—“It’s a shame the label ‘consciousness’ is not a gerund. Nobody thinks there’s a special “running substance” somewhere out there. If the label was “conscious-ing” or something, we’d save so many brain cycles in aggregate.”—Asab Karpuz
Source date (UTC): 2019-05-23 13:42:15 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1131555944746442752
As far as I know, in order decline is the result of (a) cities, which are ovary-IQ graveyards, (b) redistribution of reproduction from middle to lower classes due to tax policy and export of capital intensive industries, (c) immigration of the underclasses.
Source date (UTC): 2019-05-23 12:10:29 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1131532853530025989
Reply addressees: @robinhanson
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1131150283759869955
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@robinhanson
Yup: “If we want to prevent America from suffering this fate, we’d better figure out why IQs are dropping elsewhere. … A range of studies … have found declining scores across Scandinavia, Britain, Germany, France and Australia.” https://t.co/YLgZYg2QGa
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1131150283759869955
RT @robinhanson: Yup: “If we want to prevent America from suffering this fate, we’d better figure out why IQs are dropping elsewhere. … A r…
Source date (UTC): 2019-05-23 12:05:38 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1131531630601015298
Interesting that Moritz used the term flow state for what other groups think of mindfulness. And I think that might be the right answer: training yourself to enter flow state.
Source date (UTC): 2019-05-22 21:19:12 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1131308554994954240
Moritz Bierling solved the stoicism question (by doing it) and in doing so solved the via positiva question, and dammit, I think we might be a LOT closer to a complete via positiva via negativa than we thought.
Source date (UTC): 2019-05-22 20:54:31 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1131302340508540928
—“The cortex is a location processor that consists of many many copies of an earlier structure in the hippocampal region, the function of which is the construct orientation, location, from heterogenous stimuli necessary for motion(action).”— (Rough translation of Hawkins)
Source date (UTC): 2019-05-22 16:44:10 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1131239340074504199
Giving (investing) positive attention (reinforcement) no matter how small, without asking anything in return (waiting for a reciprocating response) creates a more certain, lower risk ( opportunity-rich) environment for association (possibility).
In other words. Smile. 😉
Source date (UTC): 2019-05-22 11:20:51 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1131157972103684096
If you don’t build one nest for one woman, you can assist in the funding of nests for multiple women. Live spartan. Preserve liquidity. Spread your genes??? lol
Source date (UTC): 2019-05-21 14:15:39 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1130839574542987264
BE DANGEROUS
Maybe that’s the difference. I don’t want you to be ‘fit’ per se. I want you to be dangerous: to increase your inventory of that form of capital we call ‘power’. That does not mean you threaten. It means you have no need to. Instead it means others need not to.
Source date (UTC): 2019-05-21 13:28:36 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1130827736216428544
Sean Connery’s advice to bond actors: “you must be dangerous”. This is, in general, the lesson for all men. If you are not dangerous, you will not and should not reproduce.
Source date (UTC): 2019-05-20 18:23:30 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1130539562734825472