[avazhi]

No, there’s not.

The evolutionary process is pretty adept at rigorously excluding most personality and physical variants out of all the available options. Pretending otherwise is naive ahistorical nonsense.

[arthurofbabylon]

But is that not a place? Our civilization has become infinite… “all the available options” is an enormous category that in some societies does include quite literally everyone.

(I suggest reading the piece – the author deals with whether or not the underlying hypothesis is true versus useful early on.)

[avazhi]

I read the piece.

Our society is certainly not infinite economically or as a matter of what is acceptable socially, and while different cultures have varying degrees of acceptability in terms of plausible occupations and behaviour, they are still obviously bounded.

The hypothesis is neither useful not true, which makes the article uninteresting at best.

[01HNNWZ0MV43FF]

Sometimes I think I must be an evolutionary dead end, and that gels with the fact that I don't want children.

Or specifically, I wouldn't mind the good parts of having one or two children, but I could not bear the responsibility