> The Other's theory of themselves usually does not make them look terrible. And you will not have much luck just yelling at them about how they must *really* be doing terrible_thing instead. That's woke filter bubble thinking. I stopped talking to Michael when he went that way.
https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1435619618052214787
+The fact that I flipped out at Nate's dolphin thing was a misplay on my part, but it generated more Twitter discussion (including Eliezer's "never told anyone to go trans" remarks and Vorobey's comments) makes it a "win" for the cause even if I was out of line? My freaking out was "rational".
But I think Eliezer and I _agree_ on what he's doing; he just doesn't see it's bad
I really appreciated Anatoly Vorobey's comments:
+https://twitter.com/avorobey/status/1404769388969054210
+
> to provide context how it may (justifiably?) seem like over the last 7-8 years the rat. community largely fell *hard* for a particular gender philosophy
> ... fell for it in ways that seemed so spectacularly uncritical, compared to other beliefs carefully examined and dissected, and more so, even justified with a veneer of "rationality" (as in Scott's Categories post) that beautifully coincided with the tumblr dogma of the time...
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the younger son also claiming broke suspension of disbelief
https://lgbtcouragecoalition.substack.com/p/true-believer
-2022 Moser/Bailey/Serano debate (I want PDFs of these)
-https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-022-02418-0
-https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-022-02414-4
-https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-022-02482-6
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I agree that people who have prior reasons to be skeptical of survey evidence should be upfront about those reasons, rather than opportunistically objecting to particular questions when that's not their [true rejection](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/TGux5Fhcd7GmTfNGC/is-that-your-true-rejection).
https://unherd.com/thepost/calls-for-violence-in-the-trans-debate-only-come-from-one-side/
Blanchard: "What I think is that people are born with predispositions or vulnerabilities to a kind of erotic miss-learning" quoted in https://since2010.substack.com/p/is-autogynephilia-innate
+https://www.natesilver.net/p/twitter-elon-and-the-indigo-blob
+
+https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/gender-criticism-versus-gender-abolition-on-three-recent-books-about-gender/
+
+https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/15hhliu/the_chen_2023_paper_raises_serious_concerns_about/
+
+Everybody knows! https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/06/third-of-britons-dont-know-trans-women-born-male/
+
+Alex Byrne podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/956725/13282940-gender-pronouns-and-linguistic-negotiation
+
-May—
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-UUT—
-_ I'm Dropping the Pseudonym From This Blog
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-memoir pt. 1–3—
-_ Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer (March 2016–December 2017)
-_ People, Evolved Social-Control Mechanisms, and Rocks (January 2017–April 2017)
-_ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning (November 2018–April 2019)
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_ Reply to Scott Alexander on Autogenderphilia
-_ Book Review: Imogen Binnie's Nevada
_ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
_ If Clarity Seems Like Death to Them (April 2019–January 2021)
_ Standing Under the Same Sky (December 2022)
_ The Last Indictment (January 2023–July 2023)
-Minor camera-ready—
-_ Janet Mock on Late Transitioners
-_ Interlude XXII
Minor—
+_ subspace
+_ newer Haskell surveys?
+_ Book Review: Imogen Binnie's Nevada
_ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality (short version)
_ Beyond the Binary
_ Happy Meal
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words per year—
-2022: 31900 (total); 29600 (UUT), 2300 (LW)
-2021: 43300 (total); 21600 (UUT), 21700 (LW)
-2020: 42400 (total); 23900 (UUT), 18500 (LW)
-2019: 30200 (total); 10500 (UUT), 19700 (LW)
-2018: 18700 (UUT)
-2017: 20900 (UUT)
-2016: 5900 (UUT)
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+2017: 27300 (total); 20900 (UUT), 6400 (aAL)
+2016: 23100 (total); 5900 (UUT), 17200 (aAL)
+2015: 12100 (total); 12100 (aAL)
+2014: 6400 (total); 6400 (aAL)
+2013: 23500 (total); 23500 (aAL)
+2012: 20300 (total); 20300 (aAL)
+2011: 1800 (total); 1800 (aAL)
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