So this 'human extinction via VR/fake fitness signals/amusing ourselves to death' thesis - isn't this obviously wrong? Media consumption & fertility are heritable as anything else & respond to selection. It'd require absurdly indefinitely escalating selection to drive extinction.
Was trying to draw a connection with absorption into luxury tech & homosexuality/celibacy as reproductive dead ends. The analogy is everyone has the capacity, just takes conditioning?Simplifying out the mechanisms
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Are you trying to say that homosexuality is merely environmental conditioning...? By whom?
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Whoa no I think its more likely part genetic, part social and part whatever's in the water. But that's just my intuition talking since I don't study this stuff much.
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I guess what I'm saying is there are scenarios where a personal anti-reproductive behavior is upregulated. Homosexuality or priesthood will never be so common to threaten population fertility. That's fantasy. Addiction on the other hand is a more realistic.
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