From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Fri Apr 23 1999 - 16:53:59 MDT
Well, I took the test.
I'd like to apologize for this heinous act to those members of this list
who have the misforture to be a female in a late-twentieth-century
English/American culture.
The apology is for actually taking the test, and marking off items like
"self-reliant" or "placatory" without thinking anything other than
"these terms aren't very well-defined, sounds like more New Age psychobabble".
On the other hand, when it struck me - about an hour later - that
categories like "self-reliant" were being categorized as "male" while
"placatory" was supposed to be "female", I screamed and threw my monitor
across the room, having realized the breath-taking magnitude of the
casual stereotyping. Thus I have no intention whatsoever of saying what
my scores were.
--
sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
http://pobox.com/~sentience/AI_design.temp.html
http://pobox.com/~sentience/singul_arity.html
Disclaimer: Unless otherwise specified, I'm not telling you
everything I think I know.
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