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 this, too
 
-Anyway, the occasion for messaging you today is that you might be a good test audience for this one: is this draft falling into the "allying with terrible positions out of contrarianism" failure mode?
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-I'm arguing that you being drafted into the army actually _would_ be worse (for you, and for the army) from our englighted Bayesian transhumanist perspective than it would be for a male who was otherwise personality-matched and strength-matched—for real, and not just as edgy right-wing anti-virtue signaling
+Anyway, the occasion for messaging you today is that you might be a good test audience for this one:
 
+is this draft falling into the "allying with terrible positions out of contrarianism" failure mode
 
+I'm arguing that you being drafted into the army actually _would_ be worse (for you, and for the army) from our englighted Bayesian transhumanist perspective than it would be for a male who was otherwise personality-matched and strength-matched—for real, and not just as edgy right-wing anti-virtue signaling
 
 but you might know reasons my guess is wrong
 
 (I really appreciate the pushback earlier)
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+I wrote a post about how the "just test combat ability; you don't have to go by the presence of penises" conversation back on page 34 broke my suspension of disbelief in the cultural worldbuilding: <http://unremediatedgender.space/2022/Jun/comment-on-a-scene-from-planecrash-crisis-of-faith/> (Briefly: "the government isn't allowed to notice race or sex" is Earth-craziness that only makes sense as a reaction to other Earth-craziness—specifically, that refusing to admit group differences into decision calculations is a Schelling point for preventing group conflicts when you don't trust people not to lie about the specific differences in a way that advantages their group; it's not something you would spontaneously invent or think was a good idea if you _actually_ grew up in a world with 140 average IQ that trained everyone in probability theory as normative reasoning.)