Unwanted pregnancies and ‘Unwanted pregnancies’, if one cannot tell the difference, maybe it is because it is starting to disappear. I mean, theoretically we should tend more and more towards “oops, I forgot to take my pill today” and “Oh, don’t worry, just this one time without a condom”
About the equelibrium between two sets of replicators. Awesome as it looks, it doesn’t seem feasible from a game theoretical point of view. We are not the product of two replicators, we are the product of two KINDS of replicators. Each replicator, gene or meme, is fighting his own fight, and will not necessarily coalesce only with his kind. They are not tribes fighting one another, I suggest this is an atypical occurence of Mind Projection Fallacy.
If there weren’t people who had a strong desire, not just for sex, but to actually have a child, and a willingness to go to extreme measures to do so, then sperm banks wouldn’t be a thing.
Given the number of people who specifically, and openly desire to make babies, postulating a subconscious desire that might push them to “forget” their contraception isn’t unreasonable. Especially given that cycle timing and coitus interruptus have been staples of human sexual behaviour since… Well… At least as far back as we have any records about such things. Dawn of civilization.
The two sets of replicators reminds me of an article I read about a species of birds that seems to be splitting into effectively four sexes. Male and female, but then also coloring patterns that have formed a stable loop that alternates back and forth. If the loop were unstable they’d split into two species, but it alternates generations regularly, so they keep mixing, but in a pattern of four.
Unwanted pregnancies and ‘Unwanted pregnancies’, if one cannot tell the difference, maybe it is because it is starting to disappear. I mean, theoretically we should tend more and more towards “oops, I forgot to take my pill today” and “Oh, don’t worry, just this one time without a condom”
About the equelibrium between two sets of replicators. Awesome as it looks, it doesn’t seem feasible from a game theoretical point of view. We are not the product of two replicators, we are the product of two KINDS of replicators. Each replicator, gene or meme, is fighting his own fight, and will not necessarily coalesce only with his kind. They are not tribes fighting one another, I suggest this is an atypical occurence of Mind Projection Fallacy.
If there weren’t people who had a strong desire, not just for sex, but to actually have a child, and a willingness to go to extreme measures to do so, then sperm banks wouldn’t be a thing.
Given the number of people who specifically, and openly desire to make babies, postulating a subconscious desire that might push them to “forget” their contraception isn’t unreasonable. Especially given that cycle timing and coitus interruptus have been staples of human sexual behaviour since… Well… At least as far back as we have any records about such things. Dawn of civilization.
The two sets of replicators reminds me of an article I read about a species of birds that seems to be splitting into effectively four sexes. Male and female, but then also coloring patterns that have formed a stable loop that alternates back and forth. If the loop were unstable they’d split into two species, but it alternates generations regularly, so they keep mixing, but in a pattern of four.