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    photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_43196237263/42182269_10156650164812264_4070594205842407424_n_10156650164807264.jpg MEN JUST CARE MORE – BUT NOT A LOT MORE

    (why? as in all things, specialization and bias for genetic fitness of a woman vs bias for productive fitness of a male)

    Sex Differences in the Desire for Physical Attractiveness. Wrong Interpretation: Men just care about looks, women about other stuff. Right Interpretation: Both sexes care a fair amount about looks, but on average men somewhat more.

    Long-Term Mate https://books.google.com.my/books?id=c85WCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA146

    SIGNALS MATTER AS WELLErik LukovskyIs it possible men care more on average because they just don’t think women have much more to offer other than looks?

    High status males often select for intelligent women too, but not too many exist so men just give up lookingSep 20, 2018 8:40amAnjin Bodhisattva🙄Sep 20, 2018 8:52amAnjin BodhisattvaMaybe intelligent women are looking for intelligent men?Sep 20, 2018 8:53amMartin ŠtěpánAnjin Bodhisattva Yep. Not necessarily because of it but because intelligent men are much more likely to attain higher status.Sep 20, 2018 9:08amErik LukovskyIf you want intelligent offspring, she has to at least be 115 or 120 IQ because of regression to the meanSep 20, 2018 12:37pmErik LukovskyI would love to see where that’s the case

    I’m not saying you’re wrong, but the stereotype of the ” stupid hot blonde bimbo ” is a stereotype for a reason

    Because it’s somewhat true

    Very pretty women have no reason to be immersed in subjects that matter

    That’s why usually a modest intelligent one seems biologically like a better catchSep 20, 2018 12:49pmErik LukovskyIf you look at all the smartest women alive(biologists, geneticists, inventors, or businesswomen) hardly any of them pass as supermodels

    If you look at the women most men crave physically(actresses and celebrities) then they are almost never above average IQ at bestSep 20, 2018 12:51pmWilliam J MullenSurveys on what people find attractive are useless, there are many motivations in play regarding their answers and truth isn’t very high on the list. Empiricism fails here due to an inability to measure the variables, thus we must turn to heuristics. This “data” is uncompelling to me, I still see looks as preeminent among male preference. Looks are preeminent among YOUNG female preference, fading in importance as they age when status then resources begin to play a larger role.Sep 20, 2018 12:55pmAnjin BodhisattvaConservative women do tend to be more attractive than liberals though 😉Sep 20, 2018 12:58pmWilliam J MullenPersonally, through experience I’ve learned that NOTHING trumps or replaces looks, the other stuff can only ENHANCE a woman who meets my physical standard. Without the physical lust, there is no “relationship”, just friendship.Sep 20, 2018 1:46pmWilliam J MullenOn the flip side, being very physically attractive but low in status (I have resources but typically hide this fact), I can’t help but notice that my attractiveness to women is reduced the older they are. Women 30’s+ don’t find me attractive whatsoever, with my baggage (3 kids) and appearance of low resources, whereas I can basically get any teenager I want.Sep 20, 2018 1:49pmErik LukovskyA few women being accomplished doesn’t change the general ruleSep 20, 2018 1:56pmErik LukovskyLook at Kim Kardashian, Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Beyoncé, the list goes on and onSep 20, 2018 1:58pmErik LukovskyWell I said actresses and celebrities and yes, trust me, they do

    Most men think Scarlett Johannson is a 10Sep 20, 2018 2:24pmWilliam J MullenWomen to me offer nothing beyond their looks and ability to satisfy my sexual urges. They won’t be as smart, and the smarter they are the more prone they are to 1) arguing with me, and 2) getting butthurt when they lose those arguments. What matters most is subject matter interest… if they are interested in those things on which I am superior (which, face it, is everything since I’m a 48yo genius with incredible and unusual experience, and they are typically much younger and know nothing beyond their childhood home, some dumb university classes, and a Sex & the City career lifestyle) then we can get along, as we enjoy conversations where they mostly learn from me and entertain me with their own anecdotes.Sep 20, 2018 2:26pmWilliam J MullenThe hottest women are models; Hollywood has hardly any truly beautiful women, by my standard. I firmly believe that I could walk into any high school in America and walk out with 10 girls hotter than ScoJo, for example. There is Gadot today, there used to be Angelina… everyone else just seems to top out at around an 8, if you ask me.Sep 20, 2018 2:27pmWilliam J MullenI already have 3 kids, though, so I don’t have to worry about progeny. I do think Erik’s metric of intellect in a potential mother makes a lot of sense.Sep 20, 2018 2:30pmWilliam J MullenMeaning you don’t want to believe it, so it’s easier to think I’m just talking out my ear. Sure, believe what you like, it’s of no matter to me. Just offering my personal perspective.Sep 20, 2018 2:38pmWilliam J MullenI know I can, and it doesn’t cause me to exclude my children in any way. Your insults are predictable and banal… social shaming on emotional grounds. I’m never sure why my opinions and actions offend people in this regard, but fortunately I don’t really care about the opinions of the hoi polloi (just as I care little about the opinions of dogs).Sep 20, 2018 2:45pmWilliam J MullenSpeaking of Lohan, she once hit on me at a movie premier party. But I turned her down because she was chubby and gross at the time.Sep 20, 2018 2:49pmCarl OnniMen want a pleasant woman that is not dumb. All extra IQ points over “not dumb” suffers from sharply diminishing returns.Sep 20, 2018 4:58pmMEN JUST CARE MORE – BUT NOT A LOT MORE

    (why? as in all things, specialization and bias for genetic fitness of a woman vs bias for productive fitness of a male)

    Sex Differences in the Desire for Physical Attractiveness. Wrong Interpretation: Men just care about looks, women about other stuff. Right Interpretation: Both sexes care a fair amount about looks, but on average men somewhat more.

    Long-Term Mate https://books.google.com.my/books?id=c85WCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA146

    SIGNALS MATTER AS WELL


    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-20 07:49:00 UTC

  • LADIES, IT’S ALL NATURE AND NO NURTURE Mothers need to feel it’s nurture. But la

    https://www.nature.com/articles/ng.3285SORRY LADIES, IT’S ALL NATURE AND NO NURTURE

    Mothers need to feel it’s nurture. But largely you can make your kids worse, but not better. So nurture is largely an effort not to let kids play in traffic. Otherwise it’s just genes.

    —“For a majority (69%) of traits, the observed twin correlations are consistent with a simple and parsimonious model where twin resemblance is solely due to additive genetic variation. The data are inconsistent with substantial influences from shared environment or non-additive genetic variation.”—

    THIS IS A HUGE STUDY

    —“We report a meta-analysis of twin correlations and reported variance components for 17,804 traits from 2,748 publications including 14,558,903 partly dependent twin pairs, virtually all published twin studies of complex traits. “—

    I’m gonna amplify this a bit and say that your extra attention is making kids more fragile and literally driving them mad.

    https://www.nature.com/articles/ng.3285


    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-20 07:17:00 UTC

  • September 20th, 2018 2:00 PM THE DAILY CIRCADIAN RHYTHM —“On average, after th

    September 20th, 2018 2:00 PM THE DAILY CIRCADIAN RHYTHM

    —“On average, after the workday begins, employees take a few hours to reach their peak levels of alertness and energy – and that peak does not last long. Not long after lunch, those levels begin to decline, hitting a low at around 3pm. We often blame this on lunch, but in reality this is just a natural part of the circadian process. After the 3pm dip, alertness tends to increase again until hitting a second peak at approximately 6pm. Following this, alertness tends to then decline for the rest of the evening and throughout the early morning hours until hitting the very lowest point at approximately 3:30am. After hitting that all-time low, alertness tends to increase for the rest of the morning until hitting the first peak shortly after noon the next day.”—

  • September 20th, 2018 8:10 AM [W]ell, if parents are spending disproportionately

    September 20th, 2018 8:10 AM

    [W]ell, if parents are spending disproportionately more time with children but children are getting WORSE, then what does that mean?

  • September 20th, 2018 2:00 PM THE DAILY CIRCADIAN RHYTHM —“On average, after th

    September 20th, 2018 2:00 PM THE DAILY CIRCADIAN RHYTHM

    —“On average, after the workday begins, employees take a few hours to reach their peak levels of alertness and energy – and that peak does not last long. Not long after lunch, those levels begin to decline, hitting a low at around 3pm. We often blame this on lunch, but in reality this is just a natural part of the circadian process. After the 3pm dip, alertness tends to increase again until hitting a second peak at approximately 6pm. Following this, alertness tends to then decline for the rest of the evening and throughout the early morning hours until hitting the very lowest point at approximately 3:30am. After hitting that all-time low, alertness tends to increase for the rest of the morning until hitting the first peak shortly after noon the next day.”—

  • September 20th, 2018 7:17 AM SORRY LADIES, IT’S ALL NATURE AND NO NURTURE Mother

    September 20th, 2018 7:17 AM SORRY LADIES, IT’S ALL NATURE AND NO NURTURE
    Mothers need to feel it’s nurture. But largely you can make your kids worse, but not better. So nurture is largely an effort not to let kids play in traffic. Otherwise it’s just genes.

    —“For a majority (69%) of traits, the observed twin correlations are consistent with a simple and parsimonious model where twin resemblance is solely due to additive genetic variation. The data are inconsistent with substantial influences from shared environment or non-additive genetic variation.”—

    THIS IS A HUGE STUDY

    —“We report a meta-analysis of twin correlations and reported variance components for 17,804 traits from 2,748 publications including 14,558,903 partly dependent twin pairs, virtually all published twin studies of complex traits. “—

    I’m gonna amplify this a bit and say that your extra attention is making kids more fragile and literally driving them mad. https://www.nature.com/articles/ng.3285

  • September 20th, 2018 7:17 AM SORRY LADIES, IT’S ALL NATURE AND NO NURTURE Mother

    September 20th, 2018 7:17 AM SORRY LADIES, IT’S ALL NATURE AND NO NURTURE
    Mothers need to feel it’s nurture. But largely you can make your kids worse, but not better. So nurture is largely an effort not to let kids play in traffic. Otherwise it’s just genes.

    —“For a majority (69%) of traits, the observed twin correlations are consistent with a simple and parsimonious model where twin resemblance is solely due to additive genetic variation. The data are inconsistent with substantial influences from shared environment or non-additive genetic variation.”—

    THIS IS A HUGE STUDY

    —“We report a meta-analysis of twin correlations and reported variance components for 17,804 traits from 2,748 publications including 14,558,903 partly dependent twin pairs, virtually all published twin studies of complex traits. “—

    I’m gonna amplify this a bit and say that your extra attention is making kids more fragile and literally driving them mad. https://www.nature.com/articles/ng.3285

  • JORDAN: (notes) 1) You (and jonathan) are correct that the internet has had the

    JORDAN:

    (notes)

    1) You (and jonathan) are correct that the internet has had the suggested effect, but incorrect that it has created a false impression. Instead, we all have a much more HONEST and UNFILTERED view of each group’s narrative and ambitions when absent curation by filters. The fact that you’re discounting this is rather odd, and I’ll expand this in a moment.

    2) Pinker’s work misses (or artfully avoids the fact) that while violence has seemingly decreased, it has simply moved from physical attack on physical property to financialization and political parasitism that has redistributed middle and working class reproduction familial insurance, and retirement to the underclass and immigrants, and destroyed the nuclear family central to the USA’s groups strategy by malincentives in the name of virtues.

    3) The principle problem in primary education is that the differences between racial groups is largely one of neotonic evolution in response to geographic demands. And that we mature at different rates, some faster and some slower, and that the rates of aggression and sensitivity to existential differences in irreversible sexual, social, economic, political, and market value come into play at different times, to different intensities. One cannot have any knowledge of the classroom and understand the violence that children are exposed to. Compare this to my current home in Ukraine where the homogeneity of the 1950’s is everywhere and conformity mandated everywhere, and civility still exists, despite being the only poor european country remaining. As far as I know the bottom has been repaired to wealth, health and nutrition and the Flynn effect is reversing. Why? It is more important to remove negative influences than try to create positive influences. We have lost vast portions of the always-troublesome white laboring and working classes to malincentives already.

    4) The university isn’t as much a problem as pseudoscience: teach basic accounting, credit, micro and macro economic principles so that people undrestand the world we live in and why no alternative is possible. The university does not teach that the principle problem of differences in national income have to do with (a) degree of homogeneity, and (b) size of the underclass vs the middle class. Lastly is to cut the pseudosciences that women in particular create demand for, in exchange for vast student debt and no increase in calculative capacity.

    5) The right does not see eugenic organization of society as oppression but domestication of humans just like all other animals and plants. Western civilization has been aggressively eugenic for all of its recorded history, with no myth of equality whatsoever. Limiting the damage of the bottom is seen as a necessary good. (The male reproductive strategy, versus the left’s female reproductive strategy.)

    6) Neither of you take the position that just as the scandinavians naturally diverge in specialization under equality of choice and opportunity rather than converge, (despite being tiny homogenous 5-10m populations), that in larger groups it is in the intersets of groups of separate interests of separate strategies, to separate and produce norms, traditions, commons, and institutions, that are preferable for each group.

    7) The Jewish question is driven almost entirely by (a) the jewish continuous advocacy for leftism and records of what they have done elsewhere, (b) activism in the process of undermining the constitution as a document of reciprocity (natural law) by selective advancement of cases before the court, and activism in suppression of western identitarianism (SPLC), (b) dominance in media and entertainment, and (c) demonstrated superiority at extemporaneous discourse in an era of high demand for extemporaneous speech in the media. It’s very easy to survey any publication for ant-white posts and determine the ethnicity of the authors, and this drives the perception. The use of argumentative techniques of poly-ethicalism, ir-reciprocity, relativism, combined with shaming, rallying, gossip, and reputation destruction, and of Pilpul(sophism) and Critique(straw manning extension of rallying shaming etc);

    8) The right is terribly empirical AND hyperbolic in its interpretation of empirical evidence. The denial of HBD, the Negative consequences of diversity, the reality of IQ and the value of every single point of IQ in the standard of living of the people, the uniqueness of high trust in northern europeans, the general hostility against white people is endemic. (Moreover, you are mistaken about the percentage of the population that is aggressively advancing revolutionary activism. It’s just underground, and like all underground movements produces status signaling as a reward for participants. (The zero turnout in DC was by design.))

    9) There is no evidence that the mutli-culturalism in this country will succeed any more than hit has in any other region, particularly the middle east, south america, india, and africa – or europe for that matter. All data I know of says it INCREASES DEMAND FOR AUTHORITARIANISM, which, as I understand it, is, and has been, the left’s objective.

    10) Peoples demonstrate kin selection except at the top, are more dependent on shared information and the discounts on kin vs non-kin cooperation at the bottom, differ in the distribution of the two traits most influential in social, economic, political, and technological development. Those of us in the high standard deviations from the mean are too insulated from the perceptions of common people – and the relative immutability of those perceptions as necessary for preservation of their will to continue to act in service of themselves and others.

    11) Outside of china there is no evidence that the human capital reserves that existed prior to 1900, exist any longer, and the period by which a backward State could use pre-existing western technology and local resources to leverage a growth of the middle class has passed. (Note: I do not understand why chinese intelligence doesn’t pay the rural IQ cost like the rest of us, or if there is something in the collection of data or effect of literacy in character memorization that I don’t understand.).

    12) The value of women added to the economy has been completely absorbed by increases in taxation. Ergo we have merely engaged in reproductive redistribution, and to the right wing white male, that just translates into genocide. Which is what is driving the right. “We were too kind, and let them win. With just that one law under johnson, they lied and we let them win.”

    My observation of both of you which is my observation of most people in the academy, is that understanding of economics in incentives, in behavior, in the micro economics that are perceptible to each of us, and macro economics that are not observable are counter to our intuitions, is as necessary a method of cognition as reading and mathematics, and that programming, being an operational and existential rather than sets and ideal is superior to mathematics. There is no commons possible to construct that is superior to upward redistribution of reproduction, and no harm that can be done to a polity other than it’s reversal.

    Lastly: We were wrong about south africa. The same is happening in southern brazil. And unless these are corrected the narrative will continue to accelerate.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-19 15:20:00 UTC

  • RT @mattwridley: The Ape That Understood The Universe by @SteveStuWill is an elo

    RT @mattwridley: The Ape That Understood The Universe by @SteveStuWill is an eloquent and elegant exploration of human nature in the light…


    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-19 11:59:42 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1042382723183247360

  • RT @SteveStuWill: Folks, this doesn’t mean it’s all down to genes. Identical twi

    RT @SteveStuWill: Folks, this doesn’t mean it’s all down to genes. Identical twins aren’t identical! But it does mean that the kinds of env…


    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-19 11:58:24 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1042382397256417280