Theme: Agency

  • Sovereignty (Natural Law) vs Submission (Theology)

    —“…The concept of “obeying the commandments gives ultimate freedom” was the biggest oxymoron to me for most of my life. I have my merits, it should be good enough… Maybe this is just my inner /r, I have found a level of peace as I accepted my place in the machinery of life.”—Anne Summers

    [I]t gives people an easy way of avoiding conflict over status and position so that they can work in harmony by simple rules. We just use sovereignty in western civ (scientific and legal) and take accountability for our actions, and supernaturalists use an excuse NOT to take accountability for their actions. In other words, sovereignty for the strong, and submission for the weak.

  • WOMEN USING P AGAINST GSRRM by James Dmitro Makienko My wife is an aspie, and sh

    WOMEN USING P AGAINST GSRRM

    by James Dmitro Makienko

    My wife is an aspie, and she is in a fashion industry, which is rife with GSRRM. She tried everything, until she “read Doolittle” (c) and learned some P-concepts.

    Mainly she uses a meta-term “manipulation” as a catch-all for GSRRM and other feminine cognition shit they use. She calls them out on manipulation. They usually respond with more GSRRM. Then she says “you are using ORRGSM+M(manipulation) to manipulate me into going against my interests, and I am not falling for it”. Then they try it again. She repeats herself and adds “and since you use manipulation, instead of logic and reason, you are a bad person, with a dark agenda, who is trying to take me for a fool, but I am not falling for it”. She keeps repeating it until manipulators run away – when you expose them they run out of options they can use.

    She also read up on dark triad traits on manipulative behaviors of sociopaths and narcissists and found things like “Framing” – (“if you are a good girl/christian/X you will do Y and go against your interests to serve my interests”) which are also used with GSRRM.

    Calmly exposing manipulative tactics with a precisely defined technical term works for her to disarm those who use GSRRM.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-02-13 14:38:00 UTC

  • The difference between the engine of a 3d video game and the human brain turns o

    The difference between the engine of a 3d video game and the human brain turns out to be terrifyingly small. We just do everything in massive parallel and at a much lower voltage and current because of it, and we do the prediction as well as the construction.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-02-12 19:45:39 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1227680184901537793

    Reply addressees: @robinhanson

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1227679648219324416


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    Unknown author

    @robinhanson If the question is ‘who is the observer’ (which I suspect is the origin of most problems in philosophy and cognitive science) it’s memory of the last few memories recursively processed as a stream of changes in model in the hippocampal region. Consciousness is a verb not a noun.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1227679648219324416

  • If the question is ‘who is the observer’ (which I suspect is the origin of most

    If the question is ‘who is the observer’ (which I suspect is the origin of most problems in philosophy and cognitive science) it’s memory of the last few memories recursively processed as a stream of changes in model in the hippocampal region. Consciousness is a verb not a noun.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-02-12 19:43:31 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1227679648219324416

    Reply addressees: @robinhanson

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1227679190314573825


    IN REPLY TO:

    Unknown author

    @robinhanson Why do I care? No more woo woo in cognitive science please. If you can’t pass the mirror test, the gesture test, sympathy test (cooperation), demonstrate natural operational grammar (language), and create multi-part tools, or enter into agreement (consent) then you’re far behind.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1227679190314573825

  • So if the point is to clarify that the brain is just a collection of similar cel

    So if the point is to clarify that the brain is just a collection of similar cells in various forms of organization, and that for all intents and purposes our brain is an outgrowth of our consciousness (modeling of our body and movement in space) yes.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-02-12 19:37:05 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1227678025543757826

    Reply addressees: @robinhanson

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1227677343428288512


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    Unknown author

    @robinhanson To say that a fish is sentient and aware is true. To say it is conscious is to demand we define the spectrum of predictive models capable for the organism, and its ability to react vs choose vs reason vs calculate vs calculate transformations of state vs calculate cooperation.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1227677343428288512


    IN REPLY TO:

    @curtdoolittle

    @robinhanson To say that a fish is sentient and aware is true. To say it is conscious is to demand we define the spectrum of predictive models capable for the organism, and its ability to react vs choose vs reason vs calculate vs calculate transformations of state vs calculate cooperation.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1227677343428288512

  • To say that a fish is sentient and aware is true. To say it is conscious is to d

    To say that a fish is sentient and aware is true. To say it is conscious is to demand we define the spectrum of predictive models capable for the organism, and its ability to react vs choose vs reason vs calculate vs calculate transformations of state vs calculate cooperation.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-02-12 19:34:22 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1227677343428288512

    Reply addressees: @robinhanson

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1227676608431116288


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    Unknown author

    @robinhanson A statement without meaning – there’s only one cell type in the nervous system, three subtypes, but almost countless variation that all functional regions in the brain evolved from. So what? Does that mean we can’t demarcate dramatic evolutionary leaps in function by organism?

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1227676608431116288


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    @curtdoolittle

    @robinhanson A statement without meaning – there’s only one cell type in the nervous system, three subtypes, but almost countless variation that all functional regions in the brain evolved from. So what? Does that mean we can’t demarcate dramatic evolutionary leaps in function by organism?

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1227676608431116288

  • Women function by seduction of men by sex and affection,women by attention and a

    Women function by seduction of men by sex and affection,women by attention and alliance, children by affection, caretaking and protection,so trying to get women to stop using seduction masculinize them. The question isn’t whether they’re seducing, but whether the promise is true.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-02-12 17:03:34 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1227639393508306945

    Reply addressees: @EricLiford

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1227634002963697664


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    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1227634002963697664

  • THE LIMITS OF P IN MATE RELATIONSHIPS —“I’ve falling in love with the phrase,

    THE LIMITS OF P IN MATE RELATIONSHIPS

    —“I’ve falling in love with the phrase, “Baiting into hazard”. I use it on my wife almost daily. She looks at me funny. That’s ok, she can’t help it. It’s genetic.”—@EricLiford

    Women function by seduction of men by sex and affection; women by attention, cooperation, alliance, and insurance; and children by affection, information, care taking, dependency, and protection. So trying to get women to stop using seduction will just masculinize them and lose all their value as the central unit of family and social cooperation. The question isn’t whether women are seducing you, but whether the promise offered by their seduction is true.

    Just don’t lie to each other.

    It’s not complicated.

    You will find both men and women who make false promises in order to obtain discounts on acquisition of experience, information, cooperation, consumption, or capital. Men have only loyalty and strength women have only devotion and seduction.

    Let women be women. Encourage them to be women. The more seduction in the world the more wonderful it is. The only question is whether it’s a false promise or an truthful reciprocal, warrantied offer of exchange.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-02-12 12:09:00 UTC

  • 8) Some of us are more than semi domesticated animals sensing, perceiving, feeli

    8) Some of us are more than semi domesticated animals sensing, perceiving, feeling, experiencing intuiting, and responding to incentives to hyper consume.

    And some of us are willing to let you turn your cities into dysgenic favelas.

    Which is what we plan to let you do.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-02-11 21:55:45 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1227350537844248577

    Reply addressees: @EricVBailey @Dangerangel @NoahRevoy

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1227350146196942849


    IN REPLY TO:

    Unknown author

    @EricVBailey @Dangerangel @NoahRevoy 7) So if you want to feel harmony in suicide and bring about another dark age of ignorance, this time with social construction of the myth of possible equality,the only result of which will be dysgenia and decline – we are fine with it.
    But you can’t take the rest of us with you.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1227350146196942849


    IN REPLY TO:

    @curtdoolittle

    @EricVBailey @Dangerangel @NoahRevoy 7) So if you want to feel harmony in suicide and bring about another dark age of ignorance, this time with social construction of the myth of possible equality,the only result of which will be dysgenia and decline – we are fine with it.
    But you can’t take the rest of us with you.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1227350146196942849

  • 6) Because while you are of the opinion that you reason, you have very little ag

    6) Because while you are of the opinion that you reason, you have very little agency. And if you did, and you had knowledge, you would know that the female strategy is dysgenic,the left’s strategy is dysgenic, and standard of living is dependent on the center of the distribution.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-02-11 21:52:54 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1227349818911186945

    Reply addressees: @EricVBailey @Dangerangel @NoahRevoy

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1227349456795906051


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    Unknown author

    @EricVBailey @Dangerangel @NoahRevoy 5) We know that at present we are wealthy enough to want to diverge by the female, empathic, equalitarian, consumptive, infantilized, and underdeveloped strategy and some by the male, analytic, hierarchical, capitalizing, and mature strategy. And so we must separate or civil war.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1227349456795906051


    IN REPLY TO:

    @curtdoolittle

    @EricVBailey @Dangerangel @NoahRevoy 5) We know that at present we are wealthy enough to want to diverge by the female, empathic, equalitarian, consumptive, infantilized, and underdeveloped strategy and some by the male, analytic, hierarchical, capitalizing, and mature strategy. And so we must separate or civil war.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1227349456795906051