Curt Doolittle

Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

  • THE WORLD IS WHAT WE MAKE IT? WELL, WITHIN LIMITS… The world we CAN make is th

    THE WORLD IS WHAT WE MAKE IT? WELL, WITHIN LIMITS…

    The world we CAN make is that which is possible given the incentives by which it is possible to influence man (gossip, remuneration, violence) given his rationality (rational choice or moral, amoral, or immoral actions in his interest) and the unequal distribution of talents, technology, and resources – and the value of organization in ever increasing numbers to achieve what his rational choice desires.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-14 07:59:00 UTC

  • CITIES ARE GENETIC SINKHOLES —” From the time I first read of John Calhouns ex

    CITIES ARE GENETIC SINKHOLES

    —” From the time I first read of John Calhouns experiments in behavioral sink, cities in the modern west have looked like rat utopia experiments on a human scale.”—Luke Weinhagen

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-13 11:11:00 UTC

  • COMPLAINT IS THE LANGUAGE OF IMBECILES Anyone can complain. Anyone can criticize

    COMPLAINT IS THE LANGUAGE OF IMBECILES

    Anyone can complain. Anyone can criticize. How many people can explain the incentives that cause people to act in a way that they do, that you disagree with?

    Complaints about people. Complaints about events. complaints about society, complaints about civilization. complaints about man.

    Complaints are merely statements of incompetence.

    Competence is demonstrated by an explanation of the incentives that produce behaviors, and the institutional methods by which counter-incentives can be created that will produce preferred behaviors. And high competence is demonstrated by explanation of a possible method of doing so.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-13 10:01:00 UTC

  • Love: – Passion (sexual attraction) – Friendship (making each other better toget

    Love:

    – Passion (sexual attraction)

    – Friendship (making each other better together than alone)

    – Familial ( kin: care for one’s offspring and relations)

    – Kith (those who we cooperate with at to one degree or another)

    – Mankind (the love of mankind)

    It is the father’s love of kith and kin, lacking friendship and passion, lacking direct benefit, only external benefit.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-13 08:00:00 UTC

  • Intuition Bias, Predjudice

    INTUITION, BIAS, PREJUDICE —“Is intuition synonymous with prejudice?”—Skye Stewart We have genetics that cause us to possess intuitions and biases — – both of which are pre-cognitive. A prejudice consists of a pre-judgement, and therefore a judgement we have made by some degree of free association, reason or contemplation. One may develop a prejudice because we also possess a bias, and we may possess a bias because of an intuition, and we may possess an intuition out of genetic necessity or accident, but they are different things, and … … oh… shall I say it? Yes? Therefore they are not to be CONFLATED. lol Sigh. That felt good.

  • Intuition Bias, Predjudice

    INTUITION, BIAS, PREJUDICE —“Is intuition synonymous with prejudice?”—Skye Stewart We have genetics that cause us to possess intuitions and biases — – both of which are pre-cognitive. A prejudice consists of a pre-judgement, and therefore a judgement we have made by some degree of free association, reason or contemplation. One may develop a prejudice because we also possess a bias, and we may possess a bias because of an intuition, and we may possess an intuition out of genetic necessity or accident, but they are different things, and … … oh… shall I say it? Yes? Therefore they are not to be CONFLATED. lol Sigh. That felt good.

  • DIFFERENCES IN PERSONALITY ARE EXACTLY WHAT YOU’D EXPECT FROM THE STEREOTYPES. (

    http://www.people.vcu.edu/~mamcdani/Publications/AOM_as_of_8%201%202008.pdfRACIAL DIFFERENCES IN PERSONALITY ARE EXACTLY WHAT YOU’D EXPECT FROM THE STEREOTYPES. (AND OTHER RESEARCH)

    (note that this is a huge sample size)

    —“Using 567 effect sizes and a total sample size of over

    one million, the present meta-analysis estimates the magnitude of White-Black differences found in scores of Big 5 personality measures as well as measures of locus of control and self-efficacy.

    We offer seven primary conclusions.

    1 – First, we conclude that the magnitudes of the White –Black differences are very small. (Curt says: yep.)

    2 – Our second conclusion is that the magnitude of the White –Black differences for the Big 5 is moderated by the cognitive loading of the personality scales. (Curt says: yep)

    3 – Our third conclusion is that most of our results are primarily consistent with the nil hypothesis which is that there are no differences between Blacks and Whites on four of the seven personality constructs.

    ( Curt interjects and says: yep, we differ in extroversion/introversion, differ in neuroticism/stability, we differ in agreeableness or what HBDchick would call Clannishness. My view again, is that introversion and neuroticism and intelligence are related expressions. in other words it comes down to IQ and distributions.)

    Blacks are slightly more extroverted and emotionally stable, and Whites are slightly more agreeable. (Curt Says: double-yep. )

    4 – Fourth, we conclude that journal data often suppress results that disfavor Blacks. ( Curt says: yep, and conversely, heaps undue praise on what criticizes whites ).

    5 – Fifth, we conclude that Black college students have a slightly more favorable standing on personality variables than White college students. (ie: the black kids tat get to college are more emotionally stable, and pliable.)

    6 – Our sixth conclusion is that mean racial difference in incumbent samples are not smaller than mean racial differences in applicant samples.

    Finally, we conclude that personnel researchers pay far too little attention to the representativeness of their samples.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-12 17:44:00 UTC

  • NERDS, ASPIES : ENJOY THE ‘PRIVILEGE’ You’re just male. Aspie is extremely male.

    NERDS, ASPIES : ENJOY THE ‘PRIVILEGE’

    You’re just male. Aspie is extremely male. Autistic is when the male brain reaches a state of localism such that it is no longer able to serve the function necessary for the survival of the organism.

    Women have the same problem of evolving into psychotics where the brain reaches a state lacking sufficient localism for self monitoring, and is no longer able to serve the function necessary for the survival of the organism.

    The difference is that women are privileged and so we take care of them when they are ‘crazy’ in no small part because they are less harmful. But an adult male that is fully autistic and therefore impulsive and rageful is extremely dangerous (if he can even survive into adulthood)

    Now, you can combine the male brain with rapid maturity, or with delayed maturity. And with deep physical maturity, or shallow physical maturity. And with large or small size in maturity.

    If you look at men through those three axis

    1 – the male-autisic / balanced / female-psychotic brain

    2 – the size (height)

    3 – the depth and rate of maturity (think black vs asian)

    You can produce pretty much the entire spectrum of males.

    Now, that said, you can search for an online test, but the only way to know if you have aspie traits is to go to a specialist in autism and aspieness, and he will tell you.

    In my opinion, if you are a borderline aspie, you are in the sweet spot where you are socially functional, possess self awareness, but still have the ability to insulate (DEFLATE) concepts.

    But it is true: it is harder to be happy when you are smart. Easier when you are average.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-11 11:24:00 UTC

  • Emotions and Their Influence on Biases and Agency

    Apr 09, 2017 5:06pm EMOTIONS AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON BIASES AND AGENCY 1 – Emotions reflect changes in the states of property-in-toto. 2 – We use reason (a skill we can improve through practice in deflationary comparisons ) to compare properties, relations, consequences, and valuations. 3 – We use free association to define properties, relations, consequences, and valuations. 4 – Our efforts at free association are impossible not to bias, because our experience accumulates in both interest and intensity in response to our biases. 5 – So it is more correct to say that it is very difficult to learn to think sufficiently deflationarily that our emotions do not influence our reasoning. 6 – to say that many of our emotions – those that I understand – occur in the reptilian and mamalian brains, and that our cognitive biases occur most often in the human parts of the brain and that the more primitive they are the more difficult they are (often) to circumvent, but the easier they are to understand. Many cognitive biases are difficult to be aware of in the first place, and are more subtle. Therefore, in broad terms, the less skill you have, the less will you have, the more solipsistic you are the harder it is to escape the emotions that result from your biases. The more skill you have the more will you have the more autistic you are the easier it is to escape the emotions that result from your biases. Apr 09, 2017 5:37pm AGENCY AND AESTHETICS —“Enlighten the intellect, volition will follow. Aesthetics seem to be the means of aligning one’s passions and emotions to reason.”—Rafael LaVerde Let me expand on that a bit: Remove sources of lack of fitness, lack of character (virtue), lack of resources, sources of normative and institutional resistance, sources of ignorance, error, bias, and deceit – all the impediments to agency – and agency will result. Then selecting a philosophy – a means of decidability – by which one can obtain one’s ends, and an aesthetic that values one’s passions in accordance with that philosophy.

  • Emotions and Their Influence on Biases and Agency

    Apr 09, 2017 5:06pm EMOTIONS AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON BIASES AND AGENCY 1 – Emotions reflect changes in the states of property-in-toto. 2 – We use reason (a skill we can improve through practice in deflationary comparisons ) to compare properties, relations, consequences, and valuations. 3 – We use free association to define properties, relations, consequences, and valuations. 4 – Our efforts at free association are impossible not to bias, because our experience accumulates in both interest and intensity in response to our biases. 5 – So it is more correct to say that it is very difficult to learn to think sufficiently deflationarily that our emotions do not influence our reasoning. 6 – to say that many of our emotions – those that I understand – occur in the reptilian and mamalian brains, and that our cognitive biases occur most often in the human parts of the brain and that the more primitive they are the more difficult they are (often) to circumvent, but the easier they are to understand. Many cognitive biases are difficult to be aware of in the first place, and are more subtle. Therefore, in broad terms, the less skill you have, the less will you have, the more solipsistic you are the harder it is to escape the emotions that result from your biases. The more skill you have the more will you have the more autistic you are the easier it is to escape the emotions that result from your biases. Apr 09, 2017 5:37pm AGENCY AND AESTHETICS —“Enlighten the intellect, volition will follow. Aesthetics seem to be the means of aligning one’s passions and emotions to reason.”—Rafael LaVerde Let me expand on that a bit: Remove sources of lack of fitness, lack of character (virtue), lack of resources, sources of normative and institutional resistance, sources of ignorance, error, bias, and deceit – all the impediments to agency – and agency will result. Then selecting a philosophy – a means of decidability – by which one can obtain one’s ends, and an aesthetic that values one’s passions in accordance with that philosophy.