Curt Doolittle

Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

  • AGENCY VS RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY —“Is the concept of agency an answer to the r

    AGENCY VS RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY

    —“Is the concept of agency an answer to the rational choice theory?”—Ray V. Westwood

    Correct. we are all rational actors but the scope of information we can rationally process and the tools we can use to reduce complexity to analogies to experience, varies greatly. So because of time constraints, cost constraints, skill constraints, emotional constraints, and intellectual constraints, we rely upon our intuitions for that which we cannot calculate. However, we carry with us genetic biasses that radically affect our intuitions particularly our intuitions at scale. Without markets we cannot ‘calculate’ between our biases.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-08 16:45:00 UTC

  • Or we can just simplify Taleb and say that we evolved to identify opportunities

    Or we can just simplify Taleb and say that we evolved to identify opportunities using very little available information, but it takes an absurd – meaning voluminous and expensive – amount of information before we know enough to determine whether the effect of an outlier cancels out all the possible opportunity that can result from our identification of opportunity using little information. Or to put Taleb’s rule of thumb to it: canceling outliers require logarithmic increases in information before we have any idea of the consequences. Ergo, it is better to be against people act opportunistically in the short term under the assumption of the stability of a long term.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-08 15:53:00 UTC

  • FWIW mainstream econ dropped the rational actor hypothesis decades ago. For the

    FWIW mainstream econ dropped the rational actor hypothesis decades ago. For the simple reason we lack the information to act rationally, so we act intuitively, and that means MORALLY.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-08 13:43:00 UTC

  • Stop getting worked up. They’re just girls. The more intelligent (without sacrif

    Stop getting worked up. They’re just girls. The more intelligent (without sacrificing femininity), The more symmetrical, the more lithe, the more fertile, and the longer they appear so, the more valuable they are. You want them to separate your money from your persona? Try to separate their fertility from theirs. How do you fix it? Both men and women do more to stay fit and socialized, and spend less time alone and static.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-08 13:34:00 UTC

  • THE DIM AND AGENCY The dim lack sufficient agency with which to obtain additiona

    THE DIM AND AGENCY

    The dim lack sufficient agency with which to obtain additional agency, necessary to transcend their dimness. 😉

    ***When one is incapable of comprehension of a subject and low in trust, he or she relies upon individuals he or she can understand, and who make arguments that justify his or her priors. This means that idiots tend to idiots. And Dunning Kruger is ever present limitation upon their maturity. ***

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-08 13:29:00 UTC

  • AGENCY AND DEVELOPMENTAL VELOCITY (important) For those of us who were born gene

    AGENCY AND DEVELOPMENTAL VELOCITY

    (important)

    For those of us who were born genetically capable of agency, we take longer to mature because we require so much information in order to render decisions without the context that ‘normals’ have. Meanwhile, normals mature earlier at the expense of agency. And the feminine mature earliest at high cost to agency. I think this is the causal explanation we are looking for. My mother told me I was born an old man who desired to play peter pan. This rather motherly and colloquial observation turns out to have been scientifically correct. info-vores arise because of lack of genetic contextualism. We mature more slowly. But possess greater agency because of it. We could say this another way: that humans are capable of breeding a distribution of rates of maturity to ensure a supply of people who are biased to calculate the full range of short (child rearing) and long (tribal competitiveness) problems.

    ( Aaron Kahland, Caitie Doolittle, Jean Barresi, Elizabeth Doolittle)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-06 11:01:00 UTC

  • Now to fuck with this Human Drives diagram I will simplify it dramaticallly to t

    Now to fuck with this Human Drives diagram I will simplify it dramaticallly to the purely selfish methods by which we intuit and learn to acquire.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-06 09:25:00 UTC

  • FYI: In my lexicon impulsivity is the opposite of agency. It is as psychotic is

    FYI: In my lexicon impulsivity is the opposite of agency. It is as psychotic is to autistic. Solipsistic to Aspie.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-05 20:15:00 UTC

  • alcohol as celebration is one thing. as assistance in detatchment from work achi

    alcohol as celebration is one thing. as assistance in detatchment from work achieved another. as medication for chronic suffering is another. and as the chinese discovered, escapism into recreational use is suicidal.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-05 17:48:00 UTC

  • (pot use) I understand that pot causes developmental disorders. I also understan

    (pot use)

    I understand that pot causes developmental disorders. I also understand that it makes developmental disorders, developmental defects, and genetic defects much more tolerable in a modernity where we lack kinship relations, opportunity for hostile negotiations, and practice in hunting and war.

    Medicinally – for the purpose of behavioral treatment – I don’t really have a problem with it.

    Recreationally – as a means of taking a ‘mental vacation’ for an evening I don’t have a problem with it, or wine, or beer, or hard liquor.

    In celebrations and festivals I don’t either.

    People who evangelize it are just evidencing additive behaviors (obsessions).

    People who enter the commons and the market under the influence of it are just another form of parasite imposing a cost on me and others.

    So, I have a problem with anyone using it in the market (commons), and personally I’d like to beat the shit out of anyone who speaks to me under the influence in the market.

    And I don’t like the commercialization of its marketing and sale, and I think this was a mistake. And the evidence in those areas that have legalized it proves it.

    But I there are entire classes of people whose families evolved under the influence of alcohol out of both behavioral and caloric necessity. And these people are better off with pot than alcohol, and they certainly don’t need the calories like we did in the past.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-05 15:39:00 UTC