Curt Doolittle

Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1546366269 Timestamp) THE MALE COGNITIVE LOAD? by Simon Ström How is the male cognitive load operationalized? It isn’t as easily because of greater variation and division of labor among the male population. But the most basic load to which males are predisposed to carry should be the dominance hierarchy and male peer group. It probably goes a lot deeper and varies with class and IQ, and I bet there are actually evolved, discrete, ‘archetypical male clusters’ beyond the random, gaussian normal distribution of psychometric traits traits, (and the male-female division common to all of the animal kingdom.) Whereas the female cognitive load varies in sophistication along the class or IQ axis, I think the lifecycle of the reproductive bottleneck-sex limits the evolutionary plasticity of its physiological cognitive load. Men are not only biologically expendable but also evolutionarily plastic and differentiated along multiple axes of skills and ‘loads’.

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    (FB 1546359506 Timestamp) NEURAL ECONOMY AND THE FEMALE MIND —“Women turn more conservative when they have children.”—Martin Or put another way, women evolved to carry a cognitive load, and will generate demand for that cognitive load, and the signals to reinforce it, in one way or another until they possess it. It makes evolutionary sense that women who don’t have children would express ‘care’ to all, then express it more exclusively to their children when they have that “inventory” to worry about (expend their caretaking energies). So women evolved to carry the cognitive load of caring about proportionality and caretaking almost exclusively (the young short term) while men tend to are about the full spectrum of moral intuitions equally (the tribe long term). Men demand a cognitive load, but it seems less open to substitution than women. Men, we always have the tribe to defend.

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    (FB 1546377649 Timestamp) AGILE PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT = STOICISM —“I’m starting a private group to discuss adapting Agile Software Development into Agile Personal Development in an attempt to inject #antifragility into lives, and thus the world.”—Jonathan Wilson Its stoicism. —-“Very similar, yes! I’d love some examples you can think of where Agile’s manifesto sounds like Seneca. @tferriss will be interested in this thread.”— Jonathan Wilson Agile manifesto simply tech application of universal frame. not unique. Common before industrialization. Continuous recursive progress with immediate feedback eliminates error early and cheaply, reinforces early and cheaply, and merely restates normal life’s epistemology. Expanding worldwide demand for stoicism. Abrahamism done as political religion. Only buddhists and Stoics solved mindfulness. Only stoics without mysticism. Iterative self authoring of goals and virtues substitute for ritual. But personal responsibility for it harder than public. ( fyi: Noah J Revoy )

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1546377649 Timestamp) AGILE PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT = STOICISM —“I’m starting a private group to discuss adapting Agile Software Development into Agile Personal Development in an attempt to inject #antifragility into lives, and thus the world.”—Jonathan Wilson Its stoicism. —-“Very similar, yes! I’d love some examples you can think of where Agile’s manifesto sounds like Seneca. @tferriss will be interested in this thread.”— Jonathan Wilson Agile manifesto simply tech application of universal frame. not unique. Common before industrialization. Continuous recursive progress with immediate feedback eliminates error early and cheaply, reinforces early and cheaply, and merely restates normal life’s epistemology. Expanding worldwide demand for stoicism. Abrahamism done as political religion. Only buddhists and Stoics solved mindfulness. Only stoics without mysticism. Iterative self authoring of goals and virtues substitute for ritual. But personal responsibility for it harder than public. ( fyi: Noah J Revoy )

  • (FB 1546629100 Timestamp) FASCINATING MORPHOLOGY: SKULL DIFFERENCES (humans are

    (FB 1546629100 Timestamp) FASCINATING MORPHOLOGY: SKULL DIFFERENCES (humans are endlessly interesting)

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1546787153 Timestamp) NOPE. NOT STUPID. SPECIALIZED. I do not consider the female brain stupid whatsoever, but specialized for high risk temporal decision making in the preservation of environments in which young can survive. Just as male brains are specialized for high risk intertemporal decision making in the preservation of environments in which their COLLECTIVE genes can survive, via that pack consisting of themselves and male relatives, and their herd of women, and those women’s herd of offspring. WE WORK BY DIVIDING THE INTERTEMPORAL LABOR Consistent, temporal, small, local, vs Variable, intertemporal, scale, and regional.

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    (FB 1546785774 Timestamp) by Aaron Kahland IQ is ultra meaningful – we have illustrated time and again that a society’s (country’s) average IQ is seven times more important than your own IQ in determining your standard of living. Individual IQ isn’t that important (at least within an sd of the mean) yet average IQs are critically important. In other words, better off a fool in Luxembourg than a genius in Lebanon. (CD: Trust is a byproduct of the decrease in frictions (via-negativa) of truthful discourse and better calculation of options.)

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1546719526 Timestamp) IS IT THAT SIMPLE? Seems to be a common observation that men informationally limited and insensitive and women are informationally oversaturated and hypersensitive, while we both have about the same limits on calculating decidability. You hear this a lot: –“Men are stupid and women are crazy”– But honestly it’s just cognitive structure. The drawers of the male mind and relative insensitivity, and the nets of the female mind and relative hypersensitivity. Evolution must have had a lot of fun rolling up those characters sheets…. Seriously. I wonder how many times Zeus rolled the dice before he said “Wow, do ya’ know how much fun we’re gonna have watching THIS pairing of the sexes? We are gonna be entertained for the next million years!!!” The gods have a mischievous sense of humor.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1546714105 Timestamp) Everyone is trolling. They are more obvious and not, and more intentional and not. But to some degree we all do nothing but negotiate for our preferences either by shaming, begging, advisin, exchanging, competing, or conquering. 😉

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1546787153 Timestamp) NOPE. NOT STUPID. SPECIALIZED. I do not consider the female brain stupid whatsoever, but specialized for high risk temporal decision making in the preservation of environments in which young can survive. Just as male brains are specialized for high risk intertemporal decision making in the preservation of environments in which their COLLECTIVE genes can survive, via that pack consisting of themselves and male relatives, and their herd of women, and those women’s herd of offspring. WE WORK BY DIVIDING THE INTERTEMPORAL LABOR Consistent, temporal, small, local, vs Variable, intertemporal, scale, and regional.