1 Main path (important posts)—
4 _ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems
5 _ Unnatural Categories Are Optimized for Deception (LW)
7 Ancillary documents for milestone—
8 _ Motivation and Political Context for My Philosophy of Language Agenda
12 _ Irreversible Damage review
13 _ Jessica/wiz AGP defense
14 _ Elision _vs_. Choice (working title)
15 _ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
16 _ Trans Kids on the Margin (working title) prior: https://sillyolme.wordpress.com/2019/07/19/how-many-trans-folk-are-there-really/ https://sillyolme.wordpress.com/2017/04/16/getting-lost-in-the-crowd/
17 _ I Am Very Bad at Keeping Secrets and Am Therefore Very Reluctant to Offer Confidentiality Promises
22 _ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
24 _ A Previous Life's War
26 _ The Feeling Is Mutual
27 _ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
28 _ reply to https://azdoine.tumblr.com/post/173995599942/a-reply-to-unremediatedgenderspace-on-reply-to http://archive.is/JSSNi
30 _ Eugenics Is Actually Good, You Worthless Cowards
31 _ The One Where I Try to Be A Little More Explicit About What 'Autogynephilia' Actually Entails
32 _ No One Actually Wants to Change "Gender"
33 _ Ideology Is the General Case (working title)
34 _ Boundary Violations and Territory
35 _ three views on partisanship: "Hierarchy and Wings" "Bioleninism" "Democracy Cis and Trans"
37 _ Gay + Trans = Straight
40 _ Walker correspondence
41 _ 30 Years of the Blank Slate (Cosmides-Tooby/Pinker/Murray)
42 _ "I Hope You're Happy, California"
43 _ Travis's Trilemma: Creepy, Crazy, or Protected-Class (working title)
44 _ Reply to Ozymandias on Lesbians and on Single-Sex Spaces
45 _ Answers on Great Divides: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/08/questions-for-great-divides.html
46 _ Film Review: Your Name
47 _ World of Masks https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1228093035042541569
48 _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
49 _ "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity ... (UUT)
50 _ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
51 _ glomerular filtration rate https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/gq50mo/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_may_25_2020/frvrhwg/
53 "You're conflating sex and gender"—the problem is, Does anyone actually want to change "gender"?—they're bundled for a reason
57 _ COVID life-years (rather than deaths)
58 _ Signals, Deception, and the Precession of Simulacra (LW)
59 _ Contra Scott Alexander on Mental Illness; Or, Oh God, Please Don't (aAL/LW)
60 _ Comment on Wireheading /r/rational
61 _ Second Derivative (Paul Christiano on growth timelines)
62 _ Selective Reporting and Clustering
63 _ Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization—marginally neglected truths are more
64 _ Explicit Disjunction vs. Contradictory Arguments from a Bottom Line
65 _ How they Pin It Down: Equal Environments Assumption Edition https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cXzTpSiCrNGzeoRAz/conjunction-controversy-or-how-they-nail-it-down
66 _ Social Construction is an Embedded Agency Problem
68 it's important to have language for psychology because you can't point to pictures
70 Training Data—"get used" to the new definitions, in time
72 "You can follow people you disagree with!" makes sense if you think of
76 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
78 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
80 Vocabulary as Capital Investment
82 _ Challenges of Mounting an Ideological Crusade
84 B.F. being smart-but-dense
86 how taxonomy/typology emerges from Bayesian networks
88 _ On Being Stereotyped Badly (working title)
92 Memetics vs. Discourse
95 The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
97 The Wisdom of Nature (I like the idea of transhumanism, but in practice, biology is just too complicated) https://nickbostrom.com/evolution.pdf
100 _ Product Review: FaceApp
102 _ 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
104 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/
106 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."
108 address accusation that I conflate "passing" and biosex
112 Positioning (don't want to prematurely alienate people you're trying to rescue)
114 conservatives complain about low-time preference ppl having too many kids—but from a evolutionary perspective, they're more evolutionarily fit
116 A Science Fiction Story Idea I'm Not Skilled Enough to Write
118 Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous
120 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalmatophilia didn't make it into Lawrence's erotic target location paper, did it?
124 Anne Lawrence on AGP Teen Transition
125 Anne Lawrence on Unapologetic Autogynephilic Transsexualism
127 Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization
131 explain my blunder in https://twitter.com/jessi_cata/status/1188567229987577856
133 reply to https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/the-mathematical-consequences-of-a-toy-model-of-gender-transition/
135 testimony on trans girl periods: http://www.onwednesdays.net/trans-girl-periods/
140 Reading Comprehension Is Rape Culture
142 Reply to David R. MacIver on Gendering
144 Trying to Be Explicit
146 Instrumental Categories, and War
148 (lit-search strategy: go through the del Guidice "Multivariate Misgivings" article and its citations; the Archer paper also mentioned this)
150 Commentary on "Blegg Mode"
152 Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition)
154 (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode)
156 karaoke, celebrity, cognitive load; I don't want people to do that for me
158 Option<String>?! https://web.archive.org/web/20160731010249/https://qntm.org/gay
161 _ "Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
162 _ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
165 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words : well, that explains the TWAW mantra
167 The Parable of the Good Witch
169 First-Offender Models and the Unilateralist's Blessing
170 The Parable of the Faithful Man and the Cowardly Priest
172 Game Theory of "Apartment Patty"
174 Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
175 (in response to Kosoy's objection)
177 Servants of the Egregore (write-up of egregore theory as told by "Wilhelm")
179 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).
181 Research Question: Complicity
184 Where to Segment a Conversation When There's Stuff You Won't Touch, Without Violating the Virtue of Evenness
185 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)
187 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)
189 In the Presence of Mimickry, Extension and Intension Simplicity Trade-Off
191 Objectivity as a Rhetorical Strategy: probability, words, morality
192 Focus on the Simple Case (accurate maps can have bad effects, but that's a weird second-order analysis)
193 Self-Identity as Focal Point; Or, Schelf-Identity
196 A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words
200 in a world where we _actually had_ sex change technology, self-identity doctrine _wouldn't even occur to anyone_
202 Operationalization of Bad Faith: if people make reasoning errors that they wouldn't make with another topic having the same underlying structure
206 The Charity Convergence Trap
214 a big essay about Batesian mimickry
217 _ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More
219 _ "I Will Fight [...]": LGBT Patriotism and the Moral Fine-Tuning Objection
226 _ The View From Nowhere
230 _ 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/ )
231 _ Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History ...
233 Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
237 ✓ Interlude XVII (not all men)
239 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"
241 Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ...
244 _ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition: Beyond Maximum-Entropy Psychology
245 Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean
246 Q The Gender Czar's Compromise
250 Q Book Review: Nevada
251 Product Review: Oculus Go
253 All You Had to Say https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8xa97t/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_july_09_2018/e228vyj/
259 Q Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman
260 _ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
261 Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model
262 Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See
264 Q The Hand I Was Dealt
265 "diagonalize" http://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/ by running the research paper it was based on through it
266 Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals
267 Threnody for the Transhumanism of My Youth
268 of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point
269 People Really Don't Know Why They Do Things
270 Q I Want to See You Be Brave
271 Passing Is Legitimacy, Legitimacy Is Passing
272 All Men Benefit From Patriarchy
273 (the story about my name)
274 Review of Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic
275 on the poor literary quality of TG captions
276 "Another Me I Haven't Met" (SacAnime cosplay review)
277 go back to east bay tg club night?
278 Product Review: Glamour Boutique's Vee-String Bladder
279 Q This Is Worth a Fight
280 "Trans Women Are Women" is a Positive-Affect Instance of the Noncentral Fallacy
284 story of Gina and Vern selected for GNC
285 story about women engineers and male businesspeople
286 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
287 fix fic for that one episode of _The Orville_