Title: Comment on a Scene from <em>Planecrash</em>: "Crisis of Faith"
Date: 2022-06-12 20:00
Category: commentary
-Tags: Eliezer Yudkowsky, worldbuilding
+Tags: Eliezer Yudkowsky, literary critcism, worldbuilding
Realistic worldbuilding is a difficult art: unable to model what someone else would do except by the ["empathic inference"](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9fpWoXpNv83BAHJdc/the-comedy-of-behaviorism) of 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.
first edit pass bookmark: "I got a chance to talk to"
-pt. 3 edit tier—
+pt. 3 edit tier (red team edition)—
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+pt. 3 edit tier (auto edition)—
✓ footnote on the bad-faith condition on "My Price for Joining"
✓ footnote explaining quibbles on clarification
✓ quote Yudkowsky's LW moderation policy
✓ quote Jack on timelines anxiety
✓ clarify "A Lesson is Learned"
- nuance and FTX epilogue
+_ clarify that cheerful price history is with Anna specifically
+_ briefly speculate on causes of brain damage (tie in to moderation policy?)
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_ being friends with dogs (it's good, but do I have the wordcount budget?)
-_ briefly speculate on causes of brain damage
_ Ruby fight: "forces of blandness want me gone ... stand my ground" remark
_ mention that I was miffed about "Boundaries?" not getting Curated, while one of Euk's animal posts did
_ explicitly mention http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/bad-faith-behavior-not-feeling/
> A trans woman told me, "I get to have all these talkative blowhard traits and no one will punish me for it cuz I'm a girl."
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kq8CZzcPKQtCzbGxg/quinn-s-shortform?commentId=ByARjQ72pNfvzRoLQ
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+https://www.reddit.com/r/honesttransgender/comments/17tetu5/im_trans_and_i_transitioned_because_seeing_myself/