@Aella_Girl Most people are irrational because they are emotionally resisting reality. Group think is soothing for everyone who is habituated to it regardless of intelligence. Smart people want to think they’re immune to child level emotional behavior; they are not.
@Aella_Girl Epistemic rationality = seeking to hold beliefs based on epistemic reasons (not wishes or practical reasons). Practical rationality = taking the best means towards your chosen goals. Economic rationality = practical reason denominated in utility.
@Aella_Girl If the first time you get high the drugs are free, or the first car you get to drive is handed to you, but every other time afterwards it’s expensive- you will always feel cheated by the expensive thing instead of feeling pride that you earned it. That is porn.
@Aella_Girl Women mostly raise the kids anyway and would do it better if they are smart, actually care and don’t have to work. How many kids live through divorces and resentful pos fathers because mommy wants to mommy but doesn’t want sex because she’s tired. Humanity needs solutions.
@Aella_Girl You should also include a category for paying a woman to have a kid that’s not his biologically. Some older men may not have the sperm quality but may be interested based on perceived quality of the woman’s parenting potential.
@Aella_Girl “All coercion is bad” = anarchist fantasy
“Reasonably justified reciprocal contracts that allow you to live alone on the street/wilderness if you want, but don’t force anyone else to do ahit for you without fair exchange” = basis for modern functioning society.
Blame Academia
@rivatez Would need to share too much, but I looked into it for my case and I’m personally really glad they did ICSI (but only *with* ZyMot, which for Spring is standard). Spring has been excellent at addressing my (many) concerns and questions.
@rivatez I went to Spring, which is top rated inUS by outcome, and asked to do a higher dose stim and GH. They flat out refused and said lower dose stim had comparable results. Thanks for info on ICSI, they did not discuss what you wrote.
@moon_bear_moon@JeffLadish The fact that it took much of the world centuries to apply the concept of personhood to women and black people demonstrates that it is not empirical elements (DNA etc) that settles the application of personhood. It was a collective decision to apply the concept differently.
@JeffLadish@So8res Jeffrey, could you please please please somewhere lay out or point to a good source on what can and cannot be done technically to monitor/enforce agreements designed to slow or limit AGI - including China and third party actors (Russian agents, rogue individuals, etc)?