Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

  • not intelligence, helps men have more sex,” says Dr. Hopcroft, the UNC sociologi

    http://www.maxim.com/maxim-man/does-intelligence-affect-your-sex-life-2016-1—““Money, not intelligence, helps men have more sex,” says Dr. Hopcroft, the UNC sociologist. “In and of itself, intellect won’t do the trick. But intelligence helps them get money.””—


    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-17 12:49:00 UTC

  • Working on Big 5 vs Big 6, vs Propertarianism, vs MBTI. Now, MBTI Maps to most o

    Working on Big 5 vs Big 6, vs Propertarianism, vs MBTI.

    Now, MBTI Maps to most of Big 5, if we express big 5 as spectra rather than as ideal types.

    I think I can unite the three models using propertarianism and change psychology forever, by laundering it of this… awful legacy.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-17 11:43:00 UTC

  • Dont’ confuse meaning with incentive. People do not act by meaning. They act by

    Dont’ confuse meaning with incentive. People do not act by meaning. They act by incentives.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-17 08:06:00 UTC

  • FOUNDATIONS AS REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGIES RESULTING FROM GENDER BIAS IN COOPERATION

    http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2014/09/28/moral-foundations-as-property-rights/MORAL FOUNDATIONS AS REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGIES RESULTING FROM GENDER BIAS IN COOPERATION

    FEMININE COOPERATION BIAS (BUILD OFFSPRING)

    1. Proportionality/cheating, Justice, treating others in proportion to their actions. (The asset of goods.)

    2. Care/harm for others, protecting them from harm. (The asset of life and body.)

    MASCULINE (BETA) COOPERATION BIAS (OBTAIN OFFSPRING)

    3. Liberty/Oppression, characterizes judgments in terms of whether subjects are tyrannized. (The asset of time, opportunity.)

    MASCULINE (ALPHA) COMMONS BIASES (COMPETITIVE TRIBE OF MALES)

    And three others can be expressed as community property rights covering social capital.

    4. In-Group Loyalty/In-Group Betrayal to/of your group, family, nation, polity.

    5. Respect/Authority/Subversion for tradition and legitimate authority.

    6. Purity/Sanctity/Degradation/Disgust, avoiding disgusting things, foods, actions.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-16 05:30:00 UTC

  • Q&A: —“CURT: When I have attempted to actually debate formally or write a crit

    Q&A: —“CURT: When I have attempted to actually debate formally or write a critical essay i can apply deductive logic – but I can’t do it on a whim. [I wish I could]”—-

    You know, I read my first book on logic in 7th grade and realized that I had an entirely subconscious talent for it.

    But, it’s counter-intuitive, and it’s expensive, and it takes a lot of practice. You’ll notice is that the more you do it the better you get. And as long as you don’t try to cut corners, and you stick with it, and argue daily for at least an hour, after about two or three years you get very, very good at it.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-15 07:34:00 UTC

  • 1 – We have evolved instincts that inform is about the demands of reality. 2 – W

    1 – We have evolved instincts that inform is about the demands of reality.

    2 – We vary in those instincts because of our class and gender demands of reality.

    3 – Like the physics of the natural world, all of our instincts are reducible to problems of existence, information, and ability.

    4 – Our instincts have an evolutionary purpose.

    5 – We do not have instincts for arbitrary reasons.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-15 07:29:00 UTC

  • The Problem of Moral Intent Without the Skills of Moral Action

    [T]he moral man is skeptical. If you come at me with questions it would be the actions of a moral man. But as a teacher of others and a philosopher myself I grasp that it is quite difficult to ask questions when you do not know what to ask. So the only option available to one is to criticize until one knows what questions to ask. So it is not necessarily that one intends immorality. It is that we stumble the best we can with the skills at our disposal. As such you have moral intent but not the ability to act morally. I often spend a generous amount of time with those of moral intent but lacking in moral skills, in order to help them discover what questions they might want to ask. This is my contribution to the commons. Tolerance. Patience. Cost. A cost for which many people have suggested I waste my time. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine

  • The Problem of Moral Intent Without the Skills of Moral Action

    [T]he moral man is skeptical. If you come at me with questions it would be the actions of a moral man. But as a teacher of others and a philosopher myself I grasp that it is quite difficult to ask questions when you do not know what to ask. So the only option available to one is to criticize until one knows what questions to ask. So it is not necessarily that one intends immorality. It is that we stumble the best we can with the skills at our disposal. As such you have moral intent but not the ability to act morally. I often spend a generous amount of time with those of moral intent but lacking in moral skills, in order to help them discover what questions they might want to ask. This is my contribution to the commons. Tolerance. Patience. Cost. A cost for which many people have suggested I waste my time. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine

  • The Family Institution…

    [W]ithout the family we create great incentive for defectors, and we increase vastly the cost of individual housing, insurance, and sustenance and survival, That’s all. Marriage makes people wealthier by lowering costs, and creating a higher barrier to reproduction that prevents the underclasses from reproductive parasitism. So it is less important that our BEST breed a LOT, than it is for our worst not to breed even a little. IT IS LESS IMPORTANT FOR OUR BEST TO BREED A LOT THAN IT IS FOR OUR WORST NOT TO BREED EVEN A LITTLE

  • Disease Gradients Impede Cooperation

    (Via Francesco Principi)

    “The xenophobia expressed in environments with high pathogen severity creates barriers to intergroup cooperation. These barriers cause greater poverty in environments with increased pathogen severity, in addition to the direct effects of disease on the human capital that is essential to economic growth. Xenophobic groups in competition for resources are unwilling to resolve this competition through cooperative means, and they are more likely to resort to violent conflict.”

    This idea has legs.