There weren't any stories, that were in mainstream media anyway about this stuff, except for kind of sad stories or again, very like, kind of essentialist, very reductive stories, that really, in my mind, assumed the worst of the non trans audience. Like, the sort of, oh, man, we've really got to work hard to help people understand this.
for an opportunity, if they don't have that direct line to the place you're trying to go, chances are they'll know somebody who does. That's obviously very reductive , but by and large, those are the key elements.
It gives you language. It can be reductive , like all personality tests are. But I found it incredibly helpful.
But the thing is that if you think that materialism rules out real seemings, well then, to say something reductive .
It's not an additive process, I've found. It's usually a reductive process in the sense that the information's already there.
And this is the way that science proceeds. by the reductive methods of science.
You're a gender transgressive young thing, one who skateboard and played in punk bands? Probably because you're intersex." This reductive game could proceed interminably. So it was this moment when I was young where I realized if people knew I was intersex, anything that was conceived of us as somehow gender
or even just trying to be comfortable with themselves. And I think it's reductive when we talk about it like that.
But how do you keep making-- how do you keep going in there? And I'm not being reductive .
community and there's a lot a lot of debate about whether this is in fact the case and some of The biggest critics say it's very reductive to think of our brains as simply just statistical engines. Why why does it matter to know the mechanism?
I was wondering if you could walk us through some of the core tenets of each of these ethical frameworks. Sure. In a hilariously reductive nutshell, virtue ethics comes from Aristotle. And the idea is that what makes a good person is a person is good if he or she--
actually just living your life. So in a sense, it has to be reductive . It has to be too simple or simplifying, in a sense, so that it frees up more time and attention than it takes.
Then everyone out. Yeah. So she tests her recipes so that she can get them to be the most reductive they can be, while still being good but also still having a heart.
space and then put things on the on the on the cube in various places so in this and a lot of people would say that internet memes are sort of a reductive absurdum of Dawkins concept of
So 140 characters, you actually say a good amount in 140 characters. So you don't really need hashtags as a way of this sort of reductive meme sort of tool. So you're actually able to say what you want.
It's not this generative thing, it's actually reductive .
And so this is why there's an issue with this, and why it's reductive , and why it's not enough, and that yes,
very, very detailed mechanistic explanations of how things work at a reductive level. Umm, suddenly I was reading about life choices, moral decisions and
And then, if you can avoid answering that too reductively , then it opens up.
It's brilliant. That is so brilliant, but I hope it's not going to be reductive because there is so much more to being
thes stereotypes. That, in a way contributed to, uh to validating the presence of black people. But at the same time, it created a very reductive , almost folkloric,
And that would have been a better policy to pursue than this silly binary choice between Brexit or not Brexit, which was a reductive form of democracy.
It's not an additive process, I've found. So the creative process, as I think about it when I consult for these companies, is really a reductive process.
science to entirely wrap its arms around. As someone who's written about science for 30 years, I've constantly been surprised at how a reductive and