Theme: Cooperation

  • PASSIVE MORALITY ISN’T MORAL IT’S IMMORAL – FREE RIDING by Luke Weinhagen Passiv

    PASSIVE MORALITY ISN’T MORAL IT’S IMMORAL – FREE RIDING

    by Luke Weinhagen

    Passive morality isn’t. Conflating docility (submissive to morality, passive) with morality is like conflating helplessness (being incapable of violence, passive) with being peaceful. Both may describe your behavior but not your character nor your potential for reciprocity.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-25 16:23:00 UTC

  • CHRISTIAN COMPATIBILITY Yeah, well you know, the faithful need to believe the my

    CHRISTIAN COMPATIBILITY

    Yeah, well you know, the faithful need to believe the mythos is true because men said so. We, the rational, only need to understand that Christian love, natural law of reciprocity and the physical laws are written in the structure of the universe regardless of what men said. The difference is between a personal god that they desire, and the impersonal god or nature that we observe. What we can say is that whether you are a supernatural and theological Christian first and Aristotelian second, or an Aristotelian first and scientific Christian second, that the only difference is their need to preserve the social construction of a personal deity and a life after death. Like the empathic female (christians-first), and the analytic male (aristotelians-first), women and men are also compatible – we are just not identical. I don’t know why that’s intolerable other than it leaves them on the defense in creating the social construction of a mythical reality in which they have a greater sense of control than they in fact do. But it is simply true that people who lack agency need more rigid less dynamic rules to live by. Whereas we have greater agency and are comfortable with scientific christian love, scientific natural law, and scientific physical law, because we have ourselves and others of equal agency to trust – and they don’t. So it’s understandable that they want their faith to produce the outcomes. It’s understandable that we don’t need faith in order to produce the same outcome. And it’s rather obvious that these two positions are as compatible as are the male and female.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-24 13:38:00 UTC

  • We make many decisions every day that can be biased for or against the group int

    We make many decisions every day that can be biased for or against the group interest regardless of cost to us.

    Likewise hostile groups within a polity can bias their decisions against the host people’s interests.

    This is how social warfare is conducted: undermining.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-24 12:56:27 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1220691836341301249

    Reply addressees: @DegenRolf

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1220365382441226241


    IN REPLY TO:

    @DegenRolf

    Robin Dunbar argues that religion evolved to allow humans to live together in previously unknown large-scale communities without killing each other. https://t.co/gyUNYBdBxr https://t.co/lWSgDVdT1Q

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1220365382441226241

  • Another axis of causality is the difficulty in cooperating on externalities, whe

    Another axis of causality is the difficulty in cooperating on externalities, when it’s the collective sum of externalities that produces scale returns on cooperation (trust, velocity, tolerance).


    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-24 12:54:57 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1220691458258296832

    Reply addressees: @DegenRolf

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1220365382441226241


    IN REPLY TO:

    @DegenRolf

    Robin Dunbar argues that religion evolved to allow humans to live together in previously unknown large-scale communities without killing each other. https://t.co/gyUNYBdBxr https://t.co/lWSgDVdT1Q

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1220365382441226241

  • Ethnocentrism is the optimum group evolutionary strategy however it is in compet

    Ethnocentrism is the optimum group evolutionary strategy however it is in competition with the need for scale, hence the continuous conflict and decline in the tribal middle east, while slow evolution in india, faster in china, and fastest in europe. Only one civilization failed.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-24 12:44:32 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1220688834494636032

    Reply addressees: @jeff_urizen @DegenRolf

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1220485031233277952


    IN REPLY TO:

    @jeff_urizen

    @DegenRolf One could see how this paradoxically makes us more tolerant AND more ethnocentric at the same time. Obedience to the religion creates homogeneity in the Gene’s while the close quarters makes us tolerant of having our territory invaded. It’s a total paradox that leads us to

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1220485031233277952

  • RT @DegenRolf: Robin Dunbar argues that religion evolved to allow humans to live

    RT @DegenRolf: Robin Dunbar argues that religion evolved to allow humans to live together in previously unknown large-scale communities wit…


    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-24 12:41:18 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1220688020376039424

  • Evolution of Religion: (Organized religion): Feast > Death(Burial) > Tribes (tru

    Evolution of Religion:

    (Organized religion): Feast > Death(Burial) > Tribes (trust building) > Seasons-Astrology (Calendaring) > Scripture (Writing) > Monotheism (conflict)

    DEBT PAYMENTS


    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-24 07:57:00 UTC

  • Another axis of causality is the difficulty in cooperating on externalities, whe

    Another axis of causality is the difficulty in cooperating on externalities, when it’s the collective sum of externalities that produces scale returns on cooperation (trust, velocity, tolerance).

    We make many decisions every day that can be biased for or against the group interest regardless of cost to us.

    Likewise hostile groups within a polity can bias their decisions against the host people’s interests.

    This is how social warfare is conducted: undermining.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-24 07:57:00 UTC

  • ETHNOCENTRISM IS THE OPTIMUM GROUP STRATEGY… Ethnocentrism is the optimum grou

    ETHNOCENTRISM IS THE OPTIMUM GROUP STRATEGY…

    Ethnocentrism is the optimum group evolutionary strategy however it is in competition with the need for scale, hence the continuous conflict and decline in the tribal middle east, while slow evolution in india, faster in china, and fastest in europe. Only one civilization failed.


    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-24 07:45:00 UTC

  • SCIENCE: Church Ritual is more important than dogma or belief. The problem is pe

    SCIENCE: Church Ritual is more important than dogma or belief. The problem is people think the opposite. If we have church rituals (surrender to the pack) where we are all rendered equal in safety for just a moment, any content will do. It causes an addiction response for the same reason pack membership causes an addiction response. Why this is complicated is beyond me.

    My question is how to create those experiences across the spectrum of people who need different pack responses. I feel safe around thousands of armed men. Women feel safe in a church full of chattering women. Some people feel safe in a sports arena. Some over family dinner. These are all pack-feast rituals. And we apparently need them to feel ‘whole’ (mindfulness.)


    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-24 07:20:00 UTC