From 3797c378609164c894ae7eda3bdde197edd673db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 15:33:52 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] =?utf8?q?fix=20busted=20"Terrorist=20Memeplexes"=20link?= =?utf8?q?=20(7=20=E2=86=92=208)=20in=20"Categories"?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Was that there the whole time?? Thanks to a reader for pointing this out. --- .../the-categories-were-made-for-man-to-make-predictions.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/2018/the-categories-were-made-for-man-to-make-predictions.md b/content/2018/the-categories-were-made-for-man-to-make-predictions.md index d4c757c..f29385c 100644 --- a/content/2018/the-categories-were-made-for-man-to-make-predictions.md +++ b/content/2018/the-categories-were-made-for-man-to-make-predictions.md @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ So far, I probably haven't actually said anything that Alexander didn't already > If I'm willing to accept an unexpected chunk of Turkey deep inside Syrian territory to honor some random dead guy—and I better, or else a platoon of Turkish special forces will want to have a word with me—then I ought to accept an unexpected man or two deep inside the conceptual boundaries of what would normally be considered female if it'll save someone's life. There's no rule of rationality saying that I shouldn't, and there are plenty of rules of human decency saying that I should. -This is true in a tautological sense: if you deliberately gerrymander your category boundaries in order to get the answer you want, you can get the answer you want, which is great for people who want that answer, and people who don't want to hurt their feelings (and who don't mind [letting themselves get emotionally blackmailed](/2017/Jan/dont-negotiate-with-terrorist-memeplexes/)[ref]It is tempting to interpret Alexander's Turkish special forces reference as particularly telling in this light.[/ref]). +This is true in a tautological sense: if you deliberately gerrymander your category boundaries in order to get the answer you want, you can get the answer you want, which is great for people who want that answer, and people who don't want to hurt their feelings (and who don't mind [letting themselves get emotionally blackmailed](/2018/Jan/dont-negotiate-with-terrorist-memeplexes/)[ref]It is tempting to interpret Alexander's Turkish special forces reference as particularly telling in this light.[/ref]). But it's not very interesting to people like rationalists—although apparently not all people who _self-identify_ as rationalists—who want to use concepts to _describe reality_. -- 2.17.1