Utility Maximizer's guide to replicators, networks, game theory, and civilization
Dates and Keyboards Have you ever wondered why clocks are seemingly base 12? Or why we use the Imperial system over the metric system? Or why we know degrees instead of radians? These are harmless, but here are some things that are not. The Gregorian calendar is bad. The QWERTY keyboard (which I’m using right … Continue reading Path-Dependence and Bottlenecks
If you have heard the “lover vs provider” dichotomy, I wish to elucidate its implications. Assuming that women’s sexual preferences are optimally adapted genetic success, there are exactly two distinct things that heterosexual woman will want romantically from a partner. First, a woman will desire a man with good genes, so that she may pass … Continue reading What women want
