RT @DegenRolf: Women who engage in casual sex are falsely assumed to have low self-esteem. https://psyarxiv.com/rc2d3/ https://t.co/l0ZIsgqjae
Source date (UTC): 2020-04-28 03:37:59 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1254978138922274817
Artworks, whether craft, decoration, design, or art, need only fulfill their promise. This is why student and amature art fails. In order to fulfill the minimum promise the work must not make false promise. We can appreciate good craft, decoration, design, and art. We can appreciate all the arts by the same criteria: craft, decoration, design, and art.
Japanese ritualistic behavior in food preparation, cooking carpentry, and the crafts is the best example of institutionalized excellence. Italian design has never been equalled. Gothic architecture never equalled. German music never equalled. Russian literature never equalled.
Source date (UTC): 2020-04-27 13:07:00 UTC
“CURT: WHAT IS EXCELLENCE?”
What is excellence? Excellence is Art.
DISAMBIGUATION (Properties)
1. craftsmanship (physical action)
2. … … materials (physical materials)
3. aesthetics (senses, design)
4. … … form follows function (without excess)
5. meaning (mind, content, associations)
6. … … captures a period in time (index)
7. uniqueness (novelty)
8. … … fulfills its promise (is ‘honest’)
9. competitiveness (by triangulation)
Culminates in Excellence
All human action can be tested by this method.
All of it. Everything humans do.
CAUSALITY
“Fertility”
“Beauty is the presence of resources”
“Excellence is the presence of Human Investment”
“Human investment is the evidence of time invested”
“The evidence of human mind and hand”
HIERARCHY
Children > Amature > Student > Practitioner > Craftsman > Master Craftsman > Artist > Representative of Movement > Peak of Movement > Peak Across Movements
Source date (UTC): 2020-04-27 13:03:00 UTC
The best art is always made for sale.
Why?
Source date (UTC): 2020-04-27 11:47:00 UTC
RT @hbdchick: the moral story of the various pandemic reactions we’re seeing is (i think, maybe) my favorite: the differences between parti…
Source date (UTC): 2020-04-27 02:25:56 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1254597617918644224
People make art either for self indulgence, approval, revenue, or influence.
Source date (UTC): 2020-04-26 08:44:00 UTC
People make art either for self indulgence, approval, revenue, or influence.
Source date (UTC): 2020-04-26 08:43:00 UTC
HOW HUMANS ADAPT MORE THAN EVOLVE
In my work, I assume that very little genetic ‘evolution’ occurs at all. And that instead, humans possess an extraordinary ability to express multiple evolutionary strategies in response to changes, pressures, and shocks.
We can call upon an amazing wealth of genetic expression of ability if we need to. And it can occur rapidly by institutional and status shifts, or slowly over centuries.
So I see our genes as an inventory of expressible biases that in combinations produce very different divisions of perception, cognition, knowledge and labor. From the effeminate Ashkenazi gender reversal, to the physical immaturity of Asians, to the masculine African and Muslim, and to everything in between.
It’s not clear that we haven’t already passed ‘peak human’ and that once we stopped speciation with the development of large populations, long range trade, and cities. In other words, it’s adaptively preferable to have a large dumb aggressive, highly reproductive, consumptive, expansionary society rather than the benevolent and advanced worlds of star trek we imagine. If anything history shows that civilizations grow to the point where they have funded the evolution of competitors who then conquer them.
But we have this wonderful adaptive hierarchy available to us.
1) LEVEL ONE (gender bias)
{Paternal, Sovereign, Meritocratic, Eugenic, Packs (K)}
+
{Maternal, Collective, Equalitarian, Dysgenic, Herds (R)}
=
Adaptive flexibility.
2) LEVEL TWO (dimorphism)
{Increased sexual dimorphism, Decreased sexual Dimorphism}
+
{Increased sexual maturity, Decreased Sexual Maturity}
= Adaptive Flexibility
3) LEVEL THREE (redistribution)
Normative and Institutional Redistribution of reproduction (shift)
+
Normative and Institutional Suppression of class reproduction (shift)
= Adaptive Flexibility
4) LEVEL FOUR (mating)
Assortative mating and Late Marriage vs Arranged Mating and early marriage.
= Adaptive Flexibility
5) LEVEL FIVE (signals)
Status Signals => Behavioral Expression of Gene Expression
= Adaptive Flexibility
6) LEVEL SIX (design)
Education, Training, and Genetic Manipulation.
= Adaptive Flexibility
With these various methods we can produce a population for almost any purpose within a generation or two.
Source date (UTC): 2020-04-25 12:25:00 UTC
WHY DO YOU NEED IT?
What makes you think your theology, philosophy, or ideology is any different than putting cheese in a maze to bait a rat to work his way through it? It’s not.
Why do we need these things? Because otherwise, in a division of labor larger than the tribe, the universe is un navigable, because it’s incalculable by the human brain.
Why do we need units of measure, money, counting and accounting – and now banking and economics?
Because otherwise the world we live in is not only incalculable but its impossible to sense and perceive.
There are only three sets of laws: Physical, Natural, and Evolutionary.
There is only one goal: Transcendence.
There is only one purpose: Persistence (reproduction).
There is only one choice: What you do with the time you were born with.
To do so we need physical fitness, mindfulness, training(norms), knowledge (education), and skills (in production).
To obtain them we need each other in a vast division of perception, cognition, knowledge and labor.
And there is no better combination than sport (fitness), stoicism (mindfulness(negativa)), epicureanism (choice(positiva)), natural law (training), the sciences (education), and a craft (skills), and a family, friends, allies, market, polity, and nation to do it with.
Because you have no choice until you have agency.
And what you’ve just read is the recipe for agency.
After that its just choice.
Source date (UTC): 2020-04-25 11:12:00 UTC
MALE FEMALE COGNITION IN MATH IS INSIGHTFUL
Very interesting insight into mathematics is that the mathematicians who by far, best explain mathematics as a language are women. While the mathematicians that practice mathematics have a tendency to platonism. This is interesting in that for men the spatial-mathematical world is existential and for women its predominantly verbal. And we see this same differences in gender behavior across the spectrum with women providing empirical insight and men providing theoretical insight. Just as we see in all workplaces women are usually superior at many empirical details and certainty and men are superior at coalescing theoretical innovations and risks.
To educate people in ‘what is math’ (a language of positional names) I would interview four specific women. If I wanted to educate people in the language of logic-proper I’d ask one woman.
If I wanted to extend mathematics from points to geometric combinatorics (i do) I’d interview the same number of men.
Just odd that it’s so obvious when you look at the best people in every field. Same in economics. Elinor Ostrom. Empirical not theoretical. Same in computing. Babbage and his wife. Einstein and his significant other. (My ex-wife Allora and I in biz for that matter.)
Fascinating.
Source date (UTC): 2020-04-25 10:11:00 UTC