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Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science
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How Humans Adapt More Than Evolve
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JA BERENS ON STOICISM AND SCALE —“Stoicism functions as a tool for limiting th
JA BERENS ON STOICISM AND SCALE
—“Stoicism functions as a tool for limiting the scope of human cognitive processes (cognition & responses to perceived changes in state) to the consequential (actionable at individual scale).
The scope of man’s cognitive processes evolved under tribal/local scale with limited complexity.
Under more complex systems, like those of post-industrial societies, information surpasses the scale of individual actionability, yet because of our innate cognitive biases we respond to, perceive and approach information as if it were consequential.
Complexity and the [perceived] randomness of events eliminate the feedback/information man receives from his actions. That is, as complexity increases, the difficulty of calculating the consequences of a given action or set of actions increases. Thus the need for stoicism as a mental instrument for goal-directed action in an increasingly complex world.
It is no surprise, then, that much in the way that Doolittle and Taleb attack pseudoscience via operationalism and probability theory, respectively, we see a resurgence of stoicism guided by operational and probabilistic thinking. In respect to the former, we decrease uncertainty and launder our thoughts of error, bias, [self] deceit and wishful thinking; and, in respect to the latter, under uncertainty, through the investment and coordination of action to produce a convexity of returns/results (anti-fragility): investment in portfolios with limited down side and unlimited upside.”— James Augustus Berens
SAME PROBLEM FACING THE GREEKS.
Scale.
Source date (UTC): 2016-12-05 18:32:00 UTC
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People don’t have ideas. Ideas occupy people
People don’t have ideas. Ideas occupy people.
Source date (UTC): 2016-12-05 18:16:00 UTC
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I THINK THIS POST MIGHT BE IMPORTANT – TRY SHARING IT WITH WOMEN. I’ve been gett
I THINK THIS POST MIGHT BE IMPORTANT – TRY SHARING IT WITH WOMEN.
I’ve been getting a lot of private messages from women over this post – all with the central theme of ‘yeah… that’s about right’. I’d like to see how it does on the men’s movement sites (I always seek criticism).
It positions the problem women face, I think correctly. It positions the problem men face, I think correctly. And I think that the combination of birth control, employing too many women in the work force, un-mothering our children, industrializing child care and education, making marriage dissolution easier and more preferable, and undermining the institution of marriage itself has led to catastrophic late age misery, and harmful early age stresses.
Men must be men if we wish women to be women. Women must be women if we wish men to be men. the only people that benefit from gender neutrality are those who are outside the norms. The only appeal of serving those outside the norms is created by the feeling of fragility we have created by destroying the compromise between the sexes that we call relationships and marriage for the purpose of intergenerational persistence of our lines. By overcompensating for the bottom we have further empowered the top and destroyed the middle.
But women have a much harder problem: What Men Can They Trust? (Almost none)
Source date (UTC): 2016-12-05 11:02:00 UTC
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All human action is an attempt to satisfy a human desire. Creating and consuming
All human action is an attempt to satisfy a human desire.
Creating and consuming art fulfills a desire.
What desire is being fulfilled?
In a population what demand is being satisfied?
The subjective value of an operation is created by achieving a result, not in the operation itself. The value to OTHERS in articulating operations, is that they as ‘names’ or ‘referents’ they are insulated from bias and suggestion – especially when compared to INTENTIONAL or EXPERIENTIAL descriptions.
So the value of operations in themselves is contained in the achievement of an end by the actor.
The value of speaking in a sequence of operations is contained in the improvement of truth content, over intentional and experiential descriptions. The value is that by eliminating intent and experience and error, bias, suggestion, and deceit, we purify the information transferred in the process we call ‘the communication of meaning’.
Source date (UTC): 2016-12-04 17:01:00 UTC
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A father needs to be for certain the one man a daughter can trust. I think this
A father needs to be for certain the one man a daughter can trust. I think this is the line of teaching that MEN need to be taught. From teaching that one lesson, the rest follows for both genders.
Source date (UTC): 2016-12-04 13:08:00 UTC
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Sure, there is a market for idiocy. Idiocy allows emotional expurgation without
Sure, there is a market for idiocy. Idiocy allows emotional expurgation without taking any material action.Just like masturbation. #NewRight
Source date (UTC): 2016-12-04 00:28:23 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/805207084644134913
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Sure, there is a market for idiocy. Idiocy allows emotional expurgation without
Sure, there is a market for idiocy. Idiocy allows emotional expurgation without taking any material action.Just like masturbation. #NewRight
Source date (UTC): 2016-12-03 19:28:00 UTC
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ITS HARDER FOR WOMEN TO FIND MEN TO TRUST I think we can look at the problem of
ITS HARDER FOR WOMEN TO FIND MEN TO TRUST
I think we can look at the problem of developing high trust social orders with high economic velocity, as an even worse problem for women.
I mean, women have a smaller number of closer friends who are less divergent in sentiments. Men have a larger number of less close friends who vary more greatly.
Men speak in ‘facts’ and women speak in experiences. We convey different information. Women speak in synthesis and men speak in compartments. Women’s information is related, and men’s information is isolated.
Women cannot trust many men easily. (Hence the value of gay men to all women). And they tend to empathically understand only that category of men they are familiar with. And they tend to respond genetically to attraction rather than rationally. JUst as they respond genetically to their offspring rather than to the merits of their offspring.
Women’s minds are interrupt driven with lots of sensation. Men’s minds are relatively quiet and goal driven with few sensations.
Women think about dozens or hundreds of different things, and men think of just a few related to their goals – and almost nothing else.
Men lie to women all the time to increase their chances of getting access to sex with the women or her network of associates.
If men are weak they cannot build trust with women. if women are weak they cannot be honest with men. The only men a woman can usually trust are those that have no reproductive interest in her: her father and her brothers.
Men have a much easier time, since if we can trust our mothers, and physically retaliate against our sisters, we simply need women to help us understand other people’s interests.
And frankly women aren’t that hard. If they are interested in you and not trying just to use you as an ATM just love them, listen to them, and help them when they ask.
Women will love you back, and more so if you give them lots of small signals that you are ‘thinking of them and their concerns’.
I have no problem returning to a world where women are our slaves. I have no problem with my sons ruling that world. I have a problem with my daughters returning to that world, and living in it.
Men need to be taught to love women and limit the damage they can do but not attempt to ‘correct’ how they think. They need to think as they do or they cannot raise families of impulsive unpredictable children.
Women must be taught that men do not think as they do, should not thing as they do, and if they did, they will be useless to them. (I usually say ‘you need girlfriends for that, not me. I am a man.’).
If mothers fail to raise a man capable of being a good husband it is their fault. If a father fails to raise a woman capable of being a good wife, it is his fault. These are the only gender-relations we can trust.
We spend all this time training social nonsense, and pseudoscience, and none of it on how to be a husband, a wife, a brother, a sister, a father, and a mother, and even less on being a homemaker, a craftsman, a businessman, and a financier.
We educated our generations to be nothing more than tax slaves. Seriously. If you critically examine our schooling that’s its purpose.
Tax slavery.
What we need is just the opposite.
Curt Doolittle
The Philosophy of Aristocracy
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev, Ukraine
Source date (UTC): 2016-12-03 14:30:00 UTC