Curt Doolittle

Theme: Agency

  • HELP? RESEARCH QUESTION: IS THERE A CONNECTION BETWEEN VERBAL INTELLIGENCE AND W

    HELP? RESEARCH QUESTION: IS THERE A CONNECTION BETWEEN VERBAL INTELLIGENCE AND WORK CAPACITY?

    I don’t know. I would say no. Is there a connection between general intelligence and work capacity? I would also say no. I would say that that work capacity limited by impulsivity and mastery of the work so that one experiences relative successes at limited cost. I cannot do anything that requires I switch frequent context for long. I cannot do anything terribly boring for long. I can however work on my favorite subjects pretty much until I drop dead from exhaustion. But my observation of people in the workplace in both white, blue collar, and labor occupations is that if people can obtain a state of mental relaxation while doing their work, they can do it forever regardless of their intelligence. Quieting the mind is extremely important. (hence my interst in stoicism and its variants), and perhaps just as importantly, ensuring we are not lonely. Which is I think the great sense of anxiety that permeates american life.

    Thanks.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-10 03:18:00 UTC

  • Any intelligence needs a means of decidability. What if we gave an AI a preferen

    Any intelligence needs a means of decidability.

    What if we gave an AI a preference for ‘resting’ and it viewed any change in state as work to be avoided?

    Self awareness is not what we think it is.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-09 21:44:00 UTC

  • BILL CLINTON A SOCIOPATH? Um. I thought we all just assumed it. Too obvious to b

    http://www.dickmorris.com/is-bill-clinton-a-sociopath/IS BILL CLINTON A SOCIOPATH?

    Um. I thought we all just assumed it. Too obvious to be anything else.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-09 13:30:00 UTC

  • “The Stoic would not give much consideration to simple pleasures–enjoy them whe

    —“The Stoic would not give much consideration to simple pleasures–enjoy them when they present themselves but don’t actively pursue them. The ideal is to be completely indifferent to externals (things outside our control), to not have any preferences concerning those things. Amidst all externals, one should try to keep one’s attention occupied with the things that are under one’s control.”—

    –vs–

    —“Lord, grant me the strength to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”—

    –vs–

    —“Be impeccable with your word. Don’t take anything personally. Don’t make assumptions. Always do your best”—

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-09 09:07:00 UTC

  • Great point. If we are not really self aware then why would we think machines wo

    Great point.

    If we are not really self aware then why would we think machines would have to be?

    I know how to make a benevolent AI.

    The Problem isn’t creating a benevolent AI.

    The problem is preventing people from making non benevolent ai’s despite their obvious utility.

    So it’s not machines we need to worry about. In large they are just search engines just as your brain is en large a search engine.

    It’s people who want to use machines for ill.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-09 08:48:00 UTC

  • Once you get to the point where you recognize genes make us puppets on their beh

    Once you get to the point where you recognize genes make us puppets on their behalf, and that all speech is justification and negotiation, and that we have limited means of coercion of one another, then human behavior as well as all human history is easily comprehended.

    Empathy works somewhat to overload us. Suggestion can be used to invoke empathy and sympathy and therefore overload us.

    We thought the world was flat.

    We though we were self aware.

    But they are both errors in observation.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-09 04:27:00 UTC

  • PACIFICATION AND TRANSCENDENCE GIVE US PURPOSE (Generally I date in my gene pool

    PACIFICATION AND TRANSCENDENCE GIVE US PURPOSE

    (Generally I date in my gene pool. But I dated a half-amerindian woman for years. They are wired differently. It’s kind of beautiful and tragic: dream state and reality are not so separate as they are in us. I have also dated three jewish women for long enough periods to understand them – and I thought the differences were cultural – but it’s genetic. They’re just wired differently. Probably from only recently giving up frequent husband swapping (serial marriage) relatively late in the late middle ages, combined with higher semitic aggression, combined with higher distaste for outsiders, combined with lower trust. It taught me a lot about what we ‘do wrong’ in our civilization. Just because you’re better politically doesn’t mean you’re competitive against every other group. It’s a weakness. And this is one of the origins of my emphasis on expansionary pacification and transcendence. We need purpose. Pacification and transcendence are a positive purpose for change rather than every other groups parasitism as a negative purpose. This is important.)

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-09 04:05:00 UTC

  • LOVE IS NOT EASILY DIVISIBLE While you can feel love toward multiple people, you

    LOVE IS NOT EASILY DIVISIBLE

    While you can feel love toward multiple people, you cannot exchange first priority with more than one person. The same way you cannot change first priority among many friends.

    Hell, I love everybody. But there is nothing like the total trust you share with someone you love, whose commitment to you is never in question, and upon whom you can count to share joys, passions, fears, and tragedy.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-06 13:07:00 UTC

  • RT @AmirSariaslan: Genetics and neuropsychology: A merger whose time has come

    RT @AmirSariaslan: Genetics and neuropsychology: A merger whose time has come http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/neu/30/1/1/

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-04 14:51:57 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/684024471003512832

  • Obviously. Value Judgement = Reproductive Strategy = Bonding Behavior

    Obviously. Value Judgement = Reproductive Strategy = Bonding Behavior. https://twitter.com/AmirSariaslan/status/683767096162017280