Theme: Agency

  • “Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at

    —“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist-a master-and that is what Auguste Rodin was-can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is…and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be…and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart…no matter what the merciless hours have done to her. Look at her, Ben. Growing old doesn’t matter to you and me; we were never meant to be admired-but it does to them.” ― Robert Heinlein


    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-28 17:44:00 UTC

  • “What spectrum?”— |SPECTRUM| Psychosis <- Solipsism <- sensitive <- Feminine <

    —“What spectrum?”—

    |SPECTRUM| Psychosis <- Solipsism <- sensitive <- Feminine <-> Masculine -> analytic -> Aspie -> Autism

    Female Psychosis <– to –> Male Autism Spectrum.

    Now, produce a vertical axis that is from prosocial at the top to antisocial at the bottom.

    Then use dominance submission on the z axis.

    That gives you a pretty good graph of how people think.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-28 11:39:00 UTC

  • (Again, In keeping with my quarterly reminders: I am not at all the person you s

    (Again, In keeping with my quarterly reminders: I am not at all the person you see here. This is my job. I am good at my job. I do my job this way because it is the optimum means of doing my job – at least until the institute’s classes have graduated enough people to do otherwise. I am an artist, a philosopher of the law, and a social scientist first and foremost, and I will insure my brothers to the end. I was a rather ruthless entrepreneur – and I wasn’t happy being so. I am, like most people on the low end of the spectrum, naturally a fairly nice, friendly person, who happens to have low agreeableness when it comes to falsehoods. And I am willing to fight for my people to the death without question. This does not mean I seek or enjoy conflict – only that I will not flee from it, and if I engage in it, I will give it my all. -cheers. )


    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-28 11:02:00 UTC

  • YOU DON”T THINK OF IT BUT… Delayed marriage and reproduction not only decrease

    YOU DON”T THINK OF IT BUT…

    Delayed marriage and reproduction not only decrease infant mortality, increase investment in children, but they force CLASS SORTITION by demonstrated evidence of success.

    This is the ‘big sort’ that is going on. Except we are not compensating by reducing the reproduction of the underclasses and upwardly redistributing reproduction to their betters.

    THIS STUFF MATTERS.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-28 09:58:00 UTC

  • Those of us with exceptional abilities favor working with our region of the bell

    Those of us with exceptional abilities favor working with our region of the bell curve – puzzles – that are of INDIRECT value rather than DIRECT value. WE HAVE KNOWN THIS FOR DECADES.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-27 20:27:45 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1078386976624128001

    Reply addressees: @nntaleb

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1076845397795065856


    IN REPLY TO:

    @nntaleb

    “IQ” THREAD

    “IQ” measures an inferior form of intelligence, stripped of 2nd order effects, meant to select paper shufflers, obedient IYIs.

    1- When someone asks you a question in REAL LIFE, you focus first on “WHY is he asking me that?”, which slows down. (Fat Tony vs Dr John)

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1076845397795065856

  • I’ll take this debate @nntaleb because you have a valid point that you are makin

    I’ll take this debate @nntaleb because you have a valid point that you are making so badly that any value is obscured.
    ->Single personality trait, vs Full Suite of Personality Traits. And IQ stats reflect (as you suggest) college filtering only- not demonstrated intelligence.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-24 22:18:06 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1077327582415278080

    Reply addressees: @nntaleb

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1076845397795065856


    IN REPLY TO:

    @nntaleb

    “IQ” THREAD

    “IQ” measures an inferior form of intelligence, stripped of 2nd order effects, meant to select paper shufflers, obedient IYIs.

    1- When someone asks you a question in REAL LIFE, you focus first on “WHY is he asking me that?”, which slows down. (Fat Tony vs Dr John)

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1076845397795065856

  • Nassim, You know, every now and then you stumble in public. This is one of them.

    Nassim, You know, every now and then you stumble in public. This is one of them. You are distinguishing between General Intelligence (a single personality trait) and Demonstrated intelligence (entire suite of personality traits). DO NOT MAKE THE ERROR YOU CHASTISE OTHERS FOR.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-24 22:14:50 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1077326761506033664

    Reply addressees: @nntaleb

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1076845397795065856


    IN REPLY TO:

    @nntaleb

    “IQ” THREAD

    “IQ” measures an inferior form of intelligence, stripped of 2nd order effects, meant to select paper shufflers, obedient IYIs.

    1- When someone asks you a question in REAL LIFE, you focus first on “WHY is he asking me that?”, which slows down. (Fat Tony vs Dr John)

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1076845397795065856

  • THE PSYCHOLOGY, BIOLOGY AND GENETICS OF LEFTISM by Rosenborg Predmetsky Cultural

    THE PSYCHOLOGY, BIOLOGY AND GENETICS OF LEFTISM

    by Rosenborg Predmetsky

    Cultural Marxists are all structural and no agency (perhaps a good propertarian description of “all talk and no walk”). I find it very telling that the advocates of structuralism and post-structuralism tended to be utterly degenerate and depraved idiots — the most obvious examples are Michel Foucault and Jacques Lacan.

    Both purely r-selected and also totally obsessed with the idea that humans in general lack agency and that human subjectivity is nothing but a function of some antecedent (linguistic or social) structure. They are projecting their own constitutional, biological lack of agency onto humanity at large. When a post-structuralist says “humans lack agency,” I say “speak for yourself, hypo-frontal-cortical wojack!”

    I see cultural Marxists as high openness to experience with its attendant divergent thinking + dopaminergic sensation seeking + Behavioral Inhibition System (BIS, intense negative effect), and so they are driven by their passions like a kite in a hurricane, lacking anything like authentic agency, and they just project their own pathology onto the rest of humanity.

    Sensation seeking + intense negative affect + high verbal IQ = quasi-bonobo degenerate reader of Derrida / Foucault. Hyper-feminine, articulate but garrulous, schizophrenia-spectrum, borderline personality with unstable sense of self (which they project onto others), borderline psychotic, highly diffuse and chaotic thought patterns, histrionic, a desire to be seen and desired rather than a desire to create and/or conquer through brilliance or authentic power wrought of discipline.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-23 13:13:00 UTC

  • Nice Parsimony: —” CONSCIOUSNESS: Narratives are a social construct produced b

    Nice Parsimony:

    —” CONSCIOUSNESS: Narratives are a social construct produced by consciousness (itself a constant stream of a personal narrative) evolved by event-driven memory in spacetime to optimize decision-making in a socio-cooperative hierarchy.”— Nick’s Reason


    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-22 13:27:34 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1076469294177939457

  • “Declawed cats are usually like disarmed humans, more prone to being weasley, ti

    —“Declawed cats are usually like disarmed humans, more prone to being weasley, timid, violent and vicious.”—Anne Summers

    This is not so much a statement about cats, as about humans. 😉


    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-22 13:26:28 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1076469017173467136