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), epistemic horror, game theory, intelligence, ideology, race, sex differences, Emacs, politics, probability, stigma, topology, COVID-19
+Tags: Charles Murray, review (book), bullet-biting, 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, 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!
https://newthoughtcrime.com/
https://www.reddit.com/r/GenderCritical/comments/dy7241/peak_trans_x_tell_your_story_here/fp37ft6/
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+https://web.archive.org/web/20180418215634/https://www.pride.com/viral/2018/4/17/internet-head-over-heels-adorable-openly-gay-3-year-old
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_ 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
_ Film Review: Your Name
+_ World of Masks https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1228093035042541569
_ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
LW/aAL—
_ Selective Reporting and Clustering
_ Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization—marginally neglected truths are more
+_ How they Pin It Down: Equal Environments Assumption Edition https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cXzTpSiCrNGzeoRAz/conjunction-controversy-or-how-they-nail-it-down
_ Social Construction is an Embedded Agency Problem
it's important to have language for psychology because you can't point to pictures
* EY was right about "men need to think about themselves _as men_" (find cite)
* wipe culturally defined values
* finding things in the refrigerator
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+* Faster Than Science, Transgender Edition
My ideological committment to psychological-sex-differences denialism made me uncomfortable when the topic of sex differences happened to come up on the blog—which wasn't particularly often, but in such a vast, sprawling body of work as the Sequences, it occasionally turned out to be relevant in a discussion of evolution or human values.
For example,
"the love of a man for a woman, and the love of a woman for a man, have not been cognitively derived from each other or from any other value."
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+https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NnohDYHNnKDtbiMyp/fake-utility-functions
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