Remember K child rearing requires both parents. Oh you can reproduce. But the state allows her to leave.

The theory has too many holes. For example, how does it account for limousine liberals with 1.1 kids, each kid attending one of the nation’s finest $35,000/year preschools? You have to argue that they are actually K-selectors by psychology with the peculiar strategy of advancing themselves by giving the r-selectors what they want. But this certainly misses the point about these liberal inner party types. Most of them *are* true believers, and if you don’t understand that then you don’t understand modern America.

r/K is a biologically ancient mechanism, as such evolution has had time to play games with it to make nuanced systems within systems. Blanket r/K statements aren’t going to be as useful due to nuances such as the fact that all individuals are biologically primed to be able to perform either strategy. As such while the HBD aspect of r/K should be very interesting, the cultural aspect of r/K is probably more important. Examining the cultural aspect has the added bonus of being able to introduce r/K to prog mind space without setting off too many of their thought crime alarms.

I’ve harbored the idea that a r selection boom/bust is at the heart of left singularity for a while (with technology being a catalyst rather than an actual cause). I’ve very curious to see how well it holds up when challenged.

The necessity to accumulate capital and prepare for these very distant probabilities that *are* underpriced are far more devestating red queens.

If every one is going to try to keep up with the vague conservative references to competitiveness it needs empirical substantiation up to the point of relevance, and not one bit after.

Can some one start a book reading club or something. Stop writing fucking blog posts(AnonConservative).

Rushton’s usage of the r/K spectrum is illuminating, and certainly predicts Chinese characteristics with uncanny accuracy. Does the extension to broad ideological preferences work? I’m still at the cautious interest stage on that …

I’m especially amazed when I see a normally smart guy like Heariste be like “Oh look! The leftists are promoting cuckold pornography! This is part of their r-selection bias!” I mean, is he even serious about this nonsense?

First point is , contraception changes everything in this theory.

What predictions does this theory make that are not predictable by other political theories?

What explains the low fertility of the most cathedralized countries and the high fertility of settlers?

It doesn’t explain why liberals support abortion and conservatives oppose it. r strategists should be against abortion and K strategists should be for abortion.

Mr Land, you’re in China. Do you see support for this theory in a non-western society?

Overall, too many oversimplifications.