1 Main path (important posts)—
4 _ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems
5 _ Unnatural Categories Are Optimized for Deception (LW)
7 Ancillary documents for milestone—
8 _ Motivation and Political Context for My Philosophy of Language Agenda
12 _ Irreversible Damage review
13 _ Jessica/wiz AGP defense
14 _ Elision _vs_. Choice (working title)
15 _ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
16 _ Trans Kids on the Margin (working title) 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/
17 _ I Am Very Bad at Keeping Secrets and Am Therefore Very Reluctant to Offer Confidentiality Promises
22 _ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
24 _ A Previous Life's War
26 _ The Feeling Is Mutual
27 _ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
28 _ reply to https://azdoine.tumblr.com/post/173995599942/a-reply-to-unremediatedgenderspace-on-reply-to http://archive.is/JSSNi
29 _ Beckett Mariner and the ... (demographic distribution of fictional characters does not match real life)
30 _ Yarvin on Yudkowsky ~3h25min https://therightstuff.biz/2020/08/04/hyperpodcastism-moldbug/
32 _ Eugenics Is Actually Good, You Worthless Cowards
33 _ The One Where I Try to Be A Little More Explicit About What 'Autogynephilia' Actually Entails
34 _ No One Actually Wants to Change "Gender"
35 _ Ideology Is the General Case (working title)
36 _ Boundary Violations and Territory
37 _ three views on partisanship: "Hierarchy and Wings" "Bioleninism" "Democracy Cis and Trans"
39 _ Gay + Trans = Straight
42 _ Walker correspondence
43 _ 30 Years of the Blank Slate (Cosmides-Tooby/Pinker/Murray)
44 _ "I Hope You're Happy, California"
45 _ Travis's Trilemma: Creepy, Crazy, or Protected-Class (working title)
46 _ Reply to Ozymandias on Lesbians and on Single-Sex Spaces
47 _ Answers on Great Divides: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/08/questions-for-great-divides.html
48 _ Film Review: Your Name
49 _ World of Masks https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1228093035042541569
50 _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
51 _ "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity ... (UUT)
52 _ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
53 _ glomerular filtration rate https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/gq50mo/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_may_25_2020/frvrhwg/
55 "You're conflating sex and gender"—the problem is, Does anyone actually want to change "gender"?—they're bundled for a reason
59 _ COVID life-years (rather than deaths)
60 _ Signals, Deception, and the Precession of Simulacra (LW)
61 _ Contra Scott Alexander on Mental Illness; Or, Oh God, Please Don't (aAL/LW)
62 _ Comment on Wireheading /r/rational
63 _ Second Derivative (Paul Christiano on growth timelines)
64 _ Selective Reporting and Clustering
65 _ Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization—marginally neglected truths are more
66 _ Explicit Disjunction vs. Contradictory Arguments from a Bottom Line
67 _ How they Pin It Down: Equal Environments Assumption Edition https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cXzTpSiCrNGzeoRAz/conjunction-controversy-or-how-they-nail-it-down
68 _ Social Construction is an Embedded Agency Problem
70 it's important to have language for psychology because you can't point to pictures
72 Training Data—"get used" to the new definitions, in time
74 "You can follow people you disagree with!" makes sense if you think of
78 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
80 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
82 Vocabulary as Capital Investment
84 _ Challenges of Mounting an Ideological Crusade
86 B.F. being smart-but-dense
88 how taxonomy/typology emerges from Bayesian networks
90 _ On Being Stereotyped Badly (working title)
94 Memetics vs. Discourse
97 The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
99 The Wisdom of Nature (I like the idea of transhumanism, but in practice, biology is just too complicated) https://nickbostrom.com/evolution.pdf
102 _ Product Review: FaceApp
104 _ 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
106 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/
108 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."
110 address accusation that I conflate "passing" and biosex
114 Positioning (don't want to prematurely alienate people you're trying to rescue)
116 conservatives complain about low-time preference ppl having too many kids—but from a evolutionary perspective, they're more evolutionarily fit
118 A Science Fiction Story Idea I'm Not Skilled Enough to Write
120 Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous
122 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalmatophilia didn't make it into Lawrence's erotic target location paper, did it?
126 Anne Lawrence on AGP Teen Transition
127 Anne Lawrence on Unapologetic Autogynephilic Transsexualism
129 Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization
133 explain my blunder in https://twitter.com/jessi_cata/status/1188567229987577856
135 reply to https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/the-mathematical-consequences-of-a-toy-model-of-gender-transition/
137 testimony on trans girl periods: http://www.onwednesdays.net/trans-girl-periods/
142 Reading Comprehension Is Rape Culture
144 Reply to David R. MacIver on Gendering
146 Trying to Be Explicit
148 Instrumental Categories, and War
150 (lit-search strategy: go through the del Guidice "Multivariate Misgivings" article and its citations; the Archer paper also mentioned this)
152 Commentary on "Blegg Mode"
154 Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition)
156 (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode)
158 karaoke, celebrity, cognitive load; I don't want people to do that for me
160 Option<String>?! https://web.archive.org/web/20160731010249/https://qntm.org/gay
163 _ "Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
164 _ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
167 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words : well, that explains the TWAW mantra
169 The Parable of the Good Witch
171 First-Offender Models and the Unilateralist's Blessing
172 The Parable of the Faithful Man and the Cowardly Priest
174 Game Theory of "Apartment Patty"
176 Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
177 (in response to Kosoy's objection)
179 Servants of the Egregore (write-up of egregore theory as told by "Wilhelm")
181 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).
183 Research Question: Complicity
186 Where to Segment a Conversation When There's Stuff You Won't Touch, Without Violating the Virtue of Evenness
187 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)
189 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)
191 In the Presence of Mimickry, Extension and Intension Simplicity Trade-Off
193 Objectivity as a Rhetorical Strategy: probability, words, morality
194 Focus on the Simple Case (accurate maps can have bad effects, but that's a weird second-order analysis)
195 Self-Identity as Focal Point; Or, Schelf-Identity
198 A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words
202 in a world where we _actually had_ sex change technology, self-identity doctrine _wouldn't even occur to anyone_
204 Operationalization of Bad Faith: if people make reasoning errors that they wouldn't make with another topic having the same underlying structure
208 The Charity Convergence Trap
216 a big essay about Batesian mimickry
219 _ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More
221 _ "I Will Fight [...]": LGBT Patriotism and the Moral Fine-Tuning Objection
228 _ The View From Nowhere
232 _ 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/ )
233 _ Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History ...
235 Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
239 ✓ Interlude XVII (not all men)
241 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"
243 Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ...
246 _ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition: Beyond Maximum-Entropy Psychology
247 Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean
248 Q The Gender Czar's Compromise
252 Q Book Review: Nevada
253 Product Review: Oculus Go
255 All You Had to Say https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8xa97t/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_july_09_2018/e228vyj/
261 Q Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman
262 _ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
263 Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model
264 Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See
266 Q The Hand I Was Dealt
267 "diagonalize" http://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/ by running the research paper it was based on through it
268 Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals
269 Threnody for the Transhumanism of My Youth
270 of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point
271 People Really Don't Know Why They Do Things
272 Q I Want to See You Be Brave
273 Passing Is Legitimacy, Legitimacy Is Passing
274 All Men Benefit From Patriarchy
275 (the story about my name)
276 Review of Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic
277 on the poor literary quality of TG captions
278 "Another Me I Haven't Met" (SacAnime cosplay review)
279 go back to east bay tg club night?
280 Product Review: Glamour Boutique's Vee-String Bladder
281 Q This Is Worth a Fight
282 "Trans Women Are Women" is a Positive-Affect Instance of the Noncentral Fallacy
286 story of Gina and Vern selected for GNC
287 story about women engineers and male businesspeople
288 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
289 fix fic for that one episode of _The Orville_