check in "Interlude XXII"

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"?

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+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/)