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π’ˆ—π’‘'s avatar

Informative article, I would suggest not deleting it.

Sage Alfields's avatar

Informative article, delete it to keep its secrets to yourself.

Beyond the Surface by Veronica's avatar

Please don’t delete I just posted on upscroll because it is a very informative piece … Hope you get more followers and supporters as a result of sharing πŸ™

PB's avatar

How much is religious attendance a confounder with low body count? I am just guessing that people who have a low body count are substantially more likely to regularly attend religious services or gatherings, and those people tend to be happier than other people, and I think less neurotic as well. And I think I read somewhere that neuroticism has one of the strongest negative correlations with marital satisfaction. My guess is that if there is some society somewhere where body count and low neuroticism are correlated, you would see a strong positive correlation between body count and marital satisfaction.

Wolliver's avatar

β€œFree will does not exist”

Care to explain that one a little deeper? Crazy thing to drop for a footnote. Are you suggesting that the universe behaves deterministically according to the laws of physics, or do you believe there is a spiritual dimension to these guardrails?

Sebastian Jensen's avatar

Yes, I also don't think the incel vs volcel dichotomy is useful because most people would want to be in a relationship with the right person

Wolliver's avatar

I think free will is real, although I also think the vol/in dichotomy is fake. It isn’t about just having sex (hookers exist) and it isn’t just about not having a relationship (you can probably scrape someone off the gutter somewhere). It’s more about having a fulfilling relationship with someone who is an appropriate match for you. And in that sense almost everyone is incel.

Adam's avatar

He definitely (imo) believes in secular determinism.

NginxUser's avatar

This may be a wild guess, but is Sebastian Jensen the author of the Nuance Pill Substack under an alt account? There's a lot of overlap in point of view between the two, and SJ's views on things like hereditarianism seems to line up with what NP has hinted at in the few times he's mentioned it.

Sebastian Jensen's avatar

No but we are kindred souls

Joe Biden's avatar

Now that I think about it I see a lot of parallels.

Carlos's avatar

Quite honestly I have a problem with the underlying model itself. That long-lasting, monogamous marriage is an obvious good or the only correct relationship model, and then just testing people's suitability for it, and framing being not well suitable for it as a failure of a kind. I think expecting relationship stability in a world where everything is unstable is not wise.

bonerpilled's avatar

Excellent post.

John Smith's avatar

Disagree on the β€œhoe phase is ok” take. If we’re just going on rates of infidelity, impulsive/low-contentiousness/thrill-seeking personalities are in a league of their own, and those traits are what track with the behaviours you’re talking about.