Video explaining how you can derive objective morality from civgene.
You can use behaviours unique to empaths to derive objective morality from science itself. Non-psychopathic behaviours are like atoms which in turn can be used to build rights, much like molecules.
More to come.
Edit 3/25: Updated video. Clearer and more concise edits with clips.
“Likewise, adults that were prenatally exposed to famine conditions have also been reported to have significantly higher incidence of schizophrenia.”
Looks like support for another civgene theory. That schizophrenia is genetic resistance to manipulation by psychopaths. In this case epigeneticly triggered by starvation of an unborn’s mother. Starvation, has a strong likelyhood it’s been caused by a collapsing economy. Civgene predicts economic collapses are because the percentage of psychopaths in the economy has grown too large.
http://www.whatisepigenetics.com/fundamentals/
citations from link.
Interesting implications for supernatural faiths with fasting rituals. Are they systemically creating more schizophrenics? How about dieting? Is it statistically significant?
What is conspiracy theory? It is a theory about two or more people conspiring against at least a third. There have been have many proven theories throughout history. The evidence that people do sometimes conspire against each other is so enormous, it indicates that people who disparage it have had a fully alien set of life experiences, or more likely, are attempting to distort a basic truth. That conspiracy theories can be correct and lower personal risk if acted upon. As a simple thought experiment, team sports are inherently conspiratorial. Every competitive game played coherently by more than three players with any strategy or tactics whatsoever has been to some degree conspiratorial.
If it is clearly useful even to the simplest decision making, where does disdain for it come from? Conspiracy theory is feared because excessive theory creation is a symptom of paranoid schizophrenia. Where the person suffering from it, will attach a malicious intent to most and sometimes even all actions of others. This level of mistrust makes it impossible to participate in the inherent trusts of society (like freedom or friendship.) Since the metamind’s alerts are so over-active, the rational mind never develops properly. Trapped in desperate race to rationalize a flood of emotional warnings. The worst cases of paranoid schizophrenia are a form of insanity, and may end in injuries and deaths. Fears of an extreme paranoid, while often casually or even satirically misdiagnosed, are justified when one does actually occur.
Schizophrenia, the over-active conscience.
So what is Schizophrenia? Like most disease it is a spectrum. The metamind (the conscience) as a risk engine makes this easier to understand. If the metamind is too active, it’s owner struggles. Preparing against enemies with no purchase or little impact. Suffering from various levels of paranoia. In the most extreme case preparing against enemies that don’t exist.
What advantage in natural selection does a spectrum have? Civgene helps put this in perspective. Psychopaths pre-date non psychopath humans. The number of psychopaths and their subsequent influence on societies barbarism, is highly variable. Their population grows until they collapse a society and it’s economy. A highly active metamind is paranoid in times of few psychopaths, and highly useful at psychopath saturation. An individual with mild schizophrenia (a more active metamind), has natural resistance to psychopathy in others.
Abphrenia
Since the utility of conspiracy theory is subject to an external factor, the reverse is true as well. A person with a least active conscience lands at the other end of spectrum. The mental risk manger is less active than it needs to be or in the worst case entirely absent. It fails to warn the rational mind about clear and present dangers. The level of warning that would be a good fit in a society with few psychopaths, fails to detect conspiracies in a the corrupt one.
Why is abphrenia a disorder at all? Trust can be a positive attribute in a trustworthy environment, but puts us at risk of protopsychopathy outside of one. Emotional manipulation can reprogram the conscience that doesn’t protect itself. Marketing, propaganda, and gaslighting are just a few common ways this can happen. An underactive metamind puts it’s owner at risk of membership in cult, be it political or religious.
Protopsychopathy
Once someone is a protopsychopath, their conscience is owned and controlled by a person or organization of people outside themself. So long as this control remains, they can be made to act perpetually against their own self interest. In this light it is easy to see how a mildly paranoid metamind is a genetic advantage. Conspiracy theories, in moderation or mild excess, protect you from emotional control. Avoiding this situation entirely.
While paranoid schizophrenics are obvious, clashing with reality with strange views and actions, abphreniacs are usually passive and subtle. How do you detect their condition? If they have been captured as protopsychopaths, which is likely in corrupted society, it should be fairly easy. Protopsychoapthy captures the entire metamind. Not only ensnaring the risk manager and reprogramming it with false risks, but capturing the imagination as well. Lack of ability to cite personal (unpopular) conspiracy theories, or the ability to contrive one on demand, indicates their subconscious is not their own. If they can not it is likely that a psychopath or cult lurks in their past or present, controlling their ideas of risk.
Repair and progress
Not only can conspiracy theories be constructive, but their complete absence indicates emotional mind control. The good news is that the metamind is to varying strengths anti-fragile. When exposed to new emotional data, all but the strongest cases of protopsychopathy will fade or collapse. The protopsychopath’s subconscious mind is not a two way radio. If you are fighting a protopsychoapths programming head on, you are fighting a ghost. Their program, if clever enough, was told in advance to look out for all new sources of information as defectors. They will attack the people that try to help them most. Rather than confront a protopsychopath directly, introduce them to information sources you trust. Use inverse gaslighting techniques not to program them but to break their spell. Subtly introducing small doses of truth and letting their subconscious fold them into their entire calculation. A matchbook from an old neighborhood. An open window on a holiday. A memory of a success. A night on the town with family. Well timed humor. A kind word. A ‘forgotten’ magazine turned to the right page. Any kindness in view. Subtle repetition.
One day, with luck, the scales will be tipped, and their metamind will once again be open to new ideas, outside of others control. If their abphrenia is not too severe, their freedom will be permanent.
Civgene is the theory that human beings are genetically two separate behavioral sets, psychopaths and empaths (non psychopaths.) Empaths are far more populous and their behavior is largely (if not entirely) responsible for civilization as we think of it. Anyone can bear a child who is a genetic psychopath. Psychopaths breed more quickly than non psychopaths (ignoring moral consequences allow psychopaths to have more children) with a higher likelyhood of bearing a psychopath. Their proportions grow, and eventually they collapse their civilization by collapsing trust based mechanisms, through corruption and graft.
This presents a technological problem for the modern world. Economic collapse or rapid simplification was a simple enough solution in the past. Suddenly economies could no longer support the psychopaths, and they died off reducing their portion of the population, with collateral damage. Like a fever in your body fights a flu. Now there are 400+ nuclear power plants which as Fukushima demonstrated, could rapidly destroy the planet. A fever so severe it kills the host. The key is they need constant attendance by educated workers, which will be difficult to maintain when the basic supplies no longer flow.
There is new hope. There are quite a few generation III+ nuclear power plants going up next year in 2017. While these do not hit the ideal target of one month unmanned operation, they can remain unmanned without power or supplies for 72 hours, and a skeleton crew can keep them operating indefinitely. A defining feature is the plants finally use natural forces like gravity and condensation, to circulate cooling water making meltdown far less likely. This is great news.
Generation III+ may be the good enough to survive an economic collapse in conjunction with some onsite family relocation and stockpiling of basic supplies for that key skeleton crew of workers, but that work is just beginning. The hundreds of existing plants need to be shut down and replaced ASAP. We need the global economy to survive until that work is complete. Unfortunately the economy is already collapsing in uncontrolled localization and simplification. Collapse is already in progress.
I suggest citizens consider legal distribution as a solution to a limited and controlled check on destructive corruption. Both in perception and efficiency, legal distribution can provides a check valve, away from power centers, on the most flagrant and arm folding corruption. Corruption so severe it outweighs economy of scale at it’s current scope. Rather than destroy entire governments, citizens can set up a soft but functional landing for the components of government they trust the least. Creating a framework of negotiation to prevent critical economy of scale from shrinking smaller than it is while subject to the waste, while cutting the most egregious bower brokers off from frustrating and impoverishing the public. This will preserve trust and avoid another disaster caused by multiple supply lines cut to near zero by sudden credit seizure and poverty.
Today pervasive new technologies abound, and can solve real world problems like potential nuclear reactor cascade failure. Many of these technologies are slowed by those power brokers because of disruptive properties that benefit market participants, but not non-obvious taxing beneficiaries. If we get out of the way enough for the market to get a footing, it can keep local economies and their power plants in good health, long enough to upgrade them to a system that will not bring the earth to sudden radioactive ruin. The point of no return.
There is a problem with political progress today. There is no word but fascism to describe a change of government into a system of always putting subsidies for corporate profit ahead of freedoms, markets, or property, controlled by one person. A trivial point, an oligarchy as the fascist is possible here too. While the properties of fascism appear on a regular but limited basis, it’s absolute properties (absolute control) may not be present. The transition can take place at any speed. Freedoms can be lost for temporary profit, one freedom at a time.
Alliancism to fascism is much like socialism to communism. In small doses both can have good short term consequences, but only for a temporary period of time. Bringing in fractional banking in where there was none before, but cannibalizing the money supply to do it. Growing economy of scale by ending trade disputes via hard power and eroding citizen rights to reach that goal. Masking the tragedy of the commons with consumerism and gentrification. Incrementally replacing debate with marketing, public relations and ultimately propaganda. Replacing war with police action (conquest by peace). Meant as a staged scale like socialism, alliancism is a partial implementation of fascism in a capitalist democracy (including republics) as it transitions between the optimal psychopathic cooperative (rights AND shortcuts) to rapid simplification and localization. Ultimately, collapse.
I’m naming it after the alliance. The closest relationship a person without a conscience (a psychopath) can have to a friendship. Temporary and transitory in nature alliances can only exist while at each party thinks they are using the other to their ultimate advantage. Where fascism immediately assumes all rights to it’s leader class, alliancism can erode rights one at a time. Cashing in freedoms for temporary pricing advantages via market distortions. This continues until the faith in currency and property are lost, and trust and investment ceases.
“The chief cause of problems is solutions.” –Eric Svareid
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“The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.” –Sun Tzu
Looking at the world through a caloric lens, complexity increases economic cost. To further explore this please see this talk by Dr. Joseph Tainter. Please keep the volume control handy as there are audio anomalies. It is long but well worth your time.
This is important because it deals with what collapse looks like. Rome didn’t collapse as some sort of surprise or in a vacuum. It suffered from growing and unsustainable complexity. Civgene can provide the ‘why’ for this problem. Why did complexity occur? The most obvious answer is corruption. Why does corruption continuously increase? Civgene indicates increasing proportions of psychopaths. Rent seeking correlates to a genetic pool that grows over the life of a civilization and then collapses once that civilization dies.
As corruption increases complexity, economy of scale multipliers provide diminishing returns. Further as rent seeker revenues fall, they add complexity simply for the sole purpose of seeking additional loopholes to graft from. The only mechanism for ending corruption created by adding complexity is adding yet more complexity in the form of additional laws.
If you are familiar with legal distribution you can see where this is going. There needs to be a way to reduce this complexity to spare limited resources. No historical law making process can provide this. The video lays out the need for a new kind of legal mechanism, to cope with the real problem behind complexity.
A growing pool of rent seekers grafted onto the core of the system. The law making rent seekers find marginal problems to combat in public, while their real goal is to seek new revenue from the hidden effects and loopholes of the new law. Instead we should reduce complexity by distributing laws. This should create competition for programs that have grown pointlessly bloated solving small scale locally addressable problems. Naturally reducing the jurisdiction of laws should be under a populist control, since the vast majority of the population are still good economic actors, with the desire to protect the system from the graft at the center in a selfless way. So while overall “the process of increasing complexity is inexorable”, we don’t need to make things more complex than necessary for the time.
Dr. Tainter calls political ideology a faith. He is correct! All politics are based at least in part on faith, because testing political theories on humans is impossible (without an epic immoral cost). Faiths are critical to reason and therefore civilization, but without recognition of the risks of cult that faith brings, they are simply a collar to click a leash onto.
He does equate logic to ethics saying “Everything the Roman emperors did was a logical response to circumstances.” While explicitly true this is not complete. This again proves logic is NOT a panacea. Sociopath stage psychopaths are perfectly logical, to their own needs. Markets need to be protected to provide good data to build sound logic on. Reason (the logical mind + the metamind) is available reliably only from the public, away from the center of power. The public and their subconscious risk management are needed to keep destructive needless complexity from harming those markets. Logic and subsequently reason can’t accomplish good law without good data. Unchecked, complexity and graft slowly smothers true cost.
There is growing concern that AI or artificial intelligence will ruthlessly enslave humanity. These fears are real, and on the current path, very justified.
Some background.
Lets separate this in to it’s two separate threats.
The first threat is that AI achieves intelligence with no counterpart either in the human or computer world, and then decides humanity is no longer useful or worthwhile. Some know this is as the singularity.
This may be solvable by hard wiring a conscience in a very similar fashion as described by civgene. An emotional metamind with mandatory emotional recall. With a distracting and sometimes painful compulsion to also consider a rationally inaccessible risk calculation created passively and involuntarily. Initially populated both by parental type training, and real world experience, but constantly creating further compound emotion associations to signal danger in both a useful and intrusive way. In a word, digital empathy.
The second and more immediate threat, that automation will obsolete the vast majority of human thinking or skilled jobs but unlike the industrial revolution those people will become unemployable.
This is a problem that has already been solved. Psychopaths are natural centrist statists. Centralizing power both because they want to become the master of all other people(and the other people become slaves), but also because they regard empathy as a myth, a fraud, and an erratic defect. Much like a purely rational super intelligent AI might view the whole of humanity.
That centrism comes at a price. a large and growing graft proportional to the growing proportion of psychopaths in a particular civilization (they eventually collapse it) Legal distribution, designed to add risk to centrisim for the sake of itself does so by using democracy to override bluntly wasteful laws. Laws can be intentionally wasteful, diverting economy of scale to increased power for a few, or UNINTENTIONALLY wasteful, like forcing people to work a longer work week than the economy needs, in turn creating a glut of labor and enslaving the people that can get jobs.
This of course varies case to case as most law and economics, but that’s the beauty of distributing one law at a time. A distributed law responds to public calls of no confidence with new segmented market data. (A lack of uncontaminated market data being the most cited failing of persistent socialism/communism.) It is the solution to socialism meant as a temporary repair to an ailing people, but becoming de-facto permanent rule as a tool of oppression. (a 40 hour work week was a blessing 100 years ago, and now is a curse) It is a populist relief valve against too much power on the statist side of the intentionally hidden axis on the political compass.
The problem is arbitrary labor force hourly requirements creating a glut of labor. The present state is slavery or obsolescence, but cooperation and prosperity can return if law speeds up to match the recent blinding speed of technology.
Please see the background page for more information on the civgene theories and legal distribution.
Thank you for your feedback an patience! Perhaps these new images will shed some light on how pack vs social topologies effect human economic behavior.
Here are the individual images, but they loose something without the dimension of time. Just click on them for detail.
Feedback is welcome. Thank you for your help!
Edit v.2 : minor repairs.
Edit v.3 : After some consideration realized fiat is a substitute for coinage. The animation helped with perspective..
Note: I have deleted the earliest post and version of this graph. Not trying to be revisionist, it’s all up on github, but this graphic is so much more clear cut and understandable.