2 ### Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer
4 * Recap: my story ("Sexual Dimorphism in ...")—but I might be unusual
5 * This is the story of why I think I'm not unusual
6 * Two-type taxonomy explanation
7 * claim: Blanch is a good 1st approximation, & I'll explain what that means later
8 * What evidence could there be for something so wacky??
13 * It was a compliment!
14 * incentivized and selected for self-delusion!!
15 * Aren't you going to be embarrassed after the Singularity?
16 * T4T is a kind of "Failed Utopia 4-2"!!
17 * the message length of my existence (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mB95aqTSJLNR9YyjH/message-length) http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2019/10/hobbyhorse-apology/
18 * EGS (and the tragedy of masc/fem forms)
19 * stress fracture vs. sprain: psychology is more complicated, but the basic moral holds
20 * "I don't care" "It sounds like you do care"
21 * if my only choices of reading material are radfems who think I'm awful and trans activists who think I DON'T EXIST (!?!?!!?!), I actually feel better about the radfems
22 * people colluding to maintain a thin layer of social constructions; lies to cis people
23 * learned things in the wrong order
24 * inference by analogy—even if not all trans women are exactly like me, at least a lot of them are going to be similar
25 * in the political world, "gay and trans"—the identity-modifiers "stack"; etiologically, people who are "gay and trans" are ... straight.
26 * not needing permission from another person
27 * people like me being incentivized to identify as part of a political pressure group that attempts to leverage claims of victimhood into claims on power
28 * activity group selecting on trait also selects for inessential weirdnesses of group membership; this is a functional reason for "women in tech" that gets destroyed
29 * It's not a gender identity; it's a sexual orientation that's surprisingly easy to misinterpret as a gender identity
30 * inference by analogy—even if not all trans women are exactly like me, at least a lot of them are going to be similar
31 * idea innoculation on the dumb version of the theory (https://medium.com/@ThingMaker/idea-inoculation-inferential-distance-848836a07a5b ; "Cowpox of Doubt")
34 ### Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data
37 * Sex, Sex Differences, Sex Roles, and the Cognitive Function of Categorization
38 * Culture Shapes Decisions on the Margin
39 * Two Possible Views on the Etiology of Gender Dysphoria in Young Children
40 * The Curious Case of Clever Hans, and Comparisons Across Cultures
42 * Potential Harm Scenarios
43 * Harms from Illegible Miscategorization
44 * Evidence from Cloacal Extrophy Cases
45 * Switching Costs Are Not Obviously Trivial
46 * On the Scope and Extent of Biodeterminism
49 ### A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning
51 * Straight reply to most recent pronoun post
52 * Limitations of the Principle of Charity
53 * Cannot Write a Sympathetic Character???
54 * We can't talk about it?? Then you, sir, are a fraud
55 * Kathleen Stock can talk about it!
56 * How did we get here??
57 * Recap: my story ("Sexual Dimorphism in ...") and why I'm not unusual ("Blanchard's Dangerous Idea")
58 * My first clue that something was amiss acutually came from ... E.Y.
59 * trying to talk to everyone, checksums failing
61 * my February breakdown
62 * A Hill of Validity thread, happy price II, losing my shit
63 * We had a whole Sequence about this!!
64 * more than one proton; I want shared maps, not concessions in a marketing war
65 * phil.-of-language campaign; everyone else shot first; dark side epistemology
66 * analysis of the community's political incentives, Kolmogorov
67 * harder to recruit from the Cathedral
68 * Scott on "Against Lie Inflation"
69 * Scott on autogenderphilia
70 * Oh, well; we are dead