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 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."
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-> —[_Three Worlds Collide_](http://lesswrong.com/lw/y6/war_andor_peace_28/) by Eliezer Yudkowsky
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 Most disagreements are fake.
 
 
 
-Are trans women women? It depends on your decision criterion for applying the word _woman_ to something.
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+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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+[make sure to explain how this is different from "Categories Were Made" sophistry]