Curt Doolittle

Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

  • CREEPY CONSPIRACY THEORY PEOPLE Totally creeped out by the conspiracy theorist c

    CREEPY CONSPIRACY THEORY PEOPLE

    Totally creeped out by the conspiracy theorist category of people out there. It’s one thing to be from the third world and talk of gods and demons. It’s another thing to be from the first world and talk about conspiracy theory, magic technology, and aliens.

    Now, I know that, just as mythology can be used as fantasy literature, and theology can be used as fantasy literature, just as history can be used as fantasy literature, just as political philosophy can be used as fantasy literature, just as rational philosophy can be used as fantasy literature, just as analytic philosophy can be used as a fantasy literature, just as mathematics can be used as a fantasy literature, we can use ghost stories, alien stories, technology stories for fantasy literature. We can create many models worlds for our minds to inhabit in order to avoid inhabiting the one our bodies do.

    Broken minds find escape in that fantasy literature. And that the combination of a broken mind, the feeling of alienation from either the personal or social experience of having a broken mind, and the consequence of Dunning-Kruger effects, produces every incentive to escape into it. Either momentarily; or frequently; or unless challenged, or despite challenges: contrary to all the evidence.

    Some of us do not fit well into a society which might nurture us. We are not likable. We lack empathy. We lack sufficient sympathy. We lack sufficient shared experiences. We are ill, or unattractive, deformed, or traumatized, or even simply poor and ignorant. So we invent reasons why society is ‘bad’. We invent reasons why we are good, if not superior to others. We invent reasons why others are bad. We find a fantasy literature which we can tolerate, and we accept it on faith because we need to.

    I understand that these people exist. What troubles me is that we have created a host of ridiculous ‘religions’ – fantasy literatures we pretend are realities through want and faith – that are non-correspondent yet non-beneficial, while at the same time we have eliminated those fantasy literatures (polytheism) which are reasonably correspondent and reasonably beneficial. A dim, devout Christian with a broken mind, is a pretty good thing.

    We can’t say that about almost any other fantasy literature religion

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2016-10-04 03:18:00 UTC

  • Emotions: They’re Just “Treats And Scoldings” For Being A Good Labrador Retrievers On Behalf Of Our Genes.

    All our emotions are explicable as rewards or punishments for the discovery of, pursuit of, obtaining of, hoarding of, consumption of, resources of every conceivable kind. That’s it. The universe is a simple place with simple rules of operation. Man is a simple creature with simple rules of operation. We seek to acquire, preserve, and consume, that which is to our advantage.

    It’s just that we’re pretty amazing in the scope of things we can use to our advantage. We haven’t discovered anything new to eat on this planet in 200 years. Think about that. It’s a big planet when there are just a few tens of millions of us. We haven’t found a new basic chemical reaction in quite a while. We haven’t found a basic metallurgical reaction in quite a while. We are pretty good at searching and finding. Actually, we’re scary good at it. To the point where the basic problem of scientific investigation today is just the cost of basic research given the energy requirements for many of our investigations. It’s the accumulation of logical, mechanical, and cooperative tools that we create from basic resources, that make it possible for us to envision so many new possibilities. It’s so awesome. But our emotions are just drugs: rewards and punishments for being a good labrador retriever for our genes.

  • Emotions: They’re Just “Treats And Scoldings” For Being A Good Labrador Retrievers On Behalf Of Our Genes.

    All our emotions are explicable as rewards or punishments for the discovery of, pursuit of, obtaining of, hoarding of, consumption of, resources of every conceivable kind. That’s it. The universe is a simple place with simple rules of operation. Man is a simple creature with simple rules of operation. We seek to acquire, preserve, and consume, that which is to our advantage.

    It’s just that we’re pretty amazing in the scope of things we can use to our advantage. We haven’t discovered anything new to eat on this planet in 200 years. Think about that. It’s a big planet when there are just a few tens of millions of us. We haven’t found a new basic chemical reaction in quite a while. We haven’t found a basic metallurgical reaction in quite a while. We are pretty good at searching and finding. Actually, we’re scary good at it. To the point where the basic problem of scientific investigation today is just the cost of basic research given the energy requirements for many of our investigations. It’s the accumulation of logical, mechanical, and cooperative tools that we create from basic resources, that make it possible for us to envision so many new possibilities. It’s so awesome. But our emotions are just drugs: rewards and punishments for being a good labrador retriever for our genes.

  • ONE QUESTION FOR MEN: IN WHAT PRIORITY DO YOU PRACTICE THESE ROLES? 1 – DEFENDER

    ONE QUESTION FOR MEN: IN WHAT PRIORITY DO YOU PRACTICE THESE ROLES?

    1 – DEFENDER: Warrior/Sheriff/Rescue/Athlete,

    2 – COUNSELOR: Priest/Intellectual/Scientist/Judge

    3 – PRODUCER: Governor/Financier/Merchant/Craftsman/Laborer,

    4 – CARETAKER: Lover/Husband/Father/Brother/Friend

    THANKS

    Source date (UTC): 2016-10-03 03:23:00 UTC

  • EMOTIONS: TREATS AND SCOLDINGS FOR BEING GOOD LABRADOR RETRIEVERS FOR OUR GENES.

    EMOTIONS: TREATS AND SCOLDINGS FOR BEING GOOD LABRADOR RETRIEVERS FOR OUR GENES.

    All our emotions are explicable as rewards or punishments for the discovery of, pursuit of, obtaining of, hoarding of, consumption of, resources of every conceivable kind.

    That’s it. The universe is a simple place with simple rules of operation. Man is a simple creature with simple rules of operation. We seek to acquire, preserve, and consume, that which is to our advantage.

    It’s just that we’re pretty amazing in the scope of things we can use to our advantage. We haven’t discovered anything new to eat on this planet in 200 years. Think about that. It’s a big planet when there are just a few tens of millions of us.

    We haven’t found a new basic chemical reaction in quite a while.

    We haven’t found a basic metallurgical reaction in quite a while.

    We are pretty good at searching and finding. Actually, we’re scary good at it. To the point where the basic problem of scientific investigation today is just the cost of basic research given the energy requirements for many of our investigations.

    It’s the accumulation of logical, mechanical, and cooperative tools that we create from basic resources, that make it possible for us to envision so many new possibilities.

    It’s so awesome.

    But our emotions are just drugs: rewards and punishments for being a good labrador retriever for our genes.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-10-02 05:34:00 UTC

  • LADIES – YOU”RE NOT THINKING IT THROUGH. MEN ARE SLOW BUT WE LEARN AND WE ADAPT

    LADIES – YOU”RE NOT THINKING IT THROUGH. MEN ARE SLOW BUT WE LEARN AND WE ADAPT AND YOU WON”T LIKE IT.

    Listen ladies. If you won’t have enough children, then why are we men supposed to create order, civilization, prosperity?

    You aren’t thinking this through.

    You do understand that pickup trucks, keg parties, fires, and rifles, are a lot more fun that working every day right? I mean, If we can get away with a laptop, fifty guys with weapons, campfires at night, and meat to eat then life is pretty damned good.

    So keep it in mind. We don’t build civilization for us. We build it for you. Women are riders on their men’s achievements.

    But if you won’t keep it going, then why should we?

    Bear children. Raise them well. Four at a minimum. Six if you can.

    If you agree, then I think men will agree to fund you.

    Otherwise america would make a great afghanistan.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-10-02 03:59:00 UTC

  • Q&A: Why Does Attraction Wear Off After Seven Years Of Monogamy

    It’s pretty simple. We get natural ‘heroin’ when we are attracted to a woman. we get more when she pays attention to us. and we get a lot more of it when we have sex with her. we get accustomed to it and agitated by its loss. And then we develop a tolerance for it. The same is true for negative experiences. It takes about three to five years to ‘unlearn’ a trauma. It takes the same to unlearn a ‘dose of pleasure’. I am not sure why this is hard to understand. Even if you really like someone, without all sorts of incentives to carry you from year 7-20 (at which point everyone stays together – if for no other reason than transaction costs, and marketability) then it just ‘wears off’ and you want another ‘fix’ of heroin.

  • Q&A: Why Does Attraction Wear Off After Seven Years Of Monogamy

    It’s pretty simple. We get natural ‘heroin’ when we are attracted to a woman. we get more when she pays attention to us. and we get a lot more of it when we have sex with her. we get accustomed to it and agitated by its loss. And then we develop a tolerance for it. The same is true for negative experiences. It takes about three to five years to ‘unlearn’ a trauma. It takes the same to unlearn a ‘dose of pleasure’. I am not sure why this is hard to understand. Even if you really like someone, without all sorts of incentives to carry you from year 7-20 (at which point everyone stays together – if for no other reason than transaction costs, and marketability) then it just ‘wears off’ and you want another ‘fix’ of heroin.

  • Intellectuals Are Wrong More Than The Common Man For A Reason

    When we combine anchoring, with intellectual investment, with the status benefits, and with the high cost of changing frames, it’s not rational to expect intellectuals to act otherwise. What we find is this: intellectuals who specialize in very narrow domains and are current with the data tend to be very good. Whenever intellectuals try to work on generalizations it at least appears that we do better asking people on the street. this is why economists supposedly disagree: most economic knowledge of any discreet topic is almost always counter-intuitive. So if you ask a thousand economists a question you will get terrible results, but if you as the top 12 in any niche you will get awesome results.

  • Intellectuals Are Wrong More Than The Common Man For A Reason

    When we combine anchoring, with intellectual investment, with the status benefits, and with the high cost of changing frames, it’s not rational to expect intellectuals to act otherwise. What we find is this: intellectuals who specialize in very narrow domains and are current with the data tend to be very good. Whenever intellectuals try to work on generalizations it at least appears that we do better asking people on the street. this is why economists supposedly disagree: most economic knowledge of any discreet topic is almost always counter-intuitive. So if you ask a thousand economists a question you will get terrible results, but if you as the top 12 in any niche you will get awesome results.