X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2F2022%2Fcomment-on-a-scene-from-planecrash-crisis-of-faith.md;h=2e2e04f03bd4f40ff8ca66c2d9ef6eff43eab9d6;hp=b4021e01f95c0518ae803bd1e9e21a86b5cec156;hb=HEAD;hpb=428b401fde50937e0bdb638d3483f98aa17641c3 diff --git a/content/2022/comment-on-a-scene-from-planecrash-crisis-of-faith.md b/content/2022/comment-on-a-scene-from-planecrash-crisis-of-faith.md index b4021e0..2e2e04f 100644 --- a/content/2022/comment-on-a-scene-from-planecrash-crisis-of-faith.md +++ b/content/2022/comment-on-a-scene-from-planecrash-crisis-of-faith.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Title: Comment on a Scene from Planecrash: "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.