-Title: Categories Were Made for Man in Order to Make Predictions
+Title: The Categories Were Made for Man in Order to Make Predictions
Date: 2018-03-01 5:00
Category: commentary
Tags: epistemology, Scott Alexander
Status: draft
+> I said, "The truth is whatever you can get away with."
+>
+> "No, that's journalism. The truth is whatever you can't escape."
+>
+> —_Distress_ by Greg Egan
+
+In ["The Categories Were Made for Man, Not Man for the Categories"](TODO: linky), the immortal Scott Alexander
+
OUTLINE—
* First, the basic point is obviously correct.
EDITING—
+Blame Me for Trying
S _ Don't Negotiate With Terrorist Memeplexes
_ ✓ Interlude (four lights)
-Blame Me for Trying
DRAFTING—
-Product Review: FaceApp
+Q Memoirs of My Recent Madness, Part II: Friendship Survived
+Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
+_ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition
The Categories Were Made for Man in Order to Make Predictions
QUEUE—
-S _ The View From Nowhere
+Product Review: FaceApp
S Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman
Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ...
Q Book Review: Nevada
-Q Memoirs of My Recent Madness, Part II: Friendship Survived
-
Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History ...
-_ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition
-Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model
Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See
+S _ The View From Nowhere
HOLDING PEN—
_ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
Q The Gender Czar's Compromise
* Mary's Room
Laser 3
+(more in other file)