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David Chapman
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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 30 Aug 2019
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      If there were street drugs that temporarily changed sexual orientation, in either direction…How many gay people would choose to be straight, to avoid discrimination? How many straight people would choose to be gay, to avoid the difficult issues in mixed-sex relationships? 1/

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    2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 30 Aug 2019
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      How many high-openness people would flip occasionally out of curiosity, or because they wanted to find out if a romantic/sexual relationship was possible with a friend of the “wrong” sex? Would bisexuality become the social default in some cultures? 2/

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    3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 30 Aug 2019
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      It looks unlikely that we will get answers to these questions, because behavioral genetics is unhelpful. It’s amazing that psychopharmacology works at all, considering that it now appears all mental/behavioral traits depend on thousands of genes. 3/3 https://www.broadinstitute.org/news/perspectives-complex-genetics-same-sex-sexual-behavior …pic.twitter.com/VB9SDVycyV

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 30 Aug 2019
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      Oh, and relevantly, a fascinating speculation about why behavioral genetics is so complicated. (Spoiler: security by obscurity, to foil behavior-manipulating parasites.) Work by Marco del Giudice, commentary by @slatestarcodex [4/3]https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/08/19/maybe-your-zoloft-stopped-working-because-a-liver-fluke-tried-to-turn-your-nth-great-grandmother-into-a-zombie/ …

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        2.  〰️Kate Chandler 〰️‏ @kateycanuck 30 Aug 2019
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          That's super interesting. Just bought this... have you read it? https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01824YMCM/ref=pe_386430_122412850_TE_DP …

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        3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 30 Aug 2019
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          Thanks for the pointer; I hadn’t seen it. @edyong209 is terrific; it’s bound to be good!

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        1. Lucas HowAreWeGoingToDoThis Gonzalez‏ @lucasgonzalez 1 Sep 2019
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          And then there's jazz. With levels of complexity that go over our heads, such that we end up whistling (with teeth that evolved for eating, but you know) at the level we can manage, and so be it if we're hijacked by reality. Because agents in the brain...https://youtu.be/lz3WR-F_pnM 

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        1. W.V.O. Chloroquine‏ @ekstasis 31 Aug 2019
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          Point 5 there really pleasantly confirms this prior of mine.https://twitter.com/ekstasis/status/1034290624546185217 …

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          This tracks a theory I’ve held for a long time, that depression is basically an adaptive defense against a kind of chronic life-or-death stress that’s rarely experienced any more in the Western world.
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