1 Main path (important posts)—
2 _ theory of MMB's transition
3 _ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems
4 _ Algorithmic Intent: A Hansonian Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle (LW)
5 _ Signals, Deception, and the Precession of Simulacra (LW)
6 _ Intrumental Categories, Wireheading, and War (LW)
7 _ Elision _vs_. Choice (working title)
10 _ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
11 _ "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity ... (UUT)
12 _ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
17 _ A Previous Life's War
21 _ The Feeling Is Mutual
22 _ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
23 _ Ideology Is the General Case (working title)
26 _ Gay + Trans = Straight
29 _ Walker correspondence
30 _ 30 Years of the Blank Slate (Cosmides-Tooby/Pinker/Murray)
31 _ "I Hope You're Happy, California"
32 _ Travis's Trilemma: Creepy, Crazy, or Protected-Class (working title)
33 _ Reply to Ozymandias on Lesbians and on Single-Sex Spaces
34 _ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
35 _ Answers on Great Divides: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/08/questions-for-great-divides.html
36 _ Film Review: Your Name
37 _ World of Masks https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1228093035042541569
38 _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
43 _ COVID life-years (rather than deaths)
45 _ Contra Scott Alexander on Mental Illness; Or, Oh God, Please Don't (aAL/LW)
46 _ Comment on Wireheading /r/rational
47 _ Second Derivative (Paul Christiano on growth timelines)
48 _ Selective Reporting and Clustering
49 _ Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization—marginally neglected truths are more
50 _ Explicit Disjunction vs. Contradictory Arguments from a Bottom Line
51 _ How they Pin It Down: Equal Environments Assumption Edition https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cXzTpSiCrNGzeoRAz/conjunction-controversy-or-how-they-nail-it-down
52 _ Social Construction is an Embedded Agency Problem
54 it's important to have language for psychology because you can't point to pictures
56 Training Data—"get used" to the new definitions, in time
61 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
63 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
65 Vocabulary as Capital Investment
67 _ Challenges of Mounting an Ideological Crusade
69 B.F. being smart-but-dense
71 how taxonomy/typology emerges from Bayesian networks
73 _ On Being Stereotyped Badly (working title)
77 Memetics vs. Discourse
80 The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
82 The Wisdom of Nature (I like the idea of transhumanism, but in practice, biology is just too complicated) https://nickbostrom.com/evolution.pdf
85 _ Product Review: FaceApp
87 _ The Strategy of "Apartment Patty" — the outrage strategy only works if you have a coalition to back you up
89 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/
91 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."
93 address accusation that I conflate "passing" and biosex
97 Positioning (don't want to prematurely alienate people you're trying to rescue)
99 conservatives complain about low-time preference ppl having too many kids—but from a evolutionary perspective, they're more evolutionarily fit
101 A Science Fiction Story Idea I'm Not Skilled Enough to Write
103 Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous
105 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalmatophilia didn't make it into Lawrence's erotic target location paper, did it?
109 Anne Lawrence on AGP Teen Transition
110 Anne Lawrence on Unapologetic Autogynephilic Transsexualism
112 Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization
116 explain my blunder in https://twitter.com/jessi_cata/status/1188567229987577856
118 reply to https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/the-mathematical-consequences-of-a-toy-model-of-gender-transition/
120 testimony on trans girl periods: http://www.onwednesdays.net/trans-girl-periods/
125 Reading Comprehension Is Rape Culture
127 Reply to David R. MacIver on Gendering
129 Trying to Be Explicit
131 Instrumental Categories, and War
133 (lit-search strategy: go through the del Guidice "Multivariate Misgivings" article and its citations; the Archer paper also mentioned this)
135 Commentary on "Blegg Mode"
137 Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition)
139 (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode)
141 karaoke, celebrity, cognitive load; I don't want people to do that for me
143 Option<String>?! https://web.archive.org/web/20160731010249/https://qntm.org/gay
146 _ "Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
147 _ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
150 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words : well, that explains the TWAW mantra
152 The Parable of the Good Witch
154 First-Offender Models and the Unilateralist's Blessing
155 The Parable of the Faithful Man and the Cowardly Priest
157 Game Theory of "Apartment Patty"
159 Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
160 (in response to Kosoy's objection)
162 Servants of the Egregore (write-up of egregore theory as told by "Wilhelm")
164 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).
166 Research Question: Complicity
169 Where to Segment a Conversation When There's Stuff You Won't Touch, Without Violating the Virtue of Evenness
170 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)
172 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)
174 In the Presence of Mimickry, Extension and Intension Simplicity Trade-Off
176 Objectivity as a Rhetorical Strategy: probability, words, morality
177 Focus on the Simple Case (accurate maps can have bad effects, but that's a weird second-order analysis)
178 Self-Identity as Focal Point; Or, Schelf-Identity
181 A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words
185 in a world where we _actually had_ sex change technology, self-identity doctrine _wouldn't even occur to anyone_
187 Operationalization of Bad Faith: if people make reasoning errors that they wouldn't make with another topic having the same underlying structure
191 The Charity Convergence Trap
199 a big essay about Batesian mimickry
202 _ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More
204 _ "I Will Fight [...]": LGBT Patriotism and the Moral Fine-Tuning Objection
211 _ The View From Nowhere
215 _ 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/ )
216 _ Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History ...
218 Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
222 ✓ Interlude XVII (not all men)
224 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"
226 Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ...
229 _ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition: Beyond Maximum-Entropy Psychology
230 Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean
231 Q The Gender Czar's Compromise
235 Q Book Review: Nevada
236 Product Review: Oculus Go
238 All You Had to Say https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8xa97t/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_july_09_2018/e228vyj/
244 Q Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman
245 _ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
246 Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model
247 Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See
249 Q The Hand I Was Dealt
250 "diagonalize" http://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/ by running the research paper it was based on through it
251 Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals
252 Threnody for the Transhumanism of My Youth
253 of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point
254 People Really Don't Know Why They Do Things
255 Q I Want to See You Be Brave
256 Passing Is Legitimacy, Legitimacy Is Passing
257 All Men Benefit From Patriarchy
258 (the story about my name)
259 Review of Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic
260 on the poor literary quality of TG captions
261 "Another Me I Haven't Met" (SacAnime cosplay review)
262 go back to east bay tg club night?
263 Product Review: Glamour Boutique's Vee-String Bladder
264 Q This Is Worth a Fight
265 "Trans Women Are Women" is a Positive-Affect Instance of the Noncentral Fallacy
269 story of Gina and Vern selected for GNC
270 story about women engineers and male businesspeople
271 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
272 fix fic for that one episode of _The Orville_