init draft: medianworld post

I've been caught in a laziness-and-sadness-and-Super-Auto-Pets
loop lately; tomorrow I want to really get some stuff done

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+Title: Another Me I Haven't Met
+Date: 2022-04-11 05:00
+Category: other
+Tags: worldbuilding
+Status: draft
+
+The [Glowfic](https://www.glowfic.com/) collaborative-fiction community has [this worldbuilding trope of an author's "medianworld"](https://www.glowfic.com/replies/1619639#reply-1619639)—a setting where the average person is _like you_ along important dimensions, as contrasted to our real world, where the sort of person contemplating this exercise is probably a weird nerd of one sort or another.
+
+What makes the exercise challenging is the craft of portraying the medianworld as a consilient world with a realistic, self-consistent history. It's _not_ a Society of duplicates of you, because actual-you and all your memories come from _our_ world; the only simple, consistent history producing that outcome would be giving actual-you some sort of [science-fictional](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Transporter_duplicate) [duplicator technology](https://www.cold-takes.com/the-duplicator/).
+
+Rather, your medianworld is a real human Society that would spit out something very much like you at the center, rather than at the margins: for everything that makes you weird _here_, half the population of your medianworld is even more so. The worldbuilding problem is: how would that _actually_ happen, given different initial conditions, but the same underlying laws of economics, sociology, psychology, _&c._? How would the macro-level features of Society shake out, were Society to supervene on that population?
+
+[the details of who you are is formed against the context of our world; if someone had the same underlying traits in a world full of others like them, the outcome would be different]
+
+[underlying traits: ideologically-drivenness, need for transparency, general craziness, autogynephilia]
+
+[school]
+
+[mental health]
+
+[money isn't real: credit-assignment rituals (not impact certificates)]
+[caring about children as an abstract committment to the Future, rather than actually liking kids]
+
+[autogenderphilia]