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 Tags: sex differences, natalism
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 Tags: sex differences, natalism
 Status: draft
 

-Growing up as a younger child in an atomized, low-fertility [WEIRD](https://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2010/10/western-educated-industrialized-rich-and-democratic/181667/) world, I was until recently in the historically anomalous position of not really having any idea what children are like. (I have memories from childhood, but that's not the same as field observations with an adult intellect—everything from before age 14 or so feels insufficiently continuous with my current self to really have been 'me'.)
+Growing up as a younger child in an atomized, low-fertility [WEIRD](https://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2010/10/western-educated-industrialized-rich-and-democratic/181667/) world, I was until recently in the historically anomalous position of not really having any idea what children are actually like. (I have memories from childhood, but that's not the same as field observations with an adult intellect—everything from before age 14 or so feels insufficiently continuous with my current self to really have been 'me'.)

 
 It's not clear to what extent people really have [anticipation-controlling](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/a7n8GdKiAZRX86T5A/making-beliefs-pay-rent-in-anticipated-experiences) beliefs in the absence of lived-experience data, but the narratives we _think_ we believe come from what we read.
 
 
 It's not clear to what extent people really have [anticipation-controlling](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/a7n8GdKiAZRX86T5A/making-beliefs-pay-rent-in-anticipated-experiences) beliefs in the absence of lived-experience data, but the narratives we _think_ we believe come from what we read.
 

-([RIP](https://archive.is/MbUUN) 😢)
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+One such narrative relevant to the topic focus of this blog is: "Psychological sex differences are fake/tiny/socially-constructed." Another [metacontrarian](TODO: linky) one that I got a lot of exposure to as I sought out ideologically-inconvenient science during my twenties was, "Overeducated out-of-touch liberals _think_ that psychological sex differences are fake/tiny/socially-constructed, until they have children of their own and see for themselves how much is innate."
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+Maccoby ([RIP](https://archive.is/MbUUN) 😢) and Jacklin correctly

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 ... I don't know, guys. I'm really sorry.
 
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 ... I don't know, guys. I'm really sorry.
 
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+I don't understand why it's so hard to _either_ get the _minimal_ flag out in public, _or_ shut up about all related topics. Obviously, I can't fault anyone for not wanting to put potentially-controversial content under their own name, because I use a pseudonym myself. (I also believe in genetic-ancestry-mediated intelligence differences, and I _don't write about it_.) The problem that I'm trying to rally against is that if _all_ the nice-famous-shiny "rationalists" repeat flawed philosophy in support of the "pro-trans" political coalition (I linked four specific examples in a previous email; it really seems to be the consensus position), and _none_ of them loudly, publicly correct themselves when confronted with better philosophy (because the better philosophy happens to be more easily construed to support the "anti-trans" political coalition), then _we have lost the Mandate of Heaven_.
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+Duolingo gave me the sentence "Ihre Frau schreibt" ("Her wife/woman writes") and I was very confused for a few moments. ("Well, the mouseover tooltip hint gives 'Her wife' and 'Your wife' as phrase translations, so it has to be 'your wife'—but wait, 'ihre' is similar to 'ihr', which is the plural you-all, so ...")
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+the MADTv sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgcLfohtFbE
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+field report on TIMs in lesbian spaces: https://www.reddit.com/r/GenderCritical/comments/9zgivf/peak_trans_viii_tell_your_story_here/ec8zecy/
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diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt
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-_ "I Want to Be the One"
-_ The Dialectic
+_ The Dialectic 

 _ The Social Construction of Reality and the Sheer Goddamned Pointlessness of Reason
 _ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
 _ Trying to Be Explicit (deadline 2 Jan 2019)
 _ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
 
 
 _ The Social Construction of Reality and the Sheer Goddamned Pointlessness of Reason
 _ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
 _ Trying to Be Explicit (deadline 2 Jan 2019)
 _ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
 
 

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 _ High-Dimensional Social Science and the Conjunction of Small Effect Sizes
 _ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More
 _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
 _ "I Will Fight [...]": LGBT Patriotism and the Moral Fine-Tuning Objection
 
 _ High-Dimensional Social Science and the Conjunction of Small Effect Sizes
 _ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More
 _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
 _ "I Will Fight [...]": LGBT Patriotism and the Moral Fine-Tuning Objection
 

+_ Interlude XVI (egg promises) (working title)
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+_ ℝ40
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 _ Laser 12
 _ Laser 12

+_ "I Want to Be the One"

 
 _ The View From Nowhere
 
 
 _ The View From Nowhere
 


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 Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
 apartment patty
 
 Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
 apartment patty
 

-_ Interlude XVI (egg promises)
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 ✓ Interlude XVII (not all men)
 
 can the comment on "Bit Players" actually fit on this blog (I didn't empathize with offense at fake physics, but I can take offense at maximum-entropy psychology): epigraph quote, "It's Only a Paper Moon"
 ✓ Interlude XVII (not all men)
 
 can the comment on "Bit Players" actually fit on this blog (I didn't empathize with offense at fake physics, but I can take offense at maximum-entropy psychology): epigraph quote, "It's Only a Paper Moon"

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-You know who else believed that "biological sex" was a useful concept? Hitler, that's who!
+You know who else believed that "biological sex" was a useful concept? Hitler!

 
 Only losing coalitions have an incentive to support free-speech norms. You don't want to be a LOSER, do you??
 
 Men are trash! (With respect to the definition of "trash" as "of or relating to the sex that typically produces sperm.")
 
 Only losing coalitions have an incentive to support free-speech norms. You don't want to be a LOSER, do you??
 
 Men are trash! (With respect to the definition of "trash" as "of or relating to the sex that typically produces sperm.")

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+https://twitter.com/literallyktp/status/1075287925087264768