1 On the Argumentative Form "Super-proton Things Tend to Come in Varieties"
2 ✓ Reply to Ozymandias on Fully Consensual Gender
3 "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning
7 Game Theory of Stigmatization (need better title)
9 [TERFs complain](https://archive.is/N1kM5) that AGP males body-modding to become facsimiles of women is appropriation. They're obviously correct, but the claim doesn't seem strong enough to override the right to bodily autonomy. The law, in its majestic equality, comes up with a compromise solution: compulsory licensing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_license)! A small tax is administered on transition services (HRT, FFS, &c.), the proceeds of which are distributed equally amongst all natal females
11 Schelling on "legislative control of the clock"—mediators can create focal points—
13 > The principle is beautifully illustrated by the daylight-saving-time controversy; a majority that want to do everything an hour earlier just cannot organize to do it unless it gets legislative control of the clock. And when it does, a well-organized minority that opposed the change is usually quite unable to offset the change in clock time by any organized effort to change the nominal hour at which it gets up, eats, and does business.
15 > —Thomas Schelling, _Strategy of Conflict_, Ch. 5, "Enforcement, Communication, and Strategic Moves"
17 Book Review: Human Diversity
18 Book Review: The Origins of Inequality
20 explain my blunder in https://twitter.com/jessi_cata/status/1188567229987577856
22 reply to https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/the-mathematical-consequences-of-a-toy-model-of-gender-transition/
24 testimony on trans girl periods: http://www.onwednesdays.net/trans-girl-periods/
26 Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization
28 Anne Lawrence on AGP Teen Transition
30 Unapologetic Autogynephilic Transsexualism
34 Reading Comprehension Is Rape Culture
36 Reply to David R. MacIver on Gendering
40 Instrumental Categories, and War
41 A Science Fiction Story Idea I'm Not Skilled Enough to Write
43 (lit-search strategy: go through the del Guidice "Multivariate Misgivings" article and its citations; the Archer paper also mentioned this)
45 Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
47 Commentary on "Blegg Mode"
49 Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition)
51 (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode)
53 karaoke, celebrity, cognitive load; I don't want people to do that for me
55 Option<String>?! https://web.archive.org/web/20160731010249/https://qntm.org/gay
58 _ "Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
59 _ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
62 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words : well, that explains the TWAW mantra
64 The Parable of the Good Witch
66 First-Offender Models and the Unilateralist's Blessing
67 The Parable of the Faithful Man and the Cowardly Priest
69 Game Theory of "Apartment Patty"
71 Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
72 (in response to Kosoy's objection)
74 _ Tue: Social Strategy Notes, July 2019
76 Servants of the Egregore (write-up of egregore theory as told by "Wilhelm")
78 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).
80 Research Question: Complicity
81 The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
84 Where to Segment a Conversation When There's Stuff You Won't Touch, Without Violating the Virtue of Evenness
85 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)
88 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)
90 In the Presence of Mimickry, Extension and Intension Simplicity Trade-Off
92 Objectivity as a Rhetorical Strategy: probability, words, morality
93 Focus on the Simple Case (accurate maps can have bad effects, but that's a weird second-order analysis)
94 Self-Identity as Focal Point; Or, Schelf-Identity
96 Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous
98 A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words
102 in a world where we _actually had_ sex change technology, self-identity doctrine _wouldn't even occur to anyone_
104 Operationalization of Bad Faith: if people make reasoning errors that they wouldn't make with another topic having the same underlying structure
108 The Charity Convergence Trap
116 a big essay about Batesian mimickry
118 _ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
119 _ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More
120 _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
121 _ "I Will Fight [...]": LGBT Patriotism and the Moral Fine-Tuning Objection
126 _ "I Want to Be the One"
128 _ The View From Nowhere
132 _ 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/ )
133 _ Friendship Practices of ...
134 _ Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History ...
136 Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
140 ✓ Interlude XVII (not all men)
142 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"
144 Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ...
147 _ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition: Beyond Maximum-Entropy Psychology
148 Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean
149 Q The Gender Czar's Compromise
152 Product Review: FaceApp
154 Q Book Review: Nevada
155 Product Review: Oculus Go
157 All You Had to Say https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8xa97t/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_july_09_2018/e228vyj/
163 Q Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman
164 _ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
165 Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model
166 Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See
168 Q The Hand I Was Dealt
169 "diagonalize" http://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/ by running the research paper it was based on through it
170 Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals
171 Threnody for the Transhumanism of My Youth
172 of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point
173 People Really Don't Know Why They Do Things
174 Q I Want to See You Be Brave
175 Passing Is Legitimacy, Legitimacy Is Passing
176 All Men Benefit From Patriarchy
177 (the story about my name)
178 Review of Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic
179 on the poor literary quality of TG captions
180 "Another Me I Haven't Met" (SacAnime cosplay review)
181 go back to east bay tg club night?
182 Product Review: Glamour Boutique's Vee-String Bladder
183 Q This Is Worth a Fight
184 "Trans Women Are Women" is a Positive-Affect Instance of the Noncentral Fallacy
188 story of Gina and Vern selected for GNC
189 story about women engineers and male businesspeople
190 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
191 fix fic for that one episode of _The Orville_