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Status: draft
-I feel like I've been pretty lazy for the last—ten months? A laziness born out of something like despair, a sense that I've outlived myself, that my story and my world is over, and I'm just enjoying a reasonably comfortable afterlife in—the time we have left. I may have picked up a slight gaming habit (to the tune of 275 hours of _Slay the Spire_ and 660 games of _Super Auto Pets_).
+I feel like I've been pretty lazy for the last—ten months? A laziness born out of resignation and despair, [a sense that I've outlived myself](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4166378/#__sec3title), that my story and my world is over, and I'm just enjoying a reasonably comfortable afterlife in—[the time we have left](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/j9Q8bRmwCgXRYAgcJ/miri-announces-new-death-with-dignity-strategy). I may have picked up a slight gaming habit (to the tune of 275 hours of [_Slay the Spire_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slay_the_Spire) and 660 games of [_Super Auto Pets_](https://teamwoodgames.com/)).
-But it's not, _over_. While the world is still here, I still have something to fight for besides my reasonable comfort—my dignity, if nothing else—and still [(somehow yet still!)](/2017/Nov/the-blockhead/) so much more yet unwritten!
+But it's not, _over_. While the world is still here, I still have something to fight for besides my reasonable comfort—and still [(somehow yet still)](/2017/Nov/the-blockhead/) so much more yet unwritten! If my grandchildren won't read it (because I'm not even on a trajectory to have children, or because the world isn't on a trajectory to last that long), the next generation of language models will.
In December 2018, I [put up a teaser list of post ideas I hadn't then gotten around to writing yet](/2018/Dec/untitled-metablogging-26-december-2018/). To remind myself—and you—that I'm still alive, maybe it's a good time to review how that went so far, and post a new list.
Ideas from the December 2018 list that got published/finished in some form—
* the last part of my planned reply to [Ozy's reply](https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2018/06/18/man-should-allocate-some-more-categories/) to [my reply](http://unremediatedgender.space/2018/Feb/the-categories-were-made-for-man-to-make-predictions/) to [Scott Alexander](https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-made-for-man-not-man-for-the-categories/) got finished in December 2019 as ["Reply to Ozymandias on Fully Consensual Gender"](/2019/Dec/reply-to-ozymandias-on-fully-consensual-gender/)
* the overlap-along-one-dimension-does-not-imply-overlap-in-the-entire-configuration-space thing got briefly [covered on _Less Wrong_ as "The Univariate Fallacy"](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cu7YY7WdgJBs3DpmJ/the-univariate-fallacy) in June 2019
- * the point about how [regression to the mean](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean) unfortunately undermines the st "But group differences to apply to individuals" moral got [covered as part of the coda to my April 2020 [review of the new Charles Murray book](/2020/Apr/book-review-human-diversity/#everyday-base-rates)
- * the thing about minimalist "activism" focused on giving people more accurate information rather than lobbying for particular object-level decisions got mostly covered in September 2021's ["I Don't Do Policy"](/2021/Sep/i-dont-do-policy/) (although I think my original vision for this was a little bit more ambitious)
+ * the point about how [regression to the mean](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean) unfortunately undermines the standard "But group differences to apply to individuals" moral got [covered as part of the coda to my April 2020 [review of the new Charles Murray book](/2020/Apr/book-review-human-diversity/#everyday-base-rates)
+ * the thing about minimalist "activism" focused on giving people more accurate information rather than lobbying for particular object-level decisions got mostly covered in September 2021's ["I Don't Do Policy"](/2021/Sep/i-dont-do-policy/)
* what my autogynephilic fantasy life looks like in detail got covered in May 2021's ["Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems"](/2021/May/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems/)
Ideas remaining from the December 2018 list that I still care about—
- * the regression to the mean thing should be explained in more detail
* "'But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means': Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology"
- * my own take on what's going on with the etiology of MtF
+ * something of my own take on what's going on with the etiology of MtF (more than just punting to [Brown](https://sillyolme.wordpress.com/faq-on-the-science/) or [Lawrence](http://www.annelawrence.com/autogynephilia_&_MtF_typology.html) as my standard reference for the worldview that my stuff takes for granted)
+ * I especially owe this to friend of the blog [Tailcalled](https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/) who has become disillustioned with orthodox "Blanchardianism", and a ten-month laziness spiral of resignation and despair isn't an excuse while the world is, in fact, still here
* the epistemic-horror short stories!!
Ideas from the December 2018 list that I'm [less excited about now and am less likely to finish](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/01/ideas-have-expirations/)—
- * technical exposition of naïve Bayes models for sex categorization
+ * naïve Bayes models for sex categorization
* Codes of Conduct as an ideological enforcement mechanism
* "The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition"
- * [FaceApp](https://faceapp.com/)/Oculus Go book/product reviews
+ * [FaceApp](https://faceapp.com/)/[Oculus Go](https://www.oculus.com/go/) product reviews
Book reviews I'm relatively unlikely to get around to finishing—
- * joint book reivew of Kathleen Stock's _Material Girls_ and Kathryn Paige Harden's _The Genetic Lottery_ [TODO: subtitles]
+ * joint book reivew of Kathleen Stock's _Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism_ and Kathryn Paige Harden's _The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality_
+ * the subtitle parallelism is charming, and the willingness to face facts that are inconvenient to one's value-commitments while staying true to those values is _on theme_ for this blog
* [_Nevada_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_(Binnie_novel))
- * Multi-Book Review: Various Sex-Ed Books for Children [TODO]
+ *
+ * Multi-Book Review: Various Sex-Ed Books for Children
New list of more ideas I want to finish—
- * the Whole Dumb Story of this blog and my breakup with the so-called "rationalist" community (working title: "A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning")
+ * the Whole Dumb Story of my breakup with the so-called "rationalist" community (working title: "A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning")
* [TODO this has been going on forever]
- * book review of the _new_ new Charles Murray book that's _actually_ about the thing that everyone assumes all of his previous books were about
+ * book review of [the _new_ new Charles Murray book](https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/inconvenient-truths/) that's _actually_ about the thing that everyone assumes all of his previous books were about
* speculative but deeply-researched [TODO] (working title: "Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data")
- * a guest post by GPT-3
- * my medianworld
+ * speculations about my ["medianworld"](https://www.glowfic.com/replies/1619639#reply-1619639) (a worldbuilding exercise from the [Glowfic](https://www.glowfic.com/) community,
* [TODO] more math about regression to the mean
- * I owe Tracing Woodgrains a linkpost-with-commentary to his nice essay about me
+ * I owe Tracing Woodgrains a linkpost-with-commentary to his [nice essay about me]()
* reply to Scott Alexander's ["Autogenderphilia Is Common and Not Especially Related to Transgender"](https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/02/10/autogenderphilia-is-common-and-not-especially-related-to-transgender/)
* [TODO] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WikzbCsFjpLTRQmXn/declustering-reclustering-and-filling-in-thingspace
* [TODO] (working title: "Subspatial Distribution Overlap and Cancellable Stereotypes")
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