2 X Peering Through Reverent Fingers
3 _ Book Review: Charles Murray's Human Diversity
7 Main path (important posts)—
8 _ Intrumental Categories, Wireheading, and War (LW)
9 _ Elision _vs_. Choice (working title)
10 _ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
11 _ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems
12 _ "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity ... (UUT)
13 _ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
18 _ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
19 _ The Feeling Is Mutual
21 _ Travis's Trilemma: Creepy, Crazy, or Protected-Class (working title)
22 _ Reply to Ozymandias on Lesbians and on Single-Sex Spaces
23 _ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
24 _ Answers on Great Divides: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/08/questions-for-great-divides.html
27 _ Algorithmic Intent: A Hansonian Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle (LW)
29 _ Comment on "Endogenous Epistemic Factionalization"
31 _ Contra Scott Alexander on Mental Illness; Or, Oh God, Please Don't (aAL/LW)
32 _ Selective Reporting and Clustering
33 _ Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization—marginally neglected truths are more
35 _ Social Construction is an Embedded Agency Problem
37 it's important to have language for psychology because you can't point to pictures
39 Training Data—"get used" to the new definitions, in time
41 Vocabulary as Capital Investment
43 B.F. being smart-but-dense
45 how taxonomy/typology emerges from Bayesian networks
47 _ On Being Stereotyped Badly (working title)
51 Memetics vs. Discourse
54 The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
56 The Wisdom of Nature (I like the idea of transhumanism, but in practice, biology is just too complicated) https://nickbostrom.com/evolution.pdf
59 _ Product Review: FaceApp
61 _ The Strategy of "Apartment Patty" — the outrage strategy only works if you have a coalition to back you up
63 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/
65 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."
67 address accusation that I conflate "passing" and biosex
71 Positioning (don't want to prematurely alienate people you're trying to rescue)
73 conservatives complain about low-time preference ppl having too many kids—but from a evolutionary perspective, they're more evolutionarily fit
75 A Science Fiction Story Idea I'm Not Skilled Enough to Write
77 Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous
79 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalmatophilia didn't make it into Lawrence's erotic target location paper, did it?
83 Anne Lawrence on AGP Teen Transition
84 Anne Lawrence on Unapologetic Autogynephilic Transsexualism
86 Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization
90 explain my blunder in https://twitter.com/jessi_cata/status/1188567229987577856
92 reply to https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/the-mathematical-consequences-of-a-toy-model-of-gender-transition/
94 testimony on trans girl periods: http://www.onwednesdays.net/trans-girl-periods/
99 Reading Comprehension Is Rape Culture
101 Reply to David R. MacIver on Gendering
103 Trying to Be Explicit
105 Instrumental Categories, and War
107 (lit-search strategy: go through the del Guidice "Multivariate Misgivings" article and its citations; the Archer paper also mentioned this)
109 Commentary on "Blegg Mode"
111 Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition)
113 (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode)
115 karaoke, celebrity, cognitive load; I don't want people to do that for me
117 Option<String>?! https://web.archive.org/web/20160731010249/https://qntm.org/gay
120 _ "Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
121 _ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
124 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words : well, that explains the TWAW mantra
126 The Parable of the Good Witch
128 First-Offender Models and the Unilateralist's Blessing
129 The Parable of the Faithful Man and the Cowardly Priest
131 Game Theory of "Apartment Patty"
133 Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
134 (in response to Kosoy's objection)
136 Servants of the Egregore (write-up of egregore theory as told by "Wilhelm")
138 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).
140 Research Question: Complicity
143 Where to Segment a Conversation When There's Stuff You Won't Touch, Without Violating the Virtue of Evenness
144 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)
146 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)
148 In the Presence of Mimickry, Extension and Intension Simplicity Trade-Off
150 Objectivity as a Rhetorical Strategy: probability, words, morality
151 Focus on the Simple Case (accurate maps can have bad effects, but that's a weird second-order analysis)
152 Self-Identity as Focal Point; Or, Schelf-Identity
155 A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words
159 in a world where we _actually had_ sex change technology, self-identity doctrine _wouldn't even occur to anyone_
161 Operationalization of Bad Faith: if people make reasoning errors that they wouldn't make with another topic having the same underlying structure
165 The Charity Convergence Trap
173 a big essay about Batesian mimickry
176 _ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More
177 _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
178 _ "I Will Fight [...]": LGBT Patriotism and the Moral Fine-Tuning Objection
185 _ The View From Nowhere
189 _ 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/ )
190 _ Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History ...
192 Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
196 ✓ Interlude XVII (not all men)
198 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"
200 Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ...
203 _ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition: Beyond Maximum-Entropy Psychology
204 Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean
205 Q The Gender Czar's Compromise
209 Q Book Review: Nevada
210 Product Review: Oculus Go
212 All You Had to Say https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8xa97t/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_july_09_2018/e228vyj/
218 Q Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman
219 _ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
220 Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model
221 Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See
223 Q The Hand I Was Dealt
224 "diagonalize" http://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/ by running the research paper it was based on through it
225 Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals
226 Threnody for the Transhumanism of My Youth
227 of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point
228 People Really Don't Know Why They Do Things
229 Q I Want to See You Be Brave
230 Passing Is Legitimacy, Legitimacy Is Passing
231 All Men Benefit From Patriarchy
232 (the story about my name)
233 Review of Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic
234 on the poor literary quality of TG captions
235 "Another Me I Haven't Met" (SacAnime cosplay review)
236 go back to east bay tg club night?
237 Product Review: Glamour Boutique's Vee-String Bladder
238 Q This Is Worth a Fight
239 "Trans Women Are Women" is a Positive-Affect Instance of the Noncentral Fallacy
243 story of Gina and Vern selected for GNC
244 story about women engineers and male businesspeople
245 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
246 fix fic for that one episode of _The Orville_