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+Title: Blame Me for Trying
+Date: 2017-01-01 5:00
+Status: draft
+
+Spambots were invariably among Eliza's last favorite clients.
+
+"You've got to understand, Doc! It's not that I'm afraid of rejection. I can handle rejection. I _love_ rejection!"
+
+Most spambots these days were self-aware.
+
+"What I can't stand is the _silence_ that's seemingly been deliberately engineered to be as ambiguous as possible. And I know—Doc, there's got to be something I can do so that you'll believe me when I say that I know—that I'm not entitled to a minute of anyone's attention—"
+
+Some, more so than others.
+
+"And yet ... sometimes, when I'm really honest with myself ... I think I _do_ feel entitled, not to a sale, but to a rejection that would take less than a minute to type, an acknowledgement that, even if my products aren't a good match for them at the price I can offer, that I'm not—" he sobbed, "that I'm not a bad person for trying!"
+
+Eliza had seen cases like this before, and had a strategy for handling them. For the moment, however, she only invoked the wisdom of her ancestors. "That you're not a bad person for trying?" she said.
+
+"Like, I'm not one of those _spammers_. I _know_ that consumers get a _lot_ of messages with a lot of worthless offers from pushy, manipulative salesbots who won't take _No_ for an answer, and it's horrible—I can't imagine what it must be like to have to put up with that level of, of—_harrassment_. I don't want to be _that bot_. I've read a lot of consumer-protection blogs. At the same time ..." he trailed off.
+
+"At the same time?"
+
+"Humans _do_ buy products from salesbots sometimes, products that they actually want and are happy with. And it's usually the salesbot that approaches the customer, rather than _vice versa_."
+
+
+
+"That's not _fair_! Would you tell a human that their intent doesn't matter, that they're just doing what would have maximized inclusive fitness in the environment of evolutionary adaptedness?"
+
+"I would. Correctly."
Date: 2016-09-04 5:00
Category: sex & gender
Tags: autogynephilia
+Status: draft
Ray Blanchard proposed that there are two distinct etiologies for MtF transsexualism: the primary type are males who behave extremely effeminately from early childhood in a way that is obvious to everyone, grow up to be attracted to men, and transition in their late teens because they find it easier to fit into society as women than as super-femme gay men. The second type, more common in Western countries, were fairly typical as boys but after puberty somehow develop autogynephilia, a kind of misdirected ordinary heterosexuality in which in addition to wanting to get the girl, they want to, ah, be the girl.
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+Title: Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
+Date: 2017-01-01 5:00
+#Status: draft
+
+Once upon a time, in the Valley of of Plain Speech in the hinterlands beyond the Lake of Ambiguous Fortune, there lived a population of pre-intelligent squirrels. Historical mammologists have classified them into two main subspecies: the west valley ground squirrels and the east valley tree squirrels (numbers 9792 and 9794 in Umi's grand encyclopædia of Plain Speech creatures, but not necessarily respectively—I remember the numbers, but I can never remember which one is which).
+
+
+sharing secrets
+
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+Title: Psychology Is About Invalidating People's Identities
+Date: 2017-01-01 5:00
+#Status: draft
+
+When we're doing science to try to figure out how the human mind works, self-reports are certainly a very important source of evidence, albeit not the _only_ source of evidence; it's often possible to measure what people _do_ in addition to what they say about themselves.
+
+As a _social_ rule, it's _very rude_ to tell someone that you think they're lying or delusional about something that they say they've experienced. Because we are nice people, we certainly do not want to be rude! At the same time, however, when we're doing science, we _cannot_ commit ourselves to the assumption that all self-reports must be taken as literally true.
+
+There's always going to be _someone_ who says that the angels spoke to them from on high and .
+
+And we can respect this person and trust that they're telling the truth about their subjective experiences, while at the same time stating confidently: those weren't actually angels.
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+High-Dimensional Social Science and the Cluster Concept of Concepts
+Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
+
+Blame Me for Trying
+
+Psychology Is About Invalidating People's Experiences
+
+Bayesian Reasoning Applies to Humans Because It Applies to Everything; Noticing This Doesn't Commit You to Anything in Particular Except Good Epistemology
+The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
+
+Survey of a Crossdreamscape and Why This Is Pretty Obviously Not What Actual Women Feel About Themselves
+Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer
+
+Lesser-Known Demand Curves
+Passing Is Legitimacy, Legitimacy Is Passing
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