From: Miriam English (miriam@werple.net.au)
Date: Tue Mar 05 2002 - 01:10:42 MST
At 10:38 AM 05/03/2002, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
>Miriam English wrote:
> >
> > What is wrong with:
> > I taught them to think for theirself yesterday but when I asked them they
> > had forgotten.
>
>Someone might think you were talking about a Multiple.
Good point. I should have forstalled that problem with:
I taught someone to...
or
I taught a person to...
or if you are worried about it being impersonal
I taught a friend to...
etc.
Still no need for novel, desexed pronouns. :-)
>(I happened to run across in passing - literally in passing, it was at the
>site InPassing.org - a reference to "OtherKin", who are IMHO the most
>completely marching-to-a-different-kettle-of-fish people I have EVER run
>across. There are people out there who are not living in our consensus
>reality. And I don't mean "living in the loose and casual suburbs of
>consensus reality, instead of urban downtown scientific consensus reality";
>I mean "living someplace that is no longer connected to our consensus
>reality by regular airline service". Anyway, try googling on Otherkin +
>Multiple.)
Wow! :-)
These people are really "out there"... in the X-Files sense.
I didn't know whether to laugh or to cry.
These are like the twit that told my girlfriend not to worry about the pain
she has had in the general region of her uterus. He could see with his
"psychic powers" that she didn't have any problems. However she got back
from the scan today with the news that she has a cyst on her cervix the
size of the last joint of her little finger.
Thanks for the pointer Eliezer,
- Miriam
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