From: M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 03:25:13 +0000 (-0700) Subject: typo: "more smarter" X-Git-Url: http://534655.efjtl6rk.asia/source?a=commitdiff_plain;h=428b401fde50937e0bdb638d3483f98aa17641c3;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git typo: "more smarter" --- diff --git a/content/2022/comment-on-a-scene-from-planecrash-crisis-of-faith.md b/content/2022/comment-on-a-scene-from-planecrash-crisis-of-faith.md index b41fda0..b4021e0 100644 --- a/content/2022/comment-on-a-scene-from-planecrash-crisis-of-faith.md +++ b/content/2022/comment-on-a-scene-from-planecrash-crisis-of-faith.md @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Tags: Eliezer Yudkowsky, worldbuilding Realistic worldbuilding is a difficult art: unable to model what someone else would do except by the ["empathic inference"](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9fpWoXpNv83BAHJdc/the-comedy-of-behaviorism) of imagining oneself in that position, authors tend to embarrass themselves writing [alleged aliens or AIs that _just happen_ act like humans](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Zkzzjg3h7hW5Z36hK/humans-in-funny-suits), or allegedly foreign cultures that _just happen_ to share all of the idiosyncratic taboos of the author's own culture. The manifestations of this can be very subtle, even to authors who know about the trap. -In [_Planecrash_](https://www.projectlawful.com/board_sections/703), a collaborative roleplaying fiction principally by Iarwain (a pen name of Eliezer Yudkowsky) and Lintamande, our protagonist, Keltham, hails from [dath ilan](https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/dath-ilan), a more smarter, more rational, and better-coordinated alternate version of Earth. Keltham has somehow survived his apparent death and woken up in the fantasy world of [Golarion](https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Golarion), and sets about uplifting the natives using knowledge from his more advanced civilization. +In [_Planecrash_](https://www.projectlawful.com/board_sections/703), a collaborative roleplaying fiction principally by Iarwain (a pen name of Eliezer Yudkowsky) and Lintamande, our protagonist, Keltham, hails from [dath ilan](https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/dath-ilan), a smarter, more rational, and better-coordinated alternate version of Earth. Keltham has somehow survived his apparent death and woken up in the fantasy world of [Golarion](https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Golarion), and sets about uplifting the natives using knowledge from his more advanced civilization. In [the "Crisis of Faith" thread](https://www.projectlawful.com/posts/5977), Keltham has just arrived in the country of Osirion. While much better than his last host nation (don't ask), Keltham is dismayed at its patriarchal culture in which women typically are not educated and cannot own property, and is considering his options for reforming the culture in conjunction with sharing his civilization's knowledge. Having been advised to survey what native women think of their plight _before_ seeking to upend their social order, [Keltham asks an middle-aged woman](https://www.projectlawful.com/replies/1817402#reply-1817402):