Theme: Agency

  • The Attraction of Weapons (tools in general)

    —“Question: Why are so many guns, knives, and swords beautiful? Is it the talent put into them, or are we naturally attracted to weapons?”—Inductivist

    Take me too long to explain all of it but the answer is opportunity – which we label agency, and colloquially as ‘power’. But our brains calculate just one thing: gain vs loss. and we evolved the same intuition for opportunity in tools as other animals did for calories in food.

  • The Attraction of Weapons (tools in general)

    —“Question: Why are so many guns, knives, and swords beautiful? Is it the talent put into them, or are we naturally attracted to weapons?”—Inductivist

    Take me too long to explain all of it but the answer is opportunity – which we label agency, and colloquially as ‘power’. But our brains calculate just one thing: gain vs loss. and we evolved the same intuition for opportunity in tools as other animals did for calories in food.

  • WE KNOW THE ORIGIN OF RELIGIOSITY RELIGIOSITY is a by product of the necessity o

    WE KNOW THE ORIGIN OF RELIGIOSITY

    RELIGIOSITY is a by product of the necessity of both predator and prey, whether solitary or social, to overestimate agency in phenemenon so as to not be victim of it when it exists. Ergo prey response should (and does) increase religiosity, and religion does produce mindfulness.

    Given the distribution of Predator(male) and Prey(female) cognitive biases both in individuals and collectively in the population it is illogical to demand universal religion or atheism, and instead we must either separate or produce a narrative of mindfluness that is not false.

    It’s worth noting that there is no substitute for trifunctionalism and a universal military, universal religion, universal law, such that we demonstrate loyalty to eachother in various rituals even if we hold the opposite cognitive bias. This was the solution for the ancients. It creates a balanced person dutiful in all three dimensions of cooperation.

    The reason the West will lose is Christiainty. Beause it’s is the reason we lost before. Woke just repeats the same strategy as did Christianity two thousand years ago – it’s just pseudoscientific rather than supernatural. The unfit beg for it. Because they know they are prey.

    Only the Aristocracy was ever ‘european’. Everyone else was a peasant that rode on their coattails. Aristocracy does not experience life as prey but as predator. Not as not as suffering but as Opportunity. Not as fear but as Heroism.

    What is the percentage of aristocracy remaining regardless of class? 1%? 2%


    Source date (UTC): 2021-02-21 23:58:00 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/105771950440357839

  • Take me too long to explain all of it but the answer is opportunity – which we l

    Take me too long to explain all of it but the answer is opportunity – which we label agency, and colloquially as ‘power’. But our brains calculate just one thing: gain vs loss. and we evolved the same intuition for opportunity in tools as other animals did for calories in food.


    Source date (UTC): 2021-02-21 23:48:13 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1363636675587563521

    Reply addressees: @Inductivist

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1363608021083983872

  • RT @curtdoolittle: Intelligence just refers to cognitive innovation and adaptati

    RT @curtdoolittle: Intelligence just refers to cognitive innovation and adaptation per moment of stimulation in time. Human’s evolved to ma…


    Source date (UTC): 2021-02-21 23:45:00 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1363635868431482883

  • Then that is the highest level of resolution you are capable of expressing confi

    Then that is the highest level of resolution you are capable of expressing confidence in without self doubt and therefore it is the optimum solution for you.

    The less power you have the more useful is christianity.


    Source date (UTC): 2021-02-21 23:37:40 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1363634022069530626

    Reply addressees: @globoHGplex

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1363633002358726658

  • RELIGIOSITY is a by product of the necessity of both predator and prey, whether

    RELIGIOSITY is a by product of the necessity of both predator and prey, whether solitary or social, to overestimate agency in phenemenon so as to not be victim of it when it exists. Ergo prey response should (and does) increase religiosity, and religion does produce mindfulness.


    Source date (UTC): 2021-02-21 23:25:54 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1363631060458823685

  • EXPLAINING THE CONFUSION OF THE CONSERVATIVE MIND Conservative males mistake the

    EXPLAINING THE CONFUSION OF THE CONSERVATIVE MIND

    1. Conservative males mistake their intertemporal predictive modeling as a need for woo-woo. If you need woo-woo it means that which you are contemplating is beyond your present knowledge. It’s the instinct to patrol the borders of your territory to gain the info to model it.

    2. The problem you face is that the territory isn’t physically accessible, and the model requires knowledge of the population, economics, politics, and abstract information.

    3. So the Left’s Feminine mind can’t do intertemporal prediction and they just manufacture falsehoods. But the Right Mascluine mind manufactures demand for falsehoods too.

    4. The difference is that the left’s short term falsehood is continuously actionable using gossip and information distortion but yours requires you act on information but that the available information that is being distorted by the left – and you lack a means of defeating that.

    5. I try to provide you with P-law which is will allow you to model the world by seeing through or past the distortion, allowing to to correct the distortion, and allowing you together to organize because you see past that distortion.

    6. Because you are all searching for woo woo to organize against and it’s all failing. Becaues you’re just as bad as the left at searching for falsehoods. For the simple reason that developing a model of the world at this scale is very difficult. And P-Logic solves that problem.

    7. Unfortunately while P-law exists, you want feels not realz just like the left wants feelz not realz. So you double down on your various woo woos that you can feel, instead of learning the ‘science’ that would provide you with a model of the world free of woo woo: P-law.


    Source date (UTC): 2021-02-21 18:17:50 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/105770612857874079

  • IS TRUTH THE RESULT OF “FEELZ”? (NO). (Part 1) The neurology says it’s because o

    IS TRUTH THE RESULT OF “FEELZ”? (NO). (Part 1)

    The neurology says it’s because of the absence of feels. Given the absence of intuition all that remains is consistency correspondence and possibility. Females need intuition for children. Some of us maintain the feminine. Some of us are free of it. Rule(M) > Govern(MF) > Obey(F)

    Well, that’s an implication that there is not one most parsimonious, consistent, correspondent, and actionable paradigm for producing decidability. But there is. I’m trying to eliminate the left’s method of lying. The problem is, that eliminates everyone’s method of lying.

    The fact that it’s cognitively masculine is merely a fact. The fact that alternatives appear to be cognitively feminine is merely a fact. Those are the two directions of cognitive bias the brain can and does evolve.

    So if we want to say we need narratives that assist the range of human beings across the cognitive spectrum in coordinating their actions then that is fine. As long as they aren’t false. And as long as they don’t persist the Abrahamic method of deception. Which is ‘the problem’.

    So just as we need heroic ethics(empathy), rule ethics (reason), and outcome ethics(knowledge), we need Mythology(empathy), Philosophy(reason), and Science(Evidence), because we are children, adults, and aged. And all three must be coherent and scale up and down gracefully w/ us.

    Yes but reality is a costly data and algorithm set, given the distribution of age, and ability. We must provide wisdom lit for the young to old, and dim to wise. So the problem I see is that while I might state the first causes, they are too precise a tool for imprecise minds.

    Twitter and FB are sketchpads that assist in understanding how to simplify complex ideas so that they are within reach of the better of the common folk.

    ( … more … )


    Source date (UTC): 2021-02-21 18:14:01 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/105770597810412831

  • Yes but again we are having this ongoing discussion that law tells us what we ma

    Yes but again we are having this ongoing discussion that law tells us what we may not do, it does not tell us what to do. The truth has told us to evolve, to conquer, to dominate the universe. There is no other criteria of decidabiilty. But we are stuck with the ‘human resource’.


    Source date (UTC): 2021-02-21 17:37:43 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1363543436956205059

    Reply addressees: @ThruTheHayes @Imperius__13

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1363542457804337154