Does Consistency Matter?

 Life isn't consistent. Go from ages 0 to 2 to 8 to 16 to 25 to 45 to 60 to 80 and life looks completely different.

Yet yesterday pretty much resembled today. Next week looks like it will mimic last week.

Different views at different levels I guess. Fractals.

Fractals Fractals Fractals.

The Dominance Hierarchies theory has gotten my attention again (damn JP podcasts). Im not sure it is applicable at all levels.

At the extremes - yes. 

Low

If a man is low IQ, highly neurotic, anxious and unreliable then he'll be at the bottom of probably whatever DH's he is in. What are those DHs?

- Assuming he lives in a group home, the social loafer of the bunch.

- Goes out and travels around town (jobs, social situations etc) so low on the general attractiveness/can wrestle a bear DH.

- At some job he is probably on the bottom of the pecking order. Low status there, low pay etc.

- Feeble at sports, dropped off teams etc.

- Finds it hard to get people to commit to social relationships. So more isolated in general. Around other lower DH as well which creates a bubble of whiteness.

High

If you are a top professional athlete (say top 3 player on a NBA team):

- In own home with probably staff and friends/who are staff so definitely top there.

- Athletic/can wrestle bear so general view plus famous.

- Super rich.

- Probably smart to get to that level of comp.

High and Low stand out. It is easy for woman to identify, so that is probably where the big flocking of numbers occur. None at one end and lots and lots at the other. Although I wonder if the 'groupies' at the high end think through the math. I guess as long as they take their chance to ensnare, without getting pregnant, there isn't really an opportunity cost in their early 20s. The opportunity cost occurs if they miss out on stable situation.

I guess what I'm pondering is it actually worth effort/worrying going after DH position? If this is a Pareto distribution then should someone care about putting effort into getting from 6 to 7 std dev from the mean, when the High effect only kicks in at 20std dev from the mean.

So Im not saying don't improve self on things you care about. My question is then really about pain I guess, and creativity. Taking one step back, to take two steps forward. 

So I don't think DH position actually does matter at all within a few std dev of the mean. Its too confusing, and too varied. I don't think it puts a drain on someone, unless their own internal beliefs/frustration take them over. It doesn't matter for the simple fact of time. Evolution shouldn't care/punish men for taking chances so long as they don't fall to Low. In fact it probably encourages it. As all a man needs to do is win the jackpot and hit High, even if it is only for a short period of time, as that man can reproduce speedily.

Well that is for today.

Lets run it past a tribal group of 80. The top warrior/chief etc would have the pick. But even then they'd need to travel and cross pollinate etc to avoid interbreeding. Then the knowledge becomes power. So long as shit is decentralised should be ok. If you were average you'd probably be fine. Not dropping to low is fine also, so can experiment, find new weapons, explore other towns, do some useful stuff of course.

So I don't think humans are hierarchal at all in the sense of the middle/majority part. I don't think men particularly need consistency, nature will reward finding an outlier/creative/useful new DH that adds something, so energy can be expanded. There shouldn't really be that pain.

Therefore in theory (my theory) its actually stupid to put resources into going from 34th to 33rd, or even staying at 34th, when the opportunity cost is to find something where you can go straight to 1 or 2. Avoid falling off the edge, but experiment. Then being a big fish in a small pond is awesome.

P.S. Why health/exercise? True its a DH middle thing. Doesn't do that much though unless scwarznegger. The real value is in the health benefits/energy so can do creative stuff. Plus other aspects of life, say if crap kicks off or whatever.