-If Yudkowsky is obviously playing dumb (consciously or not) and his comments can't be taken seriously, what's _actually_ going on here? He graciously grants us a clue in the form of [a disclaimer comment](https://www.facebook.com/yudkowsky/posts/10159421750419228?comment_id=10159421833274228) on the Facebook post:
+This object-level argument about pronoun conventions is probably not very interesting to many readers. What is perhaps more interesting is to jump up a meta level and ask: why Eliezer Yudkowsky playing dumb like this? If his comments obviously can't be taken seriously, what's _actually_ going on here?
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+(But on pain of committing [Bulverism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulverism), it's important that I wrote up the object-level refutation _first_ as a top level post, before engaging in [the fraught endeavor of speculating about psychology](https://arbital.com/p/psychologizing/) in this mere postscript comment.)
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+Fortunately, Yudkowsky graciously grants us a clue in the form of [a disclaimer comment](https://www.facebook.com/yudkowsky/posts/10159421750419228?comment_id=10159421833274228) on the Facebook post: