Theme: Causality

  • I don’t have beliefs. Either the science exists and I can defend it by construct

    I don’t have beliefs. Either the science exists and I can defend it by construction from first principles (irreducibility) or I can’t. If I can’t I say so.
    Now you don’t have access to anyone like me.
    And your emotions can’t tolerate adaptation.
    But I *do* find intellectually honest people now and then, and within them, very occasionally, I find someone intellectually capable of doing our work. So we accumulate talent incrementally and slowly.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-18 22:21:30 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1648451717229592577

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1648441290126938119

  • via @LukeWeinhagen Easier = eliminating the requirement to adapt to nature’s fee

    via @LukeWeinhagen
    Easier = eliminating the requirement to adapt to nature’s feedback
    -vs
    Safer = reducing the damage of exposure to nature’s feedback

    Easier uses proxies to attempt to evade the cost of adaptation (which is really just a cost displacement, i.e. entropy). Safer uses proxies to pay the cost of adaptation. We want proxies that retain the feedback (to maintain the pressure that produces adaptation) while reducing the damage. We do not get to escape nature’s costs.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-13 22:50:45 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1646647137097199616

  • via @LukeWeinhagen Easier = eliminating the requirement to adapt to nature’s fee

    via @LukeWeinhagen
    Easier = eliminating the requirement to adapt to nature’s feedback
    -vs
    Safer = reducing the damage of exposure to nature’s feedback

    Easier uses proxies to attempt to evade the cost of adaptation (which is really just a cost displacement, i.e. entropy). Safer uses proxies to pay the cost of adaptation. We want proxies that retain the feedback (to maintain the pressure that produces adaptation) while reducing the damage. We do not get to escape nature’s costs.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-13 22:50:45 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1646647137193664515

  • Well that’s nonsense. That said, the wisdom contained is largely true even if th

    Well that’s nonsense. That said, the wisdom contained is largely true even if the causal frame it’s communicated in, is false. The ‘truth’ of christianity is that its the one religion that provided the solution to the prisoner’s dilemma of human cooperation, (and one that’s counter-intuitive), that grants one status under european aryanism (aristocdracy) by doing no wrong, instead of by heroic contribution to the commons by political, military commercial power. And even better, it prepares society for majority middle class ‘everyone is a customer’, and the prosperity that arises from it.

    Reply addressees: @earlyman420


    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-10 21:55:37 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1645546098893758465

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1645535936565084162

  • Well that’s nonsense. That said, the wisdom contained is largely true even if th

    Well that’s nonsense. That said, the wisdom contained is largely true even if the causal frame it’s communicated in, is false. The ‘truth’ of christianity is that its the one religion that provided the solution to the prisoner’s dilemma of human cooperation, (and one that’s counter-intuitive), that grants one status under european aryanism (aristocdracy) by doing no wrong, instead of by heroic contribution to the commons by political, military commercial power. And even better, it prepares society for majority middle class ‘everyone is a customer’, and the prosperity that arises from it.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-10 21:55:37 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1645546098977636355

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1645535936565084162

  • THE US HISPANIC LIFESPAN PARADOX EXPLAINED Hispanics SHOULD have shorter lifespa

    THE US HISPANIC LIFESPAN PARADOX EXPLAINED
    Hispanics SHOULD have shorter lifespans than whites. Hispanics are less neotenic than whites, because they are higher in anatolian farmer(92), MENA(south eurasian, 84), African(70), and Amerindian-Siberian(86) admixture.

    (This is why increases in Hispanic and African population are the causes for the aggregate decline in US average intelligence.)

    However:
    They have lower mortality rates in seven out of the 10 leading causes of death in the US, even though they are twice as likely to be living under the poverty line and three times more likely to lack health insurance, and more succeptible to diabetes.

    Experts attribute this “Hispanic paradox” to a number of factors.

    1) The population tends to be younger, compared to other demographic groups.

    2) They have lower smoking rates, better diet and better general health – at least in the first few years after immigrating into the US.

    3) Some analysts also believe that their family ties are stronger and help build a sense of community, contributing to a better health – especially in relation to mental health

    There is something we can all learn from #2 and #3. 😉

    Reply addressees: @nihilistPengu


    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-07 12:49:04 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1644321390206615552

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1644308087405432838

  • THE US HISPANIC LIFESPAN PARADOX EXPLAINED Hispanics SHOULD have shorter lifespa

    THE US HISPANIC LIFESPAN PARADOX EXPLAINED
    Hispanics SHOULD have shorter lifespans than whites. Hispanics are less neotenic than whites, because they are higher in anatolian farmer(92), MENA(south eurasian, 84), African(70), and Amerindian-Siberian(86) admixture.

    (This is why increases in Hispanic and African population are the causes for the aggregate decline in US average intelligence.)

    However:
    They have lower mortality rates in seven out of the 10 leading causes of death in the US, even though they are twice as likely to be living under the poverty line and three times more likely to lack health insurance, and more succeptible to diabetes.

    Experts attribute this “Hispanic paradox” to a number of factors.

    1) The population tends to be younger, compared to other demographic groups.

    2) They have lower smoking rates, better diet and better general health – at least in the first few years after immigrating into the US.

    3) Some analysts also believe that their family ties are stronger and help build a sense of community, contributing to a better health – especially in relation to mental health

    There is something we can all learn from #2 and #3. 😉


    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-07 12:49:04 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1644321390370209793

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1644308087405432838

  • AMERICAN VS UK DIVERGING LIFESPANS (updated) 1) Life expectancy varies by neoten

    AMERICAN VS UK DIVERGING LIFESPANS
    (updated)
    1) Life expectancy varies by neotenic evolution (race) trading low rate and depth of maturity and aggression for lifespan and self regulation. As such we see life expectancy for:
    – Black Americans 70.8 years;
    – Hispanic Americans 77.7 years
    – White Americans 76.4 years
    – Asian Americans 83.5 years
    – Women 79.1 years
    – Men 73.2 years
    The women/men difference reflects a long-apparent, significant gap. Women have more chromosomal volume given two X chromosomes so can better repair cellular damage, and male behavior evolved to absorb cellular damage on behalf of women and children.

    The only unexpected value is the hispanics, because the demographic distribution is too young, and not in america long enough to express negative american health behaviors. They are also more culturally insulated from the opioid epidemic.

    2) Obesity is the greatest influence on american declines in health, and lowering of life expectancy. It also produces behavioral consequences that are not well discussed in the literature.

    3) Yes the divergence is at the bottom and narrows to zero at the top of the income pyramid, but this is also due to class differences in self regulatory behavior.

    4) Gun Deaths are an intentional misrepresentation for political reasons. More than half of gun deaths are suicides, and they are disproportionately white males over 50 due do lonliness. The vast majority of gun violence as well as crime is in the black community, where 14% of the population is responsible for half of all crime.

    Europe retained the ability to culturally indoctrinate citizens, but the ‘civil rights’ movement and the race-marxist movement that drove it, removed our abilty to culturally indoctrinate minorities into high trust european behavioral norms (UK is failing right now too.)


    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-07 12:35:35 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1644317998986002433

  • AMERICAN VS UK DIVERGING LIFESPANS (updated) 1) Life expectancy varies by neoten

    AMERICAN VS UK DIVERGING LIFESPANS
    (updated)
    1) Life expectancy varies by neotenic evolution (race) trading low rate and depth of maturity and aggression for lifespan and self regulation. As such we see life expectancy for:
    – Black Americans 70.8 years;
    – Hispanic Americans 77.7 years
    – White Americans 76.4 years
    – Asian Americans 83.5 years
    – Women 79.1 years
    – Men 73.2 years
    The women/men difference reflects a long-apparent, significant gap. Women have more chromosomal volume given two X chromosomes so can better repair cellular damage, and male behavior evolved to absorb cellular damage on behalf of women and children.

    The only unexpected value is the hispanics, because the demographic distribution is too young, and not in america long enough to express negative american health behaviors. They are also more culturally insulated from the opioid epidemic.

    2) Obesity is the greatest influence on american declines in health, and lowering of life expectancy. It also produces behavioral consequences that are not well discussed in the literature.

    3) Yes the divergence is at the bottom and narrows to zero at the top of the income pyramid, but this is also due to class differences in self regulatory behavior.

    4) Gun Deaths are an intentional misrepresentation for political reasons. More than half of gun deaths are suicides, and they are disproportionately white males over 50 due do lonliness. The vast majority of gun violence as well as crime is in the black community, where 14% of the population is responsible for half of all crime.

    Europe retained the ability to culturally indoctrinate citizens, but the ‘civil rights’ movement and the race-marxist movement that drove it, removed our abilty to culturally indoctrinate minorities into high trust european behavioral norms (UK is failing right now too.)


    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-07 12:35:35 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1644317998805667840

  • FWIW: Its more that I applied my analytic approach to art, and that it was the f

    FWIW: Its more that I applied my analytic approach to art, and that it was the first subtantive work I did, demonstrating anything can be disambiguated into first causes.
    Knowing how to analyze art is just like any other set of measurements we have produced.
    However, some of those measurements require knowledge of the technology and materials used in the producdtion, the skill of the craftsman in producing it, the time and place of that production, the movement (fashion) that it was influenced by, and whether or not its a canonical example of that movement.
    Interpreting the content and messaging does require some knowledge of history and usually of mythology. In other words some art, like some plays and some literature is conceptually dense.
    So, while we can state the science of evaluating art, and in doing so provide a map for investigating any given work, set of works, movement, etc. But it still takes a bit of work from there.
    However, like weapons training, the first 20% gets you 80% of the way there. 😉

    Reply addressees: @DanAnde23836316 @JarradDMartinez @ToddNQuick1


    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-05 04:39:25 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1643473390202765312

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1643467873543925760