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Those are some great points, especially about how women's identities change as I've seen that from some of my relatives. But just to be slightly different, I vi

Those are some great points, especially about how women's identities change as I've seen that from some of my relatives. But just to be slightly different, I view this as an observation of human nature in general rather than it necessarily being bad or good, although it does seem unfair. I doubt this will ever change unless we somehow genetically modify people to be more empathetic but could be jenga for something else.

internaut 10y ago
I share your concern about jenga! Evolution makes blithely shortsighted errors. We're about as intelligent as we are required to be in order to survive. We're stuck at local maxima at every level from the personal to the political and that is a problem. That is why using artificial aids like books for recording memories and genetic splicing is the right thing to do. Biology should not be accepted as Physics. It is alright to cheat and interfere. I will now sound like I'm contradicting myself but I'm not. Evolution has accomplished results with brute force that we do not comprehend. Some of those results appear stupid to us but there exist secret underlying patterns that are not available to our minds. Our instincts contain heaps of responses that we often regard as stupid e.g. blushing, jealousy but they are likely adaptions that helped us survive so we will require an understanding of their function. This is the great truth of conservatism and complex systems. Things are the way they are because reasons. That the proponents of this view can't explain themselves articulately is not relevant. The reasons are real. You are not your frontal cortex. That's just the Speaker in the house of parliament. That's why jenga is a problem. Jenga gives us the FDA. Jenga eventually produces a caste system. The great project is to somehow open a third door nobody has noticed. Let me know if you figure it out! Uncoincidentally I like Patri Friedman's idea of constructing seasteads. I don't want to sound like I'm allergic to work but real change is hard work! It is like everything interesting happens at edges of things.
- sebringj 10y ago
  That makes sense. There are plenty of evolutionary cruft we have though such as an appendix we don't need or the odd way the recurrent laryngeal nerve ended up. It does hint at room for improvement, however impossibly difficult that may be to predict what improvements are good.

internaut 10y ago

I share your concern about jenga! Evolution makes blithely shortsighted errors. We're about as intelligent as we are required to be in order to survive. We're stuck at local maxima at every level from the personal to the political and that is a problem. That is why using artificial aids like books for recording memories and genetic splicing is the right thing to do. Biology should not be accepted as Physics. It is alright to cheat and interfere. I will now sound like I'm contradicting myself but I'm not. Evolution has accomplished results with brute force that we do not comprehend. Some of those results appear stupid to us but there exist secret underlying patterns that are not available to our minds. Our instincts contain heaps of responses that we often regard as stupid e.g. blushing, jealousy but they are likely adaptions that helped us survive so we will require an understanding of their function. This is the great truth of conservatism and complex systems. Things are the way they are because reasons. That the proponents of this view can't explain themselves articulately is not relevant. The reasons are real. You are not your frontal cortex. That's just the Speaker in the house of parliament. That's why jenga is a problem. Jenga gives us the FDA. Jenga eventually produces a caste system. The great project is to somehow open a third door nobody has noticed. Let me know if you figure it out! Uncoincidentally I like Patri Friedman's idea of constructing seasteads. I don't want to sound like I'm allergic to work but real change is hard work! It is like everything interesting happens at edges of things.

sebringj 10y ago
That makes sense. There are plenty of evolutionary cruft we have though such as an appendix we don't need or the odd way the recurrent laryngeal nerve ended up. It does hint at room for improvement, however impossibly difficult that may be to predict what improvements are good.