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Raemon comments on A Rationalist's Account of Objectification? - Less Wrong Discussion

43 Post author: lukeprog 19 March 2011 11:10PM

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Comment author: Raemon 20 March 2011 07:43:56AM 2 points [-]

I really don't think there's anything inaccurate about the language. Privilege vs disprivilege are flipsides of the same coin. Compared to the myriad conflicting definitions of, say, Rationality, the lack of precision with the word "privilege" seems pretty minor to me.

The cost of getting an entire community to change its definition is probably not worth the small improvement that would be gained by clarity to those just learning about it.