Hazard Creation (Entrapment) As a Group Evolutionary Strategy
[W]e should point out that Tunnel Spider Ethics, and Ghetto ethics, and the use of SEX TO BAIT MEN, are all hazard creators. And that any population (tribe, race, nation) that specializes in feminine strategy, and evolves sufficient right-distribution of the intelligence curve, will develop talents at feminine entrapment: gossip, bait, and parasitism. This is…
Why I don’t Condone Racism
[W]HY I DON’T CONDONE RACISM 1) All groups can transcend the animal and evolve to fully human, and from fully human to our image of gods, if they merely suppress the rates of reproduction of their lower classes. 2) Classes (distributions) matter far more than race. Among elites in all races the primary differences across…
All Groups Are ‘Different’ Morally, Including Jews…. and Westerners
—“Are Jews, (Gypsies, Arabs, Asians, Polynesians) inherently different, morally?”— [E]very group is different morally because every group modifies its strategy as needed in order to compete. Virtue is a competitive strategy, not necessarily an intrinsic good. a) Jews appear fairly constant in lower sexual dimorphism, and/or some reversal of sexual dimorphism (the women more masculine, the…
What I Tell Ukrainians About America
[T]he Great Lies 1) America is just as corrupt as Ukraine, it is just much wealthier. Wealth hides many sins. 2) Great Lie 1: Democracy produces prosperity. Democracy is a luxury good, and the luxury is the product of Rule of Law. Democracy is not in and of itself a good. It is merely a…
Interview on ICTV
“[F]our years ago programmer-philosopher Curt Doolittle decided to leave America for Ukraine. He sold everything in Seattle and here in Ukraine creating a new business.” (4 ???? ???? ??????????-??????? ???? ?????? ??????? ??????? ??????? ? ???????. ??????? ?????? ???, ?? ??? ? ?????? ? ????? ?????????? ??????? ??????.) http://fakty.ictv.ua/ua/index/view-media/id/128663
Interview today.
“[C]urt’s Background is interesting and unusual. 🙂 He left the US and moved to Ukraine. He created a business, which will soon launch and be visible to everyone. 🙂 And he calls Ukraine – his home.” ( ??????? ????? ?????? ? ??????????) ??? ??????? ??? ? ???????? ? ???????. ??? ??????? ??????, ??? ???? ????? ?????????? ???) ? ?? ???…
Demand from Mothers, not Politicians.
[S]o they Reporter asks me “What do you have to say to our politicians about corruption?” I said something along the lines of “nothing. All politicians are corrupt.” Then “The reason they get away with corruption is the person in the mirror: you let them.” Then ” So, I have something to say to Ukrainian…
Truth, by Council or by the Sword
Veritas, aut consilis, aut ense Truth, by council or by the sword. Truth is enough. – Alberto R Zambrano.
Smarter People Won’t Help. It’s About Fewer Dim People
[N]o matter how smart your upper classes they cannot compensate for lower classes. No matter how wealthy your upper classes they cannot compensate for lower classes. If you engineer nearly perfect humans you will end up with around 140 IQ’s. (maybe). And it’s expensive. And so what? They don’t behave any better than people with…
Of Course It’s Possible – and in the end, Profitable.
[I]f Hadrian can build a wall to keep out the Scots there is no reason that Trump cannot build a wall to keep our the Mexicans. If Obama can push through worldwide regulation of bank accounts for tax evasion, Trump can push through national regulation of wire transfers to Mexico, or even shut down the…
Dueling – The Seen and Unseen
[L]ike many things I try to explain, the most important consequence of any action is the UNSEEN, not the seen. Duelling was pretty common, yes. But it’s not the duels that make the difference. Its the exceptionally rigorous public manners that make the difference. Dueling is a cost of creating civil society. So the question…
The Cost of the Seen vs the Unseen
(what is the cost of lying) [W]hat is the cost of requiring due diligence of truthfulness in speech in the commons? That is a silly question. What is the cost of not requiring due diligence of truthfulness in speech in the commons? What is the cost of libel, slander, rallying, shaming, loading, overloading, suggestion? What…
The Most Religious People in the West? (Germans)
[T]he Germans are the most devout, most pious, most religious people in western civilization. They just don’t call it religion. They call it ‘being right’. They made christian morality a post-christian religion. Fascinating. American conservatives treat the constitution with the same sacredness as religious scripture. It is this germanic american religiosity, and continental german religiosity…
OMG Please Don’t Drag Me Into Nazi Nonsense
[Y]es The Nazis tried to remove the undesirables from Europe. They transported these people to resettlement camps. The war failed. They ran out of resources. The resettlement camps turned into death camps. Sure the Jews made a propaganda issue out of it, but so did the rest of the west – the west that germans…
Man is Rational. He Follows Incentives.
**[M]an is not good or bad, he is rational in his choice of cooperation, parasitism, or predation. We must provide him the incentive to choose cooperation. We must not pretend he does not need the incentive.**
The Answer: The Future of Religion
(religion) [J]ust because your ancestors valued a particular comforting lie or falsehood is not a reason to perpetuate the lie or falsehood. We are comfortable now with suppressing lies with physical science where were were not so in the past. We are currently uncomfortable with suppressing lies in social science: ethics, politics, economics,…
Books on Revolutions
[A] lot of work on revolutions is just regurgitation of the American and french, both of which tell us little. And most is meaningless today. For some background I would recommend these: Goldstone’s Short Introduction Goldstone’s Revolutions Brinton’s Anatomy of Revolution The IRA Handbook Search google for “revolutionary handbook” (most are there) Poole’s Tactics of…
Philosophy: Unloaded Science vs Loaded Literature
(important piece on the form and content of philosophy) Testimony vs Literature Truth vs Experience Criticism vs Free Association Survival vs Creativity Deflationary vs Conflationary Clarify vs Obscure Persuasion vs Suggestion Decidability vs Opportunity Decrease Cost vs Increase Cost Save vs Spend Action vs Consumption Production vs Entertainment Science vs Art What is the difference…
Is Philosophy the Literature of Deceit?
[W]hen you switch from the conduct of pedagogy to science, justification to criticism, opportunity searching to error reduction, you see that philosophy has unjustifiably self congratulated itself quite a bit throughout history. And when you find the central problem of epistemology is not improvement of your own meagre ability to produce ideas, but the detection…
(sketch) Science Replaces Philosophy
[S]CIENCE REPLACES PHILOSOPHY Existence (need for action) Aesthetics (the sciences of experiences / experience / spirituality) Testimony (the sciences of truth telling / knowledge / psychology) Law (the sciences of cooperation / each other / sociology) Engineering (the hard sciences / the universe / physics) [M]ETHODS OF COMMUNICATION Law(cooperation), Laws Aesthetics(pleasure), Experiences Literature(conflation), Analogies…
(Diary) Progress on Deception in Literature and Philosophy
[G]reat progress on this problem of literature and deception that I have been struggling with for years. I have these periods where I think I am not making progress, and then I make a great deal of progress in a few days. The periods where I make little progress are just records of the effort…
Myth, Religion, Literature, Philosophy, as Promises of Opportunity for Free Riding
[W]hy do we love myth, religion, literature, philosophy, so dearly and pursue history, science, and the various grammars (logics) of calculation with such reluctance? The method of communication is experiential in the first and not so in the second. Our mythology promises opportunities to free ride. The truth does not.
Wishful Thinkers as Hosts for Deceit
[W]ishful thinkers all, we are easy prey for the literature of deceit whose plots promise free riding in a universe whose red queen we struggle to race. We long for suggestion. We long for entertainment. We long for respite that our Myths, Religion, Literature and philosophy provide for us. But we must not confuse fantasy…
Worth Repeating for Newbs: The End of Pseudo-Austrian(Ukrainian) Libertarianism.
[I] love Hoppe as an involuntary mentor and human being. But I had to reform (kill off) rothbardian libertarianism if I wanted to reunite conservatism (aristocracy) and liberty (anglo libertarianism) A LIST OF HOPPE’S ERRORS http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2015/07/31/a-list-of-hans-hermann-hoppes-errors/ RENDERING ROTHBARD ARGUMENTATIVELY IMPOSSIBLE http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2014/06/20/rendering-rothbardian-fallacies-intellectually-embarrassing-and-argumentatively-impossible/ MISES WORK IS A FAILURE TO DEVELOP ECONOMIC OPERATIONALISM http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2014/06/21/mises-praxeology-as-the-failure-to-develop-economic-operationalism-yes/
Truth: Seeking True Names – The Ultimate Parsimony
[T]here is only one ultimate parsimony available to man. That ultimate parsimony consists of the true names of all that exists in the universe. Truth is the name we use to refer to true names. True names are the ultimately most parsimonious descriptions of whatever phenomenon we wish to convey. Now, others might say…