Curt Doolittle

Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

  • THE CONSPIRACY OF GENETIC WHISPERS 1) A cacophony of genetic whispers. 2) Intuit

    THE CONSPIRACY OF GENETIC WHISPERS

    1) A cacophony of genetic whispers.

    2) Intuition as propagandist for genes.

    3) Consciousness as the victim of propaganda.

    4) Reason and will as advocate for consciousness.

    5) Communication as negotiation for our genes.

    6) Negotiation as opportunistic cooperation in support of our genes.

    You know, academia, religion, media and advertising work by framing, then overloading: by saturating your environment with messages designed to produce a behavioral end. If there is enough saturation in the environment it becomes almost impossible to ignore the stimuli. We have difficulty compartmentalizing environmental stimuli. (Although smarter people much less so than average and below average people – in fact, smarter people have a hard time sensing saturation, and merely take advantage of the circumstances.) So framing and overloading overwhelm our skepticism and reason – especially when we perceive it as advantageous to make use of the falsehood rather than to determine whether it is true or not.

    Libertarians are interesting because we are the most moral people – the people least likely to impose costs upon others. That morality is our genes whispering to us too.

    But like all other victims of overloading by genetic whispers, we fallaciously assume that it is rational for others to adopt our genetic strategy. It is not. It is rational for others to adopt THEIR genetic strategy.

    What we have right, is that all have equal chances of pursuing their genetic strategy without harming the genetic strategy of others, if we cooperate on means, even though we cannot cooperate on ends. This will suppress the least fit genes, and expand the better, if not most fit genes (excellence doesn’t really spread as much as ‘good’.) At present we are murdering (genocide) the better genes to fund the worst genes, in the greatest consumption of genetic capital in human history.

    This cannot continue. And if it does, it will turn out that our genes were wrong.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-26 03:32:00 UTC

  • MORAL INTUITION IS JUST YOUR GENES TALKING That’s it. You might be able to intui

    MORAL INTUITION IS JUST YOUR GENES TALKING

    That’s it. You might be able to intuit very simple common moral values, but your gender, social class, economic class, and family structure are reflections of your genes, genetic history, and are simple expressions of those genes.

    And your genes are competing with other genes – either with more numerous “worse” genes, or less numerous “better” genes, for higher status, better allies, and better mates. And as such we advocate if not outright demand adherence to our moral code in order to cooperate with others. We offer cooperation to those who benefit our genes, and deny it to those who compete with our genes.

    And what little reason we can muster, and struggle to put under the discipline of our will, is subject to the multitudinous whispers of those genes as they influence our intuition (subconscious), and our intuition influences our perception (consciousness), and our consciousness influences our reason.

    Our will is vastly outnumbered by an invisible hierarchy of secret police that conspires to serve our genes regardless of our reason and will.

    And so we cannot rely upon our moral intuition to determine what is best for anything other than ourselves. We require measures of everyone else’s moral intuitions – the voices of their genes.

    But even if we possess such data does that mean that there is some optimum moral code for all of us to adhere to? Not really. We are optimistic cooperators, and constant competitors.

    While we cannot agree upon ends, since that would mean the willing sacrifice of some of our genes for those of others, and result in dysgenic devolution, which cannot be cast as ‘good’, we can agree to cooperate on means, such that we do not constrain one another’s genes, nor assume we have the wisdom to choose which genes best suit human reality.

    PROPERTARIANISM IS CALCULABLE – THE LOGICAL ARTICULATION OF INTUITIONS TO RATIONAL FORM

    Propertarianism, the missing logic of cooperation, the missing logic of ethics, the missing logic of politics, allows us to discuss all moral systems in transparent, rational terms.

    Praxeology was a failure. But it doesn’t have to be. Propertarianism repairs praxeology.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-26 02:51:00 UTC

  • ANOTHER FLYNN EFFECT? (strange) I dunno. This is a bit weird. And I feel a bit s

    ANOTHER FLYNN EFFECT?

    (strange)

    I dunno. This is a bit weird. And I feel a bit strange saying it. But it makes sense.

    I think that if you work with Propertarianism enough, that it produces some sort of flynn-like effect that spills over into everything you think about. Just as physical sciences reduce the world to general rules and everyone seems to get smarter because of it, Propertarianism reduces the world of human experience to a few simple general rules, and I notice the difference in myself.

    Everything is easier to figure out. Everything. Everything seems to be ‘obvious’.

    Clarity. When you look at the chapter outline of the book, a little like Human Action, or maybe Hume’s work, just the outline itself is an argument – that makes sense.

    You wanna know something else weird? The field that was most under threat from accusations of pseudoscience, reformed more so than any other field, including Physics. Seriously. The only field to fully implement the scientific method in fully operational terms is experimental psychology.

    And I was wondering why experimental psychology surpassed economics and even is keeping ahead of cognitive science. Why?

    Operationalism.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-25 06:15:00 UTC

  • I know you are an average Ukrainian girl, and act just like every other ukrainia

    I know you are an average Ukrainian girl, and act just like every other ukrainian girl: practicing to be supermodel. But my friends are mostly not Ukrainian or Russian and your sexy profile photos make me look more lecherous than I really am… lol. I am flirty but not lecherous.

    Caveat : I already know what you are going to say: “Silly shy Americans…I am Ukrainian.”. lol

    I know. They are just jealous. We have this saying: “If you have it, flaunt it.” And you have it. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-25 02:35:00 UTC

  • DEHUMANIZING BUT INTELLECTUALLY LIBERATING – HUMANS ARE COOL. Once you understan

    DEHUMANIZING BUT INTELLECTUALLY LIBERATING – HUMANS ARE COOL.

    Once you understand that human existence is reducible to acquisitiveness, and that all emotions are merely chemical reactions to changes in state of our extant acquisitions, our anticipated acquisitions, and our potential acquisitions, then you readily adopt the habit of ignoring your intuitions in a search for meaning, and simply looking at all of human experience economically: as cooperation for the purpose of acquisition.

    What people think say, believe and justify becomes meaningless verbalism – negotiation both honest and deceptive, and nothing else. Everyone’s purpose is some form of acquisition. Even if it takes the form of acquiring time to relax that is not spent in material acquisition. Thinking of humans so mechanistically, with our emotions as mere reward-machines, is somehow dehumanizing. But on the other hand it’s intellectually liberating. The world is much more comprehensible.

    I tend to see our existence as a reasonably successful struggle against the dark forces of time and ignorance. And I celebrate our ability to miraculously cooperate in large numbers, despite the fact that we are all super predators entirely capable of simply killing and eating each other if we choose to.

    I don’t know what else in the universe is more amazing than that. And I don’t need the vastness of space, the mystery of physical science or some abstract mysticism to feel spiritually about it: Humans awe me. 🙂

    Humans are cool. 🙂

    Curt Doolittle

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-22 03:39:00 UTC

  • COLLEGE GRADS WAIT FOR MARRIAGE TO HAVE KIDS (everyone else is a single mom)

    http://www.vox.com/2014/6/20/5824594/marriage-an-upper-class-luxuryONLY COLLEGE GRADS WAIT FOR MARRIAGE TO HAVE KIDS

    (everyone else is a single mom)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-20 15:30:00 UTC

  • UNDERSTANDING ASPIE DIFFICULTIES – AND OVERCOMING THEM The problem with understa

    UNDERSTANDING ASPIE DIFFICULTIES – AND OVERCOMING THEM

    The problem with understanding the autism spectrum is two fold: first, we have to understand that this ‘exaggerated maleness’ is the product of damage to the brain, or at least, inhibited growth to the brain, in utero. And second, that with that damage, comes a very narrow means of obtaining normal chemical rewards. Furthermore, the normal process of male maturation via testosterone in puberty further decreases the ability to obtain rewards. Leaving information as one of the only available forms of stimuli.

    So, with very narrow means of obtaining positive rewards, the maturing male aspie is highly susceptible to simple depression if he cannot find any means of stimulation, or to information based obsession if he finds a sufficiently rewarding interest, or to mania if he encounters frustration, exhaustion or depression followed by extremes stimuli as a means of escaping frustration, exhaustion or depression – to the same degree that many males are susceptible to periods of aggression, or risk taking to obtain their rewards. Whereas their female counterparts have the opposite problem – they can’t shut off all the sensations.

    The only cure I know of is, if one cannot find a sufficiently obsessive interest, is to limit chaotic over-stimulation which can easily cause exhaustion or depression, and get regular exercise, rest, and neurogenic stimulation via SSRI’s. SSRI’s are called anti-depressants, because that’s what we use them for, but a good number of them largely facilitate neurogenesis. And whether we are generating new neurons, or just improving the connectivity of neurons, we have greater success in creating rewards by experience and association with better neural pathway generation.

    I finally got control of mine after a great deal of effort. And my distraction was that I actually love working. I love everything about it. Because work is physical and social and aspies want social contact, even if we are bad at it. We will usually try hard to learn. And people will help you if you ask them, and don’t take yourself too seriously. I mean, some people are hard of hearing, some are color blind, and some of us just are a bit clueless. But most other human beings are pretty forgiving if you’re just honest with them and say “Did I just say or do something stupid? Oh..Ok. Sorry. Thanks.” Laugh when everyone else does. Always support the group decision even if you don’t agree with it. Voluteer to help or work at every opportunity. And pay the tolls that we must pay for social participation when we have less to contribute to social signals.

    Aspieness is pretty easy to grow out of, but through your twenties, it’s pretty difficult to live with. And it’s tyranny to live with between twelve and twenty two.

    But we would be much better off if we understood that it is caused by a difference in the rate of growth of areas of the brain. And that until we create new neural pathways that allow us new means of positive solutions, we are, like those who are tone deaf or color blind, equally unable to perceive many of the senses that others take for granted, many of those senses contain reward and punishment signals we cannot learn from, and we are extremely susceptible to problems that arise from the lack of rewards and information.

    If we restated therapy as tutoring for aspies, then I’d accept it. I don’t have much respect for the profession. But neurogenic drugs, and education, will grow new means of achieving stimulation. It’s kind of unnecessary and unpleasant to wait until your late twenties or early thirties before you start experiencing life comfortably.

    I hope this helps someone, somewhere, just a little bit.

    Curt Doolittle

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-20 04:39:00 UTC

  • Sad Revelations And The End Of Hero Worship

    [I] just realized the my intellectual hero is not interested in liberty, he is interested in obtaining status by demonstrating that he is an alpha. Libertarianism was just a vehicle for demonstrating it. And that is why his arguments are so heavily loaded and framed. Sure, there is also valuable content there, but it is obscured by signal seeking, sycophancy, ridicule, empty verbalism, anti-empiricism, deceptive framing, shoddy selective reasoning, and obscurantist fallacy. So apparently one can learn a lot about the method of argument from Marxists if you study them. By contrast, I don’t matter. I don’t need to earn a living from my philosophical work. I’ve obtained my status already – and frankly I’d rather live simply having done it. My goal is not recognition, not status, but to obtain liberty. This is war for the soul if not survival of the west. I’m just a warrior. And I want to win. Not just for me, but for all of us.

  • Sad Revelations And The End Of Hero Worship

    [I] just realized the my intellectual hero is not interested in liberty, he is interested in obtaining status by demonstrating that he is an alpha. Libertarianism was just a vehicle for demonstrating it. And that is why his arguments are so heavily loaded and framed. Sure, there is also valuable content there, but it is obscured by signal seeking, sycophancy, ridicule, empty verbalism, anti-empiricism, deceptive framing, shoddy selective reasoning, and obscurantist fallacy. So apparently one can learn a lot about the method of argument from Marxists if you study them. By contrast, I don’t matter. I don’t need to earn a living from my philosophical work. I’ve obtained my status already – and frankly I’d rather live simply having done it. My goal is not recognition, not status, but to obtain liberty. This is war for the soul if not survival of the west. I’m just a warrior. And I want to win. Not just for me, but for all of us.

  • SAD REVELATIONS AND THE END OF HERO WORSHIP I just realized the my intellectual

    SAD REVELATIONS AND THE END OF HERO WORSHIP

    I just realized the my intellectual hero is not interested in liberty, he is interested in obtaining status by demonstrating that he is an alpha. Libertarianism was just a vehicle for demonstrating it. And that is why his arguments are so heavily loaded and framed. Sure, there is also valuable content there, but it is obscured by signal seeking, sycophancy, ridicule, empty verbalism, anti-empiricism, deceptive framing, shoddy selective reasoning, and obscurantist fallacy. So apparently one can learn a lot about the method of argument from Marxists if you study them.

    By contrast, I don’t matter. I don’t need to earn a living from my philosophical work. I’ve obtained my status already – and frankly I’d rather live simply having done it. My goal is not recognition, not status, but to obtain liberty. This is war for the soul if not survival of the west. I’m just a warrior. And I want to win. Not just for me, but for all of us.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-19 02:44:00 UTC