Theme: Agency

  • The reason children have difficulty in the classroom today is that present metho

    The reason children have difficulty in the classroom today is that present methods of teaching focus on the teacher, instead of information organized into simulations and games, and places undue burden on attention, working memory, and memorization without any reason to do so other than stress. THey fail because the methods fail, because the methods are either archaic or pseudoscientific.
    Group of Ed Masters candidates asked me to opinine on just the impact of court and legislation on the negative results of education despite the infinite money we throw at it.
    It wasn’t hard.
    Multiple premises teachers operate under, plus the combination of teachers with political or social agendas on one side, parents who disagree with them on the other, the use of the law to negate parental preference, the use of the law as an excuse for mediocrity, and the resulting weakness of the teacher to provide guidance that is competitive rather than ‘non conflict generating’ is another reason for the decline.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-16 21:58:02 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1647721034043346945

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1647715935946432513

  • You clearly aren’t terribly literate then given Faulkner, Dickens, or even Linco

    You clearly aren’t terribly literate then given Faulkner, Dickens, or even Lincoln. Sentences place a burden on working memory, and working memory is a fair proxy for intelligence. One of the reasons to write in operational prose in long sentences is to state something meaningful that only capable people can understand, and in doing so filter out the ‘comments by the unwashed masses’ so to speak. The demand for short sentences is a postwar phenom, due to the military discovery of the practical illiteracy of the people, and the desire to sell newspapers to the working and laboring (lower) classes, in order to promote political agendas via them. Schools have dumbed down education severely over the decades. But then we are losing more than 1 point of IQ per decade and at the present rate will turn into a second world population within 25 years, and a third world population by the end of the century. History will ironically note that the great tragedy of the 20th was not the world wars themselves but the mistaken postwar anti-darwinian movement that reversed the prewar investment in soft eugeics. (if that doesn’t burn you up I don’t know what will).


    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-16 18:18:35 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1647665807789359104

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  • You clearly aren’t terribly literate then given Faulkner, Dickens, or even Linco

    You clearly aren’t terribly literate then given Faulkner, Dickens, or even Lincoln. Sentences place a burden on working memory, and working memory is a fair proxy for intelligence. One of the reasons to write in operational prose in long sentences is to state something meaningful that only capable people can understand, and in doing so filter out the ‘comments by the unwashed masses’ so to speak. The demand for short sentences is a postwar phenom, due to the military discovery of the practical illiteracy of the people, and the desire to sell newspapers to the working and laboring (lower) classes, in order to promote political agendas via them. Schools have dumbed down education severely over the decades. But then we are losing more than 1 point of IQ per decade and at the present rate will turn into a second world population within 25 years, and a third world population by the end of the century. History will ironically note that the great tragedy of the 20th was not the world wars themselves but the mistaken postwar anti-darwinian movement that reversed the prewar investment in soft eugeics. (if that doesn’t burn you up I don’t know what will).

    Reply addressees: @enfuegosmom @terrilbruce @GregAbbott_TX


    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-16 18:18:35 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1647665807671926790

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  • There is a discipline called computational linguistics. And what we can determin

    There is a discipline called computational linguistics. And what we can determine about your personality from only about one hundred words generally horrifies people when they discover it. I work primarily in epistemology, cognitive science, behavioral economics, and law, and this means I indirectly study sex, class, cultural and generational differences in lying. So by and large people are tediously transparent bots, running on randomly accumulated bias that justifies their genetic predispositions – all of us (or at least nearly all of us) unaware that we are, largely, bots, with a comforting delusion of self regulation.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-16 17:23:14 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1647651878107242497

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  • There is a discipline called computational linguistics. And what we can determin

    There is a discipline called computational linguistics. And what we can determine about your personality from only about one hundred words generally horrifies people when they discover it. I work primarily in epistemology, cognitive science, behavioral economics, and law, and this means I indirectly study sex, class, cultural and generational differences in lying. So by and large people are tediously transparent bots, running on randomly accumulated bias that justifies their genetic predispositions – all of us (or at least nearly all of us) unaware that we are, largely, bots, with a comforting delusion of self regulation.

    Reply addressees: @Elonlosthismind @terrilbruce @GregAbbott_TX


    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-16 17:23:14 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1647651878019186689

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  • RT @JayMan471: Slow life history doing its thing. Slow life-history folks are no

    RT @JayMan471: Slow life history doing its thing. Slow life-history folks are nothing if not efficient competitors. When having offspring b…


    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-16 10:35:16 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1647549210793762816

  • Responses are evidence that my assessment is correct. In general, empathizing an

    Responses are evidence that my assessment is correct.
    In general, empathizing and ignorance don’t scale. If you don’t have experience managing others at scale you dont have competency without the above education in the difficulty of scale. If you don’t know at least behavioral, micro, and political economics then you are too ignorant to hold an opinion of what mankind is capable of – and not. If you don’t know civilizational differences in rates of development or stagnation you don’t know what scale of cooperation mankind is capable of and not. If you don’t know the natural, common, concurrent law, you don’t know what ills mankind is capable of. If you don’t know cognitive science, you don’t know what mankind’s mind is capable of with without discipline.

    And that’s what ‘teachers’ are ‘teaching’: institutionalized ignorance, and it’s playing out in friendships, mating, marriage and family, employment, the competitiveness of industries, the demographic collapse, and the coming contraction of relative wealth of our civilization.

    Why? Feminine evasion of responsibility and duty for the possiblity of the returns on scale. Under the false pretense of kindness, compassion, and empathy – which creates infantilism and maladaptation: fragility, and as such is just failure of the responsibility to teach.

    Versus the production of anti-fragility by teaching them the europeaen tradition of stoicism – or what we call ‘adulthood’ – habituation into the conduct of adversarial competition toward moral ends of all by teaching insulation from the “emotional weakness pettiness and irresponsibility of others.”

    Just is. I don’t make the laws of the universe. But some of us accept the responsibility of preventing those who fancy that by social construction of illusions we can circumvent those laws of the universe.

    And those foolish people drag those of us who are not, down with them – unless we separate and go our separage political ways.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-16 03:43:45 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1647445647480565762

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1647425519665786881


    IN REPLY TO:

    Unknown author

    Do you teach responsibility for self determination by self determined means, and responsibility for requring others to do the same, and the responsibility of truth before face regardless of consequences, and basic behavioral and micro economics, or that adversarial conflict and competition resulting in discovery of previously unknown opportunties for all, or that western civ was the only one to survive exhaustion of agrarian civiization and subsequent stagnation decline after 800ad of every other civ, or that this demand for the maximization of individual responsibilty for both the private and the common is the reason you have the opportunity to engage in teaching children the exact oppposite?

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1647425519665786881

  • Responses are evidence that my assessment is correct. In general, empathizing an

    Responses are evidence that my assessment is correct.
    In general, empathizing and ignorance don’t scale. If you don’t have experience managing others at scale you dont have competency without the above education in the difficulty of scale. If you don’t know at least behavioral, micro, and political economics then you are too ignorant to hold an opinion of what mankind is capable of – and not. If you don’t know civilizational differences in rates of development or stagnation you don’t know what scale of cooperation mankind is capable of and not. If you don’t know the natural, common, concurrent law, you don’t know what ills mankind is capable of. If you don’t know cognitive science, you don’t know what mankind’s mind is capable of with without discipline.

    And that’s what ‘teachers’ are ‘teaching’: institutionalized ignorance, and it’s playing out in friendships, mating, marriage and family, employment, the competitiveness of industries, the demographic collapse, and the coming contraction of relative wealth of our civilization.

    Why? Feminine evasion of responsibility and duty for the possiblity of the returns on scale. Under the false pretense of kindness, compassion, and empathy – which creates infantilism and maladaptation: fragility, and as such is just failure of the responsibility to teach.

    Versus the production of anti-fragility by teaching them the europeaen tradition of stoicism – or what we call ‘adulthood’ – habituation into the conduct of adversarial competition toward moral ends of all by teaching insulation from the “emotional weakness pettiness and irresponsibility of others.”

    Just is. I don’t make the laws of the universe. But some of us accept the responsibility of preventing those who fancy that by social construction of illusions we can circumvent those laws of the universe.

    And those foolish people drag those of us who are not, down with them – unless we separate and go our separage political ways.

    Reply addressees: @terrilbruce @GregAbbott_TX


    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-16 03:43:45 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1647445647300206593

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1647425519665786881


    IN REPLY TO:

    Unknown author

    Do you teach responsibility for self determination by self determined means, and responsibility for requring others to do the same, and the responsibility of truth before face regardless of consequences, and basic behavioral and micro economics, or that adversarial conflict and competition resulting in discovery of previously unknown opportunties for all, or that western civ was the only one to survive exhaustion of agrarian civiization and subsequent stagnation decline after 800ad of every other civ, or that this demand for the maximization of individual responsibilty for both the private and the common is the reason you have the opportunity to engage in teaching children the exact oppposite?

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1647425519665786881

  • Do you teach responsibility for self determination by self determined means, and

    Do you teach responsibility for self determination by self determined means, and responsibility for requring others to do the same, and the responsibility of truth before face regardless of consequences, and basic behavioral and micro economics, or that adversarial conflict and competition resulting in discovery of previously unknown opportunties for all, or that western civ was the only one to survive exhaustion of agrarian civiization and subsequent stagnation decline after 800ad of every other civ, or that this demand for the maximization of individual responsibilty for both the private and the common is the reason you have the opportunity to engage in teaching children the exact oppposite?


    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-16 02:23:46 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1647425519665786881

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1647390208814350336

  • Do you teach responsibility for self determination by self determined means, and

    Do you teach responsibility for self determination by self determined means, and responsibility for requring others to do the same, and the responsibility of truth before face regardless of consequences, and basic behavioral and micro economics, or that adversarial conflict and competition resulting in discovery of previously unknown opportunties for all, or that western civ was the only one to survive exhaustion of agrarian civiization and subsequent stagnation decline after 800ad of every other civ, or that this demand for the maximization of individual responsibilty for both the private and the common is the reason you have the opportunity to engage in teaching children the exact oppposite?

    Reply addressees: @terrilbruce @GregAbbott_TX


    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-16 02:23:46 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1647425519611179008

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1647390208814350336