1 _ Book Review: Charles Murray's Human Diversity (UUT)
2 _ "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity ... (UUT)
3 _ Contra Scott Alexander on Mental Illness; Or, Oh God, Please Don't (aAL/LW)
4 _ Algorithmic Intent: A Hansonian Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle (LW)
5 _ Intrumental Categories, Wireheading, and War (LW)
7 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."
9 address accusation that I conflate "passing" and biosex
13 conservatives complain about low-time preference ppl having too many kids—but from a evolutionary perspective, they're more evolutionarily fit
15 creepy, crazy, or protected-class
19 The Wisdom of Nature (I like the idea of transhumanism, but in practice, biology is just too complicated)
21 The Strategy of "Apartment Patty"
23 A Science Fiction Story Idea I'm Not Skilled Enough to Write
25 Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous
27 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalmatophilia didn't make it into Lawrence's erotic target location paper, did it?
31 Anne Lawrence on AGP Teen Transition
32 Anne Lawrence on Unapologetic Autogynephilic Transsexualism
34 Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization
38 explain my blunder in https://twitter.com/jessi_cata/status/1188567229987577856
40 reply to https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/the-mathematical-consequences-of-a-toy-model-of-gender-transition/
42 testimony on trans girl periods: http://www.onwednesdays.net/trans-girl-periods/
47 Reading Comprehension Is Rape Culture
49 Reply to David R. MacIver on Gendering
53 Instrumental Categories, and War
55 (lit-search strategy: go through the del Guidice "Multivariate Misgivings" article and its citations; the Archer paper also mentioned this)
57 Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
59 Commentary on "Blegg Mode"
61 Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition)
63 (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode)
65 karaoke, celebrity, cognitive load; I don't want people to do that for me
67 Option<String>?! https://web.archive.org/web/20160731010249/https://qntm.org/gay
70 _ "Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
71 _ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
74 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words : well, that explains the TWAW mantra
76 The Parable of the Good Witch
78 First-Offender Models and the Unilateralist's Blessing
79 The Parable of the Faithful Man and the Cowardly Priest
81 Game Theory of "Apartment Patty"
83 Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
84 (in response to Kosoy's objection)
86 Servants of the Egregore (write-up of egregore theory as told by "Wilhelm")
88 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).
90 Research Question: Complicity
91 The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
93 Where to Segment a Conversation When There's Stuff You Won't Touch, Without Violating the Virtue of Evenness
94 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)
96 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)
98 In the Presence of Mimickry, Extension and Intension Simplicity Trade-Off
100 Objectivity as a Rhetorical Strategy: probability, words, morality
101 Focus on the Simple Case (accurate maps can have bad effects, but that's a weird second-order analysis)
102 Self-Identity as Focal Point; Or, Schelf-Identity
105 A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words
109 in a world where we _actually had_ sex change technology, self-identity doctrine _wouldn't even occur to anyone_
111 Operationalization of Bad Faith: if people make reasoning errors that they wouldn't make with another topic having the same underlying structure
115 The Charity Convergence Trap
123 a big essay about Batesian mimickry
125 _ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
126 _ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More
127 _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
128 _ "I Will Fight [...]": LGBT Patriotism and the Moral Fine-Tuning Objection
135 _ The View From Nowhere
139 _ 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/ )
140 _ Friendship Practices of ...
141 _ Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History ...
143 Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
147 ✓ Interlude XVII (not all men)
149 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"
151 Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ...
154 _ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition: Beyond Maximum-Entropy Psychology
155 Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean
156 Q The Gender Czar's Compromise
159 Product Review: FaceApp
161 Q Book Review: Nevada
162 Product Review: Oculus Go
164 All You Had to Say https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8xa97t/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_july_09_2018/e228vyj/
170 Q Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman
171 _ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
172 Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model
173 Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See
175 Q The Hand I Was Dealt
176 "diagonalize" http://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/ by running the research paper it was based on through it
177 Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals
178 Threnody for the Transhumanism of My Youth
179 of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point
180 People Really Don't Know Why They Do Things
181 Q I Want to See You Be Brave
182 Passing Is Legitimacy, Legitimacy Is Passing
183 All Men Benefit From Patriarchy
184 (the story about my name)
185 Review of Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic
186 on the poor literary quality of TG captions
187 "Another Me I Haven't Met" (SacAnime cosplay review)
188 go back to east bay tg club night?
189 Product Review: Glamour Boutique's Vee-String Bladder
190 Q This Is Worth a Fight
191 "Trans Women Are Women" is a Positive-Affect Instance of the Noncentral Fallacy
195 story of Gina and Vern selected for GNC
196 story about women engineers and male businesspeople
197 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
198 fix fic for that one episode of _The Orville_