Daniel_Burfoot comments on Unknown knowns: Why did you choose to be monogamous? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Daniel_Burfoot 26 June 2010 01:57:00PM 13 points [-]

Polyamories of any kind are necessarily more complicated.

This seems like the core point. Monogamy isn't necessarily optimal, but it's a good satisficing solution to a bounded rationality problem.

Comment author: Blueberry 26 June 2010 04:36:16PM 5 points [-]

It seems to not satisfy some people, however.