-https://www.facebook.com/yudkowsky/posts/10159421750419228
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-https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/onwgTH6n8wxRSo2BJ/unnatural-categories-are-optimized-for-deception
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-> misgendering sucks, but what feels even more violent is when people get my pronouns right and i can tell they still perceive me as a man
-https://twitter.com/AFROlNCOGNlTO/status/1389080592084463618
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-> a lot of cis people use 'learning someone's pronoun' as a copout from doing the important internal work of actually reconsidering their impression of the person's gender
-https://twitter.com/pangmeli/status/1079097805250224130
-> like let's be real—the reason you have a hard time "remembering" her pronoun is because you don't really think of her as a her. if you practiced thinking of her as a her, her pronoun would just come. and then you wouldn't be privately betraying her in your head all the time.
-https://twitter.com/pangmeli/status/1079142303183327232
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-• Aside: "gamete size"—this is a tic where everyone knows what sex is, but no one is allowed to acknowledge the cluster
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-• I need the correct answer
-• "We can't talk about this"—utterly discrediting of the entire project"
-• What is the regularity in human psychology such that we end up with "gendered" noun classes? We are sexually dimorphic animals
-• the people aligning language models need to know this!!
-• he can only speak in terms of abstractions that are very obviously not what's happening—it's true that bathroom usage is not an ontological fact, but the function of bathrooms is _to protect females from males_. If you can't talk about that core issue—the thing that people actually care about—then the smugness is actively derailing the discussion, even if you didn't say anything false
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-• Schild's ladder—noun classes in other languages are already pretty arbitrary; if the proposal is to make names like that
-• TODO: buff my "circular definition satisfies no one" argument to not be vulnerable to the anti-Liskov-substitution property of natural language definitions
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-https://www.ehu.eus/seg/_media/gizt/5/5/brown-gilman-pronouns.pdf
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-What Quakers Can Teach Us About the Politics of Pronouns
-https://archive.is/bYdde
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-https://www.genderdissent.com/the-resistance-column
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-https://www.womenarehuman.com/extra-jail-time-for-incarcerated-women-who-use-male-pronouns-for-male-transgender-identifying-inmates/
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-Spanish speakers screw up he/she—because they're used to dropping pronouns! https://cogsci.mindmodeling.org/2017/papers/0639/paper0639.pdf
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-https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1468204472908369926