there are reasons to think this effect is plausible and its fun to imagine the effect of introducing systematic hormonal contraceptives to a population en masse
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specifically, there are a few things going on: -a lot of hormonal bc is not prescribed according to body mass, let alone other factors that influence efficacy and side effects -bc can suppress testosterone levels, which can contribute to weight gain, which in turn...
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Replying to @selentelechia @eigenrobot and
...suppresses testosterone levels. This has all kinds of effects depending on the individual: anxiety, depression, giving up earlier after failure (frustration tolerance), libido.... -imagine slightly tweaking the hormone cocktail for over half of the women in the US alone...
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Replying to @selentelechia @eigenrobot and
...and it becomes plausible that this could have sociological impacts at that scale
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Replying to @selentelechia @eigenrobot and
I am almost certain this was my theory first :P
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Replying to @orthonormalist @eigenrobot and
you were the one to suggest DHA supplementation for me several years ago! the testosterone suppression thing I got from our mutual acquaintance first, I think? unless you were the one to link that to me. but his post on it has been deleted :/
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Replying to @selentelechia @eigenrobot and
Test suppression came from elsewhere, I think I proposed the body mass link because of (wife), my significant efforts trying to help her with her BC issues, and then my dwelling on the system effect on shifting where the edges of the bell curve came from.
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Replying to @orthonormalist @selentelechia and
Then asking my sister about her immediate experience pre and post BC, and how she went from powering through bio labs to breaking down crying in the middle.
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Replying to @orthonormalist @eigenrobot and
ah right! I legit forgot you were the source of most of this lol, sorry
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Replying to @selentelechia @eigenrobot and
:V It's okay, I only talk about it at HUN and on Twitter because lol talk about something that might get me in trouble. Imagine a substance that has a 10% chance to make you rabidly defend the use of the substance, but also puts you into socially sanctioned holy positions!
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so lsd
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Replying to @eigenrobot @selentelechia and
LSD doesn't bring out personality traits that put you into the ontocracy
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