Monthly Archives: December 2020

This study is like crack for people like me. I don’t think I’ve been so obsessed with a single blog post since 2015, so thank you iSteve for providing me with a peak experience. Table 2.The top 20 plot keywords … Continue reading →

H/T iSteve: Signaling virtuous victimhood as indicators of Dark Triad personalities. Ok, E., Qian, Y., Strejcek, B., & Aquino, K. (2020). Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000329 We investigate the consequences and predictors of emitting signals of victimhood and virtue. In our … Continue reading →

*Legato Bluesummers voice* What will you do now, Jaron Lanier? Will you doom the human race to extinction with your childish ideals?

This seemed pretty basic bitch to me, but I was reminded last night that what seems basic to us today wasn’t so basic when we were growing up, and that means it’s repeating something fundamental. And repeating fundamental ideas is … Continue reading →

I got back on the training plan a couple of weeks ago, so my libido is going a little nuts and in public I’m starting to give and receive the sorts of attention one does at these times. This got … Continue reading →

H/T Audacious Epigone for highlighting this comment by Almost Missouri. The AP mentioned later in the post isn’t me, it’s some smart guy. The government is going to tax everyone’s kids to pay for your retirement, so it doesn’t particularly … Continue reading →

This is approximately the sequence as it appears in episode 1 of My Hero Academia. What I’m getting at is the artist/writer is clearly illustrating a formative dopamine response, where a massive dopamine buildup is followed by a massive rush … Continue reading →

Even as late as World War 2 people would take this day off from hating each other to honor the birth of Jesus. So in that spirit, I’ve prayed that all of you have a great Christmas, especially if we’d … Continue reading →

Topic: Creation of personality inventory and typing system based on behavioral economics, as informed by Big Data.Best start would be to come up with names for the two poles of each of IBM Watson’s “Consumer Needs”: CuriosityStructureClosenessStabilityHarmonyLoveSelf-expressionIdealExcitementLibertyPracticalityChallenge E.g. The opposite … Continue reading →

Following up on yesterday: The Bible says you should only fear God, but I think the fear of becoming morally disgusting falls under that because it’s just an abstraction of the fear of God’s judgment. I considered putting the Cenobites … Continue reading →