-[We each see the other as bulldozing the territory to fit a preconcieved map]
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+And that's how I break the symmetry: by acknowledging it when my counterparts don't. I _don't_ think I have fundamentally different _values_ from those whom I [happen to be fighting](/2020/Feb/if-in-some-smothering-dreams-you-too-could-pace/). I think I happen to _know_ some decision-relevant facts and philosophy that they don't, and I can [trace back the causal chain of what I think I know and how I think I know it](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6s3xABaXKPdFwA3FS/what-is-evidence). They see me as complicit with their oppressors, and mine; I see them as _not understanding what I'm trying to do_.
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+I'm trying to construct a map that reflects the territory. If this should entail some risk of self-fulfilling prophecies—if some corner of reality is all twisted up such that any attempt to describe that reality would thereby change it (for the map is _part_ of the territory)—then I want a map of how _that_ process works.
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+If the one should see this only as service to our oppressors, then I should happily taste the steel of her [beautiful weapons](https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/24/guided-by-the-beauty-of-our-weapons/), if she could only tell me in sufficient detail how describing me as the villain [shortens the length of the message needed to describe her observations](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mB95aqTSJLNR9YyjH/message-length). I'm _listening_.