Yvain comments on It's all in your head-land - Less Wrong

32 Post author: colinmarshall 22 July 2009 07:41PM

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Comment author: Yvain 23 July 2009 12:17:54PM 6 points [-]

IAWYC and your examples reflect my own experience.

But unless there's some difference between the amount of planning, thinking, and daydreaming necessary for our ancestral environment and the amount of those things necessary now, evolutionary psychology at least provides some weak evidence that humans on average plan, think, and daydream about the right amount. That suggests that maybe the costs to asking people on dates and getting stuff done is balanced by benefits elsewhere.

Comment author: colinmarshall 23 July 2009 06:42:20PM 2 points [-]

This is an important consideration. I just can't figure out how to test it.