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

From the New World

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The Importance of Productivity in Society

Even from a libertarian perspective, there are direct impacts of having those people survive and the ability to maintain economies of scale. So let's not have TikTok destroy the productivity of all humans because we need their productivity. Are they doing pro-social things? What is the counterfactual here? I would love to see research on like, what proportion of living humans contribute to the advancement of society in some way.

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