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You dont have to go that far, just start from two words: reality and truth. Reality is what is, and truth is how we describe it.

You can see how truth starts to shake right ? It is an intermediary we use to interface with reality but it is imperfect: it uses eyes and ears, languages and words, expression and cultural habits, ink and paper.

For instance, I think it is true that women cannot do all than men can and men cannot do all that women can. It sounds terrifyingly horrible but because it's too hard for me to express reality. I could continue and say the differences are irrelevant to the weight of their voices that should be equal, but then... why ? I used should here, and leave reality to start ideology. I could say that opportunities should be offered in equal proportion, but... how ? Are women/men in that context two discrete categories, or a gradient where people can choose what they want to be? And do they choose wisely at all time ? What is wise ? Is it constant in all time and place ? Should we distinguish men and women ? Should we ignore what makes them different ?

And now, I trapped the AI: it can't care, it doesn't have a daughter, a mom, a wife and a sister like I do so it will not overcompensate patriarchy like I do, maybe, while I really want my daughter to prevail maybe at the cost of someone else's son, so my fair is not their fair...

Searching for truth is important, but once you've reached it, all you have is ink on a paper transcribing in a grammar and syntax what your poor eyes and weak ears perceived of reality, or at least what your ever aging brain remembers of it. It is no different for the AI, limited just as us, but not exactly overlapping the same flaws.



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