Conspiracies In Our Genes
Women gossip to undermine alphas – and hen peck each other in corporations to the point where they are mutually self destructive. Do they conspire by intent, common interest, or genetic disposition? There are only three possible means of human coercion: violence, remuneration(payment), and undermining (gossip). ie: Established males, ascendent males, and females. We…
Libertarian Pretense Of Paying The High Cost Of Order
—“libertarians aren’t against violence…”— Empty words, because they are untestable words. Which is why libertarian words are, like religion, a comforting deception. 1. The question is not whether one is against aggression, but which cases of aggression. 2. The question is not whether one is against violence buth which cases of violence. …
Cultural Specialization Requires National Specialization
To Jonathan Haidt via twitter: 1) Question. Wealth has allowed us to explore our individual differences, pursue individual preferences, and all but eliminate the dependence upon family. So why is it not deterministic that we will develop demand for separate states to further ends that we can now afford? 2) So, why isn’t…
Is The Proliferation Of Food Allergies A Result Of The Human Race No Longer Adhering To The Survival Of The Fittest Theory And Subsequently Poor Genes That Would Have Previously Died Out Are Now Being Passed On?
no. its due to dietary changes. https://www.quora.com/Is-the-proliferation-of-food-allergies-a-result-of-the-human-race-no-longer-adhering-to-the-survival-of-the-fittest-theory-and-subsequently-poor-genes-that-would-have-previously-died-out-are-now-being-passed-on
Why Is It That Iranian Americans Make More Than Double Income Per Capita Than Iraqi Americans?
There are some questions that you should not ask because they produce answers you will not like. It is my job to answer uncomfortable questions so I’ll give you the respect of the correct answer, if you’ll respect that it might be unpleasant. We were horrified by the Galilean Revolution but we adapted to it…
Which U.s. Allies Would Back Up Their “support” With Actual Troops If America Was Attacked?
There are people with more understanding of field capacity than I have, but as far as I know the only people (a) reading and willing, (b) able to contribute whatsoever, are the British. Unfortunately the british vision of training is going home for dinner at 5:00pm (which our soldiers complain about endlessly.) The French undermine…
Are There Any Benefits To Being White In American Society?
There are worldwide benefits to being white, for the simple reason that we are less suspect of malfeasance because in reality other than the japanese we are statistically less likely to engage in malfeasance. This has largely to do with the fact that we have self-domesticated ourselves over 4000 years if not 20000 years, by…
Is The ACLU Good For America?
I’m going to criticize then compliment the ACLU. CRITICISM – THE SINGULAR IMPORTANCE OF NATURAL LAW (RECIPROCITY)Unfortunately while the ACLU has defended those who need defending, they have also been instrumental in pursuing a set of cases with the objective of using the courts to circumvent the process by which our constitution was designed to…
Why Are Some Very Smart People So Quiet?
I’ll give you a much better answer. 1) You learn fairly quickly that you cannot help people to come to a conclusion faster than they are able to comfortably do so with confidence. 2) You learn fairly quickly that giving them the answer early will lead to resisting it – fighting it, or denying it,…
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—“We have so far identified 162 gene variants that are correlated to higher intelligence and have calculated from what we know that there are at least 100 SDs up for grabs. … people with IQs of 1,600 are yet to come probably before AI.”—
—“Curt, Are Complex Ideas Inaccessible Or Does It Just Take Some People Longer?”—
—“CURT, ARE COMPLEX IDEAS INACCESSIBLE OR DOES IT JUST TAKE SOME PEOPLE LONGER?”— While it should take 110 IQ to pass university courses there are people with 100IQ that manage to do it. (not that they’re taking the hardest courses). As I understand it, it takes a lot longer to learn what…
Could You Possibly Clarify Your Position on ‘Racism’?
–“Hey Curt could you possibly clarify for me your position on ‘racism’? I’m trying to cohesively understand a few different bits and pieces of yours that i’ve read;”— OK. Let’s try. —“”Racism’ is naive” – If you mean forming an individual judgement of a person not by their individual characteristics, but simply by their race,…
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Hey Eric could you possibly clarify for me your position on ‘racism’? I’m trying to cohesively conceptualise a few different bits and pieces of yours that i’ve read; “Racism’ is naive” – If you mean forming an individual judgement of a person not by their individual characteristics, but simply by their race, then…
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–“Extinction level events are WAY too rare.”–
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Curt Doolittle’s answer: The British wanted to (rightly) recover the high cost of defending the colonies, and the colonies didn’t want to pay for it. This process escalated to the point of civil (revolutionary) war. This was extremely foolish for both parties, as creating a house of the colonies ….
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This is not so much a philosophy as the results of science that I can no longer deny, and so I live according to the science – in large part because it is advantageous. 1. We are an expensive life form. Particularly our brains. 2. We must acquire, and we acquire at cost…
Sorry Emma, There Is Never A Reason To Trust Your Own Thoughts
—“If you have an IQ lower than 130, can you trust your own thoughts?”– Emma Hmmm…. Interesting question. Can you trust your own thoughts? Does intelligence mean you can trust your own thoughts? I have an answer for you that you’ll find insightful. Intelligence generally translates to time required to learn –…
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—“If it weren’t for (((Those))) Lawyers we wouldn’t have had the civil rights movement”— Yes and I am educating you about the meaning of rule of law by the test of reciprocity that prevents rule by discretion. Yet these very people destroyed rule of law by intentionally selecting cases to fund and prosecute in…
The Anti-Fictionalist Niceness Scale
Pinker – Always Nice Haidt – As Nice as Possible Peterson – Only as nice as necessary Doolittle – Not Very Nice at all Taleb – Very Not Nice at every opportunity. (OMG Thats awesome William ….)
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(my family gets upset when I say I miss Ukraine, but I miss Ukraine every day so much that it’s like a trauma.)
How Do We Teach Morality If We Disagree What Is Moral?
Because if we disagree, then one, the other, or both, are wrong. There is (both logically and empirically) only one moral law, and it is the basis for all law from the common law to international law : reciprocity. The only question is, given the demographics, economy, norms, and institutions, and traditions, whether…
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Q: “Why do you own an AR-15?” A: “Because I can’t throw a rock 3100 feet per second.” lolz BTW: AR-15 = “Armalite Rifle Model 15” – by Armalite Arms, Hollywood California. (Really).
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Much like Nietzsche said, if there is one man worth inventing time travel so that we can kill, it’s him. He invented the industrialization of lying. Zoroastiranism > Abrahamism > (rabbinical judaism, christianity islam) > four great civilizations destroyed > the abrahamic dark ages > a brief restoration by western civilization (yet again),…
The Weak, The Able, And The Strong
The weak submit, justify and breed, the able compromise and prosper, the strong decide only whether it is better to kill, enslave, enserf, rule, or cooperate Only they decide their destiny. The question of why the strong choose poorly is the only interesting question to ask.
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—“The main reason most people are libertarian is because it gives you a single, simple cheat code that automatically answers every imaginable political question – no hard thinking about cause and effect and the messy nature of implementation and real-world game theory required. It’s a sloppy shortcut towards “winning” debates and not having to deal…