Wesley Fenza

Husband, father, family attorney, political junkie, atheist, relationship anarchist. Writer of Living Within Reason. Host of the Mind Killer podcast.

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Men and Women are Not That Different

Wesley Fenza

Mar 10

Oh no. Jacob’s been so good lately but he takes a very wrong turn her into evopsych. This is one of the worst habits of rationalists. I blame Yudkowsky.

Understanding how men and women actually are requires observation. Evopsych takes the observations of others and attempts to backfill in an explanation based on extremely sparse data abou…

the varied gendered observations in the book lack the sort of unifying framework that evolutionary psychology provides. The proper use of ev psych is not to extrapolate just-so stories about what men and women are from some anthropological factoid, but to understand how men and women actually are through the logic of social survival and sexual selection. Without it, a lot of MMWV comes across as inexplicable as an alien encounter.

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Wesley Fenza

Mar 2

This is what I say to people when they say society shouldn’t embrace polyamory because people are naturally jealous

Yes, people often care about relative status. Just like people are sometimes greedy, hateful, and envious. The answer is to decide what’s pro-social and then encourage the traits that lead to the outcomes we want

Richard Hanania