gapless draft of "Challenges"

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 Fit in somewhere—
 
  * singular they for named individuals undermined indefinite singular 'they'
- * parenthetical about where "Oliver" came from
  * some people have complained that my writing is too long, but when your interlocutors will go to the absurd length of _denying that the association of "she" with females_
  * people have an incentive to fight over pronouns insofar as it's a "wedge" for more substantive issues
  * appeal to inner privacy conversation-halter https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wqmmv6NraYv4Xoeyj/conversation-halters
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 > I find the "(chromosomes?)" here very amusing. I am also a Yudkowskian, Eliezer; "female human" is a cluster in thingspace :)
 https://twitter.com/EnyeWord/status/1068983389716385792
 
-> 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