4 levels of intellectual conversation https://rationalconspiracy.com/2017/01/03/four-layers-of-intellectual-conversation/
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+> 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
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+> Lying about atheism, in a conv about atheism, is defecting in a coop effort about atheism.
+https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1226605895091507200
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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"?
The Sequences taught me some really important things about sex differences and why not to take my cross-sex fantasies literally; I wrote about this in ["Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences"](/2021/May/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems/)
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+https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/bounded-distrust