TTT: Proof That The Future Can Have Causal Effects On The Past

Note: These takes are totally tacos!

Can future causes have effects on the past? Weird sex stuff argues yes!

Our least productive people have been slowly squeezed out of the labor force by technology. If the labor one can provide isn’t worth at least a few dollars an hour it’s literally no longer worth employing them. Let’s assume that this trend continues as our tools (including new thinking tools) advance.

There will be a time in the maybe-near future where possibly half the population does not have the capacity to learn the skills needed to productively contribute to the economy. Indeed, there will be a time not too long after that where only the top 1% of humans have the combination of traits and abilities that make it possible for them to contribute anything that isn’t done better and cheaper by machines that are too cheap to meter. What will all those 99% people do?

Well, while most people create value through work, there’s a subset of people who are valued intrinsically. By a quirk of human psychology, their mere existence is valuable. I speak, of course, of hot chicks. Rich dudes are happier spending lot more money supporting a harem of ladies than pretty much any other population.¹

“But we can’t all be hot ladies!” you protest. Not so fast! In the 99% unemployable future we’ll be at the level of tech where we’ve all got full morphological freedom.

“But not everyone wants to be a hot chick!” you protest. Yes, on this we can agree. In fact, you’d think that only women would be happy being hot women, and the 50% of the population that’s male would be screwed, having to either live destitute or live with dysmorphia.

But through a strange coincidence it just so happens that a lot of men are perfectly happy to be hot chicks if they can have a lot of hot lesbian sex with other hot chicks! Scientists say up to 80% of men have some level of AGP, and they’ve never found any man that isn’t into hot lesbians. And let’s face it, in a harem of 1-dude to 99-women, you’ll almost exclusively be having hot lesbian sex.

This is doubly perfect because young men can still initially try their hand at the production game, try to see if they have what it takes to make it big. Shoot that shot! If you hit, awesome, you’ve made the world better by contributing to our growing utopia, and you get tons of status and money. If not, no big deal, you switch to being a hot chick and still have a fantastic eternity.

What are the chances that our species just happened to evolve with a psychological quirk that makes guys happy to switch their sex under exactly these conditions? What are the chances that as we get closer to a time when such a switch becomes both possible and necessary, the rates of AGP start climbing steadily?? It’s almost like some force from the future saw that the only way humans could be happy in a bizarre post-singularity future is if they have this One Weird Psychological Quirk and forced it to evolve in humans, despite it having no evolutionary value! And it’s now manifesting in ever-growing force.

Is this absolutely incontrovertible evidence? Maybe not… but if you were even 5% confident that things in the future can affect things in the past, you should now be a believer.

Like all Taco Takes, this should not be taken seriously.

1. In fact, all humans appear more happy to spend more resources on women in full generality