On "gendertropes" in dath ilan

According to Eliezer Yudkowsky on LessWrong, a 'gendertrope' is a term from his fictional world of dath ilan for personality traits that both vary across genders and help predict relationship compatibility. Think: wanting kids, willingness to do childcare, or being a would-be supervillain. They're tropes because once you know someone has them, you've learned something useful about whether you'd work as partners. Yudkowsky describes it as deliberately messy language, modeled on how real human categories naturally work: not cleanly defined, but recognizable through examples.

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