1 Main path (important posts)—
3 _ Feedback on Unnatural Categories (working group + TurnTrout + S. Finley + Tetra + Steven + Said + Elizabeth (https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/rhZge5qmZKwJ8BMDM/open-and-welcome-thread-march-2020#comment-XG44nfNcpq3BXj7hB) + paid-editor)
7 _ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems
8 _ Unnatural Categories Are Optimized for Deception (LW)
10 Ancillary documents and marketing channels for milestone—
11 _ Motivation and Political Context for My Philosophy of Language Agenda
13 _ comment to V."C."S. on "Maybe Lying Can't Exist?!"
15 _ epilogue email to S.A.
19 _ Reddit submissions: /r/philosophy and /r/TheMotte
22 _ Irreversible Damage review
23 _ Jessica/wiz AGP defense
24 _ Elision _vs_. Choice (working title)
25 _ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
26 _ Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data prior: https://sillyolme.wordpress.com/2019/07/19/how-many-trans-folk-are-there-really/ https://sillyolme.wordpress.com/2017/04/16/getting-lost-in-the-crowd/
27 _ I Am Very Bad at Keeping Secrets and Am Therefore Very Reluctant to Offer Confidentiality Promises
29 (This needs to go into my "Motivations and Political Context")
30 Transitioning is easy if you project into the subspace spanned by "given name" and "preferred pronouns" and "frequency of wearing dresses." The problem is that it's not psychologically realistic to expect everyone else to just throw away all the other dimensions—people were using those dimensions!
32 (for Elision vs. Choice)
33 Speakers of my generation are more likely to say "person" when sex isn't relevant, whereas older works (pre-second wave feminism?) would actually say "man" (or "woman"—see how anachronistic it feels to put the female option second and in parentheses?), presumably not because human nature has changed that much, but because of shifting cultural priorities about when sex is "relevant." (Modern speakers similarly frown on mentioning race (https://agentultra.com/blog/the-black-man-stopped-me/) when it's not relevant.)
37 _ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
39 _ A Previous Life's War
40 _ The Feeling Is Mutual
41 _ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
42 _ reply to https://azdoine.tumblr.com/post/173995599942/a-reply-to-unremediatedgenderspace-on-reply-to http://archive.is/JSSNi
43 _ reply to https://deathisbadblog.com/the-real-transphobes-are-the-ones-we-made-along-the-way/
44 _ Beckett Mariner Is Trans https://www.reddit.com/r/DaystromInstitute/comments/in3g92/was_mariner_a_teenager_on_the_enterprised/
45 _ Cynical Theories review
48 _ Eugenics Is Actually Good, You Worthless Cowards
49 _ The One Where I Try to Be A Little More Explicit About What 'Autogynephilia' Actually Entails
50 _ No One Actually Wants to Change "Gender"
51 _ Ideology Is the General Case (working title)
52 _ Boundary Violations and Territory
53 _ three views on partisanship: "Hierarchy and Wings" "Bioleninism" "Democracy Cis and Trans"
55 _ Gay + Trans = Straight
58 _ Walker correspondence
59 _ 30 Years of the Blank Slate (Cosmides-Tooby/Pinker/Murray)
60 _ "I Hope You're Happy, California"
61 _ Travis's Trilemma: Creepy, Crazy, or Protected-Class (working title)
62 _ Reply to Ozymandias on Lesbians and on Single-Sex Spaces
63 _ Answers on Great Divides: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/08/questions-for-great-divides.html
64 _ Film Review: Your Name
65 _ World of Masks https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1228093035042541569
66 _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
67 _ "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity ... (UUT)
68 _ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
69 _ glomerular filtration rate https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/gq50mo/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_may_25_2020/frvrhwg/
71 "You're conflating sex and gender"—the problem is, Does anyone actually want to change "gender"?—they're bundled for a reason
75 _ COVID life-years (rather than deaths)
76 _ Signals, Deception, and the Precession of Simulacra (LW)
77 _ Contra Scott Alexander on Mental Illness; Or, Oh God, Please Don't (aAL/LW)
78 _ Comment on Wireheading /r/rational
79 _ Second Derivative (Paul Christiano on growth timelines)
80 _ Selective Reporting and Clustering
81 _ Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization—marginally neglected truths are more
82 _ Explicit Disjunction vs. Contradictory Arguments from a Bottom Line
83 _ How they Pin It Down: Equal Environments Assumption Edition https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cXzTpSiCrNGzeoRAz/conjunction-controversy-or-how-they-nail-it-down
84 _ Social Construction is an Embedded Agency Problem
86 it's important to have language for psychology because you can't point to pictures
88 Training Data—"get used" to the new definitions, in time
90 "You can follow people you disagree with!" makes sense if you think of
94 if pro-reality trans people are allied with more numerous anti-reality trans people, that incentivizes me to join an anti-trans coalition, when what I actually (should) want is to cherry-pick the pro-reality people
96 another thing keeping me from trans-IDing: trans is "marked"; choosing it would mean associating with the crazy. Normal Society (with men named Zack) has its own madnesses and crimes, but
98 Vocabulary as Capital Investment
100 _ Challenges of Mounting an Ideological Crusade
102 B.F. being smart-but-dense
104 how taxonomy/typology emerges from Bayesian networks
106 _ On Being Stereotyped Badly (working title)
109 Memetics vs. Discourse
110 Being Willing to Change Your Mind Is About Symmetry, Not Fairness
112 The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
113 Trading Political Favors Doesn't Build True Maps, But Correcting Errors Your Yourself Made, Does
115 The Wisdom of Nature (I like the idea of transhumanism, but in practice, biology is just too complicated) https://nickbostrom.com/evolution.pdf
118 _ Product Review: FaceApp
120 _ The Strategy of "Apartment Patty" — the outrage strategy only works if you have a coalition to back you up. Deterrent: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/05/case-social-media-mobs/612202/ Another example: https://twitter.com/jaimetoons/status/1271300265170186240
122 you regress to your group's mean—but that depends on how you draw the category boundaries around group membership! This could be a good math post!! https://humanvarieties.org/2017/07/01/measurement-error-regression-to-the-mean-and-group-differences/
124 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalmatophilia "An important fantasy for some individuals is being transformed into the preferred object (such as a statue) and experiencing an associated state of immobility or paralysis."
126 address accusation that I conflate "passing" and biosex
130 Positioning (don't want to prematurely alienate people you're trying to rescue)
132 conservatives complain about low-time preference ppl having too many kids—but from a evolutionary perspective, they're more evolutionarily fit
134 A Science Fiction Story Idea I'm Not Skilled Enough to Write
136 Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous
138 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalmatophilia didn't make it into Lawrence's erotic target location paper, did it?
142 Anne Lawrence on AGP Teen Transition
143 Anne Lawrence on Unapologetic Autogynephilic Transsexualism
145 Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization
149 explain my blunder in https://twitter.com/jessi_cata/status/1188567229987577856
151 reply to https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/the-mathematical-consequences-of-a-toy-model-of-gender-transition/
153 testimony on trans girl periods: http://www.onwednesdays.net/trans-girl-periods/
158 Reading Comprehension Is Rape Culture
160 Reply to David R. MacIver on Gendering
162 Trying to Be Explicit
164 Instrumental Categories, and War
166 (lit-search strategy: go through the del Guidice "Multivariate Misgivings" article and its citations; the Archer paper also mentioned this)
168 Commentary on "Blegg Mode"
170 Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition)
172 (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode)
174 karaoke, celebrity, cognitive load; I don't want people to do that for me
176 Option<String>?! https://web.archive.org/web/20160731010249/https://qntm.org/gay
179 _ "Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
180 _ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
183 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words : well, that explains the TWAW mantra
185 The Parable of the Good Witch
187 First-Offender Models and the Unilateralist's Blessing
188 The Parable of the Faithful Man and the Cowardly Priest
190 Game Theory of "Apartment Patty"
192 Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
193 (in response to Kosoy's objection)
195 Servants of the Egregore (write-up of egregore theory as told by "Wilhelm")
197 Kolmogorov's Iron Triangle; Or, the Not-Being-a-Worthless-Coward Option (epigraph quote: Raleigh's "The Lie")—(include analogy: the fear that atheism would lead to immortality given that ppl don't have to fear Hell, wouldn't have seemed obviously absurd at the time) — honesty, ability to think, and mainstream credibility. The Kolmogorov option sacrifices a lot of honesty in exchange for mainstream credibility. This might seem like a good trade until you consider that "honesty" and "ability to think" aren't independent (because people are bad at compartmentalization and we need to talk to each other to think together).
199 Research Question: Complicity
202 Where to Segment a Conversation When There's Stuff You Won't Touch, Without Violating the Virtue of Evenness
203 In Praise of Cartesianism (you need to _really_ understand "A Human's Guide to Words" before you can do high-grade good-faith social constructionism)
205 Sex Differences and Commonsense Priors (I have parsimony intuitions that make "AGP is caused by pollution" or "AGP is normal in cis women" or "hormone receptors distributions are the same" seem not worth considering)
207 In the Presence of Mimickry, Extension and Intension Simplicity Trade-Off
209 Objectivity as a Rhetorical Strategy: probability, words, morality
210 Focus on the Simple Case (accurate maps can have bad effects, but that's a weird second-order analysis)
211 Self-Identity as Focal Point; Or, Schelf-Identity
214 A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words
218 in a world where we _actually had_ sex change technology, self-identity doctrine _wouldn't even occur to anyone_
220 Operationalization of Bad Faith: if people make reasoning errors that they wouldn't make with another topic having the same underlying structure
224 The Charity Convergence Trap
232 a big essay about Batesian mimickry
235 _ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More
237 _ "I Will Fight [...]": LGBT Patriotism and the Moral Fine-Tuning Objection
244 _ The View From Nowhere
248 _ reply to Ozy on https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2017/08/03/rapid-onset-gender-dysphoria-is-bad-science/ (when marketing in Culture War thread, maybe hat tip https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9cir3w/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_september_03/e5c1h2c/ )
249 _ Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History ...
251 Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
255 ✓ Interlude XVII (not all men)
257 can the comment on "Bit Players" actually fit on this blog (I didn't empathize with offense at fake physics, but I can take offense at maximum-entropy psychology): epigraph quote, "It's Only a Paper Moon"
259 Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ...
262 _ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition: Beyond Maximum-Entropy Psychology
263 Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean
264 Q The Gender Czar's Compromise
268 Q Book Review: Nevada
269 Product Review: Oculus Go
271 All You Had to Say https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8xa97t/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_july_09_2018/e228vyj/
277 Q Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman
278 _ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
279 Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model
280 Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See
282 Q The Hand I Was Dealt
283 "diagonalize" http://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/ by running the research paper it was based on through it
284 Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals
285 Threnody for the Transhumanism of My Youth
286 of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point
287 People Really Don't Know Why They Do Things
288 Q I Want to See You Be Brave
289 Passing Is Legitimacy, Legitimacy Is Passing
290 All Men Benefit From Patriarchy
291 (the story about my name)
292 Review of Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic
293 on the poor literary quality of TG captions
294 "Another Me I Haven't Met" (SacAnime cosplay review)
295 go back to east bay tg club night?
296 Product Review: Glamour Boutique's Vee-String Bladder
297 Q This Is Worth a Fight
298 "Trans Women Are Women" is a Positive-Affect Instance of the Noncentral Fallacy
302 story of Gina and Vern selected for GNC
303 story about women engineers and male businesspeople
304 story about race of humans who have a "sneaky" camoflauge form and someone with their analogue of AGP tries to deliberately lower his status to get it
305 fix fic for that one episode of _The Orville_