—“Reduction in vigor, often called toxic masculinity, decreases adrenal function and replaces it with cortisol function. This increases vulnerability to bacterial infection.”—Bill Joslin
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-01 14:35:36 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/991325268445945856
—“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 13:40:00 UTC
by Michael Churchill
Well the thinking here is a bit sloppy. Tactile people are very good at tactile jobs. You don’t want mathematicians doing gardening or housecleaning. Housecleaners are often quite efficient. Latinos have a reputation for extremely hard work ethics. So I’m not sure what he’s getting at here. You just need the right man for the job. Tactiles for tactile work, intuitives for idea work.
If somebody is lazy, well that’s different. Is laziness really correlated to IQ? Maybe but it can’t be a 1-1 correlation.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-01 13:30:00 UTC
via Steve Pender
“The social psychologists of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. Various results will soon be arrived at. First, that the influence of home is obstructive. Second, that not much can be done unless indoctrination begins before the age of ten. Third, that verses set to music and repeatedly intoned are very effective. Fourth, that the opinion that snow is white must be held to show a morbid taste for eccentricity. But I anticipate. It is for future scientists to make these maxims precise and discover exactly how much it costs per head to make children believe that snow is black, and how much less it would cost to make them believe it is dark gray. Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated.” – Bertrand Russell, “The Impact of Science on Society”
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-01 12:06:00 UTC
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.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-01 11:03:00 UTC
—“Reduction in vigor, often called toxic masculinity, decreases adrenal function and replaces it with cortisol function. This increases vulnerability to bacterial infection.”—Bill Joslin
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-01 10:35:00 UTC
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, omniscience, 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
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-01 07:21:00 UTC
Men get agency and women get health. Not sure men get much of a bargain for absorbing cellular damage.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-01 03:02:50 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/991150928467243009
Men get agency and women get health. Not sure men get much of a bargain for absorbing cellular damage.
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-30 23:02:00 UTC
My sister is more stoic, disciplined, and tough than 90% of the men I know. Women are capable of agency. I’m not sure they’re capable of politics and war, but agency – too many of them show that it’s a problem of training not of ability.
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-30 22:51:04 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/991087569466249216