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- * Given that sex-category information is _in fact_ being transfered, the "Pronouns are Ryphnol" lady has a point
- * To relate this to Yudkowsky's specialty And preferred pronouns have the same function as the typographic attacks in the multimodal-neurons paper
- * the people aligning language models should understand this
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+[TODO: let's related this to Yudkowsky's specialty multimodal neurons— both CLIP and biological neurons respond to text/images; typographic attacks are the same thing as pronoun badges; you would expect the people aligning language models to be able to think these thoughts]
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+Given this multitude of reasons why the _existing_ meanings of gendered pronouns are relevant to the question of pronoun reform, what is Yudkowsky's response?
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+Apparently, to play dumb. [TODO: flesh out the original "Oliver" example] In the comments of the Facebook post, Yudkowsky claims:
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+> I do not know what it feels like from the inside to feel like a pronoun is attached to something in your head much more firmly than "doesn't look like an Oliver" is attached to something in your head.
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+...
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+I'm sorry, but I can't take this self-report literally. I certainly [don't think Yudkowsky was _consciously lying_](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bSmgPNS6MTJsunTzS/maybe-lying-doesn-t-exist) when he wrote that. Nevertheless, I am _incredibly_ skeptical that Yudkowsky _actually_ doesn't know what it feels like [...]
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+[TODO: how could you possibly know that?]
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+The thing is, Eliezer Yudkowsky is an American English speaker born in 1979. As an American English speaker born in 1987, I have a _pretty good_ mental model of how American English speakers born in the late 20th century use language.