-MAIN SEQUENCE (16)—
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-11 Sep: There's a Land That I See; Or, the Spirit of Intervention
-18 Sep: Q Don't Negotiate With Terrorist Memeplexes; Or, Why I Don't Care About Your Feelings
-25 Sep: _ The View From Nowhere
- 2 Oct: Q Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman
- 3 Oct: Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb: Charity, Objectivity, and the Strategic Landscape
- 9 Oct: Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History Yelling, "Wait! I Like the Idea, But the Implementation Details Need Work!"
-16 Oct: Q This Is Worth a Fight
-23 Oct: _ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition
-30 Oct: _ Against Maximum-Entropy Psychology; Or, High-Dimensional Social Science and the Cluster Concept of Concepts
- 6 Nov: _ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
-13 Nov: Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model
-20 Nov: * Mary's Room
-27 Nov: Q The Hand I Was Dealt
- 4 Dec: Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
-11 Dec: Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals
-18 Dec: The Categories Were Made for Man in Order to Make Predictions
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-NON-SEQUENCE (17)—
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-Changes
-The Nadir of Reading Comprhension
-Doubts, Hopes, and Trajectories; Or, Hormones Day 1XX
-Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean
-Q Memoirs of My Recent Madness, Part II: Friendship Survived
-A Common Misunderstanding; Or, the Spirit of the Staircase (24 January 2009)
-Q Review of Nevada
-Review of Whipping Girl
-Q I Want to See You Be Brave
+Main path (important posts)—
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+Milestone—
+_ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems
+_ Unnatural Categories Are Optimized for Deception (LW)
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+Ancillary documents for milestone—
+_ Motivation and Political Context for My Philosophy of Language Agenda
+_ FUEY
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+_ Irreversible Damage review
+_ Jessica/wiz AGP defense
+_ Elision _vs_. Choice (working title)
+_ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
+_ Trans Kids on the Margin (working title) 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/
+_ I Am Very Bad at Keeping Secrets and Am Therefore Very Reluctant to Offer Confidentiality Promises
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+UUT—
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+_ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
+_ Beyond the Binary
+_ A Previous Life's War
+_ I, Too, Dislike It
+_ 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
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+_ Eugenics Is Actually Good, You Worthless Cowards
+_ The One Where I Try to Be A Little More Explicit About What 'Autogynephilia' Actually Entails
+_ No One Actually Wants to Change "Gender"
+_ Ideology Is the General Case (working title)
+_ Boundary Violations and Territory
+_ three views on partisanship: "Hierarchy and Wings" "Bioleninism" "Democracy Cis and Trans"
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+_ Gay + Trans = Straight
+_ Too Big to Fail
+_ Orc-ham's Razor
+_ Walker correspondence
+_ 30 Years of the Blank Slate (Cosmides-Tooby/Pinker/Murray)
+_ "I Hope You're Happy, California"
+_ Travis's Trilemma: Creepy, Crazy, or Protected-Class (working title)
+_ Reply to Ozymandias on Lesbians and on Single-Sex Spaces
+_ Answers on Great Divides: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/08/questions-for-great-divides.html
+_ Film Review: Your Name
+_ World of Masks https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1228093035042541569
+_ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
+_ "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity ... (UUT)
+_ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
+_ glomerular filtration rate https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/gq50mo/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_may_25_2020/frvrhwg/
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+"You're conflating sex and gender"—the problem is, Does anyone actually want to change "gender"?—they're bundled for a reason
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+LW/aAL—
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+_ 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
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+it's important to have language for psychology because you can't point to pictures
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+Training Data—"get used" to the new definitions, in time
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+"You can follow people you disagree with!" makes sense if you think of
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+"gay and trans"
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+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
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+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
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+Vocabulary as Capital Investment
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+_ Challenges of Mounting an Ideological Crusade
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+B.F. being smart-but-dense
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+how taxonomy/typology emerges from Bayesian networks
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+_ On Being Stereotyped Badly (working title)
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+Angelic Irony
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+Memetics vs. Discourse
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+Honesty Is Activism
+The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
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+The Wisdom of Nature (I like the idea of transhumanism, but in practice, biology is just too complicated) https://nickbostrom.com/evolution.pdf
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+_ Product Review: FaceApp
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+_ 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
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+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/
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+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."
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+address accusation that I conflate "passing" and biosex
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+-----
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+Positioning (don't want to prematurely alienate people you're trying to rescue)
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+conservatives complain about low-time preference ppl having too many kids—but from a evolutionary perspective, they're more evolutionarily fit
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+A Science Fiction Story Idea I'm Not Skilled Enough to Write
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+Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous
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+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalmatophilia didn't make it into Lawrence's erotic target location paper, did it?
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+PR-driven plagiarism
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+Anne Lawrence on AGP Teen Transition
+Anne Lawrence on Unapologetic Autogynephilic Transsexualism
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+Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization
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+One-Way Trolls
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+explain my blunder in https://twitter.com/jessi_cata/status/1188567229987577856
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+reply to https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/the-mathematical-consequences-of-a-toy-model-of-gender-transition/
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+testimony on trans girl periods: http://www.onwednesdays.net/trans-girl-periods/
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+Reading Comprehension Is Rape Culture
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+Reply to David R. MacIver on Gendering
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+Trying to Be Explicit
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+Instrumental Categories, and War
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+(lit-search strategy: go through the del Guidice "Multivariate Misgivings" article and its citations; the Archer paper also mentioned this)
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+Commentary on "Blegg Mode"
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