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-UUT working queue—
-_ There Should Be a Closetspace/Lease Bound Crossover Fic
+2021 significant posts—
+_ Challenges to Yudkowsky's Pronoun Reform Proposal
+_ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning 

 _ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America
 
 _ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America
 

-LW working queue—
-_ Blood Is Thicker Than Water
-_ There's No Such Thing as Unmotivated Reasoning
+Queue—
+_ "Never Smile" linkpost
+_ Student Dysphoria, and a Previous Life's War
+_ Subspatial Distribution Overlap and Cancellable Stereotypes
+_ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
+_ Four Clusters
+_ Elision _vs_. Choice
+_ Karnofsky's presentism
+_ motivation for positing meta-attraction
+_ HPMoR on the function of democracy vs. Yarvin's true election
+

 
 

-2021 significant posts—

 _ Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data
 _ Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer
 _ Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data
 _ Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer

-_ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning
+_ Joint Book Review: Kathleen Stock's Material Girls and Kathryn Paige Harden's The Genetic Lottery

 
 Minor queue—
 
 Minor queue—

-_ I Don't Do Policy
-_ Student Dysphoria, and a Previous Life's War
-_ Subspatial Distribution Overlap and Cancellable Stereotypes
+_ FaceApp tips
+_ Model-Free Happiness

 _ Sticks and Stones
 _ Sticks and Stones

-_ Elision _vs_. Choice
-_ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
+

 _ "Assigned at Birth" Is a Schelling Point (If You Live in an Insane Dystopia Where the Concept of Sex Is Somehow Controversial) 
 _ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
 _ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
 _ Multi-Book Review: Various Sex-Ed Books for Children
 _ "Assigned at Birth" Is a Schelling Point (If You Live in an Insane Dystopia Where the Concept of Sex Is Somehow Controversial) 
 _ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
 _ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
 _ Multi-Book Review: Various Sex-Ed Books for Children

-
+_ Timelines
+_ "Why the Hell It Means So Much to Me"
+_ Happy Meal

 
 More minor or Needs Development—
 
 More minor or Needs Development—

-
-_ Episode Review: Star Trek: Voyager S7EX "Body and Soul"

 _ Correct Diagnosis as Common Interest: ideological detrans as a mirror of ideological trans: https://reclaimingtrans.wordpress.com/
 _ "Your Politics Are Interesting" as Worst Compliment
 _ I Wish You Well
 _ Gaydar Jamming (L.B. and R.H.)
 _ Correct Diagnosis as Common Interest: ideological detrans as a mirror of ideological trans: https://reclaimingtrans.wordpress.com/
 _ "Your Politics Are Interesting" as Worst Compliment
 _ I Wish You Well
 _ Gaydar Jamming (L.B. and R.H.)

-_ Book Review: Kathleen Stock's Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism  (May)
-_ Book Review: Kathryn Paige Harden's The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality (September)
+

 
 Filler links—
 _ Link: Halifax Pride: https://www.halifaxpride.com/news/2021/5/28/halifax-public-library-response
 
 Filler links—
 _ Link: Halifax Pride: https://www.halifaxpride.com/news/2021/5/28/halifax-public-library-response


@@ -42,14 +47,20 @@ _ Link: Quillette on Sons Becoming Daughters
 _ Link: Babylon Bee "It's a Good Life" parody https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20ALZgd6_Ek
 
 LW—
 _ Link: Babylon Bee "It's a Good Life" parody https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20ALZgd6_Ek
 
 LW—

+_ Generic Consequentialists Are Liars
+_ Comment on "The Logic of Indirect Speech" (multi-receivers vs. uncertainty about a single recieiver)

 _ Feature Selection
 _ Feature Selection

-_ Angelic Irony
+_ There's No Such Thing as Unmotivated Reasoning

 _ "You'll Never Persuade Anyone"
 _ "You'll Never Persuade Anyone"

+_ Longtermism + Hinge of History = Shorttermism (not my original idea, but don't remember whose blog I read this on, so I'll write my own version)
+_ Point of No Return is Relative to a Class of Interventions
+_ Simulationist Headcanon for Ontologically Basic Train Show
+_ My Fire Alarm
+_ Angelic Irony

 _ Good Bad Faith
 _ Cromwell's Rule Is About Physical Symmetry, Not Fairness
 _ The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
 _ The Kolmogorov Option Is Incompatible with Rationality as the Common Interest of Many Causes
 _ Good Bad Faith
 _ Cromwell's Rule Is About Physical Symmetry, Not Fairness
 _ The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
 _ The Kolmogorov Option Is Incompatible with Rationality as the Common Interest of Many Causes

-_ Simulationist Headcanon for Ontologically Basic Train Show

 _ "Rationalists" Don't Exist (But Rationality Does)
 - And the Wisdom to Know the Difference
 _ importance of getting the direction of causality right
 _ "Rationalists" Don't Exist (But Rationality Does)
 - And the Wisdom to Know the Difference
 _ importance of getting the direction of causality right


@@ -64,6 +75,10 @@ _ Honesty Is Activism
 
 _ agents with different learning algorithms would find it hard to agree on words?
 
 
 _ agents with different learning algorithms would find it hard to agree on words?
 

+* Objection: but then shouldn't we pick different words for the convergent and phylo clusters? Uncomfortable with wavering lines around "berry"
+* Reply: story for how we end up with multiple senses attached to the same word
+https://jsmp.dk/posts/2021-01-24-fruits/
+

 Trading Political Favors Doesn't Build True Maps, But Correcting Errors Your Yourself Made, Does
 
 (Rationalists don't exist)
 Trading Political Favors Doesn't Build True Maps, But Correcting Errors Your Yourself Made, Does
 
 (Rationalists don't exist)


@@ -72,7 +87,7 @@ https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/4thPHxgBCvteQjLv6/against-context-free-integr
 
 _ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning / Casuistry Is Unbecoming: Replies to Eliezer Yudkowsky (I don't know how to do this) 
 
 
 _ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning / Casuistry Is Unbecoming: Replies to Eliezer Yudkowsky (I don't know how to do this) 
 

-_ E.Y. as case study on unconscious-lying and self-report ("their verbal theories contradict their own datapoints" https://www.facebook.com/yudkowsky/posts/10159408250519228?comment_id=10159411435619228&reply_comment_id=10159411567794228)
+_ E.Y. as case study on unconscious-lying and self-report ("their verbal theories contradict their own datapoints" https://www.facebook.com/yudkowsky/posts/10159408250519228?comment_id=10159411435619228&reply_comment_id=10159411567794228 )

 
 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zersetzung and the GPT-3 neuron about Trump: imagine a short story, where you suddenly become more villainous in the eyes of the narrative, and it's because a greater fraction of your measure is in simulations written based on an unfavorable view of your legacy (you're only aware of this because the GPT-descendant is smart enough to try to correct for it)
 
 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zersetzung and the GPT-3 neuron about Trump: imagine a short story, where you suddenly become more villainous in the eyes of the narrative, and it's because a greater fraction of your measure is in simulations written based on an unfavorable view of your legacy (you're only aware of this because the GPT-descendant is smart enough to try to correct for it)