picking the gift on the right
-"Becoming What We Love"
+ppl have heard a strawman of the theory, not read "Becoming What We Love"
two fictional case studies: one with childhood AGP and interpersonal fantasy, another like me (Ranma 1/2, transformation fantasies, sex differences denial, encountering AGP first)
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+Title: Don't Negotiate With Terrorist Memeplexes; Or, Why I Don't Care About Your Feelings
+Date: 2020-01-01
+Category: commentary
+Tags: cathartic, discourse
+Status: draft
+
+There's this slogan meant to illustrate a principle in game theory: "Don't negotiate with terrorists." Imagine you're a political leader and terrorists have taken some of your people hostage and promise to release them if you meet their demands. You should refuse the deal, the argument goes, no matter how much you desperately want your people back safe, because agreeing would create an incentive for the terrorists to take more hostages; if you're the kind of agent that pays ransoms, blackmailing you is a reliable profit opportunity (["For the end of that game is oppression and shame, / And the nation that pays it is lost!"](http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/kipling/dane_geld.html)).
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+New ideas are constantly being invented and talked about in the world; some of them catch on, and spread, and spawn entire subcultures and political movements. Given that ideas vary, replicate themselves (from mind to mind, by means of speech or writing), and moreover, _aren't equally good_ and replicating themselves
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+There is this beautiful feeling at the center of my life that has shaped me more than almost anything else
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+... the scintillating but ultimately untrue thought.
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+This is _really important information_. This is the sort of thing that should just be in the standard sex-ed book you read at age 15 rather than having to piece it together yourself at age 28
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+not because I don't think people should transition—but because information will help people make the right choice
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+Ah, I'm in the same taxon as lesbian trans women, and heterosexual crossdressers, and "bigender" people who are on low-dose hormones and choose how to "present" in different social venues
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+(yes, there are political concerns with trans acceptance, but this should be the _end state_)
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+whereas you might make poorer choices in the regeme where everyone has to figure it out for themselves in an environment of misinformation about "gender identity"
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+at least one person—and I don't think they were particularly _unusual_, either; I think to no small extent this is just the default thing that happens when nice, smart people go to a progressive university and believe everything their gender studies professors tell them—
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+It didn't feel like I was talking to a person who happened to have different beliefs from me about the etiology of transsexuality.
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+It didn't feel like I was talking to a _person_ at all.
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+It _felt like_ I was talking to an AI designed to maximize the number of trans people.
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+I agree that for ppl who have _already_ bought the trans narrative, learning this information would damage their self-concept
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+but, conditional on it being true, do you really want to double-down on the lie forever!?!?
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+if you've based your identity around something so fragile that science can threaten you, maybe basing your identity that way was _not a good idea_
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+If being a good person means submitting to social pressure aimed at getting me to _shut up and stop thinking_ about the true nature of the beautiful feeling at the center of my life for _twenty-five fucking years_ (!?), then I have _no interest_ in being a good person.
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+I'm certainly not _trying_ to say things that will hurt people—least of all people who are mostly just like me but read different books in a different order and are living out a pretty decent approximation of _my wildest fantasy_.
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+if I say something _factually incorrect_, that's something I take very seriously, and I'll do everything in my poer
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+But if, in the course of trying to say something I find true, or insightful, or cathartic, or even just _funny_, I end up saying something that people find offensive or hurtful or disrespectful ...
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+I don't care. I just really, fundamentally _do not care_ anymore. I can't afford to. Don't negotiate with terrorists.
https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2013/08/31/it-must-be-said/
+the people you're afraid of aren't going to read a blog whose URL is _unremediatedgender.space_
+
[Felix Conrad](http://transcendmovement.com/felix-conrad-confesses-that-he-secretly-believes-in-autogynephilia/)—
> Imagine the following scenario: a researcher discovers that one ethnic group has a lower IQ than another and that the cause is genetic–not educational. In my opinion that research is as dangerous as a toxic virus and I’d wipe any hard drive that contained such research. That is intellectual integrity in my opinion.
Funny you should mention that!
_Someone_ has to be _that asshole_ who says the true thing that everyone else is too cowardly to say, and I guess it's going to have to be me, Taylor Saotome-Westlake.
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-Title: Why I Don't Care About Your Feelings
-Date: 2020-01-01
-Category: commentary
-Tags: cathartic, discourse
-Status: draft
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-Ideally, there should be no place for hostility or ridicule in intellectual discourse. You should never be trying to "win" an argument "against" an "opponent"; you should be sharing evidence and arguments to help both you and your interlocutor in your shared goal of attaining a more accurate view of reality, and as part of doing this, you probably want to maintain a respectful and nice (or at least neutral) tone.
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-Ideally, it's desirable to hold to these norms even if your interlocutor doesn't: if they say that you're stupid and evil, you can just say that you can understand why they might think that you're stupid and evil, but that the question of whether you're stupid and evil is independent of the topic at hand, about which you continue to maintain that X because of evidence A, B, and C.
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-Ideally.
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-But just a conversation partner who strays from these cooperative discourse norms probably does so because they're human and have feelings, I'm human, too. I have feelings, too. And sometimes, I want to express them.
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-There is this beautiful feeling at the center of my life that has shaped me more than almost anything else
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-... the scintillating but ultimately untrue thought.
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-_Yes_, I'm upset. _Yes_, I'm angry.
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-I'm certainly not _trying_ to say things that will hurt people, least of all people who are mostly just like me but read different books in a different order and are living out a pretty decent approximation of _my wildest fantasy_. But if, in the course of trying to say something I find true, or insightful, or even just funny, I end up saying something that people find offensive or hurtful or disrespectful ...
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-I don't care. I just really, fundamentally _do not care_ anymore. I can't afford to.
Blame Me for Trying
core commentary—
-Why I Don't Care About Your Feelings
-Someone Has To Say It
+Don't Negotiate With Terrorist Memeplexes; Or, Why I Don't Care About Your Feelings
+Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
High-Dimensional Social Science and the Cluster Concept of Concepts
Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition
-Using Simple But Flawed Models Is Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model
The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
-Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals
+Using Simple But Flawed Models Is Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model
Survey of a Crossdreamscape and Why This Is Pretty Obviously Not What Cis Women Feel About Themselves
+Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals ("trans" vs. "cis" only makes sense if the gradient between full-transition intervention and no intervention is sufficiently sharp)
My Story
-Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer
other commentary—
Faster Than Science (if not super-femme, there must be some other reason ...)
psychological sex differences aren't real, but gender identity is?? always nurture except when politically convenient
-Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See
+Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See (this is important for the Bayes crowd)
Bucketing (go through Wikipedia list of trans women, categorize everyone)
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+Someone Has To Say It
criticism—
Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman (critique of https://medium.com/@jencoates/i-am-a-transwoman-i-am-in-the-closet-i-am-not-coming-out-4c2dd1907e42#.5dlc2qog6)
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