X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fanother-me-i-havent-met.md;h=d14aae55b90cb5cb297397333af5e802aa2145f4;hp=224c14ef6afb75707b8c144ee580dbeb42b557dc;hb=HEAD;hpb=781a1bd9a35cd4298237fac3db89c38e245ddd71 diff --git a/content/drafts/another-me-i-havent-met.md b/content/drafts/another-me-i-havent-met.md index 224c14e..d14aae5 100644 --- a/content/drafts/another-me-i-havent-met.md +++ b/content/drafts/another-me-i-havent-met.md @@ -4,13 +4,23 @@ Category: other Tags: worldbuilding Status: draft -The [Glowfic](https://www.glowfic.com/) collaborative-fiction community has [this worldbuilding trope of an author's "medianworld"](https://www.glowfic.com/replies/1619639#reply-1619639)—a setting where the average person is _like you_ along important dimensions, as contrasted to our real world, where the sort of person contemplating this exercise is probably a weird nerd of one sort or another. +The [Glowfic](https://www.glowfic.com/) collaborative-fiction community has [this worldbuilding trope of an author's "medianworld"](https://www.glowfic.com/replies/1619639#reply-1619639)—a setting where the average person is _like you_ along important dimensions. -What makes the exercise challenging is the craft of portraying the medianworld as a consilient world with a realistic, self-consistent history. It's _not_ a Society of duplicates of you, because actual-you and all your memories come from _our_ world; the only simple, consistent history producing that outcome would be giving actual-you some sort of [science-fictional](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Transporter_duplicate) [duplicator technology](https://www.cold-takes.com/the-duplicator/). +(You might think that this is only an interesting thought experiment for people who are weird in our own world, but [in high-dimensional spaces, _most_ of the probability-mass is concentrated in a "shell" some distance around the mode](/2021/May/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems/#typical-point), because even though the per-unit-hypervolume probability _density_ is greatest at the mode, there's vastly _more_ hypervolume in the space around it. The upshot is that typical people are atypical along _some_ dimensions, so normies can play the medianworld game, too.) -Rather, your medianworld is a real human Society that would spit out something very much like you at the center, rather than at the margins: for everything that makes you weird _here_, half the population of your medianworld is even more so. The worldbuilding problem is: how would that _actually_ happen, given different initial conditions, but the same underlying laws of economics, sociology, psychology, _&c._? How would the macro-level features of Society shake out, were Society to supervene on that population? +What makes the exercise challenging is the craft of portraying the medianworld as a realistic world with a consilient history. It's _not_ a Society of duplicates of you, because the only simple, consistent history producing that outcome would be giving actual-you some sort of [science-fictional](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Transporter_duplicate) [duplicator technology](https://www.cold-takes.com/the-duplicator/); actual-you and all your memories come from _our_ world. -[the details of who you are is formed against the context of our world; if someone had the same underlying traits in a world full of others like them, the outcome would be different] +Rather, your medianworld is a real human Society that would spit out something very much like you at the center of the distribution: for everything that makes you weird _here_, half the population of your medianworld is even more so. The worldbuilding problem is: how would that _actually_ happen, given different initial conditions, but the same underlying laws of economics, sociology, psychology, _&c._? (_Our_ world produced someone like you at least once, so it's reasonable to suppose that a world with the same laws but different parameters could do it much more often, except insofar as some of your particular quirks bear + +How would the macro-level features of Society shake out, were a Society to supervene on that population? + +---- + +The country sometimes called Westlake is also known by a few other names for complicated political reasons (compare [Myanmar/Burma](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Myanmar), or [Kyiv/Kiev](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KyivNotKiev)): most often by the [exonym](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endonym_and_exonym) Zackistan, and less commonly as Carrietopia. + +[Switzerland is also known by many names] + +Due to a population bottleneck about 700 years ago, Westlakers have a very distinctive national character, [underlying traits: ideologically-drivenness, need for transparency, general craziness, autogynephilia] @@ -18,7 +28,7 @@ Rather, your medianworld is a real human Society that would spit out something v [mental health] -[money isn't real: credit-assignment rituals (not impact certificates)] +[money isn't real: credit-assignment rituals (not impact certificates as proposed by Chrisiano, where the funder is assumed to be purchasing the good)] [caring about children as an abstract committment to the Future, rather than actually liking kids] [autogenderphilia]