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Privatization is Not an Intrinsic Good
[W]ell, the Nobility in western Europe privatized everything and in doing so virtually enslaved Western Europeans. They were civilized by the church, each other and competition for commerce, and eventually displaced, or as in the case of France – murdered wholesale. The rest of Europe surrendered rather than face the same fate. The “Nobles” in…
Q&A: Curt, Where is a Virtue Ethics?
Q&A: CURT, WHAT ABOUT INSPIRATION? WHERE IS VIRTUE? [W]ell, that is deceptively complex question. The problem of my (our) era, is the accumulated damage caused by the enlightenment failures on western civilization and our subsequent conquest by primitivism and primitive peoples. I’ve enumerated the reasons for this failure elsewhere repeatedly: the enfranchisement of women in…
Mind: Against The Puppeteer
[O]r: System G (genes), System 0 (property), System 1 (intuition/search), System 2 (reason) The ‘puppeteer’ (returns search results constantly) The mind handles exceptions (or disparate choices) Negotiation (morality) is an exception handler. I disagree with Chomsky, and I am fairly sure that Jeff Hawkins, and Kahnemann and his references, are correct: we just constantly search…
Economic Velocity and Trust
(important concept) [S]pectrum: American Utopianism (absurdly high trust) British Moralism (very kinship trust) German Realism (high trust) Catholic Familialism (medium trust) Eastern European Skepticism (low trust) Russian Nihilism (no trust) Chinese Deceive and Delay (negative trust)
Reviewing the Last Six Years of Progress on Propertarianism
[M]y first draft in 2006, in retrospect, is almost embarrassing. My second draft in 2010, was fairly complete, but when I got to the section where I requried truth telling in government, I’d focused on ‘calculability’ and ‘traceabilty’ as means of preventing abuses of funds, and abuses of the law. My third draft in 2013…
Propertarian Metaphysics
(from reddit) [W]e must act to acquire. Actions exist. We require an epistemology for acting. We must cooperate. We require an epistemology for cooperation. If we cannot act or testify in some context then for us it does not exist for the purpose of our existence. If we can act or testify in some context…
On Measured IQ vs Demonstrated Intelligence
http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.com/…/do-you-really-und… [B]ruce, Demonstrated intelligence is a subject I work quite hard on so I think I might try to change your mind a bit, by at the very least giving you a different framework and language for approaching it. DEMONSTRATED INTELLIGENCE I think I understand the difference between DEMONSTRATED intelligence, and the aggregate and commensurable…
Haidt’s Relevance to Politics and Law
THE RELEVANCE OF HAIDT’S WORK TO POLITICS AND LAW ( RE: http://lesswrong.com/…/what_is_moral_foundation_theory_goo…/ ) [I]’ve written quite a bit about Haidt in my work on Propertarianism. Perhaps I can move the discussion out of the psychological and often pseudoscientific (preferential experience) and into the legal and often scientific (necessary cooperation) 1) Haidt’s Moral foundations are reducible…
Christian Love and Propertarianism
[I]f you haven’t noticed, I’ve bought the love thing hook line and sinker. I tell other men I love them on a daily basis. And it’s infectious. We don’t support each other enough. Our culture tells us to be stalwart stoic warriors in the germanic tradition. But we no longer have normative means of obtaining…
The Cost of Teaching Truth
[T]HE OBVERSE The day before yesterday, I met a very interesting fellow, who though a decade older, and part of the 60/70s generation (Hippies) instead of the 70’s/80’s generation (Yuppies); also of English extraction (of the taller kind), obviously someone in the same iq range; he, like many musicians was a bohemian, author of some…
Full Spectrum Incremental Pacification
Full Spectrum of Pacification: 1 – Reproductive limitation. 2 – Incremental Suppression. 3 – Physical Removal. 4 – Genetic Pacification (Hanging). 5 – Culling (Casualties).
Eli and Curt on Methodological Individualism
Eli Harman Methodological individualism: individuals form groups. Curt Doolittle Individuals cooperate in groups because cooperation is the most scarce and most valuable resource, so disproportionately rewarding that we spent millennia trying to find anything even close to it – and without it we can rarely survive.
Q&A: Curt Can You Give Me Simple Answers?
—“So how does one define morality in this view [Propertarianism]? What is its foundation?”— At a minimum, non-impositions of costs upon property-en-toto, and at the median a prohibition on free riding, and at the maximum the requirement for mutual insurance, thus preserving the incentive to cooperate and gain the disproportionate rewards of cooperating all along…
The State of NRx and its Relation to Propertarianism
AN ANALYSIS OF THE STATE OF NRx AND ITS RELATION TO PROPERTARIANISM (from elsewhere) RE: https://thespiritualsun.wordpress.com/2015/08/04/a-catalog-of-unforced-errors/ [G]reat post. I’ve been looking for a way to riff off of someone else’s work. This is a good opportunity. Sorry if this is a bit long. I just went through the points and captured my thoughts as I went…
Should We Stop ‘Dumb’ People from Voting?
[T]he Monarchy (Hereditary self interest), The Nobility (Military Men Who Defend Territory), The Bourgeoisie/House (Business and Finance who produce Goods and Services), The Church/Proletarians (Dependents who require support). If each of these houses exists, those with related interests can vote for the advocacy of their interests (cultural persistence, military service and security, money and property,…
Not So Fast. They Buy Our Stuff, But Remain Unpacified.
[U]nfortunately, no other culture, even the catholic states, approaches protestant high trust (and therefore economic velocity). We have genetically pacified northern Europe aggressively for a millennium, practiced delayed reproduction an eugenic mating for just as long, and pacified through eugenic manorialism less so for millennia before that. http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2015/08/america_takes_o.html Cultures can adopt technology, but it has…
Economists Start To See The Virtue of Operationalism in Computer Science.
[M]athematics is a weakness not a strength in the absence of operations. Mathematical logic is dependent upon ‘independence of scale’. But it remains dependent upon existential possibility. And existential possibility is the test provided by operational definitions. (And yes, despite this bit of brevity I can defend that argument.) http://www.env-econ.net/2015/08/coding.html Something that is not well…
New Video: Circumpolar Civilization
[E]xplaining why we have failed to integrate Russians into western Civilization despite their membership in Christendom and their obvious similarities to Americans: trust. This is a rather deep video that demonstrates the distribution of trust from Chinese “delay and deceive” constant deception, to Russian/Muslim “honor in lying”, to German Truth and Duty, to British moral…
Q&A: Boosting our Spirits: Love Your Kin. Reproduce Your Kin. We Will Win.
—“Curt: Maybe I’m wrong; maybe I misread it; maybe you aren’t so in favor of the continuation of violent types as have come from my family,”— I am trying to RESTORE violence to political discourse. When I talk about genetic pacification I’m criticizing IMPULSIVITY not violence. I want men to be violent in the suppression…
Aristocracy A Better Evolutionary Strategy for Whom?
[A]RISTOCRACY IS A BETTER EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGY FOR EVERYONE WHO IS *NOT* A FREE RIDER OR PARASITE. Aristocracy suppresses free riding, opportunistic profiting from free riders, and conquest by free riders.