Mankind, Civilization, Culture, Society, Family, Individual
[B]een trying to work on constructing Propertarian definitions for these terms. Ran across this gem, that is very, very close. —“Civilization is fundamentally a cultural infrastructure of information and knowledge that serves survival and continuity. What distinguishes a civilization from a culture is that this infrastructure, having reached a critical level of complexity, becomes autonomous…
What You Do With “Smart” Matters A Lot
[Y]ou can invest your neuronal development in increasing the explanatory power of very narrow concepts, or invest your neuronal development in increasing the explanatory power of very broad concepts. There are THREE reasons why we produce many very smart people in narrow niches, and very few very smart people in broad concepts. 1) First, the…
Testimonialism (Completed Critical Rationalism)
(second draft) (full cycle) (still needs third section) [W]e both perceive, and remember stimuli, and construct and remember relations from that stimuli, and construct and remember layers upon layers of those relations. The acts of planning, calculating, hypothesizing, searching, freely-associating, daydreaming, dreaming, and subconscious association attempt to imagine relations between the entire spectrum of memories…
Information Systems for the Persistence of Man
SYSTEMS G-GENES, 0-PROPERTY, 1-INTUITION, 2-REASON, 3-COOPERATION(REPRODUCTIVE DIVISION OF PERCEPTION, COGNITION, KNOWLEDGE, LABOR) (profound) (worth repeating) [O]ur logical capacity extends to the limits defined by the flight of an arrow. For more complex multi-dimensional relations we resort to the cartesian representations. And if the problem is more complicated than that, then our reason, and ability to…
Saturate The Environment with Truthfulness and People Will Act Truthfully
(By: Curt Doolittle, Johannes Meixner and Andy Curzon) [W]e learn actions by doing. But we learn metaphysics by observation: our most effective learning-by-doing comes from recognizing patterns and habits of others in the environment. Things we take for granted as static, rather than open to our modification. So I tend to see something like programming…
Laws Prohibit Involuntary Transfer. Contracts Exchange Rights.
[I]n writing a new constitution, we can easily deprive the government(producers of commons) and the judiciary(adjudication of law) of the ability to make law. The only laws that can possibly exist are those that prohibit a means of free riding (parasitism/imposing costs). And those laws must be found (discovered), theorized. Conversely, all positive rights can…
Writing: Use of Proper Case
[L]ook. If Popper can use Italics, then I can use Case. (Yet another thing Germans do right.). Proper casing of names of terms cues the reader. Using headlines, callouts, paragraph headlines and then bold on keywords has become common in print because it assists in helping the user scan the text, and to skip what…
Propertarian Arguments are Categorically Proofs. (And a note on painful births 🙂 )
[A] proof is a test of internal consistency. A proof is not a truth proposition. It is merely a statement of existential possibility: that by (a)the given axioms, or (b)the possible operations, and (c) the tests of subjective incentive at each opportunity for choice, that the given argument is possible. Testimonialism and Propertarianism extend Critical…
Q&A: Why Do People Hold Increasingly Radical Positions?
[W]hy do people increase radicalism when confronted with the failure of their ideology? Because they do not hold positions rationally, but to justify their intuitions, and their intuitions exist to advance their reproductive strategies (signals). And so they will fight to defend those signals at all costs, consistently escalating to the point of violence if…
Q&A: Curt. Where Does Pathological Altruism Come From?
“Where does a memeplex based upon pathological altruism come from? And better yet, how to stop it?”—Ed Herzog [R]eally great question. And it’s not that hard to deconstruct into reproductive intuitions. We use contributory commons more than any other group on earth. So, it comes from: (1) Indo-European Heroism; (Uniqueness of the west) (2) Status…
Q&A: Does your methodology work backwards from a presumption? (Sigh. Critique is Everywhere.)
A Question From Benjamin Uraminski Curt, your underlying methodology seems to work backward from a presupposed solution, similar to an algebra problem. In this instance, it having already been decided upon that everything is inherently sexual so that the missing variables which reinforce the preconceived notion appear obvious to one who holds those beliefs. I…
Q: “What is Your Position on Slavery?”
Well, I suppose I have to be impolitic here and just go with the truth. But let me prevaricate a little bit and remind all that my job is to make amoral (non moral, non-introspective) arguments. So I am not going to satisfy your moral intuition’s needs for confirmation in this essay. SLAVERY? [C]ooperation between…
Science And Philosophy: 2500 Years Of Intellectual History Condensed Into 125 Words.
[T]he discipline we call philosophy and the discipline we call science consist of a set of methods (processes) which philosophical science, the social sciences, and the physical sciences, use to launder existential impossibility, limitlessness, error, bias, imaginary content, wishful thinking, deception, and (objective) immorality (in the domain of the social sciences) from our testimony (speech).…
Art is Criticizable. And Like Morality, It’s Objectively Better or Worse
(worth repeating) [A]s for art theory it’s pretty simple stuff. You can read every significant tome on it in a month. (I am honestly not sure that Rand’s book isn’t one of the best really, in retrospect. And I don’t think much of rand as other than the children’s book version of philosophy for newbs.)…
The Meaning of “Incremental Suppression”
(organic common law as a means of incrementally suppressing free riding). [T]he logic of the Incremental Suppression of Free Riding via the evolution of the Common Law. 1) Humans acquire at cost and defend what they have acquired at cost. 2) Cooperation is disproportionately more productive than predation. 3) Cooperation is only preferable to predation…
A Hierarchy of Truths
(worth repeating) [A] hierarchy of Truths: True enough to imagine a conceptual relationship True enough for me to feel good about myself. True enough for me to take actions that produce positive results. True enough for me to not cause others to react negatively to me. True enough to resolve a conflict without subjective opinion…
Truth is a Very Expensive Norm – That’s Why No One Else Does It.
(guaranteed to make people angry)(sketch) [H]IERARCHY OF TRUTHFUL CULTURES -TRUTHFUL-GERMANIC EUROPE (non-ideological)ANGLO/AMERICAN (ideological optimism)INDIA (utopian idealism and justification) -DECEPTIVE-JEWISH (circumstantial truth, dual ethics, framing and overloading: pseudoscience and pseudorationalism and informational asymmetry)CHINA (creative lying, obscurantism, and delaying, lying as buying time, avoiding conflict, accumulating strength.) -DECEITFUL-RUSSIA (outright lying and cheating, non-contractual, lying as strength,)ISLAM/ARAB (denial…
Truth: Why is Propertarianism Different?
[B]ecause while a number of other philosophers have come to the conclusion that all we must do is tell the truth, no other philosopher has told you how you can tell the truth: by speaking truthfully: by providing the warranty that you have performed due diligence on any speech that you place into the informational…
Moral Objectivity or Relativity?
[M]orality is as absolute as mathematics. Everything else is not morality but competitive strategy: contractual variations upon objective morality. Just as all law is as absolute as mathematics but all legislation contractual variation (or command). The conflation of morality with strategy, and law with command is a long-standing problem in rational philosophy. The law and…
Lending Then Repossessing Your Violence
[I] was born with a wealth of violence. I lend that violence to the state to use on my behalf collective gain. However, should the state no longer work in my interests, or should any man break my contract for cooperation, I reserve my right to withdraw my deposit of violence and use it to both…
Position on Marriage? It’s a Contract.
[M]y position is that the state has no place in private contracts, and that a marriage is a private contract. My concern is that the nation produce laws for individuals and policy for families and this may further reduce the policy bias toward the family as a unit of production and reproduction, and increasingly toward…
Have We Passed Peak Human?
PEAK HUMAN? [O]MG. What if we have passed ‘peak human’ already? What if it is not possible to improve upon late hunter-gatherer genetics, and that urbanization has produced increasingly aggressive, less intelligent, more impulsive peoples? What if inbreeding, low IQ, higher aggression, and higher reproduction are a superior evolutionary strategy? Source: Curt Doolittle
Suicidal Tendencies
[C]HRISTIANITY AND NEO-PURITANISM(SECULAR CHRISTIANITY) ARE AN ECONOMIC ADVANTAGE AND AN EVOLUTIONARY DISADVANTAGE Kinship extension is inferior to aggression. Expand or die. Source: (2) Curt Doolittle
Why Doesn’t Christianity Always Work Everywhere?
[W]ell it does really. You can see that everywhere it’s adopted. You will get a better economy. Period. When Christians leave, the economy will get worse. Period. But incentives are incentives are incentives. So non-european countries have serious impediments to high trust. 1) Authoritarian political orders evolved from dispute resolution such as the irrigation areas…
Explained: The Christian Idea
[T]he Christian idea is to create high trust by extending kinship ‘love’ to non-kin, by ignoring our animal impulses evolved for status competition and accumulation, thereby reducing the friction of familism, clannishness and tribalism, and increasing the velocity of cooperation. By attributing status to the extension of kinship love to non-kin, Christian groups eliminate the possibility…