The variety store had these little nylon–polyester flags, not just for countries, but also the various Pride identity flags—and not only the famous ones like the rainbow flag and the the trans pride flag, either, but also really obscure ones that I wasn't previously aware of, like the [leather](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leather_Pride_flag) and [bear](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_flag_(gay_culture)) pride flags. (It's the part of town where this was entirely unsurprising.)
-No [AGP flag](http://archive.loveisover.me/lgbt/thread/8628058), though. Obviously. (Someday ...)
+No AGP flag, though. Obviously. (Someday ...)
I went to the bookstore I visited [last time](/2017/Nov/laser-1/). They had instrumental _Chanukah_ music playing. I took notice of one of the little flyers taped in the window of the front door, for a local trans writer's workshop. (Again, that part of town.) "Rules: No jerks. No cis people. That's all," it said. I noticed that I was genuinely uncertain as to whether I would count as zero, one, or two of those things—although I _probably_ shouldn't try to join and find out.
Title: Does General Intelligence Deflate Standardized Effect Sizes of Cognitive Sex Differences?
Date: 2019-09-01 22:50
Category: commentary
-Tags: statistics, sex differences
+Tags: statistics, Python, sex differences
Marco del Guidice[ref]I was telling friend of the blog [Tailcalled](https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/) the other week that we really need to start a Marco del Guidice Fan Club![/ref] points out[ref]Marco del Guidice, ["Measuring Sex Differences and Similarities"](https://marcodgdotnet.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/delgiudice_measuring_sex-differences-similarities_pre.pdf), §2.3.3, "Measurement Error and Other Artifacts"[/ref] that in the presence of measurement error, standardized effect size measures like [Cohen's _d_](https://rpsychologist.com/d3/cohend/) will underestimate the "true" effect size.
Economists have a name for this kind of situation. [Gresham's Law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law): bad money drives out good. In contexts where custom requires that defaced Canadian dollars be regarded as equivalent to U.S. dollars, maybe everyone will smile and pretend not to notice the difference.
-_They will be lying_. In marketplaces governed by "trans American dollars _are_ American dollars" social norms, smart buyers will prefer to buy with defaced Canadian dollars, and smart sellers will try to find plausibly-deniable excuses to not accept them ("That'll be $5." "Here you go! A completely normal, definitely non-suspicious American $5 bill!" "_Ooh_, you know what, actually we _just_ sold out"), because everyone knows[ref]Except [not everyone knows](https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2019/07/02/everybody-knows/). What actually happens is that the original "U.S. dollar" concept [coexists with the debased one](http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/excerpts-from-a-larger-discussion-about-simulacra/), and savvy people who understand what's going on can arbitrage the equivocation to [expropriate from those who are less savvy](http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/blame-games/).[/ref]
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-that when it comes time to interact with the larger banking system, the two types of dollars won't be regarded as being of equal value. Never doubting the value of other people's currency may be basic human decency, but if so, the market [interprets basic human decency as damage and routes around it](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Gilmore).
+_They will be lying_. In marketplaces governed by "trans American dollars _are_ American dollars" social norms, smart buyers will prefer to buy with defaced Canadian dollars, and smart sellers will try to find plausibly-deniable excuses to not accept them ("That'll be $5." "Here you go! A completely normal, definitely non-suspicious American $5 bill!" "_Ooh_, you know what, actually we _just_ sold out"), because everyone knows[ref]Except [not everyone knows](https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2019/07/02/everybody-knows/). What actually happens is that the original "U.S. dollar" concept [coexists with the debased one](http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/excerpts-from-a-larger-discussion-about-simulacra/), and savvy people who understand what's going on can arbitrage the equivocation to [expropriate from those who are less savvy](http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/blame-games/).[/ref] that when it comes time to interact with the larger banking system, the two types of dollars won't be regarded as being of equal value. Never doubting the value of other people's currency may be basic human decency, but if so, the market [interprets basic human decency as damage and routes around it](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Gilmore).
Similarly, there seem to be increasingly large subsets of Society in which it's _incredibly rude_ to question someone's stated gender. But even if everyone _says_ "Trans women are women" and uses the right pronouns solely on the basis of self-reported self-identity with no questions asked and no one batting an eye, it's not clear that this constitutes successfully entering a "fully consensual gender" regime insofar as people following their own self-interest are likely to systematically make _decisions_ that treat non-well-passing trans women as if they were something more like men, even if no one would dream of being so rude as to _admit out loud_ that that's what they're doing.
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I don't think we're in equilibrium; I don't think everyone knows what's going on
"For goodness sake, I mean your pronouns are on your damned jacket!" https://twitter.com/BrieCayne/status/1221212541977800704
academic freedom on campus: https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-university-of-washington-should-not.html
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+https://www.unz.com/isteve/post-gay-marriage-cont/
+_ Book Review: Charles Murray's Human Diversity (UUT)
_ "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity ... (UUT)
_ Contra Scott Alexander on Mental Illness; Or, Oh God, Please Don't (aAL/LW)
_ Algorithmic Intent: A Hansonian Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle (LW)
+_ Intrumental Categories, Wireheading, and War (LW)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalmatophilia "An important fantasy for some individuals is being transformed into the preferred object (such as a statue) and experiencing an associated state of immobility or paralysis."
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+conservatives complain about low-time preference ppl having too many kids—but from a evolutionary perspective, they're more evolutionarily fit
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+creepy, crazy, or protected-class
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+Elision _vs_. Choice
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The Wisdom of Nature (I like the idea of transhumanism, but in practice, biology is just too complicated)
The Strategy of "Apartment Patty"
Anne Lawrence on AGP Teen Transition
Anne Lawrence on Unapologetic Autogynephilic Transsexualism
-Elision _vs_. Choice
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Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization
One-Way Trolls
-Book Review: Human Diversity
-Book Review: The Origins of Inequality
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explain my blunder in https://twitter.com/jessi_cata/status/1188567229987577856
reply to https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/the-mathematical-consequences-of-a-toy-model-of-gender-transition/
projects / Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git / commitdiff