3 O Wad Some Power the Giftie Gie Us; Or, the Identity Dysphoria Trap (school dysphoria)
5 Reuknighted (C. being really curious about my hair "It's complicated." "I think it sets me apart from other guys." Were we ever really living in the same world?)
7 reanalysis of Lawrence data!!!
9 Entangled Truths, Contagious Lies (Transgender Edition)
10 (Eugenics Is Really Important, You Delusional Bastards)
12 Yalta (https://transblog.grieve-smith.com/the-essential-conflict/ "What's in it for me?" "You're the one who doesn't believe in personal identity—you should be happy for us")
14 Externalize Everything
15 "I Will Fight for the Place Where I'm Free"; Or, Stop Praising Steven Universe for LGBT Representation
18 El Goonish Shive (http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2328 http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1895)
22 "The Distance Between Mars and Venus: Measuring Global Sex Differences in Personality" http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0029265
24 Stop Expecting Social Reality to Make Sense
26 re simple models are better: https://evolutionistx.wordpress.com/2017/01/12/conservatives-over-generalize-liberals-under-generalize/
28 clumpy thingspace!— https://darwinianreactionary.wordpress.com/2014/05/23/race-and-realism-part-2/
30 Michael Arc says: "some sort of discussion of the double standard while unambiguously attaching Trump and lampshading 'Locker Room Talk' would probably be valuable"
32 Micahel Arc on nerds anchoring on explicit norms: http://lesswrong.com/lw/sq/a_genius_for_destruction/m5g
36 Blanchardian Truth Serum— "Bayesian Truth Serum" scoring assigns more weight to "surprisingly popular" answers. Doesn't work when people are self-deceptive, I think?—in Veale's data, people think AGP applies to other people, not them
37 https://nelmit.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/bts.pdf
38 http://www.jaimieveale.com/publications/Masters.pdf (p. 82)
41 push back against the global narrative without pushing back against any particular individual narrative
45 * The View From Nowhere
46 * As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb (polarizing tribal forces—because only bad ppl talk about AGP, you need to be very DGAF about politics in order to not be locked out of the correct explanation—and even then, socialization forces might turn you against your own ppl, something I have to be wary of)
47 * The Spirit of Compromise; you can't take away transition technology; if you say it can only be used for dysphoria and not fetish, that creates an enormous incentive for self-delusion; even if someone like Kay would prefer that AGPs don't transition, at least getting ppl to admit that there are two types is a next step; maybe _after_ the trans rights movement has won, _then_ suddenly people will feel free to be non-delusional; "partial autogynephilia" may be partially GAMP, but a lot of it is compromise
49 you delusional bastards—
50 * I Want to See You Be Brave
51 * Don't Negotiate With Terrorist Memeplexes; Or, Why I Don't Care About Your Feelings
52 * Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman (critique of https://medium.com/@jencoates/i-am-a-transwoman-i-am-in-the-closet-i-am-not-coming-out-4c2dd1907e42#.5dlc2qog6)
56 * Survey of a Crossdreamscape and Why This Is Pretty Obviously Not What Cis Women Feel About Themselves
57 * Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
58 * Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals ("trans" vs. "cis" only makes sense if the gradient between full-transition intervention and no intervention is sufficiently sharp)
61 * The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
62 * (if not super-femme, there must be some other reason ...)
63 * High-Dimensional Social Science and the Cluster Concept of Concepts
64 * Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition
65 * Mary's Room (we have calibration to know that we're probably mostly seeing the same colors up to colorblindness and tetrachromacy, but ppl probably don't mean the same thing by "gender dysphoria" or "identity", or "sexual orientation" (ref pseudobisexuality); the map is not the territory)
66 * Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model (because personal identity doesn't exist, comparing notes with other people and being able to learn from _their_ mistakes is more useful than just saying "everyone has their own experience")
70 psychological sex differences aren't real, but gender identity is?? always nurture except when politically convenient
71 Bucketing (go through Wikipedia list of trans women, categorize everyone)
72 horror story about trans activists being pro-porn, &c. indicating how aliens would analyze them as a subtype of males
73 * Engineering possibilities (Anne Lawrence identitfy early); people say they wish they could have transitioned younger if they knew it were possible (https://twitter.com/argumentshop/status/815633404943183872), but part of the reason people don't know it's possible is because AGP fantasy is the strongest diagnostic criterion and everyone is lying about this
74 rachet effect (http://transblog.grieve-smith.com/the-slippery-slope/) (I can't imagine self with short hair)
76 * Collective Debt, Collective Shame (what I wanted to say to /r/GenderCritical, why it didn't work, even if they're not so hostile towards Miranda Yardley or the androphilic MtTs who post)
77 * Someone Has To Say It
78 * Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See (this is important for the Bayes crowd)
79 * critique Julia Serano on nature: of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point
80 * wait, even Julia Serano can't find cis women to date?? http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/14/the-struggle-to-find-trans-love-in-san-francisco.html (I would expect the status boost of being a B-list activist would help; less high-status trans women have even less of a chance)
81 * the intellectually-honest, transhumanist version of trans rights
82 * "Entangled Truths, Contagious Lies": https://autogynephiliatruth.wordpress.com/2016/07/18/gender-identity-exists-to-create-special-framework-for-health-insurance-payments/
85 Gender of the Gaps (you can always propose an essence when people knock down your ludicrous rationalization)
86 Time Travel Isn't Real
90 70s denialists had it right
98 Getting It Right the First Time
99 Psychological Theories Predict Behavior, Not Just Self-Reports
100 My Delusional Paraphilia Is the Best Delusional Paraphilia in the World
101 Dual-Role Transvestism for the 21st Century
102 (I pass as college educated)
105 my upsetness at trans activists not respecting _my_ lived experience as AGP is reminicent of narcisstic rage in ppl hwo
107 at some point, I want to work in the idea that AGP is a good thing because it's a pro-androgyny force in a world that is otherwise way too gendered for my tastes
111 because we're not narcissists http://elegantgatheringofwhitesnows.com/?p=2270
113 euphoric effects of E are a placebo effect! https://autogynephiliatruth.wordpress.com/about/#comment-155
115 very vague childhood memory of wanting to play with my pecs? Is it real??
117 I'm happy for people to rebuild their lives around a paraphilia. I'm not happy for people to rebuild their lives around a _bad explanation_.
119 The Girl in the Mirror
121 A Man With a Transfeminine Side
122 The Man With the Nonstandard Hormone Balance
124 not a masculine, macho man, but, you know, the biologically-male kind of man
126 https://transwidow.wordpress.com/2016/01/25/the-masculinity-of-mtf-transition/
128 Blanchard tweets me: https://twitter.com/BlanchardPhD/status/830580552562524160
130 the story about being on the Portland MAX train and talking to Dap, and then saying hi to the woman
132 marketing opportunity? https://bannedbytrans.wordpress.com/speaking-out-against-transactivist-silencing-tactics/
134 _Someone_ has to be _that asshole_ who says the true thing that everyone else is too cowardly to say, and I guess it's going to have to be me, Taylor Saotome-Westlake.
136 tailcalled's survey: https://www.reddit.com/r/GCdebatesQT/comments/6hp72p/are_agps_misogynist_results_from_a_survey/
138 "I was already presenting as female online, and in the pretty niche stuff I was playing around with it seemed like I was a novelty to devs. I got more than a few questions about how I was a girl – who liked computers! The tone was always friendly, but the undertone was clear: I was weird." https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/there-and-back-again (The devs' surprise is making a _correct prediction_)
140 sorry Dad https://twitter.com/HandOnHilt/status/876880147152072704
142 http://www.translucidcomic.com/comic/the-pair/
144 too picky http://pbfcomics.com/comics/matched/
146 (early play behavior predicts later aggression) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-017-1005-6
147 (empathizing and systematizing) http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0031661
149 https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/883902728849809409 "being nice to people with a weird disorder but not so nice you forget you're just humoring them" (Yes, exactly)
151 women do worse on Asch; in contrast, trans women are _selected_ for nonconformity
153 original research post?— the Hsu–Bailey autopedophilia paper finds a much higher rate of ETLE in pedophiles than in normal men (they say they found 15% AGP in the Mechanical Turk sample gathered for their earlier psychometrics-of-AGP work, but oddly, the psychometrics-of-AGP paper doesn't seem to mention this?? Maybe ask Bailey to clarify sometime??); could this be evidence for the developmental competition effect? (Pedophiles thankfully don't get to actualize their desires, so they fall into ETLI instead?) Similarly, concerning the high IQ of AGP trans women not just being a selection effect: maybe it's because smart people don't get laid (remember that study about a huge fraction of MIT grad students being virgins)
155 http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0118329
157 https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.05807 (via https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/6xkyyu/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_following/dmk92dw/)
159 prental T and gynephilia in women and women-adj https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/905572666332987392 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0018506X16301222
161 http://www.misfile.com/?date=2007-07-05
163 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40806-017-0120-x
165 body measurements dist'ns http://anthro.cs.uni-freiburg.de/#colx=100&coly=6
167 same-sex couples do less assortative mating! https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2843104/
169 On Mar 4, 2017 3:23 PM, "Zack M. Davis" <main@zackmdavis.net> wrote:
171 Genocide is murder of a class of people. Can you be more specific about the class of people you see being murdered (nerdy men?) and what you think is murdering them (the political-correctness memeplex that evolved as a social-control mechanism to prevent the United States from becoming Yugoslavia)?
173 I'm guessing you see a picture where the underlying bug in male sexual psychology that leads to AGP would be far less likely to progress to "gender dysphoria"/actually-doing-something-about-it in a world where it was socially-acceptable for highly-verbal 13-year-old boys to seek out sex instead of taking the you're-not-allowed-to-try verbal rules seriously? I agree with this; Blanchard calls this "developmental competition." It's notable that Robert Heinlein's novels have some very strong AGP themes, but I'm not aware of any evidence that he actually did anything about it real life, whereas I, growing up 80 years later, am about to and feel like it's the right choice on reflection given my historically-anomalous developmental trajectory, even though it probably looks like ideologically-driven self-harm from the perspective of normal men.
175 And you think that if the forces of political correctness win and "trans" becomes an entrenched cultural practice, that's like genociding future generations of Robert Heinlein analogues? Whereas from inside the trans-rights social-reality bubble, it looks like you're trying to genocide future generations of Julia Serano analogues. (Julia Serano is a prominent trans activist and author of one of the standard articles that get cited to try to "debunk" autogynephilia.) And from inside my Zack-M.-Davis-personal-eclectic-ideology-bubble, I want to rescue the Julia Serano aesthetic in a way that's compatible with knowledge of science and history. (Robert Heinlein was scientifically- and historically-literate, and Julia Serano is an ignorant ideologue, but Robert Heinlein was a manly man who was OK with being a manly man as his social identity and that's just not my style.)
177 On 2017-03-04 14:12, Michael Vassar wrote:
178 > The ACLU needs to address how plausible the arguments for censorship are. People accepting censorship need to address arguments about how real the harms are. As far as I can tell, you are three maximally concrete and articulate case of a person harness by PC in a context where an impartial summary would call it attempted genocide
180 "Years before that, two different transwomen I knew had pressured me into sending nude photos of my breasts to them." https://4thwavenow.com/2016/04/27/shrinking-to-survive-a-former-trans-man-reports-on-life-inside-queer-youth-culture/
185 Cut from quitting-hormones post (too repetitive given the rest of the blog?)—
187 I think I would prefer not to say it. But given [cultural](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ManIFeelLikeAWoman) and [scholarly]((https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15859369)) evidence that the underlying psychological phenomenon is not that uncommon, and given that trans rights is perhaps _the_ culture war issue of our time, of which the psychological phenomenon is of some relevance to, _someone has to say it_.
189 And I guess it's going to have to be me, Taylor Saotome-Westlake.
193 Tail: "zack logic: I don't want an AGP wife because they act too male and that'd be insufficiently female-aligned, I want a cis wife who acts like an AGP wife instead
194 have you considered just giving in to the AGP life?"
196 'conditional on "we somehow eliminate all homophobia and bullying of gnc people and so on", how realistic does the following sound?
197 Gay men no longer repress their GNC, which means they end up socially a lot more like HSTS trans women. (Exactly like HSTS trans women? Or would they be different because lower h on average?) This switches the west to """transgender homosexuality""", as, uh, the newHSTSs (that is, the HSTS-spectrum people who're now feminine in that society but aren't in ours) are now less attractive to each other but more attractive to straight men, and the straight men are less opposed to having sex with them because less homophobia. The newHSTSs are probably going to use HRT, if nothing else then because it makes them more attractive to straight men
198 because that's the impression I got from TMWWBQ'
202 The problem is not social engineering! The problem is _incompetent_ social engineering! The problem is not experimenting on children! The problem is experimenting on children in the service of an ideological crusade rather than in the service of finding out what happens!
206 > And in the online communities I encountered on my journey, and still follow today, I see the same question, repeated over and over, as sweet scared humans pour their vulnerability into a text box, entrusting a group of strangers to help them make the decision of a lifetime:
208 > What if this is just a fetish?
210 > —https://medium.com/gender-shrug/just-1b8c09a11f18
212 https://player.fm/series/opening-up-behind-the-scenes-of-our-open-marriage/8-johns-kink-with-consequences
215 https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/72vi36/foia_request_for_wansink_emails_show_how_an_ivy/dnmp0q9/ (relate to Conchran on lost knowledge?)
218 Vee String review: still ... noticeably not part of my body.
220 (That was the same thing I thought about breastforms. Considering how that escalted, maybe it would be better for my health and bodily integrity to not pursue this line of thinking ...)
224 tail: secretly, all AGP trans women are clockable because you can just look at the hobbies
226 https://www.reddit.com/r/asktransgender/comments/78zw2h/how_many_of_you_were_confused_by_a_transformation/
228 He has a wife and kids to support (if this is 1998) or her FFS bill to pay off (if this is (2018)
230 etymology fun fact: "male" comes from the Latin malus, meaning "bad"
234 on a Facebook thread about female-dominated gym classes, a female acquaintance writes, "My class focuses on weightlifting and it's still all women (including one trans, oddly enough)." (You wouldn't say "oddly enough" if you actually believed that trans women are women!)
236 This is so great http://criticaltheology.tumblr.com/post/159472778625/poem-by-a-jewish-trans-woman-written-in-1322
238 https://theestablishment.co/yes-trans-women-can-get-period-symptoms-e43a43979e8c
240 Rya comes out as AGP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ferdf6iRTOg
244 I really hope there's a way to use frequencies and Bayes nets to disprove dysphoria→AGP causal direction, particularly because then I'll be able to call the post "Algebraic Typology"
246 I thought of this pun first/independently: https://twitter.com/WildStoryWoman/status/927514752405737474
248 BIID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/28711223/?i=1&from=body%20integrity%20identity%20disorder
250 the heartbreaking misogyny of my native subculture (not that I'm any different): https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/7bjywe/wellness_wednesday_8th_november_2017/dpitpnu/
252 Christian AGP repressor: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG7sNHEv-HMKwGQE9RS2byQ
254 Binnie-ism: https://twitter.com/FioraAeterna/status/928664101013790720
259 but now I'm watching TV
260 and I have a new actress crush
262 maybe it's just the character she's playing, but she seems slightly facially masculinized?
265 America Ferrera is also in this show
266 I remember her from Ugly Betty, which I would watch at the University in 2007
267 before the personality-altering nervous breadown that led me to quit
268 there was a trans woman character on that show, but she was played by Rebecca Romijn
269 there was a poignant line (you know it's poignant when you can remember a line from a TV show you saw ten years ago) where she says to her brother, "Look into my eyes, Danny; it's the only thing they couldn't change"
270 and how do I put this
271 my blog would sound a lot less transphobic if we had the technology to make AGPs look like Rebecca Romijn
272 Trent - Today at 11:17 PM
273 it would sound more transphobic, no? you'd have transitioned, so you wouldn't be concerned with some of the signalling you do now (e.g. woman as a gender rather than transwoman as one) and may indeed be actively signalling that you haven't signed the contract, Yardley-style; the idea it'd be less transphobic assumes becoming Romijn would put you more in line with trans topics as well
274 (unless I'm misinterpreting something, which is a reasonable assumption)
275 Carrie Zelda-Michelle Davis - Today at 11:19 PM
276 you're right; I wasn't taking the hypothetical seriously enough
278 > ("Since I was 5, I felt like I've been dropped in the wrong skin. This is about correcting a mistake." "Oh, is that all it is? Really?" "That's the fast version.")
280 sex diffs in paraphilias: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/669634/pdf
282 malpractice lawsuit (can't find better public info): https://detransitionedwomenresistadf.wordpress.com/2017/11/19/first-blog-post/
284 transition didn't change crime rate: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0016885
286 "... your identity is supposed to describe the problems you face in your life, not manufacture them": http://neat-dyke.tumblr.com/post/167070168982/old-school-butch-neat-dyke-something-that
288 http://neat-dyke.tumblr.com/post/162258180487/on-being-a-young-butch-lesbian-at-pride-2017
290 http://neat-dyke.tumblr.com/post/154578646192/negative-social-effects-of-my-mastectomy
292 productivity lifehacks: do excellent work in an extremely low-status field that you'd be mortified to be primarily known for, thus forcing yourself to also do excellent work in another area in order to rescue your reputation
294 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7757667
295 https://clarissasblog.com/2014/05/14/i-dont-want-to-hire-women/
297 drawn by a cis woman?? http://weknowmemes.com/2013/11/perks-of-being-a-woman/
299 "Impact of Using Non-Birth Sex on the Interpretation of Spirometry Data in Subjects With Air-Flow Obstruction": http://rc.rcjournal.com/content/early/2017/11/28/respcare.05586
301 decrease in IQ on puberty suppression: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2017.00528/full
303 AGP pride flag origin: https://4archive.org/board/lgbt/thread/8628058/attached-image-is-the-agp-pride-flag-black-represents-the-r
305 https://www.reddit.com/r/asktransgender/comments/6uc18b/has_any_of_you_felt_horny_when_using_a_packer_for/
307 https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kbxw7v/i-was-robbed-of-my-transgender-childhood
309 https://www.reddit.com/r/asktransgender/comments/4ltxc1/does_anyone_else_get_really_turned_on_checking/
311 https://www.reddit.com/r/MtF/comments/7iqcaf/told_my_wife_i_want_to_transition/
313 https://www.reddit.com/r/asktransgender/comments/5axie2/nsfw_im_mtf_i_feel_like_my_body_is_aroused_and/
315 Lindsay Shepherd/James Damore shipfic
317 Brazillian woman moves to Sweeden and cherished egalitarian culture: https://medium.com/@sayhellotovanessa/the-oddities-of-being-an-invisible-woman-8570394caa0d
319 most of men's attractiveness is cues of upper-body strength: http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/284/1869/20171819
321 > In the psychiatric evaluation, Johnson reveals that Kaczynski had persistent and intense sexual fantasies about being a woman. While he was a graduate student at the University of Michigan in 1967, he went to a psychiatrist to discuss his wishes for a sex change operation. But in the waiting room, he decided he could not go forward. Instead, he told the psychiatrist he was depressed about the possibility of being drafted.
323 > — https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1998/09/12/gender-confusion-sex-change-idea-fueled-kaczynskis-rage-report-says/eb33b946-8595-427d-af4c-9ccaada45935/?utm_term=.6222611253f6
325 so I'm watching more of the retail comedy with :hearts:♡ Lauren Ash ♡:hearts:, and I think it's just _sociologically fascinating_ how the writers are playing Culture War (guest star character is pro-bathroom bill, and our protagonists are sneeringly like, "Wow, that's so bigoted")
326 like, this is how social change happens
327 with a conspiracy of NBC comedy writers conspiring to hamfistedly socially intimidate their viewers into not believing anything uncool
328 that's my second thought, anyway
330 OMG ★♡ Lauren Ash ♡★ I want to be ~~with~~ her
332 https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/erik-soderstrom/2016/09/23/superstore-goes-strike-mocks-bigots-against-transgender
334 > Garrett: Hey, nik-nik-nikki. I had a quick just, like, silly question for you. Uh, how serious are you about all this sort of trans bathroom stuff?
335 Nikki: What do you mean?
336 Garrett: I mean, like, is it the only thing you think about or is it more like one of those barely talk about it, just how you were raised, opinion could change if you surrounded yourself with a cooler, more diverse group of friends type deals?
338 (it's interesting that there's one other (semi-) widely-recognized expansion of that initialism)
340 the "husband and provider and guardian of a small AI" game looks fun, that I would be so good at it that the thought isn't worth dropping just because you deserve Bob and Alice doesn't want me and Carol doesn't want me and Edith quietly detests me and Georgia belongs to Dave and the owners of OKCupid have pissed themselves laughing about how much money I'm paying them for the privilege of knowing that _ and _ haven't read my poem
342 "You women and your risk-aversion (compared to men) due to lower reproductive variance (than men) in the environment of evolutionary adaptiveness" is what my analogue who is not forbidden from such thoughts would say
344 I like her as a person but am very conscious of the extent to which I am currently on her good side due to luck and carefully deceptive handling
346 (I don't even think I know what I use internally; my blog says "trans women" as two words so as not to pile insult onto injury) but my model, under whatever word, is "guys like me"
348 like many bottom-80-percentile males, I'm ambiguous on the sign of the poly thing
351 suffering is the chisel God uses to shape us into our true selves
353 suffering is bad in general, but I've already used up my please-take-care-of-me-I'm-hurt quota for the year, which means I have to enthusiastically endorse any emotional pain that happens to me today
355 everyone already knows to be cynical about cola commercials, but somehow people expect "Seek medical care if you're concerned" to be taken literally
357 "We have so much in common!" I said. "Too much," she said.
358 the cognitive dissonance that makes "all trans women" and "all closet crossdressers" the only stable equilibria for social circles of AGP males in a culture without a public concept of AGP
359 https://transblog.grieve-smith.com/the-essential-conflict/
361 at JCC camp, I remember saying that I wasn't the kind of guy who was interested in big breasts. "Well, then you're not a guy," I was told. But actually I just hadn't hit puberty yet
363 Like, I used to tack the word "aspiring" in front as my preferred means of indicating that we don't think we've already solved rationality. Nowadays, I just reach for the scare quotes.
365 While I agree that words can be used in many ways depending on context, I claim that sometimes it's useful to use this top-20 noun to refer strictly to the same thing it's always referred to for the past 200,000 years since language evolved, even if we have reasonably chosen to broaden the extension of that noun to also include other, relevantly similar things in most day-to-day contexts! Given that people are capable of inferring what is meant from the relevant context, this won't confuse anyone, and we can continue peacefully using language to describe reality. Then, we can use those descriptions of reality to formulate plans! Plans that will steer the universe into regions of configuration space that rank higher in our individual and collective preference orderings!
367 NRx-inspired (sigh ... yes, unfortunately) points—
369 (most of this should probably be split into a separate post even if I'm happening to do some outlining in this file; evil speculation shouldn't contaminate the solid "Infovism" idea/slogan)—
371 * democracy is government by whichever memes happen to be the most virulent
372 * outcomes of the long run of a one-dimensional conflict can be classified, roughly something like: Left total victory, right total victory, mutually assured destruction, and program equilibrium
373 * program equilibrium isn't easy/possible for humans
374 * the key point here is that "grant this demand, deny all others" isn't a
375 defensible Schelling point; if you yield here, the _same algorithm_ is
376 going to be running the next time
377 * "Berkeley 2009 morality was just right, but this Berkeley 2017 bullshit has
379 * If I were dictator, (Berkeley, 2009) could be made to work, but everyone has her own (city, year) pair
380 * for some reason I thought this was analogous to something from the
381 Coherent Extrapolated Volition document: Dennis thinks he should own
382 the world, but fairness requires that Dennis's name be erased from any
383 such request, and "some X should own the world" is underspecified"
384 * remember my conversation with a certain female bio-/psychologist studying at
385 Harvard who told me that "Trans women are men with a mental illness" made
386 more sense, but that she was afraid to even think that within the privacy of
389 * Moldbug, "The True Meaning of Diversity": "Certainly not every party member
390 is an [X]. Most of them, in fact, are not. Nor is it absolutely guaranteed
391 that every single [X] will be a party member. But most of them, in fact,
392 are"—thus, requiring representaiton of Xes benefits the party
393 * practice of deferring to designated-victim trans women _makes the trans
394 women worse people_: if you know that you can win a dispute by playing the
395 transphobia card, that incentive shapes your life (Moldbug: discussion of
396 "ignoble privilege" in "Gentle Introduction" pt. 3)
397 * kind of like how _the right to be sued_ is an important part of legal
398 personhood: the possibility of recourse is necessary for trust
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