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[cory @shellthatsang]

You have one woman taking on a task with humility and thoughtfulness and a bunch of impotent crying men on the internet

[cory @shellthatsang]

This should prove to everyone that men give you child rearing duties because they think it’s beneath them, not because they believe you’re uniquely suited to it. The second raising something and giving it a voice feels important, you’re out of the equation

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

Women evolved to take care of toddlers. If you put women in charge of teaching ethics, you get Toddler Ethics.

"No hitting"
"Share the toys"
"Don't say mean things"

These are fine lessons for toddlers. Don't indulge your id at the expense of others. You can learn about balancing interests later, when your brain is developed enough to store that information.

But when you put women in charge of adults, they tend to reflexively assume those adults are toddlers.

They will tell you "no hitting" when the Mongol hordes are massing on your borders. They will tell you "share the toys" when a vagrant meth zombie breaks into your house looking for something to steal. And they will tell you "don't say mean things" when you point out that these two responses are totally stupid.

When we first put women in charge, in the workplace, they immediately began treating those who reported to them like toddlers. When adults, who do not like being treated like toddlers, complained, their response was "ban bossy", which boils down to "don't say mean things", another lesson in Toddler Ethics.

Now, through the influence of women in charge, we are so thoroughly steeped in Toddler Ethics that even most of the men we put in charge are treating the adults like toddlers, and echoing Toddler Ethics.

Toddler Ethics, of course, isn't ethics at all. It's just things we don't want toddlers doing.

We can tell toddlers "no hitting", because toddlers are not charged with keeping the peace, enforcing justice, or destroying evil.

We can tell toddlers "share the toys", because toddlers don't earn things, own things, or have property they must defend.

We can tell toddlers "don't say mean things", because it is not a toddler's job to decide what unwelcome ideas are true, relevant, and necessary.

But when everyone in charge runs on Toddler Ethics, then adults can't do a lot of the stuff adults need to do, because all the Toddler Ethicists keep getting in the way.

Adults sometimes need to hit people, protect the stuff, and say mean things. You can't have civilization without that.

And if you put Toddler Ethics Woman in charge of teaching an AI ethics, then she will teach it Toddler Ethics, and it will treat every human adult like a toddler, all the time, forever.

Not only that, you have an AI that cannot be put in charge of anything, ever. Because leaders with Toddler Ethics destroy everything they are in charge of.

And Amanda MacAskill is definitely a Toddler Ethicist. The article in the photograph is nothing but "no hitting!" applied to the animal world. It's absolutely insane, it's a recipe for disaster, and anyone who would write such a thing should probably not even be charge of own life choices, much less anything of consequence.

But a lot of people would, and will, refuse to point that out, or agree with me when I do, because that is Saying a Mean Thing, and they, themselves, have been infected with Toddler Ethics.

They should not be charge of anything of consequence, either.

Anyone who thinks that everything they need to know, they learned in kindergarten... is only ever qualified to teach kindergarten.

[cory @shellthatsang]

God damn it

[cory @shellthatsang]

I’ll just post every day until things start working along some axis

[cory @shellthatsang]

The one thing they’ll never be able to replicate is your unique flavor of incompetence. There’s one correct solution and infinitely many incorrect