Sorry, what? Why would you be sending a bunch of poly people anywhere?

They exist as part of our culture and civilization. Is this some form of "the natural order of humankind is monogamous nuclear families"?

Because I’m curious whether this is a pro-adaptive or mal-adaptive social construct. It’s a purely utilitarian question: could a bunch of polyamorous people successfully survive in their own third world village? Would they raise healthy kids that would be able to create civilizational progress? I don’t know the answer to that, hence the experiment.

I’m personally curious if our cultural obsession with JS devs is pro-adaptive or mal-adaptive. The logical way to test this would be to send a bunch of JS devs to a Bangladeshi village and see if they survive.

In other words, you can’t really test a lot of social constructs in isolation.

JS dev is a specialized trade that fills a social function within a larger society that needs many different kinds of jobs. Does polyamory serve such a specialized social function? Does society need any poly people at all? Like, if the world is ending and we need to send a 500 people to Mars to preserve humanity. What fraction of poly people do we need to bring to ensure the success of the mission?

> I’d love to run an experiment where we send a bunch of poly people to a remote location and see if they can create civilization.

Lmao. This has been tried and failed with every sex cult. The Children of God are the best (worst) example, having started during the free love era.

It actually does hold itself together well enough, until the old guard gets bored and looks to the kids as their new source of sexual gratification.