+Queue—
+_ There Should Be a Closetspace/Lease Bound Crossover Fic
+✓ I Don't Do Policy
+_ Student Dysphoria, and a Previous Life's War
+
+2021 significant posts—
+_ Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data
+_ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America
+_ Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer
+_ Challenges to Yudkowsky's Pronoun Reform Proposal
+_ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning
+
+Minor queue—
+_ Model-Free Happiness
+_ Subspatial Distribution Overlap and Cancellable Stereotypes
+_ 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
+_ Timelines
+_ "Why the Hell It Means So Much to Me"
+_ Happy Meal
+
+More minor or Needs Development—
+_ 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
+_ Link: You're Kidding, Right?
+_ Link: Lease Bound comic
+_ Link: Quillette on Sons Becoming Daughters
+_ Link: Babylon Bee "It's a Good Life" parody https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20ALZgd6_Ek
+
+LW—
+_ Blood Is Thicker Than Water
+_ Generic Consequentialists Are Liars
+_ Comment on "The Logic of Indirect Speech" (multi-receivers vs. uncertainty about a single recieiver)
+_ Feature Selection
+_ There's No Such Thing as Unmotivated Reasoning
+_ "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
+_ "Rationalists" Don't Exist (But Rationality Does)
+- And the Wisdom to Know the Difference
+_ importance of getting the direction of causality right
+_ Memetics vs. Discourse
+_ Multi-Level Moloch; Or, Technically, the Holocaust Was a Coordination Success
+_ Reasons to Go On
+_ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture (working title)
+_ How do unwind one's "rationalist" social identity?
+_ Daniel C. Dennett on Near-Term Alignment Problems
+
+_ Honesty Is Activism
+
+_ agents with different learning algorithms would find it hard to agree on words?
+
+Trading Political Favors Doesn't Build True Maps, But Correcting Errors Your Yourself Made, Does
+
+(Rationalists don't exist)
+> how to be a strong rationalist
+https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/4thPHxgBCvteQjLv6/against-context-free-integrity
+
+_ 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)
+
+
+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)
+
+philosophy-of-language replies,
+
+Marketing channels—
+_ Reddit: /r/philosophy, /r/TheMotte, /r/theschism, /r/SneerClub
+_ tags: "The SF Bay Area", "Criticisms of the Rationalist Movement", "Postmortems & Retrospectives"
+
+_ "Cis" is like "gentile"
+_ The Sex/Gender Distinction Was a Mistake
+_ Complicity (how do reasonable people cooperate with each other instead of dumb people in their own coalition)
+_ reinterpretting all of Hannah Montana album lyrics as an AGP narrative
+_ Stereotypes are weak probabilistic inferences (Agreeableness d~0.5), category-membership is strong inference, the same word/signal hits both, but stereotypes are (or should be) easy to cancel; shifting default meaning onto stereotypes in order to suit trans (while still having the word attach to something) is a bad trade
+_ Taxometrics and the Fallacy of the Insufficiently Relevant, Insufficiently Multivariate Experiment
+_ Beyond the Binary
+_ https://www.facebook.com/duncan.sabien/posts/3936528276381860 "Natural does not always mean good." — natural does not always mean good, but at our current tech level, that's actually a really good prior
+_ Novemember 2020 Political Notes; Or, Sen. Kelly Loeffler Is Mostly Living in a Simulation Now
+_ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
+
+_ I, Too, Dislike It
+
+_ Yardstick abolition pessimism https://culturallyboundgender.wordpress.com/2018/11/13/gender-identity-isnt-a-box-its-a-yardstick/
+_ reductionist rebuttal to "so you think lesbians aren't women"
+_ Principles (transhumanism, and sanity)
+_ 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/
+_ Beckett Mariner Is Trans https://www.reddit.com/r/DaystromInstitute/comments/in3g92/was_mariner_a_teenager_on_the_enterprised/
+_ Cynical Theories review
+_ Persongen/univariate fallacy/typical set
+_ reply on psych prison https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/io1iih/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_september_07/g4uvgb4/?context=3
+_ Irreversible Damage review
+_ Jessica/wiz AGP defense
+_ Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data 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/
+_ "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
+_ 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)`)
+_ 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)
+_ reply to https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2020/11/16/hermeneutical-injustice-not-gaslighting/
+_ Comment on "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots" https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/k77sxz/d_timnit_gebru_and_google_megathread/gepcliq/ https://doxa.substack.com/p/googles-colosseum
+ - Amy Wax linkpost
+- The Causality of Ethnic Differences in COVID-19 Outcomes Is an Open
+_ follow to "Point Man": prosletyzing religion
+_ Larmarckian Transmission of FtM?!
+
+strict scrutiny
+
+This is the same mechanism as "Unnatural Categories Are Optimized for Deception"!!
+> journalism is usually trustworthy because trustworthiness is the carrier vehicle. It's occasionally corrupt, because corruption is the payload.
+https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/lje3nu/statement_on_new_york_times_article/gnfrprx/?context=3
+
+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'!"
+
+I should email caption bliggers and ask if they know about AGP
+https://www.imagefap.com/profile/rickbennett
+https://ericatgswapcaps.blogspot.com/2020/03/swap-clinic-testimonial-i-can-work-with.html
+https://ericatgswapcaps.blogspot.com/2020/10/swap-clinic-win-win-win.html