Presumably mammals also exhibit more psychological similarity than non-mammals, and the same is probably true about East Asians relative to members of other races. What makes the psychological unity of mankind special?
I suspect that if you plotted all living beings by psychological similarity with Qiaochu_Yuan, there would be a much bigger gap between the -- [reminds himself about small children, people with advanced-stage Alzheimer’s, etc.] never mind.
(I could steelman my yesterday self by noticing that even though small children aren’t similar to QY they can easily become so in the future, and by replacing “gap” with “sparsely populated region”.)
I suspect that if you plotted all living beings by psychological similarity with Qiaochu_Yuan, there would be a much bigger gap between the -- [reminds himself about small children, people with advanced-stage Alzheimer’s, etc.] never mind.
:-)
(I could steelman my yesterday self by noticing that even though small children aren’t similar to QY they can easily become so in the future, and by replacing “gap” with “sparsely populated region”.)