X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fa-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md;h=fdc264fea4349d1b9be7b5833e6eb00ac13970df;hb=68fc984a8274e25cd911be500fa93efc1ccfb5e7;hp=85ef6c26a58008fbf31283ae113cc43b1f47923e;hpb=1497802841de421a2b009c3429f95529d5219b4c;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md b/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md index 85ef6c2..fdc264f 100644 --- a/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md +++ b/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md @@ -314,3 +314,9 @@ But if someone without a dog spoke, then they'd get pattern-matched as a partisa As far as I can tell, Professor, I'm just doing what _you_ taught me—carve reality at the joints, speak the truth, even if your voice trembles, make an extraordinary effort when you've got Something to Protect. + +"Beliefs about the self aren't special" is part of the whole AI reflectivity thing, too!! + +> 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 + +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.