No. I’m talking about differences in brain development, structure, and organization between the lateral in-time empathizing, pictorial, and verbal bias vs the longitudinal over time systematizing, modeling, and symbolic bias. Nature evolved us to divide cognitive labor between…
Source date (UTC): 2023-09-15 13:13:29 UTC
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Meaningful differences in Intelligence discussed in response to why I don’t play IQ phallus comparison games so much as criticize presumptions of the male tendency to assert opinions only possible or claims that it’s meaninglessness in demonstration of its absence. 😉 https://twitter.com/curtdoolittle/status/1702668304865746993
Source date (UTC): 2023-09-15 13:07:43 UTC
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I don’t because it leads to nonsense signals from the worst sort. Truth is that as you approach 140s you’re facile enough to accomplish anything with consistent effort over long periods of time. And as we approach 160 we are not sure what we are testing that’s meaningful in outcomes. There are plenty of 170s who are unstable and work as cashiers at seven eleven so to speak. Or like the recent millenniums prize winner who are recluses and otherwise invisible. These are, at some point, statistically interesting in comparing outliers’ differences in performance in time, and less about what they accomplish with it. Whereas under 140 there appear to be limits to what people accomplish in every standard deviation – though it varies quite a bit by personality within each standard deviation between people.
Conversely, it absolutely astonishes and horrifies me how non linearly logical ability crashes below the mid 90s. Meaning Democratic government with open unregulated participation without demonstrated real world achievement in middle class responsibilities is never going to accomplish anything but burning accumulated social, economic and political capital.
As anyone who studies my work will eventually discover, I have more than enough to accomplish very difficult ambitions over time. But I also know it’s not enough to compete with the minds I mentioned in the previous post within time. And because of personality traits, I lack the desire or need for approval sufficient to submit to relative economic poverty, management of my learning by others, and academic politics, so I work best independently as I wish to and usually in competition with my business interests, despite that I build companies as social science experiments.
My particular talent is a very subtle autistic pattern recognition across a very lucky long term memory. But unlike the outlier mathematicians I’ve mentioned, my attention regulation and resulting working memory differences, as well as unwillingness to work endlessly with puzzles (math etc) dependent on extraordinary working memory, instead of real world problems that are dependent upon extraordinary associative memory rather than working memory, led me to my work within my limits, which like my memory led to a very broad achievement in epistemology, logics, and behavioral science instead of a narrow technical innovation in the more challenging subject of math.
I hope this helps. I find this explanation is most useful for others.
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Source date (UTC): 2023-09-15 12:58:52 UTC
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The connection is subtle.
Mostly my joy at once again being able to play silly games with humans without struggling to wonder if I have the energy and I’m going to be around next month. 😉
Source date (UTC): 2023-09-15 05:17:53 UTC
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Q: CURT: (Health) “Was there anything that led to a breakthrough?”
Just ’cause you asked, and just cause I’m feeling hypersocial and and relaxed at the moment…. I’ll overshare in the hopes someone finds something personally useful:
Problem: Genetic defect > Allergies > Aspieness > Cancer and busted immune system (twice)> vulnerability to respiratory infections both head and chest > Gradual exhaustion and decline without recovery > tendency to obsessively overwork and cause vulnerability to all the above until crashing. By March 2023 I couldn’t walk more than half a block. I was sleeping all but four to six hours a day.
There was no ‘breakthrough’ as much as Dr’s Brad, Nichols, and Miller just worked with me a little at a time over two and a half years, to incrementally fix each problem until the sum of the fixes got me to the point where I was healthy enough that could finally change aspie-nerd meds and feel like myself again. 😉 Now I just gotta lose the 30lbs I gained between covid and this illness. And then I’ll do something stupid like take on more work than I can handle like decide I have time, energy, and attention for another startup (already sorta did) because I’m a biz junkie and I sorta miss my ferrari and have poor competitive self regulation like a dog that chases trucks and can’t help it. 😉
1 – Time? Mostly just sleep and time to get over long covid (I think) My immune system was just working overtime and wiping me out.
2- Again, mostly diet and dramatically reducing allergic reaction which let me both sleep, breathe, and reduce all the stress. This was a far bigger problem than I understood. I’m cutting out bread right now as much as possible, and I need to stay as paleo as possible and carnivore when I can.
3 – I had been running a 200/160 blood pressure for more than six months, and it was damaging my kidneys. So I had to give up coffee (fixes the adhd, ocd a bit). I also got a bit triggered and lit by a famlily legal issue and for some reason I couldn’t downregulate that stress (fury). You might have to realize how much I hate the irresponsibility and malfeasance of the government to grasp the depth of my anger.
4 – I had (again, just as I did in seattle in 2008, and ukraine in 2016) multiple therapy resistant infections both fungal and bacterial. (And we’re still going to try the parasitic purge too.) The fungal is a genetic vulnerability and there is some relation to allergies, asthma, sun, and vitamin d. The bacterial (pneumonia) I fight all the time and have since my first cancer operation in 2001. That op, six hours on the table, did something not good to my respiratory system, or gave me a hospital bug we can’t fully cure. Worse, as my faculties declined I started to fear I wasn’t going to be able to complete my work on the law. This put me in a bit of a tailspin. But I kept working at it anyway- but progress was slow. And it made me even more exhausted to work for just two hours a day. I thank all my friends here and in real life for helping me through that mess.
5 – A decent therapist that agreed that my ocd meds which pretty much fix my autism’s difficulty changing contexts, when combined with my age, was downregulating me enough that it needed replacing with a stimulant. I couldn’t try that until I had my blood pressure under control. Couldn’t get my blood pressure under control without changing blood pressure medications on the on hand and destressing myself from the litigation on the other. As well as stabilizing my immune system from both the allergies and infections. And then migrating from the calming OCD med to the stimulating ADHD med – a med I had tried in just before covid appeared. And while it was awesome I really didn’t like or trust the doctor enough to be dependent on him for my well being, and because I still assumed at that time I would want to return to europe and getting these ADHD med over there is all but impossible. So I didn’t want to get stuck on a prescription that would cause me problems, and stopped it.
Anyway, long story short, I had to downregulate an immune system that was out of control and exhausting me constantly to the point where I wasn’t sure I was going to be around.
Not sure anyone wants to read that, but hey. If it helps someone that’s great. It’s kinda nice to both get through this mess and get it off my chest in prose as well.
Thanks for asking.
Cheers
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Source date (UTC): 2023-09-15 05:17:17 UTC
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Sexual Selection(internal focus) vs Natural Selection(External focus)
I watch women, who are commonly the victims of loss of situational awareness given female bias to empathizing (or shopping) in time vs male bias to environment and systematizing over time, that human interaction by display and speech is the greatest concentration of relaxed stimulation humans can experience, frequently let children, themselves, or others be victims of hazard
If you study human suggestion, manipulation, coercion, deceit, lying, fraud, denial, undermining and sedition for a bit, you rapidly realize that people are doing the same thing to one another in status, social, economic, and political terms constantly, and that the military just teaches it as standard practice.
Not that I recommend it. My career feels a bit like a Roman sewer cleaner for human behavior, and there are better ways to make a living that help you preserve your optimism – assuming you have some to start with 😉
Hugs.
PS: Jayman rocks. 😉
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Source date (UTC): 2023-09-15 01:13:12 UTC
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RT @Outsideness: Cringe has a face, and you must make a friend of cringe. Cringe and moral nausea are your friends. If they are not, then t…
Source date (UTC): 2023-09-14 03:01:48 UTC
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Again, with my love of women intact, this is only a small part of the problem:
–“Because she is a woman she will not learn the lesson and will instead seek to change the entire world rather than remedy her own behaviour.”–
Feminine dependence on unregulated intuition that requires social suppression for mediation unless disciplined by religion or some equivalent method, prohibits self auditing and self regulation, breeds denial and evasion, which only exacerbates feminine irresponsibilty for the commons.
We are, as I have tried to document with painful detail, experiencing the problem of unregulated introgression of women into politics with even more destruction than the introgression of teh working classes in to politics.
Without separate houses for sexes and classes the minority who are responsible will alwys be defted by the majority who seek otherwise.
Source date (UTC): 2023-09-14 02:37:10 UTC
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Q: CURT: “Is Karma real?”
Great question.
As an analogy, both karma and soul refer to cognitive phenomena, and reduce that complexity to something anyone can understand by supernaturally abstracting it.
a) we are perfect accountants for reciprocities (moral) and irreciprocities(immoral). We have to be as social superpredators. That accounting system shows up as self image, reputation, and status. And it determines our and others’ access to opportunity for cooperation – and none of us can survive for long without cooperating with others.
b) Our neurons are subtle and ensure the history of behavior shows up in our facial expression and posture, body language, and even dress, so effectively that people can identify the character of others with reasonable accuracy at a glance. Reputations and Stereotypes, at least in personal interactions, are almost always true.
c) Others react to this observation of us, react to our behavior, and self image an reputation and status accumulates in our behavior and theirs.
d) People remember us even after we are dead and in their memories and even whatever marks we leave on the world are like molecules of smoke that dissipate but linger and minutely influence the future through our survivor’s memory, thoughts, words, and actions.
e) While I would prefer to leave the supernatural open to satisfy my fellow humans that require it, if you ask me to testify I will say that there is no ‘bandwith’ in the universe for the transmission of information by ‘supernatural’ means, and can’t be. Though explaining that to people is rather burdensome. But that said, synchronicity does exist, and the subtlety of what we detect as patterns in reality might as well be considered supernatural because it’s un-introspectable, and rarely explainable.
f) So I prefer to say that the idea of kharma and the soul are parables that are roughly understandable to all. They roughly represent real world phenomena. And so if they are not scientifically(testifiably) true, they are ‘true enough’, for any purpose we would need them, even if we cannot (and this is the issue) claim they are true (in reality, testifiably, meaning scientifically, because that’s what science means: testifiable).
I will not deprive my fellow man of his psycholgoical comforts when facing an all but hostile universe, and the vagueries of man and vicissitudes of nature, as long as he does not claim the useful is the same as the true – and in doing so claim the true enough by analogy is true performatively and testifiably given the narrow constraints of the physical universe, and the absence of the possiblity of the supernatural within it.
In other words “Deliver unto faith that which is the domain of faith, and deliver unto Court that which is the domain of testimony.” The Christians got it close enough to right by saying “God and Caesar”.
This is the most accurate and honest answer possible for mankind to give. And I would caution (and call a liar) those who disagreed with it or claimed it false.
Thank you for asking me a hard question with respect and intellectual honesty.
I hope I have done your respect and honesty justice.
Affections
Curt
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Source date (UTC): 2023-09-14 01:45:34 UTC
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I had more to start with and more self confidence and more moral conviction, but was willing to lose everything to work to save our people. And if that’s what it takes to preserve our people our civilisation and by extension, mankind from collapse and dark age that’s ok. Are you?
Source date (UTC): 2023-09-13 22:37:32 UTC
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