Mind Projection Fallacy — LessWrong
In the dawn days of science fiction, alien invaders would occasionally kidnap a girl in a torn dress and carry her off for intended ravishing, as lov…
x Mind Projection Fallacy — LessWrong Reductionism 101 Mind projection fallacy Fallacies Map and Territory Rationality Frontpage 103 Mind Projection Fallacy by Eliezer Yudkowsky 11th Mar 2008 2 min read 93 103 In the dawn days of science fiction, alien invaders would occasionally kidnap a girl in a torn dress and carry her off for intended ravishing, as lovingly depicted on many ancient magazine covers. Oddly enough, the aliens never go after men in torn shirts. Would a non-humanoid alien, with a different evolutionary history and evolutionary psychology , sexually desire a human female? It se
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