Seems like the essential difference is whether you believe that as the maps improve, they will converge.
A “LW-charitable” reading of the feminist version would be that although the maps should converge in theory, they will not converge in practice because humans are imperfect—the mapmaker is not able to reduce the biases in their map below certain level. In other words, that there is some level of irrationality that humans are unable to overcome today, and the specific direction of this irrationality depends on their “tribe”. So different tribes will forever have different maps, regardless of how much they try.
Then again, to avoid “motte and bailey”, even if there is the level of irrationality that humans are unable to overcome today even if they try, the question is whether the differences between maps are at this level, or whether people use this as a fully general excuse to put anything they like on their maps.
Yet another question would be who exactly are the “tribes” (the clusters of people that create maps with similar biases). Feminism (at least the version I see online) seems to define the clusters by gender, sexual orientation, race, etc. But maybe the important axes are different; maybe e.g. having high IQ, or studying STEM, or being a conservative, or something completely different and unexpected actually has greater influence on map-making. Which is difficult to talk about, because there is always the fully general excuse that if someone doesn’t have the map they should have, well, they have “internalized” something (a map of the group they don’t belong to was forced on them, but naturally they should have a different map).
Seems like the essential difference is whether you believe that as the maps improve, they will converge.
A “LW-charitable” reading of the feminist version would be that although the maps should converge in theory, they will not converge in practice because humans are imperfect—the mapmaker is not able to reduce the biases in their map below certain level. In other words, that there is some level of irrationality that humans are unable to overcome today, and the specific direction of this irrationality depends on their “tribe”. So different tribes will forever have different maps, regardless of how much they try.
Then again, to avoid “motte and bailey”, even if there is the level of irrationality that humans are unable to overcome today even if they try, the question is whether the differences between maps are at this level, or whether people use this as a fully general excuse to put anything they like on their maps.
Yet another question would be who exactly are the “tribes” (the clusters of people that create maps with similar biases). Feminism (at least the version I see online) seems to define the clusters by gender, sexual orientation, race, etc. But maybe the important axes are different; maybe e.g. having high IQ, or studying STEM, or being a conservative, or something completely different and unexpected actually has greater influence on map-making. Which is difficult to talk about, because there is always the fully general excuse that if someone doesn’t have the map they should have, well, they have “internalized” something (a map of the group they don’t belong to was forced on them, but naturally they should have a different map).