-Active—
-_ Happy Meal
-_ Blood Is Thicker Than Water
+2022 significant posts—
+_ Challenges to Yudkowsky's Pronoun Reform Proposal
_ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America
-_ There Should Be a Closetspace/Lease Bound Crossover Fic
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-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
-_ Challenges to Yudkowsky's Pronoun Reform Proposal
-_ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning
+_ Reply to Scott Alexander on Autogenderphilia
+_ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning
-Minor queue—
-_ Timelines
-_ "Why the Hell It Means So Much to Me"
-_ I Don't Do Policy
+Queue—
+_ "Never Smile" linkpost
_ Student Dysphoria, and a Previous Life's War
+_ Happy Meal
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+_ https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WikzbCsFjpLTRQmXn/declustering-reclustering-and-filling-in-thingspace
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_ 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
+_ Four Clusters
+_ Elision _vs_. Choice
+_ Karnofsky's presentism
+_ motivation for positing meta-attraction
+_ HPMoR on the function of democracy vs. Yarvin's true election
+_ Dolezal (working title)
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+_ Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer
+_ Joint Book Review: Kathleen Stock's Material Girls and Kathryn Paige Harden's The Genetic Lottery
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+Minor queue—
+_ FaceApp tips
+_ Model-Free Happiness
+_ Sticks and Stones
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_ "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"
More minor or Needs Development—
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-_ 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.)
-_ 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)
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Filler links—
_ Link: Halifax Pride: https://www.halifaxpride.com/news/2021/5/28/halifax-public-library-response
_ Link: Babylon Bee "It's a Good Life" parody https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20ALZgd6_Ek
LW—
+_ Steering Towards Agreement Is Like Discouraging Betting
_ Generic Consequentialists Are Liars
+_ Comment on "The Logic of Indirect Speech" (multi-receivers vs. uncertainty about a single recieiver)
_ Feature Selection
-_ Connotation as Optimization
_ 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)
_ 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/
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Trading Political Favors Doesn't Build True Maps, But Correcting Errors Your Yourself Made, Does
(Rationalists don't exist)
_ 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)