gwern comments on Humans are not automatically strategic - Less Wrong

153 Post author: AnnaSalamon 08 September 2010 07:02AM

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Comment author: katydee 09 September 2010 03:25:31PM 1 point [-]

Uh, what's the mechanism there?

Comment author: gwern 09 September 2010 04:00:03PM 2 points [-]

Presumably sublimation. At least, Freud's sublimation reminds me a heck of a lot of the Tantric Buddhism and Taoist ideas of collecting ch'i from sexual activities (or lack thereof) and using it for other purposes.