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1 Title: Interlude XXII
2 Date: 2022-06-06 05:00
3 Category: other
4 Tags: interlude
5 Status: draft
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7 _(a stray thought from October 2016)_
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9 Erotic-target-location-erroneous is the _uniquely_ best sexual orientation for rationalists—I mean _intrinsically_, not just because everyone has it.
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11  * it's abstract
12  * it [requires](http://lesswrong.com/lw/h8/tsuyoku_naritai_i_want_to_become_stronger/) effort to realize
13  * without an unusual amount of [epistemic luck](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8bWbNwiSGbGi9jXPS/epistemic-luck) or an _enormous_ amount of map–territory-distinction skill, virtually everyone _wildly misinterprets_ what the underlying psychological phenomenon is ("That's clearly a _mere_ effect of my horrible, crippling gender dysphoria, not a _cause_!" "That's totally normal for cis women, too!" _A-ha-ha-ha-ha!_ You delusional bastards!), thus providing essential training in the important life skill of [noticing that everything you've ever cared about is a lie](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/09/bayesomasochism/)