X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fchallenges-notes.md;h=977f09cc64077c1b5bbe02f4a4d50acbaa697344;hb=09eb8df25850716481dff2475d3ff8e57adc61f2;hp=9198ec49c5ee2bab709452e75ca502dcc5236a1e;hpb=95f5b39617545e003657e03d0448d6eea3726b21;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/notes/challenges-notes.md b/notes/challenges-notes.md index 9198ec4..977f09c 100644 --- a/notes/challenges-notes.md +++ b/notes/challenges-notes.md @@ -1,7 +1,6 @@ Fit in somewhere— * singular they for named individuals undermined indefinite singular 'they' - * parenthetical about where "Oliver" came from * some people have complained that my writing is too long, but when your interlocutors will go to the absurd length of _denying that the association of "she" with females_ * people have an incentive to fight over pronouns insofar as it's a "wedge" for more substantive issues * appeal to inner privacy conversation-halter https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wqmmv6NraYv4Xoeyj/conversation-halters @@ -32,9 +31,6 @@ Fit in somewhere— > I find the "(chromosomes?)" here very amusing. I am also a Yudkowskian, Eliezer; "female human" is a cluster in thingspace :) https://twitter.com/EnyeWord/status/1068983389716385792 -> But Twitter is at least not *ontologically confused* if they say that using preferred pronouns is courtesy, and claim that they're enforcing a courtesy standard. Replying "That's a lie! I will never lie!" is confused. -https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1067302082481274880 - > Lying about atheism, in a conv about atheism, is defecting in a coop effort about atheism. https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1226605895091507200