But for me (a cis man), that dynamic has no relation whatsoever to sexual attraction, except in the opposite direction (sexual attraction can make an interaction feel high-stakes). I think this is a difference between most cis men and most cis women.

I am not entirely sure that this is the case.

I once read an article about a woman who had done extraordinary well in a quiz-show style academic competition for college students and then watched a video of her team winning the final round of the championship because she answered all the questions herself, and my immediate reaction was "That was the sexiest thing I've ever seen".

There were probably a huge number of wooden tools that archaeologists have never seen because wood decays.

I know how this works because my father made a telescope mirror in our basement. (He had to get it silvered professionally, but he did all the glass grinding/polishing himself!)

One thing that humans do better than other primates is throwing. Spears and other stone weapons probably had something to do with this.

(do not take this too seriously)

The model in the paper seemst to assume the conclusion, but perhaps putting term limits on a dictator, if possible, might help with the general problem: it takes a while for the information getting to the dicator to become badly corrupted, so maybe don't let anyone stay dictator long enough for that to happen? On the other hand, making the dictator run mostly on priors instead of using power to get access to new information has its own set of drawbacks...

Thank you!

Are they easy to lose when they're not inside a book?

There are stories of people losing their jobs over social media posts - the stories I've heard have been about high school teachers getting fired over things like pictures of themselves on Facebook drinking at a party.

Right now I have a substantial amount of assets - most of which would be extremely difficult to liquidate or borrow against - but my income (and expected future income) is fairly low. So term life insurance is not going to be a good way to fund cryonics for me, just like it probably wouldn't be for a retired person. At the Cryonics Institute, standby costs an additional $45,000 - it would be a lot easier for me to pay $28,000 than $73,000.

1. Because humans anticipate becoming old and feeble, and would prefer not to be disenfranchised once that happens.

2. Because people who don't work often have relatives that do work that care about them. The Nazis actually tried this, and got pushback from families when they did try to kill people with severe mental illness and other disabilities.

3. As a matter of historical fact, there are lots of examples of certain groups of people being systematically excluded from having property rights, such as chattel slavery, coverture, and unemancipated minors.