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Simone Collins: Optimized Dating, Parasocial Relationships, and Societal Collapse

From the New World

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The Inductive Function of Religion

I don't think it's fully viable to just say like, okay, we're just going to have this small fraction of the population actually have children. Like, I think that there's a lot of basically social good in preserving more, more of the population for the simple reason of basically like economies of scale. And then, you know, everyone who doesn't have enough energy or gumption to want to opt into those will die and their genetic tendencies will not be passed on. So who cares? They're irrelevant.

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