Nice summary. That couldn't've been easy. Have you asked people who haven't read PFTPW what they get out of the summary? I wonder how assimilable it is.
I am far from an expert. These are just my own musings. r/K theory is far more complex than I can properly give a short summary credit to it. The evidence far more engrossing than what I can show so if you're not familiar with it, please don't dismiss it based on my writings. The book is far more complete a theory. So get that if you care to see the overlap. In short, you describe many of the same concepts using different words, but I think it amounts to nearly the same thing with a few other complexities thrown in. I also find it compatible with Jonathan Haidt's model of morality and the Big 5 traits, although there is some difficulty in a precise mapping between those.. I find it another useful heurestic and I find it interesting that if you read all these different analysis of the basic problem: cyclical rise and destruction of civilizations, you get so much overlap. There is an obvious pattern that is playing out. Much like watching the stock market. And if you watch it long enough, you begin to see the regularities even if you can't predict with 100% certainty, you sense the fractal in the patterns.
Thanks Conan. Yes, I'm quite certain that life history theory maps very well onto the model here. Though I've only cursorily examined the relevant literature, it certainly appears pretty much as one would expect: openness correlates with fast strategies; conscientiousness with slow ones. Like you, I'm a little less certain about Haidt on moral foundations. Indeed, in a certain sense his model seems counterintuitive to me. But as always with this stuff, one has to be vigilant about methodological choices. There might be some value down the road in parsing this stuff, but that's not where I'm focused at the moment. Also, I'm notoriously disinclined to reading blogs, so I promise nothing, but I'll try to have a look at the link you've sent. Thank you for your contribution to the comments.
Nice summary. That couldn't've been easy. Have you asked people who haven't read PFTPW what they get out of the summary? I wonder how assimilable it is.
Thanks. It was a challenge, but anything worth doing, and all that...
I too would like to know how well it would be understood by an uninitiated. We'll see if we can dig one up. ;-)
I enjoy your work. I find it coincides well with my own thoughts and thought you might be interested.
https://conanbarbarian.substack.com/p/jd-unwin-meets-rk-theory
I am far from an expert. These are just my own musings. r/K theory is far more complex than I can properly give a short summary credit to it. The evidence far more engrossing than what I can show so if you're not familiar with it, please don't dismiss it based on my writings. The book is far more complete a theory. So get that if you care to see the overlap. In short, you describe many of the same concepts using different words, but I think it amounts to nearly the same thing with a few other complexities thrown in. I also find it compatible with Jonathan Haidt's model of morality and the Big 5 traits, although there is some difficulty in a precise mapping between those.. I find it another useful heurestic and I find it interesting that if you read all these different analysis of the basic problem: cyclical rise and destruction of civilizations, you get so much overlap. There is an obvious pattern that is playing out. Much like watching the stock market. And if you watch it long enough, you begin to see the regularities even if you can't predict with 100% certainty, you sense the fractal in the patterns.
Thanks Conan. Yes, I'm quite certain that life history theory maps very well onto the model here. Though I've only cursorily examined the relevant literature, it certainly appears pretty much as one would expect: openness correlates with fast strategies; conscientiousness with slow ones. Like you, I'm a little less certain about Haidt on moral foundations. Indeed, in a certain sense his model seems counterintuitive to me. But as always with this stuff, one has to be vigilant about methodological choices. There might be some value down the road in parsing this stuff, but that's not where I'm focused at the moment. Also, I'm notoriously disinclined to reading blogs, so I promise nothing, but I'll try to have a look at the link you've sent. Thank you for your contribution to the comments.