I’m just paraphrasing his own use of the terms, I’m well aware he’s abusing the terminology.
I think its an etymologically awkward (if awesome sounding in a “don’t think about it too much” way, Roissy isn’t anything if he isn’t a brand made for popular consumption) phrasing that humans are Adaptation-Executers and that judicial study of the underlying “function” so to speak of our social and attraction circuitry gives vital insight into why humans behave as they do while providing testable predictions as well. I suppose Evolutionary Psychology studies a large part of this, however the way he uses one might be tempted to call it Evolutionary Sociology.
Calling this force a God is his way of saying all social engineering and even personal planning that doesn’t take it into account in some way or another is very likely to fail.
Simply personifying this as Unlce Darwin or the blind idiot God has the unfortunate connotation of evoking fitness maximizer associations.
I’ve spent a good ten minutes thinking about the best way to phrase this. “Human nature” captures much of this, but that comes with baggage, the worst of this is the implication that it doesn’t change at all over time, when in reality it does change under selective pressures, however slowly. Any suggestions?
Replace “sciency” with “popculture reference” in my previous post then. The way he uses it however I think does still mesh with what I wrote. He often emphasises how our “monkey brains” sometimes go off the rails exposed to evolutionary new situations.
I took a couple classes in biomechanics, and what I think of as “biomechanics” is not at all relevant to these articles.
Is there a meaning of this term that neither I nor wikipedia is aware of?
I’m just paraphrasing his own use of the terms, I’m well aware he’s abusing the terminology.
I think its an etymologically awkward (if awesome sounding in a “don’t think about it too much” way, Roissy isn’t anything if he isn’t a brand made for popular consumption) phrasing that humans are Adaptation-Executers and that judicial study of the underlying “function” so to speak of our social and attraction circuitry gives vital insight into why humans behave as they do while providing testable predictions as well. I suppose Evolutionary Psychology studies a large part of this, however the way he uses one might be tempted to call it Evolutionary Sociology.
Calling this force a God is his way of saying all social engineering and even personal planning that doesn’t take it into account in some way or another is very likely to fail.
Simply personifying this as Unlce Darwin or the blind idiot God has the unfortunate connotation of evoking fitness maximizer associations.
I’ve spent a good ten minutes thinking about the best way to phrase this. “Human nature” captures much of this, but that comes with baggage, the worst of this is the implication that it doesn’t change at all over time, when in reality it does change under selective pressures, however slowly. Any suggestions?
Mechanistic sociobiology.
Probably it’s a reference to Blade Runner, i.e. the “god of biomechanics”.
I think you are correct.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK7DBo9Ye6Y
Replace “sciency” with “popculture reference” in my previous post then. The way he uses it however I think does still mesh with what I wrote. He often emphasises how our “monkey brains” sometimes go off the rails exposed to evolutionary new situations.