backport "categorization" tag
authorM. Taylor Saotome-Westlake <ultimatelyuntruethought@gmail.com>
Mon, 7 Oct 2019 03:38:08 +0000 (20:38 -0700)
committerM. Taylor Saotome-Westlake <ultimatelyuntruethought@gmail.com>
Mon, 7 Oct 2019 03:38:08 +0000 (20:38 -0700)
content/2018/blegg-mode.md
content/2018/reply-to-the-unit-of-caring-on-adult-human-females.md
content/2018/the-categories-were-made-for-man-to-make-predictions.md
content/2019/link-where-to-draw-the-boundaries.md
content/drafts/i-tell-myself-to-let-the-story-end-or-a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md

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 Title: Blegg Mode
 Date: 2018-02-01 13:45
 Category: commentary
-Tags: deniably allegorical, epistemology
+Tags: categorization, deniably allegorical, epistemology
 
 As part of a series—ah, Sequence—of [posts explaining the hidden Bayesian structure of language](https://www.lesserwrong.com/sequences/SGB7Y5WERh4skwtnb), Eliezer Yudkowsky [discusses](http://lesswrong.com/lw/nm/disguised_queries/) [a parable](http://lesswrong.com/lw/nn/neural_categories/) [about](http://lesswrong.com/lw/no/how_an_algorithm_feels_from_inside/) factory workers faced with the task of sorting objects which very strongly tend to _either_ be blue, egg-shaped, furry, flexible, opaque, luminescent, and vanadium-cored (categorized by the workers as "bleggs"), _or_ red, cube-shaped, smooth, hard, translucent, non-luminescent, and palladium-cored (categorized by the workers as "rubes").
 
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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Title: Reply to <em>The Unit of Caring</em> on Adult Human Females
 Date: 2018-04-19 18:00
 Category: commentary
-Tags: epistemology, sex differences, The Unit of Caring, terminology, transhumanism
+Tags: categorization, epistemology, sex differences, The Unit of Caring, terminology, transhumanism
 
 > Thou shalt not strike terms from others' expressive vocabulary without suitable replacement.
 >
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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Title: The Categories Were Made for Man to Make Predictions
 Date: 2018-02-23 08:45
 Category: commentary
-Tags: epistemology, Scott Alexander, sex differences, two-type taxonomy, whale metaphors
+Tags: categorization, epistemology, Scott Alexander, sex differences, two-type taxonomy, whale metaphors
 
 > I said, "The truth is whatever you can get away with."
 >
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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Title: Link: "Where to Draw the Boundaries?"
 Date: 2019-04-13 16:32
 Category: other
-Tags: epistemology, linkpost
+Tags: categorization, epistemology, linkpost
 
 It doesn't have anything to do with the topic focuses of this blog, but [this new post on _Less Wrong_ about the mathematical laws governing how to talk about dolphins](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/esRZaPXSHgWzyB2NL/where-to-draw-the-boundaries) is just _so good_ that I have to share it with my readers! I hope to read more from that author in the future!—it would be _really unfortunate_ if his writing productivity and mine turned out to be negatively correlated for some inexplicable reason.
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 Title: "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning
 Date: 2020-01-01
 Category: other
-Tags: personal, my robot cult
+Tags: categorization, personal, my robot cult
 Status: draft
 
 > _And I tell myself to let the story end