X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fi-tell-myself-sections.md;h=2bb4ccca8cb2a733492afea51e087b4116250be8;hp=9bce24079e50dcd4993e5f14e579968b6c905ae9;hb=51a2a43eb08f9bdaf7a967af1328f19156d4781c;hpb=aae9fca811233f32d47b406ab3eb131e4f23bd02 diff --git a/notes/i-tell-myself-sections.md b/notes/i-tell-myself-sections.md index 9bce240..2bb4ccc 100644 --- a/notes/i-tell-myself-sections.md +++ b/notes/i-tell-myself-sections.md @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ At the time, [I expressed horror](https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/ctpkTaqTKbm On my reading of the text, it is _significant_ that the AI-synthesized complements for men are given their own name, the _verthandi_, rather than just being referred to as women. The _verthandi_ may _look like_ women, they may be _approximately_ psychologically human, but the _detailed_ psychology of "superintelligently-engineered optimal romantic partner for a human male" is not going to come out of the distribution of actual human females, and judicious exercise of the [tenth virtue of precision](http://yudkowsky.net/rational/virtues/) demands that a _different word_ be coined for this hypothetical science-fictional type of person. Calling the _verthandi_ "women" would be _worse writing_; it would _fail to communicate_ what, in the story, has been lost. +["Changing Emotions"] + ----- Men who wish they were women do not particularly resemble actual women! We just—don't? This seems kind of obvious, really? @@ -25,3 +27,11 @@ And when someone in your robot cult thinks you've made a philosophy mistake that [^fans]: I'm specifically thinking of W.E., R.S., and [Sophia](http://unremediatedgender.space/author/sophia/). --- + +[document (with archive links) what EY said] + +--- + +[if I agree that pronouns aren't lies, why was I so freaked out] + +[pronouns do have truth conditions, cruelty to ordinary people]