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I agree that I’m combining emotional autobiography with topic exposition, but the reason I’m talking about my autobiography at all is because I tried object-level topic exposition for years—in such posts as “The Categories Were Made for Man to Make Predictions” (2018), “Where to Draw the Boundaries?” (2019), “Unnatural Categories Are Optimized for Deception” (2021), and “Challenges to Yudkowsky’s Pronoun Reform Proposal” (2022)—and it wasn’t working. From my perspective, the only thing left to do was jump up a metal level and talk about why it wasn’t working. If your contention is that I don’t have the substance to back up my claims, I think you should be able to explain what I got wrong in those posts. Reply!
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Sorry, you’re going to need to be more specific. What particular claim X have I asserted is true without bringing arguments for it? Reply!
I agree that I’m combining emotional autobiography with topic exposition, but the reason I’m talking about my autobiography at all is because I tried object-level topic exposition for years—in such posts as “The Categories Were Made for Man to Make Predictions” (2018), “Where to Draw the Boundaries?” (2019), “Unnatural Categories Are Optimized for Deception” (2021), and “Challenges to Yudkowsky’s Pronoun Reform Proposal” (2022)—and it wasn’t working. From my perspective, the only thing left to do was jump up a metal level and talk about why it wasn’t working. If your contention is that I don’t have the substance to back up my claims, I think you should be able to explain what I got wrong in those posts. Reply!
Reply!