Aella is a sex worker and survey artist turned data scientist of human sexuality. She’s accumulated an enormous amount of information on everything from sexual fetishes to threat tolerance, and has begun the long process of creating models for the development of people’s inner lives, relationships, and sexual preferences. We talk life paths, success in unconventional markets, the demarcation problem, and the limits and promises of what can be learned by asking people on the internet to fill out detailed questionnaires. Check out her twitter @Aella_girl, her substack at aella.substack.com and all her surveys at knowingless.com/surveys Support the scientific revolution by joining our Patreon: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub 00:00:00 Go! 00:02:29 Making Surveys 00:14:30 Universe A or B? 00:33:52 Experience & Development 00:42:34 Relationship Satisfaction 00:56:48 Chesterton's Fence 01:16:06 Banning vices 01:28:01 A wider Overton window #datascience #humansexuality #fetishes Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Michael Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671