1 26 Feb _ Teleology (UUT)
2 28 Feb _ Book Review: Charles Murray's Human Diversity (UUT)
4 _ Sexual Dimorphism, Yudkowsky's Sequences, and Me
5 _ "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity ... (UUT)
6 _ Intrumental Categories, Wireheading, and War (LW)
8 _ Algorithmic Intent: A Hansonian Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle (LW)
9 _ Contra Scott Alexander on Mental Illness; Or, Oh God, Please Don't (aAL/LW)
13 The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
15 The Wisdom of Nature (I like the idea of transhumanism, but in practice, biology is just too complicated) https://nickbostrom.com/evolution.pdf
18 The Strategy of "Apartment Patty"
21 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."
23 address accusation that I conflate "passing" and biosex
27 _ Placeholder, February 2020 (UUT)
31 Positioning (don't want to prematurely alienate people you're trying to rescue)
33 conservatives complain about low-time preference ppl having too many kids—but from a evolutionary perspective, they're more evolutionarily fit
35 creepy, crazy, or protected-class
38 A Science Fiction Story Idea I'm Not Skilled Enough to Write
40 Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous
42 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalmatophilia didn't make it into Lawrence's erotic target location paper, did it?
46 Anne Lawrence on AGP Teen Transition
47 Anne Lawrence on Unapologetic Autogynephilic Transsexualism
49 Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization
53 explain my blunder in https://twitter.com/jessi_cata/status/1188567229987577856
55 reply to https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/the-mathematical-consequences-of-a-toy-model-of-gender-transition/
57 testimony on trans girl periods: http://www.onwednesdays.net/trans-girl-periods/
62 Reading Comprehension Is Rape Culture
64 Reply to David R. MacIver on Gendering
68 Instrumental Categories, and War
70 (lit-search strategy: go through the del Guidice "Multivariate Misgivings" article and its citations; the Archer paper also mentioned this)
72 Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
74 Commentary on "Blegg Mode"
76 Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition)
78 (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode)
80 karaoke, celebrity, cognitive load; I don't want people to do that for me
82 Option<String>?! https://web.archive.org/web/20160731010249/https://qntm.org/gay
85 _ "Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
86 _ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
89 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words : well, that explains the TWAW mantra
91 The Parable of the Good Witch
93 First-Offender Models and the Unilateralist's Blessing
94 The Parable of the Faithful Man and the Cowardly Priest
96 Game Theory of "Apartment Patty"
98 Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
99 (in response to Kosoy's objection)
101 Servants of the Egregore (write-up of egregore theory as told by "Wilhelm")
103 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).
105 Research Question: Complicity
108 Where to Segment a Conversation When There's Stuff You Won't Touch, Without Violating the Virtue of Evenness
109 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)
111 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)
113 In the Presence of Mimickry, Extension and Intension Simplicity Trade-Off
115 Objectivity as a Rhetorical Strategy: probability, words, morality
116 Focus on the Simple Case (accurate maps can have bad effects, but that's a weird second-order analysis)
117 Self-Identity as Focal Point; Or, Schelf-Identity
120 A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words
124 in a world where we _actually had_ sex change technology, self-identity doctrine _wouldn't even occur to anyone_
126 Operationalization of Bad Faith: if people make reasoning errors that they wouldn't make with another topic having the same underlying structure
130 The Charity Convergence Trap
138 a big essay about Batesian mimickry
140 _ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
141 _ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More
142 _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
143 _ "I Will Fight [...]": LGBT Patriotism and the Moral Fine-Tuning Objection
150 _ The View From Nowhere
154 _ 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/ )
155 _ Friendship Practices of ...
156 _ Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History ...
158 Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
162 ✓ Interlude XVII (not all men)
164 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"
166 Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ...
169 _ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition: Beyond Maximum-Entropy Psychology
170 Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean
171 Q The Gender Czar's Compromise
174 Product Review: FaceApp
176 Q Book Review: Nevada
177 Product Review: Oculus Go
179 All You Had to Say https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8xa97t/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_july_09_2018/e228vyj/
185 Q Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman
186 _ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
187 Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model
188 Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See
190 Q The Hand I Was Dealt
191 "diagonalize" http://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/ by running the research paper it was based on through it
192 Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals
193 Threnody for the Transhumanism of My Youth
194 of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point
195 People Really Don't Know Why They Do Things
196 Q I Want to See You Be Brave
197 Passing Is Legitimacy, Legitimacy Is Passing
198 All Men Benefit From Patriarchy
199 (the story about my name)
200 Review of Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic
201 on the poor literary quality of TG captions
202 "Another Me I Haven't Met" (SacAnime cosplay review)
203 go back to east bay tg club night?
204 Product Review: Glamour Boutique's Vee-String Bladder
205 Q This Is Worth a Fight
206 "Trans Women Are Women" is a Positive-Affect Instance of the Noncentral Fallacy
210 story of Gina and Vern selected for GNC
211 story about women engineers and male businesspeople
212 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
213 fix fic for that one episode of _The Orville_