I was going to respond to Alan (and by implication any INCEL) along the lines Matt just did, suggesting an exercise regimen as an urgent priority. He knows whereof he speaks.
Hind brains control reproductive priorities and are largely geared toward the paleolithic. This applies to women just as it does to men. Exercise to increase muscle mass increases testosterone among other benefits. The female's hind brain responds to this. Also, do some research on the age-sex pyramid of various locales and move to one where the M:F ratio is reproductively in the favor of males. This has an outsized impact on hind brains analogous to pH curves. Be wary of your own hind brain getting out of control in an environment heavily favoring males. Circa late 1970s, an engineer friend of mine who was being psychologically damaged by the large M:F ratio at the UofIL CU moved to the UofFL Tallahassee to set up a computer music lab. Suddenly he found himself in a reversed M:F ratio and became so choosey that he very nearly ended up with no children. Then he moved to Silicon Valley, back into the pit of M:F Hell and started spiralling down. That's when I advised him to do as many engineers in a similar situation were doing: Marry an east Asian. He has a couple of kids, now grown. He went through a lesser Ring of Hell in this and ended up losing a $1.5M house in a divorce. The moral of the story, just get the Hell out and stay out of high M:F environments. On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 8:11 AM Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote: > When I taught computer science a few years ago at Florida Tech, both > students and faculty were 90% male. The encode.su data compression forum > where I was active for many years is even more male dominated, although I > don't know for sure because many of the members go by pseudonyms, possibly > to hide their gender to fit in. Data compression is a very competitive type > of programming. > > I don't think that bias against women in STEM is entirely to blame. There > are biological differences in brains that explain why autism spectrum is > more prevalent in boys. The parts of the brain that don't develop social > skills in face recognition and language are used instead for math and > logic. But it's not hopeless. It just takes longer to learn these social > skills to be successful in your relationships. > > Alan, don't give up. I'm 64 and I met my wife on match.com 2 years ago. > Prior to that I had to figure out dating all over again and had several > rejections. I took them as lessons, stuff I should have learned as a > socially isolated teenager 40 years later. > > Do something for your health and exercise. If anything, it will make you > more attractive and you can meet women in fitness groups whether its yoga, > CrossFit, or running. Make friends in Facebook and stay away from politics. > *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + delivery > options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T13ece356b5584ae3-Mb2f2b3de2f867b27191cb3e2> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T13ece356b5584ae3-M0b9812f76eeeb780d61dcfdb Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
