Curt Doolittle

Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

  • BIG 5 PERSONALITY TRAITS via William L. Benge Need for Stability: Stress trigger

    BIG 5 PERSONALITY TRAITS

    via William L. Benge

    Need for Stability:

    Stress triggers your automatic nervous system, or fight-or-flight response. A period of arousal is followed by a return to normalcy and calm. Individuals with higher N scores have a shorter trigger and can’t take a lot of stress before feeling it. People with lower N scores are able to take abundant amounts of stress before feeling it.

    Extraversion:

    Sensation, or the five senses, is the trigger. Your E score is an estimate of the point when your motoric nervous system is aroused, becomes saturated with sensation and craves relief. Extraversion is traditionally associated with sociability because other people are the most common source of stimulation. People with higher E scores can take more sensation before becoming saturated.

    Originality:

    Novelty is the trigger. Dopamine is widely considered the “creativity” chemical, with levels of dopamine and dopamine receptors related to one’s ability to hold visual images in the mind. Your O score represents the point at which you have used up your available dopamine in your pursuit of novelty and your system says “no more novelty or complexity. Take me back to the simple and familiar, the tried and true.”

    Accommodation:

    The trigger is dominance. The arousal system consists of sex hormones (such as testosterone and estrogen) and serotonin, the neurotransmitter involved in sleep, depression and memory. For people with a relative abundance of male hormones and a relative deficit of female hormones, defiance is the norm. Someone with an opposite balance of hormones would normally be submissive. Your A score is an estimate of the point when you tire of being defiant and turn submissive.

    Consolidation:

    Distractions are the trigger. The arousal system supporting C behaviors is the attentional focus system, greatly impacted by levels of testosterone. High levels of testosterone are associated with a greater capacity for sustained, repetitive, goal-focused behavior. Distractions trigger the attentional system, causing loss of focus.Your C score is an estimate of the point when you finally say, “That’s enough focusing for now. Time for a break.”

    —adding—

    AND SIX: IQ: Rate at which you learn.

    AND SEVEN: Your visible reproductive value.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-06-24 18:31:00 UTC

  • IQ: THE TIME COST OF ADAPTATION TO INFORMATION IQ is not subjective it is measur

    IQ: THE TIME COST OF ADAPTATION TO INFORMATION

    IQ is not subjective it is measurable across all ages, genders, classes, and culltures. You might say that it is but one input into personality but it will remain the dominant input across all personality traits – period. IQ largely reflects the rate of learning and the scale of the patterns that individuals can identify in each iteration of the brain (about 1/2 second). It therefore represents the time-cost of adaptation to information.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-06-24 18:17:00 UTC

  • RATIO OF IQ TO TRUST You know, we talk about IQ all the time. But of IQ and trus

    RATIO OF IQ TO TRUST

    You know, we talk about IQ all the time. But of IQ and trust, which is more important? Well, it looks like you need both.

    And that’s the problem. others have produced IQ. We produced both. That’s the issue.

    I mean, I”m sure if I think about it, then it’s something I should be able to find empirical support for.

    In the end the cause of trust is the militia and homogeneity.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-06-24 17:07:00 UTC

  • ACQUISITIONISM: BIG 5 – AGREEABLENESS —“Low time preference (likeable now) ove

    ACQUISITIONISM: BIG 5 – AGREEABLENESS

    —“Low time preference (likeable now) over high time preference (respected later)”— Bill Joslin

    —“Female submission(now) rather than male dominance(later).”— Moritz Bierling

    —“Agreeableness – priority on social capital (property type) – low cost (persuasion-manipulation; likeability – superficial) over high cost (merit-reputation; complex, honesty, trustworthy, reliable) – skew to create-aquire (likeability) over preservation (reputation)”— Bill Joslin

    Source date (UTC): 2017-06-24 16:01:00 UTC

  • “Intelligence then increases ability to recognize more distant relationships bet

    —“Intelligence then increases ability to recognize more distant relationships between actions and outcomes, thereby making it possible to see as property (act territorially towards) representational/abstract assets.”—Moritz Bierling

    Source date (UTC): 2017-06-24 13:25:00 UTC

  • IDEAS CONTROL PEOPLE BY CIRCUMVENTING REASON —“Emotions control people”—Jame

    IDEAS CONTROL PEOPLE BY CIRCUMVENTING REASON

    —“Emotions control people”—James Santagata

    And Ideas that are designed to circumvent reason by wishful thinking, suggestion, loading, framing, overloading, and deceit control emotions and therefore control people.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-06-24 09:21:00 UTC

  • LETTING YOUR INTERNAL MIRROR DECEIVE YOU. Many of you ‘nice boys’ are, I suspect

    LETTING YOUR INTERNAL MIRROR DECEIVE YOU.

    Many of you ‘nice boys’ are, I suspect, like most libertarians, relying on an internal intuition about the nature of man (which is just a mirror of your own brainstem), and confusing the interpersonal similarities of peoples one-on-one with the familial, social, political, and intellectual dissimilarities. A small minority doesn’t matter. But once a group can exercise its intuitions rather than exercise our high trust norms, the EMPIRICALLY DEMONSTRATE that they are not capable of participating in those norms.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-06-24 09:06:00 UTC

  • Ideas control people. People do not control ideas

    Ideas control people. People do not control ideas.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-06-23 21:36:00 UTC

  • “Not all men are conscious. Not all evil is unconscious.”—Andrew Clayton

    —“Not all men are conscious. Not all evil is unconscious.”—Andrew Clayton

    Source date (UTC): 2017-06-23 19:02:00 UTC

  • ARE HUMANS ALIKE? 1) The Wise make arguments to incentives and institutions 2) T

    ARE HUMANS ALIKE?

    1) The Wise make arguments to incentives and institutions

    2) The Fools make arguments to law and government

    3) The Youth make arguments to morality and shame

    4) The Children make arguments to approval and disapproval.

    1) we are alike ‘enough’ or we could not empathize.

    2) we are alike ‘enough in empathy that we can cooperate

    3) we are alike ‘enough’ that we can cooperate on means if not ends.

    4) we are unlike ‘enough’ to choose not to cooperate on means or ends.

    5) we are unlike ‘enough’ to conflict in ethics and politics

    6) we are unlike ‘enough’ that we war nearly constantly.

    7) we are unlike ‘enough’ to engage in culture-cide, and genocide.

    AFAIK,

    (a) median intelligence is proxy for neoteny (domestication) but not

    morality, and;

    (b) median intelligence determines demand for habits, norms, traditions and institutions, and ;

    (c) norms, traditions, and institutions determine the degree of trust that is possible even if unachieved, and;

    (d) the degree of trust determines the productivity of a polity relative to its competitors.

    Therefore

    (e) the standard of any polity is determined not by its best but by the size of its worst. In other words, the only way to improve a polity is the reduction of the scale of the underclasses.

    MARKET LIMIT

    The limit to all markets from commercial to reproduction to association, is whenever the benefit to the self, even in fully informed, productive, voluntary exchange, produces externalities that impose costs upon the retained capital (in all forms) of others.

    Ergo, there is a limit to free trade, and a limit to free association before one is merely profiting from the imposition of costs upon others while claiming one is virtuous.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-06-23 07:41:00 UTC