Well, so relevant to both of those, this idea that whenever there's a fundamental human

driver activity, something that we feel really strongly and has been a part of our species

for a long time, you have to be really careful if you start monkeyin' around with it with

technology, right?

Because if there is a strong drive that has some sort of real evolutionary purpose, it's

really powerful, it has that there's a point to it, and so if you start manipulating it

with some tool that someone, you know, a 22-year-old came up with in some incubator somewhere,

you might have problems, right?

And so both solitude and the dating apps actually touches on that particular principle.

So you know, with solitude, there's this, we have this strong drive for boredom, right?

Boredom is really uncomfortable, and that means something, right?

I mean, we really don't like feeling bored.

That means that there is an evolutionary importance to feeling boredom, because we don't have strong

things that make us feel really uncomfortable, and this is a really good reason to it.

So what's the purpose of boredom?

Well, it's supposed to help motivate us to actually get over our natural state of energy

conservation and actually invest the energy required to do things in the long-term or satisfying

and meaningful.

Because otherwise, we're most animals try to conserve energy when they can, because who

knows when you're going to next eat, but humans need to also go out there and, you know, invent

the wheel and build cities, and boredom drives us to do it, because we want to conserve

energy, we're lazy, but we also hate being bored.

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