Theme: Incentives

  • Pervasive Social Hierarchies

    September 6th, 2018 10:06 PM

    —-“The purpose of social hierarchies is to organize social groups in order to allocate limited resources, such as mates and food (Sapolsky, 2005), facilitate social learning (Henrich & Mcelreath, 2003), and maximize individual motivation (Halevy et al, 2011; Magee & Galinsky, 2008). By definition, some individuals within the hierarchy – those at the top – will be afforded more resources and benefits than others, thus affecting morbidity and mortality. Despite that fact that there are always losers in this scenario, social hierarchies are highly pervasive across human cultures (Sidanius & Pratto, 1999) and they appear to emerge naturally in social groups (Anderson, John, Keltner, & Kring, 2001; Berger, Rosenholtz, & Zelditch, 1980; Chase, Tovey, Spangler-Martin, & Manfredonia, 2002; Gould, 2002; Magee & Galinsky, 2008). Further, this group organization is not strictly a product of human cognition, as almost every group-living species demonstrates a natural tendency to organize into a social hierarchy (Sapolsky, 2004; 2005) where the higher-ranking members possess more power, influence, and advantages than the lower-ranking members (Fragale, Overbeck, & Neale, 2011; Mazur, 1985; Zitek & Tiedens, 2012).”—

    ( h/t Bill Joslin )

  • Pervasive Social Hierarchies

    September 6th, 2018 10:06 PM

    —-“The purpose of social hierarchies is to organize social groups in order to allocate limited resources, such as mates and food (Sapolsky, 2005), facilitate social learning (Henrich & Mcelreath, 2003), and maximize individual motivation (Halevy et al, 2011; Magee & Galinsky, 2008). By definition, some individuals within the hierarchy – those at the top – will be afforded more resources and benefits than others, thus affecting morbidity and mortality. Despite that fact that there are always losers in this scenario, social hierarchies are highly pervasive across human cultures (Sidanius & Pratto, 1999) and they appear to emerge naturally in social groups (Anderson, John, Keltner, & Kring, 2001; Berger, Rosenholtz, & Zelditch, 1980; Chase, Tovey, Spangler-Martin, & Manfredonia, 2002; Gould, 2002; Magee & Galinsky, 2008). Further, this group organization is not strictly a product of human cognition, as almost every group-living species demonstrates a natural tendency to organize into a social hierarchy (Sapolsky, 2004; 2005) where the higher-ranking members possess more power, influence, and advantages than the lower-ranking members (Fragale, Overbeck, & Neale, 2011; Mazur, 1985; Zitek & Tiedens, 2012).”—

    ( h/t Bill Joslin )

  • We rarely act until we must, and when we must it is merely more expensive than h

    We rarely act until we must, and when we must it is merely more expensive than having acted when we could. Hence the problem of democracy. Acting only when we must on that which we can, and acting when we can on that which we must not.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-05 12:49:33 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1037321840534933504

  • The Past Century in A Nutshell

    [T]he 1920’s were grand because we immigrated vast underclasses in the postwar era, and used fiat money to give them credit. We transferred world financial control from London to New York. The 30’s were terrible because of the crash produced by our experiment with immigration, fiat money, and absorbing vast underclasses no longer able to find work. Worse, the mechanization of farming was complete meaning that while the majority of the work force had been engaged in domestic service and agrarian production one generation previously, and the combination of immigrants ending of farming as a means of subsistence production. The 40’s was odd because we were able to use the war to move displaced farmers and immigrants into relatively low skilled high volume labor. This served as a retraining of those under, laboring, and working classes via apprenticeship (job training). The 50s were amazing because the entire industrialized world had committed self destruction, leaving american workers able to charge high prices for mediocre goods produced in volume. The fiat money made it possible. the 60’s was the outcome of raising the children of those workers into the middle class rates of consumption. The 70s was the reversal of the postwar privilege of the us economy, particularly the oil crisis that ended it. The 80’s was the era of using fiat dollars to topple world communism before it could do even more harm, and the equilibration of workers incomes with european civilization. The 90’s was the era of the cheap prices on consumer goods due do the end of communism world wide and the entry of billions into the worldwide economy. The 2000’s was the period of shock as we politically economically and financially adapted to our declining status. The 2010’s are the period of retrenchment as our political, economic, and financial influence in the world wanes and the pre-war- balance of powers is restored. PEOPLE THINK POLICY MATTERS. WE ARE FLOATING ON AN OCEAN OF THE WORLD ECONOMY. IN THE END ONLY DEMOGRAPHICS MATTER.

  • The Past Century in A Nutshell

    [T]he 1920’s were grand because we immigrated vast underclasses in the postwar era, and used fiat money to give them credit. We transferred world financial control from London to New York. The 30’s were terrible because of the crash produced by our experiment with immigration, fiat money, and absorbing vast underclasses no longer able to find work. Worse, the mechanization of farming was complete meaning that while the majority of the work force had been engaged in domestic service and agrarian production one generation previously, and the combination of immigrants ending of farming as a means of subsistence production. The 40’s was odd because we were able to use the war to move displaced farmers and immigrants into relatively low skilled high volume labor. This served as a retraining of those under, laboring, and working classes via apprenticeship (job training). The 50s were amazing because the entire industrialized world had committed self destruction, leaving american workers able to charge high prices for mediocre goods produced in volume. The fiat money made it possible. the 60’s was the outcome of raising the children of those workers into the middle class rates of consumption. The 70s was the reversal of the postwar privilege of the us economy, particularly the oil crisis that ended it. The 80’s was the era of using fiat dollars to topple world communism before it could do even more harm, and the equilibration of workers incomes with european civilization. The 90’s was the era of the cheap prices on consumer goods due do the end of communism world wide and the entry of billions into the worldwide economy. The 2000’s was the period of shock as we politically economically and financially adapted to our declining status. The 2010’s are the period of retrenchment as our political, economic, and financial influence in the world wanes and the pre-war- balance of powers is restored. PEOPLE THINK POLICY MATTERS. WE ARE FLOATING ON AN OCEAN OF THE WORLD ECONOMY. IN THE END ONLY DEMOGRAPHICS MATTER.

  • We rarely act until we must, and when we must it is merely more expensive than h

    We rarely act until we must, and when we must it is merely more expensive than having acted when we could. Hence the problem of democracy: acting only when we must on that which we can, and acting when we can on that which we must not.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-05 08:49:00 UTC

  • Tue, 04 Sep 2018 16:30:32 GMT I suppose it’s not clear that: neural competition

    Tue, 04 Sep 2018 16:30:32 GMT

    I suppose it’s not clear that: neural competition and computational efficiency; reciprocity and natural law; and markets in everything, to a eugenic high trust polity – function together as a continuous and consistent hierarchy of optimum decidability from sense perception to collective human action.

  • Idiots ‘care’ about a purely empirical problem. There is nothing to ‘care’ about

    Idiots ‘care’ about a purely empirical problem. There is nothing to ‘care’ about. It’s simply a math problem, a demographic problem, an industry problem, caused by a long running policy problem. There is no way out other than bankruptcy & redirection of revenue to productivity.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-01 17:19:33 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1035940236889653248

    Reply addressees: @Connecticutting @SaveCTdotORG

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1032243954824175616


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  • There is nothing that can be done without vacating the parasitic rents of the st

    There is nothing that can be done without vacating the parasitic rents of the state pension (buying of votes). That’s 1/3 of our revenues. It doesn’t matter what people think. Those pensions CAN NEVER EVER BE PAID. It’s an impossibility. Period.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-01 17:14:23 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1035938933950046208

    Reply addressees: @NedLamont

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1034812469250850817


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    Tariffs drive up prices for consumers and hurt Connecticut businesses. Bob Stefanowski should reject this trade war, but instead he gives Trumponomics a grade of “A.”

    https://t.co/zMZdIGRUjN

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1034812469250850817

  • People will rally around a plan that includes sufficient incentives, and suffici

    People will rally around a plan that includes sufficient incentives, and sufficient detail, that they can themselves operate without relying upon desperation and luck.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-08-31 23:19:42 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1035668481742700544