X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2F2018%2Fblegg-mode.md;h=b40854cfcd8e71af94ce5e76ff08193c13f66535;hp=383a680dc1f959cef87206ce7d06c50140489123;hb=HEAD;hpb=678f669b5ee4f2162ff5999084adcb4a56105e83 diff --git a/content/2018/blegg-mode.md b/content/2018/blegg-mode.md index 383a680..b40854c 100644 --- a/content/2018/blegg-mode.md +++ b/content/2018/blegg-mode.md @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ You make a startling discovery—this object was originally a smooth, hard red c "Wow," she says, "someone sure has gone to a lot of trouble to make these rubes look like bleggs!" -"Hold on," you say, "I'm not sure we should be disrespecting that effort by calling them _rubes_. [The categories were made for man, not man for the categories](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-made-for-man-not-man-for-the-categories/): there's no rule of sorting saying that we should call them rubes, and there are plenty of rules of human decency saying that we should call them bleggs. And at a glance, they _look_ like bleggs—I mean, like the more-typical bleggs." +"Hold on," you say, "I'm not sure we should be disrespecting that effort by calling them _rubes_. [The categories were made for man, not man for the categories](http://web.archive.org/web/20200610230130/https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-made-for-man-not-man-for-the-categories/): there's no rule of sorting saying that we should call them rubes, and there are plenty of rules of human decency saying that we should call them bleggs. And at a glance, they _look_ like bleggs—I mean, like the more-typical bleggs." Susan rolls her eyes at you, but apparently doesn't care enough to argue about it, so the two of you agree to call the modified hard objects _adapted bleggs_ and get back to work. @@ -29,6 +29,6 @@ Likewise, 2% of otherwise-entirely-ordinary bleggs contain palladium, but you ha In contrast, adapted bleggs are _both_ easily identifiable _and_ the difference matters to your decisionmaking: a distinction that makes a difference, something your brain wants to have an efficient representation so that you can attend to it. -![2 x 2 when-to-categorize diagram]({filename}/images/blegg_categorization_criteria.png) +![2 x 2 when-to-categorize diagram]({static}/images/blegg_categorization_criteria.png) You're pleased with the iota of philosophical progress you seem to have made, and will be sure to be on the lookout for more applications of it.