The Legendary Dragon Alephwyr, named Alephwyr, BA

Dual rationalist sins of assuming your opponents are abnormal and blacklisting the level of subjective experience necessary to raise a theory to attention which is already most of the evidence of proving a theory. Additional sin of not understanding how words should work

It's really not an attack or an assertion of abnormality, since any rational thinker knows enough about statistical distributions to roll their eyes at the idea of normality. But the attack against reason and biology is an attack on truth. We might need a level above sex/gender.

Have you read Yudkowsky? Do you know what I am referencing?

I have no idea what you even intended to say with your original response to my tweet... But if you aren't capable of summarizing your philosophical views w/o reference to some authority, then you probably lack understanding of what those views are.

Probably, though I think if I could get you to bet money on it in this case you'd lose.

The part about using words wrong is in reference to an extended argument about heuristics for using words in a way that: 1. Cuts reality at the joints, 2. Uses short words for short concepts and longer words for longer concepts 3. Is compatible with reductionism. and other things

The bottom line is that you have a just-so story for why trans people's self reports don't count as evidence, and that's irrational. But understanding this and why it applies to trans people and not people claiming to be bears or to have witnessed miracles requires actual READING