Only I doubt that because I don’t see how you can de-experience them psychologically to undo the damage from having all those sterile sexual encounters the first time around.
be careful: there’s a decent amount of variance in how people respond to things. Maybe some people are “damaged” by having a lot of non-procreative sexual encounters. Maybe this applies particularly to women. But I highly doubt that it’s a uniform effect.
So, yes, I do find it plausible that most women probably lack the inner resources to handle radical life extension, given the limited nature of their lives under current circumstances.
Do you seriously think there’ll be a big gender difference? BTW I am definitely not particularly politically correct with respect to gender politics and I’ve read the blogs you mention, but as a rationalist I am not sure you’re on sound footing here. Yes, men and women are different (on average!) psychologically.
But if women didn’t physically age and men didn’t physically age why would the average woman deal with immortality by committing suicide more quickly than the average man? Is there any contemporary analogue of a woman having a family and suddenly being biologically 18 again that we can generalize from? I suspect you could look at women from affluent backgrounds who got pregnant at a young age and see what they did in, e.g. their late 30s. Sill, that’s considered “old” by society, and there is a decent amount of sexism and sexist taboo which kind of shoehorns such people in some ways, though this is decreasing.
On the other side men in their 40s and 50s definitely seem to want to be 20 again. We call it a mid-life crisis!
Basically I think you are extrapolating into fairly unknown territory, and what I do think we can extrapolate seems to point to just a lot of variability based on personality, life-philosophy, etc.
Though I suppose the fact that “mid life crisis/buying a sports car and a leather jacket” is associated with men does count as evidence in favour of your hypothesis.
be careful: there’s a decent amount of variance in how people respond to things. Maybe some people are “damaged” by having a lot of non-procreative sexual encounters. Maybe this applies particularly to women. But I highly doubt that it’s a uniform effect.
Do you seriously think there’ll be a big gender difference? BTW I am definitely not particularly politically correct with respect to gender politics and I’ve read the blogs you mention, but as a rationalist I am not sure you’re on sound footing here. Yes, men and women are different (on average!) psychologically.
But if women didn’t physically age and men didn’t physically age why would the average woman deal with immortality by committing suicide more quickly than the average man? Is there any contemporary analogue of a woman having a family and suddenly being biologically 18 again that we can generalize from? I suspect you could look at women from affluent backgrounds who got pregnant at a young age and see what they did in, e.g. their late 30s. Sill, that’s considered “old” by society, and there is a decent amount of sexism and sexist taboo which kind of shoehorns such people in some ways, though this is decreasing.
On the other side men in their 40s and 50s definitely seem to want to be 20 again. We call it a mid-life crisis!
Basically I think you are extrapolating into fairly unknown territory, and what I do think we can extrapolate seems to point to just a lot of variability based on personality, life-philosophy, etc.
Though I suppose the fact that “mid life crisis/buying a sports car and a leather jacket” is associated with men does count as evidence in favour of your hypothesis.