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TimS 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: TimS 06 March 2013 01:16:01AM *  1 point [-]

"Socially constructed" is usually a fancy way of saying "taught".

As a friendly addendum, I think your point that people are "supposed to be very sure of it" is an important part of the concept.

A more LW friendly version of this point is Paul Graham's Keep Your Identity Small