Theme: Agency

  • For example, both anxious and psychopathic tendencies are not distinct categorie

    —For example, both anxious and psychopathic tendencies are not distinct categories but rather are continuously distributed in the population. Anxiety appears to relate to the HEXACO Emotionality and perhaps low eXtraversion. And the psychopathic traits are well represented by the Dark Tetrad, which is its own dimension (Honesty-humility) in the HEXACO. What we call “psychopaths” are just individuals who score above an arbitrary cut off on the Dark Tetrad dimension. I have argued that the prevalence of such traits is related to clannishness. What the authors of the DSM have done with most personality disorders is “pathologize” points of normal personality variation that don’t conform to the (very WEIRDO) ideal. These traits are adaptations nonetheless. Psychopathy is a feature, not a bug.—- Jayman


    Source date (UTC): 2017-02-13 21:32:00 UTC

  • Q&A: DEFINE ‘AGENCY’ —“CURT: Could you point me to any of your existing writin

    Q&A: DEFINE ‘AGENCY’

    —“CURT: Could you point me to any of your existing writing that develops your use of the term ‘agency’? I’m thinking more in legal terms (agent/agency), and wondering if that understanding is sufficient or if you have something different in mind.”— Andrew

    It’s not complicated. It’s:

    **agency is the capacity for human beings to make choices**

    Think of it as a soft version of ‘free will’.

    When I use the term, and when most of us use it in the context of different abilities, we refer largely to the delta between fully deliberate, fully rational, fully informed, unbiased, decision making.

    Conversely, a lack of agency occurs as various impulses, cognitive biases, disinformation, and error accumulate until the person in question is no longer what we consider reasonable or sentient.

    So when we say ‘women lack agency’ we are referring to the impulses that affect them because of their reproductive roles, which bias them against the tribe (males), and limit their decision making in matters of the tribe (politics).

    (it is very hard for women to think clearly compared to men unless it is about a subject that is reproductively important for a woman and her offspring survival. In this sense most women are political equivalent of color-blind, in the same way that most men are nesting-blind, or empathically blind. The analogy that a woman’s mind is like a version of Windows that keeps popping up modal dialogs sporadically and constantly. For men. We open a window and we don’t see another one until we open another one and close this one. We also think about a very small subset of (high risk) problems and women do exactly the opposite: think about a host of low risk problems. Why? we hunt.They take care of children. I can hunt next week. Children must be taken care of right now and today. it’s not complicated.)


    Source date (UTC): 2017-02-13 19:07:00 UTC

  • AGENCY AND MATURITY MANIFEST VIA COMPETITION We might make the correlation betwe

    AGENCY AND MATURITY MANIFEST VIA COMPETITION

    We might make the correlation between all left leaning lack of agency disorders. But I think that’s about as far as it can go. Leftsm is a kind of failure to develop. Women don’t develop until they have enough children that they must. Men develop as soon as they must compete in one way or another. Those that don’t compete don’t develop. Those women that don’t have children or have too few or have other shelter may not develop. I don’t think it’s any more complex than that. Since it is simply true that men are more disposable the line of demarcation is pretty simple. But then we are not talking science now we are talking hypothesis.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-02-11 14:29:00 UTC

  • RE EVOLA ON WOMEN DISCOVERING THE DISUTILITY OF WORK Women have a very hard time

    RE EVOLA ON WOMEN DISCOVERING THE DISUTILITY OF WORK

    Women have a very hard time coming to that level of agency unless they are predisposed to it.

    If other women see nonsense as a status signal among women, they will hen peck each other and consume all that exists to obtain it no matter how ridiculous.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-02-11 12:58:00 UTC

  • UNCOMFORTABLE THOUGHTS ON MEN AND WOMEN At some point we are going to have to co

    UNCOMFORTABLE THOUGHTS ON MEN AND WOMEN

    At some point we are going to have to come to terms with the fact that women are property of families in all of history, and men fight for that form of property just as they do for slaves, domesticated animals, and territory. And that those peoples that retain the treatment of women as property of the family kin-corporation (a capital asset) will always, over time, defeat those that do not (us).

    Now, when we say something is property, we generally refer to that which lacks sentience. But even with property we do not confer a monopoly of control, but a limited one. For example, I may purchase the Mona Lisa or another great artwork, and I may purchase a full-granary, and I may purchase a lake. But we do not grant one another the right to destroy the art, destroy the grain, or pollute the lake. This is called the right of “ABUSUS”, and it is rarely granted – it is only granted for those things that are not productive in and of themselves. In other words, you are prohibited from causing negative externalities by the consumption or destruction of a good. In this sense you possess rights of USUS (use) and FRUCTUS (the fruits of) property that can cause externalities, and are always and everywhere not in monopoly control of property.

    Men do not tolerate defectors, nor traitors in their responsibility to the kin-group in matters of war. They are profiting from the taking of an asset from the kin group. Why a woman can profit from the taking of a reproductive asset, produce externalities by doing so, and deprive future generations of her offspring, is no different from acting as a traitor or defector.

    If a woman is to exit her kin group, she deprives the kin group of an asset. It’s up to the kin group whether they will defend against the loss of an asset. those groups that prevent assets from defecting will defeat those groups that do not.

    Conversely, if a woman is to bear children at the cost of her people, then she acts parasitically.

    This is not to say that any other right other than ABUSUS can be withheld from women – or from men who wish to import women from non-kin groups. So the door swings both ways. So to limit outbreeding from either direction seems a retention of capital. Except that there are marginal undesirables that breed themselves out of the ingroup by doing so, and into the lower groups.

    We are not the higher evolved unless higher evolution succeeds in competition. We do not choose what is a greater evolutionary strategy. Our survival does.

    It is no more possible for a people (tribe of men and their property) to survive the loss of warriors and producers, than it is for a people (tribe of men and their property) to survive loss of their women and their childbearing.

    Moroever, it is merely an act of ABUSUS for a woman to profit from the gains of the people (the men and their property) while not bearing children, just as it is an act of ABUSUS for a man to profit from the gains of the people (men and their property) while not policing property, maintaining property, and defending property.

    Once we understand this set of evolutionary necessities much of the rhetoric of human life (Moral excuse making) is just a convenient set of lies by which to avoid paying the cost of persistence of a people.

    And while women may not care for their people (men and their property) men must care. And if men do not care, then they are not men, they are just domesticated animals that are either costly or profitable, but unable to demonstrate capacity for political (group) decisions.

    I don’t particularly like this stream of reasoning. But it is what it is.

    if the west is to continue to drag humanity into transcendence we who CAN RULE, must return to the costly but profitable industry OF RULE.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-02-11 10:52:00 UTC

  • ***i’m saying that the needs of children are why women lack agency in favor of i

    ***i’m saying that the needs of children are why women lack agency in favor of impulsivity in matters of empathy and sympathy. And that the burden of children ‘equalizes’ those impulses as a woman has two or three or more of them. Women become conservative quite quickly when they have many children. Some women do not need children in order to overcome their impulsivity in matters of empathy. And therefore some women are conservative even prior to marriage and offspring. ***

    Women vote right when they’re married with children. It’s self interest. THey vote left when single or single with children. It’s self interest.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-02-10 15:36:00 UTC

  • Democracy has weakened you. Numbers only matter if democracy assists you. Otherw

    Democracy has weakened you. Numbers only matter if democracy assists you. Otherwise, only the willingness to act determines outcomes. #Trump


    Source date (UTC): 2017-02-09 21:30:11 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/829804613897424896

  • Stoicism. Action without care for opinion

    Stoicism. Action without care for opinion.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-02-08 20:36:44 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/829428773011521543

    Reply addressees: @cg_mischling

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/829400681878474756


    IN REPLY TO:

    @cg_mischling

    @curtdoolittle Taoism: action though inaction

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/829400681878474756

  • um…. lets be clear. the Dunning Kruger effect occurs when one perceives that a

    um…. lets be clear. the Dunning Kruger effect occurs when one perceives that a little general knowledge of a subject allows one to made deductions in that subject matter. This turns out to be false. Meanwhile people who excel in a subject matter tend to be overly pessimistic about their knowledge because they understand the broad opportunity for error.

    Smart people (actually, just educated people) tend to make these errors more often then ordinary (uneducated ) people. For the simple reason that uneducated people give themselves the excuse of saying “well I don’t know enough about that”.

    Smart people simply say “I’m not sure I know very much about that”. or they say ‘I can hazard a guess but that’s the best I can do.” Thats how you tell someone is smart. lol

    What we see in specialists (economics in particular), is that expertise in one domain is not transferrable to another domain.

    What we see in ethics, morals, politics, economics, and group evolutionary strategy, is that EVERYONE over-estimates his opinion pretty much except the synthetic historians, since they are the only people who specialize in what man has done, rather than what they think he ought to, or what he wants to.

    The reason being that we have greater investment in ethics, morals politics etc, and greater investment in our specializations, that we do in other subject matter.

    Propertarianism and testimonialism make it much harder to be the victim of DK cognitive bias, becuase we have too many hurdles to overcome before we can say “yeah, this is a truth candidate”. It’s not that we are less biased, it is that it is just really hard to ‘do the operational math’ so to speak. Because if you cna’t do it you can’t claim you know it.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-02-08 19:51:00 UTC

  • “Children are not proof of reproductive success. Grandchildren are.”— Con Eli

    —“Children are not proof of reproductive success. Grandchildren are.”— Con Eli Khan


    Source date (UTC): 2017-02-08 11:00:00 UTC