1 Title: The View From Nowhere
7 Most disagreements are fake.
9 Philosophers since the days
14 Are trans women women? It depends on your decision criteria for applying the word _woman_ to something. (I say _decision criteria_ rather than _definition_ because [...])
18 Are women and men mostly similar, or mostly different?
20 what counts as "similar" vs. "different" isn't scientifically interesting: the data speaks for itself; how you want to summarize the data to stupid humans who can't hold multivariate probability distributions in their head is a matter of politics
22 OUTLINE OF POINTS TO HIT—
24 * most disagreements are fake because people are squabbling over framing and
25 culture and "ought" rather than difference in the same world that we all
27 * specific example: are trans women women?
28 * specific example: are men and women mostly different, or mostly the same?
29 * framing disputes aren't _completely_ trivially reducible, because some
30 categories are genuinely more natural than others
31 * I'm not "above" normal human discourse—I have my preferences, which I'll
32 fight for despite being idiosyncratic to me, and my views on which
33 categories are natrual which I currently think are transpersonal, but
34 _insofar as I can_, I want this blog to focus on describing the map, seeking
35 the view from nowhere.
36 * It helps to be _explicit_ about when you're being normative, and when you
37 think you're describing the territory.