tweaks to "Comment on a Scene" in reaction to Ilzo's comments

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 this, too
 
 
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-Anyway, the occasion for messaging you today is that you might be a good test audience for this one: is this draft falling into the "allying with terrible positions out of contrarianism" failure mode?
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-I'm arguing that you being drafted into the army actually _would_ be worse (for you, and for the army) from our englighted Bayesian transhumanist perspective than it would be for a male who was otherwise personality-matched and strength-matched—for real, and not just as edgy right-wing anti-virtue signaling
+Anyway, the occasion for messaging you today is that you might be a good test audience for this one:

 
 

+is this draft falling into the "allying with terrible positions out of contrarianism" failure mode

 
 

+I'm arguing that you being drafted into the army actually _would_ be worse (for you, and for the army) from our englighted Bayesian transhumanist perspective than it would be for a male who was otherwise personality-matched and strength-matched—for real, and not just as edgy right-wing anti-virtue signaling

 
 but you might know reasons my guess is wrong
 
 (I really appreciate the pushback earlier)
 
 but you might know reasons my guess is wrong
 
 (I really appreciate the pushback earlier)

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+I wrote a 4000-word post about how the "just test combat ability; you don't have to go by the presence of penises" conversation broke my suspension of disbelief in the cultural worldbuilding: [URL here] (Briefly: "the government isn't allowed to notice race or sex" is Earth-craziness that only makes sense as a reaction to other Earth-craziness—specifically, refusing to admit group differences into decision calculations is a Schelling point for preventing group conflicts when you don't trust people not to lie about the specific differences in a way that advantages their group; it's not something you would spontaneously invent or think was a good idea if you _actually_ grew up in a world with 140 average IQ that trained everyone in probability theory as normative reasoning.)