If one person becomes much more attractive, that mostly benefits them, because they move up in the status competition....
We already have this fantastic circumstance, it’s just called clothes. Some people choose to dress up, some don’t, some...
I think a weaker and still desirable outcome to The End Of Beauty Standards is that people won’t fixate all on the same...
So…I think that there are (at least) two mostly-separate psychological phenomena that manifest as The Dream of Being...
Endorsed.Additionally, is not a world where beauty is determined by how fashionable you are, and not how you were born,...
That’s only true if the thing in question is 100% positional. If it has both a positional and absolute component, then...
I think the actual position that people unconsciously hold is that we’ll stop having beauty standards, in the same way...
Beauty has two parts: the status from being beautiful (I am using beautiful to mean any kind of physical aesthetic...
Count me as totally down for a world where I have perfect posture and skin made of advanced polymer composites and I...
IMO it’d obviously change a ton even if everyone got upgraded. Comparative status is not the only way in which people...
beauty is not just a positional good, or at least it doesn’t feel like it. improving everyone’s looks would make things...
sometimes I fantasize about how nice it’d be to just automatically look really great all the time, like perfect skin,...