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").
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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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."
>
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