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- Descriptivism vs. Prescriptivism and what words mean
- Social Construction
- Context and Utopia LARPing
! Local vs. Global Optimization
- Use/Mention distinction
- Logic and Pluralism
- Evolution/Survival of the fittest is not prettiest/strongest wins
- Philosophizing as introspection - reasoning about one's own beliefs in order
  to probe one's feelings
- Intentions, consequences, and not intending harm
- Epistemological differences
- Cross cultural variation
- Boxes/labels as convenient common language vs. boxes as things to escape, and how enforcing boxes arises from the desire for stable understanding of the world, and analogies to AI and changing the world to fit machines
- Political Speech vs. Political Action
- What is measured vs. What is real