Title: On the Argumentative Form "Super-Proton Things Tend to Come In Varieties"
-Date: 2019-07-03 05:00
+Date: 2019-12-12 05:00
Category: commentary
Tags: categorization, epistemology, Eliezer Yudkowsky
-Status: draft
> "[...] Between one and the infinite in cases such as these, there are no sensible numbers. Not only two, but any finite number, is ridiculous and can't exist."
>
At this point, some readers might be thinking, "Wait a minute, M. Taylor! Didn't you notice that part about 'There's an allegation that people are reluctant to speciate more than one kind of gender dysphoria'? That's [_your_ hobbyhorse](/tag/two-type-taxonomy/)! Even if Yudkowsky doesn't know you exist, by publicly offering a _general_ argument that there are multiple types of dysphoria, he's _effectively_ doing your cause a favor—and here you are _criticizing_ him for it! Isn't that disloyal and ungrateful of you?"
-Great question! And the answer is: **no, absolutely not**. (And, though I can never speak for anyone but myself, I can only _imagine_ that Yudkowsky would agree? Everything I do, I [learned from him](https://www.readthesequences.com/).) And the _reason_ it's not disloyal and ungrateful is because the entire mindset in which arguments _can_ constitute a political favor is a _confusion_. The map is not the territory; what's true is already so. [You can't](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9f5EXt8KNNxTAihtZ/a-rational-argument) make something _become true_ by arguing for it; [you can only use arguments to figure out what's true](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9f5EXt8KNNxTAihtZ/a-rational-argument).
+Great question! And the answer is: **no, absolutely not**. (And, though I can never speak for anyone but myself, I can only _imagine_ that Yudkowsky would agree? Everything I do, I [learned from him](https://www.readthesequences.com/).) And the _reason_ it's not disloyal and ungrateful is because the entire mindset in which arguments _can_ constitute a political favor is a _confusion_. The map is not the territory; what's true is already so. You [can't](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/eY45uCCX7DdwJ4Jha/no-one-can-exempt-you-from-rationality-s-laws) make something _become true_ by arguing for it; you can only [use arguments to figure out what's true](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9f5EXt8KNNxTAihtZ/a-rational-argument).
-The fact that not everyone understands this makes it especially important for me to loudly and publicly dispute [bad arguments whose conclusion I think is true](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WQFioaudEH8R7fyhm/local-validity-as-a-key-to-sanity-and-civilization) for _other reasons_. I don't _want_ to trick people into accepting my [bottom line](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/34XxbRFe54FycoCDw/the-bottom-line) for fake reasons! What I want is for us all to [get better at anticipating our experiences](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/a7n8GdKiAZRX86T5A/making-beliefs-pay-rent-in-anticipated-experiences). Together.
+The fact that [not everybody knows this](https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2019/07/02/everybody-knows/) makes it especially important for me to loudly and publicly dispute [bad arguments whose conclusion I think is true](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WQFioaudEH8R7fyhm/local-validity-as-a-key-to-sanity-and-civilization) for _other reasons_. I don't _want_ to trick people into accepting my [bottom line](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/34XxbRFe54FycoCDw/the-bottom-line) for fake reasons! What I want is for us all to [get better at anticipating our experiences](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/a7n8GdKiAZRX86T5A/making-beliefs-pay-rent-in-anticipated-experiences). Together.
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