(**SPOILERS** for _A Deepness in the Sky_)
-Apropos of absolutely nothing (and you know I would never lie about that), I've been thinking a lot lately about Hrunkner Unnerby, one of the characters in the ["B"](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlotThreads) [story](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TwoLinesNoWaiting) of Vernor Vinge's _A Deepness in the Sky_.
+Apropos of absolutely nothing (and would I lie to you about that?), I've been thinking a lot lately about Hrunkner Unnerby, one of the characters in the ["B"](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlotThreads) [story](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TwoLinesNoWaiting) of Vernor Vinge's _A Deepness in the Sky_.
Our protagonists, Sherkaner Underhill (mad scientist extraordinaire), Gen. Victory Smith (military prodigy, and Underhill's wife), and Sgt. Hrunkner Unnerby (an engineer, and Underhill and Smith's friend and comrade from the Great War) are spider-like nonhuman aliens native to a planet whose star mysteriously "turns off" for [TODO] years out of every [TODO].
-Title: Jesus Two (working title)
+Title: Peering Through Reverent Fingers
Date: 2020-01-01
Category: other
Tags: religion, sex differences
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> —Charles Murray, _Real Education_
-The Murray Rule is a fine illustration of the [use of conventions as a symmetry-breaker](/2020/Jan/book-review-the-origins-of-unfairness/): instead of having to [flip a coin every time](https://web.archive.org/web/20070615130139/http://singinst.org/upload/CFAI.html#foot-15) you want to talk about a hypothetical human in the third person,
+The Murray Rule is a fine illustration of the [use of conventions as a symmetry-breaker](/2020/Jan/book-review-the-origins-of-unfairness/): instead of having to [flip a coin every time](https://web.archive.org/web/20070615130139/http://singinst.org/upload/CFAI.html#foot-15) you want to talk about a hypothetical human in the third person,
[chauvanistic, women and men were made for each other]
> For example, in the United States only about 9 percent of physicians and dentists are women, whereas in the Soviet Union the figure is close to 50 percent.
+Thermometer and statistical discrimination in machine learning
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This was the linkpost description text I initially drafted, before deciding that the "Straussian coyness" I [occasionally]() [succumb]() to is ultimately unbecoming.
_ The Reverse Murray Rule
_ Teleology (UUT)
-_ Jesus Two
+_ Peering Through Reverent Fingers
_ Book Review: Charles Murray's Human Diversity (UUT)
_ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
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_ Reply to Ozymandias on Lesbians and on Single-Sex Spaces
_ Sexual Dimorphism, Yudkowsky's Sequences, and Me
_ "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity ... (UUT)
_ Algorithmic Intent: A Hansonian Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle (LW)
_ Contra Scott Alexander on Mental Illness; Or, Oh God, Please Don't (aAL/LW)
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+_ Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization—marginally neglected truths are more
+_ Selective Reporting and
Discord comment about creating a space where no one questions whether someone deserves real woman status