[A] conspiracy theory requires that one attribute incentives that fail the test of occam’s razor, almost always because the individual is a social outlier, and has limited sensitivity to, experience with, or knowledge and understanding of how people operate in large groups. Conspiracy theory is the equivalent of dunning kruger failure of personal assessment, projected upon interpersonal and social assessment. In both cases the individual attributes greater ability, agency, and logic to the self and others than they have, because of mistrust, because they do not trust either their own cognition, others, or both. This is why conspiracy theory (systemization) tends to be a male category of cognitive failure, and oppression (personalization) tends to be a female category of cognitive failure. However, we note that in both the Male conspiracy theory and the female oppression cognitive failures, that the parties do not seek to understand the incentives of the individuals they are judging, or to falsify their conspiracy or oppression narratives. There is a reason for it. The human mind operates by building a world model ‘fit for it’s physical, emotional, psychological, and mental budget’. A physiological, emotional, and cognitive economy. This is why people who are ill, depressed, tired, at different points of the day, rested, healthy, excited, or joyous all perceive the same world slighlty differently In both conspiracy and oppression cognitive failures, the individual has defended his or her desperate attempt to suppress the feeling of being out of control of his or her life (due to his or her cognitive limitations), by false self-promise of comprehension. Status is our human accounting system. There are healthy and unhealthy means of suppression emotional panic from cognitive failure to find a means of obtaining success (status) in the social, economic, and political marketplace. Agency (success), Truth / Knowledge / Understanding (acceptance), Philosophy (settlement), Theology-Religion (detachment), Self Discipline (buddhism,stoicism), Ritual/Sport-exercise/hypersocializatin(exposure), Conspiracy and Oppression (withdrawal) narratives are the most common means of providing mindfulness. It’s not hard to see how the consequences of deviation from Knowledge escalate. So, both oppression and conspiracy behaviors are expressions of proto-depression, or prolonged depression from the continuous failure of one’s ideas about one’s self and others and what is in other’s abilities and interests. And That’s because evolution insured that we would remain optimistic to survive in the face of incredible stresses when continued existence is no longer rational. Exhaust all possible explanation for rational choice prior to default to malincentives (conspiracy of intent). In most cases it’s conspiracy of organizational incentives, conspiracy of common interests, conspiracy of genetic bias (such as the ashkenazi adoption of the female strategy), ignorance, error, or stupidity. If you exhaust all of the possible rational incentives then only malincentives remain. But rare. Never attribute to intention what is the product of either incentives, ignorance, or stupidity. Humans by and large justify what they do post hoc with a story. Humans by ad large pursue self interests that they can justify with a story afterward. Because that’s what our brains do. And frankly the more responsibility you have, for the more people, for more risk, the more you have to compromise between different sets of unacceptable externalities that are the cost of getting whatever it s you’re doing done with the resources available, time available, people you have to work with, and incentives you can provide. Most organizational failure that we interpret as conspiracy is the result of people in organizations that are producing malincentives by accident rather than by design. Most groups that engage in evil are doing so because they consider what they’re doing a good. As I’m fond of saying, serial killers justify what they do, and the mothers of serial killers justify what they’ve done, and the fathers of serial killers are happy to throw away the key if not pull the lever. So if it is other than a conspiracy of intention, our problem is not to wish for better humans, but to rule with the humans we have, using the law and incentives to prevent malincentives.
Theme: Deception
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The Cognitive Origins of Conspiracy and Oppression Theories
[A] conspiracy theory requires that one attribute incentives that fail the test of occam’s razor, almost always because the individual is a social outlier, and has limited sensitivity to, experience with, or knowledge and understanding of how people operate in large groups. Conspiracy theory is the equivalent of dunning kruger failure of personal assessment, projected upon interpersonal and social assessment. In both cases the individual attributes greater ability, agency, and logic to the self and others than they have, because of mistrust, because they do not trust either their own cognition, others, or both. This is why conspiracy theory (systemization) tends to be a male category of cognitive failure, and oppression (personalization) tends to be a female category of cognitive failure. However, we note that in both the Male conspiracy theory and the female oppression cognitive failures, that the parties do not seek to understand the incentives of the individuals they are judging, or to falsify their conspiracy or oppression narratives. There is a reason for it. The human mind operates by building a world model ‘fit for it’s physical, emotional, psychological, and mental budget’. A physiological, emotional, and cognitive economy. This is why people who are ill, depressed, tired, at different points of the day, rested, healthy, excited, or joyous all perceive the same world slighlty differently In both conspiracy and oppression cognitive failures, the individual has defended his or her desperate attempt to suppress the feeling of being out of control of his or her life (due to his or her cognitive limitations), by false self-promise of comprehension. Status is our human accounting system. There are healthy and unhealthy means of suppression emotional panic from cognitive failure to find a means of obtaining success (status) in the social, economic, and political marketplace. Agency (success), Truth / Knowledge / Understanding (acceptance), Philosophy (settlement), Theology-Religion (detachment), Self Discipline (buddhism,stoicism), Ritual/Sport-exercise/hypersocializatin(exposure), Conspiracy and Oppression (withdrawal) narratives are the most common means of providing mindfulness. It’s not hard to see how the consequences of deviation from Knowledge escalate. So, both oppression and conspiracy behaviors are expressions of proto-depression, or prolonged depression from the continuous failure of one’s ideas about one’s self and others and what is in other’s abilities and interests. And That’s because evolution insured that we would remain optimistic to survive in the face of incredible stresses when continued existence is no longer rational. Exhaust all possible explanation for rational choice prior to default to malincentives (conspiracy of intent). In most cases it’s conspiracy of organizational incentives, conspiracy of common interests, conspiracy of genetic bias (such as the ashkenazi adoption of the female strategy), ignorance, error, or stupidity. If you exhaust all of the possible rational incentives then only malincentives remain. But rare. Never attribute to intention what is the product of either incentives, ignorance, or stupidity. Humans by and large justify what they do post hoc with a story. Humans by ad large pursue self interests that they can justify with a story afterward. Because that’s what our brains do. And frankly the more responsibility you have, for the more people, for more risk, the more you have to compromise between different sets of unacceptable externalities that are the cost of getting whatever it s you’re doing done with the resources available, time available, people you have to work with, and incentives you can provide. Most organizational failure that we interpret as conspiracy is the result of people in organizations that are producing malincentives by accident rather than by design. Most groups that engage in evil are doing so because they consider what they’re doing a good. As I’m fond of saying, serial killers justify what they do, and the mothers of serial killers justify what they’ve done, and the fathers of serial killers are happy to throw away the key if not pull the lever. So if it is other than a conspiracy of intention, our problem is not to wish for better humans, but to rule with the humans we have, using the law and incentives to prevent malincentives.
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THE COGNITIVE ORIGINS OF CONSPIRACY AND OPPRESSION THEORIES A conspiracy theory
THE COGNITIVE ORIGINS OF CONSPIRACY AND OPPRESSION THEORIES
A conspiracy theory requires that one attribute incentives that fail the test of occam’s razor, almost always because the individual is a social outlier, and has limited sensitivity to, experience with, or knowledge and understanding of how people operate in large groups.
Conspiracy theory is the equivalent of dunning kruger failure of personal assessment, projected upon interpersonal and social assessment. In both cases the individual attributes greater ability, agency, and logic to the self and others than they have, because of mistrust, because they do not trust either their own cognition, others, or both.
This is why conspiracy theory (systemization) tends to be a male category of cognitive failure, and oppression (personalization) tends to be a female category of cognitive failure.
However, we note that in both the Male conspiracy theory and the female oppression cognitive failures, that the parties do not seek to understand the incentives of the individuals they are judging, or to falsify their conspiracy or oppression narratives.
There is a reason for it. The human mind operates by building a world model ‘fit for it’s physical, emotional, psychological, and mental budget’. A physiological, emotional, and cognitive economy. This is why people who are ill, depressed, tired, at different points of the day, rested, healthy, excited, or joyous all perceive the same world slighlty differently
In both conspiracy and oppression cognitive failures, the individual has defended his or her desperate attempt to suppress the feeling of being out of control of his or her life (due to his or her cognitive limitations), by false self-promise of comprehension.
Status is our human accounting system. There are healthy and unhealthy means of suppression emotional panic from cognitive failure to find a means of obtaining success (status) in the social, economic, and political marketplace.
Agency (success), Truth / Knowledge / Understanding (acceptance), Philosophy (settlement), Theology-Religion (detachment), Self Discipline (buddhism,stoicism), Ritual/Sport-exercise/hypersocializatin(exposure), Conspiracy and Oppression (withdrawal) narratives are the most common means of providing mindfulness.
It’s not hard to see how the consequences of deviation from Knowledge escalate.
So, both oppression and conspiracy behaviors are expressions of proto-depression, or prolonged depression from the continuous failure of one’s ideas about one’s self and others and what is in other’s abilities and interests. And That’s because evolution insured that we would remain optimistic to survive in the face of incredible stresses when continued existence is no longer rational.
Exhaust all possible explanation for rational choice prior to default to malincentives (conspiracy of intent). In most cases it’s conspiracy of organizational incentives, conspiracy of common interests, conspiracy of genetic bias (such as the ashkenazi adoption of the female strategy), ignorance, error, or stupidity.
If you exhaust all of the possible rational incentives then only malincentives remain. But rare.
Never attribute to intention what is the product of either incentives, ignorance, or stupidity. Humans by and large justify what they do post hoc with a story. Humans by ad large pursue self interests that they can justify with a story afterward. Because that’s what our brains do.
And frankly the more responsibility you have, for the more people, for more risk, the more you have to compromise between different sets of unacceptable externalities that are the cost of getting whatever it s you’re doing done with the resources available, time available, people you have to work with, and incentives you can provide.
Most organizational failure that we interpret as conspiracy is the result of people in organizations that are producing malincentives by accident rather than by design.
Most groups that engage in evil are doing so because they consider what they’re doing a good. As I’m fond of saying, serial killers justify what they do, and the mothers of serial killers justify what they’ve done, and the fathers of serial killers are happy to throw away the key if not pull the lever.
So if it is other than a conspiracy of intention, our problem is not to wish for better humans, but to rule with the humans we have, using the law and incentives to prevent malincentives.
Source date (UTC): 2020-04-24 12:50:00 UTC
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Harsh Words on Conspiracy
Let me tell you how the world works. People who need organizations are not those with power. People who need ‘societies’ are not those with power. People who heed religions are not those with power. People who need ideologies or philosophies are not those with power. People with power have LOTS OF PEOPLE around them giving them power and asking them for power. And everyone giving, getting and distributing power, is working in his or her self interest. And the business, financial, government sector is just trying to make make money by keeping people consuming, while academic sector is sucking their dicks, and the military is seeking opportunity to scare people into giving them money. Here is what people in power do: They maintain the power economy that keeps them in power. When they meet outside their power economy, they talk on three levels at once. – Trivial niceties to signal fitness for cooperation – Sharing information about opportunities and risks using subtleties, in order to obtain information that they can use or gain favor on future opportunities by giving what can be used by another. – identifying opportunities for minor – cost neutral – changes by each that together would increase the gains of each. Average people can’t imagine how simple the world is nor how tediously, boringly, EMPIRICAL the people who run the world are, nor how much the grownups DUMB SH-T DOWN so the morons keep working and buying. You live in a world of trivial posturing because you and everyone around you has no power or meaning. People with power have the opposite condition. They are soaking in power meaning and opportunity and can only afford the mental time to invest in the best opportunities for their limited attention. The don’t have to signal or posture like people who have no power or meaning. Do you know why? because resources to maintain power economies are always scarce. Because power economies are always in competition keeping the price of power high. The world is full of grownups with power They have power becuase people gave it to them. They maintain power becuase people keep giving it to them. People in power are funnels for concentrating power in places where int can have impact – just like the military concentrates forces to win a battle, or just lke a hundred people pass the bucket to concentrate their efforts in a division of labor. And those grownups are tediously boring. Because by and large they’re engaged in accounting. And using accounting as a nervous system. And occasionally investing in opportunities that take a long time to bring to fruition. And you can tell yourselves all sorts of paranoid lies to convince yourself that you understand the world. But that is all you’re doing. Conversely,there are people in activism, media, academy, politics, religion, and the state, and those that seek privileges from the state to VIOLATE reciprocity for one excuse or another. That is the left. The left has no power so it conspires to obtain power. That’s what LEFTIST MEANS: conspire to obtain power by non meritocratic irreciprocal means. What’s wrong with the world: 1. The only thing wrong with the world at any given time is the organization of incentives in relation to human capital – knowledge, norms, culture, and demographics. 2. Money is how we incentivize people. 3. Law is how we engineer the organization of incentives. 4. War (violence) is how we engineer the opportunity to use law to organize incentives. Everything else is some sort of kindergarten game. And you conspiracy kiddies don’t get anywhere near the ridicule you deserve. (((They))) are following instincts and programming, which we know because women use exactly the same technique via the state as (((They))) use in usury. Instincts are not conspiracies. That doesn’t mean there aren’t conspirators. It means that our idiocy at spreading capitalism democracy and rule of law is just as idiotic as their spreading globalism and socialism, pseudoscience, boating into hazard, and parasitic financialism. The animal follows its instincts until trained otherwise by his betters. In general, every person with any power in this world is following obvious rational incentives. All the bad “conspiracy stuff” happens at the bottom and middle where people don’t have power but want to use some stupid cheat in order to get it. Most of us feel the need to join organizations of all kinds, whether in our minds, in social, in charity, in business, or in political, in order to obtain some sense of agency control and therefore meaning in our lives – but that is all it is. The search for meaning because POWER DISTANCE IS TOO GREAT FOR US TO HAVE REAL MEANING. And that is what I”m out to change. Power distance restores meaning and eliminates the opportunity for evil. Reducing Power distance it puts the civil society back to work in its self defense. Scale is always bad.
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We Invented Truth and They Invented Lying in Response
We Invented Truth and They Invented Lying in Response https://propertarianism.com/2020/04/23/we-invented-truth-and-they-invented-lying-in-response/
Source date (UTC): 2020-04-23 20:10:05 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1253415870467997697
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We Invented Truth and They Invented Lying in Response
(important) (core)
............Female and Semitic vs Male and European .....................Dysgenics vs Eugenics ...................Consumption vs Capitalization ...........Private Consumption vs Commons Production ...................Undermining vs Order ..........Approval/Disapproval vs True/False ................Incrementalism vs zero tolerance .........Plausible Deniability vs Warranty .........................GSRRM vs Truth Regardless of Cost ......................Critique vs Falsification ........................Pilpul vs Justification .................False Promise vs Promise ...........Baiting into Hazard vs Offers of Reciprocity ......................One Herd vs Many Packs -
We Invented Truth and They Invented Lying in Response
(important) (core)
............Female and Semitic vs Male and European .....................Dysgenics vs Eugenics ...................Consumption vs Capitalization ...........Private Consumption vs Commons Production ...................Undermining vs Order ..........Approval/Disapproval vs True/False ................Incrementalism vs zero tolerance .........Plausible Deniability vs Warranty .........................GSRRM vs Truth Regardless of Cost ......................Critique vs Falsification ........................Pilpul vs Justification .................False Promise vs Promise ...........Baiting into Hazard vs Offers of Reciprocity ......................One Herd vs Many Packs -
This Is Why – Some Ideas Are Catastrophically Harmful – Because They Are Sources of Ignorance.
by Daniel Roland Anderson In my teens, and as late as my early 20s, I was into the conspiracy theories. I think I was jumping from noticing patterns to imputing conscious intent and organization to the (malignant) patterns because my Mormon upbringing taught me to look for The Plan of Salvation in everything. Pattern recognition may get hijacked, or something, at a critical stage of development. Not everyone who fails to grow out of this way of seeing the world is incapable, or lacks agency. I’m only just now being able to guess with hindsight at what was going on with me. If I tagged the people I’m thinking of in this comment, they’d possibly/probably be offended because I said when I used to think like this, and used terms like “grow out of” to describe a process that they might want to take a look at. I think this category may be a big one. By Francis Zhou I share a similar experience, having spent my formative years in a protestant church. I have to admit, running with the herd was comforting, however similar to you, I “grew out of it”, after realizing the constrains Christian teachings placed on my growth. By Curt Doolittle Well, when I say ‘some ideas are sources of ignorance’ (which I got from popper) this is what I mean. Some ideas are catastrophic because they prevent better ideas. Hence need for truth.
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This Is Why – Some Ideas Are Catastrophically Harmful – Because They Are Sources of Ignorance.
by Daniel Roland Anderson In my teens, and as late as my early 20s, I was into the conspiracy theories. I think I was jumping from noticing patterns to imputing conscious intent and organization to the (malignant) patterns because my Mormon upbringing taught me to look for The Plan of Salvation in everything. Pattern recognition may get hijacked, or something, at a critical stage of development. Not everyone who fails to grow out of this way of seeing the world is incapable, or lacks agency. I’m only just now being able to guess with hindsight at what was going on with me. If I tagged the people I’m thinking of in this comment, they’d possibly/probably be offended because I said when I used to think like this, and used terms like “grow out of” to describe a process that they might want to take a look at. I think this category may be a big one. By Francis Zhou I share a similar experience, having spent my formative years in a protestant church. I have to admit, running with the herd was comforting, however similar to you, I “grew out of it”, after realizing the constrains Christian teachings placed on my growth. By Curt Doolittle Well, when I say ‘some ideas are sources of ignorance’ (which I got from popper) this is what I mean. Some ideas are catastrophic because they prevent better ideas. Hence need for truth.
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Pull the Veil from Your Mind
—“Far away in Ukraine, he suggests to disaffected men in the West that _they_ should start a civil war, (he’s the “ideas guy” you see), but using that word requires courage. Instead, he hides behind romantic words like “revolution”, as if war is some beautiful poem. … He’s a snake. … I followed him for years, recommended him to others to follow, even learned a few things I still hold dear as concepts. But the veil dropped once or twice and it was revealed how he uses his intelligence in a corrupting way.”— Phil@Readomain.com @readomain
[H]ere, in the USA, taking care of an ailing parent rather than putting her in a home, he shows up to fight in virginia, educates others one how our civilization was undermined, writes a reformation of the constitution to restore and preserve it, works within the law – until then. I’m a revolutionary. In the tradition of the founders and their constitution, the british constitution, the common law, the european development of rule of law of common law, the germanic law, and the western indo european law of the ancients and their predecessors. I pull from your face, your rhetoric, and your mind, the veil of ignorance, error, bias, and wishful thinking – that there is any solution possible other than the same revolution each of our ancestors has used to restore freedom, liberty, and sovereignty – and their fruits. I never wore such a veil over my mind. You were just terrified when I pulled the veil from yours. So man up, show up, fight, and win.