1 _ If in Some Smothering Dreams You Too Could Pace (UTT)
3 _ Book Review: Charles Murray's Human Diversity (UUT)
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)
14 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."
16 address accusation that I conflate "passing" and biosex
20 _ Placeholder, February 2020 (UUT)
22 conservatives complain about low-time preference ppl having too many kids—but from a evolutionary perspective, they're more evolutionarily fit
24 creepy, crazy, or protected-class
28 The Wisdom of Nature (I like the idea of transhumanism, but in practice, biology is just too complicated)
30 The Strategy of "Apartment Patty"
32 A Science Fiction Story Idea I'm Not Skilled Enough to Write
34 Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous
36 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalmatophilia didn't make it into Lawrence's erotic target location paper, did it?
40 Anne Lawrence on AGP Teen Transition
41 Anne Lawrence on Unapologetic Autogynephilic Transsexualism
43 Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization
47 explain my blunder in https://twitter.com/jessi_cata/status/1188567229987577856
49 reply to https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/the-mathematical-consequences-of-a-toy-model-of-gender-transition/
51 testimony on trans girl periods: http://www.onwednesdays.net/trans-girl-periods/
56 Reading Comprehension Is Rape Culture
58 Reply to David R. MacIver on Gendering
62 Instrumental Categories, and War
64 (lit-search strategy: go through the del Guidice "Multivariate Misgivings" article and its citations; the Archer paper also mentioned this)
66 Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
68 Commentary on "Blegg Mode"
70 Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition)
72 (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode)
74 karaoke, celebrity, cognitive load; I don't want people to do that for me
76 Option<String>?! https://web.archive.org/web/20160731010249/https://qntm.org/gay
79 _ "Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
80 _ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
83 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words : well, that explains the TWAW mantra
85 The Parable of the Good Witch
87 First-Offender Models and the Unilateralist's Blessing
88 The Parable of the Faithful Man and the Cowardly Priest
90 Game Theory of "Apartment Patty"
92 Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
93 (in response to Kosoy's objection)
95 Servants of the Egregore (write-up of egregore theory as told by "Wilhelm")
97 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).
99 Research Question: Complicity
100 The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
102 Where to Segment a Conversation When There's Stuff You Won't Touch, Without Violating the Virtue of Evenness
103 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)
105 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)
107 In the Presence of Mimickry, Extension and Intension Simplicity Trade-Off
109 Objectivity as a Rhetorical Strategy: probability, words, morality
110 Focus on the Simple Case (accurate maps can have bad effects, but that's a weird second-order analysis)
111 Self-Identity as Focal Point; Or, Schelf-Identity
114 A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words
118 in a world where we _actually had_ sex change technology, self-identity doctrine _wouldn't even occur to anyone_
120 Operationalization of Bad Faith: if people make reasoning errors that they wouldn't make with another topic having the same underlying structure
124 The Charity Convergence Trap
132 a big essay about Batesian mimickry
134 _ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
135 _ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More
136 _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
137 _ "I Will Fight [...]": LGBT Patriotism and the Moral Fine-Tuning Objection
144 _ The View From Nowhere
148 _ 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/ )
149 _ Friendship Practices of ...
150 _ Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History ...
152 Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
156 ✓ Interlude XVII (not all men)
158 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"
160 Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ...
163 _ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition: Beyond Maximum-Entropy Psychology
164 Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean
165 Q The Gender Czar's Compromise
168 Product Review: FaceApp
170 Q Book Review: Nevada
171 Product Review: Oculus Go
173 All You Had to Say https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8xa97t/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_july_09_2018/e228vyj/
179 Q Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman
180 _ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
181 Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model
182 Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See
184 Q The Hand I Was Dealt
185 "diagonalize" http://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/ by running the research paper it was based on through it
186 Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals
187 Threnody for the Transhumanism of My Youth
188 of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point
189 People Really Don't Know Why They Do Things
190 Q I Want to See You Be Brave
191 Passing Is Legitimacy, Legitimacy Is Passing
192 All Men Benefit From Patriarchy
193 (the story about my name)
194 Review of Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic
195 on the poor literary quality of TG captions
196 "Another Me I Haven't Met" (SacAnime cosplay review)
197 go back to east bay tg club night?
198 Product Review: Glamour Boutique's Vee-String Bladder
199 Q This Is Worth a Fight
200 "Trans Women Are Women" is a Positive-Affect Instance of the Noncentral Fallacy
204 story of Gina and Vern selected for GNC
205 story about women engineers and male businesspeople
206 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
207 fix fic for that one episode of _The Orville_