Scott took this to mean that what convention to use is a pragmatic choice we can make on utilitarian grounds, and that being nice to trans people was worth a little bit of clunkiness—that the mental health benefits to trans people were obviously enough to tip the first-order utilitarian calculus.
I didn't think anything about "mental health benefits to trans people" was obvious.
There's a scottpost that seems relevant called Be Nice, At Least Until You Can Coordinate Meanness. It's not a perfect fit because the thing we are coordinating here isn't meanness. But maybe there are attractor states of mental health, and a mental health local maxima for a trans person is for... (read more)
There's a scottpost that seems relevant called Be Nice, At Least Until You Can Coordinate Meanness. It's not a perfect fit because the thing we are coordinating here isn't meanness. But maybe there are attractor states of mental health, and a mental health local maxima for a trans person is for... (read more)