X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fon-the-public-anti-epistemology-of-dath-ilan.md;h=0b9e1b14aec8dfb73c1ba8058b8a4b04b9a38bc8;hp=d2e993f4de26409824003fd409e13cb4736df4df;hb=49b6fc4353d124ef80b83b5d2cbd098a6bb7e17e;hpb=cf7b2f7670af28e5af4c488d49c5eb37b2344546 diff --git a/content/drafts/on-the-public-anti-epistemology-of-dath-ilan.md b/content/drafts/on-the-public-anti-epistemology-of-dath-ilan.md index d2e993f..0b9e1b1 100644 --- a/content/drafts/on-the-public-anti-epistemology-of-dath-ilan.md +++ b/content/drafts/on-the-public-anti-epistemology-of-dath-ilan.md @@ -9,8 +9,7 @@ Status: draft > > —Thomas Jefferson, earthling -Eliezer Yudkowsky's fictional portrayl of the world of dath ilan (capitalization _sic_) - +Eliezer Yudkowsky's portrayal of the fictional world of dath ilan (capitalization _sic_) purports to be a Dath ilan had originally been introduced in a [2014 April Fool's Day post](https://yudkowsky.tumblr.com/post/81447230971/my-april-fools-day-confession), in which Yudkowsky "confessed" that the explanation for his seemingly implausible genius is that he's "actually" an ordinary person from a smarter, saner alternate version of Earth where the ideas he presented to this world as his own were common knowledge. (This likely inspired the trope of a [_medianworld_](https://www.glowfic.com/replies/1619639#reply-1619639), a setting where the average person is like the author along important dimensions.)[^medianworlds]