Curt Doolittle

Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

  • Don, How does one know when he has transitioned from conscious incompetence to u

    Don,

    How does one know when he has transitioned from conscious incompetence to unconscious competence?

    If the mirror always lies, them we can always outwit the mirror. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-23 10:16:00 UTC

  • UNIVERSAL TRUTHS The adorably silly way women walk with freshly painted toenails

    UNIVERSAL TRUTHS

    The adorably silly way women walk with freshly painted toenails. In every culture I’ve seen. From heel-walking to elaborate tissue paper rituals.

    Like aliens. Only better. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-22 15:01:00 UTC

  • “[The] average American IQ will decline from 98 to 95 by mid-century. This may s

    —“[The] average American IQ will decline from 98 to 95 by mid-century. This may seem a small drop, but it will have dire effects for elites, because the percentage of Americans with an IQ of at least 120 will fall from 7.1 to 4.8.”— Lynn

    I think the magic number is actually 106. At that point you have a moral, thinking human being capable of handling abstractions, and repairing machinery. If you can’t keep 20% of your population over 106, then you cannot have a high trust society.

    That’s my working thesis

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-22 09:42:00 UTC

  • YOUR CHILDREN WELL. (ie: not the way we do it – at all)

    http://www.takingchildrenseriously.com/unschooling_and_karl_popperTEACH YOUR CHILDREN WELL. (ie: not the way we do it – at all)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-14 17:56:00 UTC

  • FWIW: We human beings operate by status signals more so than any other thing tha

    FWIW: We human beings operate by status signals more so than any other thing that we covet.

    Loss aversion is a strong instinct. loss aversion by ‘theft, cheating and free riding’ is stronger still. But of all the things we covet most, and and are most adverse to loss, status is the greatest – often more so than our kin.

    It is the redistribution of earned status that produces agitation on one end, and a reaction to the relative lack of status at the other end.

    Progressives use the best of all worlds: the don’t bear many children, they earn high incomes, and they obtain their status using other people’s money.

    Whereas a middle class business owner, or upper middle class professional, cannot devote his earnings to increasing the number of his children, increasing his comfort in retirement, nor transferring his accumulated wealth to his family.

    Meanwhile, others gain status merely by appropriating and redistributing the product of his efforts.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-14 11:36:00 UTC

  • DEMONSTRATED PRACTICAL INTELLIGENCE Demonstrated practical intelligence is deter

    DEMONSTRATED PRACTICAL INTELLIGENCE

    Demonstrated practical intelligence is determined by the following properties:

    GENETIC

    1) (g) or General Intelligence (and it’s distribution between faculties)

    2) Short term memory (my weakness)

    CHOICE

    3) General Knowledge (the amount of it that you have – more is better)

    4) Correspondence of Wants with Reality (wanting the possible)

    INCENTIVES

    And the incentives provided by:

    5) Existing Paradigmatic Correspondence with reality.

    6) Existing Paradigmatic rewards (Academic Paradigm, Status Signals, Economic Rewards)

    That’s the answer.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-09 16:32:00 UTC

  • CAN WE DEVELOP A PILL FOR NEURO AND SYNAPTOGENESIS? What if we can encourage neu

    CAN WE DEVELOP A PILL FOR NEURO AND SYNAPTOGENESIS?

    What if we can encourage neurogenesis and synaptogenesis? Can we break the brain size problem?

    Not just anti-depressants, but nootropics: increasing synaptogenesis and neurogenesis. Or conversely, discovering what is prohibiting ITGB3 and necessary synaptogenesis and neurogenesis?

    –“..in order to make up for the lull in SER.T, more ITGB3 is produced, which then goes to work in bolstering synaptogenesis and neurogenesis, the true culprits behind depression. “There are many studies proposing that antidepressants act by promoting synaptogenesis and neurogenesis,” Gurwitz says. “Our work takes one big step on the road for validating such suggestions.”–

    (from David Gurwitz and Noam Shomron , Tel Aviv University in Israel)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-09 06:52:00 UTC

  • DECLINE The author and the commenters are, I think, not clearly stating the dist

    http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2014/03/if-you-dont-believe-that-intelligence.htmlIQ DECLINE

    The author and the commenters are, I think, not clearly stating the distribution problem. Those of us at the top remain constant or decline, while tho se at the bottom breed faster.

    Liberals are more selfish and breed less.

    Conservatives are less selfish and breed more, while preserving the absolute nuclear family.

    The bottom classes just breed a lot more by not preserving the absolute nuclear family.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-09 05:59:00 UTC

  • PHILOSOPHICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND MORAL PROFILING Just realized that I have to add a

    PHILOSOPHICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND MORAL PROFILING

    Just realized that I have to add a bit of psychology to Propertarianism. Right now I address the different moral biases as reproductive strategies. And I think that’s a baked cake. I also addressed the IQ over 105 issue. I also addressed the Pareto distribution (Power Curve) problem.

    But I haven’t addressed the Solipsism – Autism issue. And I haven’t addressed their opposite: the ability to CORRECTLY empathize with various world views. And I think propertarianism allows us to do that pretty concretely.

    Now, I can’t often read facial expressions well (mild face blindness). And my range of emotion is probably narrower (although amplified). But I can understand almost any feelings that are verbally articulated. So maybe this gives me a little advantage. I simply can’t intuit all that much unless I work at it. So I got good at working at it. (Probably because I still want to be accepted just as much as any other person does.)

    MORAL PROFILING RATHER THAN PERSONALITY PROFILING

    We used to take personality tests. And I think those are useful. But since MOST OF OUR BEHAVIOR is MORAL, and our moral actions more active, then we should TEST FOR MORAL COMPASS not so much as test for personality.

    Personality matters WITHIN your moral compass, and sure, your personality influences your choice of moral compass, but if the truth be told, I would rather understand your moral (and political) interests if I debate with you. And I would rather understand your personality if I have to WORK with you. Those are two different things.

    PHILOSOPHICAL PSYCHOLOGY

    Owen Flanagan (FB: owen.flanagan), who is still my favorite ethicist proposed a list of questions that any philosophical psychology should answer. I have, I think, successfully answered all his questions in Propertarianism. It was a good test to subject my work to. And his challenge was priceless in that regard.

    I think that both the study of Morals by Haidt, and the study of cognitive biases by Kahneman have settled the biological, and evolutionary biological, causes. I think I have done the job of completing ethics pretty thoroughly. I might have (although I’m not sure) settled the problem of epistemology as well by solving ethics. Although it’s a bit hard for others to grasp right now that we may be morally accountable for our spoken words.

    But we are still plagued by universalism – “one-ness” from consent, rather than one-ness from cooperation. Both the anglo enlightenment, “aristocracy of everyone” and the continental enlightenment “priesthood of everyone” or french “proletariat of everyone”. Whereas, under the monarchies, there was no ‘everyone’. There were many tribes. And that was a better political model than “seizing government to make an ‘everyone’”.

    I’m going to see what I can find on mixing personality profiles and moral profiles. That ought to be interesting.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-04 14:45:00 UTC

  • OF SEX AND MARRIAGE – SPOT ON (worth watching) (thanks Jacob)

    http://policymic.com/articles/82899/this-animated-video-shows-the-wild-economics-of-sexECONOMICS OF SEX AND MARRIAGE – SPOT ON

    (worth watching)

    (thanks Jacob)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-02 13:48:00 UTC