I think the start of this Rumor Arc was the point where this series went downhill. I have a few takes that haven't been articulated here yet:
1) It is actually in character for Ema to slander the MC. Since the very beginning of the manga, it's been established that she's a pushover in her own...
Yeah, assuming practically no polygyny and positive population growth, it would necessitate a human-version of the eusocial insect setup, where a fertile queen specializes in reproduction because that has to be a full-time job now.
The social status of the males relative to the queens and...
So I've caught up with all the chapters of this series now, and most of this is basically solved by the author stating that the 1:5 ratio is a recent development. In chapter 10 page 19 one of the harem girl's mother says that "You have to experience romance while you're still in school...
Well we actually both agree that humans will turn out the way they do based on ancestral factors. That's also what I'm arguing. What we disagree is how much those ancestral factors would be influenced by the 1:5 ratio. You're saying the ratio obviously will make women the dominant force. I'm...
I believe you're making some very unrealistic extrapolations from the ideal concept of monogamy to how it plays out in real populations. There's a few points here:
1. In many premodern cultures there simply wasn't an expecation of monogamy. That's mostly a modern, western thing. Examples of...
Hey, so I just discovered this series today and looked into the comments for some interesting takes. I appreciate your posts here, I think the "gender reversed society" trope deserves more thought in the world building, so it's nice to read the discussion (I scrolled through all of it to the...
I've never read Unsong, though I mean to. Scott Alexander is the SSC blog guy yes? His blog is good. I was about to say I enjoyed his other fiction like The Metropolitan Man (superman ratfic) but after googling it I see that it's actually a different Alexander...
You may or may not enjoy HPMOR...
I mean, I think it doesn't matter if he's a good philosopher or not since that doesn't really affect your experience of this story. To me, it's clear that a lot of the hate for him as an author (not philosopher) is very mis-informed and sophomoric. It has the smell of people hopping on a...