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=cf69066b6cb9976f6634c35d13def6c164a34baa;hp=acf48b95a771002da986f5f08f521dfdc1af216d;hb=b34d6e23ba0c88634a88501f17604e604618eb5b;hpb=428b401fde50937e0bdb638d3483f98aa17641c3 diff --git a/notes/consilent_cultural_worldbuilding-notes.md b/notes/consilent_cultural_worldbuilding-notes.md index acf48b9..cf69066 100644 --- a/notes/consilent_cultural_worldbuilding-notes.md +++ b/notes/consilent_cultural_worldbuilding-notes.md @@ -60,4 +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 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: (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.)