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 [TODO: lit search or ask linguistics.stackexchange for literature on what gender/plural/case/&c. distinctions are for? Is it just the collision/ambiuity reduction, or is there something else? Oh, or Anna T./Elena might know]
 
+https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wqmmv6NraYv4Xoeyj/conversation-halters
+> anything that people are motivated to argue about is not arbitrary.  It is being controlled by invisible criteria of evaluation, it has connotations with consequences
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+If Scott Alexander's "The Categories Were Made For Man ..." had never been published, would we still be talking about dolphins and trees in the same way?
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+Nate on dolphins (June 2021)—a dogwhistle??
+https://twitter.com/So8res/status/1401670792409014273
+Yudkowsky retweeted Nate on dolphins—
+https://archive.is/Ecsca
+
+my rationalist community has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my community's name
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+cite to "Not Especially Related to Transgender"
+https://twitter.com/fortenforge/status/1402057829142302721
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