I think there is a place for a general retrodictive/predictive theory of fetishes and sexual and pornographic preferences, but this article is awfully empirical, inductive, why, Baconian, even, if I may say so myself. I couldn’t imagine doing model-free learning in this domain.
If you had claimed that there had been a surprisingly smooth increase in trends toward incestuous and violent pornographic video titles, I might have believed the implication here.
The scariest outputs of my model of the interaction between relatively constant human sexual psychology and ever-changing modern human environments are highly specific, conjunctive, superstimulating fetishes, of which incest and nonconsent only scratch the surface, by dint of their nonconjunctiveness; this also seems to retrodict my anecdotal experience of the strong correlation between strength and specificity of sexual preference, but there might be multiple clusters there.
But I strongly suspect that discontinuous, or sharp and continuous, jumps, in the apparent pornographic preferences of consumers, are almost always a sign of a sudden change in the beliefs of producers about consumers, and not a sharp change in consumer preferences per se.
Hi Gram, I’d be interested in your theory if you’d like to offer it! Generally my feeling is that the realm of porn analysis lacks good data, and thanks to the relatively-new surplus of text embeddings we now have more.
I think there is a place for a general retrodictive/predictive theory of fetishes and sexual and pornographic preferences, but this article is awfully empirical, inductive, why, Baconian, even, if I may say so myself. I couldn’t imagine doing model-free learning in this domain.
If you had claimed that there had been a surprisingly smooth increase in trends toward incestuous and violent pornographic video titles, I might have believed the implication here.
The scariest outputs of my model of the interaction between relatively constant human sexual psychology and ever-changing modern human environments are highly specific, conjunctive, superstimulating fetishes, of which incest and nonconsent only scratch the surface, by dint of their nonconjunctiveness; this also seems to retrodict my anecdotal experience of the strong correlation between strength and specificity of sexual preference, but there might be multiple clusters there.
But I strongly suspect that discontinuous, or sharp and continuous, jumps, in the apparent pornographic preferences of consumers, are almost always a sign of a sudden change in the beliefs of producers about consumers, and not a sharp change in consumer preferences per se.
Hi Gram, I’d be interested in your theory if you’d like to offer it! Generally my feeling is that the realm of porn analysis lacks good data, and thanks to the relatively-new surplus of text embeddings we now have more.