+_ glomerular filtration rate https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/gq50mo/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_may_25_2020/frvrhwg/
+_ I Am Very Bad at Keeping Secrets and Am Therefore Very Reluctant to Offer Confidentiality Promises
+
+_ starting to lose sympathy for my crazy past-self
+
+"You're conflating sex and gender"—the problem is, Does anyone actually want to change "gender"?—they're bundled for a reason
+
+LW/aAL—
+_ You and What Army? Or, The Wisdom to Know the Difference
+_ 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)
+_ 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
+_ 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
+
+"You can follow people you disagree with!" makes sense if you think of
+
+"gay and trans"
+
+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
+
+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
+
+
+Vocabulary as Capital Investment
+
+_ Challenges of Mounting an Ideological Crusade
+
+B.F. being smart-but-dense
+
+how taxonomy/typology emerges from Bayesian networks
+
+_ On Being Stereotyped Badly (working title)
+
+Angelic Irony
+
+https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/trvFowBfiKiYi7spb/open-thread-july-2019/comment/RYhKrKAxiQxY3FcHa
+> I think sometimes I talk in a way that makes me seem more politically naïve than I actually am, because I feel as if the “naïve” attitude is in some way normative? (“You really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?”)
+
+Memetics vs. Discourse
+Cromwell's Rule Is About Symmetry, Not Fairness
+Honesty Is Activism
+The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
+Trading Political Favors Doesn't Build True Maps, But Correcting Errors Your Yourself Made, Does
+
+The Wisdom of Nature (I like the idea of transhumanism, but in practice, biology is just too complicated) https://nickbostrom.com/evolution.pdf
+
+
+_ Product Review: FaceApp
+
+_ 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
+
+Psychiatrist's response to me is kind of case-in-point https://old.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/io1iih/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_september_07/g4valma/
+
+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/
+
+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."
+
+address accusation that I conflate "passing" and biosex
+
+-----
+
+Positioning (don't want to prematurely alienate people you're trying to rescue)
+
+conservatives complain about low-time preference ppl having too many kids—but from a evolutionary perspective, they're more evolutionarily fit
+
+A Science Fiction Story Idea I'm Not Skilled Enough to Write
+
+Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous
+
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalmatophilia didn't make it into Lawrence's erotic target location paper, did it?
+
+PR-driven plagiarism
+
+Anne Lawrence on AGP Teen Transition
+Anne Lawrence on Unapologetic Autogynephilic Transsexualism
+
+Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization
+
+One-Way Trolls
+
+explain my blunder in https://twitter.com/jessi_cata/status/1188567229987577856
+
+reply to https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/the-mathematical-consequences-of-a-toy-model-of-gender-transition/
+
+testimony on trans girl periods: http://www.onwednesdays.net/trans-girl-periods/
+
+
+
+
+Reading Comprehension Is Rape Culture
+
+Reply to David R. MacIver on Gendering
+
+Trying to Be Explicit
+
+Instrumental Categories, and War
+
+(lit-search strategy: go through the del Guidice "Multivariate Misgivings" article and its citations; the Archer paper also mentioned this)
+
+Commentary on "Blegg Mode"
+
+Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition)
+
+(https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode)
+
+karaoke, celebrity, cognitive load; I don't want people to do that for me
+
+Option<String>?! https://web.archive.org/web/20160731010249/https://qntm.org/gay
+
+
+_ "Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
+_ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
+
+
+https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words : well, that explains the TWAW mantra
+
+The Parable of the Good Witch
+
+First-Offender Models and the Unilateralist's Blessing
+The Parable of the Faithful Man and the Cowardly Priest
+
+Game Theory of "Apartment Patty"
+
+Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
+ (in response to Kosoy's objection)
+
+Servants of the Egregore (write-up of egregore theory as told by "Wilhelm")
+
+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).
+
+Research Question: Complicity
+
+
+Where to Segment a Conversation When There's Stuff You Won't Touch, Without Violating the Virtue of Evenness
+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)
+
+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)
+
+In the Presence of Mimickry, Extension and Intension Simplicity Trade-Off
+
+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)
+It Was a Complement!
+Willie McCovington
+A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words
+
+
+
+in a world where we _actually had_ sex change technology, self-identity doctrine _wouldn't even occur to anyone_
+
+Operationalization of Bad Faith: if people make reasoning errors that they wouldn't make with another topic having the same underlying structure
+
+
+
+The Charity Convergence Trap
+
+butterflies
+
+the thing to deny
+
+Laser 13
+
+a big essay about Batesian mimickry
+
+
+_ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More
+