content/drafts/interlude-xxii.md

   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 effort](http://lesswrong.com/lw/h8/tsuyoku_naritai_i_want_to_become_stronger/) 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_—and besides, 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/)