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-Title: Keltham (Title Needed)
+Title: Consilient Cultural Worldbuilding and the Incoherence of Nondiscrimination: Comment on <em>Planecrash</em>: "Crisis of Faith" Pages 33–34
 Date: 2021-01-01
 Category: commentary
 Tags: Eliezer Yudkowsky, worldbuilding
 Status: draft
 
-Realistic worldbuilding is hard: unable to model what someone else would do except by imagining oneself in that position, authors tend to embarrass themselves writing [alleged aliens or AIs that _just happen_ act like humans](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Zkzzjg3h7hW5Z36hK/humans-in-funny-suits), or allegedly foreign cultures that _just happen_ to share all of the idiosyncratic taboos of the author's own culture. The manifestations of this can be very subtle, even to authors who know about the trap.
+Realistic worldbuilding is a difficult art: unable to model what someone else would do except by imagining oneself in that position, authors tend to embarrass themselves writing [alleged aliens or AIs that _just happen_ act like humans](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Zkzzjg3h7hW5Z36hK/humans-in-funny-suits), or allegedly foreign cultures that _just happen_ to share all of the idiosyncratic taboos of the author's own culture. The manifestations of this can be very subtle, even to authors who know about the trap.
 
 In _Planecrash_, a collaborative roleplaying fiction principally by Iarwain (a pen name of Eliezer Yudkowsky) and Lintamande, our protagonist, Keltham, hails from [dath ilan](https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/dath-ilan), a more smarter, more rational, and better-coordinated alternate version of Earth. Keltham has somehow survived his apparent death and woken up in the fantasy world of [Golarion](https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Golarion), and sets about uplifting the natives using knowledge from his superior civilization.
 
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 And Keltham just bites the bullet!
 
 neglect of probability (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/q7Me34xvSG3Wm97As/but-there-s-still-a-chance-right)
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+> They end up wanting 42 major things and 314 minor things (on the current count of what's known and thought to be distinct in the way of adaptation)
+https://www.glowfic.com/replies/1801140#reply-1801140
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+* realistic worldbuilding is hard, people write aliens or foreigners just like themselves; it's easy to fall into this trap even if you ostensibly know better
+* Planecrash summary
+* Keltham's proposal 
+* This entire idea of "The government can't discriminate by race or sex" is specific Earth-craziness that only makes sense in relation to other Earth-craziness; it's not something you would spontaneously invent if you actually grew up in an IQ 140 Society that taught everyone probability theory as normative reasoning: in this essay, I will first explain the principle, and then dissect Keltham's example of military service which is the _uniquely worst possible example_
+* Probabily theory has no protected classes
+* If you happen to have more fine-grained information, fine, but you don't always
+* Expense of taking additional measurements
+* Measurement error
+* "sex" and "wisdom" are both abstract categories that it would suck if the category mispredicted you; there's no principled difference
+* The specific military example