysgenic devolution, which cannot be cast as ‘good’, we can agree to cooperate on means, such that we do not constrain one another’s genes, nor assume we have the wisdom to choose which genes best suit human reality.

    PROPERTARIANISM IS CALCULABLE – THE LOGICAL ARTICULATION OF INTUITIONS TO RATIONAL FORM

    Propertarianism, the missing logic of cooperation, the missing logic of ethics, the missing logic of politics, allows us to discuss all moral systems in transparent, rational terms.

    Praxeology was a failure. But it doesn’t have to be. Propertarianism repairs praxeology.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-26 02:51:00 UTC

  • I know you are an average Ukrainian girl, and act just like every other ukrainia

    I know you are an average Ukrainian girl, and act just like every other ukrainian girl: practicing to be supermodel. But my friends are mostly not Ukrainian or Russian and your sexy profile photos make me look more lecherous than I really am… lol. I am flirty but not lecherous.

    Caveat : I already know what you are going to say: “Silly shy Americans…I am Ukrainian.”. lol

    I know. They are just jealous. We have this saying: “If you have it, flaunt it.” And you have it. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-25 02:35:00 UTC

  • CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS: HALF NAKED FASHION I still can’t really adjust to the fac

    CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS: HALF NAKED FASHION

    I still can’t really adjust to the fact that summer basically means women wear sheer, effectively transparent clothing over designer underwear and high heels. I feel like I’m seeing something I’m not supposed to. (How puritanical.)

    It’s really, well, like not fair to have this ‘disability’ where your whole brain just shuts down when you see a troop (pack?) of women walk by dressed like that – and it’s not special. it’s just normal dress for them.

    V says “Don’t be stupid. We are not shy American girls.” (She thinks I’m pretty stupid about a lot of things it turns out. lol)

    V has been hitting the gym, with a trainer, three days a week, two hours a day, and she looks mindblowingly good. She punched me yesterday, (V is definitely a Ukrainian) and I was kind of surprised that it hurt. 🙂 So she stole my cookies and told me that when she was ‘fatter’ that it was OK, but I cannot be fat again if she can’t. lol

    You know, Celts tend to have bigger chest cavities (me). Germans tend to be bigger “sturdier” all around, and Slavs are much more lithe. These people here are so beautiful. Poles have been exporting genes to all of eastern europe. And now that I see it (that taller thinner german thing) I see it everywhere. The Scandinavians really got the best genes, and if you look at the (few) real dutch they really take the genetic cake. Tall, smart, strong, and healthy. I feel like a little breton runt of the litter next to them. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-20 08:40:00 UTC

  • UNDERSTANDING ASPIE DIFFICULTIES – AND OVERCOMING THEM The problem with understa

    UNDERSTANDING ASPIE DIFFICULTIES – AND OVERCOMING THEM

    The problem with understanding the autism spectrum is two fold: first, we have to understand that this ‘exaggerated maleness’ is the product of damage to the brain, or at least, inhibited growth to the brain, in utero. And second, that with that damage, comes a very narrow means of obtaining normal chemical rewards. Furthermore, the normal process of male maturation via testosterone in puberty further decreases the ability to obtain rewards. Leaving information as one of the only available forms of stimuli.

    So, with very narrow means of obtaining positive rewards, the maturing male aspie is highly susceptible to simple depression if he cannot find any means of stimulation, or to information based obsession if he finds a sufficiently rewarding interest, or to mania if he encounters frustration, exhaustion or depression followed by extremes stimuli as a means of escaping frustration, exhaustion or depression – to the same degree that many males are susceptible to periods of aggression, or risk taking to obtain their rewards. Whereas their female counterparts have the opposite problem – they can’t shut off all the sensations.

    The only cure I know of is, if one cannot find a sufficiently obsessive interest, is to limit chaotic over-stimulation which can easily cause exhaustion or depression, and get regular exercise, rest, and neurogenic stimulation via SSRI’s. SSRI’s are called anti-depressants, because that’s what we use them for, but a good number of them largely facilitate neurogenesis. And whether we are generating new neurons, or just improving the connectivity of neurons, we have greater success in creating rewards by experience and association with better neural pathway generation.

    I finally got control of mine after a great deal of effort. And my distraction was that I actually love working. I love everything about it. Because work is physical and social and aspies want social contact, even if we are bad at it. We will usually try hard to learn. And people will help you if you ask them, and don’t take yourself too seriously. I mean, some people are hard of hearing, some are color blind, and some of us just are a bit clueless. But most other human beings are pretty forgiving if you’re just honest with them and say “Did I just say or do something stupid? Oh..Ok. Sorry. Thanks.” Laugh when everyone else does. Always support the group decision even if you don’t agree with it. Voluteer to help or work at every opportunity. And pay the tolls that we must pay for social participation when we have less to contribute to social signals.

    Aspieness is pretty easy to grow out of, but through your twenties, it’s pretty difficult to live with. And it’s tyranny to live with between twelve and twenty two.

    But we would be much better off if we understood that it is caused by a difference in the rate of growth of areas of the brain. And that until we create new neural pathways that allow us new means of positive solutions, we are, like those who are tone deaf or color blind, equally unable to perceive many of the senses that others take for granted, many of those senses contain reward and punishment signals we cannot learn from, and we are extremely susceptible to problems that arise from the lack of rewards and information.

    If we restated therapy as tutoring for aspies, then I’d accept it. I don’t have much respect for the profession. But neurogenic drugs, and education, will grow new means of achieving stimulation. It’s kind of unnecessary and unpleasant to wait until your late twenties or early thirties before you start experiencing life comfortably.

    I hope this helps someone, somewhere, just a little bit.

    Curt Doolittle

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-20 04:39:00 UTC

  • MOMS: The problem with this metric is that it doest differentiate by race and in

    http://heartiste.wordpress.com/2014/06/17/there-are-single-moms-and-then-theres-everyone-else/SINGLE MOMS:

    The problem with this metric is that it doest differentiate by race and income.

    Whore that I am, scoundrel that I am, I have to support monogamy. Even if it means the mediterranean model. The family is so important that even state redistribution cannot compensate for its absence. There is a difference between insuring tragedy (accident), and funding social disintegration (redistribution). My empathy is one thing. But the evidence is something else. Families are just better. So the only way to fix this is to remove insurance, and increase the moral hazard. That won’t affect teh middle class, but it will affect the underclasses. And that’s who is creating all the problem.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-18 06:13:00 UTC

  • CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS: MOMMY TRAINING AND MORE American women need classes in ba

    CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS: MOMMY TRAINING AND MORE

    American women need classes in baby care and child rearing. (Really. hospitals often require it.). And pretty often in cooking. But here in Kiev, where it seems like every woman in her twenties that I know, if not teens, has a small child, they have this novel way of training: they help each other, and they help other women in their families. Sort of ‘hands on training’. Same for cooking. I mean, all the girls can cook, and they don’t think of it as a chore. It’s like breathing.

    Kids get LOTS of attention. So they aren’t trying to get attention all the time. It seems that slavic children (and adults) appear to be less aggressive and impulsive. Which isn’t true of Georgians and other black haired tribes to the south and east. I need to get some data on it. Because I’m skeptical that it’s something else. But it seems pretty much the case.

    Mysticism, or, I don’t know what to call it, but all the orthodox countries have it, and russians more so: this strange fatalism or belief ‘things work out this way’ as if they never heard of catallactic and self organizing processes. Or in the Russian case: the fear of not knowing something requires ignorance be replaced by confidence in pseudoscience. (I wonder how crazy this culture was before the communists just wiped out church mysticism.).

    I dunno. But you know, if you have to live a lifestyle, the whole extended family thing is pretty awesome. And I think it is MUCH BETTER FOR MEN than the ANF which statistically, in a migratory industrial population, leaves you old, lonely, poor, and increasingly suicidal.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-15 15:00:00 UTC

  • WOMEN HAVE NO PLACE IN COMBAT

    https://www.vdare.com/posts/study-finds-women-dont-belong-in-combatOBVIOUS: WOMEN HAVE NO PLACE IN COMBAT

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-13 03:05:00 UTC

  • Since moral differences are expressions of differences in reproductive strategy,

    Since moral differences are expressions of differences in reproductive strategy, and since moral intuitions are reflections of those differences, and since we appear out of necessity to be morally blind to competing sets of differences, then moral intuition tells us noting whatsoever. We can agree to cooperate on means, but we cannot agree to cooperate on ends. In the end, we are competing, and the byproduct of our reproductive cooperation is generally beneficial for all. Government can be used to transfer the benefits between classes (as it has been for 150 years) at the expense of dysgenic reproduction.

    The value of property rights (propertarianism) is that it reduces all statements to non-moral form.

    Property is the logic of cooperation.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-09 09:14:00 UTC

  • RIGGING AGAINST WHITE MALES

    http://feedly.com/k/1rNObgNBALLOT RIGGING AGAINST WHITE MALES

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-05 06:43:00 UTC

  • PITIFUL RETIREMENT AND SINGLE PARENTHOOD IN EXCHANGE FOR GENOCIDE AND CULUTURECI

    PITIFUL RETIREMENT AND SINGLE PARENTHOOD IN EXCHANGE FOR GENOCIDE AND CULUTURECIDE

    We can construct equal property rights adjudicable under the law. We can construct redistribution programs among near kin, nor extend redistribution to non-kin. And we cannot construct equality of outcome. If we do, we will merely be conquered (as we are being) by those that do not practice such equalitarianism. Early retirement is too high a cost of genocide. That is the bargain the left is offering us. Genocide and culturecide in exchange for elder comfort instead of a life of savings and elder consumption. The only growth that is meaningful is the increase in productivity independent of the increase in consumption due to expansion of population.

    You cannot cheat physics in the long run.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-04 10:26:00 UTC