Caledonian2 comments on 2-Place and 1-Place Words - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Caledonian2 27 June 2008 02:33:05PM 9 points [-]

The magazine covers didn't have aliens abducting beautiful women to convey the idea that the aliens valued 'sexiness'. They had them to appeal to the people buying the magazines.

Similarly, the stories didn't include thinly-veiled power fantasies because they were intended to convey insights about alien psychology. The aliens were a convenient facade. They were symbols of what the stories were actually about.