Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Of Exclusionary Speech and Gender Politics - Less Wrong

62 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 July 2009 07:22AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 July 2009 06:41:13AM 16 points [-]

if I was a female rationalist it would be offensive to me that

See... that's where I'm not willing to go, there. That is a hole with no bottom. There's enough real trouble in the world without borrowing imaginary subjunctive counterfactual trouble on top of that. If I really said something offensive to a female rationalist, a female rationalist can tell me so.

Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 22 July 2009 09:50:47PM 0 points [-]

I agree completely, and I'll add that it's still valid even though it's also an often used tactic of actual clods attempting to squirm out of censure.