(Zach Weiner is actually a very smart guy, and I’d bet that he’d have no trouble grasping the real issues.)
I wouldn’t be surprised at all if he was already well-aware of the issues. It’s a bit silly to assume when authors of fiction (be it novels, movies, games or webcomics) make something “non-realistic”, it’s because they’re stupid and not because they’re optimizing plot or “understandability” or humor or brevity or their message … I found Eliezer’s writings on how “Probably the artist did not even think to ask whether an alien perceives human females as attractive” a bit unkind in that way too.
I wouldn’t be surprised at all if he was already well-aware of the issues. It’s a bit silly to assume when authors of fiction (be it novels, movies, games or webcomics) make something “non-realistic”, it’s because they’re stupid and not because they’re optimizing plot or “understandability” or humor or brevity or their message … I found Eliezer’s writings on how “Probably the artist did not even think to ask whether an alien perceives human females as attractive” a bit unkind in that way too.