(FB 1551710193 Timestamp) FREE WILL IMU (in my understanding) free will must exist out of the necessity of neural economy (calculability) if for no other reason than fragmentary information in high causal density always requires a forces a wide margin of error. We see synchronicity for certain since people with similar experiences, and who are subject to the same information, come to similar conclusions in similar time frames. But we see everything else as well – including continuous discordant thought word and deed that is counter to those of others. So we demonstrate free will. Simply out of error. From this understanding we see science is not a via positiva function, but instead a via negativa function by which we reduce error by increasing coherence by increasing correspondence.
Theme: Agency
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(FB 1551885338 Timestamp) —“It follows that the physically weaker must engage in subterfuge in order to survive the disgust of the stronger and better-constituted. Leftists and degenerate women disingenuously employ the masculine language of reciprocity in order to conceal the feminine substance of dysgenic equality, in attempting to convince others that they have been defrauded of their just deserts. This is the function of social constructionism; to make the creditor their debtor by arguing that inequality of outcome is the function of a historically contingent narrative rather than the natural order of things.”—Rosenborg Predmetsky
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(FB 1551972755 Timestamp) THE INFLUENCE OF ROBERT TRIVERS (via @[100024818064292:2048:Rosenborg Predmetsky] and @[11019687:2048:Brandon Hayes]) Trivers is among the most influential evolutionary theorists alive today.[12] Steven Pinker considers Trivers to be “one of the great thinkers in the history of Western thought”, who has: —…inspired an astonishing amount of research and commentary in psychology and biologyâthe fields of sociobiology, evolutionary psychology, Darwinian social science, and behavioral ecology are in large part attempt to test and flesh out Trivers’ ideas. It is no coincidence that E. O. Wilson’s Sociobiology and Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene were published in 1975 and 1976 respectively, just a few years after Trivers’ seminal papers. Both bestselling authors openly acknowledged that they were popularizing Trivers’ ideas and the research they spawned. Likewise for the much-talked-about books on evolutionary psychology in the 1990sâThe Adapted Mind, The Red Queen, Born to Rebel, The Origins of Virtue, The Moral Animal, and my own How the Mind Works. Each of these books is based in large part on Trivers’ ideas and the explosion of research they inspired (involving dozens of animal species, mathematical and computer modeling, and human social and cognitive psychology.— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Trivers via @[100024818064292:2048:Rosenborg Predmetsky]
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1551972617 Timestamp) JUSTIFICATION OF SELF DECEPTION By: Rosenborg Predmetsky (via Brandon Hayes) Someone pointed out the other day that self deception can be advantageous from the standpoint of natural selection. Robert trivers has great work on this. When a feminist convinces herself that she is justified in acquiring a sugar daddy because patriarchy economically oppressed her, this is sexually antagonistic co-evolution. When a black person justifies blm activism despite blacks being much more a problem for whites than the other way around, this is group evolutionary strategy whose purpose is reciprocal altruism to maximize inclusive fitness for his kin group; I.e. group evolutionary strategy
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Curt Doolittle shared a link.
(FB 1551972755 Timestamp) THE INFLUENCE OF ROBERT TRIVERS (via @[100024818064292:2048:Rosenborg Predmetsky] and @[11019687:2048:Brandon Hayes]) Trivers is among the most influential evolutionary theorists alive today.[12] Steven Pinker considers Trivers to be “one of the great thinkers in the history of Western thought”, who has: —…inspired an astonishing amount of research and commentary in psychology and biologyâthe fields of sociobiology, evolutionary psychology, Darwinian social science, and behavioral ecology are in large part attempt to test and flesh out Trivers’ ideas. It is no coincidence that E. O. Wilson’s Sociobiology and Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene were published in 1975 and 1976 respectively, just a few years after Trivers’ seminal papers. Both bestselling authors openly acknowledged that they were popularizing Trivers’ ideas and the research they spawned. Likewise for the much-talked-about books on evolutionary psychology in the 1990sâThe Adapted Mind, The Red Queen, Born to Rebel, The Origins of Virtue, The Moral Animal, and my own How the Mind Works. Each of these books is based in large part on Trivers’ ideas and the explosion of research they inspired (involving dozens of animal species, mathematical and computer modeling, and human social and cognitive psychology.— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Trivers via @[100024818064292:2048:Rosenborg Predmetsky]
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1552001869 Timestamp) IQ and autism
05, Sunday, Oct 2014 Posted by pumpkinperson in Uncategorized Tags: autism, executive function, IQ, schizophrenia For those who have never studied statistics, the non-autistic population in Western countries is said to have an average IQ of 100 and a standard deviation (SD) of 15. A standard deviation of 15 simply means that the standard amount by which most people deviate from the average is around 15 points, in other worlds, about two thirds of the non-autistic population have IQâs from 85 to 115. As for the autistic population, a recent study found 16% of autistic spectrum children had IQâs below 50, while 3% had IQâs above 115. Assuming a normal distribution, an IQ of 116+ is 1.87 Standard Deviations (SD) above the autistic mean, and an IQ below 50 is 1 SD below the autistic mean. This suggests that autistic people have a mean IQ of 72 and an SD of 23 compared to the non-autistic population (mean 100, SD=15). In other words, while the average autistic person has a much lower IQ than the average neurotypical, the autistic population is much more cognitively variable. This resolves the paradox of why autistic people can simultaneously have a reputation for being both mentally disabled and brilliant scientists. Because, compared to neurotypicals, autistic people will be dramatically over-represented at both ends of the bell curve. Above IQ 100 About 50% of neurotypicals have IQâs above 100, compared to only 10% of autistic people. Above IQ 115 About 14% of neurotypicals have IQâs this high, compared to to only 3% of autistic people. Above IQ 130 About 2% of neurotypicals score this high, compared to only 0.5% of autistic people Above IQ 145 Only one in 924 neurotypicals score this high, compared to only one in 1,838 autistic people Above IQ 160 Only about one in 42,000 neuotypicals scores this high, compared to one in 18,000 autistic people. At this level of giftedness, autistic people are actually OVER-REPRESENTED!!!!!!!!!!! Above IQ 175 Only about one in five million neurotypicals score this high, compared to about one in 300,000 autistic people. Above IQ 190 Only about one in 1.5 billion neurotypicals score this high, compared to about one in 14 million autistic people. The fact that autistic people are so incredibly variable in IQ confirms Pumpkin Personâs groundbreaking theory that autism is not actually one phenotype, but two phenotypes, that have been arbitrarily conflated by psychologists: Nerdiness (slow life history?) which causes high IQ, and executive dysfunction which causes low IQ. Analogously, schizophrenia is probably also two phenotypes: coolness (fast life history?), which causes low IQ, and executive dysfunction, which causes even lower IQ. -
Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1552001869 Timestamp) IQ and autism
05, Sunday, Oct 2014 Posted by pumpkinperson in Uncategorized Tags: autism, executive function, IQ, schizophrenia For those who have never studied statistics, the non-autistic population in Western countries is said to have an average IQ of 100 and a standard deviation (SD) of 15. A standard deviation of 15 simply means that the standard amount by which most people deviate from the average is around 15 points, in other worlds, about two thirds of the non-autistic population have IQâs from 85 to 115. As for the autistic population, a recent study found 16% of autistic spectrum children had IQâs below 50, while 3% had IQâs above 115. Assuming a normal distribution, an IQ of 116+ is 1.87 Standard Deviations (SD) above the autistic mean, and an IQ below 50 is 1 SD below the autistic mean. This suggests that autistic people have a mean IQ of 72 and an SD of 23 compared to the non-autistic population (mean 100, SD=15). In other words, while the average autistic person has a much lower IQ than the average neurotypical, the autistic population is much more cognitively variable. This resolves the paradox of why autistic people can simultaneously have a reputation for being both mentally disabled and brilliant scientists. Because, compared to neurotypicals, autistic people will be dramatically over-represented at both ends of the bell curve. Above IQ 100 About 50% of neurotypicals have IQâs above 100, compared to only 10% of autistic people. Above IQ 115 About 14% of neurotypicals have IQâs this high, compared to to only 3% of autistic people. Above IQ 130 About 2% of neurotypicals score this high, compared to only 0.5% of autistic people Above IQ 145 Only one in 924 neurotypicals score this high, compared to only one in 1,838 autistic people Above IQ 160 Only about one in 42,000 neuotypicals scores this high, compared to one in 18,000 autistic people. At this level of giftedness, autistic people are actually OVER-REPRESENTED!!!!!!!!!!! Above IQ 175 Only about one in five million neurotypicals score this high, compared to about one in 300,000 autistic people. Above IQ 190 Only about one in 1.5 billion neurotypicals score this high, compared to about one in 14 million autistic people. The fact that autistic people are so incredibly variable in IQ confirms Pumpkin Personâs groundbreaking theory that autism is not actually one phenotype, but two phenotypes, that have been arbitrarily conflated by psychologists: Nerdiness (slow life history?) which causes high IQ, and executive dysfunction which causes low IQ. Analogously, schizophrenia is probably also two phenotypes: coolness (fast life history?), which causes low IQ, and executive dysfunction, which causes even lower IQ. -
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(FB 1552059953 Timestamp) AFAIK the only means of improving cognitive performance that has any basis is (a) disciplining your executive function (b) physical fitness and health – particularly water and oxygenation, (c) accumulated general knowledge, (d) investment in more than one discipline that forces you to settle competitions between the frames. Everything else is simply ‘learning’ not ‘improving’. Intelligence should consist of that information and repetition necessary for you to identify and permute upon increasingly divergent, increasingly recursive patterns in time. The only way to improve that is to cut the cost of pattern identification by ‘loading patterns’ – meaning ‘reading’ in the past and may be ‘reading and watching videos’ in the present. Simple Formula: “g” general ability both performance and verbal + Short term memory + general knowledge + work (personality traits) – stupid ideas(and there are a lot of those) = demonstrated general intelligence. Lift heavy things. Run fast a bit. Read Shit. Train Your Brain to Focus on what you want it to (mindfulness), and work your ass off.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1552059953 Timestamp) AFAIK the only means of improving cognitive performance that has any basis is (a) disciplining your executive function (b) physical fitness and health – particularly water and oxygenation, (c) accumulated general knowledge, (d) investment in more than one discipline that forces you to settle competitions between the frames. Everything else is simply ‘learning’ not ‘improving’. Intelligence should consist of that information and repetition necessary for you to identify and permute upon increasingly divergent, increasingly recursive patterns in time. The only way to improve that is to cut the cost of pattern identification by ‘loading patterns’ – meaning ‘reading’ in the past and may be ‘reading and watching videos’ in the present. Simple Formula: “g” general ability both performance and verbal + Short term memory + general knowledge + work (personality traits) – stupid ideas(and there are a lot of those) = demonstrated general intelligence. Lift heavy things. Run fast a bit. Read Shit. Train Your Brain to Focus on what you want it to (mindfulness), and work your ass off.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1552334472 Timestamp) Surviving Asia In Two Words: “Situational Awareness”.