What? Surely “it’s fake” is a fine way to say “most people who would say they are in C are not actually working that way and are deceptively presenting as C”? It’s fake.
If you said “mostly bullshit” or “almost always disengenious” I wouldn’t argue, but would still question whether it’s actually a majority of people in group C, which I’m doubtful of, but very unsure about—but saying it is fake would usually mean it is not a real thing anyone believes, rather than meaning that the view is unusual or confused or wrong.
I guess we could say “mostly fake”, but also there’s important senses in which “mostly fake” implies “fake simpliciter”. E.g. a twinkie made of “mostly poison” is just “a poisonous twinkie”. Often people do, and should, summarize things and then make decisions based on the summaries, e.g. “is it poison, or no” --> “can I eat it, or no”. My guess is that the conditions under which it would make sense for you to treat someone as genuinely holding position C, e.g. for purposes of allocating funding to them, are currently met by approximately no one. I could plausibly be wrong about that, I’m not so confident. But that is the assertion I’m trying to make, which is summarized imprecisely as “C is fake”, and I stand by my making that assertion in this context. (Analogy: It’s possible for me to be wrong that 2+2=4, but when I say 2+2=4, what I’m asserting / guessing is that 2+2=4 always, everywhere, exactly. https://www.lesswrong.com/s/FrqfoG3LJeCZs96Ym/p/ooypcn7qFzsMcy53R )
There’s a huge difference between the types of cases, though. A 90% poisonous twinkie is certainly fine to call poisonous[1], but a 90% male groups isn’t reasonable to call male. You said “if most people who would say they are in C are not actually working that way and are deceptively presenting as C,” that seems far like the latter than the former, because “fake” implies the entire thing is fake[2].
Though so is a 1% poisonous twinkie; perhaps the example should be a meal that is 90% protein would be a “protein meal” without implying there is no non-protein substance present.
There is a sense where this isn’t true; if 5% of an image of a person is modified, I’d agree that the image is fake—but this is because the claim of fakeness is about the entirety of the image, as a unit. In contrast, if there were 20 people in a composite image, and 12 of them were AI-fakes and 8 were actual people, I wouldn’t say the picture is “of fake people,” I’d need to say it’s a mixture of fake and real people. Which seems like the relevant comparison if, as you said in another comment, you are describing “empirical clusters of people”!
The OP is about two “camps” of people. Do you understand what camps are? Hopefully you can see that this indeed does induce the analog of “because the claim of fakeness is about the entirety of the image”. They gain and direct funding, consensus, hiring, propaganda, vibes, parties, organizations, etc., approximately as a unit. Camp A is a 90% poison twinkie. The fact that you are trying to not process this is a problem.
What? Surely “it’s fake” is a fine way to say “most people who would say they are in C are not actually working that way and are deceptively presenting as C”? It’s fake.
If you said “mostly bullshit” or “almost always disengenious” I wouldn’t argue, but would still question whether it’s actually a majority of people in group C, which I’m doubtful of, but very unsure about—but saying it is fake would usually mean it is not a real thing anyone believes, rather than meaning that the view is unusual or confused or wrong.
Closely related to: You Don’t Exist, Duncan.
I guess we could say “mostly fake”, but also there’s important senses in which “mostly fake” implies “fake simpliciter”. E.g. a twinkie made of “mostly poison” is just “a poisonous twinkie”. Often people do, and should, summarize things and then make decisions based on the summaries, e.g. “is it poison, or no” --> “can I eat it, or no”. My guess is that the conditions under which it would make sense for you to treat someone as genuinely holding position C, e.g. for purposes of allocating funding to them, are currently met by approximately no one. I could plausibly be wrong about that, I’m not so confident. But that is the assertion I’m trying to make, which is summarized imprecisely as “C is fake”, and I stand by my making that assertion in this context. (Analogy: It’s possible for me to be wrong that 2+2=4, but when I say 2+2=4, what I’m asserting / guessing is that 2+2=4 always, everywhere, exactly. https://www.lesswrong.com/s/FrqfoG3LJeCZs96Ym/p/ooypcn7qFzsMcy53R )
There’s a huge difference between the types of cases, though. A 90% poisonous twinkie is certainly fine to call poisonous[1], but a 90% male groups isn’t reasonable to call male. You said “if most people who would say they are in C are not actually working that way and are deceptively presenting as C,” that seems far like the latter than the former, because “fake” implies the entire thing is fake[2].
Though so is a 1% poisonous twinkie; perhaps the example should be a meal that is 90% protein would be a “protein meal” without implying there is no non-protein substance present.
There is a sense where this isn’t true; if 5% of an image of a person is modified, I’d agree that the image is fake—but this is because the claim of fakeness is about the entirety of the image, as a unit. In contrast, if there were 20 people in a composite image, and 12 of them were AI-fakes and 8 were actual people, I wouldn’t say the picture is “of fake people,” I’d need to say it’s a mixture of fake and real people. Which seems like the relevant comparison if, as you said in another comment, you are describing “empirical clusters of people”!
The OP is about two “camps” of people. Do you understand what camps are? Hopefully you can see that this indeed does induce the analog of “because the claim of fakeness is about the entirety of the image”. They gain and direct funding, consensus, hiring, propaganda, vibes, parties, organizations, etc., approximately as a unit. Camp A is a 90% poison twinkie. The fact that you are trying to not process this is a problem.