I'm worried about the failure mode where bright young minds [lured in](http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/construction-beacons/) by the beautiful propaganda about _systematically correct reasoning_, are instead recruited into what is, effectively, the Eliezer-Yudkowsky-and-Scott-Alexander fan club.
> I'm not trying to get Eliezer or "the community" to take a public stance on gender politics; I'm trying to get us to take a stance in favor of the kind of epistemology that we were doing in 2008. It turns out that epistemology has implications for gender politics which are unsafe, but that's more inferential steps, and ... I guess I just don't expect the sort of people who would punish good epistemology to follow the inferential steps? Maybe I'm living in the should-universe a bit here, but I don't think it "should" be hard for Eliezer to publicly say, "Yep, categories aren't arbitrary because you need them to carve reality at the joints in order to make probabilistic inferences, just like I said in 2008; this is obvious."
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+Scott got a lot of pushback just for including the blog that I showed him in a links post (Times have changed! BBL is locally quasi-mainstream after Ozy engaged)
That carefree selfishness is gone now, subordinated to the war effort. And so soon after the last war, too.
-The first shots of the last war came in December 2007. I was a schoolstudent at the University in Santa Cruz. Coming into that quarter, I had been excited to take the famous Introduction to Feminisms course, only to find, as the quarter wore on, that it seemed to be taught in a dialect of English I could not speak.
+The first shots of the last war came in December 2007. I was a schoolstudent at the University in Santa Cruz. Coming into that quarter, I had been excited to take the famous "Introduction to Feminisms" course, only to find, as the quarter wore on, that it seemed to be taught in a dialect of English I could not speak.
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+Title: Elision <em>vs.</em> Choice
+Date: 2020-01-01
+Category: commentary
+Tags: categorization
+Status: draft
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+> 'do gender less, confine it to less, use it for less, and use other words for the boxes if you can'
https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/11/30/36431918/if-the-future-is-nonbinary-its-a-bleak-one-for-women
-"Obviously I socially gender him as male as per his preference."
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-"I wouldn't call it a 'preference' exactly."
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-"I gender him male as per his philosophical commitments"
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https://www.theverge.com/2014/4/28/5661118/lab-mice-fear-men-not-women-big-problem-for-science
Mad Ouroboros on the Somewhere Else Discord speculates that "don't call me cis" gendercrits and AFAB enbies are having the same internal gender experience
"Power that is not aligned with natural law leads to evil, because it requires constantly denying reality and punishing dissenters."
"OK, but I still want my own breasts"
-Scott got a lot of pushback just for including the blog that I showed him in a links post (Times have changed! BBL is locally quasi-mainstream after Ozy engaged)
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but I am starting to get a more detailed appreciation of how the thing-that-is-good-that-I-want-to-call-"individualism" has a lot of missing implementation details; "Everyone's self-reported self-identity must be uncritically respected" social norms are trying to maximize a certain kind of individual choice (you not only get to choose your gender, you can even write-in a new one!), but that choice is taking place in the context of a very specific delusional cultural environment that penalizes other kinds of individual choices (like criticizing the delusions)
I'm sad that my update from "Blanchard is probably wrong because everyone's self-report says it's wrong" to "self-reports are pretty crazy" probably has implication for "Red Pill is probably wrong because everyone's self-report says it's wrong"
https://ovarit.com/o/GenderCritical/31752/why-do-trans-people-like-doing-things-that-are-feminine-but-even-females-don-t-l
> only straight men talk about women's bodies like this.
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2021 significant posts—
-_ Book Review: Kathleen Stock's Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism (May)
-_ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America (June)
+_ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America (June)
_ Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer
_ Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data
_ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning
+Minor queue—
_ I Don't Do Policy
+_ Student Dysphoria, and a Previous Life's War
_ Elision _vs_. Choice (working title)
_ Overlapping Distributions and Cancellable Stereotypes (the standard GC argument about trans = stereotypes but with more math, why lesbians are women)
_ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
_ Book Review: Kathryn Paige Harden's The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality (September)
-Minor or Needs Development—
-- Amulet
-_ Student Dysphoria, and a Previous Life's War
+More minor or Needs Development—
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_ Gaydar Jamming (L.B. and R.H.)
_ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
_ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
+_ Book Review: Kathleen Stock's Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism (May)
Filler links—
_ Link: You're Kidding, Right?
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