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

From the New World

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The Tension Between Evolution and Cultural Hedonism

There's a tension between cultural understanding of evolution and the kind of, you know, genetic or kind of like biological evolution. People conserve energy both in terms of thought and actual like calorie burning. Finding a partner takes a lot of work if you don't live in a society that handles it for you. We do not hear people going out and trying that hard again because their suicide rate is high.

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