Will_Newsome comments on Thou Art Godshatter - Less Wrong

68 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 13 November 2007 07:38PM

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 14 November 2007 12:57:52AM 6 points [-]

If we could barely arrange to have enough sex to cause 2 pregnancies per lifetime, then we would have a revulsion of condoms, oral sex, etc.

If that were true in the ancestral environment, and we had access to contraception in the AE, yes. I doubt a person who now found themselves in this situation would develop this revulsion.

I've read about africans who specificly get hungry for meat, who identify the specific feeling of protein deficiency.

[anecdote] Is this surprising? I've always been able to tell whether or not I need proteins/carbohydrates/fat (usually acting accordingly), and kind of assumed other people had the same sense. Of course, this is a fairly weak sense; calorie-rich food still tastes good when I've had too much, and it still takes willpower to stop eating it. [/anecdote]

Comment author: Will_Newsome 22 July 2010 09:57:05PM 0 points [-]

TAWME, but I'm not sure if it is a consciously learned introspective behavior or something that I just picked up or developed without effort. FWIW I've only really noticed and acted on it for the last year or two.

Comment author: MaxNanasy 20 May 2012 08:34:37AM 1 point [-]

What does "TAWME" mean?

Comment author: RichardKennaway 20 May 2012 09:46:58AM 2 points [-]

"This Agrees With My Experience".