October 20th, 2018 9:08 AM GENDER DIFFERENCES IN NONSENSE-SPEECH (humor)
—“Girls talk about stupid girl stuff, and guys talk about stupid guy stuff. We all do it. The difference is guys know it’s stupid stuff.”— A Friend
It’s just that girls maintain the peace by not ADMITTING its stupid stuff (Defecting), where men preserve loyalty by admitting it’s stupid stuff. Inverse relations, same purpose.
October 20th, 2018 8:43 AM THE ECONOMICS OF CANNIBALISM? (humor)
—“They still practice cannibalism there”—Andy Ujku
[I] always wonder ‘what are the choice cuts‘ for cannibals? Because, humans have glutes and thighs and calves but we have evolved to trade muscle for heat dissipation and brain size – and that made us expensive life forms. People are plentiful herd animals, and great beasts of burden, as the ancient slave societies illustrated, but because humans grow and mature slowly and expressively, they provide poor caloric returns. Stuff that eats grass provides better investment for eating – and humans serve better as beasts of burden than food source. π (See? Economics in everything. lolz;)
October 20th, 2018 12:29 PM LEFT ARCHETYPE IS SIMPLE REALLY – LIKE THE HERD
—“I wish I could think of an archetype or character in a classic tale of the useful idiot, then I could better describe the left.”–@SPQRIUS
I have worked on this. The Archetype for the left is a combination of (a) The Innocent (child) in the spectrum between (b) The Jester (hedonist) and (c) The Saint (Mother). Just as left specializes in harm/care/proportionality moral bias, they specialize in those Archetypes that explain that bias: Those that Lack of Agency. Innocent (lacks agency)Hedonist (lack agency)Mother (lacks agency over other than her children)
October 20th, 2018 8:33 AM REAPING THE EXTREMIST FRUITS OF THE MIDDLE’S TOLERANCE by John Mark (cd: this is brilliant) [W]hat these “We can all come together” people don’t understand is that the most intolerant group (the group most willing to punish anyone who deviates from their agenda) wins. Thus the middle groups, continuing their attempt at the failed strategy of tolerance, allow the totally intolerant far left progressive activists to take more and more power, while the only group smart enough to counter them with total intolerance in return is the hard right. The “exhausted majority” is reaping the fruit of their own
October 20th, 2018 11:55 AM THE VIRTUE SPIRAL OF LEFT FALSEHOOD INTO PSYCHOSIS
—“The Left seems to utter so divorced from reality that they just can react effectively at all. I mean, look at Elizabeth Warren!”—Daniel Roland Anderson
Combining: (a)The Parable of 17 Lies, and (b) bias to double down on malinvestments, (c) Female/herd need to maintain consensus and peace at all costs. For every lie they must tell 17 more to cover it, and 17 for each of those, etc. For every falsification of those lies they must double down with greater lies. This combination of maintaining the collective narrative( Frame/ Dogma), increasing the number of lies, and creating ever-greater lies, eventually leads to a cognitive FRAME that is discontiguous with reality. The left is literally so divorced from reality it is collectively psychotic.
October 20th, 2018 8:27 AM
—“Did your views on allocation of public funds change at all when you had children from when you didn’t?”— Dan Springhorn
[N]o. It was just study of economics and history: data. And most importantly, when I understood the uniqueness of western civilization as commons. Now, there are no such thing as ‘public funds’ other than credit money. The rest is private funds that have been possible because of the political order of property rights. So, there is a difference between redistribution for consumption, and redistribution into commons, and the externalities whether consumptive or common. In general, parks, infrastructure, and insurance are good commons, but charity needs be private so that it produces the optimum externalities (charity) vs the worse possible externalities (welfare that breeds dysgenia). ( As a side note, I (me, myself) don’t figure into my thinking much at all. My test is reciprocity, capital production, competition, eugenics, and evolution-transcendence. )
October 20th, 2018 11:49 AM MORE ON THE FRAUD OF TOLERANCE AND THE PAYMENT OF FORBEARANCE
—“The centre holds onto tolerance because tolerance is passive. Those lacking agency can participate in tolerance while ignoring limits, because they don’t have the agency to enforce limits, and by ignoring limits they can stay in denial of their lack of agency. Forbearance includes tolerance AND limits (until the cost one was willing carried has been exceeded), AND active participation – its a choice which one can boycott/defect based on the cost carried.” —- @[655376421:2048:Bill Joslin]
“FORBEARANCE”
—-“I use Tolerance to mean allowing costs to be assessed against non-consenting parties as ambiguity makes it unclear what additional party is specifically responsible for costs. It is a passive state. No agency. …. I use Forbearance to mean I intentionally take responsibility for the cost to allow someone else not to (ex. my children, my disabled kin, my employee that has not matured fully yet). It is an active state. Allows agency.”— @[1013719133:2048:Luke Weinhagen]
CD: This is great line of original thinking. I don’t know where it’s coming from but it’s an example of how we are all increasing precision and measurement. (thanks to Brandon Hayes for looping me in)
October 20th, 2018 6:39 PM A Behavioral Comparison of Male and Female Adults with High Functioning Autism Spectrum Conditions Meng-Chuan Lai , Michael V. Lombardo, Greg Pasco, Amber N. V. Ruigrok, Sally J. Wheelwright, Susan A. Sadek, Bhismadev Chakrabarti, MRC AIMS Consortium , Simon Baron-Cohen Published: June 13, 2011 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0020835 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0020835 Abstract Autism spectrum conditions (ASC) affect more males than females in the general population. However, within ASC it is unclear if there are phenotypic sex differences. Testing for similarities and differences between the sexes is important not only for clinical assessment but also has implications for theories of typical sex differences and of autism. Using cognitive and behavioral measures, we investigated similarities and differences between the sexes in age- and IQ-matched adults with ASC (high-functioning autism or Asperger syndrome). Of the 83 (45 males and 38 females) participants, 62 (33 males and 29 females) met Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised (ADI-R) cut-off criteria for autism in childhood and were included in all subsequent analyses. The severity of childhood core autism symptoms did not differ between the sexes. Males and females also did not differ in self-reported empathy, systemizing, anxiety, depression, and obsessive-compulsive traits/symptoms or mentalizing performance. However, adult females with ASC showed more lifetime sensory symptoms (pβ=β0.036), fewer current socio-communication difficulties (pβ=β0.001), and more self-reported autistic traits (pβ=β0.012) than males. In addition, females with ASC who also had developmental language delay had lower current performance IQ than those without developmental language delay (p<0.001), a pattern not seen in males. The absence of typical sex differences in empathizing-systemizing profiles within the autism spectrum confirms a prediction from the extreme male brain theory. Behavioral sex differences within ASC may also reflect different developmental mechanisms between males and females with ASC. We discuss the importance of the superficially better socio-communication ability in adult females with ASC in terms of why females with ASC may more often go under-recognized, and receive their diagnosis later, than males.
October 20th, 2018 2:08 PM
—“There is a distinction between endocrinological & neurological conservatives, driven mostly by disgust, which tend to be within a SD left of the mean, and market driven (agency) conservatives who recognize cost on longer time-horizons & are able to organize a body law which facilitates the cooperation & trust, necessary for the functioning of enterprise. The former group are right for the Γ’ΒΒwrongΓ’ΒΒ reasons & the latter group are right as a matter of agency & incentive.”—Ferdinand Pizarro
Well Done!!!!
October 20th, 2018 6:39 PM A Behavioral Comparison of Male and Female Adults with High Functioning Autism Spectrum Conditions Meng-Chuan Lai , Michael V. Lombardo, Greg Pasco, Amber N. V. Ruigrok, Sally J. Wheelwright, Susan A. Sadek, Bhismadev Chakrabarti, MRC AIMS Consortium , Simon Baron-Cohen Published: June 13, 2011 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0020835 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0020835 Abstract Autism spectrum conditions (ASC) affect more males than females in the general population. However, within ASC it is unclear if there are phenotypic sex differences. Testing for similarities and differences between the sexes is important not only for clinical assessment but also has implications for theories of typical sex differences and of autism. Using cognitive and behavioral measures, we investigated similarities and differences between the sexes in age- and IQ-matched adults with ASC (high-functioning autism or Asperger syndrome). Of the 83 (45 males and 38 females) participants, 62 (33 males and 29 females) met Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised (ADI-R) cut-off criteria for autism in childhood and were included in all subsequent analyses. The severity of childhood core autism symptoms did not differ between the sexes. Males and females also did not differ in self-reported empathy, systemizing, anxiety, depression, and obsessive-compulsive traits/symptoms or mentalizing performance. However, adult females with ASC showed more lifetime sensory symptoms (pβ=β0.036), fewer current socio-communication difficulties (pβ=β0.001), and more self-reported autistic traits (pβ=β0.012) than males. In addition, females with ASC who also had developmental language delay had lower current performance IQ than those without developmental language delay (p<0.001), a pattern not seen in males. The absence of typical sex differences in empathizing-systemizing profiles within the autism spectrum confirms a prediction from the extreme male brain theory. Behavioral sex differences within ASC may also reflect different developmental mechanisms between males and females with ASC. We discuss the importance of the superficially better socio-communication ability in adult females with ASC in terms of why females with ASC may more often go under-recognized, and receive their diagnosis later, than males.