Curt Doolittle

Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

  • I had a few very interesting conversations over breakfast this morning, first, w

    I had a few very interesting conversations over breakfast this morning, first, with a woman who has founded two semi-private schools and specializes in adding mindfulness to curricula. And second with her husband who is a bit of an activist for the catholic church and previously convinced me of it’s present value. These are well read people. Committed people. Moral people. Probably south of island 120. But certainly capable.

    And what I was struck by, and what I am continually struck by, is the prevalence of moral reasoning, in the absence of empirical understanding. In other words, the application of the intuitionistic and interpersonal to the empirical and equilibrial.

    I also walked away with even greater conviction that the reason that we do not teach virtues, history, accounting, basic economics, grammar, logic, rhetoric, is because each of them creates objective valuation of one another; objective valuation of one’s parents, and their social status; objective ability to criticize self, parents, teachers, priests, and politicians; and in particular, falsifies our intuitions, and feminine intuitions.

    In other words, our children are made more ignorant in every generation and more pliable by academy, state, media, finance and industry.

    It is one thing to read books, and another to talk to educators, priests, public intellectuals, school principals, regular academics, reporters, and politicians. And when you do, it can scare the living hell out of you. Because all they really know is what is within their relationship circle.

    I’m always terrified that the boomer generation brought about a dark age. And we have already begun to enter it.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-09-03 13:16:00 UTC

  • “The biggest practical problem we face is bad parenting. The children of high In

    —“The biggest practical problem we face is bad parenting. The children of high Investment Parenting today will be the rulers in 2040. Idiocracy is the most important political influence affecting the ground.”–Durfee House

    (Parenting like Soldiering is a non-substitutable good.)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-09-01 10:57:00 UTC

  • While there are minor differences in verbal and spatial ability between the race

    While there are minor differences in verbal and spatial ability between the races and subraces at all levels, which appears to be due to degree of neotonic selection, and degree of selection for sexual dimorphism (in other words, very minor), the principle differences between the races and subraces are the scale of the underclasses, where underclasses are determined by IQ, Neoteny, Dimorphism, Symmetry (lower error).

    In other words, the europeans and east asians were under greater selection pressure for cooperation in harsh agrarian cycles, whereas the warmer climes were under greater selection pressure for early maturity against disease gradients, food availability gradients, and competitor gradients.

    So in that sense while it is true that europeans and east asians are more ‘advanced’ genetically no group is prohibited from achieving the very same rate of genetic development in just a few generations under soft eugneics (reduction of reproduction in the underclasses).

    This means basically that we have been reversing evolution for over a century and a half.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-28 16:36:00 UTC

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    https://www.pri.org/stories/2013-05-25/western-iqs-drop-14-points-last-century-study-says

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-28 16:27:00 UTC

  • ya. You can tell intelligence by appearance

    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289617300843#ab0005Told ya. You can tell intelligence by appearance.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-26 17:54:00 UTC

  • All psychologism is merely pseudoscientific shaming – i.e. lying. All humans see

    All psychologism is merely pseudoscientific shaming – i.e. lying.

    All humans seek to acquire, differing only in that which they seek to acquire.

    All human motivations can be expressed in incentives to acquire or defend assets.

    The century of pseudoscience and lying is over.

    Marx, Boaz, Freud, Cantor, Adorno & Co.; Mises, Rand, Rothbard; Trotsky, Burnham, Strauss; Lyotard, Foucault, Baudrillard, Derrida; We can’t consider feminism a philosophy so much as an extension of marxist and postmodern critique.

    The status quo is either in an individual’s interest or not. It’s not complicated.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-25 17:07:00 UTC

  • Which gender is modernity good for? There is a reason asylums were largely full

    Which gender is modernity good for?

    There is a reason asylums were largely full of women, and prisons largely full of men. We demonstrate our anti-social behaviors differently.

    Unfortunately we’ve legalized female insanity, and over prosecuted male criminality.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-24 13:01:00 UTC

  • no one ‘deserves’ anything. That term has no meaning. It’s simply more rewarding

    no one ‘deserves’ anything. That term has no meaning. It’s simply more rewarding for all if we do so.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-23 17:43:40 UTC

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  • PSYCHOLOGY 1) perceptions, biases and limits, 2) categories provided by evolutio

    PSYCHOLOGY

    1) perceptions, biases and limits, 2) categories provided by evolution, their biases and limits, 2) incentives (values) attached to those categories, their biases and limits.

    As far as I know all psychology can be expressed as was suggested by the stoics, as furtherance of acquisition. This yields objective and descriptive psychology(market for cooperation) – and falsifies Freud’s subjective and normative psychology (authoritarianism).

    As far as I know (presently), all behavior is constructed from the same five biological reward systems. Those same five reward systems correspond to phases of the prey drive. The mating drive in the sexes influences later stages of the prey drive. Personality differences are attributable to variations in the reward systems that reflect each stage of the prey drive.

    As far as I know each evolutionary layer of the brain (stem(autonomic systems and movement), reptilian(predatory/reproductive), mammalian(social and moral), human(cooperative,linguistic) ) contributes to and makes use of increasingly (hierarchical) shared memory, and that on average we can detect very small changes in very short time spans but we sample every half second or so, and produce consciousness out of the two to three seconds of persistence of memory. And because of this division of effort across various systems, we are able to detect changes in state in sensation, perception, short memory, long memory, and predictive memory (modeling): providing us with enormous ability to detect differences and therefore patterns across time.

    Unfortunately, while we seem to possess a conscious mind (Rider), we have little introspection into our intuitions (elephant) provided by our mammalian brains, less into our reptilian, and none at all into our autonomic. And Until recently were entirely unaware that all of these are formed by various genes that produce our particular abilities and biases.

    SCIENCE

    As far as I know the discipline of science is reducible to the use of physical and logical instrumentation to improve on our perceptions, so that we may reduce the imperceptible, to that which is perceptible at least to some degree to our senses, and comparable, at least to some degree, by our reason. Ergo, science assists us in removing ignorance and error, bias and wishful thinking, suggestion and obscurantism, fictionalism and deceit.

    PHILOSOPHY

    As far as I know, the purpose of philosophy is to increase correspondence with reality such that we have greater power over it (greater ability to make use of it). Ergo philosophy consists of a hierarchy of disciplines that assist us in determining Decidability (truth), Consent (goodness), or Choice (Preference) in any domain of inquiry.

    MYSTICISM

    As as I know, the purpose of mysticism is to define categories, relations and values that allow us to emotionally circumvent our inability to alter ourselves or reality.

    THEOLOGY

    As far as I know the purpose of theology is to institutionalize in every possible form, one set of mysticisms or another for the purpose of producing psychological relief on industrial scales.

    Many People are weak. Weak physically. Weak emotionally. Weak intellectually, or Weak Circumstantially. The problem we always face is in providing solace to the weak without letting them produce harm to the strong. Unfortunately, every great advance increases the potential of the less able being left behind. And so with every great leap forward, there has been a counter-enlightenmnet by those weak of body, emoition, mind and circumstance.

    Marxism, Postmodernism, Feminism are must the most recent of the three attacks on civilization. Abrahamism(rabbinical judaism) being the second (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), and organized religion being the first.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-23 13:38:00 UTC

  • LET’S CLARIFY WHAT THIS MEANS: SMARTER PEOPLE CARRY DUMBER PEOPLE. HIERARCHIES E

    LET’S CLARIFY WHAT THIS MEANS: SMARTER PEOPLE CARRY DUMBER PEOPLE. HIERARCHIES EVERYWHERE.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-08-23 09:13:00 UTC