[taneq]

> Sometimes I wonder if humans have hard wired deep neural nets that recognize parts of the male and female anatomy [...]

As a teen I tried to figure out exactly what it is about breasts that's so great. I ended up coming to the conclusion that it's just a hardwired hack... Somewhere in my head there's the equivalent of

    if (object.type == boobs) object.value = 100; // HACK!

> Manipulating these neural networks in our brain would be the perfect strategy for an evil AI to take over the world... :/

Sex sells. Most of advertising has been based on it forever.

[Fjolsvith]

I personally did a lot of classification of my personal preferences when I was younger also.

When I saw a model that I felt an attraction to, I would study her features until I could say, "Her eyebrows" or "Her lips" were what I found attractive. After years of this, I knew what my ideal idol would look like.

Its funny, now that I am married happily, that my wife doesn't look anything like that idol. I value her love, companionship, loyalty, and other traits of behaviour, more that her appearance.

[taneq]

After a lot of pondering, I figured out that my ideal was an average of all the women I'd ever cared about (in any context), weighted by total emotion I'd felt for them.