From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Sep 22 2002 - 00:11:50 MDT
Lee Corbin wrote:
> Watching a libertarian man argue with a sort-of socialist
> woman at dinner one night made me realize that self-reliance
> could very well be more programmed into men in general than
> women, with rather obvious political consequences! And why
> the hell not; in pre-history women needed more support, and
> men might have needed to be more self-reliant. Baby stuff.
> That can hardly be a new observation.
But Corbin, what difference does it make? Let's suppose you're right and
there are different distributions in self-reliance for the two genders; a
self-reliant human would still be a self-reliant human regardless of
whether he occupies point A on the male curve or she occupies point B on
the female curve. Someone with an IQ of 120 has an IQ of 120 whether it's
a sigma ahead of the planetary average or a sigma behind the Extropian
average. Someone with an income of $12,000 annually has an income of
$12,000 annually regardless of whether that person is black, white, or
painted green. So why make the observation?
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Sat Nov 02 2002 - 09:17:13 MST