_ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to
- Amulet
-_ "Assigned at Birth" Is a Schelling Point (If You Live in an Insane Dystopia Where the Concept of Sex Is Somehow Controversial)
+_ "Assigned at Birth" Is a Schelling Point (If You Live in an Insane Dystopia Where the Concept of Sex Is Somehow Controversial) "It's not possible to know a person's gender identity at birth, and there is no consensus criteria for assigning sex at birth." https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/30/politics/south-dakota-transgender-sports-kristi-noem/index.html
_ Student Dysphoria, and a Previous Life's War
_ Gaydar Jamming (L.B. and R.H.)
_ Overlapping Distributions and Cancellable Stereotypes (the standard GC argument about trans = stereotypes but with more math)
+_ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
+_ Reply to Yudkowsky on Pronoun Reform and the Limits of Discussion
+_ "Cis" is like "gentile"
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 (part 2)
-_ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning (part 3)
+_ Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer
_ Book Review: Kathleen Stock's Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism (May)
_ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America (June)
_ Book Review: Kathryn Paige Harden's The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality (September)
LW—
-_ Communication Requires Common Interest or Costly Signals
+_ Daniel C. Dennett on Near-Term Alignment Problems
+_ Angelic Irony
_ "You'll Never Persuade Anyone"
+_ Cromwell's Rule Is About Physical Symmetry, Not Fairness
+_ The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
+_ "Rationalists" Don't Exist (But Rationality Does)
- And the Wisdom to Know the Difference
_ agents with different learning algorithms would find it hard to agree on words?
_ importance of getting the direction of causality right
_ Multi-Level Moloch; Or, Technically, the Holocaust Was a Coordination Success
_ Reasons to Go On
-_ Angelic Irony
-Memetics vs. Discourse
-Cromwell's Rule Is About Symmetry, Not Fairness
-Honesty Is Activism
-The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
+_ Memetics vs. Discourse
+_ Honesty Is Activism
+
Trading Political Favors Doesn't Build True Maps, But Correcting Errors Your Yourself Made, Does
_ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
_ I, Too, Dislike It
-_ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
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_ 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)