1 Book Review: Cailin O'Connor's
3 "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning
5 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."
7 address accusation that I conflate "passing" and biosex
13 The Strategy of "Apartment Patty"
15 A Science Fiction Story Idea I'm Not Skilled Enough to Write
17 Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous
19 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalmatophilia didn't make it into Lawrence's erotic target location paper, did it?
23 Anne Lawrence on AGP Teen Transition
24 Anne Lawrence on Unapologetic Autogynephilic Transsexualism
28 Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization
32 Book Review: Human Diversity
33 Book Review: The Origins of Inequality
35 explain my blunder in https://twitter.com/jessi_cata/status/1188567229987577856
37 reply to https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/the-mathematical-consequences-of-a-toy-model-of-gender-transition/
39 testimony on trans girl periods: http://www.onwednesdays.net/trans-girl-periods/
44 Reading Comprehension Is Rape Culture
46 Reply to David R. MacIver on Gendering
50 Instrumental Categories, and War
52 (lit-search strategy: go through the del Guidice "Multivariate Misgivings" article and its citations; the Archer paper also mentioned this)
54 Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
56 Commentary on "Blegg Mode"
58 Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition)
60 (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode)
62 karaoke, celebrity, cognitive load; I don't want people to do that for me
64 Option<String>?! https://web.archive.org/web/20160731010249/https://qntm.org/gay
67 _ "Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
68 _ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
71 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words : well, that explains the TWAW mantra
73 The Parable of the Good Witch
75 First-Offender Models and the Unilateralist's Blessing
76 The Parable of the Faithful Man and the Cowardly Priest
78 Game Theory of "Apartment Patty"
80 Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
81 (in response to Kosoy's objection)
83 Servants of the Egregore (write-up of egregore theory as told by "Wilhelm")
85 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).
87 Research Question: Complicity
88 The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
90 Where to Segment a Conversation When There's Stuff You Won't Touch, Without Violating the Virtue of Evenness
91 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)
93 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)
95 In the Presence of Mimickry, Extension and Intension Simplicity Trade-Off
97 Objectivity as a Rhetorical Strategy: probability, words, morality
98 Focus on the Simple Case (accurate maps can have bad effects, but that's a weird second-order analysis)
99 Self-Identity as Focal Point; Or, Schelf-Identity
102 A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words
106 in a world where we _actually had_ sex change technology, self-identity doctrine _wouldn't even occur to anyone_
108 Operationalization of Bad Faith: if people make reasoning errors that they wouldn't make with another topic having the same underlying structure
112 The Charity Convergence Trap
120 a big essay about Batesian mimickry
122 _ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
123 _ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More
124 _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
125 _ "I Will Fight [...]": LGBT Patriotism and the Moral Fine-Tuning Objection
132 _ The View From Nowhere
136 _ 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/ )
137 _ Friendship Practices of ...
138 _ Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History ...
140 Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
144 ✓ Interlude XVII (not all men)
146 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"
148 Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ...
151 _ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition: Beyond Maximum-Entropy Psychology
152 Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean
153 Q The Gender Czar's Compromise
156 Product Review: FaceApp
158 Q Book Review: Nevada
159 Product Review: Oculus Go
161 All You Had to Say https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8xa97t/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_july_09_2018/e228vyj/
167 Q Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman
168 _ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
169 Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model
170 Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See
172 Q The Hand I Was Dealt
173 "diagonalize" http://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/ by running the research paper it was based on through it
174 Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals
175 Threnody for the Transhumanism of My Youth
176 of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point
177 People Really Don't Know Why They Do Things
178 Q I Want to See You Be Brave
179 Passing Is Legitimacy, Legitimacy Is Passing
180 All Men Benefit From Patriarchy
181 (the story about my name)
182 Review of Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic
183 on the poor literary quality of TG captions
184 "Another Me I Haven't Met" (SacAnime cosplay review)
185 go back to east bay tg club night?
186 Product Review: Glamour Boutique's Vee-String Bladder
187 Q This Is Worth a Fight
188 "Trans Women Are Women" is a Positive-Affect Instance of the Noncentral Fallacy
192 story of Gina and Vern selected for GNC
193 story about women engineers and male businesspeople
194 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
195 fix fic for that one episode of _The Orville_