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the reason half the smart people you know are trans is not actually that being trans has any inherent impact on smartness. it's just that being able to see through and transcend gender is highly correlated with being able to do this for other subject matter too

‪one way you could look at it (there are many accurate ways of looking at it, as with all things) is that if you have recognised gender is a game and therefore you should play to win, you may start to notice many other things are games. this is how one of my friends might put it‬

‪i can't channel my other friends rn but there's probably a hundred other ways you could put this that would be superficially completely disconnected but the whole point is that you have to be able to see the common thread, seeing the common thread is the wisdom here‬

@hikari that’s a good way of putting it so you channeled the right friend at least

@hikari for some reason this made a part of me come up with the phrase ‘gender market optimisation’

@scarlet yes

@hikari @scarlet 🤔

@hokaze @scarlet true

@hikari Proposition:
First-order effect: you have to be smart to realise that you are gender-misaligned
Second-order effect: not suffering from being gender-misaligned frees up resources to operate more efficiently.