Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

  • Question on Polygamy

    QUESTION ON POLYGAMY Because it just came up again, opinions on polygamy, for each:

    1. Scientific,
    2. Pragmatic
    3. Moral
    4. Traditional
    5. Christian

    Personally I think it’s like prostitution: something you would not want for your own children, but is understandable for people who ‘otherwise fail’. Under P-Law it’s not marriage, but an exchange of powers of attorney, including for the internal sexual commons. I can’t think of it other than negatively.

  • Reproduction: History is unkindly truthful

    Reproduction: History is unkindly truthful. https://t.co/8naDvoUaGA

  • Reproduction: History is unkindly truthful

    Reproduction: History is unkindly truthful. https://propertarianism.com/2020/06/01/reproduction-history-is-unkindly-truthful/


    Source date (UTC): 2020-06-01 13:28:46 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1267448000768552966

  • Reproduction: History is unkindly truthful.

    History is unkindly truthful. About 30% of women are undesirable and fit only for labor. About 70% of men are undesirable and fit only for labor. What’s not obvious is that by the continuous production of eugenics in europe, we drastically reduced undesirable men and women, producing a majority genetic middle class, such that monogamy, the nuclear family, and property, were possible – even if some of us remained poor due to limited agrarian opportunity – making possible the colonial expansion using reserves of the genetic middle class. Y’all take this miracle of western civlization for granted. Now if we apply eugenics to the lower classes, filter out the intolerable, problematic, costly, and unproductive and keep pace with automation, and if we return to an emphasis on physical fitness, manners, and norms, we can hopefully restore the ‘desirability’ of enough men and women to restore demand for the family as the compromise between the genders. But if not we’re gonna return to the poverty of the rest of the world – a world that within one or two generations might just return to starvation.

  • Reproduction: History is unkindly truthful.

    History is unkindly truthful. About 30% of women are undesirable and fit only for labor. About 70% of men are undesirable and fit only for labor. What’s not obvious is that by the continuous production of eugenics in europe, we drastically reduced undesirable men and women, producing a majority genetic middle class, such that monogamy, the nuclear family, and property, were possible – even if some of us remained poor due to limited agrarian opportunity – making possible the colonial expansion using reserves of the genetic middle class. Y’all take this miracle of western civlization for granted. Now if we apply eugenics to the lower classes, filter out the intolerable, problematic, costly, and unproductive and keep pace with automation, and if we return to an emphasis on physical fitness, manners, and norms, we can hopefully restore the ‘desirability’ of enough men and women to restore demand for the family as the compromise between the genders. But if not we’re gonna return to the poverty of the rest of the world – a world that within one or two generations might just return to starvation.

  • The Utility and Disutility of Polygamy

    The Utility and Disutility of Polygamy https://t.co/z0VPc4ox00

  • The Utility and Disutility of Polygamy

    The Utility and Disutility of Polygamy https://propertarianism.com/2020/06/01/the-utility-and-disutility-of-polygamy/


    Source date (UTC): 2020-06-01 13:27:55 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1267447790541701121

  • The Utility and Disutility of Polygamy

    THE UTILITY AND DISUTILITY OF POLYGAMY by Martin Štěpán Polygamy works just fine when the group’s strategy is to conquer other groups and take their women but in a society that is a closed system, there is a finite number of women and letting them naturally distribute in Pareto distribution will leave disenfranchised men with the only option of conquering men from their own society to have a chance at a woman of their own. The parallel zero-sum game to his I can think of is land. If all land in the nation’s territory was owned by the few leaving most men without realistic chance to own any by legal means, they will go to war.

  • The Utility and Disutility of Polygamy

    THE UTILITY AND DISUTILITY OF POLYGAMY by Martin Štěpán Polygamy works just fine when the group’s strategy is to conquer other groups and take their women but in a society that is a closed system, there is a finite number of women and letting them naturally distribute in Pareto distribution will leave disenfranchised men with the only option of conquering men from their own society to have a chance at a woman of their own. The parallel zero-sum game to his I can think of is land. If all land in the nation’s territory was owned by the few leaving most men without realistic chance to own any by legal means, they will go to war.

  • Are Children Human or Potentially Human?

    Are Children Human or Potentially Human? https://t.co/Cvbqm80Des