Curt Doolittle

Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

  • THE RATIONALITY OF MAN (important concept) –“If man was logical, and could be m

    THE RATIONALITY OF MAN

    (important concept)

    –“If man was logical, and could be moved to action by empirical evidence, then libertarianism would have caught on much more than it did.”— Jesse Schultz

    Um. Well. You know, man is terribly logical given his perpetual dependence on fragmentary information in a kaleidic universe, and his need to produce the greatest returns in the shortest time, with the least effort, at the greatest certainty at the lowest risk, while under the burden (limits) of physical, emotional, and intellectual economy (costs). Man is forever rational (logical in the sense you mean it. Hence why we can sympathize (reasoning), and empathize (feeling) with one another.) and choose to cooperate with one another (predictability and trust) – or not. (You might want to read this paragraph a few times.)

    Via positiva some of us produce opportunities to exploit, and via negativa, some of us limit those opportunities that can be exploited to those that are reciprocal (not harmful to the incentive to cooperate rather than prey upon one another.) I work in the current era at post-human scale: via negativa. It is for others to produce MANY different via-positivas within the LIMITS of this via-negativa. Ergo, a market not monopoly of narratives (mythos), and at least one for each class.

    Meritocracy is only DESIRABLE to those who can survive DIRECTLY by their merits. Meritocracy is VALUABLE to everyone who survives because meritocracy INDIRECTLY preserves the incentive to cooperate. Because cooperation is simply so much more productive than any other action we can take (at least over time.)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-21 12:52:00 UTC

  • Understanding Mindfulness, Class, Costs

    October 20th, 2018 10:58 AM UNDERSTANDING MINDFULNESS, CLASS, COSTS

    • Wealthy Intergenerational Families Learn and Perpetuate Mindfulness.
    • Etiquette and Habits are simply SIGNALS of MINDFULNESS.
    • Meaning you are trustworthy.
    • Because etiquette and Habits ARE COSTLY.
    • It is the WILLINGNESS TO PAY COSTS that the signal communicates.
    • It is the UNWILLINGNESS TO PAY COSTS that classlessness communicates.
    • Classical protestant families are stoic.

  • “How Can I Learn Why Psychology Is a Pseudoscience?”

    October 20th, 2018 10:34 AM

    —“CURT: HOW CAN I LEARN WHY PSYCHOLOGY IS A PSEUDOSCIENCE?”— A Friend

    [H]mmm…. Well, psychology(Investigation/measurement) vs freudian psychology(projection/fictionalism). Start at the beginning with Karl Popper on Freud. The read about the “Operationist” movement in psychology. Then read about “The replication crisis”. Then take note of how hard it is to find any papers that do not try to deny psychology is a pseudoscience despite the near zero replicability of findings. “The Ladies Doth Protest Too Much” is rather obvious. Data is data. Replication is replication. Psychology and sociology don’t replicate. Ergo, it’s not science. Freudian categories are outright fabrications – he just made it up. Why? We all carry our cultural baggage with us. Judaism enforces conformity with the feminine bias (entrapment/herd) and europeanism encourages exceptionalism (innovation/pack). Freud stated the jewish and feminine psychology in pseudoscientific terms, (he basically invented the concept of ‘rape culture’ that is a psychosis of the feminine mind). Nietzsche stated the european and masculine psychology casting the feminine as a catastrophe (correctly). Just as Marx was a Jewish reaction to Darwin, Freud was a Jewish reaction to Nietzsche, Frankfurt was a Jewish Reaction to Spencer et al. Jung came along and tried to correct Freud by using literary archetypes, which were free of Jewish/Feminine psychosis, and provided a normative model compared to Nietzsche’s reformation and restoration of western civilization. The war period resulted in pseudoscience through about the Regan Revolution of the 1980s, and the technological revolution and fall of the soviet and chinese empires in the 1990’s. As usual, science (empiricism, and warranty of due diligence) saved us from nonsense. Psychotherapy is a pseudoscience (talk therapy), although counseling (mentoring) is not. Cognitive behavior therapy (training) is not a pseudoscience, it is just stoicism applied correctively rather than as an ordinary universal training of the mind. Psychiatry (medication and surgery) is not a pseudoscience and it was the first strike against the pseudosciences of the Freudians. Psychology isn’t always a pseudoscience – but is mostly – because only economics provides us with good data on human behavior (demonstrated preference and bias). The fact that we cannot actually run experiments in economics is precisely the reason we have a harder time projecting, and that economic pseudoscience is largely achieved by innumeracy: cherry picking the income statement over the balance sheet in order to hide destruction of accumulated capital. Cog Sci is not really a term used any longer, but represented an attempt by a GENERATION of scholars to LEAVE the pseudoscience of psychology behind. It was made possible largely by imaging and computer imaging technology which let us examine (relatively un-intrusively) the workings of the brain. And we have made huge progress in the past twenty years in exposing psychology (projectionism) as a pseudoscience. And replaced it with subfields that study language, cognitive bias, emotions, neurology, brain structure, etc without the ‘projection’ (fantasizing) that constituted psychology. Propertarianism/Acquisitionism provide a superior means of describing behavior (incentives, biases, and actions). This is why it’s so important a vocabulary and grammar for metaphysics, psychology, social science, politics, and law. Curt

  • Gender Differences in Nonsense-Speech

    October 20th, 2018 9:08 AM GENDER DIFFERENCES IN NONSENSE-SPEECH (humor)

    —“Girls talk about stupid girl stuff, and guys talk about stupid guy stuff. We all do it. The difference is guys know it’s stupid stuff.”— A Friend

    It’s just that girls maintain the peace by not ADMITTING its stupid stuff (Defecting), where men preserve loyalty by admitting it’s stupid stuff. Inverse relations, same purpose.

  • Understanding Mindfulness, Class, Costs

    October 20th, 2018 10:58 AM UNDERSTANDING MINDFULNESS, CLASS, COSTS

    • Wealthy Intergenerational Families Learn and Perpetuate Mindfulness.
    • Etiquette and Habits are simply SIGNALS of MINDFULNESS.
    • Meaning you are trustworthy.
    • Because etiquette and Habits ARE COSTLY.
    • It is the WILLINGNESS TO PAY COSTS that the signal communicates.
    • It is the UNWILLINGNESS TO PAY COSTS that classlessness communicates.
    • Classical protestant families are stoic.

  • “How Can I Learn Why Psychology Is a Pseudoscience?”

    October 20th, 2018 10:34 AM

    —“CURT: HOW CAN I LEARN WHY PSYCHOLOGY IS A PSEUDOSCIENCE?”— A Friend

    [H]mmm…. Well, psychology(Investigation/measurement) vs freudian psychology(projection/fictionalism). Start at the beginning with Karl Popper on Freud. The read about the “Operationist” movement in psychology. Then read about “The replication crisis”. Then take note of how hard it is to find any papers that do not try to deny psychology is a pseudoscience despite the near zero replicability of findings. “The Ladies Doth Protest Too Much” is rather obvious. Data is data. Replication is replication. Psychology and sociology don’t replicate. Ergo, it’s not science. Freudian categories are outright fabrications – he just made it up. Why? We all carry our cultural baggage with us. Judaism enforces conformity with the feminine bias (entrapment/herd) and europeanism encourages exceptionalism (innovation/pack). Freud stated the jewish and feminine psychology in pseudoscientific terms, (he basically invented the concept of ‘rape culture’ that is a psychosis of the feminine mind). Nietzsche stated the european and masculine psychology casting the feminine as a catastrophe (correctly). Just as Marx was a Jewish reaction to Darwin, Freud was a Jewish reaction to Nietzsche, Frankfurt was a Jewish Reaction to Spencer et al. Jung came along and tried to correct Freud by using literary archetypes, which were free of Jewish/Feminine psychosis, and provided a normative model compared to Nietzsche’s reformation and restoration of western civilization. The war period resulted in pseudoscience through about the Regan Revolution of the 1980s, and the technological revolution and fall of the soviet and chinese empires in the 1990’s. As usual, science (empiricism, and warranty of due diligence) saved us from nonsense. Psychotherapy is a pseudoscience (talk therapy), although counseling (mentoring) is not. Cognitive behavior therapy (training) is not a pseudoscience, it is just stoicism applied correctively rather than as an ordinary universal training of the mind. Psychiatry (medication and surgery) is not a pseudoscience and it was the first strike against the pseudosciences of the Freudians. Psychology isn’t always a pseudoscience – but is mostly – because only economics provides us with good data on human behavior (demonstrated preference and bias). The fact that we cannot actually run experiments in economics is precisely the reason we have a harder time projecting, and that economic pseudoscience is largely achieved by innumeracy: cherry picking the income statement over the balance sheet in order to hide destruction of accumulated capital. Cog Sci is not really a term used any longer, but represented an attempt by a GENERATION of scholars to LEAVE the pseudoscience of psychology behind. It was made possible largely by imaging and computer imaging technology which let us examine (relatively un-intrusively) the workings of the brain. And we have made huge progress in the past twenty years in exposing psychology (projectionism) as a pseudoscience. And replaced it with subfields that study language, cognitive bias, emotions, neurology, brain structure, etc without the ‘projection’ (fantasizing) that constituted psychology. Propertarianism/Acquisitionism provide a superior means of describing behavior (incentives, biases, and actions). This is why it’s so important a vocabulary and grammar for metaphysics, psychology, social science, politics, and law. Curt

  • Gender Differences in Nonsense-Speech

    October 20th, 2018 9:08 AM GENDER DIFFERENCES IN NONSENSE-SPEECH (humor)

    —“Girls talk about stupid girl stuff, and guys talk about stupid guy stuff. We all do it. The difference is guys know it’s stupid stuff.”— A Friend

    It’s just that girls maintain the peace by not ADMITTING its stupid stuff (Defecting), where men preserve loyalty by admitting it’s stupid stuff. Inverse relations, same purpose.

  • Comparison of Male and Female Adults with High Functioning Autism Spectrum Conditions

    October 20th, 2018 6:39 PM A Behavioral Comparison of Male and Female Adults with High Functioning Autism Spectrum Conditions Meng-Chuan Lai , Michael V. Lombardo, Greg Pasco, Amber N. V. Ruigrok, Sally J. Wheelwright, Susan A. Sadek, Bhismadev Chakrabarti, MRC AIMS Consortium , Simon Baron-Cohen Published: June 13, 2011 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0020835 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0020835 Abstract Autism spectrum conditions (ASC) affect more males than females in the general population. However, within ASC it is unclear if there are phenotypic sex differences. Testing for similarities and differences between the sexes is important not only for clinical assessment but also has implications for theories of typical sex differences and of autism. Using cognitive and behavioral measures, we investigated similarities and differences between the sexes in age- and IQ-matched adults with ASC (high-functioning autism or Asperger syndrome). Of the 83 (45 males and 38 females) participants, 62 (33 males and 29 females) met Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised (ADI-R) cut-off criteria for autism in childhood and were included in all subsequent analyses. The severity of childhood core autism symptoms did not differ between the sexes. Males and females also did not differ in self-reported empathy, systemizing, anxiety, depression, and obsessive-compulsive traits/symptoms or mentalizing performance. However, adult females with ASC showed more lifetime sensory symptoms (p = 0.036), fewer current socio-communication difficulties (p = 0.001), and more self-reported autistic traits (p = 0.012) than males. In addition, females with ASC who also had developmental language delay had lower current performance IQ than those without developmental language delay (p<0.001), a pattern not seen in males. The absence of typical sex differences in empathizing-systemizing profiles within the autism spectrum confirms a prediction from the extreme male brain theory. Behavioral sex differences within ASC may also reflect different developmental mechanisms between males and females with ASC. We discuss the importance of the superficially better socio-communication ability in adult females with ASC in terms of why females with ASC may more often go under-recognized, and receive their diagnosis later, than males.

  • Endocrinological vs Neurological Conservatives

    October 20th, 2018 2:08 PM

    —“There is a distinction between endocrinological & neurological conservatives, driven mostly by disgust, which tend to be within a SD left of the mean, and market driven (agency) conservatives who recognize cost on longer time-horizons & are able to organize a body law which facilitates the cooperation & trust, necessary for the functioning of enterprise. The former group are right for the ‘wrong’ reasons & the latter group are right as a matter of agency & incentive.”—Ferdinand Pizarro

    Well Done!!!!

  • Comparison of Male and Female Adults with High Functioning Autism Spectrum Conditions

    October 20th, 2018 6:39 PM A Behavioral Comparison of Male and Female Adults with High Functioning Autism Spectrum Conditions Meng-Chuan Lai , Michael V. Lombardo, Greg Pasco, Amber N. V. Ruigrok, Sally J. Wheelwright, Susan A. Sadek, Bhismadev Chakrabarti, MRC AIMS Consortium , Simon Baron-Cohen Published: June 13, 2011 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0020835 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0020835 Abstract Autism spectrum conditions (ASC) affect more males than females in the general population. However, within ASC it is unclear if there are phenotypic sex differences. Testing for similarities and differences between the sexes is important not only for clinical assessment but also has implications for theories of typical sex differences and of autism. Using cognitive and behavioral measures, we investigated similarities and differences between the sexes in age- and IQ-matched adults with ASC (high-functioning autism or Asperger syndrome). Of the 83 (45 males and 38 females) participants, 62 (33 males and 29 females) met Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised (ADI-R) cut-off criteria for autism in childhood and were included in all subsequent analyses. The severity of childhood core autism symptoms did not differ between the sexes. Males and females also did not differ in self-reported empathy, systemizing, anxiety, depression, and obsessive-compulsive traits/symptoms or mentalizing performance. However, adult females with ASC showed more lifetime sensory symptoms (p = 0.036), fewer current socio-communication difficulties (p = 0.001), and more self-reported autistic traits (p = 0.012) than males. In addition, females with ASC who also had developmental language delay had lower current performance IQ than those without developmental language delay (p<0.001), a pattern not seen in males. The absence of typical sex differences in empathizing-systemizing profiles within the autism spectrum confirms a prediction from the extreme male brain theory. Behavioral sex differences within ASC may also reflect different developmental mechanisms between males and females with ASC. We discuss the importance of the superficially better socio-communication ability in adult females with ASC in terms of why females with ASC may more often go under-recognized, and receive their diagnosis later, than males.