The "default for those-who-haven't-asked [going] by gamete size" part of Yudkowsky's proposal is _trying_ to deal with the backwards-compatibility problem by being backwards-compatible—recommending the same behavior in the vast majority of cases—but in doing so, it fails to accomplish its stated purpose of de-gendering the language. To _actually_ de-gender English, you'd need to _actually_ shatter the correlation between pronouns and sex/gender, such that a person's pronouns _were_ just an arbitrary extra piece of data—nothing to do with gender—that you needed to remember in the same way you have to remember people's names.
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+ * Given that sex-category information _is_ being transfered, the "Pronouns are Ryphnol" lady has a point
+ * And preferred pronouns have the same function as the typographic attacks in the multimodal-neurons paper
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* The attempted backwards compatibility measure doesn't work; if people's behavior is still the same, then sex-category information is still being transfered; and, again, that was the motivation for the reform effort all along; in order to _actually_ de-gender language, you have to break the correlation: either go all-in on singular _they_, or somehow get people to establish and declare pronoun preferences that aren't about gender (which isn't what's going on in our world)
- * Given that sex-category information _is_ being transfered, the "Pronouns are Ryphnol" lady has a point
- * And preferred pronouns have the same function as the typographic attacks in the multimodal-neurons paper
* Yudkowsky's response to all this?—apparently, to play dumb!!
* "I don't know what it's like in you head for a pronoun to map onto more than 'doesn't look like an Oliver'"—lies
* Gumball example
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