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00:00:00.000 It's interpreted as basically increased social vigilance for exploitation.

00:00:04.680 Oh, this is a vigilance for, this is a whole immigrant crisis right here. 1.00

00:00:09.840 This, in other words, people on, on higher levels with higher levels of testosterone are reducing their performative niceness, but this is the really cool part.

00:00:21.260 This does not reduce actual benevolence.

00:00:24.420 So when you look at, would you like to know more?

00:00:28.620 Hello, Malcolm. I'm excited to be speaking with you today because did you know that testosterone

00:00:34.020 turns men conservative? It's crazy. In 2025, a group of researchers found that testosterone

00:00:40.840 administration caused Democrats to shift in a more conservative direction, which-

00:00:47.340 To men and women or?

00:00:48.960 Only men. They only looked at men in this particular study, but I ended up looking more

00:00:53.560 at the effects of testosterone and ultimately i feel like all this reveals a lot more about

00:00:59.920 conservatism and modern leftists when you just understand what testosterone does to people

00:01:06.020 behaviorally both men and women so i would expect this in women and i want to do two things with 0.93

00:01:11.840 this study in terms of understanding it one is to look at the geopolitical landscape of like the

00:01:18.480 90s because conservatism has done a bit of a flip as to what it means and today to see if these

00:01:23.720 traits would drive you conservative within both political landscapes and then the second i want

00:01:30.100 to look into is a hypothesis that one of our subscribers came up with that is the the biggest

00:01:36.900 correlation to a group or a country being anti-ai is how feminized it is and so the question is is

00:01:45.620 does testosterone make you more pro AI and does a lack of testosterone make you or a group more

00:01:54.140 anti AI? So I think you're going to find that the answer is testosterone makes you more pro AI and

00:02:00.240 you're going to see this when we look at the effects of testosterone but really quickly the

00:02:04.120 research Octavian you want to say hi to them really quick okay say hello. I'm sad that the

00:02:11.640 baby chick video how to take care of baby chicks oh you put on science max instead oh yes you did

00:02:23.160 no okay yeah sorry but first let's just quickly go over what the research paper found so in their

00:02:30.360 paper titled testosterone administration induces a red shift in democrats the researchers took 136

00:02:36.920 So that's a good sample.

00:02:38.660 That's a decently statistically relevant sample.

00:02:41.380 Yeah.

00:02:41.920 And they measured the strength of their political affiliation and their basal testosterone,

00:02:46.160 just to kind of get a baseline.

00:02:47.480 Then they gave them synthetic testosterone or a placebo, and then they checked to see

00:02:51.760 if their affiliation changed.

00:02:53.700 And they found three things, primarily.

00:02:55.940 That more weekly affiliated Democrats had higher basal testosterone by 19%.

00:03:02.200 So 19% higher basal testosterone than those who identified with Democrats very strongly.

00:03:08.780 All right.

00:03:09.100 So already, if you were kind of just meh on being a Democrat, you already had higher testosterone.

00:03:15.160 Then they found that when weekly affiliated Democrats received additional testosterone, the strength of their potty affiliation fell by 12%.

00:03:25.220 And they reported 45% warmer feelings toward Republican candidates for president.

00:03:30.740 so when you gave them more testosterone 45 you mean well actually no hold on hold on

00:03:37.380 theory theory coming right now okay rates of testosterone in the general population have

00:03:43.460 been absolutely crashing over the last 50 years yeah i can actually talk to you about that so

00:03:48.600 hold on hold on are we being drugged intentionally oh my god make us vote 0.99

00:03:55.260 i don't like them putting chemicals in the water that turn the freaking frogs gay do you understand 1.00

00:04:01.560 that turn the freaking frogs gay boom serious crap gay frogs freaking frogs boom it's not funny 1.00

00:04:08.360 i'm gonna say it real slow for you gay frogs simone when you talk about something like a 50 1.00

00:04:14.320 reduction in something like that among we among the weekly affiliated democrats but yeah i guess 0.95

00:04:19.620 swing voters are all you're really going for no no no i'm saying it's usher in itself is reduced

00:04:23.580 by like 50 i believe in the past 50 we'll go through those numbers but that's not a natural

00:04:30.040 occurrence there's clearly something happening right like yeah i mean a lot of people think

00:04:34.660 it's lifestyle changes and obesity plus also there are more old people and testosterone drops

00:04:38.660 with age so there i've seen studies that correct for obesity and it doesn't explain it yeah no

00:04:43.760 we'll go into that but first that's just that's that's the first okay but so we're gonna get into

00:04:48.500 somebody's drug in the water to keep us voting cucked. Is that it, Simone?

00:04:53.080 You can engage in whatever conjecture you want. I will deliver you the findings.

00:04:57.480 And their third finding, which is important, is that the testosterone administration did not

00:05:04.880 affect the political preferences for strongly affiliated Democrats or stronger, weak Republicans.

00:05:12.140 so the only people that are affected here by this this additional supplementation of testosterone

00:05:18.380 were the weekly affiliated democrats which i think is interesting okay okay but so strongly

00:05:24.260 affiliated democrats what did they do did they become more democratic when they no no no they

00:05:28.100 didn't didn't affect them didn't affect them okay yeah and it also didn't affect either weekly or

00:05:33.660 strongly affiliated republicans which is kind of interesting okay i have a hypothesis okay

00:05:37.700 so weekly affiliated republicans and weekly affiliated democrats are much less likely to

00:05:46.540 be in an ideological bubble yeah i wouldn't expect someone who's strongly affiliated on

00:05:53.920 either side to really be sort of voting with their hormonal tendencies it's a lifestyle it's

00:06:00.660 their culture you know it's like the the entire framework of their existence yeah yeah yeah okay

00:06:06.600 okay okay that makes sense that makes sense so what we're talking about is really people

00:06:10.240 voting genuinely like in a sort of more agnostic environment that are more following the whims

00:06:16.240 of their their personal feelings and sentiments which can be affected by hormones as we're going

00:06:21.120 to see but in short their results demonstrated that testosterone indicates a red shift among

00:06:27.260 weakly affiliated democrats and that provides evidence that testosterone affects political

00:06:31.880 preferences. So sort of, if we're going to flip your conspiracy theory, if we wanted to win over

00:06:38.220 the swing voters or weekly affiliated Democrats, you would try to make testosterone supplementation

00:06:45.360 more pervasive. Meaning that you could almost argue that if anything, the New York Times is

00:06:51.400 kind of encouraging the psyops because we've even covered one of their articles on all the women 0.84

00:06:57.600 who are undergoing testosterone supplementation oh interesting yeah to be hornier but okay no

00:07:02.320 really every time you hear about someone taking testosterone supplementation you can just think

00:07:06.140 of them taking their conservatism pills just saying i i am now pro subsidized testosterone

00:07:12.900 supplementation for the general public i think this should be a major conservative talking point

00:07:17.260 suddenly we're cool with hrt not that yeah no hormone testosterone yeah absolutely come on

00:07:24.640 let's get on this right testosterone for the masses because and and we could make a i i point

00:07:31.680 out right remember that the democrats used to be all granola-y and everything like that right yeah

00:07:37.240 then there's this big drop in testosterone when all of a sudden kennedy comes in and he's like

00:07:41.960 hey let's get all these pollutants out of the waters let's get all this bad stuff out of our

00:07:45.520 food stuff that's the most certainly impacting testosterone production and all of a sudden the

00:07:49.880 Democrats go epileptic you know they really want that fluoride you know they're like I want my

00:07:55.220 fluoride pills daily my fluoride back yeah they're like I want the most fluoride yeah so to to your

00:08:03.240 your point about testosterone levels changing it is true that across many industrialized populations

00:08:08.340 the average basal testosterone level in men appear to be drifting downward over time though the data

00:08:15.560 on women are sparse and it's a lot less clear but it kind of doesn't matter because typical 1.00

00:08:20.420 female testosterone levels are far lower like by 10 to 20 fold so kind of like what testosterone 1.00

00:08:27.000 i mean it's gonna affect women more i'd be very interested in in drugging women with 0.95

00:08:30.700 because that's gonna make all the women horny we did that new york time we covered that new 1.00

00:08:35.000 york times article that talked about people using testosterone to sort of improve their sex drive

00:08:38.960 and how it was just changing their entire lives but how women are drugging themselves to be horny 1.00

00:08:42.380 is i think what we called it or something like that but like is that a net good for society if

00:08:47.200 you we'll see because what we're going to go through next after we discuss the changes is

00:08:52.000 how testosterone changes behavior and it's very interesting basically it just makes you more

00:08:56.720 like now i just view conservatism as the testosterone affiliation like literally you're

00:09:02.280 going to see malcolm it blows my mind but but back to the changes i think one of the important

00:09:06.260 things is indeed that in both sexes testosterone naturally declines with age within an individual

00:09:11.300 about 1% per year in adult men and a gradual decline in women that accelerates around menopause.

00:09:17.640 So 100% testosterone does go down in older people. We have a lot of old people now. 1.00

00:09:22.760 So like in general, as populations age, we should expect to see that drop in testosterone. But okay,

00:09:28.760 so in men though, several large cohort and lab database studies have like, and this is from the

00:09:34.520 US, Europe and Israel, reported an age independent secular decline in total testosterone in men

00:09:39.700 after adjusting for age and often bmi and other whoa whoa so you're saying this is even happening

00:09:44.480 to the tiny hat people that you know now you know the conspiracy if it was if it was the joos why 0.77

00:09:51.500 are they doing it to their own population yes yeah but but one widely cited massachusetts study found

00:10:01.440 that men of the same age in the early 2000s had substantially lower mean testosterone than men of

00:10:09.000 the same age in the late 1980s. And this drop could not be, even though I kind of wish, like,

00:10:15.720 I want a simple explanation, but it can't be fully explained by obesity or other measure health and

00:10:20.520 lifestyle changes. And a large Israeli health system analysis of over 100,000 men from 2006

00:10:27.140 to 2019, so we're not looking at now 80s to, you know, 2000s changes, but a much more recent set

00:10:33.800 of years also found a significant and prominent decline in testosterone across most age groups

00:10:39.640 and mostly again independent of BMI. A newer analysis of healthy men has also reported

00:10:46.120 progressive decreases in both testosterone and LH, that's luteinizing hormone, over recent decades

00:10:52.820 suggesting a true change in hypothalamic pituitary gonadal function rather than just

00:10:58.800 obesity or assay artifacts. So basically like the male reproductive hormone system is getting out

00:11:05.800 of whack, which we all knew. I mean, we talk about this in male fertility decline, which is super

00:11:10.360 under discussed, but it's real. And so this is a thing to think about, but like basically testosterone

00:11:17.080 is a conservatism hormone and it's also going down. We should think about this, but I wanted

00:11:23.640 to ask after looking at this, that basically if more testosterone correlates with conservatism,

00:11:28.060 what does that say about conservatism? Or what do increases in testosterone change about views

00:11:34.220 and behavior? And in short, across lab and real world studies, higher or experimentally raised

00:11:42.020 testosterone is less rage hormone and more status and dominance calibration. So it's not what most

00:11:49.380 people think. It's not like, oh, suddenly people are just going to pick fights and get aggressive.

00:11:52.820 it has more to do with like oh they're going to enforce punishments and and do stuff that

00:11:58.420 actually benefits them oh enforce whatever way those are bad things they're not in fact you'll

00:12:05.160 you'll see there's there's actually one one element of this that i really like but i'm just

00:12:07.960 going to go through a bunch of thematically grouped things no no i mean like testosterone

00:12:12.520 it gets people to want to enforce punishment when people break rules yeah god forbid god forbid i

00:12:19.120 mean that's very no but how dare we in first societal order an entire society where you have

00:12:25.300 these clearly bad actors especially within like immigrant populations around major cities and 1.00

00:12:31.240 they're just like no like punishing them would be bad and we went over this in one of our other

00:12:35.700 videos but the this mindset on the left that can seem really weird to us is it's like you want bad

00:12:40.620 to punish the bad actor and i'll put the the scene from freedom tunes here if only she never 0.99

00:12:46.800 made eye contact with him there would be no crime. Help! Help! Call an ambulance!

00:13:00.800 Huh. The cause of injury seems to be socioeconomics. Most likely an underfunded library.

00:13:06.800 Oh, so true!

00:13:09.800 After we stand, before all kids can go to disease!

00:13:16.800 That's it?

00:13:22.800 You shot this beautiful man for no reason! 0.99

00:13:26.800 She's evil incarnate! 1.00

00:13:28.800 He was stabbing... 1.00

00:13:31.800 Murderer! Murderer! 1.00

00:13:34.660 He was expressing himself.

00:13:37.640 Nothing could possibly justify this.

00:13:41.140 I, uh, never went to Disney or drink hot cocoa.

00:13:47.100 So?

00:13:48.100 Deal with your issues, woman. 1.00

00:13:50.300 Mercy for the scoundrel is violence against the victim.

00:13:54.660 I hope you get the chair.

00:14:00.460 It's not bad to punish the bad actor,

00:14:02.660 but to them it actually is it like literally to them feels psychologically metaphysically

00:14:08.700 punishing bad actors is equally bad to what the bad actors themselves do or worse yeah well i i

00:14:18.420 you know i think the the the phrase like it takes balls to do x or y you know for example to punish 0.96

00:14:23.600 bad behavior like there's a reason why we say it takes balls and not tits to do something right 1.00

00:14:28.160 like balls correlate with being male and having testosterone and being willing to deal with those 0.96

00:14:34.200 uncomfortable situations because kind of sometimes you have to so and let's let's go over the key 0.62

00:14:39.920 behavioral changes and you'll just see like all of them it's like oh wait this is a conservative

00:14:43.560 thing so there's the the sort of collective grouping of the aggression and conflict response

00:14:49.100 so if you have higher testosterone that's linked to greater reactive aggression especially when

00:14:54.960 people feel provoked or treated unfairly or if their status is threatened and like oh huh like

00:15:01.940 the conservative administration right now is reacting to massive social benefit fraud in the

00:15:08.240 united states oh maybe because they feel provoked treated unfairly or their status is threatened

00:15:14.620 which is interesting now this this is contrasted with and and the the research has made this clear

00:15:20.640 this is not indiscriminate hostility. And I think a lot of people associate like testosterone with

00:15:28.120 roid rage. No, they're not the same. Testosterone isn't, it's not a dumb hormone. I think a lot of

00:15:34.900 like steroid abuse can, I mean, that's why it's called roid rage, but it's not called testosterone

00:15:40.360 rage, you know? So I think it's important to distinguish those things because I think I have

00:15:45.580 been guilty in the past of just associating testosterone with dumb rage. Whereas when you

00:15:50.900 actually look at this research, testosterone is actually very intelligent, strategic, and I would

00:15:54.940 argue pro-social assertion. Can you hear me? Yeah. Sorry, I cut out of there for a second. I want to

00:16:02.240 talk about roid rage. So roid rage is not real from what we know. So the studies that have been

00:16:07.960 done on this, I actually learned when I was getting my psychology degree is the professor was like,

00:16:12.260 okay like this is an unpopular thing to talk about but there actually isn't very good evidence

00:16:17.340 for word rage that's not just correlational that the type of person who might lose emotional

00:16:21.940 control is the type of person who would take exogenous steroids and so like we just don't

00:16:27.280 we actually more broadly with steroid use we do not have a lot of good evidence for negative side

00:16:35.120 effects with moderate use and this is word rage is not associated with moderate use of anabolic

00:16:41.380 steroids it's it's it's associated with abuse of anabolic steroids so don't do that no i mean

00:16:48.460 abuse like moderate recreational use use okay moderate recreational use and abuse are different

00:16:55.020 things okay in your head to to most americans when they hear taking anabolic steroids

00:17:04.380 recreationally they think that that is bad for your body and there actually isn't a ton of

00:17:09.380 evidence for that they think that's bad for your psychology and there actually isn't so if you're

00:17:14.060 doing it as much as your typical youtube influencer is doing it they're they're not seeing now no a

00:17:19.900 lot of our fans have been like malcolm you need to get on anabolic steroids so you can look better 0.98

00:17:23.800 look tougher look more like you're stereotypical you know i i don't know i'm not a fan of needles

00:17:30.140 they're pricey i mean i would inject you happily i'm very familiar with injections but when you

00:17:35.540 remember your parents always had a fridge full of like every time we'd be traveling with them

00:17:39.300 you'd open the fridge and just be like full of hgh needles yeah so oh my god such a thing like

00:17:46.660 such a rich person thing if you open a rich person's fridge it's always full of needles

00:17:51.180 whenever i go to like a super rich person's house it's always full of needles whatever their

00:17:55.140 cocktail they're on to stay young forever i just it just that just occurred to me

00:18:00.660 rich person fridges like people assume it's like i remember remember i don't know if you

00:18:06.280 watched mtv's cribs when you were a kid there's this thing that they would always load their

00:18:10.320 fridges full of cristal but like the real rich person fridge is just hgh needles

00:18:15.560 this is like actually true though like like we have multiple like billionaire friends always

00:18:23.340 sorry that's amazing okay no but it's also a funny thing between like the the classy rich

00:18:33.820 people and the not classy rich people the the the funny thing is is generally the classier they are

00:18:39.420 the more likely it is to be full of needles the less classy they are the less likely it is to be

00:18:44.620 oh my god yeah it's it's like this this like horseshoe between like like a flop house and

00:18:50.500 like a rich person mega mansion yeah we've all got the needles the needles it starts and ends

00:18:56.820 with needles friends and so back to the aggression and conflict response which again i think is very

00:19:04.560 interesting this changed the way i view again testosterone because it's it's smart it's smart

00:19:09.340 conflict comfort um it experiments like the ultimative game testosterone increases costly

00:19:15.540 punishment of unfair offers even when it doesn't improve payoff which is consistent with defending

00:19:20.260 status or enforcing norms so basically what what a high testosterone on i need to explain the

00:19:26.000 ultimatum game okay so the ultimatum game works like this and it's kind of relevant to understanding

00:19:30.960 what she means by this the ultimatum game if i'm remembering right from psychology in college

00:19:37.440 goes like this you offer somebody like you're say you're given an amount of money like let's say

00:19:42.540 $40. And then you are given the ability to split that money any way you want and give the amount

00:19:51.580 that you split to somebody else. And then the person who is potentially receiving that amount

00:19:58.940 of money. So I could say, I'm going to keep 15 and I'm going to give the person five, or I'm

00:20:03.600 going to keep 10 and I'm going to give the person 10, or I'm going to keep 19 and give the person

00:20:06.820 one, right? The person on the receiving end then gets to choose if they want to take the money or

00:20:14.880 if they feel that what you are giving them is so unfair that they would rather not take that split

00:20:22.140 and punish you as well by saying you don't get the money either. And the quote unquote logical

00:20:26.760 response is to take the $1 that you're offered because you still are $1 richer. But what a

00:20:32.800 high testosterone male would do is be like, no, screw you. 1.00

00:20:37.420 That's a, that's a. 0.97

00:20:39.460 And you can also, by the way, change people's moral intuitions on a game like this with

00:20:45.300 transmagnetic stimulation, which shows that a lot of our moral intuitions are, you know,

00:20:50.620 brain states that we can alter, right?

00:20:53.320 What you think is right and wrong is downstream of both your brain's chemical state, as we've

00:21:00.340 seen with testosterone and your brain's physical state as we have seen with transmagnetic stimulation

00:21:06.300 which isn't exactly physical it's sort of like the patterns in your brain but the the point here

00:21:10.980 being is this always gets me when people are like no like you know blah blah blah your soul is

00:21:16.480 making all of the decisions and everything like that and i'm like well then why does like why

00:21:20.660 does your soul respond to electrical stimulation right and and people say well like well it's only

00:21:26.400 trivial distinctions that are impacted by your moral choices like testosterone and it's important

00:21:34.600 to elevate that no this this actually specifically and and most exaggeratedly affects moral choices

00:21:44.800 which are the choices we associate with an externalized soul the most as to why biblically

00:21:52.360 we don't think that the soul is externalized you can see our track series if that's interesting

00:21:56.180 to you. But anyway, continue Simone. Well, what I think is so interesting about this is that this

00:22:00.440 high testosterone response is necessary for a society that can be capable of being a high

00:22:06.900 trust society where people can have nice things. If you want a society where things aren't locked

00:22:12.560 behind shelves and where you have social benefits, you have to have this kind of enforcement of

00:22:18.980 rules. This is why you have figures like Asmongold be like, oh, I would stop streaming if someone

00:22:24.380 would put me in charge of like rooting up fraud in california like benefits fraud medicare oh god

00:22:30.480 please he's so great and i oh god it would be so wonderful but he'd be he's like oh and i would go

00:22:36.120 hard on people people people would like tell him that he needs to back off and calm down because

00:22:40.200 he would go so hard on them but that is that is a high testosterone response that is we need society

00:22:45.200 to work and if you are not willing to pay by the rules you are going to pay personally we're going

00:22:49.920 to drag you out of your home we're going to throw you out of the country and you're going to see how 1.00

00:22:53.040 that goes for you and you constantly see this like also in his commentary on like recently like

00:22:58.020 protesters in cuba and stuff you see him responding in the same way of like i i just wish that the

00:23:03.580 trump administration would take away their passports and abandon them there like you know

00:23:07.120 pretty like practically speaking the study on this that showed that when you show somebody who

00:23:14.200 did something like wrong be punished men get pleasure from seeing that but women literally 0.98

00:23:20.340 feel pain when they see somebody that they know did wrong be punished um testosterone i bet if

00:23:27.400 they were supplemented with testosterone they would not feel that way so let's move on to the

00:23:31.420 next no no no no no no no hold on before we move on i want to i want to do a separate little mental

00:23:35.800 experiment here and i want to get your thoughts on this because i'm actually trying to think

00:23:39.300 through this like what is your steel man for the soul exists as a separate supernatural entity

00:23:46.040 but is impacted by things like transmagnetic stimulation and testosterone or your decisions

00:23:51.680 are impacted by those things i'm trying to think like what's a good counter argument for this

00:23:56.560 you could say that it's like a a bridge or something our brain is a bridge between us and

00:24:04.360 an ethereal metaphysical plane and so impacting parts of the brain can impact that metaphysical

00:24:11.460 ethereal plane or you could say that's that's but as soon as you've done that then you've sort of

00:24:17.780 broken the need for a material metaphysical plane because i think the implication is that the soul

00:24:23.260 is like a narrative that is driven by your biological processes when your biology is alive

00:24:31.100 but for some reason continues after the biology ceases to function right so to from your argument

00:24:39.000 the soul is actually fully contained within the physical brain until you die yes and then it

00:24:45.180 goes somewhere else this is by the way also why i believe very strongly that you cannot have like

00:24:52.400 when people are like life begins at conception and i'm just like well one the bible says i knew

00:24:55.740 you before you were in your mother's womb which doesn't imply that it applies predestination but

00:24:59.660 the the second is if there's no neural tissue like i just don't get how it was that argument that you

00:25:06.520 just made you would need the soul resides in the neural tissue itself so you couldn't have a soul

00:25:12.460 until you have no no no it would work because it just the the the soul from you know like

00:25:18.060 presumably it came from somewhere and it's just you know in its biological form at that point

00:25:24.060 just not particularly interesting but it is you know it is energy it is essence it is not

00:25:29.960 it is independent of thought and neurons firing it is something bigger and more continuous than

00:25:38.060 that and the fact that it has this short trip in this biological cage of the human body

00:25:43.260 complete with neural functioning or even without it that that's that that's just kind of this weird

00:25:48.680 aberration that the soul goes through for through some period of time or in between lives or in

00:25:54.540 between the the pre-life and the afterlife so the soul in this case would be unthinking like it

00:26:02.400 doesn't have emotions or perceptions until the neural tissue develops through some other

00:26:06.820 substrate through some ethereal angelic body or god knows what okay okay so i'm look i'm trying

00:26:12.980 to seal man i'm trying to work out like how this belief actually works and then it's constrained

00:26:19.400 in your body until you yeah that actually sounds fairly like i i think it's it's it's

00:26:25.200 positing a completely separate unnecessary thing but it is you know more plausible than a bridge

00:26:31.720 to a metaphysical realm so i wanted to see what catholics actually thought on this one

00:26:36.320 and they actually and i was surprised by this i thought they'd go with the bridge option but

00:26:41.400 no they go with the simona option that it is completely the soul is completely embodied

00:26:46.400 within the physical substrate and that the analogies they use most to explain what we're

00:26:53.140 talking about where if the physical substrate is damaged what does that mean the most famous one

00:26:57.320 here from thomas aquinas is the musician one which is like if the if the loop is smashed or if the

00:27:04.860 instrument is smashed does the musician's ability lower no it doesn't but their ability to produce

00:27:12.960 music that is entertaining or good could still be damaged or they'll say the blind man like if you

00:27:19.940 damage the eyes does the soul not know how to see anymore now it's interesting here that i'd say

00:27:25.680 well i mean obviously at certain levels of development as we've seen if you for example

00:27:30.820 raise somebody with their eyes blinded and then you would remove the blinds from their eyes as

00:27:36.020 we've seen from giving people sight later in life with neural neural systems basically bci systems

00:27:43.400 have done this they they can't see in the same ways that somebody who grew up with the ability

00:27:47.420 to see can see the really famous study on this is raising cats which i guess i don't i don't think

00:27:54.140 they have souls in a catholic worldview about raising cats in an environment where they can

00:27:58.680 only see vertical or horizontal lines and if you then show them a full world if they actually

00:28:05.880 cannot perceive the vertical or the horizontal if they were not raised with that perception in

00:28:12.260 their sort of neurological space but what he'd say is of course they can see it's just that they

00:28:17.680 don't have eyes right now with the alcohol what they would say is okay well the alcohol may lower

00:28:23.880 moral inhibitions because it's affecting like the instrument the musician but the driver actually

00:28:30.660 still has complete moral inhibitions it's it's just manipulated that they're in in that moment

00:28:37.540 anyway want to give full full credit to the other side here think about it this way you have i don't

00:28:45.720 know some kind of like i'm i don't play video games so this is not going to work very well but

00:28:49.500 like you have some kind of like disc drive where you like put the game into like pc and you play

00:28:55.040 it there and then you take it out and then you put it into a gaming console um like in between

00:28:59.560 the times when you have it like plugged in to some kind of machine or hardware to play it it's

00:29:05.660 still the game okay so this is the way it works in your i actually like this analogy a lot the

00:29:10.560 soul itself is the pattern that is on your brain and that pattern can run both on a physical

00:29:18.000 substrate and on a metaphysical substrate and when the physical substrate dies it gets downloaded to

00:29:24.860 a metaphysical substrate yeah okay and then yeah and i guess you could say that some amount of the

00:29:33.020 processing of that pattern is always done on a metaphysical substrate and to that extent you are

00:29:39.360 always in communion with this metaphysical realm yeah like i said i mean back to my

00:29:44.400 poor technical knowledge standpoint like your your card your game card whatever like that you

00:29:52.320 can allegedly plug into a pc or a game console or maybe even playing the cloud it's all the same

00:30:00.240 game the game software doesn't change but the the hardware or software or cloud-based you know

00:30:06.980 substrate that it's being played in may shift so the the the field shifts but the game itself is

00:30:13.380 still the game it's still your soul it just means i guess i don't get what's the point of a

00:30:18.560 metaphysical substrate that's not just a real one like if you're what's the difference between

00:30:24.040 an upload to the metaphysical substrate and the upload to a a super advanced vr environment

00:30:29.200 well maybe your playthroughs on the handheld are counted in terms of the starting build you get in

00:30:40.160 the cloud oh oh yeah no i've i've thought it interestingly and i might go over this is

00:30:47.800 can you find support for izakai worlds in the bible um that i'm gonna argue with that for

00:30:55.240 people don't know it's a japanese anime trope where you are in a mawa trope where you are

00:31:00.280 resurrected in a like a fictional like world with you know whatevers but it's it's real in

00:31:07.580 that show and i point out that we do know from daniel that some people when people are resurrected

00:31:15.180 whatever that means yeah are put in a position to guide and lead other people potentially to

00:31:22.620 better themselves right we're not told what that guiding and leading looks like

00:31:27.760 but it could fit within the framework of a simulated reality similar to an izakai

00:31:34.120 so yeah some people are game masters in izakai some people are playing in izakai let's get back

00:31:41.340 to the ways that testosterone affects behavior so this is where i feel like the pro ai stance comes

00:31:48.140 in alluding to what you brought up earlier in this conversation so elevated testosterone is

00:31:54.260 associated with more willingness to take financial and social risks and to enter competitive

00:31:59.040 situations. And that is what AI does is it basically opens up the playing field, but it's

00:32:05.600 going to be very competitive. And if you're not willing to take risks and put yourself out there,

00:32:09.280 you're not going to win. And in training and lab tasks, higher testosterone correlates with

00:32:14.500 riskier bids and more optimistic expectations about outcome. Again, like very AI. If you're

00:32:21.240 risk averse and you're more like pessimistic, like, well, AI is going to ruin everything.

00:32:25.440 and if you're very optimistic and willing to take risks you're like this is amazing which you see

00:32:30.320 among like nose to base campers they're like i love this yeah it's the best ever no but a you

00:32:37.520 know people this came up because on a you know group call with our our paid subscribers one of

00:32:42.900 them was talking about how like family gatherings it's always the females who are like irrationally 1.00

00:32:47.160 crash out about ai and terrified of how ai is transforming society and this is something i've

00:32:52.200 noticed as well that it appears to be low t males and females who who have these crash outs and if

00:32:58.500 you look at online communities where are they spinning out about ai it's like in the you know

00:33:02.820 the tumblr diaspora is where people are freaking out the most and there's leftists where like if

00:33:08.060 they used you know ai to create demos for their game like before the actual game launched like

00:33:16.340 just placeholder assets yeah they lost major awards over that we're seeing this there is a

00:33:22.740 constant ai witch hunt on the left and the right is just like sky brows like this is fun looking

00:33:46.340 just like have fun guys if you're if you're not gonna if you're gonna take the lead approach

00:33:54.820 good luck i mean the amish have like they're doing it right but this whole like i'm still 0.86

00:34:01.240 gonna be super engaged online and making technical stuff but oh i'm not gonna use ai that that doesn't

00:34:06.660 work okay you can go amish you can build shaker furniture that's fine you're not gonna you're

00:34:13.100 going to pull off being like a game dev not doing ai anyway long story short randomized even

00:34:20.700 randomized trials show that testosterone can increase willingness to compete so basically

00:34:26.140 i think yeah that's where the ai comes in but let's go go also more back to sort of like how

00:34:30.860 society i think is is possible civilization is possible because of testosterone so here's how

00:34:37.580 how it relates to trust vigilance and social reading single dose testosterone in women

00:34:42.960 reduced interpersonal trust particularly in people who are normally very trusting and it is it's

00:34:50.420 interpreted as basically increased social vigilance for exploitation in vigilance for x this is the

00:34:58.540 whole immigrant crisis right here the women it seems like women too are too low testosterone 1.00

00:35:04.440 and they're just not looking for ways in which they're being exploited it's like they've chosen

00:35:09.300 to be selectively blind to it and i find that very interesting um so it tends to be people in

00:35:15.800 a more dispense or defensive scan for threats and opportunities mode so both threats but also

00:35:22.160 opportunities which is an adaptive kind of stance for dominance but it can also stream cooperative

00:35:27.920 relationships if it's super chronic still i feel like we need more of that now like let's look for

00:35:33.820 threats but let's also look for opportunities because that is our landscape now in a time of

00:35:38.540 disruption you need testosterone you don't need this like cow-like estrogen plague not to 0.51

00:35:45.000 in fact actually the one form of roid rage that i think we've ever experienced is me on

00:35:50.820 in crazy high estrogen estrogen yeah yeah when you're when you're taking it to get embryo

00:35:57.380 implantation sounds like that so i mean i'm sure a lot of people in listening to this podcast have

00:36:03.060 been familiar with partners, like going through stimulation for IVF cycles, where you are having

00:36:09.360 extra amounts of a lot of like female associated hormones. I tend to be very responsive to those

00:36:16.520 medications. And on several occasions, I've had either the precursors of, or actual ovarian

00:36:21.880 hyperstimulation, hyperstimulation syndrome. And this is like out of control levels of estrogen,

00:36:26.660 like insane like orders of magnitude and malcolm does have some some difficulty with me no i don't

00:36:35.340 look simone it's clear that you struggle with your emotions during those periods but you still

00:36:40.720 contain them very well and contextualize right range malcolm that's the closest we've gotten

00:36:45.500 you contextualize them as being due to your hormonal state and apologize bubbling up so

00:36:53.020 rules for interacting with you that when followed do not lead to negative i mean i

00:37:01.320 appreciate everything you're going through for the family whenever you're doing that so like

00:37:04.680 you know yeah the extra rough of a rough part of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome and this

00:37:10.100 only happened once when we had it because it got super untreated is i weighed as much as i have

00:37:16.060 weighed at the peak of any of my pregnancies because of the ascites basically like large

00:37:21.640 sacks of water that form in your body when you have this condition like i bloated up huge like

00:37:28.900 like the michelin man it was horrifying so i didn't i didn't think she looked that bad i

00:37:35.280 i legit did malcolm i think you've just blocked it out i that was when you were just like oh just

00:37:41.740 get all of the just get all of the antibiotics and take them because you well you had something

00:37:47.540 really bad i also had very serious pneumonia at the same time and then i had the weirdest

00:37:52.880 trippiest dreams that night because like all the bacteria and my entire like microbiome were dying

00:37:57.800 at once and screaming out in pain it was like that moment in star wars where they're like i just heard

00:38:03.220 like a bunch of voices screaming out it's like my body anyway so so where was i right so some

00:38:10.180 studies have found that impaired cognitive empathy and reduced strategic or feigned

00:38:15.180 pro-sociality under testosterone meaning that people may care less about managing how cooperative

00:38:21.480 they look to others and more direct payoff or status this in other words people on on higher

00:38:30.360 levels with higher levels of testosterone are reducing their performative niceness but this

00:38:35.900 is the really cool part this does not reduce actual benevolence so when you look oh i'm a red

00:38:44.200 pill men here are like oh no this is so good it's so good testosterone can increase generosity when

00:38:50.780 generosity enhances status basically like when it's good for you and everyone like it's fine

00:38:55.780 in bargaining games men given testosterone punished unfairness more but they also were less

00:39:00.240 generous when offers were not sorry they were also not less generous when offers were high

00:39:05.360 so they're happy to be generous and other work shows testosterone can eliminate strategic 0.72

00:39:10.600 pro-sociality, which is acting nice just for image, but not genuine pro-social motives,

00:39:16.800 reinforcing the idea that hormone tunes behavior to real, not performative status benefits,

00:39:23.440 which I just, I love that. That is fascinating. That is so cool. And that is audience bait right

00:39:31.760 there. I mean, I saw that and I was like, oh my God. So in terms of cognitive style and decision

00:39:37.800 making testosterone administration makes men more likely to go with their gut impulses and less

00:39:43.780 likely to engage in cognitive reflection which leads to more errors on trick problems where

00:39:49.500 intuitive answers really are wrong even though basic math is is basically unchanged so i i can

00:39:55.380 kind of see that if like just like trusting your gut being this like very wild west cowboy kind of

00:40:00.620 stuff and it also seems to operate through increased confidence and reduced self-doubt

00:40:05.320 which is totally a republican thing and this can be an advantage obviously in many leadership and

00:40:10.360 competitive settings but it's a liability when careful checking is needed which really to me

00:40:15.320 solidifies this conservative correlation with like you know people associate for example doge

00:40:20.420 the trump administration and other republican efforts as being very common like pew pew like

00:40:24.600 i'm just gonna take out the government and like do what i want which is so the trump administration

00:40:28.740 strategy like you can just boil down like what is the trump administration going to do vis-a-vis

00:40:36.420 whatever like how to deal with government bureaucrats how to deal with international

00:40:41.240 policy it's like well whatever is the testosterone based approach it is though it is yeah yeah and

00:40:48.120 then observationally a higher testosterone has been linked with traits like dominance lower

00:40:52.760 punishment sensitivity that's less fear of negative consequences more approach behavior

00:40:58.200 and in some cases irritability or uncharacteristic aggression but that that really has to do with

00:41:04.040 super high doses of it like way like this is where actually very heavy anabolic steroid use

00:41:11.300 is associated with that kind of roid rage that you say is not true but it's totally a thing 1.00

00:41:16.200 but in terms of how this changes views other people are seen as as more competitors or

00:41:25.380 potential threats to status so there may be less automatic trust of others which I think is totally

00:41:33.240 fair these days in an increasingly multicultural world you can't just assume incredibly high 1.00

00:41:38.880 levels of trust because you're all dealing on different social contracts and to come from

00:41:42.960 different cultural backgrounds. Like we don't have that social cohesion anymore. I think we need more

00:41:47.180 trustless oriented hormonal profiles. And there's just, again, on all fronts, there just seems to

00:41:54.820 be a lot more comfort with confrontation and punishment and then risk, risk and opportunity

00:42:00.520 comfort. So again, this, this explains why Republicans are comfortable with doing things

00:42:05.520 like enforcing immigration policy and enforcing laws and supporting capitalism and being cool

00:42:11.520 with AI and it just anyway yeah all of this just changed in my view about testosterone and political

00:42:19.220 affiliation and I don't I don't know about your whole like oh my we're causing testosterone to

00:42:25.700 drop I just kind of feel like how can we increase testosterone supplementation in in terms of wide

00:42:33.180 adoption because yeah seems pretty great I remember that New York Times article we reviewed and also

00:42:40.720 just going through the effects of testosterone because I just looked at overall like how does

00:42:45.580 testosterone when supplemented in women affect them I'm not big on like body hair I don't know

00:42:53.600 how much I want to go into supplementing but I'm also like I get it and I know that there are a lot

00:43:01.980 of more experiment friendly women who have played around with testosterone and really liked the 1.00

00:43:08.860 results so yeah yeah yeah i've heard that well i mean i just i don't want you hornier like i i 0.58

00:43:14.540 don't see it seems like an enormous waste of time when when when your wife works for your company 0.99

00:43:21.260 you don't necessarily want her to be hornier all the time because you're trying to get things done 0.98

00:43:27.380 you know yeah yeah all right well i mean i think

00:43:34.300 in terms of the testosterone associated behaviors that i am in general okay on those

00:43:42.060 fronts mostly anyway like i don't really trust people and well i i am i am pretty vulnerable

00:43:49.720 to manipulation i don't know but anyway this has changed the way i view these things and i

00:43:56.100 hope that you found this interesting because i certainly have yes i have thank you very much

00:44:03.420 for your lovely research today, Simone.

00:44:05.880 And we have learned

00:44:06.820 we need to gas the population

00:44:08.180 with testosterone.

00:44:09.440 We need to give our kids

00:44:10.660 testosterone supplementation.

00:44:12.200 Yeah.

00:44:13.860 Although unlikely,

00:44:15.100 given how high my testosterone levels

00:44:17.160 are for, like, developmentally at least.

00:44:19.840 And, you know,

00:44:21.040 given the way that our children

00:44:22.220 already behave.

00:44:25.120 Yeah, I'm pretty sure.

00:44:27.340 Punishing noncompliance.

00:44:29.020 She is not following my commands.

00:44:32.460 I mean she's not following my command yeah I feel like maybe they do love punishing non-compliance

00:44:39.040 they see another kid breaking the rules they're like let's let's let's go enforce justice yeah

00:44:47.220 yeah either they're like daddy you gotta bop so-and-so or like no they just handle it

00:44:52.120 themselves yeah well it depends yeah it depends their mood sometimes they just like to see justice

00:44:58.500 carried out you know they want the the satisfaction of watching the show but i don't think either of

00:45:05.460 us punish punish siblings when they request it we're not very much like we don't take requests

00:45:10.340 we're more like figure it out a lot of them yeah yeah all right well i love you very much

00:45:18.900 goodbye malcolm goodbye simone have a spectacular day and to our audience have a spectacular day

00:45:28.160 yourself and do check out rfab.ai if you want to try like ai chatbots or agent systems yeah

00:45:34.440 then congrats on being hi to you we can tell from all your comments

00:45:38.100 we can tell we can tell we okay that's the way you want to do it that's as long as you're not

00:45:44.540 hearing it weird then i think it's why do you want to hear yourself when we're talking

00:45:48.000 it's not different like i don't know it's fine we're good that's a weird thing simone

00:45:55.060 they're they're stuck through my hood i don't want to like pull them out right now it's a whole thing

00:46:00.820 you don't understand i don't understand great just got a new update live that has a new feature for

00:46:08.500 the brainstormer and we had our fab.ai down this morning which was a bummer but got all that fixed

00:46:15.620 and now it can see files on your computer visually so it can see images in pdfs visually not just

00:46:22.980 list as text which was another feature i built this morning you're amazing you know even windsurf

00:46:29.040 can't do pdfs and we can do that now no i haven't tested it in production i'm a bit afraid of the

00:46:33.860 visual thing in production so we'll see i'm happy to test it when you're ready so you just let me

00:46:38.960 know yeah all right octavian is downstairs getting ready to pick up chicks checking out 0.91

00:46:46.500 the whole the whole thing the kids are so hyped for getting baby chicks could not be more excited

00:46:54.020 and i'm glad they all want the breeds of chickens we want so i will have to call you sky up some

00:47:00.080 into that simone that's not a glad you know no every time i go that i let them go outside

00:47:07.300 immediately they go to the chicken coop and just want to be with the chickens they're going to be

00:47:14.040 in love with their baby chicken. So Octavian's learning how to become a responsible dad. It's

00:47:18.860 very favorable. That's good. Is he learning how to hit them? That's how you have to tame your

00:47:25.380 chickens, I've heard. Every time I post images of the kids, like I post pictures from our walk

00:47:31.880 to the graveyard yesterday, and someone was like, are his cheeks red because of the bopping?

00:47:36.740 yes sure people are so like weak to like the slightest inconvenience to a child like oh no

00:47:48.380 our kids hit harder than we do not always no no i i don't i don't pop it all anymore i mean even

00:47:57.420 for like i mean like because indie doesn't do behavioral stuff that's like dangerous so

00:48:04.060 and everyone else is old enough now to communicate so i just we haven't

00:48:08.700 engaged in any form of like physical reaction that's because i'm doing all the bopping for you

00:48:14.760 why why are you doing it because it gets them to behave as reporters have said around you

00:48:21.560 what how wild are they being around you much more wild than they are around you've seen how wild

00:48:28.560 they are around me they're significantly more wild around me than they are around you

00:48:31.600 which is good that's what i'm training them to be is wild animals okay that's easy that's okay

00:48:37.900 yeah all right titan wanted to come in this morning and jump on me all morning so that was

00:48:43.120 i love her new thing he's not listening to my commands he's not listening to mommy you're not

00:48:51.020 listening to my commands she's so imperious but what can you expect from a child named titan

00:48:58.480 but we will be doing vc outreach soon so if any of the fans like no vcs and think that we would

00:49:05.720 be good to talk to them feel free to introduce us oh yeah who want to get in on actually good

00:49:11.340 agentic ai i don't know i at first i was like oh no it's a big deal is and then i like looked at

00:49:16.700 the extant landscape compared to like what i know about reality fabricator and i was just like wait

00:49:21.500 i thought everyone was like better than they are like no even mainstream vibe coding apps have

00:49:27.700 like tools fail constantly like windsurf half of their functions work you know like so we're

00:49:33.680 getting up there with the mainstream players at this point i mean it's still mostly a toy

00:49:38.200 the agent but it won't be in a month i'm excited i'm super excited all right i'm gonna go for it

00:49:45.820 let's let's get started god remind me send me an email to fill out steak for you okay

00:49:53.040 okay okay but i'm gonna i'm gonna start okay nose okay sorry

00:50:01.400 octavian how do we how do we bye bye simone

00:50:14.180 do you need a rescue

00:50:19.820 Were you building a bridge and it failed?

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