• x0x7@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I think that could be possible. If sexuality were multi-dimensional and “gayness” was just a 1-D collapse of a higher dimensional space then you could pick a vector in the higher dimensional space to represent gayness, such that a few points at the extreme happen to have the same dot-product with that vector.

    But then you would be defining gayness around the gymnastics of setting that up instead of something you are actually trying to estimate about people on that spectrum.

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      1 month ago

      The meme saying there’s a gayest person, kinda implies this. Of course it’s actually nonsense in real life, all I’m trying to say is that a spectrum by definition doesn’t exclude the possibility of 2 entities being on the most extreme end (doesn’t really matter if we have more dimensions or just one representing gayness, all can be maxed out). If one person can someone how obtain the highest amount of gayness physically possible, how does that stop someone else from doing the same?