Curt Doolittle

Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

  • As far as I know, intelligence is (like everything else) almost entirely genetic

    As far as I know, intelligence is (like everything else) almost entirely genetic. It’s early development biased. It’s controlled by a large number of REGULATORY rather than small number of protein-producing genes. The difference is purely neuronal. Of the neuronal difference its largely hippocampal and frontal. So a lot of things must go right for exceptional intelligence, and anything can go wrong.

    As far as I know nothing else is required of the paleolithic revolution (cognitively modern humans) other than an increase in IQ from the 50-60 (childlike but dangerous) range to the 70-80 range (unpleastant and hostile) to the 80-100 range (most of humanity), to the 100+ range (the people that make abstractions).

    As far as I know, the difference will not appear in changes in morphology.

    As far as I know cranial volume does appear in morphology and IQ.

    As far as I know just like spine and brain volume, developmental IQ is the resut of selection for neoteny (slowing development).

    As far as I know the races reproducte, mature, and have gestation rates that reflect this.

    As far as I know aboriginals isolated after the ice age increase in water levels have mid 60IQ’s

    As far as I know IQ roughtly translates to latitude – but I can’t yet determine if this is an agrarhian or pre-agrarian manifestation.

    As far as I know everyone woud have just GUESSED this prior to the second world war, and pseudoscience has tried desprately to suppress the obvious that science is not confirming.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-09-23 16:07:00 UTC

  • An Insight Worth Repeating —“What I find interesting is that the reproductivel

    An Insight Worth Repeating

    —“What I find interesting is that the reproductively favorable traits: Height, Light Skin, Blue Eyes, Blonde Hair, Sociability, Agency, Milk, and Grain tolerance end up in Europeans thus maintaining SIGNAL neoteny without sexual neoteny as in east Asia. Despite the fact that these traits evolved in different places in different groups, europeans collected them. and it’s because of the range of eurasian genetic experimentation in varying climates and conditions. This is one of the key insights I’ve had. East Asians overplayed neoteny. Africans, Austronesians (impulsivity) and Semites underplayed neoteny (aggression). Europeans collected highly desirable features abandoning primitive rapid maturity, deep morphology, and lack of agency (Africa) without sacrificing reproductive desirability (east Asians), or carrying reproductive undesirability to extremes (Australians). In other words, Europeans selected for symbolic neoteny without significant suppression of sexual maturity. Thus creating a balance between impulsive and rapidly maturing Africans, and calm slowly maturing east Asians. It’s like the three little bears: “this one is just right”.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2020-09-23 12:28:00 UTC

  • It’s more correct to say that Europeans (at least the northeast southwest cline)

    It’s more correct to say that Europeans (at least the northeast southwest cline) are a novel admixture (Race) of the most desirable traits of the (n?) founder populations, since light skin, blue eyes, light hair, height, digestibility of grains, and milk, are all preferential traits, that appeared to evolve in different areas.

    Also, while the ‘economics’ of the steppe provide us with insight into the uniquenss of western cuivlizaton, it’s not until the Yamna’s descendants enter europe and start ruling local peoples that we see the civilizational component emerge into a political strategy.

    Hopefully my eplanation of steppe life will make the western model intuitive because that narrative demystifies our origins.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-09-22 16:12:00 UTC

  • (Worth Repeating) —Man was not oppressed. He was a violent, pragmatic, hyperco

    (Worth Repeating)

    —Man was not oppressed. He was a violent, pragmatic, hyperconsumptive, hyperreproductive, ecologically devastating, superpredator, that was incrementally domesticated by taking over the dominance hierarchy like every other domesticated animal and regulating his behavior and reproduction, and that domestication was judge by selection for increasing participation in a productive division of labor.—

    Source date (UTC): 2020-09-22 14:59:00 UTC

  • Trait IQ+Conscientiousness Indoctrination in Manners Asymmetric Information Kin

    Trait IQ+Conscientiousness
    Indoctrination in Manners
    Asymmetric Information
    Kin and Relationships
    Demographics of your nation-state
    Institutions of your nation-state.
    Influential Capital
    Specific Knowledge
    General Knowledge, and
    Physical Fitness

    Reply addressees: @NachoOliveras @paulportesi @CoiningBits

  • Trait IQ+Conscientiousness Indoctrination in Manners Asymmetric Information Kin

    Trait IQ+Conscientiousness
    Indoctrination in Manners
    Asymmetric Information
    Kin and Relationships
    Demographics of your nation-state
    Institutions of your nation-state.
    Influential Capital
    Specific Knowledge
    General Knowledge, and
    Physical Fitness

    Source date (UTC): 2020-09-21 19:37:39 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1308128274623668225

    Reply addressees: @NachoOliveras @paulportesi @CoiningBits

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1308100216441245697

  • I don’t hate people…

    I don’t hate people. Hate like anger makes you dim. It makes you care about trivialities. You hate people because you think they have agency – and are in control of themselves. But very few of us have agency, and everyone else is running archaic software that needs an upgrade. From my position of agency, the world is full of children running with scissors. And only men of agency, who create institutions to limit the harm people do to one another are capable of teaching them deliberately in education, normatively by saturation, and legally by the threat of punishment. Men of agency need the power to do that. those who lack agency need to fight to give men of agency the power to do that.

  • I don’t hate people…

    I don’t hate people. Hate like anger makes you dim. It makes you care about trivialities. You hate people because you think they have agency – and are in control of themselves. But very few of us have agency, and everyone else is running archaic software that needs an upgrade. From my position of agency, the world is full of children running with scissors. And only men of agency, who create institutions to limit the harm people do to one another are capable of teaching them deliberately in education, normatively by saturation, and legally by the threat of punishment. Men of agency need the power to do that. those who lack agency need to fight to give men of agency the power to do that.

  • The Standard Of Functional Literacy

    The Standard Of Functional Literacy https://t.co/nTBUeAPNzM

  • The Standard Of Functional Literacy

    The Standard Of Functional Literacy https://propertarianinstitute.com/2020/09/19/the-standard-of-functional-literacy/

    Source date (UTC): 2020-09-19 17:29:39 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1307371289099804673