1 Main path (important posts)—
3 _ theory of MMB's transition
5 _ Algorithmic Intent: A Hansonian Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle (LW)
6 _ Jessica/wiz AGP defense
7 _ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems
8 _ Intrumental Categories, Wireheading, and War (LW)
9 _ Elision _vs_. Choice (working title)
10 _ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
16 _ A Previous Life's War
19 _ The Feeling Is Mutual
20 _ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
21 _ Ideology Is the General Case (working title)
24 _ Gay + Trans = Straight
27 _ Walker correspondence
28 _ 30 Years of the Blank Slate (Cosmides-Tooby/Pinker/Murray)
29 _ "I Hope You're Happy, California"
30 _ Travis's Trilemma: Creepy, Crazy, or Protected-Class (working title)
31 _ Reply to Ozymandias on Lesbians and on Single-Sex Spaces
32 _ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
33 _ Answers on Great Divides: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/08/questions-for-great-divides.html
34 _ Film Review: Your Name
35 _ World of Masks https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1228093035042541569
36 _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
37 _ "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity ... (UUT)
38 _ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
39 _ glomerular filtration rate https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/gq50mo/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_may_25_2020/frvrhwg/
43 _ COVID life-years (rather than deaths)
44 _ Signals, Deception, and the Precession of Simulacra (LW)
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
58 "You can follow people you disagree with!" makes sense if you think of
62 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
64 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
66 Vocabulary as Capital Investment
68 _ Challenges of Mounting an Ideological Crusade
70 B.F. being smart-but-dense
72 how taxonomy/typology emerges from Bayesian networks
74 _ On Being Stereotyped Badly (working title)
78 Memetics vs. Discourse
81 The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
83 The Wisdom of Nature (I like the idea of transhumanism, but in practice, biology is just too complicated) https://nickbostrom.com/evolution.pdf
86 _ Product Review: FaceApp
88 _ 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/
90 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/
92 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."
94 address accusation that I conflate "passing" and biosex
98 Positioning (don't want to prematurely alienate people you're trying to rescue)
100 conservatives complain about low-time preference ppl having too many kids—but from a evolutionary perspective, they're more evolutionarily fit
102 A Science Fiction Story Idea I'm Not Skilled Enough to Write
104 Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous
106 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalmatophilia didn't make it into Lawrence's erotic target location paper, did it?
110 Anne Lawrence on AGP Teen Transition
111 Anne Lawrence on Unapologetic Autogynephilic Transsexualism
113 Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization
117 explain my blunder in https://twitter.com/jessi_cata/status/1188567229987577856
119 reply to https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/the-mathematical-consequences-of-a-toy-model-of-gender-transition/
121 testimony on trans girl periods: http://www.onwednesdays.net/trans-girl-periods/
126 Reading Comprehension Is Rape Culture
128 Reply to David R. MacIver on Gendering
130 Trying to Be Explicit
132 Instrumental Categories, and War
134 (lit-search strategy: go through the del Guidice "Multivariate Misgivings" article and its citations; the Archer paper also mentioned this)
136 Commentary on "Blegg Mode"
138 Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition)
140 (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode)
142 karaoke, celebrity, cognitive load; I don't want people to do that for me
144 Option<String>?! https://web.archive.org/web/20160731010249/https://qntm.org/gay
147 _ "Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
148 _ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
151 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words : well, that explains the TWAW mantra
153 The Parable of the Good Witch
155 First-Offender Models and the Unilateralist's Blessing
156 The Parable of the Faithful Man and the Cowardly Priest
158 Game Theory of "Apartment Patty"
160 Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
161 (in response to Kosoy's objection)
163 Servants of the Egregore (write-up of egregore theory as told by "Wilhelm")
165 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).
167 Research Question: Complicity
170 Where to Segment a Conversation When There's Stuff You Won't Touch, Without Violating the Virtue of Evenness
171 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)
173 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)
175 In the Presence of Mimickry, Extension and Intension Simplicity Trade-Off
177 Objectivity as a Rhetorical Strategy: probability, words, morality
178 Focus on the Simple Case (accurate maps can have bad effects, but that's a weird second-order analysis)
179 Self-Identity as Focal Point; Or, Schelf-Identity
182 A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words
186 in a world where we _actually had_ sex change technology, self-identity doctrine _wouldn't even occur to anyone_
188 Operationalization of Bad Faith: if people make reasoning errors that they wouldn't make with another topic having the same underlying structure
192 The Charity Convergence Trap
200 a big essay about Batesian mimickry
203 _ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More
205 _ "I Will Fight [...]": LGBT Patriotism and the Moral Fine-Tuning Objection
212 _ The View From Nowhere
216 _ 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/ )
217 _ Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History ...
219 Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
223 ✓ Interlude XVII (not all men)
225 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"
227 Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ...
230 _ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition: Beyond Maximum-Entropy Psychology
231 Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean
232 Q The Gender Czar's Compromise
236 Q Book Review: Nevada
237 Product Review: Oculus Go
239 All You Had to Say https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8xa97t/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_july_09_2018/e228vyj/
245 Q Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman
246 _ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
247 Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model
248 Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See
250 Q The Hand I Was Dealt
251 "diagonalize" http://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/ by running the research paper it was based on through it
252 Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals
253 Threnody for the Transhumanism of My Youth
254 of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point
255 People Really Don't Know Why They Do Things
256 Q I Want to See You Be Brave
257 Passing Is Legitimacy, Legitimacy Is Passing
258 All Men Benefit From Patriarchy
259 (the story about my name)
260 Review of Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic
261 on the poor literary quality of TG captions
262 "Another Me I Haven't Met" (SacAnime cosplay review)
263 go back to east bay tg club night?
264 Product Review: Glamour Boutique's Vee-String Bladder
265 Q This Is Worth a Fight
266 "Trans Women Are Women" is a Positive-Affect Instance of the Noncentral Fallacy
270 story of Gina and Vern selected for GNC
271 story about women engineers and male businesspeople
272 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
273 fix fic for that one episode of _The Orville_