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 Title: Book Review: Charles Murray's <em>Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class</em>
 Date: 2020-04-28 10:22
 Category: commentary
-Tags: Charles Murray, review (book), game theory, intelligence, race, sex differences, Emacs, politics, probability, topology, COVID-19
+Tags: Charles Murray, review (book), epistemic horror, game theory, intelligence, ideology, race, sex differences, Emacs, politics, probability, stigma, topology, COVID-19
 
-[This is a pretty good book](https://www.twelvebooks.com/titles/charles-murray/human-diversity/9781538744000/) about things we know about some ways in which people are different from each other, including differences in _cognitive repertoires_ (Murray's choice of phrase for shaving nine syllables off "personality, abilities, and social behavior"). In [my last book review](/2020/Jan/book-review-the-origins-of-unfairness/), I mentioned that I had been thinking about broadening the topic scope of this blog, and this book review seems like an okay place to start!
+[This is a pretty good book](https://www.twelvebooks.com/titles/charles-murray/human-diversity/9781538744000/) about things we know about some ways in which people are different from each other, particularly differences in _cognitive repertoires_ (Murray's choice of phrase for shaving nine syllables off "personality, abilities, and social behavior"). In [my last book review](/2020/Jan/book-review-the-origins-of-unfairness/), I mentioned that I had been thinking about broadening the topic scope of this blog, and this book review seems like an okay place to start!
 
 Honestly, I feel like I already knew most of this stuff?—sex differences in particular are kind of _my bag_—but many of the details were new to me, and it's nice to have it all bundled together in a paper book with lots of citations that I can chase down later when I'm skeptical or want more details about a specific thing! The main text is littered with pleonastic constructions like "The first author was Jane Thisand-Such" (when discussing the results of a multi-author paper) or "Details are given in the note<sup>[n]</sup>", which feel clunky to read, but are _so much better_ than the all-too-common alternative of authors _not_ "showing their work".
 

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 Sneer Club!
 https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/fw9cng/the_lgbt_activist_machinery_instead_adapted/
 https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/fw9cng/the_lgbt_activist_machinery_instead_adapted/fmpao3e/?context=3
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+https://archive.is/bPPyk
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+https://www.queermajority.com/essays-all/questioning-sexual-identities

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 ## A Book Review
 
-Someone wrote a blog post reviewing a book by some sociologist named Murray. Never heard of him. Anyway, I couldn't get through the whole thing because the reviewer has this _really obnoxious_ writing style that uses way too many italics and exclamation points (as well as occasional weirdly out-of-place cuss words?!), but I did notice that he (?) links to _Less Wrong_ a few times, which is something I don't see "in the wild" very often these days, so I "thought it couldn't hurt" to share the link here in case one of you happens to find it interesting??
+Someone wrote a blog post reviewing a book by some sociologist named Murray. Never heard of him. Anyway, I couldn't get through the whole thing because the reviewer has this _really obnoxious_ writing style that uses way too many italics and exclamation points (as well as occasional weirdly out-of-place cuss words?!), but I did notice that he (?) links to _Less Wrong_ a few times, which is something I don't see "in the wild" very often these days, so I "thought it couldn't hurt" to share the link here in case one of you happens to find it interesting?? (April 2020, ~11,200 words)
 
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 Choir
 
+It's actually HELPFUL when friends point out an insonsistency between my self-report and my behavior. Ben asked, "Do you care about that?" And I said, "No", and Ben said, "I think you partially care, which is why you're so upset about this"
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 "The Distance Between Mars and Venus: Measuring Global Sex Differences in Personality" http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0029265
 
 Stop Expecting Social Reality to Make Sense
@@ -1563,6 +1567,8 @@ reply: "I'm not sure she's old enough to understand the implications of naming y
 
 22 Apr: and she buried her face in her arms and was like "but I'm your son" in this pathetically squeaky voice.  (I don't think she's updated to "daughter"?)
 
+growth chart
+
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 smart fascism—
@@ -1785,3 +1791,11 @@ https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2020/04/25/no-more-lies-dissenting-from-gend
 > by making non-procreative sex the new norm for everyone, a norm achieved primarily by chemical interference with female bodily functions, we ceased to be men and women and became merely heterosexuals and homosexuals. It was no very large step from there to seeing our dimorphic nature, our sexual complementarity, as lacking any real significance next to the pursuit of sexual pleasure and emotional thrills.
 
 Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land, pitied the in-betweeners
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+https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/T8eKL6xdfL4yA2kvg/genetic-enhancement-as-a-cause-area
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+https://www.reddit.com/r/GenderCritical/comments/gc6iye/im_a_lesbian_and_a_leftist_but_mtf_trans_lesbians/
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+https://newthoughtcrime.com/
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+https://www.reddit.com/r/GenderCritical/comments/dy7241/peak_trans_x_tell_your_story_here/fp37ft6/

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-Scheduled—
-27 Apr Peering Through Reverent Fingers
-28 Apr Book Review: Charles Murray's Human Diversity
-29 Apr Teleology
-
-
 Main path (important posts)—
+_ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems
 _ Intrumental Categories, Wireheading, and War (LW)
 _ Elision _vs_. Choice (working title)
 _ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
-_ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems
 _ "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity ... (UUT)
 _ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
 
+Special—
+_ theory of MMB's transition
+
 
 UUT—
+_ "I Hope You're Happy, California"
+_ Student Dysphoria; Or, Comparing This to a Previous Life's War
 _ Beyond the Binary
+_ The Feeling Is Mutual
 _ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
 _ Walker correspondence
-_ The Feeling Is Mutual
-_ I, Too, Dislike It (Captions): sexuality stays with the body— http://theinsomniactg.blogspot.com/2019/07/knocked-out-of-my-body.html
+_ 30 Years of the Blank Slate (Cosmides-Tooby/Pinker/Murray)
+_ Reply to Thirty-Three on "religion" terminology
+_ I, Too, Dislike It (Captions): sexuality stays with the body— http://theinsomniactg.blogspot.com/2019/07/knocked-out-of-my-body.html  long term job interview: http://tgswappingcaps.blogspot.com/2020/05/join-fun-explicit.html?zx=cfb49b0a1e868cdc
 _ Travis's Trilemma: Creepy, Crazy, or Protected-Class (working title)
 _ Reply to Ozymandias on Lesbians and on Single-Sex Spaces
 _ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
 _ Answers on Great Divides: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/08/questions-for-great-divides.html
-_ Challenges of Mounting an Ideological Crusade
+_ Film Review: Your Name
+_ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
 
 LW/aAL—
 _ Algorithmic Intent: A Hansonian Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle (LW)
 _ Zoom vs. EMH (LW)
 _ Comment on "Endogenous Epistemic Factionalization"
-_ Skyrms on Deception
+_ Signals, Deception, and the Precession of Simulacra
 
+_ Comment on Wireheading /r/rational
 _ Contra Scott Alexander on Mental Illness; Or, Oh God, Please Don't (aAL/LW)
 _ Selective Reporting and Clustering
 _ Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization—marginally neglected truths are more 
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 Vocabulary as Capital Investment
 
+_ Challenges of Mounting an Ideological Crusade
+
 B.F. being smart-but-dense
 
 how taxonomy/typology emerges from Bayesian networks
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 _ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More
-_ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
+
 _ "I Will Fight [...]": LGBT Patriotism and the Moral Fine-Tuning Objection
 
 _ ℝ40