(from private conversation)
—“Feminization has made ‘dumbitude’ and ‘neuroticism’ and ‘immorality’ and ‘impuslivity’ worse across the board. The average woman 100 years ago may have been more competent than the average man in 2023.”—D.M.
Source date (UTC): 2023-10-01 15:29:11 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1708504339063415170
“Digital Psychosis”
The term “Digital Psychosis” is not a formally recognized medical or psychological diagnosis. However, it is sometimes used colloquially or speculatively to describe a state of disconnection from reality that may be exacerbated or induced by excessive or unhealthy use of digital technology. Here’s a breakdown:
Components of Digital Psychosis
Digital Overuse: Excessive use of digital devices, social media, or the internet, often to the point of neglecting other aspects of life.
Reality Distortion: A skewed perception of reality, possibly fueled by misinformation, virtual realities, or online echo chambers.
Impaired Judgment: Decision-making abilities may be compromised, often due to information overload or the addictive nature of digital platforms.
Social Isolation: Reduced face-to-face interaction, leading to weakened social skills and increased feelings of loneliness or depression.
Anxiety and Paranoia: Constant exposure to troubling news or social comparisons can lead to heightened anxiety or paranoid thoughts.
Speculative Insights
Technological Factors: The design of many digital platforms, aimed at capturing and retaining human attention, may contribute to symptoms resembling psychosis.
Neurochemical Changes: Excessive screen time and online activities can affect neurotransmitters, potentially leading to mood swings or irrational thoughts.
Virtual vs. Actual Reality: The blurring of lines between virtual and actual reality can contribute to a distorted sense of self and environment.
Source date (UTC): 2023-09-30 23:19:32 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1708260319233998848
–“The only shared thread between Zoomers is digital psychosis.”–
Source date (UTC): 2023-09-30 23:17:23 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1708259778043036156
RT @datepsych: How people think research samples are usually collected:
“We randomly sampled 200,000 participants from the full population…
Source date (UTC): 2023-09-30 23:15:29 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1708259298663333953
The Problem of Raising Girls
Spent the past couple of hours in a meeting with a friend and female thought leader, where she tried successfully to draw my attention to the incentives and behavior of girls and young women.
And it was pretty depressing. I mean, depressing enough that both of us lost more than a little optimism for the future.
Now, it’s one thing to say ‘here are the institutions, laws, policies, and incentives, we need. And it’s quite another to say ‘how to you modify the behavior of girls so that they practice civic duty rather than engage in infinite personaly hyperconsumption?’
I mean, we are very poorly organized for dating, marriage, having replacement level reproduction, and doing so at a young enough age that it produces health children from healthy eggs and sperm, and makes possible all the economy and intergenereational redistibution we have today.
Source date (UTC): 2023-09-30 22:06:32 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1708241948971053056
The difference between the four primary aces is neoteny – domestication syndrome. It’s more than one set of alleles. But that pair is an example.
Intelligence is controlled by so many …
Source date (UTC): 2023-09-30 01:46:15 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1707934853411242377
Reply addressees: @ChrisTheNoticer @BronskiJoseph @empireenjoyer10
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1707847407914893521
You will find a massive sex difference in magical thinking in general and on this issue it’s the most obvious. I have done more work on sex difference than anyone else especially in linguistic analysis and sex differences in lying, and it is clear that very soon all our work at recovering the reputation of women across civilizations and throughout history will be eradicated by the evidence of women post 1971, in every single domain. And it is tearing our civilization apart. And if we don’t find a solution to female empathizing and denialism the backlash and correction will make Islam and the saudis in particular look tame.
Reply addressees: @suzannevierling @histofarch @BronskiJoseph
Source date (UTC): 2023-09-30 01:42:48 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1707933984187912192
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1707930973793595524
Games? Interesting. Let me think a bit….
Playing games in my era was probably quite a bit different from the past twenty years where ‘everybody’s doing it’. And overdoing it.
I think about games as a hobby that helped me think about AI, which helped me think about systems.
What I expect you and others don’t understand is (a) it was a smaller pouplation that could and did play games (b) I could work easily 14-16 hours a day endlessly. (c) and I was using gaming to ‘cool down’ from work. (d) and gaming was how I thought about AI development.
I built a lot of electronics including two primitive computers when I was young.
I played DnD in college when it first came out, and had up to 30 players for over two years. I think it’s how I learned to manage people.
I designed an adventure game in college in PL/I that ran on IBM360s that they tried to ban because it was using up so much student lab time. It was interesting because I had to build a random number generator because it didn’t have one.
When just out of college, I designed and wrote games in the early 80s for Tandy’ Color Computer. Including custom graphics and fonts. In Assembly language. (Which I still love)
After my first serious illness, I did AI research work starting with simulations and that’s when I understood the hardware problem wasn’t solvable with code.
After I sold a company, I tried to get id Software to license us Quake2 for an add on pack but failed.
I played Counter Strike competitively – but a long time ago. You can even still find two of the levels I made for it online:
de-ignorance
https://t.co/dDpS8LHVnq (major extension)
cs-knifeedge
https://t.co/gMHDj48hD8 (afghanistan)
I would come home from work and use games to ‘switch off’ the autism (change context).
Gaming was fun from the 80s, and especially when the quake era led to so much innovation, then through to about Skyrim in 2010, and I don’t think much of it after that.
I gave up games entirely when I gave up running big companies. Because I didn’t need to shut down the autism any longer, and it was a vast sinkhole for time. Some people drink, some smoke, I played a game for an hour or two. After it came out, mostly CS and little else.
It’s also not obvious to most men what the dopamine depletion does to you. That wasn’t a problem with text and moves-per-round games. But with the advent of real time and hot-response gaming it basically functions as an addiction.
I approach everything I do in life as a science experiment. And I wasn’t really conscious of how much so until the past few years. So games, software, companies, economies, legal systems, polities, and langauges, logics, epistemology? They’re all the same thing to me: a simulation. A game.
Now, real life humans in politics are the game I play. 😉
That’s the ‘great game’. 😉
Reply addressees: @MarketInsightHQ
Source date (UTC): 2023-09-29 19:27:09 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1707839447373332480
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1707824076004233504
The correct interpretation of the hemispheric bias is predator focus vs prey awareness. This divides two challenging tasks that are in conflict over how to process information. Mcgilchrist is a fictionalist with theological ambitions. Huberman does him in frequently.
Source date (UTC): 2023-09-29 15:12:51 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1707775454352916799
Reply addressees: @whatifalthist
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1707630283518800033
Complaining makes you feel better. Solutions make reality better. But people mostly want to larp. And few want to act. So there will always be a smaller body of people who will act.
Source date (UTC): 2023-09-28 16:46:30 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1707436631869780154
Reply addressees: @DragonGamerWiki @EMichaelJones1 @jimgoad
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1707407015742415012