Typical farming behaviors violated forager values. Farmers added marriage, property, war, inequality, and much less art, leisure and travel. 100K years ago if someone had suggested that foragers would be replaced by farmers, critics could easily have doubted that foragers would act like that. But tens of thousands of years was enough time for cultural variation and selection to produce new farming cultures more compatible with the new farming ways.
A psychologist all too easily falls into the role of negativity (perhaps it should be called the "negative bias". And if something is wrong (Find 5 Mistakes), then we should do something about it. I would thing Satisficing is a strategy for being satisfied with a tendency to being mean and lean rather than fat and lazy. (But then again I too am a psychologist and I do rather have a negative bias towards other psychologists. Sheer oneupmanship towards the professional oneuppers.)
Your post seems mostly from the perspective of a producer rather than consumer. The consumer cares more about whether the product is good enough for their purposes than whether it is as good as the producer can make it.
Satisficing, I would think, is a bias. (Perhaps should be called the "complacency bias.") Seems like an over-correction to whatever bias causes us in some endeavors to underestimate information costs.
[For a slightly more concrete criticism of satisficing, see “Good enough” consumerism and the myth of imperfectibility - http://disputedissues.blogs... ]
The question of regimentation is very much On-Topic. Who is regimenting whom (and why). I prefer self-regimentation. IOS 10 has a nice little app for regular sleep patterns - if you play along.
I don't know. I've heard having a regular sleep schedule discourages insomnia, and I don't think I've ever gone through a sort of regimented living situation (the military or prison might work like that) which would ensure I consistently went to bed and got up at the same time.
Can't help feeling that we three are very much On-Topic here. We are all demonstrating our rigidity (lack of plasticity) whilst also showing our very humanness - interest in others, small talking on big subjects, ping-ponging and so on..... I don't think Ems will show this behaviour because they no bodies have.
Denmark. Cold, wet and cloudy but measured to be one of the happiest places on earth. I never meet these happy people. The surveys must be done in Tivoli. :-)
I'm more of an early, in that I don't get to sleep until rather late. Of course it's exacerbated by my reading on the computer later than I should, but I've been like that as long as I can remember even when I was a little kid.
I'm not sure about the accuracy of that claim, but it's consistent with middle insomnia being (as it seems to be) the least psychiatrically significant of three onset times (initial, middle, and terminal).
[Alarming how often sleep problems rooted in depression are treated with addictive sleep medications.]
A psychologist all too easily falls into the role of negativity (perhaps it should be called the "negative bias". And if something is wrong (Find 5 Mistakes), then we should do something about it. I would thing Satisficing is a strategy for being satisfied with a tendency to being mean and lean rather than fat and lazy. (But then again I too am a psychologist and I do rather have a negative bias towards other psychologists. Sheer oneupmanship towards the professional oneuppers.)
Your post seems mostly from the perspective of a producer rather than consumer. The consumer cares more about whether the product is good enough for their purposes than whether it is as good as the producer can make it.
Satisficing, I would think, is a bias. (Perhaps should be called the "complacency bias.") Seems like an over-correction to whatever bias causes us in some endeavors to underestimate information costs.
[For a slightly more concrete criticism of satisficing, see “Good enough” consumerism and the myth of imperfectibility - http://disputedissues.blogs... ]
Nice strategy. Seems to work too.
I'm a satisficer, and generally satisfied.
Now you are being coy TGGP. Why haven't you tried to improve yourself? (I am of course quite happy that you haven't.)
Not having taken on any self-improvement programs, I can't say personally whether any of them are hoaxes.
Yes! We prefer to hang on to our aberrations. Self-improvement programmes are a universal hoax we play on ourselves and others.
I suppose I don't mind my own insomnia enough to do anything about it, I was just musing about plasticity with the regimentation comment.
The question of regimentation is very much On-Topic. Who is regimenting whom (and why). I prefer self-regimentation. IOS 10 has a nice little app for regular sleep patterns - if you play along.
I don't know. I've heard having a regular sleep schedule discourages insomnia, and I don't think I've ever gone through a sort of regimented living situation (the military or prison might work like that) which would ensure I consistently went to bed and got up at the same time.
Can't help feeling that we three are very much On-Topic here. We are all demonstrating our rigidity (lack of plasticity) whilst also showing our very humanness - interest in others, small talking on big subjects, ping-ponging and so on..... I don't think Ems will show this behaviour because they no bodies have.
Denmark. Cold, wet and cloudy but measured to be one of the happiest places on earth. I never meet these happy people. The surveys must be done in Tivoli. :-)
What country is that?
I'm more of an early, in that I don't get to sleep until rather late. Of course it's exacerbated by my reading on the computer later than I should, but I've been like that as long as I can remember even when I was a little kid.
I'm not sure about the accuracy of that claim, but it's consistent with middle insomnia being (as it seems to be) the least psychiatrically significant of three onset times (initial, middle, and terminal).
[Alarming how often sleep problems rooted in depression are treated with addictive sleep medications.]