(Humor)
I am slow. I just realized that the transaction costs for blondes is higher than brunettes, and they are higher than redheads.
Am I just always attracted to a discount? 😉
Economist nerd humor.
Source date (UTC): 2013-11-19 07:37:00 UTC
(Humor)
I am slow. I just realized that the transaction costs for blondes is higher than brunettes, and they are higher than redheads.
Am I just always attracted to a discount? 😉
Economist nerd humor.
Source date (UTC): 2013-11-19 07:37:00 UTC
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2509391/Do-EMAIL-APNOEA-80-people-stop-breathing-properly-typing.htmlWEIRD: BREATHING WHILE TYPING
When I first started programming in a lab, we only got so much computer time. Made me very stressed. And I would get these horrible headaches, nausea and dilated pupils.
Then, I learned that you actually gotta breathe. lol
Source date (UTC): 2013-11-18 21:37:00 UTC
http://shrink4men.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/10-signs-your-girlfriend-or-wife-is-an-emotional-bully/ABUSIVE WOMEN
I’ve repeatedly asked anyone who might have an opinion, why I must teach every single woman I have a relationship (a) not to hit me, and (b) nagging accomplishes the opposite of your intentions, and is in effect, ‘bullying’. Oh, and the last (c) while I will struggle to make your dreams come true, this must be at least somewhat reciprocated. I am not a life support system for a vagina. I am not a consumable resource. Believe it or not, my personal fulfillment is the purpose of my life. If we help each other do that, well, that’s wonderful. But you know, it’s gotta be reciprocal.
A man is not a ‘pussy’ because he won’t engage in physical or verbal abuse. You are ABUSIVE if you want him to.
Personally, I tend to just vote with my feet and ‘leave’.
“ABUSIVE” əˈbyo͞osiv,-zi adjective
extremely offensive and insulting. “abusive language”
synonyms: insulting, rude, vulgar, offensive, disparaging, belittling, derogatory, opprobrious, disrespectful, denigratory, uncomplimentary, censorious, pejorative, vituperative; defamatory, slanderous, libelous, scurrilous, blasphemous;
informal: bitchy;
ALCOHOLIC BEHAVIOR AS CAUSE OF ABUSE
1) Blame you for many things, and over-emphasize ‘fault’ or blame?
or
2) Display behavior patterns that emphasize arguing?
or
3) Have difficulty finding happiness or joy except when drinking?
or
4) DENIAL that they have a problem.
I suspect that because my father (and a lot of people in my family, really) are alcoholics, that I am somewhat attracted to this kind of person. Which is terrible.
What you do find, is that the alcoholic personality is more intense. I have plenty of theories about this. For my part, I find them interesting because their emotions are not difficult to discern, and ‘normal’ people are very hard for me to read unless they are either visibly happy or visibly unhappy.
ASPIES
Freaking difficult problem really. Frustrating.
Source date (UTC): 2013-11-18 13:23:00 UTC
THE FEMALE ARMS RACE AGAINST MEN: ‘HOW MANY PEOPLE CAN I RALLY’?
(draft)(sketch)(interesting idea) (REVISED)
AGAINST ‘RALLYING’ and ‘SHAMING’.
The anti-gun emotional-reaction by women is not rational or empirical, but instinctual. . The female strategy for controlling her reproduction is to rally others to her defense. A man with a weapon both intimidates her, and reduces the value of ‘others’. Any empirical argument she makes is justificationary, not scientific.
Our moral intuitions are not rational. Some women are so solipsistic that they see a rapist behind every T-shirt and necktie. They have it backwards of course, as the evidence shows.
The problem for women is that they have as hard a time suppressing their irrational emotions as we males have suppressing our physicality. There are higher consequences for our failure to suppress physicality, and we assumed that there are lower consequences for failure of women to suppress rallying. But we were WRONG.
We have retained constraints on male physicality, and abandoned constraints on female solipsism and emotional control over rallying us via emotion. We have stopped ‘punishing women’ for improper rallying, but retained the punishment of men for improper physicality.
This has allowed women to immorally use ‘rallying’ the same way men rally crowds with violence. But while violence may be destructive to property, women’s solipsistic uncontrolled emotions empower the minority of males to use the violence of the state, and to increase the extraction of rents and increase their free riding by coddling women.
Women would have themselves feel free to rally. But we men unfree to resist rallying. Rallying in the form of the state.
We evolved to take women seriously, in the sense that they are troubled by something we feel the need to fix it. But there are many things that they are not to be taken seriously about. There are many things that they should be actively suppressed about rallying for, out of their instinctual, visceral reactions rather than rational reactions.
And this is one of them. Freedom, liberty, and safety, and the equality and demand for reason that comes from the use of arms, is to important to tolerate women’s inappropriate rallying.
We must remember that women’s rallying IS A WEAPON. It evolved AS A WEAPON. It is possibly the cause for the origin of SPEECH: rallying.
But female rallying is violence against us and it is a weapon, just as carrying a weapon is defense against RALLYING.
Women marry the state and rally statists and fools.
It is an arms race.
And we cannot let them win.
SHAMING Is an act of theft. RALLYING is an act of aggression. Never tolerate either from women. REQUIRE REASON not RALLYING or SHAMING.
Source date (UTC): 2013-11-15 03:09:00 UTC
THE WAY ITS DONE
(silly)(assume russian accent)
It is very simple.
Say hello. Smile.
Talk about simple things.
Be gentle.
Buy alcohol.
Once in a while.. ask a suggestive question.
Most women will tell you that too. lol
Source date (UTC): 2013-11-14 13:17:00 UTC
http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/~parraest/profile/PDF%20files/Beleza-2012(Mol.Biol.Evol.).pdfBLONDES STARTED HAVING MORE FUN … NOT THAT LONG AGO REALLY. 🙂
(interesting)
“European color scheme seems to be a later evolutionary development—11,000 to 19,000 years ago for white skin and probably the same time frame for diversification of hair and eye color (Beleza et al., 2013).”
Beleza, S., A. Múrias dos Santos, B. McEvoy, I. Alves, C. Martinho, E. Cameron, M.D. Shriver, E.J. Parra, and J. Rocha. (2013). The timing of pigmentation lightening in Europeans, Molecular Biology and Evolution, 30, 24-35.
Source date (UTC): 2013-11-14 05:01:00 UTC
BUT IS IT GENETIC?
Yes, conservatives are INNATELY more critical of free-riders:
“North Eurasian and Circumpolar hunter-gatherers (Hutterites and Amish, Puritans) will be more prone to altruistic punishment than those from Middle Old World culture area (Jews, Gypsies, Chinese)”
“…. *** Puritan groups seem particularly prone to bouts of moralistic outrage directed at those of their own people seen as free riders and morally blameworthy.***” -Kevin MacDonald
AND SO:
Whether it is cultural or genetic or both doesn’t matter so much, although I’m in the 60/40 camp in favor of genetic on this topic. And the pareto rule would suggest that as long as you’re in a 90/10 proposition or less, diversity isn’t a problem.
But two things are certain: a) people don’t actually assimilate outside of their gene pool, and b) our tribal differences – our tribal DIVERSITY is something very precious for everyone. Probably the ‘cuircumpolar’ in particular. Because that individualism is economically superior to group-ishness.
Source date (UTC): 2013-11-05 04:12:00 UTC
http://drjamesthompson.blogspot.com/2013/11/flynn-effect-as-retesting-rule-based.htmlGetting a little closer on the Flynn effect?
Source date (UTC): 2013-11-04 16:09:00 UTC
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/us/study-finds-early-signs-of-creativity-in-adults.html?smid=fb-share
Source date (UTC): 2013-11-04 01:46:00 UTC
http://www.lagriffedulion.f2s.com/sft.htmTHE COGNITIVE BIASES OF THE EMPIRICAL FIELDS?
(question)
What is the difference in the the cognitive biases of the different disciplines?
1) Engineering and engineers
2) Computer science and computer scientists,
3) Economics and economists (statistics)
4) Physics and physicists
5) Mathematics and mathematicians?
How would you stack-rank these five by:
i) The weight given to understanding of human hubris vs human rationality?
ii) The use of obscurant versus operational language
iii) The use of platonist versus naturalistic language.
iv) The requirement that people adapt to new knowledge, versus adapt technology to suit the needs and wants of people?
v) The tendency to favor statist versus libertarian solutions?
ON IQ
Now, we have to understand some variations in the data. Mostly it’s a hierarchy of IQ. But Economists usually skew lower than the other disciplines because a) they are paid less, and b) the criteria for what is called an economics degree varies a lot. (It is very hard to make less than 100K as a computer scientist. It is very easy to make 150K. And not difficult to make 200K.) Given the damned rigor of the discipline I find this sort of thing interesting.
DISCLAIMER
I am educated as a fine artist, in Art Theory. (The philosophy of art and art history). Essentially as an art critic. Art just isn’t generally good enough to critique any more. 🙂 Although the art-craft movement is still creative and beautiful. 🙂 The movie business is the great sucking sound for artistic talent in America. And art has become a lower middle class occupation with an upper proletarian work force. It is not in the least bit aristocratic.
Source date (UTC): 2013-11-03 09:43:00 UTC