Smartness vs Genius
There is a big difference between smartness and genius. I consider quite a few people smarter than I am in this dimension or that – and I think it’s related to their ability to master things like chess, chemistry, and mathematics, using axiomatic systems to permute applications of rules within the limits of the game.…
Literary Philosophy Is Just Speculative Fiction
Friday, August 5, 2016 at 2:18pm [I]t’s probably about time to classify Continental Philosophy as little more than a bridge between historical and fictional literature. – operational documentation, – descriptive historical literature, – propositional philosophical literature, – authoritarian pseudoscientific literature – authoritarian supernatural mythical literature – escapist fanciful fictional literature, – a parable – poetry
E-Prime Lesson of The Day
THE RULE: DISALLOWED WORDS – NO “GOD MODE SPEECH”. —E-Prime does not allow the conjugations of the verb “to be”, such as “be”, “am”, “is”, “are”, “was”, “were”, “been”, “being”; the archaic forms of to be (e.g. “art”, “wast”, “wert”), or the contractions of to be (e.g. “I’m”, “he’s”, ” she’s”, or “they’re”).— REVERSAL:…
The New “Right” Class Structures
I got a lot of heat for this so I pulled it and sat on it for a week. And this morning I’ve added some notes to it for clarity. And sorry if it pisses people off, but it’s right. It is what it is.
Monopoly State Education?
Q&A: —“What are your thoughts on universal public education being provided by the state.”— GREAT QUESTION WHEREAS (1) Education provides both offensive and defensive benefits. So (a) Offensively, it increases the possibility of productivity (a commons). And (b) Defensively it reduces crime(loss), insurance(restitution) and welfare (prevention) costs. (Humans are really expensive things.) While we probably…
Revolutions In Strategic Context
Aug 13, 2016 12:18pm Everyone knows how to fix Ukraine. But no one in the country has the power to do it. And the only external group willing to use power to do it, will just make it worse (Russians). Even though the optimum people to do it are their genetic siblings right next door…
Ancient Group Strategies Writ Large
– FORESTLANDS: Aristocratic Ethics: What will someone not retaliate against even if we agree to it?(rulers/teleological ethics:outcomes) The ethics of warriors who must hold territory. This is a very high cost strategy because while professional warrior aristocracy is militarily superior, smaller numbers mean threats must be constantly suppressed when small, as soon as identified. –…
Limits Of Political Action
No political action may be taken that is not reversible. Or framed alternatively: no action may be taken that one cannot pay restitution for the consequences. Or framed alternately: no government had the right to pursue immigration.
The Subtle Cause Of Differences In Races And Tribes
The ethnically Dutch are definitely the ‘master tribe’ by any empirical measure. The ethnically north sea (Danes, Swedes, Norwegians, Finns and North Germans) are an obvious distance behind. If for no other reason than there is greater territorial distance between them and the less evolved people (resistance to invasive genes), and the difficulty of surviving…
Q&A: The Importance of Aristotle?
—“Hi, Curt. Currently going through your reading list. Trying to make myself the best propertarian I can so I can help spread the message. There are plenty of libertarians and conservatives who would take to propertarianism if they got the message. My question is to you what do you think the significance of Aristotle’s work…
Q&A: What’s Wrong With Capitalism?
—“What is wrong with capitalism? Can it be solved by economic theories alone, or is it a leadership problem as well?”— Well, let’s take a ‘meaningful’ name: “capitalism”, and restated it operationally, using a ‘true’ name: What problems arise from the voluntary organization of production distribution and trade(capitalism) with individual distribution of property rights providing…
Information Is A Form Of Production No Different From Any Other
–“You’ve said that you see information as a commodity and therefore lies should be punishable fraud. Could you expand on what you mean as a commodity and how you would determine what forms of “lies” (you usually say leftist pseudo-science) should be punished?”— I said I see information as a kind of production that is…
Q&A On Alt-Right Strategy
—“Hi Mr. Doolittle, From my (very limited) knowledge of your work, you seem very concerned with legal rights and economic questions (based upon a moral framework), which is a definite departure from many on the Alt-Right who focus primarily on socio-political issues. Do you think it’s a weakness of our movement to avoid discussion of…
Pinker’s Criticism Of Taleb Is Taleb’s Doing But…
Taleb is right, Pinker is wrong, but Taleb makes his arguments to general principles rather than operational explanations. This is why we must have empiricism AND operationalism in scientific assertions. This is why people like Taleb must work top down (empirically) and others like me must work bottom up (operationally). And why opportunities to do…
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—“All improvement in cooperation comes from parallel increases in informational quality++ and theft/fraud/conspiracy suppression–.”— Something I posted on twitter in response to this question. Man is a rational actor. He acts in his rational self-interest at all times, choosing immoral and moral actions by intuitive cost vs benefit; and we can find no exceptions other…
Garrett Lisi on His Theory of Everything
A Ted Talk that doesn’t suck and doesn’t require magic http://www.ted.com/talks/garrett_lisi_on_his_theory_of_everything
Q&a:Curt: Is There Any Morality Beyond Self Interest?
—“Do you believe that morality beyond self-interest is entirely false as a result?”— I don’t believe in anything, because the term is archaic. I can state that it’s a strong truth candidate, because despite extremely exhaustive efforts by highly biased researchers, we cannot find a single instance of moral action that is not in itself…
Q&A: —“Curt: How Does Conservatism Differ From Ideology”—
Short answer? Empiricism vs Irrationalism Curt said: —I’ll say that I use the language of natural law to construct institutions of natural law: exchange, rather than trying to argue that one position is superior to another in order to enforce a monopoly decision that I prefer over the monopoly decisions that others prefer— . Other…
Q&a: A Gentle Eugenics?
–What is the gentlest way to restrain underclass reproduction?– The gentlest way to restrain underclass reproduction is to be honest about it, transfer from services to direct redistribution, and to make redistribution contingent on single child reproduction, and offer free sterilization after the fist birth, and require sterilization of those with severe histories in the…
Q&a: Curt: Can We Shape Capitalism Or Is It Just Demographics?
—Do you think that national culture can shape capitalism to be an effective force without the downward shift of consumer choice tending toward mass culture, and government corruption? Or does it all come down to demographics?— It’s just demographics and redistribution. Better demographics, more homogenous demographics greater redistribution lower personal consumption for the purpose of…
Q&a: Curt: What’s Your Criticism Of Kant?
—Curt, Thanks for doing this. I would appreciate it if you could expand upon your criticism of Kant and what exactly he got wrong (and what he got right if anything). What is the problem with Critique of Pure Reason?— I think anyone can read wikipedia and understand the philosophical criticisms of Kant. I think…
Q&A: Two Questions: Operationalism, And Nick Land.
First, I don’t use the term ‘verifiable’ because that implies the fallacy of justificationism. For a general rule to exist and be non-false, we attempt to demonstrate determinism ( regularity, consistency ) of that general rule in every *dimension*: categorical consistency, internal consistency, external consistency, moral consistency, scope consistency(limits, full accounting, and parsimony). So in…
Q&a: How Do You Propose We Restore Eugenics?
Aug 15, 2016 2:07pm —You wrote earlier about the differences in races being, in part, a difficulty for certain peoples to cull the lower classes. Would you be in favour of an organized plan of eugenics in order to correct this?— I advocate that we are not conducting a trade with the lower classes, and…
How Do We Shift The Overton Window
Q&A: —How do we shift the Overton window to the right so that we can talk about our ideas in public and on campus again?— Moral men need a reason to demand change under the threat of violence. We need to give them: 1) a set of demands to alter the status quo. 2) a…
Q&A: “Curt: Does Eugenic Reproduction Place Too Much Power In The Hands Of Government?”
Great question, let’s take another example: Economists argue one group is correct or incorrect, but this is false framing of the discipline. The discipline of economics can be broken into three schools that describe a degree of discretion. The Austrian(aristocratic/ conservative) school pursues social science: the means by which we improve (reduce the frictions) of…