Curt Doolittle

Theme: Agency

  • Genetic Bias Toward Philosophical Systems

    [R]OMAN ON THE GENETIC USE OF PHILOSOPHY FOR STATUS SEEKING

    —If I understand correctly, your novelty is arguing that ideas are the structure and genes are man’s accommodation of them. You can say ideas (civilization) and genes inform each other. Perhaps the influence of ideas is underestimated. I don’t think it’s correct to say that one completely determines the other. Different civilizations (ideas, norms, institutions), create different reproductive incentives which lead to genetic differentiation of groups and, after a very long time (many millennia) may cause species to diverge. My hunch is that people’s genetics (moral intuition) will cause them to look at a philosophy and ask “how can I seek status within this system?” Genetics may determine what strategy individuals adopt: Express it. Protect it. Enforce it. Pretend to express it while cheating. Openly Flout it. Ignore it. Undermine it.— Roman Skaskiw

  • Are We Too Primitive a Breed or Race to Compete?

    [S]maller brains, greater aggression and greater reproduction defeat larger brains and lower aggression and lower reproduction? Is this a permanent equilibrium? Or is this one of those processes that is deterministic, and that eventually all the calm, smart people are outbred and conquered by the aggressive impulsive dumb people?

    You know, he was wrong about a lot of things, but Gould said that there was no material advantage to intelligence unless in increased reproduction.

    Source: (1) Curt Doolittle

  • Are We Too Primitive a Breed or Race to Compete?

    [S]maller brains, greater aggression and greater reproduction defeat larger brains and lower aggression and lower reproduction? Is this a permanent equilibrium? Or is this one of those processes that is deterministic, and that eventually all the calm, smart people are outbred and conquered by the aggressive impulsive dumb people?

    You know, he was wrong about a lot of things, but Gould said that there was no material advantage to intelligence unless in increased reproduction.

    Source: (1) Curt Doolittle

  • ROMAN ON THE GENETIC USE OF PHILOSOPHY FOR STATUS SEEKING —If I understand cor

    ROMAN ON THE GENETIC USE OF PHILOSOPHY FOR STATUS SEEKING

    —If I understand correctly, your novelty is arguing that ideas are the structure and genes are man’s accommodation of them.

    You can say ideas (civilization) and genes inform each other. Perhaps the influence of ideas is underestimated. I don’t think it’s correct to say that one completely determines the other.

    Different civilizations (ideas, norms, institutions), create different reproductive incentives which lead to genetic differentiation of groups and, after a very long time (many millennia) may cause species to diverge.

    My hunch is that people’s genetics (moral intuition) will cause them to look at a philosophy and ask “how can I seek status within this system?”

    Genetics may determine what strategy individuals adopt: Express it. Protect it. Enforce it. Pretend to express it while cheating. Openly Flout it. Ignore it. Undermine it.— Roman Skaskiw

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-19 05:44:00 UTC

  • SPECIATION IN MAN IS LESS GENETIC AND MORE COGNITIVE, NORMATIVE AND INSTITUTIONA

    SPECIATION IN MAN IS LESS GENETIC AND MORE COGNITIVE, NORMATIVE AND INSTITUTIONAL

    (important) (alternate theory of man)

    [M]an adapts through ideas. Speciation in man is determined by his ideas: philosophical, normative and institutional. Man’s genes adapt largely through changes in distributions of reproductive desirability, aggression, intelligence, and impulsivity. These differences do not show up in our current level of genetic study, yet they determine our futures, because our futures are determined by how we compete with one another’s tribes.

    Different civilizations are different species. This defeats the genetic argument to the similarity of man. Forever.

    That argument is dead. This one reigns. Forever.

    ( Don Finnegan Eli Harman Roman Skaskiw )

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-19 02:00:00 UTC

  • (very aspie day today. killing me. like nyc. I wish the now-me could go back in

    (very aspie day today. killing me. like nyc. I wish the now-me could go back in time and talk to the then-me, and tell him how to live in harmony with our internal mental machine. at least I know enough to seek quiet spaces. ack. london is like a fire-hose of patterns to recognize and my machinery is having a seizure trying to make sense of it all. now i remember why traveling by car is so rewarding: its armor. insulation. gonna try headphones and see if that helps.)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-17 13:10:00 UTC

  • Bryce Laliberte, sadly not writing ATM due to health concerns wrote this as a wa

    Bryce Laliberte, sadly not writing ATM due to health concerns wrote this as a way to reground the action axiom. Curious what you think about it.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-17 02:43:00 UTC

  • DOBRI: THE MALE MOTHER THERESA A lot of people talk. But few of them walk in the

    http://www.adme.ru/zhizn-dobro/mne-by-ochen-hoteloschtoby-ves-mir-uznal-ob-etom-potryasayuschem-cheloveke-i-bral-s-nego-primer-758160/GRANDFATHER DOBRI: THE MALE MOTHER THERESA

    A lot of people talk. But few of them walk in the footsteps of Jesus. He humbles me every time I read about him. TRANSLATION FOLLOWS:

    —“You might have seen these photos on the Internet. But you might not know the background story of “The Grandfather of Good” (Grandfather Dobri).

    He is from the Bulgarian village, and rumored to be 100 years old. (Unlikely but a charming thought anyway)

    Over the years he has been collecting funds for the restoration of churches across Bulgaria.

    Grandpa Dobri doesn’t use a single penny of the money he collects for himself. Instead he lives on a pension of 100 euros per month, as well as non-cash handouts in the form of fruits and breads.

    In 2010, during the filming of a documentary film about Alexander Nevsky Cathedral of the Bulgarian TV journalist he made a shocking discovery, examining the ecclesiastical archives: the most generous private donation ever to receive Cathedral – 40 million euros – was made by an old beggar, grandfather Dobri. (The amount isn’t right, I think. the number 70k euros is stuck in my head from previous articles.)

    Grandfather Dobri also helps many others – for example, he paid the utility bills for an orphanage that was on the verge of losing its heat and light. In addition, he helps the homeless. But we’ll never know, about the other good deeds of Grandfather Dobri, because he never speaks about them.”—

    Источник: http://www.adme.ru/zhizn-dobro/mne-by-ochen-hoteloschtoby-ves-mir-uznal-ob-etom-potryasayuschem-cheloveke-i-bral-s-nego-primer-758160/ © AdMe.ru

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-14 09:45:00 UTC

  • DO WHAT THE REST OF US DO: YOU STARE THE CHALLENGE IN THE FACE AND SAY ‘SO WHAT’

    http://uk.businessinsider.com/gina-bianchini-gender-tech-degree-2014-6YOU DO WHAT THE REST OF US DO: YOU STARE THE CHALLENGE IN THE FACE AND SAY ‘SO WHAT’?

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-14 03:32:00 UTC

  • We all justify our wants. We seek justification for our wants. We hide behind mo

    We all justify our wants. We seek justification for our wants. We hide behind moral cover of deceit.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-10 11:08:16 UTC

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