It’s very disconcerting to read “I notice my brain does extra work when I talk with women… wouldn’t it be easier if society were radically altered so that I didn’t have to talk with women?” Like, what? And there’s no way you or anyone else can become more rational about this? This barrier to ideal communication with 50% of people is insurmountable? It’s worth giving up on this one? Hello?
Nah. I could have been more precise while spitballing. (For some definition of “could”. I don’t know how to be freeform playful/creative while carefully scrutinizing each detail of what I say for precision and accuracy.) But I meant all that more in the spirit of “Huh, I wonder if evolution did something like this and we’ve been assuming it didn’t. That’d make some sense of why some of our social reform efforts go wonky in these particular ways.”
I don’t know what would be good for us to collectively do. I aspire to have good questions. Good answers would be nice, but I think those mostly fall out of seeking and pondering good questions.
I was not proposing that.
Fair enough. You did write
and
which made it sound like you thought this would be a good idea.
Nah. I could have been more precise while spitballing. (For some definition of “could”. I don’t know how to be freeform playful/creative while carefully scrutinizing each detail of what I say for precision and accuracy.) But I meant all that more in the spirit of “Huh, I wonder if evolution did something like this and we’ve been assuming it didn’t. That’d make some sense of why some of our social reform efforts go wonky in these particular ways.”
I don’t know what would be good for us to collectively do. I aspire to have good questions. Good answers would be nice, but I think those mostly fall out of seeking and pondering good questions.