Curt Doolittle

Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

  • INTELLECTUALS ARE WRONG MORE THAN THE COMMON MAN FOR A REASON When we combine an

    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.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-25 13:25:00 UTC

  • Intelligence is like happy families and domesticatable animals: a lot of things

    Intelligence is like happy families and domesticatable animals: a lot of things have to go right, and a lot of things can’t go wrong. That’s why intelligence is a difficult property to breed for.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-25 10:27:00 UTC

  • Q&A: WHY DOES ATTRACTION WEAR OFF AFTER SEVEN YEARS OF MONOGAMY It’s pretty simp

    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.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-25 09:26:00 UTC

  • A lot of the cultural difference here is that he women aren’t infantilized, and

    A lot of the cultural difference here is that he women aren’t infantilized, and so by the time they’re 21 they’re adults.

    American culture (at the behest of the left) has infantalized our generations to the point where the milennial’s will not reach adulthood until their late thirties or early forties.

    Most of this was accomplished by the postwar boom’s economic expansion, in a period of luxury for the usa, where we had no competition, and we moved our lower classes in to a position where they had middle class jobs, middle class consumer power, voting rights, could pay university tuitions and act as useful idiots for the leftists – all wthout adopting the ‘conservative values’ which are in fact the western aristocratic values adopted by each emergent member of the middle class: “you are not a liability”.

    And how do we know you are not a liability?

    – you can earn enough to pay for a home

    – you can afford a spouse and offspring.

    – you can participate in civic society’s norms.

    – you can uphold the law. not just obey but uphold it.

    – you can serve in the militia (and for women, hospitaliers)

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-24 06:26:00 UTC

  • Andy Curzon Just had a thought in response to you question the other day. And I

    Andy Curzon

    Just had a thought in response to you question the other day. And I think it’s this: (as a vast overgeneralization )

    Women are less willing to pay rational behavioral adaptation costs, and more willing to pay social adaptation costs. The former requires they monitor their thinking and change it, the second means they feel the circumstance and adapt to it without rational demand.

    Men however must constantly outwit the hunted, and so readily adapt to facts, regardless of social constraints.

    (My ex-wife Allora was one of the few women (and there are quite a few) that are intellectually attached, and sufficiently emotionally detatched such that they can adapt their thinking in response to pure ideas. It’s probably why we were such a devastating team.)

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-23 06:07:00 UTC

  • MUST BE A FULL MOON. (I have a handful of windows open all asking about relation

    MUST BE A FULL MOON.

    (I have a handful of windows open all asking about relationship advice.)

    COST

    Men are emotinally expensive for women, just like women are economically expensive for men.

    CHOICES

    Women are not ‘looser’ than they were in the past, only than in the recent past. What they are is more economically indpendent and men are less valuable to them. Moreover we are now forming relationships largely on shared entertainment interests rather than shared economic necessity. So men are less valuable. So what has occurred is that both sexes are using current economic conditions (that are changing rapidly) to be more selective if they have options, and more impulsive if they don’t.

    JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU

    She’s just not that into you. He’s just not that into you.

    Gender doesn’t matter. It works the same, both ways.

    You can try as hard as you want. But once you figure out that he or she is not as into you as you are into him or her, you’ve found a pretty serious problem.

    Because it will only get worse. Relationships wax and wane. And unless there is enough attraction, the weak parts create easy points of failure. And the person with the lowest interest is the one who will break.

    Both women and men excel at wishful thinking.

    But you can’t wish people to feel other than they do.

    And if you must work hard for their attention, over time, then you will get less and less of it. Not only because they will be less responsive to your desires, but because you will be less willing to work for that attention.

    It is what it is.

    Relationships are only useful for very short romance, or very long security. The middle ground is always disappointing.

    Find someone you want to be with for the long haul.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-21 12:37:00 UTC

  • Names. You know, we can do a pretty good job of statistically estimating your ra

    Names. You know, we can do a pretty good job of statistically estimating your race, class, and IQ by just knowing your name and year of birth?

    (Snowflakes)

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-21 02:35:00 UTC

  • Likewise human emotions in only three axis:Dom/Act./Pl-Pa

    Likewise human emotions in only three axis:Dom/Act./Pl-Pa.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-19 10:28:36 UTC

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  • X submissive response +X dominance response intensity

    -X submissive response +X dominance response intensity.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-19 10:26:16 UTC

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  • Y-Axis ‘information density (or resources for common folk)

    Y-Axis ‘information density (or resources for common folk)

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-19 10:25:39 UTC

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