Curt Doolittle

Theme: Agency

  • “The purpose of social hierarchies is to organize social groups in order to allo

    —-“The purpose of social hierarchies is to organize social groups in order to allocate limited resources, such as mates and food (Sapolsky, 2005), facilitate social learning (Henrich & Mcelreath, 2003), and maximize individual motivation (Halevy et al, 2011; Magee & Galinsky, 2008). By definition, some individuals within the hierarchy – those at the top – will be afforded more resources and benefits than others, thus affecting morbidity and mortality. Despite that fact that there are always losers in this scenario, social hierarchies are highly pervasive across human cultures (Sidanius & Pratto, 1999) and they appear to emerge naturally in social groups (Anderson, John, Keltner, & Kring, 2001; Berger, Rosenholtz, & Zelditch, 1980; Chase, Tovey, Spangler-Martin, & Manfredonia, 2002; Gould, 2002; Magee & Galinsky, 2008). Further, this group organization is not strictly a product of human cognition, as almost every group-living species demonstrates a natural tendency to organize into a social hierarchy (Sapolsky, 2004; 2005) where the higher-ranking members possess more power, influence, and advantages than the lower-ranking members (Fragale, Overbeck, & Neale, 2011; Mazur, 1985; Zitek & Tiedens, 2012).”—

    ( h/t Bill Joslin )

    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-06 22:06:00 UTC

  • “Northeast Asians, compared to Europeans, have higher gene frequencies of polymo

    —“Northeast Asians, compared to Europeans, have higher gene frequencies of polymorphisms which make people collectivist, socially anxious, and fearful of anything novel. Kura and his team argue that this is adaptation to a particular ecology, where it is vital to stay in a tightly-bonded group.

    However, they note that scientific innovators tend to combine very high IQ with an optimally low level of collectivism, low social anxiety and low fearfulness of the new. In other words, they have high “Openness-Intellec t”, as psychologists term this trait. This psychological profile means that they can think outside the box and don’t care about the offence to vested interests which their new idea will almost certainly result in.

    This is why, maintains Kura, it is the West that generated the Industrial Revolution, rather than more intelligent Northeast Asians. The West is indeed the Goldilocks Zone for genius.”—

    http://www.unz.com/article/dysgenics-and-low-creativity-why-china-cant-save-civilization/

    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-06 02:37:00 UTC

  • The West is indeed the Goldilocks Zone for genius

    September 6th, 2018 2:37 AM

    —“Northeast Asians, compared to Europeans, have higher gene frequencies of polymorphisms which make people collectivist, socially anxious, and fearful of anything novel. Kura and his team argue that this is adaptation to a particular ecology, where it is vital to stay in a tightly-bonded group. However, they note that scientific innovators tend to combine very high IQ with an optimally low level of collectivism, low social anxiety and low fearfulness of the new. In other words, they have high “Openness-Intellec t”, as psychologists term this trait. This psychological profile means that they can think outside the box and don’t care about the offence to vested interests which their new idea will almost certainly result in. This is why, maintains Kura, it is the West that generated the Industrial Revolution, rather than more intelligent Northeast Asians. The West is indeed the Goldilocks Zone for genius.”—

    http://www.unz.com/article/dysgenics-and-low-creativity-why-china-cant-save-civilization/

  • The West is indeed the Goldilocks Zone for genius

    September 6th, 2018 2:37 AM

    —“Northeast Asians, compared to Europeans, have higher gene frequencies of polymorphisms which make people collectivist, socially anxious, and fearful of anything novel. Kura and his team argue that this is adaptation to a particular ecology, where it is vital to stay in a tightly-bonded group. However, they note that scientific innovators tend to combine very high IQ with an optimally low level of collectivism, low social anxiety and low fearfulness of the new. In other words, they have high “Openness-Intellec t”, as psychologists term this trait. This psychological profile means that they can think outside the box and don’t care about the offence to vested interests which their new idea will almost certainly result in. This is why, maintains Kura, it is the West that generated the Industrial Revolution, rather than more intelligent Northeast Asians. The West is indeed the Goldilocks Zone for genius.”—

    http://www.unz.com/article/dysgenics-and-low-creativity-why-china-cant-save-civilization/

  • We are constrained both internally and externally We have five sets of internal

    We are constrained both internally and externally

    We have five sets of internal faculties:

    – Physical abilities (actions), one of which is speech.
    – Senses – the five senses
    – Intuitions
    -… https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=290866211510276&id=100017606988153

    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-05 21:36:52 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1037454540474408960

  • Agency: Our Next Great Enterprise

    September 5th, 2018 8:47 AM AGENCY IS NECESSARY FOR SOVEREIGNTY: OUR NEXT GREAT ENTERPRISE [A]gency is necessary for sovereignty otherwise one cannot self insure. If you cannot self insure then others must insure you out of self defense. If others must insure you then you are dependent upon them as a child upon a parent. You are not sovereign agent, and cannot reciprocally insure those with agency – and you especially cannot insure them against yourself. Western civilization specialized in the continuous production of agency. We emphasize sovereignty. But sovereignty is something we grant one another through reciprocity. Agency over the self exists or it doesn’t – independent of others. Stoicism attempts to produce agency. All other religions do not – they produce avoidance or escapism – with shintoism the closest peer looking backward rather than forward, and the original Buddhism the closest ambition – mindfulness but not agency. And Buddhism does not maintain the western charter demanding heroism, and speaking truth regardless of the consequences to the dominance (competence) hierarchy. If you master Propertarianism (natural law) you will have intellectual agency – all human experience is then explicable in operational terms, and the world coherent and comprehensible. If you master stoicism (self authoring) then you will develop intuitionistic and emotional agency. If you maintain diet and physical fitness – particularly team sports – you will develop physical agency. If you exchange sovereignty with others who do the same, then you will be sovereign. Rome had almost completed the development of a new religion when the Abrahamists worked diligently to undermine the great aristocratic civilizations. The lesson of Constantine is never let anyone other than a member of a noble family that has retained noble status in marriage hold office – ever. The lesson of the Abrahamic revolt against civilization, is that we must suppress all forms of supernaturalism, sophisms (pseudorationalism), and pseudosciences. And the only way to do that is the use of the LAW: the organized use of force to suppress imposition of costs upon the private and common, existential and informational, by using the courts as a market for truth, thereby empowering all people to suppress falsehoods. Which leads us to our charter: —“Europeans do not know how to live unless they are engaged in some great enterprise. When this is lacking, they grow petty and feeble and their souls disintegrate.”—José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish Philosopher This is our next great enterprise. To rid humanity of the abrahamic falsehoods wither they be supernatural, sophistry, or pseudoscience. We have incrementally suppressed the evil in mankind by forcible domestication of genes and behavior in the ancient world and in the modern. The revolt against us in the ancient world brought about a dark age – we were far too tolerant. The abrahamic revolt against us in the modern world using collectivist pseudoscience and postmodern sophism, and the systematic use of pilpul and critique in the reputation destruction of our great civilization – a civilization that has dragged humanity out of ignorance, superstition, poverty, starvation, hard labor, disease, suffering, child mortality, early death, and the vicissitudes of nature. This revolt against civilization, has not yet been stopped – we have been too tolerant. The most intolerant wins. We must rule by our law, out of self defense, and drag mankind kicking and screaming once again into transcendence of the gods we may yet be, in a universe hostile to all but gods. Transcendence by Agency, Sovereignty, Reciprocity, Truth, Duty, Markets in Everything: the continuous calculation of our ascent into godhood.

  • Agency: Our Next Great Enterprise

    September 5th, 2018 8:47 AM AGENCY IS NECESSARY FOR SOVEREIGNTY: OUR NEXT GREAT ENTERPRISE [A]gency is necessary for sovereignty otherwise one cannot self insure. If you cannot self insure then others must insure you out of self defense. If others must insure you then you are dependent upon them as a child upon a parent. You are not sovereign agent, and cannot reciprocally insure those with agency – and you especially cannot insure them against yourself. Western civilization specialized in the continuous production of agency. We emphasize sovereignty. But sovereignty is something we grant one another through reciprocity. Agency over the self exists or it doesn’t – independent of others. Stoicism attempts to produce agency. All other religions do not – they produce avoidance or escapism – with shintoism the closest peer looking backward rather than forward, and the original Buddhism the closest ambition – mindfulness but not agency. And Buddhism does not maintain the western charter demanding heroism, and speaking truth regardless of the consequences to the dominance (competence) hierarchy. If you master Propertarianism (natural law) you will have intellectual agency – all human experience is then explicable in operational terms, and the world coherent and comprehensible. If you master stoicism (self authoring) then you will develop intuitionistic and emotional agency. If you maintain diet and physical fitness – particularly team sports – you will develop physical agency. If you exchange sovereignty with others who do the same, then you will be sovereign. Rome had almost completed the development of a new religion when the Abrahamists worked diligently to undermine the great aristocratic civilizations. The lesson of Constantine is never let anyone other than a member of a noble family that has retained noble status in marriage hold office – ever. The lesson of the Abrahamic revolt against civilization, is that we must suppress all forms of supernaturalism, sophisms (pseudorationalism), and pseudosciences. And the only way to do that is the use of the LAW: the organized use of force to suppress imposition of costs upon the private and common, existential and informational, by using the courts as a market for truth, thereby empowering all people to suppress falsehoods. Which leads us to our charter: —“Europeans do not know how to live unless they are engaged in some great enterprise. When this is lacking, they grow petty and feeble and their souls disintegrate.”—José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish Philosopher This is our next great enterprise. To rid humanity of the abrahamic falsehoods wither they be supernatural, sophistry, or pseudoscience. We have incrementally suppressed the evil in mankind by forcible domestication of genes and behavior in the ancient world and in the modern. The revolt against us in the ancient world brought about a dark age – we were far too tolerant. The abrahamic revolt against us in the modern world using collectivist pseudoscience and postmodern sophism, and the systematic use of pilpul and critique in the reputation destruction of our great civilization – a civilization that has dragged humanity out of ignorance, superstition, poverty, starvation, hard labor, disease, suffering, child mortality, early death, and the vicissitudes of nature. This revolt against civilization, has not yet been stopped – we have been too tolerant. The most intolerant wins. We must rule by our law, out of self defense, and drag mankind kicking and screaming once again into transcendence of the gods we may yet be, in a universe hostile to all but gods. Transcendence by Agency, Sovereignty, Reciprocity, Truth, Duty, Markets in Everything: the continuous calculation of our ascent into godhood.

  • My thing isn’t race at all. It’s agency, ability, evolutionary condition, and no

    My thing isn’t race at all. It’s agency, ability, evolutionary condition, and non-competition over the production of commons. I other words, no genetic, normative, cultural, and institutional… https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=290821864848044&id=100017606988153

    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-05 18:16:21 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1037404080430301190

  • We are constrained both internally and externally We have five sets of internal

    We are constrained both internally and externally

    We have five sets of internal faculties:

    – Physical abilities (actions), one of which is speech.

    – Senses – the five senses

    – Intuitions

    – Reason

    – Technical Knowledge (actionable knowledge)

    Each of these faculties grants us abilities – some more, some less, because we are individually physically, intuitionistically, and rationally better or worse in our abilities.

    We are further constrained by externalities:

    Geography

    Resources,

    Institutions of Cooperation – meaning norms, traditions and laws, and the economy.

    We can work to improve our physical abilities – with training

    We can improve our senses with discipline and instruments.

    We can improve our intuitions with training.

    We can improve our reason with training.

    We can improve our speech – with training

    We can improve our knowledge – with training

    We can work with others to improve our geography, resources, and formal and informal institutions.

    We can work with others to improve our productivity in goods services and information.

    As we improve our internal and external ability to act, intuit, think, and speak, we improve our Agency.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-05 17:36:00 UTC

  • INTUITIONS AS NEURAL ECONOMY Because of my work on artificial intelligence, I th

    INTUITIONS AS NEURAL ECONOMY

    Because of my work on artificial intelligence, I think of intuitions as regional differences neural economy.

    As far as I know very minor changes in rewards and… https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=290785941518303&id=100017606988153

    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-05 15:51:45 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1037367691076685824