—“[Chinese] are suffering precisely the same process as the West. The most intelligent females are not selecting for the most intelligent Chinese males or, indeed, any males. As in the West, they are dedicating themselves to their education and then their careers, meaning they are simply failing to pass on their genes at all.”—
Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science
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Intuitions as Neural Economy
Because of my work on artificial intelligence, I think of intuitions as regional differences neural economy. As far as I know very minor changes in rewards and frustrations produce HUGE accumulated differences in regional (functional network) dependence. Some people have the resource curse in neural economy, some people do not, and some people are resource poor, and worse, some have resource poor and very poor transport systems (white matter). And others have totally unconstructive asymmetries of reward and frustration….. lots to go wrong, many things need to go right. So it takes a great deal of training with some, and mere exposure for others…. and for others… its fucking impossible. They’re semi domesticated animals.
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Intuitions as Neural Economy
Because of my work on artificial intelligence, I think of intuitions as regional differences neural economy. As far as I know very minor changes in rewards and frustrations produce HUGE accumulated differences in regional (functional network) dependence. Some people have the resource curse in neural economy, some people do not, and some people are resource poor, and worse, some have resource poor and very poor transport systems (white matter). And others have totally unconstructive asymmetries of reward and frustration….. lots to go wrong, many things need to go right. So it takes a great deal of training with some, and mere exposure for others…. and for others… its fucking impossible. They’re semi domesticated animals.
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Curzon on The Science Behind Stoic Discipline
—-“A great first thing to train out of is embarrassment – one of the cardinal signs of lack of agency.”—- Andy Curzon I mean, if you wanna start with the first and most important step in ‘never take anything personally’ that’s the first step. —-“Be careful not to conflate the processes of ‘pushing away’ (to use the lingo) unhelpful thoughts with the action of redirecting. I do not believe redirecting to be possible, per se. I can only describe a parallel to this by the example of the pathological ‘self-esteem’ movement – or the counterproductive sales pitch of ‘follow your bliss’. One can not AIM for happiness or self-esteem because they are RESULTS of actions. One can not ‘aim’ for a specific thought – but one can ask questions. The practice of asking for something (a form of prayer) and allowing one’s trained ‘wisdom’ to answer it and receive feedback seems akin to the conjecture and refutation processes Popper espouses.”— Andy Curzon bingo. You cannot circumvent a network of information, you can only train the network of information to come to different conclusions through self-questioning. hence the value of archetypes (gods, demigods, heroes) especially those that are omniscient (can read your subconscious). These train you to role play in a dialog that retrains networks. It works.
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Curzon on The Science Behind Stoic Discipline
—-“A great first thing to train out of is embarrassment – one of the cardinal signs of lack of agency.”—- Andy Curzon I mean, if you wanna start with the first and most important step in ‘never take anything personally’ that’s the first step. —-“Be careful not to conflate the processes of ‘pushing away’ (to use the lingo) unhelpful thoughts with the action of redirecting. I do not believe redirecting to be possible, per se. I can only describe a parallel to this by the example of the pathological ‘self-esteem’ movement – or the counterproductive sales pitch of ‘follow your bliss’. One can not AIM for happiness or self-esteem because they are RESULTS of actions. One can not ‘aim’ for a specific thought – but one can ask questions. The practice of asking for something (a form of prayer) and allowing one’s trained ‘wisdom’ to answer it and receive feedback seems akin to the conjecture and refutation processes Popper espouses.”— Andy Curzon bingo. You cannot circumvent a network of information, you can only train the network of information to come to different conclusions through self-questioning. hence the value of archetypes (gods, demigods, heroes) especially those that are omniscient (can read your subconscious). These train you to role play in a dialog that retrains networks. It works.
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Nietzsche, Rand, Marx, and The Adolescent Right
[T]here are a lot of young men who are active on the right and they are all looking for an ideal to rally around because they lack the skill, sociability, talents, relationships, and resources to rally men by material outcomes. So I view fascination with Nietzsche like fascination with rand (or harry potter for that matter) as a necessary phase of young adulthood. A lack of maturity. And driven by a lack of sexual social economic and political market value. This small group of adolescent males otherwise unsuccessful in life due to lack of talent, skill, character, and resources, who attempt to persuade me to justify their urges for dominance that they cannot achieve in real life. And I won’t. Men will revolt and act on change not because some microscopic group of social malcontents want justification for their failure of market value, but because the social, economic, and political change is achievable by implementation of institutional change. Teaching young men on the internet is a bit like running a class in a fourth grade locker room. I assume however that these men will eventually own homes, have children, find gainful employment or run businesses and at that point grow from reading moral fictionalism to reading balance sheets, contracts, constitutions, and papers on business, economics, engineering and science. There is no difference between Marxists, Randians and Nietzscheans other than the degree of desperation and unsatisfied aggression. Rulers use law. Because they have the power to. Because the organized incentives of enough men to apply force to obtain that power.
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Nietzsche, Rand, Marx, and The Adolescent Right
[T]here are a lot of young men who are active on the right and they are all looking for an ideal to rally around because they lack the skill, sociability, talents, relationships, and resources to rally men by material outcomes. So I view fascination with Nietzsche like fascination with rand (or harry potter for that matter) as a necessary phase of young adulthood. A lack of maturity. And driven by a lack of sexual social economic and political market value. This small group of adolescent males otherwise unsuccessful in life due to lack of talent, skill, character, and resources, who attempt to persuade me to justify their urges for dominance that they cannot achieve in real life. And I won’t. Men will revolt and act on change not because some microscopic group of social malcontents want justification for their failure of market value, but because the social, economic, and political change is achievable by implementation of institutional change. Teaching young men on the internet is a bit like running a class in a fourth grade locker room. I assume however that these men will eventually own homes, have children, find gainful employment or run businesses and at that point grow from reading moral fictionalism to reading balance sheets, contracts, constitutions, and papers on business, economics, engineering and science. There is no difference between Marxists, Randians and Nietzscheans other than the degree of desperation and unsatisfied aggression. Rulers use law. Because they have the power to. Because the organized incentives of enough men to apply force to obtain that power.
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INTUITIONS AS NEURAL ECONOMY Because of my work on artificial intelligence, I th
INTUITIONS AS NEURAL ECONOMY
Because of my work on artificial intelligence, I think of intuitions as regional differences neural economy.
As far as I know very minor changes in rewards and frustrations produce HUGE accumulated differences in regional (functional network) dependence.
Some people have the resource curse in neural economy, some people do not, and some people are resource poor, and worse, some have resource poor and very poor transport systems (white matter).
And others have totally unconstructive asymmetries of reward and frustration….. lots to go wrong, many things need to go right.
So it takes a great deal of training with some, and mere exposure for others…. and for others… its fucking impossible. They’re semi domesticated animals.
Source date (UTC): 2018-09-05 11:51:00 UTC
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AGENCY: YES SOME PEOPLE ARE MORE ‘HUMAN’ AND LESS ‘ANIMAL’ THAN OTHERS —“By th
AGENCY: YES SOME PEOPLE ARE MORE ‘HUMAN’ AND LESS ‘ANIMAL’ THAN OTHERS
—“By that you mean some people are not human( morality or physiology)?”— Natty Kanya
Just as children do not… https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=290709538192610&id=100017606988153
Source date (UTC): 2018-09-05 11:50:30 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1037306978740133888
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CURZON ON THE SCIENCE BEHIND STOIC DISCIPLINE —-“A great first thing to train
CURZON ON THE SCIENCE BEHIND STOIC DISCIPLINE
—-“A great first thing to train out of is embarrassment – one of the cardinal signs of lack of agency.”—- Andy Curzon
I mean, if you wanna start with the first and most important step in ‘never take anything personally’ that’s the first step.
—-“Be careful not to conflate the processes of ‘pushing away’ (to use the lingo) unhelpful thoughts with the action of redirecting. I do not believe redirecting to be possible, per se. I can only describe a parallel to this by the example of the pathological ‘self-esteem’ movement – or the counterproductive sales pitch of ‘follow your bliss’. One can not AIM for happiness or self-esteem because they are RESULTS of actions. One can not ‘aim’ for a specific thought – but one can ask questions. The practice of asking for something (a form of prayer) and allowing one’s trained ‘wisdom’ to answer it and receive feedback seems akin to the conjecture and refutation processes Popper espouses.”— Andy Curzon
bingo.
You cannot circumvent a network of information, you can only train the network of information to come to different conclusions through self-questioning. hence the value of achetypes (gods, demigods, heroes) especially those that are omnicient (can read your subconsious). These train you to role play in a dialog that retrains networks. It works.
Source date (UTC): 2018-09-05 11:40:00 UTC