+Given this multitude of reasons why the _existing_ meanings of gendered pronouns are relevant to the question of pronoun reform, what is Yudkowsky's response?
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+Apparently, to play dumb. [TODO: flesh out the original "Oliver" example] In the comments of the Facebook post, Yudkowsky claims:
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+> I do not know what it feels like from the inside to feel like a pronoun is attached to something in your head much more firmly than "doesn't look like an Oliver" is attached to something in your head.
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+I'm sorry, but I can't take this self-report literally. I certainly [don't think Yudkowsky was _consciously lying_](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bSmgPNS6MTJsunTzS/maybe-lying-doesn-t-exist) when he wrote that. Nevertheless, I am _incredibly_ skeptical that Yudkowsky _actually_ doesn't know what it feels like [...]
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+[TODO: how could you possibly know that?]
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+The thing is, Eliezer Yudkowsky is an American English speaker born in 1979. As an American English speaker born in 1987, I have a _pretty good_ mental model of how American English speakers born in the late 20th century use language.
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+> My current policy stance is that anybody who does feel that way needs to get some perspective about how it can be less firmly attached in other people's heads; and how their feelings don't get to control everybody's language protocol or accuse non-protocol users of lying; especially when different people with firm attachments have _different_ firm attachments and we can't make them all be protocol.