Nitpick: it’s not quite tautological, as he asserts that at least one* person exists in each category. It is only a tautology that everyone fits into one of them, not that they’re all non-empty.
*or two, depending on your interpretation of ‘some’.
I don’t think this is a Nitpick—I think this explains why the statement is included in the original post in the first place—to point out that there is a wide variety of position that LW readers hold on these statements.
Nitpick: it’s not quite tautological, as he asserts that at least one* person exists in each category. It is only a tautology that everyone fits into one of them, not that they’re all non-empty.
*or two, depending on your interpretation of ‘some’.
I don’t think this is a Nitpick—I think this explains why the statement is included in the original post in the first place—to point out that there is a wide variety of position that LW readers hold on these statements.
Nice subtlety (at least one).