Theme: Agency

  • Ratings protect vendors from stupid parents. Games affect only children sufferin

    Ratings protect vendors from stupid parents. Games affect only children suffering from solipsism-and stupid parents


    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-27 16:14:13 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/670274438655528960

    Reply addressees: @washingtonpost @petulad

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/670272539659255808


    IN REPLY TO:

    @washingtonpost

    Should my son’s clever plea for a teen-rated video game win the day? https://t.co/1bcXoG46rv by @PetulaD

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/670272539659255808

  • ON MBTI AND OTHER PERSONALITY MODELS – INCLUDING MY OWN (worth repeating) FWIW:

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10585240MORE ON MBTI AND OTHER PERSONALITY MODELS – INCLUDING MY OWN

    (worth repeating)

    FWIW: Here is how I look at it:

    1) big five factor a) has correlation of observation but no basis in evolutionary construction, and b) is very clearly biased by freudian authoritarian feminist rather than aristocratic excellence and innovation. This method helps diagnosis but not causality. If that is its purpose then that’s fine.

    2) The Alternative Five Factor reflects my understanding of the current state of evolutionary impulses. When combined with IQ, class, and gender they probably represent the best we have so far.

    3) the problem is that as a grid, they aren’t easily translated into stereotypes that we can empathize with. It’s bad enough that we are limited when we deal in one or two dimensions of analysis, but in five we just don’t function that well. And it takes a lot of training to use it.

    4) MBTI is pretty useful because we can anthropomorpize 16 different ideal types, and that’s pretty rich, without being confusing. You can teach it to almost anyone. And in the workplace you can figure out how to talk to someone using it. While any individual test has a high error rate, taking the test repeatedly over time will tend to help you understand yourself as one or more of the personalities on the grid. On the other hand, statistically, it’s incredibly predictive of behaviors and tastes in large numbers, so it has to be fairly accurate model regardless of its accuracy.

    So the reason I like it is that it can be used by people to assist in cooperating on the work place and I don’t know any other model that’s better, and I”ve been doing this since 1982.

    5) Curt’s Model (from very early studies)

    In the method I learned, we use these four factors:

    1) Dominance-Submission, (aggressiveness)

    2) Extroversion-Introversion, (internal vs external dependence)

    3) Patience-Impulsivity (need for rewards)

    4) Risk Attraction – Blame Avoidance (want of new experience)

    I have added this one for ’empathy’ and it’s an innovation I think.

    5) Solipsistic(female) – Autistic(male)

    Based upon the work of (what’s his name.. lol)

    And this last is always present in every case, but impolitic:

    6) Intelligence.

    Intelligence is the only linear measure with higher being better. All others are equilibrating, with ‘average’ being the optimum.

    As far as I know this six factor model is the most accurate to date, and none other is superior. That said,

    As far as I know these have evolutionary bases in all creatures not just humans.

    As far as I know this is one of the secrets to human adaptability: we can express variations in these traits fairly rapidly in response to stresses, and reproduce those traits as well by selection.

    ALSO: This reflects my understanding of the chemical processes that drive us:

    —“Cloninger suggests that the three dimensions,

    1) novelty seeking,

    2) harm avoidance, and

    3) reward dependence,

    are correlated with low basal dopaminergic activity, high serotonergic activity, and low basal noradrenergic activity, respectively”—

    With the fourth being:

    4) persistence (unstated cause )

    FOR MORE INFORMATION SEE:

    The Dopaminergic Theory Of Evolution

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10585240

    This is still the working theory I operate by.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-25 13:02:00 UTC

  • WHITE MEN ARE DYING: THE DEATH OF THE FAMILY DISPROPORTIONATELY AFFECTS MEN (i a

    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/scientists-reveal-being-lonely-increases-6887390WHY WHITE MEN ARE DYING: THE DEATH OF THE FAMILY DISPROPORTIONATELY AFFECTS MEN

    (i am very concerned for me and my class of men really)


    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-24 07:51:00 UTC

  • [A] test, by a rational actor, of existential possibility independent of involun

    [A] test, by a rational actor, of existential possibility independent of involuntary transfer by externality defeats most pretense of morality.

  • [A] test, by a rational actor, of existential possibility independent of involun

    [A] test, by a rational actor, of existential possibility independent of involuntary transfer by externality defeats most pretense of morality.

  • The Meaning of Emotions

    (worth repeating) [I]f I am correct, and that all emotions are reflections in change in state of property en toto, then all statements of experience are objectively describable independent of statements of experience. And differences in experience are differences in evolutionary strategy. And evolutionary strategies can be decided meritocratically. This knowledge is as dehumanizing as the insights of Darwin, Copernicus, Galileo, Machiavelli, and Aristotle. That does not mean it is not true. I am just as certain that it is, as they were of their own statements. This does not prevent us from making compromises. It merely prevents the state from imposing involuntary compromises upon us. The individual cares how he feels Others care how he feels We can learn how someone feels. But we cannot decide a conflict based upon how someone feels. Feelings are a gauge, but a gage of individual demand for acquisition and retention and that is all.

  • The Meaning of Emotions

    (worth repeating) [I]f I am correct, and that all emotions are reflections in change in state of property en toto, then all statements of experience are objectively describable independent of statements of experience. And differences in experience are differences in evolutionary strategy. And evolutionary strategies can be decided meritocratically. This knowledge is as dehumanizing as the insights of Darwin, Copernicus, Galileo, Machiavelli, and Aristotle. That does not mean it is not true. I am just as certain that it is, as they were of their own statements. This does not prevent us from making compromises. It merely prevents the state from imposing involuntary compromises upon us. The individual cares how he feels Others care how he feels We can learn how someone feels. But we cannot decide a conflict based upon how someone feels. Feelings are a gauge, but a gage of individual demand for acquisition and retention and that is all.

  • Peak Human and Dysgenic Policy

    (good read) [P]eak Human 1) The history of man is of the evolution of increasing levels of aggression, exterminating the prior family, tribe, race, species. 2) The history of western man is the incremental suppression of free riding, idleness, impulsivity and aggression by violence. 3) The success of the west in ancient and modern eras was by truthfulness, productivity, martial excellence, and aggressive eugenic suppression. 4)”Pareto is Everywhere”. A population above the median IQ of 106 is necessary for libertarian modernity. Lost via dysgenia. 5) The problem for any tribe is to raise top 20% over ~122. Economic velocity, trust, morality decrease rapidly with losses. 6) Asymmetry of property is necessary to construct the voluntary organization of production. Inequality is a necessary good. 7) Current leftist economic theory attempts to discover the minimum inequality necessary for the preservation of incentives. 8) Under the assumption that the increased risk and decreased flexibility and increased busts can be limited by fiat credit. 9) The result is r-selected dysgenia and decreasing ability in the pool (slightly offset by improvements via education in sciences) given that 10) the unemployability problem increases with the Flynn effect – meaning that even if we find additional ways of improving demonstrated human intelligence we cannot move employment further up the curve without decreasing rates of dysgenic underclass reproduction. 11) We cannot both have immigration and transfer of reproduction from our best to our worst. 12) We increase unemployability and increase inequality, and construct a dysgenic caste system on the south american and hindu model, rather than an ever-increasing-equality under the eugenic western aristocratic model. 13) We have recreated the problem of the roman conquest which is increasing productivity through trade to the point where the upper classes cannot withstand shocks because we are in insufficient numbers. 14) The limit to any right to profit is that which imposes an intertemporal cost on the genetics, commons, institutions, norms of the polity. Theft from the future may be profitable, but it is merely theft. Curt Doolittle The Philosophy of Aristocracy The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine

  • Peak Human and Dysgenic Policy

    (good read) [P]eak Human 1) The history of man is of the evolution of increasing levels of aggression, exterminating the prior family, tribe, race, species. 2) The history of western man is the incremental suppression of free riding, idleness, impulsivity and aggression by violence. 3) The success of the west in ancient and modern eras was by truthfulness, productivity, martial excellence, and aggressive eugenic suppression. 4)”Pareto is Everywhere”. A population above the median IQ of 106 is necessary for libertarian modernity. Lost via dysgenia. 5) The problem for any tribe is to raise top 20% over ~122. Economic velocity, trust, morality decrease rapidly with losses. 6) Asymmetry of property is necessary to construct the voluntary organization of production. Inequality is a necessary good. 7) Current leftist economic theory attempts to discover the minimum inequality necessary for the preservation of incentives. 8) Under the assumption that the increased risk and decreased flexibility and increased busts can be limited by fiat credit. 9) The result is r-selected dysgenia and decreasing ability in the pool (slightly offset by improvements via education in sciences) given that 10) the unemployability problem increases with the Flynn effect – meaning that even if we find additional ways of improving demonstrated human intelligence we cannot move employment further up the curve without decreasing rates of dysgenic underclass reproduction. 11) We cannot both have immigration and transfer of reproduction from our best to our worst. 12) We increase unemployability and increase inequality, and construct a dysgenic caste system on the south american and hindu model, rather than an ever-increasing-equality under the eugenic western aristocratic model. 13) We have recreated the problem of the roman conquest which is increasing productivity through trade to the point where the upper classes cannot withstand shocks because we are in insufficient numbers. 14) The limit to any right to profit is that which imposes an intertemporal cost on the genetics, commons, institutions, norms of the polity. Theft from the future may be profitable, but it is merely theft. Curt Doolittle The Philosophy of Aristocracy The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine

  • Female Reproductive Strategy

    [T]he female r-selection strategy also includes: increasing your numbers decreases your risk of (a) bearing the dominance of and abuse of an alpha, (b) bearing unwanted offspring by undesirable mates (c) engaging in status competition with other females and losing (d) running out of allies and assistance in production and care-taking (e) running out of allies in rallying and shaming the alphas (f) defecting to another group if unhappy is less provocative if you’re defecting from larger to smaller numbers (g) hiding in the herd reduces your chance of being eaten – safety in numbers.