You say that your opponent lacks humanity. It’s the oldest semantic weapon there is. Think of all the categories of people who’ve been classified as non-human, in various cultures, at various times. People from other tribes. People with other skin colors. Slaves. Women. The mentally ill. The deaf. Homosexuals. Jews. Bosnians, Croats, Serbs, Armenians, Kurds [...]
But suppose you accuse me of ‘lacking humanity.’ What does that actually mean? What am I likely to have done? Murdered someone in cold blood? Drowned a puppy? Eaten meat? Failed to be moved by Beethoven’s Fifth? Or just failed to have—or to seek—an emotional life identical to your own in every respect? Failed to share all your values and aspirations?
The answers is: ‘any one of the above.’ Which is why it’s so fucking lazy. Questioning someone’s ‘humanity’ puts them in the company of serial killers—which saves you the trouble of having to claim anything intelligent about their views.
— Greg Egan (as James Rourke), Distress
One possible reason Alicorn hasn’t applied her technique to you is that it simply isn’t powerful enough to overcome your unpleasantness. FWIW, I perceive you as a lot less civil than the LW norm, you seem possessed of a snarky combativeness. You also appear to have a tendency of fixating on personal annoyances and justifying your focus with concerns and observations that pop out of nowhere, context-wise.
In this case, your supposed insight into what would really be best for Alicorn plays that role. And then, having established this “lemma”, you carry through to the conclusion that… Alicorn’s behavior is inconsistent. Take a step back, and look at what you’re saying. You’re basically claiming to have reverse-engineered someone else’s utility function, as the premise of an argument which concludes that they’re being a hypocrite.
I hope you’ll come to see this sort of behavior as embarrassing.