Sunday, June 05, 2016
Not so simple
SciAm reports on an experiment with stickleback fish. The researchers got to know the fish in their aquarium, identifying the bold and timid ones. They set up a situation where the fish needed to make 'expeditions' to get food, and then recorded the leaders and followers. Everyone did some leading, but bold fish were more likely to lead. Timid fish were more likely to come out of hiding and follow another timid fish.
Makes sense. We don't see it easily in modern USA STRONG because shy people get slaughtered when they try to lead. Perhaps a civilization has more opportunity for different types. I wouldn't know.
The podcast ends with:
"We may soon see if such tendencies hold true in humans, when Americans decide who they'll follow in November."
Of course we know which side SciAm is on. Always loyal to the Deep State, because the Deep State is the source of grants.
Science is grants, nothing more and nothing less. Any idea or theory that gets grants is valid and proved. Any idea or theory that doesn't get grants is
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But the current election is a lot more complicated. Style and substance are opposite.
Trump has a bold STYLE and a bold way of moving.... or more precisely, he moves and expresses and talks like a live human.
Hillary moves and talks like a Dalek in a pantsuit, which is presumably non-bold in SciAm's formulation. I don't see the connection, but apparently they do. Scientists love robots because robots kill the non-grant-giving poor and enrich the grant-giving rich; scientists think of themselves as timid and cautious; therefore robotic behavior is "like us".
Trump's actual PURPOSE is timid. Cautious. Cat-like. Preserve our own survival FIRST before we waste money and lives on slaughtering other nations or making other nations rich.
Hillary's actual PURPOSE is not just bold but genocidal. Ferocious. Like a Dalek. EXTERMINATE everything except the Chosen. EXTERMINATE our own people and EXTERMINATE everyone else (except Israel) in order to create terrorists who will then EXTERMINATE our own people.
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Later sidenote: The most interesting thing about the fish experiment is what it implies about the intelligence and empathy of fish. There's no automatic or mechanical reason why timid should prefer to follow timid. It requires several stages of smarts. (1) The fish must know their neighbors as individuals. Know them by name, so to speak. (2) The shy ones must have observed over time that the bold ones got into unnecessary scrapes, leading their followers directly into the path of a shark or squid more often than the cautious leaders. That's pretty goddamn smart, even by human standards. (3) Well then, why doesn't EVERYONE follow the cautious leaders? Why don't the bold ones make similar observations and draw similar conclusions? Easy. Bold ones don't have time to observe. They're too busy fighting sharks and squids.
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But the current election is a lot more complicated. Style and substance are opposite.
Trump has a bold STYLE and a bold way of moving.... or more precisely, he moves and expresses and talks like a live human.
Hillary moves and talks like a Dalek in a pantsuit, which is presumably non-bold in SciAm's formulation. I don't see the connection, but apparently they do. Scientists love robots because robots kill the non-grant-giving poor and enrich the grant-giving rich; scientists think of themselves as timid and cautious; therefore robotic behavior is "like us".
Trump's actual PURPOSE is timid. Cautious. Cat-like. Preserve our own survival FIRST before we waste money and lives on slaughtering other nations or making other nations rich.
Hillary's actual PURPOSE is not just bold but genocidal. Ferocious. Like a Dalek. EXTERMINATE everything except the Chosen. EXTERMINATE our own people and EXTERMINATE everyone else (except Israel) in order to create terrorists who will then EXTERMINATE our own people.
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Later sidenote: The most interesting thing about the fish experiment is what it implies about the intelligence and empathy of fish. There's no automatic or mechanical reason why timid should prefer to follow timid. It requires several stages of smarts. (1) The fish must know their neighbors as individuals. Know them by name, so to speak. (2) The shy ones must have observed over time that the bold ones got into unnecessary scrapes, leading their followers directly into the path of a shark or squid more often than the cautious leaders. That's pretty goddamn smart, even by human standards. (3) Well then, why doesn't EVERYONE follow the cautious leaders? Why don't the bold ones make similar observations and draw similar conclusions? Easy. Bold ones don't have time to observe. They're too busy fighting sharks and squids.
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