Curt Doolittle

Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

  • Animals capable of cooperation and communication evolve a heavy preference for g

    Animals capable of cooperation and communication evolve a heavy preference for gossip as a means of creating equality by preventing advantage in-group. The problem is, in-group equality is to the group’s competitive disadvantage. The Question instead, is how to enable elites to compete for the group. Western civ solved this through heroism and market rotations regardless of impact on the hierarchy.

  • Is It Better For A Woman To Have An Iq Of 140 Or Above And Be Average Looking Or Less, Or To Have An Exceptional Physical Beauty That Defies Age With An Iq Of 100?

    It’s actually the wrong question. It is better to have fewer defects than to have extraordinary advantages.

    LOOSE STATISTICS

    • After a family makes 100K a year (50k each), they do not get happier with more income.
    • After an individual has an IQ above 105 they do not get happier with more.
    • After an individual has average looks (Sexual Market Value), they do not get happier with more –
    • The women who have the most children are 5′4″ tall, brunette, fit, have average intelligence, and ‘femininity’. (Because men will sacrifice more for them).
    • There is a 20% premium in income and happiness on ‘primping, preening, and fitness’. Dress well, primp and preen, stay fit.
    • Women have higher sexual market value when young that continually declines unless they develop what used to be called ‘grace’. Men have higher sexual market value if they age as long as they produce even a little income, remain fit, and practice good grooming. Unfortunately women have a much easier time fitting in to changes in social arrangements and men a much harder time adapting to changes in social arrangements. Unfortunately men absorb nearly all the cellular damage on behalf of women and children – and have shorter life spans because of it.
    • There is a significant correlation between avoiding debt and happiness. Do not chase virtue signals or conspicuous consumption signals. The only ‘unnecessary’ expense should be living where you’re around ‘better’ neighbors.
    • There is a significant correlation between high intelligence and unhappiness. Grouchy old smart people are not an illusion. They’re frustrated that the children are running with social, political, and economic scissors.
    • Happiness is generally the result of family, friendship, and organizational relationships.

    ie: if you are asking whether it’s going to make you happier or not, it is evidently far better to be at least average looking, stay fit, groomed, and dressed, have a balanced personality, and average intelligence, than it is to be exceptionally intelligent.

    But more importantly, the underlying answer is that it is better to have few disadvantages, than to have ay particularly advantage.

    (Women (unfortunately) compete with other women – and not with men. Everything they do is to increase or maintain their status with other women. This is why women generally destroy each other in organizations – through hen pecking (gossip). Why? Men only want to know their place in line. Women are always frustrated and petulant if they are not at the head of the line. This psychological quirk explains most of women’s behavior in private, public, and politics. Women poison wells with gossip. Everywhere in society. )

    https://www.quora.com/Is-it-better-for-a-woman-to-have-an-IQ-of-140-or-above-and-be-average-looking-or-less-or-to-have-an-exceptional-physical-beauty-that-defies-age-with-an-IQ-of-100

  • Roughly, What Percentage Of Historical Humans Have Procreated?

    Historically, as a general rule of thumb, something on the order of a third of men and two thirds of women.

    With periods of punctuated equilibriums where a small number of men generate a vast number of offspring.

    https://www.quora.com/Roughly-what-percentage-of-historical-humans-have-procreated

  • Is It Better For A Woman To Have An Iq Of 140 Or Above And Be Average Looking Or Less, Or To Have An Exceptional Physical Beauty That Defies Age With An Iq Of 100?

    It’s actually the wrong question. It is better to have fewer defects than to have extraordinary advantages.

    LOOSE STATISTICS

    • After a family makes 100K a year (50k each), they do not get happier with more income.
    • After an individual has an IQ above 105 they do not get happier with more.
    • After an individual has average looks (Sexual Market Value), they do not get happier with more –
    • The women who have the most children are 5′4″ tall, brunette, fit, have average intelligence, and ‘femininity’. (Because men will sacrifice more for them).
    • There is a 20% premium in income and happiness on ‘primping, preening, and fitness’. Dress well, primp and preen, stay fit.
    • Women have higher sexual market value when young that continually declines unless they develop what used to be called ‘grace’. Men have higher sexual market value if they age as long as they produce even a little income, remain fit, and practice good grooming. Unfortunately women have a much easier time fitting in to changes in social arrangements and men a much harder time adapting to changes in social arrangements. Unfortunately men absorb nearly all the cellular damage on behalf of women and children – and have shorter life spans because of it.
    • There is a significant correlation between avoiding debt and happiness. Do not chase virtue signals or conspicuous consumption signals. The only ‘unnecessary’ expense should be living where you’re around ‘better’ neighbors.
    • There is a significant correlation between high intelligence and unhappiness. Grouchy old smart people are not an illusion. They’re frustrated that the children are running with social, political, and economic scissors.
    • Happiness is generally the result of family, friendship, and organizational relationships.

    ie: if you are asking whether it’s going to make you happier or not, it is evidently far better to be at least average looking, stay fit, groomed, and dressed, have a balanced personality, and average intelligence, than it is to be exceptionally intelligent.

    But more importantly, the underlying answer is that it is better to have few disadvantages, than to have ay particularly advantage.

    (Women (unfortunately) compete with other women – and not with men. Everything they do is to increase or maintain their status with other women. This is why women generally destroy each other in organizations – through hen pecking (gossip). Why? Men only want to know their place in line. Women are always frustrated and petulant if they are not at the head of the line. This psychological quirk explains most of women’s behavior in private, public, and politics. Women poison wells with gossip. Everywhere in society. )

    https://www.quora.com/Is-it-better-for-a-woman-to-have-an-IQ-of-140-or-above-and-be-average-looking-or-less-or-to-have-an-exceptional-physical-beauty-that-defies-age-with-an-IQ-of-100

  • Roughly, What Percentage Of Historical Humans Have Procreated?

    Historically, as a general rule of thumb, something on the order of a third of men and two thirds of women.

    With periods of punctuated equilibriums where a small number of men generate a vast number of offspring.

    https://www.quora.com/Roughly-what-percentage-of-historical-humans-have-procreated

  • Great morning statistic: 10% of your lifespan is determined by clinical care. 30

    Great morning statistic: 10% of your lifespan is determined by clinical care. 30% by your genetic code. 40% by your location. –CEO of Aetna.

  • Great morning statistic: 10% of your lifespan is determined by clinical care. 30

    Great morning statistic: 10% of your lifespan is determined by clinical care. 30% by your genetic code. 40% by your location. –CEO of Aetna.

  • Great morning statistic: 10% of your lifespan is determined by clinical care. 30

    Great morning statistic:

    10% of your lifespan is determined by clinical care.

    30% by your genetic code.

    40% by your location.

    –CEO of Aetna.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-02-26 08:38:00 UTC

  • “Agency does not exist in a vacuum. Aggregate agency of multiple individuals cre

    —“Agency does not exist in a vacuum. Aggregate agency of multiple individuals creates limiting checks and balances, producing a market for cooperative, competitive and pro-social applications of agency.”—Simon Ström Although I would be careful to note that pro-social is a term from marxism, psychology and sociology that refers to working to benefit others (altruism) when there is no evidence of altruism in nature – only kin selection and option buying. Mutually beneficial Cooperation (which I think is the appropriate term here) is simply in our self interests, and we feel endorphins rewards for engaging in it – in part to encourage it, and in part to counter the natural fears of interaction with ‘others’ whether kin or non.

  • “Agency does not exist in a vacuum. Aggregate agency of multiple individuals cre

    —“Agency does not exist in a vacuum. Aggregate agency of multiple individuals creates limiting checks and balances, producing a market for cooperative, competitive and pro-social applications of agency.”—Simon Ström Although I would be careful to note that pro-social is a term from marxism, psychology and sociology that refers to working to benefit others (altruism) when there is no evidence of altruism in nature – only kin selection and option buying. Mutually beneficial Cooperation (which I think is the appropriate term here) is simply in our self interests, and we feel endorphins rewards for engaging in it – in part to encourage it, and in part to counter the natural fears of interaction with ‘others’ whether kin or non.