Theme: Agency

  • More From My Portfolio of CEO Responses 1) “You’re right. We should do that. Are

    More From My Portfolio of CEO Responses

    1) “You’re right. We should do that. Are you volunteering to get it done?”

    2) “Really? I have simple means of testing demonstrated preference: He who does, chooses. He who doesn’t, doesn’t.”

    3) “Really, now you don’t understand why I did that? Why do you think I would do that” (Silly reason follows.) “Actually, here is why I did it ….” (Stunned) (Teaching Moment Succeeded).

    4) “Great idea. Given that we must, and do, at all times make use of all available capital, What should we not do in order to pay for doing that?”

    Teaching People to fish never ends. Why? They actually want someone to catch the fish for them.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-28 14:20:00 UTC

  • EXPLAINING CONSCIOUSNESS INDIRECTLY —“Where does “the present” (initial, whole

    EXPLAINING CONSCIOUSNESS INDIRECTLY

    —“Where does “the present” (initial, whole experience) as opposed to memory and the rest (post hoc, partial translations) fit into your model?”— Ben Quimby

    We create the latter in order to increase our chose and volume and intensity of consumption of the former.

    —“But it *is* something that stands alone outside of all these categories, yes? Part of each moment, necessarily, does not carry over into any translation, making said parts, by definition, “ineffable”, correct?”— Ben Quimby

    Well, you know, if you ask it that way I have to defend against misinterpretation. “experience” is our ultra-short-term memory continuously learning and forgetting the cacophony of stimuli from our nervous system, and the ‘echoes’ that they produce in from our memories, and the consequent chemical responses (feelings) that those echoes produce

    Memories require we merely ‘choke’ our senses and focus on (not sure how we do that, but I assume it’s the hippocampus) the echoes rather than the perceptions (senses). I know it’s related to how we focus our vision, and I know it’s an evolution of the prey drive, but that’s all I know.

    So there is no difference except focus. All experience is RECONSTRUCTED from the combination of sensation and memory. We just bias our focus on present(sense) vs past(memory) within that stream of stimulation.

    So there are not two separate things, but simply the resources devoted to senses vs recalls so that we experience greater now than the past.

    GIven that our brains allow us to do both of these at the same time only enhances the illusion.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-28 13:03:00 UTC

  • THE OCCULT IS ONE OF THE FICTIONALIST GRAMMARS. HERE IS WHY IT WORKS. CLASSES OF

    THE OCCULT IS ONE OF THE FICTIONALIST GRAMMARS.

    HERE IS WHY IT WORKS. CLASSES OF PACKS.

    —“I think occult literature is to exercise and train the mind. Seeing the world through symbolism and allegory gives you a more well rounded world view. The imagination training alone to keep a sharp inner vision is worth the effort.”– Zack Sunday

    contrast with:

    —“I started following your new friends. I think I just gagged on an Ebola”— a friend

    —“Evola is Harry Potter for the resurgent right.”—Neil A. Bucklew

    —“It’s cool, it’s hip, and it’s accessible. You read something like Metaphysics of War, and it’s not that different from The Fellowship of the Ring. Same beautifully constructed sentences, full of poetic words, riddled with lofty nouns that are inevitably capitalized like the philosophical texts of old.

    One of my favourites is when they capitalize Truth (whatever the fuck that’s supposed to mean). Who the fuck wants to read this “operational”, “via negativa” garbage, whatever that is? It all looks like computer code to me and that stuff is for nerds, right?

    These kids grew up with this stuff, this poison from Arktos and Counter-Currents. And what’s more, they will never, for the life of them, consider that maybe – just maybe – they shouldn’t trust these jesters and their sources, all of which are rooted in religious texts.

    You see, atheism or even agnosticism, those aren’t options; those are the tools of the Left. Surely, we cannot espouse the opinions of the Left, so instead, we will regress further and further and become ever more backward until this vile, leftist materialism and its child, despicable Science, are utterly obliterated and replaced with a spiritually transcendent society, which will be guided by religious texts, “perennial truths”, that were totally not written by fools and deceptive human beings, but instead written by people possessed by powerful, metaphysical forces, the names of which are once again capitalized for effect and this perverted stack of lies continues getting higher and higher and higher..”—by Göran Dahl

    —“We live in a natural world. The Mere belief in an old order and the mere feeling of how that order looks like or how it would look like in this age is not the right way to re-evolve it. Evola and Doolittle are observing the same thing, but the holes of Doolittle’s sieve are much smaller compared to those of Evola’s. If Evola and Doolittle are to observe, for example, the solar system, Evola would propose that the reason a planet orbits the sun is that its matter has some kind of tendency for orbiting or a sort of motility. But Doolittle WILL explain that the reason a planet orbits the sun is a central force which varies exactly inversely as the square distance from the center. Now what I’m aiming at is that while Evola knows exactly what he wants to impose, he lacks A THEORY, he lacks a scientific language that would’ve helped him in understanding what he intuited, and therefore he fell into many traps, one of them is the savior myth. What we need is a scientific research paper that uses measurements and organizational charts not intuitions and poetic licenses.”–by Ahmed Reda

    —“I dont understand why people are so blind to the point of fact that it is necessary to hit a problem from multiple angles ….. We need the Evolas, Doolittles, Spencer’s, Trumps, IEs, nordfronts, TWPs, Dark enlightenments, Molyneuxs…. if even for the sole purpose of competition to strengthen the winners in their respective actionsets.”—Austyn Pember

    — CURT —

    SENTIMENTS: IT’S JUST NEUROLOGICALLY CHEAPER

    The Occult? Fiction? Sophisms?

    Its actually just easier (cheaper) – to reduce dependence upon reason and memory, and let the connections be made by free association and suggestion. (it is easier to be programmed than to program the self)

    These free associations cast a broader opportunity net at the expense of deduction and inference. When you say ‘well rounded’ that’s nonsense. when you say ‘cheaper and easier with greater reach for opportunity’ that’s true.

    So, increase precision with calculation and computation, and decrease precision with reason and more so with intuition.

    There is a correlation between age and dependence upon intuition vs reason. There is a correlation between isolation and dependence on intuition vs reason. I can intuit those relationships but I don’t feel comfortable stating the causality yet, although it does remind me of the feeling testosterone produces, that in turn, increases the radius of our awareness and thought in males as we mature. I suspect that this is the causal relationship between neural economy, state of endocrine development, and accumulated knowledge.

    -Curt Doolittle


    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-28 10:14:00 UTC

  • DON’T SELL YOURSELF SHORT. WE ALL STAND ON THE SHOULDERS OF OTHERS WHO DID WORK

    DON’T SELL YOURSELF SHORT. WE ALL STAND ON THE SHOULDERS OF OTHERS WHO DID WORK ON OUR BEHALF

    —“Great another video of me realizing I’m a god damn chimp”— Nick Mallar

    um. don’t sell yourself short. I’m radical outlier who has spent a lot of time – a lifetime – learning how to understand and explain these ideas. Most of us can’t afford it, and lack the ability to focus on a single process for that length of time. As Einstein said, it’s not that he was exceptionally smart, but that he just spent more time on the problem than anyone else. IMO i’m the beneficiary of a point in time where we desperately need a solution to current intellectual problems, and a lot of people have done a lot of work I depend upon, and I have the internet and search engines making me and my generation the first people to be able to synthesize that much information from so many different fields. if you can UNDERSTAND what I’m saying, then you are no chimp at all. There is no need for you to duplicate my efforts. Just USE THE RESULT.

    (Now for the people that DONT understand what I’m saying, we just have to limit the damage that they can do to the rest of us. 😉 )


    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-28 09:06:00 UTC

  • (from elsewhere) (Diary: My father was an inveterate asshole, an alcoholic, a ho

    (from elsewhere)

    (Diary: My father was an inveterate asshole, an alcoholic, a horrid and bordering on evil parent (i frequently considered killing in his sleep, and came close more than once), an adequate soldier, a fair businessman and a reasonably good politician, and sufficiently well read. But as far as masculine goes, he was very clear about right, wrong, truth, duty, honor, and violence. I f–king hated him as a father, as a human being, but, if you were in the right and someone did you wrong, or if you needed backup, holy sh–t, just him appearing in a room sent everyone running for a mile radius. I can remember half a dozen times him holding people up off the ground with one hand while they begged him for mercy, but I never saw him have to hit anyone. I had to (despite being small) fight my own battles (and a whole hell of a lot of them) but if it was ‘unfair’ he’d hunt the kid down, grab him and then grab his father (or in one case, mother) by the throat and explain the consequences. Things were settled quickly. And problems stopped immediately. And that was not so long ago – and things were better that way. Women in government and court, and law enforcement, destroy decorum, order, and rule of law, and out of their familial sensibilities, come social and political chaos the evils of which pandora never imagined.)


    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-27 21:06:00 UTC

  • Rolf, DIdn’t you recently promote that paper on clustering in the big 5? That wa

    Rolf, DIdn’t you recently promote that paper on clustering in the big 5? That was premature but closer to my understanding of the division of perceptual, cognitive, negotiative, labor.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-27 19:51:55 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1056272299488432134

    Reply addressees: @DegenRolf

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1056075016272535552


    IN REPLY TO:

    @DegenRolf

    Too much of a good thing: All “desirable” personality traits become counterproductive if too pronounced, turning from virtues into vice.
    https://t.co/eh4rRr2Jkp https://t.co/4WEqottcDm

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1056075016272535552

  • What Defines ‘human’?

    October 27th, 2018 11:41 AM WHAT DEFINES ‘HUMAN’?

    —“Is it possible that you have too high a standard for what qualifies as human?”– Joel Harvey

    [W]ell, that begs the question standard for what purpose? 1 – For cooperating commercially (trade on means) – yes. 2 – For socializing (exchanging information – on ends) – no. 3 – For political organization (cooperating on ends and means) – absolutely not. One does not let wild animals, domesticated animals, domesticated pets, children, or insufficiently domesticated and trained humans to influence that which they lack the agency to decide without harm to others.

  • Very few of us are yet human

    October 27th, 2018 11:10 AM WHO IS AND ISN’T HUMAN?

    —“Curt, Who isn’t currently human?”—Joel Harvey

    [I]s the line of demarcation between human and animal: 1) Morphology? 2) Sentience? (Reaction to stimuli) 3) Awareness? (Sympathy-intent/Empathy-experience/Imitation-action) 4) Speech? 5) Reason? (Agency) As far as I know, it is reason and agency which separates us from the animals. That means very few of us are yet human. The rest are in different stages of domesticated animal. And I suspect that number (percentage) corresponds to the pareto minimum. Yes, really. Our process of self domestication is far from complete. It is merely sufficient for west and to a lesser degree, east, to drag mankind out of ignorance, superstition, hard labor, filth, poverty, starvation, disease, plagues, suffering, child mortality, early death, continuous violence, and the vicissitudes of nature. |HUMAN| The gods we aspire to be < Trained Humans < untrained humans < trained animals < untrained animals < untrainable animals. We domesticated plants, those animals we could domesticate, and those humans we could domesticate. We just left the job unfinished.

  • What Defines ‘human’?

    October 27th, 2018 11:41 AM WHAT DEFINES ‘HUMAN’?

    —“Is it possible that you have too high a standard for what qualifies as human?”– Joel Harvey

    [W]ell, that begs the question standard for what purpose? 1 – For cooperating commercially (trade on means) – yes. 2 – For socializing (exchanging information – on ends) – no. 3 – For political organization (cooperating on ends and means) – absolutely not. One does not let wild animals, domesticated animals, domesticated pets, children, or insufficiently domesticated and trained humans to influence that which they lack the agency to decide without harm to others.

  • Very few of us are yet human

    October 27th, 2018 11:10 AM WHO IS AND ISN’T HUMAN?

    —“Curt, Who isn’t currently human?”—Joel Harvey

    [I]s the line of demarcation between human and animal: 1) Morphology? 2) Sentience? (Reaction to stimuli) 3) Awareness? (Sympathy-intent/Empathy-experience/Imitation-action) 4) Speech? 5) Reason? (Agency) As far as I know, it is reason and agency which separates us from the animals. That means very few of us are yet human. The rest are in different stages of domesticated animal. And I suspect that number (percentage) corresponds to the pareto minimum. Yes, really. Our process of self domestication is far from complete. It is merely sufficient for west and to a lesser degree, east, to drag mankind out of ignorance, superstition, hard labor, filth, poverty, starvation, disease, plagues, suffering, child mortality, early death, continuous violence, and the vicissitudes of nature. |HUMAN| The gods we aspire to be < Trained Humans < untrained humans < trained animals < untrained animals < untrainable animals. We domesticated plants, those animals we could domesticate, and those humans we could domesticate. We just left the job unfinished.