wnoise comments on Human values differ as much as values can differ - Less Wrong

13 Post author: PhilGoetz 03 May 2010 07:35PM

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 03 May 2010 09:33:04PM 3 points [-]

I thought about that a lot; and I tried writing "male" and "female" out of it. But I couldn't write "male" and "female" out until after the point where I stopped using evidence for the existence of each value based on observations of men vs. of women. The post doesn't talk about men or women any longer than it absolutely has to just to introduce its supporting data.

Comment author: wnoise 03 May 2010 10:14:51PM *  3 points [-]

You don't have to point to women and men generally having these respective values to show that these values exist. Pointing to specific examples suffices. Pointing out that there is a general trend is interesting, and worth doing. But you still don't need to name them that way.