Curt Doolittle

Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

  • You know, I can’t wait until we have a test for psychosis and socialism (the fem

    You know, I can’t wait until we have a test for psychosis and socialism (the female extreme brain) like we do high functioning autism, and then we can just dismiss these nutcases for what they are: mentally ill. A third of women are mentally ill – or more.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-27 17:06:01 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1221841803734851586

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    @charlesmurray 😆😆😆 https://t.co/ZIrvLiXclR

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  • It’s consistent with every study in every advanced country: the more we can foll

    It’s consistent with every study in every advanced country: the more we can follow our natural biases the more do follow our natural biases – ergo women in social courses funding pseudoscience and men in physical science courses funding sciences. It’s not complicated.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-27 17:04:02 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1221841305690611715

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    @charlesmurray Pretty sure such findings tend to be driven by a failure to control for Galton’s problem, they’re not robust. https://t.co/bc9ztuBR0F

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  • The more freedom (luxury) we have NOT to compromise (conform), and instead to pu

    The more freedom (luxury) we have NOT to compromise (conform), and instead to pursue our natural (genetic) interests, the more we pursue our natural (genetic) interests because there is no cost of not doing so.

    Painfully obvious. Economics in Everything.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-27 17:02:56 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1221841029109817344

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    Proposition 1. “Sex differences in personality are consistent worldwide and tend to widen in more gender-egalitarian cultures.” Who would have predicted that sex differences in personality are wider in Denmark than in Burkina Faso? But the pattern is thoroughly replicated.

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  • RT @charlesmurray: Proposition 1. “Sex differences in personality are consistent

    RT @charlesmurray: Proposition 1. “Sex differences in personality are consistent worldwide and tend to widen in more gender-egalitarian cul…

    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-27 17:01:09 UTC

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  • There are many checks on men’s antisocial behavior in fulfillment of demand for

    There are many checks on men’s antisocial behavior in fulfillment of demand for cognitive load – although sports, and video games are wasteful they aren’t harmful, and business and the arts are constructive. There are no such checks on women’s behavior.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-27 13:49:37 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1221792376450179072

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    @clairlemon Vegetarianism, like animal activism, political activism, or gossiping and undermining, is among the strange obsessions that women devote their cognitive demand for emotional load to in the absence of more constructive outputs (children). The problem is there is no check on women.

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    @clairlemon Vegetarianism, like animal activism, political activism, or gossiping and undermining, is among the strange obsessions that women devote their cognitive demand for emotional load to in the absence of more constructive outputs (children). The problem is there is no check on women.

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  • Vegetarianism, like animal activism, political activism, or gossiping and underm

    Vegetarianism, like animal activism, political activism, or gossiping and undermining, is among the strange obsessions that women devote their cognitive demand for emotional load to in the absence of more constructive outputs (children). The problem is there is no check on women.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-27 13:48:21 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1221792061344698373

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    @clairlemon Secondly, pejoratively, the female nervous system evolved to carry a cognitive load that included empathy with offspring. Just as when men aren’t supplied with competition they behave dysfunctionally, when women aren’t supplied with emotional load they find “strange obsessions”.

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    @clairlemon Secondly, pejoratively, the female nervous system evolved to carry a cognitive load that included empathy with offspring. Just as when men aren’t supplied with competition they behave dysfunctionally, when women aren’t supplied with emotional load they find “strange obsessions”.

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  • Secondly, pejoratively, the female nervous system evolved to carry a cognitive l

    Secondly, pejoratively, the female nervous system evolved to carry a cognitive load that included empathy with offspring. Just as when men aren’t supplied with competition they behave dysfunctionally, when women aren’t supplied with emotional load they find “strange obsessions”.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-27 13:46:14 UTC

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    @clairlemon Let’s avoid conflating sentience, awareness, and the consciousness spectrum – and prevent overreach. These things are our food. Not abusing them and not eating them are two different things. And the reason not to abuse them is that we don’t want such people in our midst. https://t.co/sO1yvXPoyg

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1221791016304480261

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    @curtdoolittle

    @clairlemon Let’s avoid conflating sentience, awareness, and the consciousness spectrum – and prevent overreach. These things are our food. Not abusing them and not eating them are two different things. And the reason not to abuse them is that we don’t want such people in our midst. https://t.co/sO1yvXPoyg

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1221791016304480261

  • AGENCY IS A DEMONSTRATION OF SUCCESSFUL WILL TO POWER —“I struggle with Agency

    AGENCY IS A DEMONSTRATION OF SUCCESSFUL WILL TO POWER

    —“I struggle with Agency… Someone who goes to the gym regularly because they want to be buff and ripped would be said to be exercising agency. An alignment of desire and rational action / persistence. However, is a gambler exercising agency when they gamble on the daily? Or is agency simply contentiousness bearing fruit against a declared aim?”– Gary Knight

    In simple terms:

    —“contentiousness bearing fruit against a declared aim?”–

    Yes.

    Although, in most cases, gambling regularly is a form of self medication, it is true that people win, and you can’t play if you don’t win. And it’s simply an expensive means of entertainment. And whether entertainment or medication can lead to addiction, which is the very opposite of agency.

    Agency is the sum total of that which leads you to independent action in fulfillment of your ambitions – overcoming (‘overman’) the physical, emotional, intellectual, interpersonal, social, economic, political, military, and knowledge, impediments to a desired end.

    Will to power is an inspiration.

    Agency is its demonstration.

    Omniscience and Omnipotence are it’s ends.

    The transcendence of man into the gods we imagine.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-27 06:07:00 UTC

  • SENTIENCE, AWARENESS, CONSCIOUSNESS, AGENCY, AND INTELLIGENCE : THE EVOLUTION OF

    SENTIENCE, AWARENESS, CONSCIOUSNESS, AGENCY, AND INTELLIGENCE : THE EVOLUTION OF MEMORY

    SENTIENCE: Sense and Perceive changes in state, absent prediction and choice. Neurology not ‘memory’.

    AWARENESS: Awareness of changes in bodily and environmental state because of the availability of short term memory, limited long term, little if any forecasting. Short term memory.

    CONSCIOUSNESS SPECTRUM: Modeling Space, Time, and Others, including the modeling of space, time by others because of extensive Long term memory. Some degree of forecasting but limited recursive permutation (thinking).

    AGENCY: Given that predictions (models) and the actions to bring them about are computed by our brains simultaneously, the ability to suppress, recursively iterate upon, and choose between, then act upon or choose not to act upon those impulses. Multiple competing forecasts, with control over selection of subject(choice of forecast) of recursion.

    INTELLIGENCE

    BIOLOGICAL Intelligence or “g” consists in consuming lower biological resources to obtain more relevant predictions with limited error, in shorter time. It’s a measure of ‘cable friction’ (really) – meaning lower is better. (neuronal resistance is calculated using the same formula as undersea cables.)

    DEMONSTRATED Intelligence requires (a) ‘g’, (b) short term memory (working memory), (c) general knowledge, (d) concordance of wants with reality (not wanting or believing impossible or stupid things), (e) trait conscientiousness (sticking to it).

    The consciousness spectrum is a function of memory – and especially memory as a ratio of body size – and all consciousness evolves from the same function: body modeling in space determined by available movement.

    The sequence of states above are all names of marginal differences in state in the spectrum of cognition and as such represent a continuity of increasing recursive iterations of neuronal organization and not discreet functions.

    In any self organizing, self reinforcing, neuronal system (network), each iteration (layer of abstraction) increases the prediction in time, space, and distance from perception to calculation. And tools of computation (language-communication, accumulated experience(knowledge), theory, writing, formulae, numbers, logic) allow us to use internal and external tools for increasing prediction of the time, space, object, population, with our given abilities – which across human classes, range dramatically.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-26 09:51:00 UTC

  • Sentience, Consciousness, and Agency are three different things

    Sentience, Consciousness, and Agency are three different things.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-26 09:32:00 UTC