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@@ -550,13 +550,32 @@ The thing I was trying to keep on Society's shared map was, Biological Sex Actua
 
 Lintamande said they agreed with these claims. Yudkowsky replied with a "+1" emoji.
 
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+[TODO: Linta saying "intersex condition" was just semantics was emblematic of a disagreement-minimizing culture?]
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 [TODO: "like, if you just went and found Eliezer!2004 and were like 'hey, weird sci fi hypothetical'
 _speaking of the year 2004_; the thing I'm at war with is that I don't think he would _dare_ publish the same essay today
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+The 2004 mailing list post was almost _mocking_ the guy, for being so naïve, for not seeing the type mismatch between the deep structure of reality, and mentalistic fantasies vaguely gestured at with English words.
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+And the 2016–2021 posts _couldn't even acknolwedge that Biological Sex Actually Exists_. Did Yudkowsky expect us not to _notice_?? Coming from anyone else in the world, I wouldn't have minded. But the _conjunction_ of these political games and the eliezera racial supremacy rhetoric was just _insulting_.
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+April said she didn't think the "Changing Emotions" argument was making claims relevant to trans people. The only claim you really needed was that it was reasonable for cis men and trans men, and cis women and trans women, to be in the same category for the purposes of general social interaction; whether you would need post-Singularity tech to make a biological male indistinguishable from a cis woman had little bearing on what we should make of trans women.
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+That was interesting. April's profile said she was 19 years old and transfeminine.
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 [TODO: April saying that the essay wasn't making claims relevant to trans people; but _I_ thought it was relevant in 2008]
 
-[TODO: someone said "the word in their language doesn't match the word in yours"; and got a +1 emoji;  I resisted the temptation to say "So ... I can define a word any way I want"; I made a few more comments about kitchen knife deception (and let my friends talk me down from making more). I'm not worried about what he thinks about me anymore.]
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+[TODO: bridge ...]
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+[TODO: someone said "the word in their language doesn't match the word in yours"; and got a +1 emoji;  I resisted the temptation to say "So ... I can define a word any way I want"; I call a killthread.]
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+[TODO: I made a few more comments about kitchen knife deception (and let my friends talk me down from making more). I'm not worried about what he thinks about me anymore.]
 
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