Political race and gender equality would be better termed "race and gender egalitarianism". It should be thought of as a value, not as a fact.
Speaking as someone who is all in favour of equality, hell no. It should be though of as a strategy. Values are something quite different.
On the other hand, if we found ourselves in, say, the world of Dungeons and Dragons, we would require a different strategy to fulfill our values.
Of course, it's tempting to praise the Good thing by saying it would be Good in every possible world - there are several posts on the fact floating around LW - but fight it! Declaring your policies terminally valuable is only one step away from concluding everyone who doesn't hold them must hold different terminal values, and is equivalent to clippy - and that doesn't turn out well.
Agreed. I can imagine possible worlds in which race and gender egalitarianism would be silly.
What I should have said is that it is a heuristic, which is generally believed to hold in all cases where between group variation is less than within-group variation. (Which is why it's okay that athletics are gender segregated)
People want to tell everything instead of telling the best 15 words. They want to learn everything instead of the best 15 words. In this thread, instead post the best 15-words from a book you've read recently (or anything else). It has to stand on its own. It's not a summary, the whole value needs to be contained in those words.
I'll start in the comments below.
(Voted by the Schelling study group as the best exercise of the meeting.)