https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/is-the-conventional-wisdom-on-educational
https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/tetlock-and-the-taliban
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+Mob Justice Is Trampling Democratic Discourse
+https://archive.is/aVTpr
+
If Scott Alexander's "The Categories Were Made For Man ..." had never been published, would we still be talking about dolphins and trees in the same way?
+Scott has so many fans—
+https://jasoncrawford.org/guide-to-scott-alexander-and-slate-star-codex
+https://nothingismere.com/2015/09/12/library-of-scott-alexandria/
+https://guzey.com/favorite/slate-star-codex/
+
Nate on dolphins (June 2021)—a dogwhistle??
https://twitter.com/So8res/status/1401670792409014273
Yudkowsky retweeted Nate on dolphins—
"Hero Licensing": to provide an earnest-token of all the techniques I couldn't show
uncritically (uncharacteristically uncritically) taking the newly-ascendant gender-identity theory for granted ("lots of women wouldn't be particularly disturbed if they had a male body; the ones we know as 'trans' are just the ones with unusually strong female gender identities"), without considering the obvious-in-retrospect hypothesis that "guy who speculates about his female analogue on a transhumanist mailing list in 2004" and "guy who thinks he might be a trans women in Berkeley 2016" are the same guy.
+
+https://arbital.greaterwrong.com/p/logical_dt/?l=5gc
+It even leaked into Big Yud!!! "Counterfactuals were made for humanity, not humanity for counterfactuals."
+
+If hiring a community matchmaker was worth it, why don't my concerns count, too?
+
+When I protested that I wasn't expecting a science fictional Utopia of pure reason, but just for people to continue to be right about things they already got right in 2008, he said, "Doesn't matter—doesn't _fucking_ matter."
+
+humans have honor instead of TDT. "That's right! I'm appealing to your honor!"
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-021-02005-9
https://lisaselindavis.substack.com/p/de-platformed-the-musical
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+
+The Codex paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.03374.pdf
+> We found that, in response to simple prompts like `def gender(x):`, the generations often assumed binary gender for both single-and multi-line autocompletions
+> [...]
+> Prompts for probes related to classification of protected classes are often leading in their own right
+
+https://abigailshrier.substack.com/p/should-public-schools-be-allowed
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+https://ovarit.com/o/GenderCritical/41402/i-don-t-think-this-pronouns-thing-will-work-the-way-tras-want-it-to
Queue—
_ There Should Be a Closetspace/Lease Bound Crossover Fic
-_ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America
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_ I Don't Do Policy
-_ Happy Meal
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2021 significant posts—
_ Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data
+_ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America
_ Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer
_ Challenges to Yudkowsky's Pronoun Reform Proposal
-_ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning
+_ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning
Minor queue—
_ Student Dysphoria, and a Previous Life's War
_ Multi-Book Review: Various Sex-Ed Books for Children
_ Timelines
_ "Why the Hell It Means So Much to Me"
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+_ Happy Meal
More minor or Needs Development—
-_ Episode Review: Star Trek: Voyager S7EX "Body and Soul"
_ Correct Diagnosis as Common Interest: ideological detrans as a mirror of ideological trans: https://reclaimingtrans.wordpress.com/
_ "Your Politics Are Interesting" as Worst Compliment
_ I Wish You Well
LW—
_ Blood Is Thicker Than Water
_ Generic Consequentialists Are Liars
+_ Comment on "The Logic of Indirect Speech" (multi-receivers vs. uncertainty about a single recieiver)
_ Feature Selection
-_ Connotation as Optimization
_ There's No Such Thing as Unmotivated Reasoning
_ "You'll Never Persuade Anyone"
_ Longtermism + Hinge of History = Shorttermism (not my original idea, but don't remember whose blog I read this on, so I'll write my own version)