+Aspiration—
+✓ Interlude XX
+- The Causality of Ethnic Differences in COVID-19 Outcomes Is an Open
+- Survey Data on Cis and Trans Women Among Haskell Programmers
+✓ The Feeling Is Mutual
+- Comment on "The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and Probabilistic Inference"
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Filler—
-_ Interlude XX
-_ Amy Wax linkpost
-_ Nixon on What You Can't Say quotepost? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwXOEFK6Swo more on don't say it 18:30
+ - Amy Wax linkpost
+Not done—
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+_ Novemember 2020 Political Notes; Or, Sen. Kelly Loeffler Is Mostly Living in a Simulation Now
Main path (important posts)—
_ Beyond the Binary
_ reductionist rebuttal to "so you think lesbians aren't women"
_ A Previous Life's War
-_ The Feeling Is Mutual
_ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
_ reply to https://azdoine.tumblr.com/post/173995599942/a-reply-to-unremediatedgenderspace-on-reply-to http://archive.is/JSSNi
_ reply to https://deathisbadblog.com/the-real-transphobes-are-the-ones-we-made-along-the-way/
_ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and the Conjunction of Small Effect Sizes
_ Comment on "Towards decolonising computational sciences" https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.14258
_ My Identity Has a Better Brier Score Than Your Identity
-_ The Causality of Ethnic Differences in COVID-19 Outcomes Is an Open Empirical Question
_ TV Review: "The Trouble With Edward"
_ Comment on "One Size Does Not Fit All: In Support of Psychotherapy for Gender Dysphoria" https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-020-01844-2 (tag: `review (paper)`)
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+_ the scapegoating dynamic
+_ review of "What's the Big Secret?" (acknowledges gender-role conventions which are more salient when people are wearing clothes, but then tells the real answer)
optimized to confuse and intimidate people trying to use language to reason about the concept of biological sex, even if your conscious verbal narrative never says 'and now I will confuse and intimidate people who want to use language to reason about the concept of biological sex'!"
LW/aAL—
+_ different ways of factoring a Bayes net of the same data make different predictions about interventions
_ 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)
Objectivity as a Rhetorical Strategy: probability, words, morality
Focus on the Simple Case (accurate maps can have bad effects, but that's a weird second-order analysis)
-Self-Identity as Focal Point; Or, Schelf-Identity
It Was a Complement!
Willie McCovington
A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words