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55 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 May 2007 11:47PM

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Comment author: conchis 07 May 2007 08:34:34PM 0 points [-]

Jeremy: I clearly misunderstood what you meant by "an internalised sense of morality". Though I still suspect you're wrong about the contradiction, that could be because I still don't really understand the way in which you're using the phrase. In any event, it's clear that my "cheap shot" call was way off, and I apologise.

Michael V: Depends whether TGGP is making an epistemic claim about his/her personal knowledge of morality, or whether he/she is claiming that that moral statements are not true in general. In the latter case, I think it would be standard to say he/she doesn't believe in morality.

Anyone else want to spearhead a movement to come up with a gender neutral pronoun?

Comment author: themusicgod1 09 March 2013 04:05:01PM 0 points [-]

Earlier on in internet history there was a movement to make 'tse' a gender-neutral pronoun. It didn't take, but I still use it.

Comment author: fubarobfusco 09 March 2013 05:41:37PM 1 point [-]

See also Spivak pronoun.

Comment author: themusicgod1 11 March 2013 03:57:46AM *  -1 points [-]

Or alternatively you could go more recent & use the Baltimore dialect and use 'Yo' as a gender-neutral pronoun.

(ref: Stotko, E. and Troyer, M. "A new gender-neutral pronoun in Baltimore, Maryland: A preliminary study." American Speech, Vol. 82. No. 3, Fall 2007, p. 262.)

Comment author: Omegaile 11 March 2013 05:56:45AM 0 points [-]

Someone in Sweden apparently did