asr comments on Using Evolution for Marriage or Sex - Less Wrong

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Comment author: asr 12 May 2013 12:58:40PM 5 points [-]

If having epsilon much less sex would make us less happy, then having epsilon much more sex would make us happier, unless we are at exactly the local optimum, which sounds unlikely a priori.

Human preference doesn't consider gains and losses symmetrically. We are dramatically more sensitive to losses than to gains.