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The Etiquette of Equality (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)

Minds Almost Meeting

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The Self Destructive Cost of Respect

In order to show that I respect you I have to say use a particular word for you but then that word keeps changing. It's actually hard for me to show respect for you and I'm going to be disrespecting you or at least on average you're going to be disrespected more in that world. So this whole movement that exists in order to show equal respect it these escalation this escalation of what it would take to show respect actually creates a world with less showing of respect.

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