My mental model of Eliezer Yudkowsky is that he thinks all postmodernism is nonsense—as others have noted. If he intended to say something equivalent to “Postmodernist got this point right” then what he wrote is not how I expect he would say it. Further, the attack that I am reading into his words is a standard understanding of postmodernism in this community.
But the community seems to agree with you more than I—so I’m adjusting slightly in favor of me misreading Eliezer’s intent.
My mental model of Eliezer Yudkowsky is that he thinks all postmodernism is nonsense—as others have noted. If he intended to say something equivalent to “Postmodernist got this point right” then what he wrote is not how I expect he would say it. Further, the attack that I am reading into his words is a standard understanding of postmodernism in this community.
But the community seems to agree with you more than I—so I’m adjusting slightly in favor of me misreading Eliezer’s intent.
I certainly read it as “postmodernists notice that the word true is used as mere emphasis ”.
Your interpretation doesn’t exactly align with the essence of postmodernism (as I see it, I’m no expert).