X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fconsilent_cultural_worldbuilding-notes.md;fp=notes%2Fconsilent_cultural_worldbuilding-notes.md;h=acf48b95a771002da986f5f08f521dfdc1af216d;hp=f0b623038b07a5dbf6a7ee2ac359e73303c099c5;hb=e72ab0a10ba5723a0365dc656949763704c8e407;hpb=8b293d35794f89e005fab97cb7a63a450c4630ed diff --git a/notes/consilent_cultural_worldbuilding-notes.md b/notes/consilent_cultural_worldbuilding-notes.md index f0b6230..acf48b9 100644 --- a/notes/consilent_cultural_worldbuilding-notes.md +++ b/notes/consilent_cultural_worldbuilding-notes.md @@ -50,7 +50,9 @@ I fixed this, eventually 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? +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 @@ -58,4 +60,4 @@ but you might know reasons my guess is wrong (I really appreciate the pushback earlier) -I wrote a 4000-word post about how the "just test combat ability; you don't have to go by the presence of penises" conversation broke my suspension of disbelief in the cultural worldbuilding: [URL here] (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, 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.) +I wrote a 4000-word post about how the "just test combat ability; you don't have to go by the presence of penises" conversation broke my suspension of disbelief in the cultural worldbuilding: [URL here] (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, 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.)