-Minor ready or almost-ready—
+pre-memoir—
+_ Reply to Scott Alexander on Autogenderphilia
+_ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality (short version)
+_ Escort (cut §, needs title)?
+_ Book Review: Nevada (time permitting)
+_ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress (time permitting)
+_ I'm Dropping the Pseudonym From This Blog
+
+memoir—
+_ (pt. 2) Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer
+_ (pt. 3) A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning
+_ (pt. 4) If Clarity Seems Like Death to Them
+_ (pt. 5) Agreeing With Stalin in Ways that Exhibit Generally Rationalist Principles
+_ (pt. 6) Standing Under the Same Sky
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+Minor camera-ready—
+_ Janet Mock on Late Transitioners
_ Interlude XXII
-_ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
-_ The Signaling Hazard Objection
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-Comment: The Dunbar reference on the definition of "personality" is actually real! (_Primate Social Systems_, Ch. 11, "Mechanics of Exploitation")
+Minor—
+_ Book Review: Johnny the Walrus
+_ Beyond the Binary
+_ Happy Meal
+_ Elision _vs_. Choice
+_ Multi-Product Review: AI for AGP
+_ Link: "On Transitions, Freedom of Form, [...]"
+_ Beckett Mariner Is Trans https://www.reddit.com/r/DaystromInstitute/comments/in3g92/was_mariner_a_teenager_on_the_enterprised/
-Urgent/needed for healing—
-_ Reply to Scott Alexander on Autogenderphilia
-_ Pseudonym Misgivings
-_ Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer
-_ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning
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Big 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
+_ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America (with coda)
-Minor—
-_ Body Anxiety Posting, September 2022
-_ Review of AGP Erotica Automation Tools, September 2022
-_ Happy Meal
-_ Subspatial Distribution Overlap and Cancellable Stereotypes
-_ Elision _vs_. Choice
-_ ASL Is Not a Language
-_ Book Review: Johnny the Walrus
-_ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means"
-_ Beckett Mariner Is Trans https://www.reddit.com/r/DaystromInstitute/comments/in3g92/was_mariner_a_teenager_on_the_enterprised/
-_ Link: "On Transitions, Freedom of Form, [...]"
+_ Biological Sex Actually Exists
+_ Racial Pseudoscience on the Faculty https://archive.ph/ZxVYk
+_ Never Going to Find You Faking
+_ Body Anxiety Posting, Month Year
+_ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means"
+_ Yardstick abolition pessimism https://culturallyboundgender.wordpress.com/2018/11/13/gender-identity-isnt-a-box-its-a-yardstick/
+_ ASL Is Not a Language
_ Gaussian Gender Issues
_ Timelines
-_ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
_ reinterpretting all of Hannah Montana album lyrics as an AGP narrative
_ my medianworld: https://www.glowfic.com/replies/1619639#reply-1619639
_ Rebecca Romijin
-_ Excerpt from _Redefining Realness_
_ "Reducing" Bias and Improving "Safety"
_ Unicode adopt-a-character?? (would it be wrong to adopt "♀"?)
_ https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WikzbCsFjpLTRQmXn/declustering-reclustering-and-filling-in-thingspace
_ Four Clusters
_ Karnofsky's presentism
_ motivation for positing meta-attraction
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_ Joint Book Review: Kathleen Stock's Material Girls and Kathryn Paige Harden's The Genetic Lottery
+_ Comments on the Conspiracies of dath ilan
Minor queue—
_ FaceApp tips
_ 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/
_ 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
_ "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
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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
"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
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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