1 Main path (important posts)—
2 _ Algorithmic Intent: A Hansonian Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle (LW)
3 _ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems
4 _ Intrumental Categories, Wireheading, and War (LW)
5 _ Signals, Deception, and the Precession of Simulacra (LW)
6 _ Elision _vs_. Choice (working title)
9 _ theory of MMB's transition
11 _ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
12 _ "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity ... (UUT)
13 _ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
17 _ explain pseudo-androphilia and ETLE to Jessica
18 _ glomerular filtration rate https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/gq50mo/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_may_25_2020/frvrhwg/
20 _ A Previous Life's War
24 _ The Feeling Is Mutual
25 _ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
26 _ Ideology Is the General Case (working title)
29 _ Gay + Trans = Straight
32 _ Walker correspondence
33 _ 30 Years of the Blank Slate (Cosmides-Tooby/Pinker/Murray)
34 _ "I Hope You're Happy, California"
35 _ Travis's Trilemma: Creepy, Crazy, or Protected-Class (working title)
36 _ Reply to Ozymandias on Lesbians and on Single-Sex Spaces
37 _ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
38 _ Answers on Great Divides: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/08/questions-for-great-divides.html
39 _ Film Review: Your Name
40 _ World of Masks https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1228093035042541569
41 _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
46 _ COVID life-years (rather than deaths)
48 _ Contra Scott Alexander on Mental Illness; Or, Oh God, Please Don't (aAL/LW)
49 _ Comment on Wireheading /r/rational
50 _ Second Derivative (Paul Christiano on growth timelines)
51 _ Selective Reporting and Clustering
52 _ Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization—marginally neglected truths are more
53 _ Explicit Disjunction vs. Contradictory Arguments from a Bottom Line
54 _ How they Pin It Down: Equal Environments Assumption Edition https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cXzTpSiCrNGzeoRAz/conjunction-controversy-or-how-they-nail-it-down
55 _ Social Construction is an Embedded Agency Problem
57 it's important to have language for psychology because you can't point to pictures
59 Training Data—"get used" to the new definitions, in time
61 "You can follow people you disagree with!" makes sense if you think of
65 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
67 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
69 Vocabulary as Capital Investment
71 _ Challenges of Mounting an Ideological Crusade
73 B.F. being smart-but-dense
75 how taxonomy/typology emerges from Bayesian networks
77 _ On Being Stereotyped Badly (working title)
81 Memetics vs. Discourse
84 The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
86 The Wisdom of Nature (I like the idea of transhumanism, but in practice, biology is just too complicated) https://nickbostrom.com/evolution.pdf
89 _ Product Review: FaceApp
91 _ 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/
93 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/
95 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."
97 address accusation that I conflate "passing" and biosex
101 Positioning (don't want to prematurely alienate people you're trying to rescue)
103 conservatives complain about low-time preference ppl having too many kids—but from a evolutionary perspective, they're more evolutionarily fit
105 A Science Fiction Story Idea I'm Not Skilled Enough to Write
107 Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous
109 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalmatophilia didn't make it into Lawrence's erotic target location paper, did it?
113 Anne Lawrence on AGP Teen Transition
114 Anne Lawrence on Unapologetic Autogynephilic Transsexualism
116 Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization
120 explain my blunder in https://twitter.com/jessi_cata/status/1188567229987577856
122 reply to https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/the-mathematical-consequences-of-a-toy-model-of-gender-transition/
124 testimony on trans girl periods: http://www.onwednesdays.net/trans-girl-periods/
129 Reading Comprehension Is Rape Culture
131 Reply to David R. MacIver on Gendering
133 Trying to Be Explicit
135 Instrumental Categories, and War
137 (lit-search strategy: go through the del Guidice "Multivariate Misgivings" article and its citations; the Archer paper also mentioned this)
139 Commentary on "Blegg Mode"
141 Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition)
143 (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode)
145 karaoke, celebrity, cognitive load; I don't want people to do that for me
147 Option<String>?! https://web.archive.org/web/20160731010249/https://qntm.org/gay
150 _ "Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
151 _ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
154 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words : well, that explains the TWAW mantra
156 The Parable of the Good Witch
158 First-Offender Models and the Unilateralist's Blessing
159 The Parable of the Faithful Man and the Cowardly Priest
161 Game Theory of "Apartment Patty"
163 Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
164 (in response to Kosoy's objection)
166 Servants of the Egregore (write-up of egregore theory as told by "Wilhelm")
168 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).
170 Research Question: Complicity
173 Where to Segment a Conversation When There's Stuff You Won't Touch, Without Violating the Virtue of Evenness
174 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)
176 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)
178 In the Presence of Mimickry, Extension and Intension Simplicity Trade-Off
180 Objectivity as a Rhetorical Strategy: probability, words, morality
181 Focus on the Simple Case (accurate maps can have bad effects, but that's a weird second-order analysis)
182 Self-Identity as Focal Point; Or, Schelf-Identity
185 A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words
189 in a world where we _actually had_ sex change technology, self-identity doctrine _wouldn't even occur to anyone_
191 Operationalization of Bad Faith: if people make reasoning errors that they wouldn't make with another topic having the same underlying structure
195 The Charity Convergence Trap
203 a big essay about Batesian mimickry
206 _ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More
208 _ "I Will Fight [...]": LGBT Patriotism and the Moral Fine-Tuning Objection
215 _ The View From Nowhere
219 _ 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/ )
220 _ Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History ...
222 Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
226 ✓ Interlude XVII (not all men)
228 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"
230 Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ...
233 _ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition: Beyond Maximum-Entropy Psychology
234 Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean
235 Q The Gender Czar's Compromise
239 Q Book Review: Nevada
240 Product Review: Oculus Go
242 All You Had to Say https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8xa97t/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_july_09_2018/e228vyj/
248 Q Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman
249 _ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
250 Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model
251 Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See
253 Q The Hand I Was Dealt
254 "diagonalize" http://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/ by running the research paper it was based on through it
255 Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals
256 Threnody for the Transhumanism of My Youth
257 of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point
258 People Really Don't Know Why They Do Things
259 Q I Want to See You Be Brave
260 Passing Is Legitimacy, Legitimacy Is Passing
261 All Men Benefit From Patriarchy
262 (the story about my name)
263 Review of Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic
264 on the poor literary quality of TG captions
265 "Another Me I Haven't Met" (SacAnime cosplay review)
266 go back to east bay tg club night?
267 Product Review: Glamour Boutique's Vee-String Bladder
268 Q This Is Worth a Fight
269 "Trans Women Are Women" is a Positive-Affect Instance of the Noncentral Fallacy
273 story of Gina and Vern selected for GNC
274 story about women engineers and male businesspeople
275 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
276 fix fic for that one episode of _The Orville_