As far as I can tell, Professor, I'm just doing what _you_ taught meācarve reality at the joints, speak the truth, even if your voice trembles, make an extraordinary effort when you've got Something to Protect.
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+"Beliefs about the self aren't special" is part of the whole AI reflectivity thing, too!!
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+> decision-theoretically, it's also not their fault. They were all following a strategy that was perfectly reasonable until they ran into someone with an anomalously high insistence that words should mean things
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+Sure: everyone in a conflict thinks they're acting defensively against aggressors infringing on their rights, because in the cases where everyone agrees what the "actual" property rights are, there's no conflict.