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

From the New World

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The Battleground Is Mimetic

I agree with you that outliers should be able to exercise their abilities, but I disagree with the kind of basically absolutist version of this. To me like the the battleground is more like mimetic, right? First of all, you need to reset the legal incentives that incentivize the kind of sterilizing ideologies,. Those are right now supported through law. It's more about deciding what it is we value and shifting away from very genetic, inbuilt, but poorly adapted to modern society tendencies toward laziness or aversion to work.

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