Curt Doolittle

Theme: Agency

  • Easy Way To Understand Personality Traits

    The way to understand personality traits is to fill in the blanks: “In negotiations with others [trait] helps me with ….. ” 1) Ordliness (risk minimization) <-vs–> (reward maximization) Industriousness 2) Confrontation (risk minimization) <–vs–> (opportunity maximization) Politeness. As far as I know all emotions can be expressed in three dimensions: x) Dominance (Aggression) vs (Flight) Submission y) Pain vs Pleasure. z) Excitement vs Calm

  • My understanding is two sexes and therefore two genders develop from neutral ste

    My understanding is two sexes and therefore two genders develop from neutral stem, but failure of expression in utero, failure of expression in development, failure of expression due to trauma, and that infantilization via suppression of play, lack of exercise, diet, and exposure to manmade chemistry in the environment is the primary cause of variations in expression.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-20 16:08:00 UTC

  • The way to understand personality traits is to fill in the blanks: “In negotiati

    The way to understand personality traits is to fill in the blanks:

    “In negotiations with others [trait] helps me with ….. “

    1) Ordliness (risk minimization) <-vs–> (reward maximization) Industriousness

    2) Confrontation (risk minimization) <–vs–> (opportunity maximization) Politeness.

    As far as I know all emotions can be expressed in three dimensions:

    x) Dominance (Aggression) vs (Flight) Submission

    y) Pain vs Pleasure.

    z) Excitement vs Calm

    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-19 20:34:00 UTC

  • Male and Female Reproductive Cognitive Biases

    Science helps us in matters of mutual misunderstanding between men and women (Or the male brain and female brain): 1) There is a female, genetic, cognitive bias, toward Solipsism, or what women generally refer to as “personalizing” an argument; 2) Just as there is a related female, genetic, cognitive bias to argue the person rather than the argument; 3) just as there is a related female genetic, cognitive bias to NAXALT (“not all x are like that”) – which is the failure to intuit the difference between a distribution (curve) and equality (line); 4) Just as there is a related female genetic cognitive bias to conflate the desirable/undesirable, with the good/true. And… you are demonstrating all those female, genetic, cognitive biases that evolution gave you, so that you would protect your children from any form of outcasting (negative differentiation, boycott) that would limit their chances of prosperity – or even survival. I am not a woman, with solipsistic cognitive biases for the purpose of protecting my offspring, but a man, with analytic cognitive biases for the purpose of maintaining or increasing the competitive capacity of the tribe that consists of my brothers our mates, and offspring. As such while it is in your reproductive interest to be ‘confused’ to some degree, it is in my reproductive interests to not be. You cannot afford to fail to grasp the world of threats to your offspring as it is, just as I cannot afford to fail grasp the world of threats to my tribe as it is. Ergo, I don’t confuse the good/bad with the true/false, nor make the mistake of equality vs distribution, nor deny the overwhelming evidence of demonstrated human nature (prostitution vs war) throughout all of human and pre-human history. What I understand you to be saying is that you do not want the public to hold a low opinion of women like you because it would put you at an even greater status disadvantage than you had been in the past. And that I can understand. But conversely, I don’t make the mistake of saying that because males disproportionately commit violent crime, that there is any chance I will commit violent crime. Nor would I say it was bad or false to say that they do so. Truth is truth. Period. Apr 19, 2018 5:21am

  • Male and Female Reproductive Cognitive Biases

    Science helps us in matters of mutual misunderstanding between men and women (Or the male brain and female brain): 1) There is a female, genetic, cognitive bias, toward Solipsism, or what women generally refer to as “personalizing” an argument; 2) Just as there is a related female, genetic, cognitive bias to argue the person rather than the argument; 3) just as there is a related female genetic, cognitive bias to NAXALT (“not all x are like that”) – which is the failure to intuit the difference between a distribution (curve) and equality (line); 4) Just as there is a related female genetic cognitive bias to conflate the desirable/undesirable, with the good/true. And… you are demonstrating all those female, genetic, cognitive biases that evolution gave you, so that you would protect your children from any form of outcasting (negative differentiation, boycott) that would limit their chances of prosperity – or even survival. I am not a woman, with solipsistic cognitive biases for the purpose of protecting my offspring, but a man, with analytic cognitive biases for the purpose of maintaining or increasing the competitive capacity of the tribe that consists of my brothers our mates, and offspring. As such while it is in your reproductive interest to be ‘confused’ to some degree, it is in my reproductive interests to not be. You cannot afford to fail to grasp the world of threats to your offspring as it is, just as I cannot afford to fail grasp the world of threats to my tribe as it is. Ergo, I don’t confuse the good/bad with the true/false, nor make the mistake of equality vs distribution, nor deny the overwhelming evidence of demonstrated human nature (prostitution vs war) throughout all of human and pre-human history. What I understand you to be saying is that you do not want the public to hold a low opinion of women like you because it would put you at an even greater status disadvantage than you had been in the past. And that I can understand. But conversely, I don’t make the mistake of saying that because males disproportionately commit violent crime, that there is any chance I will commit violent crime. Nor would I say it was bad or false to say that they do so. Truth is truth. Period. Apr 19, 2018 5:21am

  • “Understanding is hard. Obedience is easy. This is partially reversed if you’re

    —“Understanding is hard. Obedience is easy. This is partially reversed if you’re autistic, but probably not fully.”— Ely Harman

    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-19 13:02:00 UTC

  • Everquote released the data today that Connecticut has the worst drivers in the

    Everquote released the data today that Connecticut has the worst drivers in the country, followed by Rhode Island – ‘due to bad driving habits’.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-19 09:07:00 UTC

  • Gene Machines First

    I think the first difference between my thought and traditional thought, is that i treat us as gene machines first, and our rational and verbal minds as negotiators on behalf of those genes – totally unaware that what we consider good and true are merely instructions from those genes telling us what success conditions are.

  • Gene Machines First

    I think the first difference between my thought and traditional thought, is that i treat us as gene machines first, and our rational and verbal minds as negotiators on behalf of those genes – totally unaware that what we consider good and true are merely instructions from those genes telling us what success conditions are.

  • by Chris Moyer According to the average Classical Liberal, Libertarian, and Anca

    by Chris Moyer

    According to the average Classical Liberal, Libertarian, and Ancap, Individualism is an axiomatic good.

    But, it’s just another false dichotomy similar to that of capitalism versus socialism – except in this case it is individualism versus collectivism.

    They remove all measurements of arbitrariness from these categories and end up scrambling to justify their position on the spectrum.

    So just as these people claim the West was Capitalistic despite it being a mixed economy (rule of law by necessity), they make the same mistake and claim the West is individualistic despite it being mixed between Collectivism and Individualism.

    ***It’s really just non-arbitrary prioritization of rights.***

    I think it’s safe to say that we know the benefits and downfalls to both individualism and collectivism and to continue holding a view based on that false dichotomy is embarrassing.

    —

    CD: Ok, so lets repeat that ” A non-arbitrary prioritization of rights. “

    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-15 22:56:00 UTC