Ah, misunderstanding. I did not mean “shifts by volition alone”, but “voluntary as opposed to forced” as pertains to AspiringKnitter’s earlier worry about Yudkowsky forcing “some sort of compromise where we lowered male sex drive a little and increased female sex drive a little.”
If interpreted as a prediction rather than a recommendation, it might happen through individual choice if the ability to modify these things directly becomes sufficiently available (and sufficiently safe, and sufficiently accepted, &c) because of impulses like those you expressed: pairings that desire to be monogamous and who are otherwise compatible might choose to self modify to be compatible on this axis as well, and this will move the averages closer together.
Ah, misunderstanding. I did not mean “shifts by volition alone”, but “voluntary as opposed to forced” as pertains to AspiringKnitter’s earlier worry about Yudkowsky forcing “some sort of compromise where we lowered male sex drive a little and increased female sex drive a little.”
If interpreted as a prediction rather than a recommendation, it might happen through individual choice if the ability to modify these things directly becomes sufficiently available (and sufficiently safe, and sufficiently accepted, &c) because of impulses like those you expressed: pairings that desire to be monogamous and who are otherwise compatible might choose to self modify to be compatible on this axis as well, and this will move the averages closer together.
Got it, thanks.