A median earthling on another world would make lots and lots of errors in imagining Earth, and I think it would make sense to be biased toward errors that make things more legible.
Like how, in planecrash, it’s said that smarter-than-average dath ilani doing the exercise still have their medianworld share dath ilan’s high-end of intelligence, since “what kinds of innovations might superhuman geniuses make?” is not at all the point of the exercise. (Of course Eliezer ignored that rule...)
A median earthling on another world would make lots and lots of errors in imagining Earth, and I think it would make sense to be biased toward errors that make things more legible.
Like how, in planecrash, it’s said that smarter-than-average dath ilani doing the exercise still have their medianworld share dath ilan’s high-end of intelligence, since “what kinds of innovations might superhuman geniuses make?” is not at all the point of the exercise. (Of course Eliezer ignored that rule...)