stub "The View", "There's a Land"

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+Title: The View From Nowhere
+Date: 2020-01-01 
+Category: commentary
+Tags: epistemology
+Status: draft
+
+> "The Order of Silent Confessors exists in the hope that, so long as humanity is sane, it can make choices in accordance with its true desires.  Thus there is our Order dedicated _only_ to that, and sworn not to interfere in politics.  So you will spend more time discussing this scenario, my lords, my ladies, and only then generate solutions.  And then ... you will decide."
+> 
+> —[_Three Worlds Collide_](http://lesswrong.com/lw/y6/war_andor_peace_28/) by Eliezer Yudkowsky
+
+Most disagreements are fake.
+
+Are trans women women? It depends on your decision criterion for applying the word _woman_ to something.
+
+You've 
+
+Are women and men mostly similar, or mostly different?
+
+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

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+Title: There's a Land That I See; Or, the Spirit of Intervention
+Date: 2020-01-01 
+Category: commentary
+Tags: discourse
+Status: draft
+
+> If you want to make your stupid dream real, you need to have a realistic picture of the world. If you want a society in which men and women have the same brain, or one in which feminism actually works, you would have to _make it so_, with advanced biological engineering. John Varley writes fiction: so did Joanna Russ. 
+>
+> —[Greg Cochran](https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2015/12/12/internal-contradictions/)
+
+
+
+... the scintillating but ultimately untrue thought.
+
+
+_I want to make the stupid dream real._ But to _get_ to the good world—whatever you think that is—
+
+... you're going to have to bootstrap from _today's_, unremediated, genderspace. Which requires _understanding_ it first.

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 > 
 > —"King of Anything" by Sara Bareilles
 
-> If you want to make your stupid dream real, you need to have a realistic picture of the world. If you want a society in which men and women have the same brain, or one in which feminism actually works, you would have to make it so, with advanced biological engineering. John Varley writes fiction: so did Joanna Russ. 
->
-> —[Greg Cochran](https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2015/12/12/internal-contradictions/)
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-(The View From Nowhere)
-> "The Order of Silent Confessors exists in the hope that, so long as humanity is sane, it can make choices in accordance with its true desires.  Thus there is our Order dedicated _only_ to that, and sworn not to interfere in politics.  So you will spend more time discussing this scenario, my lords, my ladies, and only then generate solutions.  And then ... you will decide."
-> 
-> —[_Three Worlds Collide_](http://lesswrong.com/lw/y6/war_andor_peace_28/) by Eliezer Yudkowsky
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 (Collective Guilt, Collective Shame)
 > "My taxon, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right."
 >