Curt Doolittle

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  • RT @AltCarb: At its heart, violence is almost always, in one way or another… p

    RT @AltCarb: At its heart, violence is almost always, in one way or another… personal.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-01-29 14:26:05 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/957983191146614785

  • RT @AltCarb: Welcome to 2384. Altered Carbon arrives 02.02.18

    RT @AltCarb: Welcome to 2384. Altered Carbon arrives 02.02.18. https://t.co/NEpnfDxuBd

    Source date (UTC): 2018-01-29 14:24:47 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/957982864003485696

  • NASSIM TALEB ON ACTORS (Nassim Nicholas Taleb) To understand why what happens in

    NASSIM TALEB ON ACTORS

    (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)

    To understand why what happens in Hollywood is irrelevant to the rest of humans:

    a) How many ACTORs do you have among your friends?

    b) How many ACTOR friends do your friends have?

    Actors rarely mix with real people.

    2) Romans banned actors from marrying, even mixing with citizens.

    Same dynamics in modern times, but self-inflicted: engineers can mix w/gynecologists… actors stay with actors.

    Look at the funerals of “gens du spectacle”.

    3) I do not know many industries where people are hired either a) on looks, or b) ability to impersonate what one is not.

    4) Actors should not be the ones lektchuring the rest of us on ethics & morality.

    They also have a tendency to conflate virtue and its external manifestation, given that everything in their world is appearance.

    5) And for the slow thinkers on the thread, you don’t see gynecologists or train engineers lektchuring the rest of the world on virtue.

    Actors do.

    Gabish?

    6) Remember: actors are trained to not seem stupid.

    7) Now a harder questchon: what is the proportion of actors who voted for Hilary Monsanto-Malmaison?

    8) OK, let me be blunt.

    How many professions do you know, other than the ones where physical attributes are essential, where the modus “sleep your way up” prevails?

    Source date (UTC): 2018-01-29 06:30:00 UTC

  • Nassim Taleb On Actors

    (Nassim Nicholas Taleb) To understand why what happens in Hollywood is irrelevant to the rest of humans: a) How many ACTORs do you have among your friends? b) How many ACTOR friends do your friends have? Actors rarely mix with real people. 2) Romans banned actors from marrying, even mixing with citizens. Same dynamics in modern times, but self-inflicted: engineers can mix w/gynecologists… actors stay with actors. Look at the funerals of “gens du spectacle”. 3) I do not know many industries where people are hired either a) on looks, or b) ability to impersonate what one is not. 4) Actors should not be the ones lektchuring the rest of us on ethics & morality. They also have a tendency to conflate virtue and its external manifestation, given that everything in their world is appearance. 5) And for the slow thinkers on the thread, you don’t see gynecologists or train engineers lektchuring the rest of the world on virtue. Actors do. Gabish? 6) Remember: actors are trained to not seem stupid. 7) Now a harder questchon: what is the proportion of actors who voted for Hilary Monsanto-Malmaison? 8) OK, let me be blunt. How many professions do you know, other than the ones where physical attributes are essential, where the modus “sleep your way up” prevails?

  • Nassim Taleb On Actors

    (Nassim Nicholas Taleb) To understand why what happens in Hollywood is irrelevant to the rest of humans: a) How many ACTORs do you have among your friends? b) How many ACTOR friends do your friends have? Actors rarely mix with real people. 2) Romans banned actors from marrying, even mixing with citizens. Same dynamics in modern times, but self-inflicted: engineers can mix w/gynecologists… actors stay with actors. Look at the funerals of “gens du spectacle”. 3) I do not know many industries where people are hired either a) on looks, or b) ability to impersonate what one is not. 4) Actors should not be the ones lektchuring the rest of us on ethics & morality. They also have a tendency to conflate virtue and its external manifestation, given that everything in their world is appearance. 5) And for the slow thinkers on the thread, you don’t see gynecologists or train engineers lektchuring the rest of the world on virtue. Actors do. Gabish? 6) Remember: actors are trained to not seem stupid. 7) Now a harder questchon: what is the proportion of actors who voted for Hilary Monsanto-Malmaison? 8) OK, let me be blunt. How many professions do you know, other than the ones where physical attributes are essential, where the modus “sleep your way up” prevails?

  • “Hollywood used to be the main propaganda machine of American lifestyle and valu

    —“Hollywood used to be the main propaganda machine of American lifestyle and values around the world. Perhaps America needs to reclaim Hollywood.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2018-01-29 06:25:00 UTC

  • “Hollywood used to be the main propaganda machine of American lifestyle and valu

    —“Hollywood used to be the main propaganda machine of American lifestyle and values around the world. Perhaps America needs to reclaim Hollywood.”—

  • “Hollywood used to be the main propaganda machine of American lifestyle and valu

    —“Hollywood used to be the main propaganda machine of American lifestyle and values around the world. Perhaps America needs to reclaim Hollywood.”—

  • “Last summer, scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem found that male s

    —“Last summer, scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem found that male sperm counts had fallen by almost 60 per cent in 40 years. In what was the largest study of its kind, they analysed data from 43,000 men from North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, taking in 185 studies from 1973 to 2011. Its lead author, Dr Hagai Levine, decreed the result an ‘urgent wake-up call’.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2018-01-27 16:22:00 UTC

  • Conservatives Are More Attractive Than Liberals

    (we’ve known this forever, but yet another study) Effects of physical attractiveness on political beliefs Rolfe Daus Peterson (a1) and Carl L. Palmer (a2) Access Volume 36, Issue 2 Fall 2017 , pp. 3-16 https://doi.org/10.1017/pls.2017.18Published online: 27 December 2017 Abstract Physical attractiveness is an important social factor in our daily interactions. Scholars in social psychology provide evidence that attractiveness stereotypes and the “halo effect” are prominent in affecting the traits we attribute to others. However, the interest in attractiveness has not directly filtered down to questions of political behavior beyond candidates and elites. Utilizing measures of attractiveness across multiple surveys, we examine the relationship between attractiveness and political beliefs. Controlling for socioeconomic status, we find that more attractive individuals are more likely to report higher levels of political efficacy, identify as conservative, and identify as Republican. These findings suggest an additional mechanism for political socialization that has further implications for understanding how the body intertwines with the social nature of politics.