Alicorn comments on My Way - Less Wrong

31 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 17 April 2009 01:25AM

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 17 April 2009 01:47:38AM 7 points [-]

So this about my gender politics: Unlike the case with, say, race, I don't think that an optimal outcome consists of gender distinctions being obliterated. If the day comes when no one notices or cares whether someone is black or white, any more than they notice eye color, I would only applaud. But obliterating the difference between male and female does not seem to me desirable, and I am glad that it is impossible using present-day technology; the fact that humanity has (at least) two sexes is part of what keeps life interesting.

Why the difference? Doesn't the existence of different races keep life interesting?

Comment author: Alicorn 17 April 2009 01:58:22AM 13 points [-]

The existence of different cultures keeps life interesting. Race is just the color-coded label for some such cultures, and it's got a low enough correlation given modern globalization that it's often more of an obstruction to cultural interchange than a help.