pronouns don’t create dimorphic behaviors, dimorphic behaviors create pronouns
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as long as you have bifurcated signs at the root, people are always going to reduce their reference to the most generic sign because its heuristic value is most efficient, and compression is the whole point of these signs in the first place
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or in fewer words, most polymorphic gender pronouns are feminine
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more base types might have heuristic value depending on the feature dimensionality, where reduction yields declining value — there may even be human groups where 3 is useful, but it’s not arbitrarily large N
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if you wanted to proliferate the plausible size of N, you shouldn’t stop at just legislating the size of N, you should try to create new, real features in the population that make your legislated size of N useful to the point where legislation is unnecessary
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the ruff is a good example where 3 is useful https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruff#Mating …
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Replying to @literalbanana @nmgrm
Have you seen cuttlefish? I've been trying to figure out alternate explanations for this behavior.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH1ytkBM69Q …
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There's some neat stuff that i'm finding that suggest it may be related to Calhoun's rat park phenomena.https://www.researchgate.net/publication/11289867_Effects_of_Crowding_on_the_Social_Behavior_of_Cuttlefish_Sepia_officinalis …
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