1 Main path (important posts)—
2 _ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems
3 _ Intrumental Categories, Wireheading, and War (LW)
4 _ Elision _vs_. Choice (working title)
5 _ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
6 _ "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity ... (UUT)
7 _ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
10 _ theory of MMB's transition
14 _ "I Hope You're Happy, California"
15 _ Student Dysphoria; Or, Comparing This to a Previous Life's War
17 _ The Feeling Is Mutual
18 _ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
19 _ Walker correspondence
20 _ 30 Years of the Blank Slate (Cosmides-Tooby/Pinker/Murray)
21 _ Reply to Thirty-Three on "religion" terminology
22 _ I, Too, Dislike It (Captions): sexuality stays with the body— http://theinsomniactg.blogspot.com/2019/07/knocked-out-of-my-body.html long term job interview: http://tgswappingcaps.blogspot.com/2020/05/join-fun-explicit.html?zx=cfb49b0a1e868cdc
23 _ Travis's Trilemma: Creepy, Crazy, or Protected-Class (working title)
24 _ Reply to Ozymandias on Lesbians and on Single-Sex Spaces
25 _ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
26 _ Answers on Great Divides: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/08/questions-for-great-divides.html
27 _ Film Review: Your Name
28 _ World of Masks https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1228093035042541569
29 _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
32 _ Algorithmic Intent: A Hansonian Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle (LW)
34 _ Comment on "Endogenous Epistemic Factionalization"
35 _ Signals, Deception, and the Precession of Simulacra
37 _ Comment on Wireheading /r/rational
38 _ Contra Scott Alexander on Mental Illness; Or, Oh God, Please Don't (aAL/LW)
39 _ Selective Reporting and Clustering
40 _ Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization—marginally neglected truths are more
42 _ How they Pin It Down: Equal Environments Assumption Edition https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cXzTpSiCrNGzeoRAz/conjunction-controversy-or-how-they-nail-it-down
43 _ Social Construction is an Embedded Agency Problem
45 it's important to have language for psychology because you can't point to pictures
47 Training Data—"get used" to the new definitions, in time
50 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
52 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
54 Vocabulary as Capital Investment
56 _ Challenges of Mounting an Ideological Crusade
58 B.F. being smart-but-dense
60 how taxonomy/typology emerges from Bayesian networks
62 _ On Being Stereotyped Badly (working title)
66 Memetics vs. Discourse
69 The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
71 The Wisdom of Nature (I like the idea of transhumanism, but in practice, biology is just too complicated) https://nickbostrom.com/evolution.pdf
74 _ Product Review: FaceApp
76 _ The Strategy of "Apartment Patty" — the outrage strategy only works if you have a coalition to back you up
78 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/
80 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."
82 address accusation that I conflate "passing" and biosex
86 Positioning (don't want to prematurely alienate people you're trying to rescue)
88 conservatives complain about low-time preference ppl having too many kids—but from a evolutionary perspective, they're more evolutionarily fit
90 A Science Fiction Story Idea I'm Not Skilled Enough to Write
92 Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous
94 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalmatophilia didn't make it into Lawrence's erotic target location paper, did it?
98 Anne Lawrence on AGP Teen Transition
99 Anne Lawrence on Unapologetic Autogynephilic Transsexualism
101 Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization
105 explain my blunder in https://twitter.com/jessi_cata/status/1188567229987577856
107 reply to https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/the-mathematical-consequences-of-a-toy-model-of-gender-transition/
109 testimony on trans girl periods: http://www.onwednesdays.net/trans-girl-periods/
114 Reading Comprehension Is Rape Culture
116 Reply to David R. MacIver on Gendering
118 Trying to Be Explicit
120 Instrumental Categories, and War
122 (lit-search strategy: go through the del Guidice "Multivariate Misgivings" article and its citations; the Archer paper also mentioned this)
124 Commentary on "Blegg Mode"
126 Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition)
128 (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode)
130 karaoke, celebrity, cognitive load; I don't want people to do that for me
132 Option<String>?! https://web.archive.org/web/20160731010249/https://qntm.org/gay
135 _ "Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
136 _ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
139 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words : well, that explains the TWAW mantra
141 The Parable of the Good Witch
143 First-Offender Models and the Unilateralist's Blessing
144 The Parable of the Faithful Man and the Cowardly Priest
146 Game Theory of "Apartment Patty"
148 Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
149 (in response to Kosoy's objection)
151 Servants of the Egregore (write-up of egregore theory as told by "Wilhelm")
153 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).
155 Research Question: Complicity
158 Where to Segment a Conversation When There's Stuff You Won't Touch, Without Violating the Virtue of Evenness
159 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)
161 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)
163 In the Presence of Mimickry, Extension and Intension Simplicity Trade-Off
165 Objectivity as a Rhetorical Strategy: probability, words, morality
166 Focus on the Simple Case (accurate maps can have bad effects, but that's a weird second-order analysis)
167 Self-Identity as Focal Point; Or, Schelf-Identity
170 A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words
174 in a world where we _actually had_ sex change technology, self-identity doctrine _wouldn't even occur to anyone_
176 Operationalization of Bad Faith: if people make reasoning errors that they wouldn't make with another topic having the same underlying structure
180 The Charity Convergence Trap
188 a big essay about Batesian mimickry
191 _ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More
193 _ "I Will Fight [...]": LGBT Patriotism and the Moral Fine-Tuning Objection
200 _ The View From Nowhere
204 _ 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/ )
205 _ Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History ...
207 Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
211 ✓ Interlude XVII (not all men)
213 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"
215 Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ...
218 _ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition: Beyond Maximum-Entropy Psychology
219 Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean
220 Q The Gender Czar's Compromise
224 Q Book Review: Nevada
225 Product Review: Oculus Go
227 All You Had to Say https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8xa97t/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_july_09_2018/e228vyj/
233 Q Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman
234 _ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
235 Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model
236 Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See
238 Q The Hand I Was Dealt
239 "diagonalize" http://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/ by running the research paper it was based on through it
240 Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals
241 Threnody for the Transhumanism of My Youth
242 of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point
243 People Really Don't Know Why They Do Things
244 Q I Want to See You Be Brave
245 Passing Is Legitimacy, Legitimacy Is Passing
246 All Men Benefit From Patriarchy
247 (the story about my name)
248 Review of Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic
249 on the poor literary quality of TG captions
250 "Another Me I Haven't Met" (SacAnime cosplay review)
251 go back to east bay tg club night?
252 Product Review: Glamour Boutique's Vee-String Bladder
253 Q This Is Worth a Fight
254 "Trans Women Are Women" is a Positive-Affect Instance of the Noncentral Fallacy
258 story of Gina and Vern selected for GNC
259 story about women engineers and male businesspeople
260 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
261 fix fic for that one episode of _The Orville_