Bit of a repeat warning: if you don’t want to read about sex stuff, don’t read this.
You know, given my own experiences, reading this post makes me wonder if sexual anhedonia and rationality are correlated for some reason. (Note, if you wish, that I’m a 17-year-old male, and I’ve never had a sexual partner. I do know what orgasm is.)
This makes me wonder how I would be different if I weren’t apparently anhedonic. Note that I don’t remember whether I first found out about that or stumbled upon Eliezer Yudkowsky; it’s possible that my rationality-stuff came before my knowledge.
Thinking again, I have been a religious skeptic all my life (and a victim of Pascal’s wager for a short period, during which I managed to read some of the Pentateuch), I’ve never taken a stand on abortion, and I’ve been mostly apolitical, though I did have a mild libertarian period after learning how the free market works, and I never figured out what was wrong with homosexuality. I don’t know whether I, before puberty, was rational or just apathetic.
Bit of a repeat warning: if you don’t want to read about sex stuff, don’t read this.
You know, given my own experiences, reading this post makes me wonder if sexual anhedonia and rationality are correlated for some reason. (Note, if you wish, that I’m a 17-year-old male, and I’ve never had a sexual partner. I do know what orgasm is.)
I would be shocked if they weren’t. The most powerful biasses are driven by hard-wired sexual signalling mechanisms.
This makes me wonder how I would be different if I weren’t apparently anhedonic. Note that I don’t remember whether I first found out about that or stumbled upon Eliezer Yudkowsky; it’s possible that my rationality-stuff came before my knowledge.
Thinking again, I have been a religious skeptic all my life (and a victim of Pascal’s wager for a short period, during which I managed to read some of the Pentateuch), I’ve never taken a stand on abortion, and I’ve been mostly apolitical, though I did have a mild libertarian period after learning how the free market works, and I never figured out what was wrong with homosexuality. I don’t know whether I, before puberty, was rational or just apathetic.