"The fact that dating apps are giving alphas a larger share of matings does not bode well for society."
In the short term, no. On the 10,000+ year horizon, occasional bottlenecks where only 10% of the men manage to reproduce are necessary and probably healthy.
In the short term, no. On the 10,000+ year horizon, occasional bottlenecks where only 10% of the men manage to reproduce are necessary and probably healthy.
1. What truly matters is offspring produced (and raised to adulthood.) Those figures are catastrophically low, to the point where officially encouraging all billionaires to form harems of 500 each would not be enough to turn our abysmal birth - death rates around.
2. The presence of selective pressure is generally healthy.
An astute reader points out that the nature of this selective pressure is unlike that of previous selective pressures; true, but I'm not fully able to say if it's healthy or not.
An astute reader points out that the nature of this selective pressure is unlike that of previous selective pressures; true, but I'm not fully able to say if it's healthy or not.
https://twitter.com/AStratelates/status/1379204182008197124
Are women choosing men with stronger than average social skills now that violence and hunting are disfavored?
Or is it all just chaos, and women are following dark impulses that don't have anything to do with long term survival and reproductive fitness?
Or is it all just chaos, and women are following dark impulses that don't have anything to do with long term survival and reproductive fitness?
Probably a bit of A and a bit of B.
One thing that I have noted is that great feats of biological success were previously done openly, as a conqueror, and now they are the result of trickery when we hear of them at all.
One thing that I have noted is that great feats of biological success were previously done openly, as a conqueror, and now they are the result of trickery when we hear of them at all.
https://twitter.com/moritheil/status/983443673953325057
A good culture doesn't seek to overwrite biology, but rather to accommodate it and direct biological impulses into constructive channels.
It's hard to deny that our culture, when compared to that of the ancients, is bad.
It's hard to deny that our culture, when compared to that of the ancients, is bad.
https://twitter.com/moritheil/status/983454170886889472
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