Theme: Agency

  • Misdiagnosis. Wanting to be free of negative social signals (rejection) and feel

    Misdiagnosis.
    Wanting to be free of negative social signals (rejection) and feeling lonely (not stimulated, accepted, entertained, safe) when you choose to be alone to avoid those signals.
    There is no alternative to CBT.
    Find someone who will teach you to practice.
    It works.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-14 23:37:55 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1625640511389270018

    Reply addressees: @elliemidds

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1623245000011300864

  • The truth of this is a bit painful to some extent. If I didn’t want women in my

    The truth of this is a bit painful to some extent. If I didn’t want women in my life, I would have been perfectly happy as a barista by day and writing by night (or visa versa). But (a) IQ congregates, (b) women are expensive, so (c) if you wanna be around peers and girls: money. https://twitter.com/curtdoolittle/status/1625546036512014337

  • Triumph of mindfulness over impulse is adulthood. The trimumph of reason is what

    Triumph of mindfulness over impulse is adulthood. The trimumph of reason is what makes us competent in applying adulthood.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-13 16:12:44 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1625166091436625921

    Reply addressees: @AlfonsoCastroEC

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1625165298985738243

  • RT @NoahRevoy: @curtdoolittle @Max_Stoic IQ = horse power Conscientiousness = tr

    RT @NoahRevoy: @curtdoolittle @Max_Stoic IQ = horse power

    Conscientiousness = traction

    You can have all the horse power in the world but…


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-13 14:09:27 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1625135064563568642

  • ANXIETY OVER BEING BOTS? Humans behavior is predictable? ….hmmm. 1) I would sa

    ANXIETY OVER BEING BOTS?
    Humans behavior is predictable? ….hmmm.
    1) I would say Explicable, in that all human behavior is rationally explainable.
    2) Deterministic in that sex, ability, and personality traits both produce deterministic biases, and cluster into ‘stereotypes’.
    3) Predictable, in the *categorical* sense, that people TEND to behave according to the above.
    4) Bots, in that we have free will to choose morally or immorally, but that we may be biased to choose one or the other, and justify it as good rather than just a bias.
    5) But predictable in the sense that their behavior is not determinable (hard determinism), but only deterministic (very soft determinism), and then only regarding those things they have little personal knowedlge and control over.
    6) Yes this knowledge has made me … anxious as you have said. Because I (we all) want to believe we have more rational agency than we demonstrate that we do – or are even capable of. And so, NOT being a bot requires a lot more work than we thought it would. 😉


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-13 03:41:43 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1624977088053649409

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1624973073958207488

  • A VERY HUMAN PROBLEM My work is terribly rigorous, complex, and requires you to

    A VERY HUMAN PROBLEM
    My work is terribly rigorous, complex, and requires you to think first and feel last = which is totally alien to human beings.
    In the more than twenty years I’ve worked on epistemology and its application, it’s rather obvious that a tiny fraction of people participate in my work, our project, and our rather small intellectual movement, because they have the personality, intelligence, motive, and life experience to do so.
    Instead the majority of people we find, identify some one of my/our explanations or arguments as satisfying a cognitive or moral bias, and then affiliate or support us without understanding the work, or integrating it sufficiently to benefit from it.
    This behavior isn’t particular to us. It’s the same for all movements with political potential. Religion, Philosophy, and the hierarchy of marxist pseudosciences are all plagued by the same attraction by self-sortition.
    Even in the sciences, how many people in physics can’t distinguish between a statement about mathematics and a statement about the physical world? How are they not acting as platonists do with their ‘ideal forms’ or other such nonsense? They aren’t.
    Worse, how many mathematicians can perform advanced mathematics (measurement by deduction), without grasping the foundations of mathematics, or why it ‘works’ (and why it fails)?
    Much Much worse, how many philosophers of law are no better, an dperhaps worse, than theologians discussing how many angels fit on the head of a pin? Well, frankly, none of them Even when we name the best (our dear departed Saint Judge Antonin Scalia), do they really understand what they’re stating – in the same sense a chemist understands what he’s stating? Of course not.
    Much, Much, Much worse, how many legislators bureaucrats, professors are other than parroting recieved knoweldge almost aall of which is at best half true, and more likely largely false – at least outside of the applied sciences?
    Our system worked because the natural law program of the USA’s founding was a scientific revolution in human organization. And because the english had restored classical reason and empiricism. And americans classical roman pragmatism. And they might have succeeded if the french hadn’t restored authoritarianism, the russians copied them, and the jews undermined all of them with marxism-feminism-woke.
    We are at that point where we take nothing for granted any longer – and this is where athens and rome and england made their great reforms and advancements: at the precipice of failure.
    But there is only one way to reform an imperial government that has been overcome by credentialists, and ideological religion, and like the chinese abandoned empirial rule for philosophical moralizing, disconnected from reality necessary for continued prosperity. Or when the muslims returned to fundamentalism leaving behind the wisdom accumulated by the plunder of the great civilizations of the ancient world. Or when the bright light of the Hindustani’s failed to solve the problem of politics and returned to mysticism. Or when the roman world was so crushed by invaders that they could be forced into chrsitan subission to the east, rather than restore their aristocratic martial empiricism.
    The way is a scientific advancement in the means of organizing human beings that does not deviate from the laws of nature.
    America was closest pre-war.
    The credentialist and managerial revolutions destroyed our institutions.
    The credentialist religions of marxism, neo-marxism, postmodernism, feminism, pc-woke, and antiwestern-antiwhite-antimale have repeated with chrsitand destruction of the ancient world did to the aristocracy of the past, in the present.
    We can and have produced that scienfic revolution.
    The problem is implementing it.
    But you cannot morally persuade a criminal to give up crime.
    And so you can only threaten them with punishment if they don’t.
    That’s the only answer.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-12 21:35:08 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1624884835549425664

  • The difference is, as you well know, that some of us are students of human natur

    The difference is, as you well know, that some of us are students of human nature first from which we levy moral or criminal judgments.
    The vast majority of humanity other than a few of us lives out of control, in fear, in anxiety, and makes personal valuations, then blames others for moral crimes, and justifies their ‘belief’ by that sequence.
    They are just children. They will always be children. They have the minds of children. And they will never be fully mature humans without leadership that seeks to train them into being so.
    They can never seek the truth. They seek to state an opinion as truth for the purpose of mental sedation, and they require that sedation because they are exposed to information and circumstances they are incapable of judging, in a world they cannot judge, given the knowledge, training, and abilities they possess.

    Creating mature, competent adults is by all measures, rather a family tradition and has not evolved into a political institution.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-12 20:55:12 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1624874785158168577

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1624871526901112832

  • Each of us develops a sense of competence AND of status. The weak develop overse

    Each of us develops a sense of competence AND of status. The weak develop oversensitive status and self-image, to compensate for failure of successful dominance expression. So you feel alienated by that which assumes a standard above your own. Infantile rebellion by Male version.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-10 18:44:40 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1624117161760268288

    Reply addressees: @tylerparkinson @TechnoJunkie7

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1624112029731811329

  • 1. Brain computational division of labor takes advantage of bilateralization(pre

    1. Brain computational division of labor takes advantage of bilateralization(predator-prey)
    2. Sex differences take advantage of the result.
    3. Nural connectivity is ‘baited’ into sex differences in organization and bias.
    4. Genetics are probabilistic resulting in a distribution


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-09 15:11:18 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1623701076439359489

    Reply addressees: @TheModernFox1 @datepsych

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1623693895786807296

  • True but missing the point: the experience of consciousness exists the way the e

    True but missing the point: the experience of consciousness exists the way the experience of running exists: through continous recursive physical transformation, prediction and back-propagation.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-09 11:52:08 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1623650955739729926

    Reply addressees: @Adamantvs

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1623543253579571200