orthonormal comments on Of Exclusionary Speech and Gender Politics - Less Wrong

62 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 July 2009 07:22AM

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Comment author: SilasBarta 21 July 2009 11:28:45PM *  3 points [-]

Sure, until it results in:

"Women might be less willing to take dangerous jobs because in the EEA[1], there was less return to taking big risks."

"Hey, that's disempowering to women and we agreed not to be like that here."

"Sorry, didn't notice. Edit: Women can do every job a man can."

[1]Environment of evolutionary adaptation aka ancestral (ETC wrong word) environment aka where most modern human psychology was molded

Comment author: orthonormal 22 July 2009 12:17:32AM 2 points [-]

By the way: ancestral environment.