It's always helpful to hear other opinions - and occasionally acceptable to listen to someone who so screwed up that it feels like Srinivasan has been dropped onto the planet by aliens. She couldn't be more screwed up if she tried.
By identifying as a utopian (google spell-check doesn't seem to like "utopiast", she forces herself to assum…
It's always helpful to hear other opinions - and occasionally acceptable to listen to someone who so screwed up that it feels like Srinivasan has been dropped onto the planet by aliens. She couldn't be more screwed up if she tried.
By identifying as a utopian (google spell-check doesn't seem to like "utopiast", she forces herself to assume that if people have exactly the same "perfect" lives, they will live in perfect harmony. She seems unable to understand that every single human society is managed by those that have power (through money, force, or other coercive means) over those who do not. That applies most obviously to the North Koreas and Chinas of the world, but applies in a different way to democratic societies like the USA in a frankly more insidious manner.
Therefore, her entire premise is impossible. If sex workers have the right to work as they wish, someone will be around to manage them and maximize their output to maximize their income and power. Elimination of gender will simply be replaced by a patriarchy equivalent...everyone must be queer in order for us to evolve beyond our historical tendencies.
I'd add her to my list of people that should be invited to go on one of Elon's one-way trips to Mars. That way, we'd be sending her home.
The idea of everyone the same is absolutely foiled by genetics, and the lottery of gene expression interacting with environment. Here's an extremely simplified one. There are 6 neurotransmitters that do most of the heavy lifting in the brain. If we wildly oversimplify and say that there are 3 settings, low, medium, and high, for each of those neurotransmitters, and there is one setting throughout the brain, this gives us 3^6 or 729 different basic brains.
If we then acknowledge just 6 different parts of the brain having different neurotransmitter settings, then for each of those 6, there are 729 possibilities, or 729^6 = 1.5E17
To date, around 117E9 (117 billion) humans have lived in the past 200,000 years. Our number of different brains is around 750 trillion times larger than all humans that ever lived.
But there are over 100 neurotransmitters, most of which we don't understand. You see where this is going. Let's call it (3^100)^6 = 1.873927704E286
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, has around 2.4E67 atoms.
The known universe may have as many as 10^82 atoms in it.
But human brains are much more complex than this oversimplification. And we have drives to power, that are innate. We have drives to reproduce that are innate. No question about this.
On top of that, the brain is about 10% of the mass of our nervous system. As part of a gene therapy experiment, I learned that our extended "brain" is very much what determines what we feel ourselves to be. We tend to mentally model the brain as the "computer" that sits in our head, and the rest of it as "just wires". But all of that extended system that is "us" learns. It is integrated with the immune system. People like Wim Hof have proven that with training we can control our immune response.
Generally, when I talk to women about this, they either laugh or look at me as if there was something wrong with me when I suggest that people think of themselves as inside their head. Men, though, do tend to think this. It's just wrong.
And hey there! I would go to Mars. It's the next frontier where we will truly have Terra Nullis.
It's always helpful to hear other opinions - and occasionally acceptable to listen to someone who so screwed up that it feels like Srinivasan has been dropped onto the planet by aliens. She couldn't be more screwed up if she tried.
By identifying as a utopian (google spell-check doesn't seem to like "utopiast", she forces herself to assume that if people have exactly the same "perfect" lives, they will live in perfect harmony. She seems unable to understand that every single human society is managed by those that have power (through money, force, or other coercive means) over those who do not. That applies most obviously to the North Koreas and Chinas of the world, but applies in a different way to democratic societies like the USA in a frankly more insidious manner.
Therefore, her entire premise is impossible. If sex workers have the right to work as they wish, someone will be around to manage them and maximize their output to maximize their income and power. Elimination of gender will simply be replaced by a patriarchy equivalent...everyone must be queer in order for us to evolve beyond our historical tendencies.
I'd add her to my list of people that should be invited to go on one of Elon's one-way trips to Mars. That way, we'd be sending her home.
The idea of everyone the same is absolutely foiled by genetics, and the lottery of gene expression interacting with environment. Here's an extremely simplified one. There are 6 neurotransmitters that do most of the heavy lifting in the brain. If we wildly oversimplify and say that there are 3 settings, low, medium, and high, for each of those neurotransmitters, and there is one setting throughout the brain, this gives us 3^6 or 729 different basic brains.
If we then acknowledge just 6 different parts of the brain having different neurotransmitter settings, then for each of those 6, there are 729 possibilities, or 729^6 = 1.5E17
To date, around 117E9 (117 billion) humans have lived in the past 200,000 years. Our number of different brains is around 750 trillion times larger than all humans that ever lived.
But there are over 100 neurotransmitters, most of which we don't understand. You see where this is going. Let's call it (3^100)^6 = 1.873927704E286
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, has around 2.4E67 atoms.
The known universe may have as many as 10^82 atoms in it.
But human brains are much more complex than this oversimplification. And we have drives to power, that are innate. We have drives to reproduce that are innate. No question about this.
On top of that, the brain is about 10% of the mass of our nervous system. As part of a gene therapy experiment, I learned that our extended "brain" is very much what determines what we feel ourselves to be. We tend to mentally model the brain as the "computer" that sits in our head, and the rest of it as "just wires". But all of that extended system that is "us" learns. It is integrated with the immune system. People like Wim Hof have proven that with training we can control our immune response.
Generally, when I talk to women about this, they either laugh or look at me as if there was something wrong with me when I suggest that people think of themselves as inside their head. Men, though, do tend to think this. It's just wrong.
And hey there! I would go to Mars. It's the next frontier where we will truly have Terra Nullis.