-Scheduled—
-X Peering Through Reverent Fingers
-_ Book Review: Charles Murray's Human Diversity
-X Teleology
+Main path (important posts)—
+_ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems
+_ Unnatural Categories Are Optimized for Deception (LW)
+_ Motivation and Political Context for My Philosophy of Language Agenda
-Main path (important posts)—
-_ Intrumental Categories, Wireheading, and War (LW)
+_ Irreversible Damage review
+_ Jessica/wiz AGP defense
_ Elision _vs_. Choice (working title)
_ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
-_ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems
-_ "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity ... (UUT)
-_ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
+_ 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/
UUT—
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+_ The One Where I Try to Be A Little More Explicit About What 'Autogynephilia' Actually Entails
_ Beyond the Binary
-_ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
+_ A Previous Life's War
+_ I, Too, Dislike It
+_ No One Actually Wants to Change "Gender"
_ The Feeling Is Mutual
-_ Captions
+_ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
+_ Ideology Is the General Case (working title)
+_ Boundary Violations and Territory
+_ three views on partisanship: "Hierarchy and Wings" "Bioleninism" "Democracy Cis and Trans"
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+_ Gay + Trans = Straight
+_ Too Big to Fail
+_ Orc-ham's Razor
+_ Walker correspondence
+_ 30 Years of the Blank Slate (Cosmides-Tooby/Pinker/Murray)
+_ "I Hope You're Happy, California"
_ Travis's Trilemma: Creepy, Crazy, or Protected-Class (working title)
_ Reply to Ozymandias on Lesbians and on Single-Sex Spaces
_ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
_ Answers on Great Divides: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/08/questions-for-great-divides.html
+_ Film Review: Your Name
+_ World of Masks https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1228093035042541569
+_ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
+_ "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity ... (UUT)
+_ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
+_ glomerular filtration rate https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/gq50mo/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_may_25_2020/frvrhwg/
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+"You're conflating sex and gender"—the problem is, Does anyone actually want to change "gender"?—they're bundled for a reason
LW/aAL—
-_ Algorithmic Intent: A Hansonian Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle (LW)
-_ Zoom vs. EMH (LW)
-_ Comment on "Endogenous Epistemic Factionalization"
-_ Don't "Click Here"
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+_ COVID life-years (rather than deaths)
+_ Signals, Deception, and the Precession of Simulacra (LW)
_ Contra Scott Alexander on Mental Illness; Or, Oh God, Please Don't (aAL/LW)
+_ Comment on Wireheading /r/rational
+_ Second Derivative (Paul Christiano on growth timelines)
_ Selective Reporting and Clustering
_ Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization—marginally neglected truths are more
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+_ Explicit Disjunction vs. Contradictory Arguments from a Bottom Line
+_ How they Pin It Down: Equal Environments Assumption Edition https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cXzTpSiCrNGzeoRAz/conjunction-controversy-or-how-they-nail-it-down
_ Social Construction is an Embedded Agency Problem
it's important to have language for psychology because you can't point to pictures
+Training Data—"get used" to the new definitions, in time
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+"You can follow people you disagree with!" makes sense if you think of
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+"gay and trans"
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+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
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+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
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Vocabulary as Capital Investment
+_ Challenges of Mounting an Ideological Crusade
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B.F. being smart-but-dense
how taxonomy/typology emerges from Bayesian networks
_ Product Review: FaceApp
-_ The Strategy of "Apartment Patty" — the outrage strategy only works if you have a coalition to back you up
+_ 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
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/
_ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More
-_ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
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_ "I Will Fight [...]": LGBT Patriotism and the Moral Fine-Tuning Objection
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