Evolution has made men and women adaptation-executors, not fitness maximizers. I’m unsure why you believe that women are somehow better than men at being able to “determine the fundamental intentions of males”, when it is clear that isn’t the case if you talk to most women.
Even more important: we now see a distribution shift between the environment humans were optimized for, and the environment they find themselves in. Heterosexual women haven’t succeeded at the alignment problem any more than heterosexual men have.
The basic observation that women are relatively more interested in people is a standardly claimed psych finding. Not saying it’s not controversial, just that I’m not making it up. E.g. this paper https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00189/full has 335 citations. It stands to reason that if women are relatively more interested in people, they’ll spend relatively more time thinking about them, and so have relatively more knowledge and understanding. That’s all.
Evolution has made men and women adaptation-executors, not fitness maximizers. I’m unsure why you believe that women are somehow better than men at being able to “determine the fundamental intentions of males”, when it is clear that isn’t the case if you talk to most women.
Even more important: we now see a distribution shift between the environment humans were optimized for, and the environment they find themselves in. Heterosexual women haven’t succeeded at the alignment problem any more than heterosexual men have.
For the reasons I stated.
The basic observation that women are relatively more interested in people is a standardly claimed psych finding. Not saying it’s not controversial, just that I’m not making it up. E.g. this paper https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00189/full has 335 citations. It stands to reason that if women are relatively more interested in people, they’ll spend relatively more time thinking about them, and so have relatively more knowledge and understanding. That’s all.
Anyway, you can see a version of this post that’s the same but without references to women specifically, if you like: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ypvs4asdFq7riDWmd/interpersonal-alignment-intuitions