I dunno about this. It seems that the difference between those concerned with an intelligence explosion and those concerned with other scenarios has gotten way more attention here than gender.
I wasn’t surprised on the occasions when questions of differences in tone between the two camps flared up when discussing that topic. I would have been shocked almost beyond belief if, when discussing that topic, questions of tone differences between men and women had arisen.
The idea is, almost every topic, men and women are very similar, because the differences aren’t relevant. When you begin looking at the differences, then you get amplifying effects. In particular, each participant being what they are and completely unable to change that means:
that the topic isn’t going to be to convert people from one camp to the other or otherwise influence their choice as in the example above, but it’s going to have to be about something about that. This added layer of meta makes things much less stable. Imagine having a discussion about how we ought to talk about the differences between intelligence explosion and other scenarios, while universally acknowledged that no one was going to change their position on the actual subject. It’d be all over the place.
that empathy is harder to achieve. And in particular looking at the difference from one end gives exactly opposite perspectives on the issue. When you ‘normalize’ the differences, it’s maximally different.
I dunno about this. It seems that the difference between those concerned with an intelligence explosion and those concerned with other scenarios has gotten way more attention here than gender.
I wasn’t surprised on the occasions when questions of differences in tone between the two camps flared up when discussing that topic. I would have been shocked almost beyond belief if, when discussing that topic, questions of tone differences between men and women had arisen.
The idea is, almost every topic, men and women are very similar, because the differences aren’t relevant. When you begin looking at the differences, then you get amplifying effects. In particular, each participant being what they are and completely unable to change that means:
that the topic isn’t going to be to convert people from one camp to the other or otherwise influence their choice as in the example above, but it’s going to have to be about something about that. This added layer of meta makes things much less stable. Imagine having a discussion about how we ought to talk about the differences between intelligence explosion and other scenarios, while universally acknowledged that no one was going to change their position on the actual subject. It’d be all over the place.
that empathy is harder to achieve. And in particular looking at the difference from one end gives exactly opposite perspectives on the issue. When you ‘normalize’ the differences, it’s maximally different.