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43 Post author: lukeprog 19 March 2011 11:10PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 March 2011 11:25:46PM 5 points [-]

Well, the problem with e.g. the number of women who enjoy lowering male status and the number of men who enjoy their status being lowered is that group 1 << group 2 to a degree unsolvable with any realistic harem size.

Comment author: Psy-Kosh 24 March 2011 11:53:03PM *  0 points [-]

Hrm... Fair enough then. (Actually, to what extent are there stats on that sort of thing available? ie, do we actually know that in that case the the ratio is that bad?)

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 March 2011 11:54:27PM 1 point [-]

IIRC there are stats and it is that bad.

Comment author: Psy-Kosh 25 March 2011 12:16:30AM 3 points [-]

Yet another way in which the world fails to be optimized, in that case. To borrow a reddit meme: "Scumbag Reality"

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