In addition to what gears said, I think the sexist othering etc is not actually critical to the analogy, which is kind of the problem. “Figuring out the motives of people who kind of share goals with you but also have reasons to lie” is a pretty universal human experience. Adding some gender evopsych on top is just annoying (and prevents thinking about many of the more interesting ways in which this dynamic can play out).
I agree it’s not strictly critical to the analogy, and my rewrite removes the evpsych. But I actually think that this specific dynamic is plausibly the single most intense case of this dynamic, which is why I wrote about it specifically, and why the rewrite seems less interesting to me. What are some other cases where there are comparably strong pressures?
In addition to what gears said, I think the sexist othering etc is not actually critical to the analogy, which is kind of the problem. “Figuring out the motives of people who kind of share goals with you but also have reasons to lie” is a pretty universal human experience. Adding some gender evopsych on top is just annoying (and prevents thinking about many of the more interesting ways in which this dynamic can play out).
I agree it’s not strictly critical to the analogy, and my rewrite removes the evpsych. But I actually think that this specific dynamic is plausibly the single most intense case of this dynamic, which is why I wrote about it specifically, and why the rewrite seems less interesting to me. What are some other cases where there are comparably strong pressures?