Research && Reflection
An insightful evolutionary psychology paper from Norway, in which the authors analyze the different struggles men and women face in today’s dating environment, in particular a phenomena of women being ‘Involuntarily Single’ in relation to the experiences of ‘Involuntarily Celibate’ men. To quote a part of the article I found quite surprising/intriguing:
“A woman and her parents have overlapping interests, but there are also genetic conflicts (Kennair & Biegler, 2017). The woman will benefit more from getting good genes from an attractive man than what her parents will. If he proves to be a bad provider, she may have to seek help from her parents, which poses a burden on them . Being perceived as sexy was therefore less of an advantage when parents had a strong say in spouse selection.”
Make your beliefs pay rent! By simply shaving the beliefs which consistently fail to help you predict the future, described by E. Yudkowsky in one of his famous blogposts on rationality The Sequences, you can easily improve the quality of your world model, and thus also your ability to literally predict the future. An intuitive proof is that if you were to discard your least rational 50% of beliefs your remaining set of beliefs would form a higher quality map of the terrain that is space-time.
