From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Sep 22 2002 - 02:41:55 MDT
Lee Corbin wrote:
>
> This novel use of my last name instead of our customary
> first name basis can be but a comment or joke on why I
> named the thread "Broderick's Tetrahedral Model" instead
> of "Damien's".
Actually, it's because Lee Daniel Crocker recently posted again. But it
could be worse; you could be named Michael.
>>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.
>
>>... So why make the observation?
>
> The relevance is that in Damien's model the blue
> side (self-reliance; will; conscience; individual
> consciousness) seems to me in some of those
> regards to be associated with "maleness", while
> the red side (mutual support; communal aspects of
> life; self a mutable construct of language; family
> and social traditions) I associate more in several
> respects with "femaleness".
Again I ask: Even if you were right, so what? Blue is blue, red is red.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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