bobthechef comments on Mind Projection Fallacy - Less Wrong

35 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 11 March 2008 12:29AM

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Comment author: Intrazero 12 March 2008 06:27:55AM 2 points [-]

Speaking of interspecies vs intraspecies reproductive fitness evaluation - a human may judge a member of its own species (from a distant end of the genetic spectrum, i.e., whitest of the white vs. blackest of the black) less desirable than some hypothetical alien species with appropriately bulbous forms and necessary orifices or extrusions.

Comment author: bobthechef 26 April 2011 12:58:18PM 0 points [-]

Are you sexually attracted to manikins?

Comment author: DSimon 22 February 2012 05:38:34AM *  2 points [-]

What if the manikins were alive and intelligent?