Curt Doolittle

Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

  • Humans hit each other. I have had to teach every woman in every relationship not

    Humans hit each other. I have had to teach every woman in every relationship not to hit me. Women conduct more domestic violence than men.Women are responsible for more verbal abuse than men. Women are responsible for more child abuse than men. The difference is that they aren’t dangerous – and men are. So, while I don’t do it, and I’m not cool about it, I’ve seen too many men take hits to the face from women that should have been slapped. I can definitely see slapping each other, which has been the method we used throughout history to say ‘ok, this is across the line’. And I’m not sure the world is better off without slapping each other once in a while. Why? Because slapping tends to de-escalate, and persisting in argument tends to escalate. Conflict is best settled early and clearly rather than continuously escalating through verbal and situational abuses.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-02 10:57:00 UTC

  • Steve Stewart-Williams (@SteveStuWill): Top 10 Replicated Findings From Behavior

    https://t.co/UqtS1lpw3nRetweeted Steve Stewart-Williams (@SteveStuWill):

    Top 10 Replicated Findings From Behavioral Genetics https://t.co/UqtS1lpw3n

    “The discovery of such big and often counterintuitive findings is a cause for celebration in psychology.” https://t.co/pk5ZNVVNxM

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-02 07:28:00 UTC

  • (Very hard to have high numbers and post other than sarcasm, ridicule, shaming,

    (Very hard to have high numbers and post other than sarcasm, ridicule, shaming, or virtue signaling.)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-02 01:24:27 UTC

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  • by Noah J Revoy We eat harmfully. We choose partners dysgenically. We manage str

    by Noah J Revoy

    We eat harmfully.
    We choose partners dysgenically.
    We manage stress short-sightedly.
    We don’t “weed our own garden”.
    We give our children to the government too deeply, too young and for too long.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-01 22:14:20 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/991440713677262855

  • Definition: Agency

    DEFINITION: AGENCY Agency is the capacity for human beings to identify opportunities and make choices that are consistent, correspondent, existentially possible, and coherent with and within reality, and to act upon them, unimpeded by knowledge limitation (ignorance), intellectual limitation(intelligence), mindfulness limitation (impulse), physical limitations(body), instrumental limitations(technologies), resource limitations, the impediments of others and their organizations into norms, laws, institutions, polities, and armies. Perfect agency would require omniscience, omnipotence, and complete insulation from impulse. Simon Ström translates Agency to the language of physics: AGENCY = POTENTIAL ENERGY Agency = potential energy (PE) Force = applied energy (F) Event = Impulse (Imp), [force vector + temporal dimension] Consequence = displacement vector (s) Action = work (W) Externalities = Waste heat (h) W = F * s

  • Definition: Agency

    DEFINITION: AGENCY Agency is the capacity for human beings to identify opportunities and make choices that are consistent, correspondent, existentially possible, and coherent with and within reality, and to act upon them, unimpeded by knowledge limitation (ignorance), intellectual limitation(intelligence), mindfulness limitation (impulse), physical limitations(body), instrumental limitations(technologies), resource limitations, the impediments of others and their organizations into norms, laws, institutions, polities, and armies. Perfect agency would require omniscience, omnipotence, and complete insulation from impulse. Simon Ström translates Agency to the language of physics: AGENCY = POTENTIAL ENERGY Agency = potential energy (PE) Force = applied energy (F) Event = Impulse (Imp), [force vector + temporal dimension] Consequence = displacement vector (s) Action = work (W) Externalities = Waste heat (h) W = F * s

  • The Cost of Social Optimism

    by Steve Pender Extending someone the privilege of assuming them to be trustworthy is costly (risk of theft, personal harm). Not extending the privilege of trust is also costly (extra security costs, loss of trade). Granting trust to one person but not another hinges on choosing which costs you want to pay at that time. Since humans are more averse to losing what they have than losing a potential gain, humans err on the side of protecting themselves and property, that is, they more often choose to pay for costs that reduce their losses. If you want to gain privilege, you must first convince the privilege-grantor that not trusting you is more expensive than trusting you. This means you must work on reducing your perceived risk to them. If people who look like you have a much higher rate of violence, you have 3 essential choices: 1) change your look enough that you are no longer categorized with them, 2) reduce the rate of violence of those who look like you so you are no longer categorized as a risk, or 3) increase the cost for others to perceive you as a risk. This 3rd option only reinforces the idea that you are in fact a risk (someone who imposes involuntary costs), and is therefore counterproductive.

  • The Cost of Social Optimism

    by Steve Pender Extending someone the privilege of assuming them to be trustworthy is costly (risk of theft, personal harm). Not extending the privilege of trust is also costly (extra security costs, loss of trade). Granting trust to one person but not another hinges on choosing which costs you want to pay at that time. Since humans are more averse to losing what they have than losing a potential gain, humans err on the side of protecting themselves and property, that is, they more often choose to pay for costs that reduce their losses. If you want to gain privilege, you must first convince the privilege-grantor that not trusting you is more expensive than trusting you. This means you must work on reducing your perceived risk to them. If people who look like you have a much higher rate of violence, you have 3 essential choices: 1) change your look enough that you are no longer categorized with them, 2) reduce the rate of violence of those who look like you so you are no longer categorized as a risk, or 3) increase the cost for others to perceive you as a risk. This 3rd option only reinforces the idea that you are in fact a risk (someone who imposes involuntary costs), and is therefore counterproductive.

  • by Noah J Revoy We eat harmfully. We choose partners dysgenically. We manage str

    by Noah J Revoy

    We eat harmfully.

    We choose partners dysgenically.

    We manage stress short-sightedly.

    We don’t “weed our own garden”.

    We give our children to the government too deeply, too young and for too long.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-01 18:14:00 UTC

  • “Generation Z (adults ages 18-22) is the loneliest generation and claims to be i

    —“Generation Z (adults ages 18-22) is the loneliest generation and claims to be in worse health than older generations.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-01 17:40:03 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/991371687554842626