mexican standoffs but for hooking up
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this is no joke tbh in any kind of domestic or private dispute, filing first is vital to making sure the clumsy destructive institutions that adjudicate such things on your side because fellas they dont change sides after the first volley
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Replying to @eigenrobot
fuck we are so done for if this is how things are now
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Replying to @danlistensto
yeah I have personal stories I'm not willing to share on Twitter but this is How Things Are Done
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Replying to @eigenrobot @danlistensto
my solution in college was: 1. don't drink 2. don't hook up with women looking back I'm...actually quite satisfied with those choices
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Replying to @sgodofsk @danlistensto
I did lots of (1) and (2) and I'm also satisfied but I'm not sure I would do the same today the aughts' temporal egregore was insane in some ways but much, much more reasonable in others
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Replying to @eigenrobot @sgodofsk
why do we (collectively, not you and I) suck at making rules that work as intended? we shouldn't be surprised that if you hand someone a gun they will shoot someone with it.
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Replying to @danlistensto @sgodofsk
there was a tyler cowen piece about this a while ago, or maybe someone else at GMU basically the world is rife with opportunities for defection from eusocial norms and its just kind of remarkable that people almost never take these opportunities
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my guess is that novel situations havent developed . . . whatever protective coating older situations have and so are more ripe for exploitation or maybe framing another way artificial regulations dont have the evolutionary stability of emergent norms
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Replying to @eigenrobot @sgodofsk
well they have no selection pressure at all. now there's an idea I'd like to see. regulations with death dates incorporated. they have to be reproduced by some means or else they perish outright.
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this seems like a good legislative policy yeah possibly not judicial though? hm
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we've been doing that a lot recently, sunset provisions exploding precedent would require a completely different legal system though yeah
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