1 Main path (important posts)—
3 _ Algorithmic Intent: A Hansonian Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle (LW)
4 _ Intrumental Categories, Wireheading, and War (LW)
5 _ theory of MMB's transition
7 _ Irreversible Damage review
8 _ Jessica/wiz AGP defense
9 _ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems
10 _ Elision _vs_. Choice (working title)
11 _ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
16 _ The One Where I Try to Be A Little More Explicit About What 'Autogynephilia' Actually Entails
18 _ A Previous Life's War
20 _ No One Actually Wants to Change "Gender"
21 _ The Feeling Is Mutual
22 _ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
23 _ Ideology Is the General Case (working title)
25 _ three views on partisanship: "Hierarchy and Wings" "Bioleninism" "Democracy Cis and Trans"
27 _ Gay + Trans = Straight
30 _ Walker correspondence
31 _ 30 Years of the Blank Slate (Cosmides-Tooby/Pinker/Murray)
32 _ "I Hope You're Happy, California"
33 _ Travis's Trilemma: Creepy, Crazy, or Protected-Class (working title)
34 _ Reply to Ozymandias on Lesbians and on Single-Sex Spaces
35 _ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
36 _ Answers on Great Divides: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/08/questions-for-great-divides.html
37 _ Film Review: Your Name
38 _ World of Masks https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1228093035042541569
39 _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
40 _ "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity ... (UUT)
41 _ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
42 _ glomerular filtration rate https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/gq50mo/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_may_25_2020/frvrhwg/
44 "You're conflating sex and gender"—the problem is, Does anyone actually want to change "gender"?—they're bundled for a reason
48 _ COVID life-years (rather than deaths)
49 _ Signals, Deception, and the Precession of Simulacra (LW)
50 _ Contra Scott Alexander on Mental Illness; Or, Oh God, Please Don't (aAL/LW)
51 _ Comment on Wireheading /r/rational
52 _ Second Derivative (Paul Christiano on growth timelines)
53 _ Selective Reporting and Clustering
54 _ Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization—marginally neglected truths are more
55 _ Explicit Disjunction vs. Contradictory Arguments from a Bottom Line
56 _ How they Pin It Down: Equal Environments Assumption Edition https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cXzTpSiCrNGzeoRAz/conjunction-controversy-or-how-they-nail-it-down
57 _ Social Construction is an Embedded Agency Problem
59 it's important to have language for psychology because you can't point to pictures
61 Training Data—"get used" to the new definitions, in time
63 "You can follow people you disagree with!" makes sense if you think of
67 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
69 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
71 Vocabulary as Capital Investment
73 _ Challenges of Mounting an Ideological Crusade
75 B.F. being smart-but-dense
77 how taxonomy/typology emerges from Bayesian networks
79 _ On Being Stereotyped Badly (working title)
83 Memetics vs. Discourse
86 The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
88 The Wisdom of Nature (I like the idea of transhumanism, but in practice, biology is just too complicated) https://nickbostrom.com/evolution.pdf
91 _ Product Review: FaceApp
93 _ 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/ Another example: https://twitter.com/jaimetoons/status/1271300265170186240
95 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/
97 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."
99 address accusation that I conflate "passing" and biosex
103 Positioning (don't want to prematurely alienate people you're trying to rescue)
105 conservatives complain about low-time preference ppl having too many kids—but from a evolutionary perspective, they're more evolutionarily fit
107 A Science Fiction Story Idea I'm Not Skilled Enough to Write
109 Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous
111 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalmatophilia didn't make it into Lawrence's erotic target location paper, did it?
115 Anne Lawrence on AGP Teen Transition
116 Anne Lawrence on Unapologetic Autogynephilic Transsexualism
118 Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization
122 explain my blunder in https://twitter.com/jessi_cata/status/1188567229987577856
124 reply to https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/the-mathematical-consequences-of-a-toy-model-of-gender-transition/
126 testimony on trans girl periods: http://www.onwednesdays.net/trans-girl-periods/
131 Reading Comprehension Is Rape Culture
133 Reply to David R. MacIver on Gendering
135 Trying to Be Explicit
137 Instrumental Categories, and War
139 (lit-search strategy: go through the del Guidice "Multivariate Misgivings" article and its citations; the Archer paper also mentioned this)
141 Commentary on "Blegg Mode"
143 Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition)
145 (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode)
147 karaoke, celebrity, cognitive load; I don't want people to do that for me
149 Option<String>?! https://web.archive.org/web/20160731010249/https://qntm.org/gay
152 _ "Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
153 _ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
156 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words : well, that explains the TWAW mantra
158 The Parable of the Good Witch
160 First-Offender Models and the Unilateralist's Blessing
161 The Parable of the Faithful Man and the Cowardly Priest
163 Game Theory of "Apartment Patty"
165 Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
166 (in response to Kosoy's objection)
168 Servants of the Egregore (write-up of egregore theory as told by "Wilhelm")
170 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).
172 Research Question: Complicity
175 Where to Segment a Conversation When There's Stuff You Won't Touch, Without Violating the Virtue of Evenness
176 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)
178 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)
180 In the Presence of Mimickry, Extension and Intension Simplicity Trade-Off
182 Objectivity as a Rhetorical Strategy: probability, words, morality
183 Focus on the Simple Case (accurate maps can have bad effects, but that's a weird second-order analysis)
184 Self-Identity as Focal Point; Or, Schelf-Identity
187 A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words
191 in a world where we _actually had_ sex change technology, self-identity doctrine _wouldn't even occur to anyone_
193 Operationalization of Bad Faith: if people make reasoning errors that they wouldn't make with another topic having the same underlying structure
197 The Charity Convergence Trap
205 a big essay about Batesian mimickry
208 _ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More
210 _ "I Will Fight [...]": LGBT Patriotism and the Moral Fine-Tuning Objection
217 _ The View From Nowhere
221 _ 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/ )
222 _ Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History ...
224 Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
228 ✓ Interlude XVII (not all men)
230 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"
232 Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ...
235 _ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition: Beyond Maximum-Entropy Psychology
236 Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean
237 Q The Gender Czar's Compromise
241 Q Book Review: Nevada
242 Product Review: Oculus Go
244 All You Had to Say https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8xa97t/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_july_09_2018/e228vyj/
250 Q Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman
251 _ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
252 Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model
253 Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See
255 Q The Hand I Was Dealt
256 "diagonalize" http://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/ by running the research paper it was based on through it
257 Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals
258 Threnody for the Transhumanism of My Youth
259 of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point
260 People Really Don't Know Why They Do Things
261 Q I Want to See You Be Brave
262 Passing Is Legitimacy, Legitimacy Is Passing
263 All Men Benefit From Patriarchy
264 (the story about my name)
265 Review of Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic
266 on the poor literary quality of TG captions
267 "Another Me I Haven't Met" (SacAnime cosplay review)
268 go back to east bay tg club night?
269 Product Review: Glamour Boutique's Vee-String Bladder
270 Q This Is Worth a Fight
271 "Trans Women Are Women" is a Positive-Affect Instance of the Noncentral Fallacy
275 story of Gina and Vern selected for GNC
276 story about women engineers and male businesspeople
277 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
278 fix fic for that one episode of _The Orville_