-Filler—
-✓ The Feeling Is Mutual
+Ready—
✓ Interlude XX
-_ Novemember 2020 Political Notes; Or, Sen. Kelly Loeffler Is Mostly Living in a Simulation Now
-_ 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
+✓ The Feeling Is Mutual
+
+Filler—
+ - Amy Wax linkpost
+ _ Nixon on What You Can't Say
+
+Not done—
+ - The Causality of Ethnic Differences in COVID-19 Outcomes Is an Open
+ - Survey Data on Cis and Trans Women Among Haskell Programmers
+ - Comment on "The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and Probabilistic Inference"
+_ Novemember 2020 Political Notes; Or, Sen. Kelly Loeffler Is Mostly Living in a Simulation Now
+
Main path (important posts)—
Milestone—
_ "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
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