drafting "Facing Reality" review

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-> "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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 Most disagreements are fake.
 
+Philosophers since the days 
+
 
 
-Are trans women women? It depends on your decision criterion for applying the word _woman_ to something.
+
+Are trans women women? It depends on your decision criteria for applying the word _woman_ to something. (I say _decision criteria_ rather than _definition_ because [...])
 
 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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+OUTLINE OF POINTS TO HIT—
+
+ * most disagreements are fake because people are squabbling over framing and
+   culture and "ought" rather than difference in the same world that we all
+   inhabit
+ * specific example: are trans women women?
+ * specific example: are men and women mostly different, or mostly the same?
+ * framing disputes aren't _completely_ trivially reducible, because some
+   categories are genuinely more natural than others
+ * I'm not "above" normal human discourse—I have my preferences, which I'll
+   fight for despite being idiosyncratic to me, and my views on which
+   categories are natrual which I currently think are transpersonal, but
+   _insofar as I can_, I want this blog to focus on describing the map, seeking
+   the view from nowhere.
+    * It helps to be _explicit_ about when you're being normative, and when you
+      think you're describing the territory.