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  * because there's moralistic pressure to be on the Blue Team, people who aren't willing to play that game anymore are tempted to just slap a negative sign on the Blue message
     * obviously, this is really bad
 
-MAIN PURPOSE OF THIS POST: An apology (both senses, probably) for the "cathartic" tag on my blog.
+MAIN PURPOSE OF THIS POST: An apology (both "an expression of remorse" and "a formal defense") for the "cathartic" tag on my blog.
 
 political spectra are dimensionality reductions
 
 the thrill of being an intellectual rebel: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/7nffem/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_january_1/ds8krmb/
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+I've gotten praise from trans-activist-adj-types for "Lesser-Known Demand Curves", and from TERFs for "Don't Negotiate"; if I could just get them to praise the _same post_, then I know I will have succeeded as a writer

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 Cut from "Reply to The Unit" (too far afield, not sure what point I'm trying to make): speculating about unproven sex differences isn't _quite_ as prejudicial as it sounds: if a 19th century scholar, knowing nothing of sex chromosomes, had reasoned, "Whatever the physical mechanism of heredity turns out to be, it probably distinguishes between males and females". (Is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature-dependent_sex_determination a counterexample or the dreaded "example that proves the rule" like pipefish or the Eurasian dotterel?)
 
-the ultimate AGP weekend project: http://svencharleer.com/blog/2018/02/02/family-fun-with-deepfakes-or-how-i-got-my-wife-onto-the-tonight-show/
+the ultimate AGP weekend project (like crossdressing, but with more code): http://svencharleer.com/blog/2018/02/02/family-fun-with-deepfakes-or-how-i-got-my-wife-onto-the-tonight-show/
 
 "right"-aligned folk like to say the IAT is "pseudoscientific bullshit", but what if those failed replications are just committing Goldberg's "fallacy of the irrelevant experiment"? Here's a pro-IAT _and_ pro-stereotype-accuracy take: "blacks are violent" stereotype strength varies with local crime rates http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1948550617753522 (via https://twitter.com/mjbsp/status/983338239221293057)
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+want to get around to watching this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDDIWGlBt3o
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+Tips for arguing with libtards:
+ * They don't like the "Don't negotiate with terrorists" frame because they don't understand analogies; need to find gentler frames
+ * They'll believe that you're AGP, but they don't want you to say that other people are AGP because they don't understand that the self is still a part of objective reality; need to explain why it matters
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+Consider an illustrative diagram in which there is a hard line in the combined height–weight configuration space, but the line isn't describable in terms of height or weight alone. If there were sufficiently many more traits/dimensions, we could imagine "not describable in terms of some small number of variables n" starting to look more like "not explicitly describable by humans."
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+(not gender-related but I don't have a good notes system): E. Weinstein on IQ: https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/987833935185952768
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+"Prenatal endocrine influences on sexual orientation and on sexually differentiated childhood behavior" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3296090/

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-Reply to the Unit of Caring on Adult Human Females
+Laser 4
+Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ...
 Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
-_ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition
+_ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition: Beyond Maximum-Entropy Psychology
 Nonbinary Possibilities (working title)
+Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean
+Q The Gender Czar's Compromise
+Friendship Practices of ...
+"Love Like You"
+Blindspot
 
 
 IDEAS STOCKPILE—
 Q Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman
-Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ...
 Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History ...
-
 _ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
 Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model 
 Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See
 * Mary's Room
 Q The Hand I Was Dealt
-
 "diagonalize" http://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/ by running the research paper it was based on through it
-
 Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals
 Product Review: FaceApp
 ✓ Interlude XII (four lights)
 Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition)
 Q Book Review: Nevada
 Q Memoirs of My Recent Madness, Part II: Friendship Survived
-Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean
-Q The Gender Czar's Compromise
 Threnody for the Transhumanism of My Youth
 of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point
 Lies to Cis People Are, Unfortunately, Still Lies 
@@ -44,8 +44,5 @@ Q This Is Worth a Fight
 reply to https://theunitofcaring.tumblr.com/post/171986501376/your-post-on-definition-of-gender-and-woman-and (earlier in series: https://theunitofcaring.tumblr.com/post/171980730996)
 
 FICTION QUEUE (6)—
-Friendship Practices of ...
-"Love Like You"
-Blindspot
 story of Gina and Vern selected for GNC
 story about women engineers and male businesspeople