X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fa-hill-email-review.md;h=cd725cae86c5e4f652f584b960169b948012228d;hp=81e226ef2ab3b5019a472f32287ed7cf6ae7dc8e;hb=069e5af88c2cd534e64f1d45602843b61bfcbc4e;hpb=700d10bb207ae1b6945e6f76f00e22c25eb17d6b diff --git a/notes/a-hill-email-review.md b/notes/a-hill-email-review.md index 81e226e..cd725ca 100644 --- a/notes/a-hill-email-review.md +++ b/notes/a-hill-email-review.md @@ -368,11 +368,11 @@ I've discovered that you can just stop being scared of things and then nothing b 24 May: Anna seems to be regaining power of speech (Facebook post on U.S. decline) 2 Jun: I send an email to Cade Metz, who DMed me on Twitter 25 Jul: rubber-duck philosophy for "Unnatural Categories"!! -[bookmark] 4 Sep: misguided by the hideousness of our weapons?! or, theory of universal algorithmic bad faith + > When I look at the world, it looks like [Scott](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-made-for-man-not-man-for-the-categories/) and [Eliezer](https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1067183500216811521) and [Kelsey](https://theunitofcaring.tumblr.com/post/171986501376/your-post-on-definition-of-gender-and-woman-and) and [Robby Bensinger](https://www.facebook.com/robbensinger/posts/10158073223040447?comment_id=10158073685825447&reply_comment_id=10158074093570447&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R2%22%7D) seem to think that some variation on ["I can define a word any way I want"]() is sufficient to end debates on transgender identity. > And ... I want to be nice to my trans friends, too, but that can't possibly be the definitive end-of-conversation correct argument. Not _really_. Not if you're being serious.