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 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.