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Wednesday, May 27, 2026

SSH is Not Evolutionary Psychology - by Vox Day

 Why you never see evopsych references here

In most Game-related or dating-related sites, you will often see an amount of evopsych utilized, which is to say explanations of various behaviors are offered on the basis of the way in which human psychology evolved through natural selection over time. But you won’t see it here, first because we don’t concern ourselves with Why things are, second because both psychology and evolutionary biology are irreproducible garbage sciences.

Consider: the ten most oft-cited evolutionary psychological explanations, based on citation accounts in Evolution and Human Behavior and similar journals, are:

Full text:
https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/ssh-is-not-evolutionary-psychology-b0e 

These explanations are nonsensical and false for three reasons:

  • Psychology is a garbage science.

  • Evolution by natural selection is impossible

  • Neutral theory is garbage and misapplied math

As it happens, I’m a literal expert on the subject, having written three books on it collectively known as The Mathematics of Evolution. In Hardcoded, I developed the decay function of professional science based on known percentage of irreproducible professionally-published, peer-reviewed papers combined with the structural incentive toward the embrace of low-quality new developments and the known correction rate.