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
17 _ A Previous Life's War
19 _ No One Actually Wants to Change "Gender"
20 _ The Feeling Is Mutual
21 _ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
22 _ Ideology Is the General Case (working title)
24 _ three views on partisanship: "Hierarchy and Wings" "Bioleninism" "Democracy Cis and Trans"
26 _ Gay + Trans = Straight
29 _ Walker correspondence
30 _ 30 Years of the Blank Slate (Cosmides-Tooby/Pinker/Murray)
31 _ "I Hope You're Happy, California"
32 _ Travis's Trilemma: Creepy, Crazy, or Protected-Class (working title)
33 _ Reply to Ozymandias on Lesbians and on Single-Sex Spaces
34 _ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
35 _ Answers on Great Divides: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/08/questions-for-great-divides.html
36 _ Film Review: Your Name
37 _ World of Masks https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1228093035042541569
38 _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
39 _ "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity ... (UUT)
40 _ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
41 _ glomerular filtration rate https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/gq50mo/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_may_25_2020/frvrhwg/
43 "You're conflating sex and gender"—the problem is, Does anyone actually want to change "gender"?—they're bundled for a reason
47 _ COVID life-years (rather than deaths)
48 _ Signals, Deception, and the Precession of Simulacra (LW)
49 _ Contra Scott Alexander on Mental Illness; Or, Oh God, Please Don't (aAL/LW)
50 _ Comment on Wireheading /r/rational
51 _ Second Derivative (Paul Christiano on growth timelines)
52 _ Selective Reporting and Clustering
53 _ Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization—marginally neglected truths are more
54 _ Explicit Disjunction vs. Contradictory Arguments from a Bottom Line
55 _ How they Pin It Down: Equal Environments Assumption Edition https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cXzTpSiCrNGzeoRAz/conjunction-controversy-or-how-they-nail-it-down
56 _ Social Construction is an Embedded Agency Problem
58 it's important to have language for psychology because you can't point to pictures
60 Training Data—"get used" to the new definitions, in time
62 "You can follow people you disagree with!" makes sense if you think of
66 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
68 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
70 Vocabulary as Capital Investment
72 _ Challenges of Mounting an Ideological Crusade
74 B.F. being smart-but-dense
76 how taxonomy/typology emerges from Bayesian networks
78 _ On Being Stereotyped Badly (working title)
82 Memetics vs. Discourse
85 The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
87 The Wisdom of Nature (I like the idea of transhumanism, but in practice, biology is just too complicated) https://nickbostrom.com/evolution.pdf
90 _ Product Review: FaceApp
92 _ 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
94 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/
96 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."
98 address accusation that I conflate "passing" and biosex
102 Positioning (don't want to prematurely alienate people you're trying to rescue)
104 conservatives complain about low-time preference ppl having too many kids—but from a evolutionary perspective, they're more evolutionarily fit
106 A Science Fiction Story Idea I'm Not Skilled Enough to Write
108 Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous
110 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalmatophilia didn't make it into Lawrence's erotic target location paper, did it?
114 Anne Lawrence on AGP Teen Transition
115 Anne Lawrence on Unapologetic Autogynephilic Transsexualism
117 Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization
121 explain my blunder in https://twitter.com/jessi_cata/status/1188567229987577856
123 reply to https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/the-mathematical-consequences-of-a-toy-model-of-gender-transition/
125 testimony on trans girl periods: http://www.onwednesdays.net/trans-girl-periods/
130 Reading Comprehension Is Rape Culture
132 Reply to David R. MacIver on Gendering
134 Trying to Be Explicit
136 Instrumental Categories, and War
138 (lit-search strategy: go through the del Guidice "Multivariate Misgivings" article and its citations; the Archer paper also mentioned this)
140 Commentary on "Blegg Mode"
142 Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition)
144 (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode)
146 karaoke, celebrity, cognitive load; I don't want people to do that for me
148 Option<String>?! https://web.archive.org/web/20160731010249/https://qntm.org/gay
151 _ "Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
152 _ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
155 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words : well, that explains the TWAW mantra
157 The Parable of the Good Witch
159 First-Offender Models and the Unilateralist's Blessing
160 The Parable of the Faithful Man and the Cowardly Priest
162 Game Theory of "Apartment Patty"
164 Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
165 (in response to Kosoy's objection)
167 Servants of the Egregore (write-up of egregore theory as told by "Wilhelm")
169 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).
171 Research Question: Complicity
174 Where to Segment a Conversation When There's Stuff You Won't Touch, Without Violating the Virtue of Evenness
175 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)
177 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)
179 In the Presence of Mimickry, Extension and Intension Simplicity Trade-Off
181 Objectivity as a Rhetorical Strategy: probability, words, morality
182 Focus on the Simple Case (accurate maps can have bad effects, but that's a weird second-order analysis)
183 Self-Identity as Focal Point; Or, Schelf-Identity
186 A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words
190 in a world where we _actually had_ sex change technology, self-identity doctrine _wouldn't even occur to anyone_
192 Operationalization of Bad Faith: if people make reasoning errors that they wouldn't make with another topic having the same underlying structure
196 The Charity Convergence Trap
204 a big essay about Batesian mimickry
207 _ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More
209 _ "I Will Fight [...]": LGBT Patriotism and the Moral Fine-Tuning Objection
216 _ The View From Nowhere
220 _ 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/ )
221 _ Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History ...
223 Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
227 ✓ Interlude XVII (not all men)
229 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"
231 Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ...
234 _ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition: Beyond Maximum-Entropy Psychology
235 Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean
236 Q The Gender Czar's Compromise
240 Q Book Review: Nevada
241 Product Review: Oculus Go
243 All You Had to Say https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8xa97t/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_july_09_2018/e228vyj/
249 Q Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman
250 _ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
251 Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model
252 Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See
254 Q The Hand I Was Dealt
255 "diagonalize" http://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/ by running the research paper it was based on through it
256 Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals
257 Threnody for the Transhumanism of My Youth
258 of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point
259 People Really Don't Know Why They Do Things
260 Q I Want to See You Be Brave
261 Passing Is Legitimacy, Legitimacy Is Passing
262 All Men Benefit From Patriarchy
263 (the story about my name)
264 Review of Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic
265 on the poor literary quality of TG captions
266 "Another Me I Haven't Met" (SacAnime cosplay review)
267 go back to east bay tg club night?
268 Product Review: Glamour Boutique's Vee-String Bladder
269 Q This Is Worth a Fight
270 "Trans Women Are Women" is a Positive-Affect Instance of the Noncentral Fallacy
274 story of Gina and Vern selected for GNC
275 story about women engineers and male businesspeople
276 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
277 fix fic for that one episode of _The Orville_