Low Rents Research

  INTO THE MIND OF THE CREATOR Hidden in the Reasoning Theory of mind, salience, and the adversarial psychology of concealment in Beyond the Map's Edge Low Rents   ·   lowrentsresearch.blogspot.com ABSTRACT Concealment is a contest between two minds, and a hider wins or loses in the act of modeling the searcher. This paper applies the cognitive science of that contest to Justin Posey and his hunt, sharpened by his 2014 Sunlight Basin solution to Forrest Fenn. Drawing on theory of mind and the documented ceiling on recursive mentalizing, the curse of knowledge, the game theory of hide-and-seek and salience, the science of misdirection and inattentional blindness, and Posey's own pre-hunt record, I argue that an able adversarial hider does five things, and that Posey's statements show him doing all five: he avoids the salient locations that both seekers and naive hiders are drawn to; he places the cache just past the threshold where searcher attention and ef...

Into the Mind of the Creator: The Calculated Edge Into the Mind of the Creator The Calculated Edge Risk tolerance, sensation-seeking, and the terrain logic of a survivable cache in Beyond the Map's Edge Low Rents  ·  lowrentsresearch.blogspot.com Abstract Prior work in this series has modeled Justin Posey's failure patterns, his confidence architecture, and his psychological self-presentation. This paper opens a distinct and previously unexamined vein: the psychology of physical risk. Drawing on Zuckerman's sensation-seeking framework, the mountaineering-personality literature, prospect theory, and environmental landscape-preference research, I argue that the most useful working model is not the cartoon "adrenaline junkie" but the better-supported adventurer profile: high tolerance for novelty and challenge, low apparent harm avoidance, and disciplined, self-directed planning. This is not offered as a diagnosis of Posey. It is a ter...