@protectedinfoil@awful.systems
2026-09-04 16:48 UTC
EY has recapitulated a ton of bullshit he learned as a teenager hanging out on the Extropians listserv with older shitty libertarian dudes. The archives are like a proto-LW, with conversations about race and intelligence, sex and kinks, gender differences, armchair geopolitics, etc, mixed in with fantasizing about the glorious transhuman future. I don’t know that anyone was using poly as a term at that point, but everything I’ve read about the Extropians suggests they were eager early adopters of bullshit Evo-psych ideas about men having “evolved” to fuck lots of women.
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@blakestacey@awful.systems 2026-09-04 20:18
Whereas the successful polyamorists know that humans evolved in order to use calendar software.
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@CinnasVerses@awful.systems 2026-09-05 01:49
Oof, if he was raised by Internet Libertarians, I understand why he became such a shitty person. Sex at Dawn came out in 2010 and was heavily hyped online. It does not seem to have got positive attention in academia.