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fascinating concept
Stumbled across this as linked from Tyler Cowen’s blog. It compares and aligns, with cogent if difficult to empirically prove arguments, the rising number of women in different arenas and the corresponding tide of wokeness.\
Of note, it was written by a woman.
The explanatory power of this simple thesis was incredible. It really did unlock the secrets of the era we are living in. Wokeness is not a new ideology, an outgrowth of Marxism, or a result of post-Obama disillusionment. It is simply feminine patterns of behavior applied to institutions where women were few in number until recently. How did I not see it before?
I would have to agree. When I wrote about vibes versus policy in the November election, I had never contemplated how that may have had an impact.
This feels like what many would call sexism on first glance, but if one has spent any time with groups of solely males or solely females, the dynamics immediately become apparent. It is not sexist to note those differences and similarities showing up in our culture.She [Joyce Benson] theorizes that men developed group dynamics optimized for war, while women developed group dynamics optimized for protecting their offspring. These habits, formed in the mists of prehistory, explain why experimenters in a modern psychology lab, in a study that Benenson cites, observed that a group of men given a task will “jockey for talking time, disagree loudly,” and then “cheerfully relay a solution to the experimenter.” A group of women given the same task will “politely inquire about one another’s personal backgrounds and relationships … accompanied by much eye contact, smiling, and turn-taking,” and pay “little attention to the task that the experimenter presented.”
The point of war is to settle disputes between two tribes, but it works only if peace is restored after the dispute is settled. Men therefore developed methods for reconciling with opponents and learning to live in peace with people they were fighting yesterday. Females, even in primate species, are slower to reconcile than males. That is because women’s conflicts were traditionally within the tribe over scarce resources, to be resolved not by open conflict but by covert competition with rivals, with no clear terminus.
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bleeding for fun, + less wrapping paper
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I stumbled on a couple fascinating concepts today. See this and this(the first one is better, future Ashton).I have never thought about whether people would have enjoyed the conceptual field that they are uber-competent in before. It is perhaps an odd thought vector primarily because it requires recognizing that fundamental concept of different preferences and an internalization of such.
Also, I should practice writing more. With less extra commas. And string along ideas. And less words like ‘perhaps’ and ‘possibly’ and ‘cogitate’ — mostly they just signal that I am trying too hard to sound smart, and I need to remember that intelligence comes from content not wrapping paper.
If you love something and are addicted to it, it is no struggle to bleed for it. Bleeding for an addiction feels horrible and simultaneously understandable. Addiction is necessary for success.
I really do like writing. If I can internalize the idea that ‘tis not be a chore, but instead something to simply enjoy the process, I may yet do more. To follow as such, I am adding this ‘new post’ button to my phone homepage.
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Idea day
Almost precisely a week since. I have less leftover emotions than I feel like I should, but it’s not like there’s a normal ISO for that kind of thing.
In other thoughts this maybe should be renamed notebook-in-the-sky?—
Onto the main meat of things—
I can’t code yet but I did have an idea yesterday. Paperclip maker, but with a stock market system? Leverages, graphs, randomness, clicking and selling? Make as much money as you can? Will sketch out the idea and general plot on some paper and presumably update this with a photo.
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Day 2 or 5
Flying out to Argentina today.
Got hooked on the concept of Hero with a Thousand Faces. There’s something worth drawing out in the concept of a universal story. Looking forward to cogitating on it.
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Day 1
Silksong: long wait, interesting game
Interesting concept; looks good if slightly stubbier than preferred
I assume this would come about because human data is what an LLM is trained on; human do, human copier do. Article -
Explanation
I do a lot of mental walking. I think I should start tracking my steps.
Baby steps, baby steps…
G’day then
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