You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
i guess maybe my mistake is that Vedic philosophy is very broad, especially if the nāstika traditions are included in that, so perhaps expecting any one book to serve as an introduction is naïve.
i have Victoria Harrison's Eastern Philosophy: The Basics, it's good but, well, basic
But men are not optimized to make women happy, and women are not optimized to make men happy. The vast majority of men are not what the vast majority of women would most prefer, or vice versa. I don’t know if anyone has ever actually done this study, but I bet that both gay and lesbian couples are happier on average with their relationship than heterosexual couples. (Googles… yep, looks like it.)
I find it all too easy to imagine a world in which men retreat to their optimized sweet sexy catgirls, and women retreat to their optimized darkly gentle catboys, and neither sex has anything to do with each other ever again. Maybe men would take the east side of the galaxy and women would take the west side. And the two new intelligent species, and their romantic sexbots, would go their separate ways from there.
That strikes me as kind of sad.
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I’m willing to bet that a few psychological nudges in both sexes—to behavior and/or desire—could solve 90% of the needlessly frustrating aspects of relationships for large sectors of the population, while still keeping the complexity and interest of loving someone who isn’t tailored to your desires.
But men are not optimized to make women happy, and women are not optimized to make men happy. The vast majority of men are not what the vast majority of women would most prefer, or vice versa. I don’t know if anyone has ever actually done this study, but I bet that both gay and lesbian couples are happier on average with their relationship than heterosexual couples. (Googles… yep, looks like it.)
I find it all too easy to imagine a world in which men retreat to their optimized sweet sexy catgirls, and women retreat to their optimized darkly gentle catboys, and neither sex has anything to do with each other ever again. Maybe men would take the east side of the galaxy and women would take the west side. And the two new intelligent species, and their romantic sexbots, would go their separate ways from there.
That strikes me as kind of sad.
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I’m willing to bet that a few psychological nudges in both sexes—to behavior and/or desire—could solve 90% of the needlessly frustrating aspects of relationships for large sectors of the population, while still keeping the complexity and interest of loving someone who isn’t tailored to your desires.
This is the person a decent contingent of TvTropes wanted me to treat Completely Seriously
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is the worst garbage ever written.
Atlas Shrugged is more artistically meritorious.
hey kids let's learn bad science half-remembered by an autodidact via the medium of Harry Potter fanfiction that completely misunderstands the source material, and be really smug about it because this makes us smarter than all the boring NPCs out there
also let's refer to people who aren't rationalist ubermenschen as NPCs that's not arrogant at all
by 'bad science' i actually mean 'scientific inaccuracies'
which is not a great crime in literature, but in literature which purports to be educational, and which is hugely condescending and elitist about anyone who doesn't understand science, well
Centie and I are, in a sense, gay, and yes we're very happy with our relationship
That is not what I am taking issue with
not even remotely
it is weird that you would even jump to that conclusion
What I'm saying is that he has a point there
He has a point in that gay people are very much capable of rewarding, loving, happy relationships.
I hesitate to call this a point. It's like if I wrote five paragraphs of text about how the pyramids were built by interstellar hamsters, and inserted the sentence "there are both freshwater and salt water stingrays" in the middle.
I said something true, but that's not the main thrust of the article, so it doesn't matter that I said something true.
Centie and I are, in a sense, gay, and yes we're very happy with our relationship
That is not what I am taking issue with
not even remotely
it is weird that you would even jump to that conclusion
What I'm saying is that he has a point there
He has a point in that gay people are very much capable of rewarding, loving, happy relationships.
I hesitate to call this a point. It's like if I wrote five paragraphs of text about how the pyramids were built by interstellar hamsters, and inserted the sentence "there are both freshwater and salt water stingrays" in the middle.
I said something true, but that's not the main thrust of the article, so it doesn't matter that I said something true.
real talk tho, "the ways society pressures members of each sex to act creates a lot of useless friction when different-sex couples try to start relationships" seems like a fairly reasonable point to me
Centie and I are, in a sense, gay, and yes we're very happy with our relationship
That is not what I am taking issue with
not even remotely
it is weird that you would even jump to that conclusion
What I'm saying is that he has a point there
He has a point in that gay people are very much capable of rewarding, loving, happy relationships.
I hesitate to call this a point. It's like if I wrote five paragraphs of text about how the pyramids were built by interstellar hamsters, and inserted the sentence "there are both freshwater and salt water stingrays" in the middle.
I said something true, but that's not the main thrust of the article, so it doesn't matter that I said something true.
Centie and I are, in a sense, gay, and yes we're very happy with our relationship
That is not what I am taking issue with
not even remotely
it is weird that you would even jump to that conclusion
What I'm saying is that he has a point there
He has a point in that gay people are very much capable of rewarding, loving, happy relationships.
I hesitate to call this a point. It's like if I wrote five paragraphs of text about how the pyramids were built by interstellar hamsters, and inserted the sentence "there are both freshwater and salt water stingrays" in the middle.
I said something true, but that's not the main thrust of the article, so it doesn't matter that I said something true.
i think the 'gay couples are statistically happier' thing is an interesting observation
IIRC gay couples are also somewhat more likely to break up after a certain period of time and the members of said couple are much more likely to remain on friendly terms afterwards.
i dont remember what study this was from though, but it seems true from both my personal experience and my observations of other queer people
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i'm looking for something that'll give me a historical overview of the traditions in those areas
but it's surprised me how hard it seems to be to find anything introductory on Indian philosophy that extends past the classical period
i mean Vedic philosophy is one of the major traditions
i guess maybe my mistake is that Vedic philosophy is very broad, especially if the nāstika traditions are included in that, so perhaps expecting any one book to serve as an introduction is naïve.
i have Victoria Harrison's Eastern Philosophy: The Basics, it's good but, well, basic
Atlas Shrugged is more artistically meritorious.
But men are not optimized to make women happy, and women are not optimized to make men happy. The vast majority of men are not what the vast majority of women would most prefer, or vice versa. I don’t know if anyone has ever actually done this study, but I bet that both gay and lesbian couples are happier on average with their relationship than heterosexual couples. (Googles… yep, looks like it.)
I find it all too easy to imagine a world in which men retreat to their optimized sweet sexy catgirls, and women retreat to their optimized darkly gentle catboys, and neither sex has anything to do with each other ever again. Maybe men would take the east side of the galaxy and women would take the west side. And the two new intelligent species, and their romantic sexbots, would go their separate ways from there.
That strikes me as kind of sad.
…
I’m willing to bet that a few psychological nudges in both sexes—to behavior and/or desire—could solve 90% of the needlessly frustrating aspects of relationships for large sectors of the population, while still keeping the complexity and interest of loving someone who isn’t tailored to your desires.
hey kids let's learn bad science half-remembered by an autodidact via the medium of Harry Potter fanfiction that completely misunderstands the source material, and be really smug about it because this makes us smarter than all the boring NPCs out there
also let's refer to people who aren't rationalist ubermenschen as NPCs that's not arrogant at all
which is not a great crime in literature, but in literature which purports to be educational, and which is hugely condescending and elitist about anyone who doesn't understand science, well
But yes the 'men are from mars, women are from venus' nonsense is silly, and no less silly when presented in pseudo-psychological terms
I said something true, but that's not the main thrust of the article, so it doesn't matter that I said something true.
i think the 'gay couples are statistically happier' thing is an interesting observation