Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

  • INCENTIVES FOR DURABILITY OF MARRIAGE —“Why is marriage still viable for the t

    INCENTIVES FOR DURABILITY OF MARRIAGE

    —“Why is marriage still viable for the top in this hyperconsumptive society but not for the bottom?

    Is it because the top have a predisposition to provide higher investment parenting than the bottom?”–Richard Hall

    Because in the upper third, there is so much economic advantage, so much status advantage, and so many more means of ameliorating differences, that the relationship can survive as a partnership.

    Conversely, hyperconsumption is a means of sedating the inferior status response, that drove demand for religion. Women are more sensitive to status, and have a relentless nesting urge, which is why they are more susceptible to it.

    Men, on the other hand, compete for status by DOING and are only concerned with obtaining a position in the hierarchy that they can afford to maintain and not lose.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-11-20 09:47:00 UTC

  • THE MEANING OF TRUST –“If there are some general rules by which we can expect b

    THE MEANING OF TRUST

    –“If there are some general rules by which we can expect behavior of others to be governed by, we have to pay less opportunity costs for figuring everyone out and can invest time into other things. That’s what trust is.”— Martin Štěpán


    Source date (UTC): 2019-11-19 19:42:00 UTC

  • The Short List: The Current State of Knowledge OUR MINDS Jeff Hawkins: On Intell

    The Short List: The Current State of Knowledge

    OUR MINDS

    Jeff Hawkins: On Intelligence (The Brain)

    Daniel Kahneman: Thinking, Fast and Slow (The Mind)

    Jonathan Haidt: The Righteous Mind (The Moral Intuition)

    Steven Pinker: How the Mind Works

    Ramachandran: The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Quest for What Makes Us Human

    Simon Baron-Cohen : The Essential Difference: Male And Female Brains And The Truth About Autism

    Steven Pinker: The Language Instinct: How The Mind Creates Language

    MAN

    Nicholas Wade: Before The Dawn: Recovering the Last History of Our Ancestors

    David Reich: Who We Are and How We Got Here

    Matt Ridley: The Red Queen

    Dale Petersen: Demonic Males

    William Tucker: Marriage and Civilization

    Nicholas Wade: A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History

    Peter Turchin: Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth

    Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending: The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution

    Francis Fukuyama: Trust (The Political Objective)

    Francis Fukuyama: The Origins Of Political Order

    Garett Jones: Hive Mind: How Your Nation�s IQ Matters So Much More Than Your Own

    Richard J. Herrnstein, Charles Murray: Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life

    Richard Lynn: The Global Bell Curve: Race, IQ, and Inequality Worldwide [Perfect Paperback]

    Huntington: The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

    Hartshorna, Kaznatcheeva, and Shultz: The Evolutionary Dominance of Ethnocentric Cooperation

    THE WEST

    Ricardo Duchesne: The Uniqueness of Western Civilization

    JP Mallory: In Search of Indo Europeans

    David W. Anthony: The Horse, the Wheel, and Language

    Joseph Campbell : The Hero’s Journey

    Karen Armstrong : The Great Transformation

    Eric H. Cline: 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed

    THE MILITIA

    John Keegan: A History Of Warfare

    Victor Davis Hanson: The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece

    Victor Davis Hanson: The Other Greeks – The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization.

    Victor Davis Hanson: The Western Way of War – Infantry Battle in Classical Greece

    Victor Davis Hanson: Why the West Has Won : Carnage and Culture from Salamis to Vietnam

    THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WEST

    Catherine Nixey : The Darkening Age: The Christian(Jewish) Destruction of the Classical World

    Ramsay MacMullen: Paganism and Christianity 100-425 C.E

    Ramsay MacMullen: Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth To Eighth Centuries

    Bryan Ward-Perkins: The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization

    James C. Russell: The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity

    Emmet Scott: Mohammed and Charlemagne Revisited.

    Victor Davis Hanson: Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West

    NEOTENY AND GENETIC PACIFICATION (Jayman)

    Peter Frost (2008). Sexual selection and human geographic variation,

    Frost, Peter (2010). The Roman State and genetic pacification,

    Frost, Peter and Harpending, Henry (2015). Western Europe, State Formation, and Genetic Pacification,

    Harpending, Henry (2012). Genetics and the Historical Decline of Violence?

    Peter Frost (2013). Evo and Proud: Making Europeans kinder, gentler

    Peter Frost (2013). Evo and Proud: Where do those tensions come from?

    Also: Ron Unz (2013). How Social Darwinism Made Modern China | The American Conservative

    Also: Cochran, Gregory; Hardy, Jason; & Harpending, Henry (2006). Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence. Journal of Biosocial Science 38, 1-35

    Emmanuel Todd: The Explanation of Ideology (Family)

    Emmanuel Todd: The Invention of Europe (French) (Families)

    ALSO: MANORIALISM AND CLANNISHNESS (HBD Chick)

    HBD Chick’s Work on Family and Clannishness (Continuing Emmanuel Todd etc)

    In addition to Jayman’s summaries of her work:

    An HBD Summary of the Foundations of Modern Civilization

    How Inbred are Europeans?

    ON GENETIC LOAD (Cochran)

    First, be sure to see these blog posts by Greg Cochran on West Hunter (2012):

    – Typos

    – Get Smart

    – More thoughts on genetic load

    – The genetics of stupidity

    – The Golden Age

    – Also:

    … Keller, Matthew C., & Miller, Geoffery (2006). Resolving the paradox of common, harmful, heritable mental disorders: Which evolutionary genetic models work best? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, 285-452.

    THE RIGHTS OF ANGLO SAXONS

    Edwin Vieira Jr.: The Sword and Sovereignty: The Constitutional Principles of “the Militia of the Several States” (multimedia only – Trying to find pdf.)

    Fritz Kern: Kingship and Law in the Middle Ages

    John Blair: Building Anglo Saxon England

    Alan MacFarlane : Origins of English Individualism

    Daniel Hannan: Inventing Freedom

    David Hackett Fischer: Albion‘s Seed: Four British Folkways in America

    David Hackett Fischer, (1989). Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America.

    Colin Woodard (2011). American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America.

    Gregory Clark: A Farewell to Alms

    THE NATURAL COMMON LAW

    Milsom: Natural History of the Common Law.

    Plucknett: A Concise History Of The Common Law.

    Hayek’s: The Constitution of Liberty

    20TH CENTURY CONTEXT

    Stephen Hicks : Explaining Postmodernism

    Hans Hoppe: Democracy The God That Failed

    THE PRESENT CONFLICT

    On Racial and Ethnic Strife, the Pull of Genetic Similarity, and Challenges Presented by “diversity”:

    Putnam, Robert D. (2007). E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty-first Century — The 2006 Johan Skytte Prize. Scandinavian Political Studies, 30(2), 137-174

    Also, on that note, see this ranking of the most peaceful U.S. states, in which, Maine (see HBD Chick here) consistently tops out at #1!

    United States Peace Index « Vision of Humanity

    Krupp, D.B., Debruine, L.M., Jones, B.C., and Lalumiere, M.L. (2012) Kin recognition: evidence that humans can perceive both positive and negative relatedness. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 25 (8). pp. 1472-1478.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-11-19 14:57:00 UTC

  • Americans go to Vegas to be treated above their station

    Americans go to Vegas to be treated above their station.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-11-19 11:29:00 UTC

  • Americans go to restaurants to pay someone to be nice to them

    Americans go to restaurants to pay someone to be nice to them


    Source date (UTC): 2019-11-19 11:28:00 UTC

  • LEFT TO SUFFER – FOR NOW —“”We must once again find something to do with all t

    LEFT TO SUFFER – FOR NOW

    —“”We must once again find something to do with all the men who are not being used for economic resources in exchange for sex.”—CD

    This is the great question of… https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=509850876278474&id=100017606988153


    Source date (UTC): 2019-11-19 00:13:59 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1196582354703339522

  • HUMAN GOVERNMENT DEMAND by Anne Summers (98^℅) of Humans are either Canidae (/K

    HUMAN GOVERNMENT DEMAND
    by Anne Summers

    (98^℅) of Humans are
    either Canidae (/K and alpha [domesticated])
    or Sheep (/r and beta or less [semi-domesticated])
    or /r feral and low IQ… https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=509724572957771&id=100017606988153


    Source date (UTC): 2019-11-18 19:42:29 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1196514028446720002

  • LEFT TO SUFFER – FOR NOW —“”We must once again find something to do with all t

    LEFT TO SUFFER – FOR NOW

    —“”We must once again find something to do with all the men who are not being used for economic resources in exchange for sex.”—CD

    This is the great question of the day that is not being asked. Though it is sort of being answered in real time: They are simply left to suffer. At least for now.

    –Michael Churchill


    Source date (UTC): 2019-11-18 19:13:00 UTC

  • WOMEN RULE SEX AND CHILDREN BUT MEN THE POLITY —“is Briffaults law French pseu

    WOMEN RULE SEX AND CHILDREN BUT MEN THE POLITY

    —“is Briffaults law French pseudoscience?”–Erik Lukovsky

    It’s that the feminine french are more likely to recognize that the female… https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=509651226298439&id=100017606988153


    Source date (UTC): 2019-11-18 17:28:44 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1196480372202233856

  • Our primary difference is neural capacity and its energy consumption, with incre

    Our primary difference is neural capacity and its energy consumption, with increases in frontal capacity adding additional opportunity for recursion, eventually resulting in increasing agency. Unfortunately we still require a great deal of training because of legacy biology.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-11-18 16:20:22 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1196463163723722753

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1196463162377297921


    IN REPLY TO:

    Unknown author

    Personality differences are physical necessities of the limited number of means by which neural-prediction can make use of incentives to maintain attention in a reproductive division of labor. https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1195027241647951873

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1196463162377297921


    IN REPLY TO:

    @curtdoolittle

    Personality differences are physical necessities of the limited number of means by which neural-prediction can make use of incentives to maintain attention in a reproductive division of labor. https://t.co/9sVz6cURTP

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1196463162377297921