From: M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2017 23:27:09 +0000 (-0800) Subject: "Smart" X-Git-Url: http://534655.efjtl6rk.asia/source?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a22b508ffa8133e1a0ebb35f6658aac11a39ffaf;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git "Smart" --- diff --git a/content/2017/smart.md b/content/2017/smart.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5004534 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/2017/smart.md @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Title: Smart +Date: 2017-03-11 15:24 +Category: other +Tags: autogynephilia, cathartic + +"High-IQ educated people like to think we're _so smart_. But we're just _not_—at least not in a straightforwardly prosocial way. Any double-digit-IQ Trump voter from West Virginia could tell you that men who think they're women are delusional perverts. + +"I know. I prefer not to _phrase_ it that way, either, because like you—like everybody who matters—I think gender-dysphoric males _should_ have a respected place in Society to pursue their dream if that's what makes them happy. + +"But if you ignore the derogatory _style_ of that way of _phrasing_ it and just ask about the predictions made by the mental model that generated the derogatory phrasing, _men who think they're women are delusional perverts_ is the _correct theory_! If _really smart_ people who are _really good_ at philosophy can't get this _really easy_ question right because saying the right answer out loud in clear language makes us look bad—what are we good for? Why should people who aren't _already_ ideologically allied with us _care_?"