Curt Doolittle

Theme: Cooperation

  • “Network effects are overrated. The real question is about marginal ease of onbo

    —“Network effects are overrated. The real question is about marginal ease of onboarding, strength of incentives for staying and contributing, and relative rates of adapting to changing circumstances. In other words, evolutionary capacity.”– Moritz Bierling

  • Animals capable of cooperation and communication evolve a heavy preference for g

    Animals capable of cooperation and communication evolve a heavy preference for gossip as a means of creating equality by preventing advantage. The problem is, equality is to the group’s competitive disadvantage. The Question is how to enable elites to compete for the group.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-02-27 17:50:13 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/968543810702790657

    Reply addressees: @TheStoicEmperor

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/967962344805474305

    IN REPLY TO:

    @TheStoicEmperor

    Almost all Americans own a smartphone or a computer.

    Each device contains the library of Alexandria.

    The sum total of all world knowledge.

    You can learn anything. Why don’t you?

    Too busy tracking social status.

    Too enthralled by imagery your evolution can’t resist.

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/967962344805474305

  • Animals capable of cooperation and communication evolve a heavy preference for g

    Animals capable of cooperation and communication evolve a heavy preference for gossip as a means of creating equality by preventing advantage in-group. The problem is, in-group equality is to the group’s competitive disadvantage. The Question instead, is how to enable elites to compete for the group. Western civ solved this through heroism and market rotations regardless of impact on the hierarchy.

  • Animals capable of cooperation and communication evolve a heavy preference for g

    Animals capable of cooperation and communication evolve a heavy preference for gossip as a means of creating equality by preventing advantage in-group. The problem is, in-group equality is to the group’s competitive disadvantage. The Question instead, is how to enable elites to compete for the group. Western civ solved this through heroism and market rotations regardless of impact on the hierarchy.

  • Animals capable of cooperation and communication evolve a heavy preference for g

    Animals capable of cooperation and communication evolve a heavy preference for gossip as a means of creating equality by preventing advantage in-group. The problem is, in-group equality is to the group’s competitive disadvantage. The Question instead, is how to enable elites to compete for the group. Western civ solved this through heroism and market rotations regardless of impact on the hierarchy.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-02-27 12:51:00 UTC

  • “Agency does not exist in a vacuum. Aggregate agency of multiple individuals cre

    —“Agency does not exist in a vacuum. Aggregate agency of multiple individuals creates limiting checks and balances, producing a market for cooperative, competitive and pro-social applications of agency.”—Simon Ström Although I would be careful to note that pro-social is a term from marxism, psychology and sociology that refers to working to benefit others (altruism) when there is no evidence of altruism in nature – only kin selection and option buying. Mutually beneficial Cooperation (which I think is the appropriate term here) is simply in our self interests, and we feel endorphins rewards for engaging in it – in part to encourage it, and in part to counter the natural fears of interaction with ‘others’ whether kin or non.

  • “Agency does not exist in a vacuum. Aggregate agency of multiple individuals cre

    —“Agency does not exist in a vacuum. Aggregate agency of multiple individuals creates limiting checks and balances, producing a market for cooperative, competitive and pro-social applications of agency.”—Simon Ström Although I would be careful to note that pro-social is a term from marxism, psychology and sociology that refers to working to benefit others (altruism) when there is no evidence of altruism in nature – only kin selection and option buying. Mutually beneficial Cooperation (which I think is the appropriate term here) is simply in our self interests, and we feel endorphins rewards for engaging in it – in part to encourage it, and in part to counter the natural fears of interaction with ‘others’ whether kin or non.

  • “Agency does not exist in a vacuum. Aggregate agency of multiple individuals cre

    —“Agency does not exist in a vacuum. Aggregate agency of multiple individuals creates limiting checks and balances, producing a market for cooperative, competitive and pro-social applications of agency.”—Simon Ström

    Although I would be careful to note that pro-social is a term from marxism, psychology and sociology that refers to working to benefit others (altruism) when there is no evidence of altruism in nature – only kin selection and option buying. Mutually beneficial Cooperation (which I think is the appropriate term here) is simply in our self interests, and we feel endorphins rewards for engaging in it – in part to encourage it, and in part to counter the natural fears of interaction with ‘others’ whether kin or non.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-02-26 07:50:00 UTC

  • What Is The Difference Between Civil Society And Social Movements?

    CIVIL: ACTIVISTS PAY FOR COMMONS, SOCIAL: ACTIVISTS FORCE OTHERS TO PAY FOR COMMONS.

    Civil: Personal Choice. The Civil Society (meaning voluntary organization of commons) Activists Pay.

    Civil society is the “aggregate of non-governmental organizations and institutions that manifest interests and will of citizens.”

    Social: Political Force. The political society (meaning involuntary organization of commons by political, military means.) Political activism. Activists Make Others Pay.

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-civil-society-and-social-movements

  • What Is The Difference Between Civil Society And Social Movements?

    CIVIL: ACTIVISTS PAY FOR COMMONS, SOCIAL: ACTIVISTS FORCE OTHERS TO PAY FOR COMMONS.

    Civil: Personal Choice. The Civil Society (meaning voluntary organization of commons) Activists Pay.

    Civil society is the “aggregate of non-governmental organizations and institutions that manifest interests and will of citizens.”

    Social: Political Force. The political society (meaning involuntary organization of commons by political, military means.) Political activism. Activists Make Others Pay.

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-civil-society-and-social-movements