1 Self-Identity Is a Schelling Point
3 On the Argumentative Form "Super-proton Things Tend to Come in Varieties"
4 Reply to Ozymandias on Fully Consensual Gender
5 "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning
11 Terminology Gap: "Biological vs. Natal" (solution: "Developmental")
13 Instrumental Categories, and War
14 A Science Fiction Story Idea I'm Not Skilled Enough to Write
16 (lit-search strategy: go through the del Guidice "Multivariate Misgivings" article and its citations; the Archer paper also mentioned this)
18 Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
20 Link: "The Univariate Fallacy"
22 Commentary on "Blegg Mode"
24 Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition)
26 (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode)
28 karaoke, celebrity, cognitive load; I don't want people to do that for me
30 Option<String>?! https://web.archive.org/web/20160731010249/https://qntm.org/gay
33 _ "Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
34 _ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
39 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words : well, that explains the TWAW mantra
41 The Parable of the Good Witch
43 First-Offender Models and the Unilateralist's Blessing
44 The Parable of the Faithful Man and the Cowardly Priest
46 Game Theory of "Apartment Patty"
48 Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
49 (in response to Kosoy's objection)
51 _ Tue: Social Strategy Notes, July 2019
53 Servants of the Egregore (write-up of egregore theory as told by "Wilhelm")
55 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).
57 Research Question: Complicity
58 The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
61 Where to Segment a Conversation When There's Stuff You Won't Touch, Without Violating the Virtue of Evenness
62 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)
65 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)
67 In the Presence of Mimickry, Extension and Intension Simplicity Trade-Off
69 Objectivity as a Rhetorical Strategy: probability, words, morality
70 Focus on the Simple Case (accurate maps can have bad effects, but that's a weird second-order analysis)
71 Self-Identity as Focal Point; Or, Schelf-Identity
73 Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous
75 A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words
79 in a world where we _actually had_ sex change technology, self-identity doctrine _wouldn't even occur to anyone_
81 Operationalization of Bad Faith: if people make reasoning errors that they wouldn't make with another topic having the same underlying structure
85 The Charity Convergence Trap
93 a big essay about Batesian mimickry
95 _ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
96 _ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More
97 _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
98 _ "I Will Fight [...]": LGBT Patriotism and the Moral Fine-Tuning Objection
100 _ Interlude XVI (egg promises) (working title)
105 _ "I Want to Be the One"
107 _ The View From Nowhere
111 _ 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/ )
112 _ Friendship Practices of ...
113 _ Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History ...
115 Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
119 ✓ Interlude XVII (not all men)
121 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"
123 Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ...
126 _ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition: Beyond Maximum-Entropy Psychology
127 Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean
128 Q The Gender Czar's Compromise
131 Product Review: FaceApp
133 Q Book Review: Nevada
134 Product Review: Oculus Go
136 All You Had to Say https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8xa97t/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_july_09_2018/e228vyj/
142 Q Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman
143 _ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
144 Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model
145 Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See
147 Q The Hand I Was Dealt
148 "diagonalize" http://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/ by running the research paper it was based on through it
149 Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals
150 Threnody for the Transhumanism of My Youth
151 of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point
152 People Really Don't Know Why They Do Things
153 Q I Want to See You Be Brave
154 Passing Is Legitimacy, Legitimacy Is Passing
155 All Men Benefit From Patriarchy
156 (the story about my name)
157 Review of Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic
158 on the poor literary quality of TG captions
159 "Another Me I Haven't Met" (SacAnime cosplay review)
160 go back to east bay tg club night?
161 Product Review: Glamour Boutique's Vee-String Bladder
162 Q This Is Worth a Fight
163 "Trans Women Are Women" is a Positive-Affect Instance of the Noncentral Fallacy
167 story of Gina and Vern selected for GNC
168 story about women engineers and male businesspeople
169 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
170 fix fic for that one episode of _The Orville_