Thursday morning drafting "Challenges"

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  * Aella https://knowingless.com/2019/06/06/side-effects-of-preferred-pronouns/
  * "gamete size"—this is a tic where everyone knows what sex is, but no one is allowed to acknowledge the cluster  
  * maybe worth explaining why I keep saying "sex category" instead of "gender"—and be consistent about it
- * transition interventions are bundled
+ * transition interventions are bundled: asking for pronouns could only plausibly be a good idea if coupled with further interventions—but that's not the picture we'd get if we took Yudkowsky literally
  * also take a crack at the Aristotelan binary sports Tweet
  * this post needs to exist because I can't let him have the last word
  * I need to acknowledge the
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  * maybe by "much more strongly ... different firm attachments", he's pointing to different people having different intuitions about what male/female clusters map to; that's definitely a thing, but it's wrong to conflate that with "Maybe it's like not being named Oliver"; people do agree on the approximate meaning of blue and green even if there are edge cases, cite fallacy of gray
 
+ * introductory sentence before referencing "we" or "the community"
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 More Yudkowsky playing dumb—
 
 > What separates your stance from "I consider 'parmesan' to refer to only cheese from the Parma region in Italy and I don't appreciate being asked to lie"?