Curt Doolittle

Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

  • ( When we promise status signals in exchange for entry into the consumptive clas

    ( When we promise status signals in exchange for entry into the consumptive classes, that’s easy. But are we now short on signals?

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-04 12:12:15 UTC

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  • But technology does not deprive one of inexpensive status signals of identity. I

    But technology does not deprive one of inexpensive status signals of identity. It enhances them. Hence the objection.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-04 12:11:21 UTC

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  • MORE AND MORE AND MORE OF THE SAME Simple trick to making a healthy happy child:

    MORE AND MORE AND MORE OF THE SAME

    Simple trick to making a healthy happy child: No matter what, always display joy when you see them. Approval provides security and security creates love. Love creates patience, reciprocity, and understanding.

    Teach them patience with interruptions. Children should not think they are more important than adults. But do not carry on nonsense conversation at the expense of your children’s time. And do not let children interrupt you with nonsense at the expense of your opposite’s time.

    Never white-lie to your kids. I am very cautious with promises. I have a whole artful language to avoiding them. Maybe must mean maybe. I don’t know must mean I don’t know. Yes must mean yes. Promise must mean promise. Threat must mean punishment. And the best answer to promise is to avoid ‘when’. I never promise when I will do anything. I don’t control that. I promise only that I will. This combination trains everyone to use the best behavior.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-04 11:27:00 UTC

  • MORE AND MORE OF THE SAME Your child will be far better adjusted if he or she ha

    MORE AND MORE OF THE SAME

    Your child will be far better adjusted if he or she has three or more siblings than anything else you can do to help him or her. Thats’ just how it is. Kids mostly need attention, not things. They need enough not to feel bad, not enough to feel better than others.

    We should pay the productive to have kids and the unproductive not to.

    Instead we do the opposite.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-04 11:17:00 UTC

  • MORE OF THE SAME You oughta be more careful about who you reproduce with than yo

    MORE OF THE SAME

    You oughta be more careful about who you reproduce with than you are about your parenting skills. I mean, it’s that simple. And you oughta have more than one kid. Because then you realize your instincts are nonsense.

    THey’re gene machines. Given how fucking stupid most people are we wouldn’t exist if child rearing took skill.

    Contrary to popular belief, the main benefit of good parenting is effort reduction.

    Think about that a bit.

    Good parenting is largely self interest: reducing the effort it takes. It just so happens if you reduce that effort, society will also require less effort in constraining your offspring’s behavior.

    Really, Most moms in my generation with one kid are freaking lunatics.

    Have a bunch. Invest less in each and get more out of all.

    You can only screw them up. That means if you have more, you’re less likely to do so

    Inverts your whole parenting logic doesn’t it?

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-04 10:45:00 UTC

  • IS IN THAT ASD (AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER) IS GENETIC another postmodern myth bit

    http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/26709141DATA IS IN THAT ASD (AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER) IS GENETIC

    another postmodern myth bites the dust.

    We know what drives all this nonsense: the female desire to believe her nurturing has positive effects more so than her mate selection. Uh uh. Sorry.

    You can screw up your kid but you can’t make him or her better than his or her genes.

    Parenting is not about excellence. It’s about not screwing up too much.

    That this is an evolutionary necessity should be obvious to any non-imbecile. But apparently postmoderns would lie about anything to get women to pay money to take their classes, courses, and diplomas.

    These samples and studies are just too large to overcome now.

    Darwin Wins. Postmoderns Lose. (Liars should loose, shouldn’t they?)

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-04 10:07:00 UTC

  • Amir Sariaslan (@AmirSariaslan): Genetics and neuropsychology: A merger whose ti

    https://t.co/35WO6YXZdnRetweeted Amir Sariaslan (@AmirSariaslan):

    Genetics and neuropsychology: A merger whose time has come

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-04 09:55:00 UTC

  • Value Judgement = Reproductive Strategy = Bonding Behavior

    https://t.co/txUtm0X95hObviously. Value Judgement = Reproductive Strategy = Bonding Behavior.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-04 09:51:00 UTC

  • IMPULSIVITY, AGGRESSION, SOCIOPATHY, SCHIZOTYPIA Most variation in the criminali

    https://t.co/3VkQk8XUghIQ, IMPULSIVITY, AGGRESSION, SOCIOPATHY, SCHIZOTYPIA

    Most variation in the criminality of groups is in this list.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-04 09:50:00 UTC

  • IS THE MOST USEFUL TOOL OF GROUP EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGY (R/K) —“If you were on

    http://edge.org/response-detail/26766IDEOLOGY IS THE MOST USEFUL TOOL OF GROUP EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGY (R/K)

    —“If you were on a selection committee tasked with choosing someone to hire (or to admit to your university, or to receive a prize in your field), and it came down to two candidates who were equally qualified on objective measures, which candidate would you be most likely to choose?

    __A) The one who shared your race

    __B) The one who shared your gender

    __C) The one who shared your religion

    __D) The one who shared your political party or ideology”—

    The answer is “D”.

    WHY? Because it is currently the most useful group evolutionary strategy.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-04 07:15:00 UTC