From bb85bfe9aa5c5f54c720f2fca71359c6ecc85ab4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2022 16:24:50 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] check in "Interlude XXII" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Found this while looking at my emails—somehow I never blogged it at the time? Maybe I didn't want to use the word "rationalist"? --- content/drafts/interlude-xxii.md | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/drafts/interlude-xxii.md diff --git a/content/drafts/interlude-xxii.md b/content/drafts/interlude-xxii.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..498bc85 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/drafts/interlude-xxii.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Title: Interlude XXII +Date: 2022-06-06 05:00 +Category: other +Tags: interlude +Status: draft + +_(a stray thought from October 2016)_ + +Erotic-target-location-erroneous is the _uniquely_ best sexual orientation for rationalists—I mean _intrinsically_, not just because everyone has it. + + * it's abstract + * it [requires](http://lesswrong.com/lw/h8/tsuyoku_naritai_i_want_to_become_stronger/) effort to realize + * without an unusual amount of [epistemic luck](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8bWbNwiSGbGi9jXPS/epistemic-luck) or an _enormous_ amount of map–territory-distinction skill, virtually everyone _wildly misinterprets_ what the underlying psychological phenomenon is ("That's clearly a _mere_ effect of my horrible, crippling gender dysphoria, not a _cause_!" "That's totally normal for cis women, too!" _A-ha-ha-ha-ha!_ You delusional bastards!), thus providing essential training in the important life skill of [noticing that everything you've ever cared about is a lie](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/09/bayesomasochism/) -- 2.17.1