From: M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 16:30:16 +0000 (-0700) Subject: check in X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1e92e30c892620b9d28c80f96d27c95f37f9ea8e;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git check in --- diff --git a/content/drafts/as-well-for-a-sheep-as-a-lamb.md b/content/drafts/as-well-for-a-sheep-as-a-lamb.md index 4cd80e7..34bf947 100644 --- a/content/drafts/as-well-for-a-sheep-as-a-lamb.md +++ b/content/drafts/as-well-for-a-sheep-as-a-lamb.md @@ -39,8 +39,10 @@ V. ROUGH OUTLINE OF POINTS TO HIT— * because there's moralistic pressure to be on the Blue Team, people who aren't willing to play that game anymore are tempted to just slap a negative sign on the Blue message * obviously, this is really bad -MAIN PURPOSE OF THIS POST: An apology (both senses, probably) for the "cathartic" tag on my blog. +MAIN PURPOSE OF THIS POST: An apology (both "an expression of remorse" and "a formal defense") for the "cathartic" tag on my blog. political spectra are dimensionality reductions the thrill of being an intellectual rebel: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/7nffem/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_january_1/ds8krmb/ + +I've gotten praise from trans-activist-adj-types for "Lesser-Known Demand Curves", and from TERFs for "Don't Negotiate"; if I could just get them to praise the _same post_, then I know I will have succeeded as a writer diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt index 3ccf8f1..ad1d5de 100644 --- a/notes/notes.txt +++ b/notes/notes.txt @@ -533,6 +533,18 @@ fake implies artificial (but not vice versa) Cut from "Reply to The Unit" (too far afield, not sure what point I'm trying to make): speculating about unproven sex differences isn't _quite_ as prejudicial as it sounds: if a 19th century scholar, knowing nothing of sex chromosomes, had reasoned, "Whatever the physical mechanism of heredity turns out to be, it probably distinguishes between males and females". (Is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature-dependent_sex_determination a counterexample or the dreaded "example that proves the rule" like pipefish or the Eurasian dotterel?) -the ultimate AGP weekend project: http://svencharleer.com/blog/2018/02/02/family-fun-with-deepfakes-or-how-i-got-my-wife-onto-the-tonight-show/ +the ultimate AGP weekend project (like crossdressing, but with more code): http://svencharleer.com/blog/2018/02/02/family-fun-with-deepfakes-or-how-i-got-my-wife-onto-the-tonight-show/ "right"-aligned folk like to say the IAT is "pseudoscientific bullshit", but what if those failed replications are just committing Goldberg's "fallacy of the irrelevant experiment"? Here's a pro-IAT _and_ pro-stereotype-accuracy take: "blacks are violent" stereotype strength varies with local crime rates http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1948550617753522 (via https://twitter.com/mjbsp/status/983338239221293057) + +want to get around to watching this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDDIWGlBt3o + +Tips for arguing with libtards: + * They don't like the "Don't negotiate with terrorists" frame because they don't understand analogies; need to find gentler frames + * They'll believe that you're AGP, but they don't want you to say that other people are AGP because they don't understand that the self is still a part of objective reality; need to explain why it matters + +Consider an illustrative diagram in which there is a hard line in the combined height–weight configuration space, but the line isn't describable in terms of height or weight alone. If there were sufficiently many more traits/dimensions, we could imagine "not describable in terms of some small number of variables n" starting to look more like "not explicitly describable by humans." + +(not gender-related but I don't have a good notes system): E. Weinstein on IQ: https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/987833935185952768 + +"Prenatal endocrine influences on sexual orientation and on sexually differentiated childhood behavior" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3296090/ diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt index a93d4e5..5ca715f 100644 --- a/notes/post_ideas.txt +++ b/notes/post_ideas.txt @@ -1,30 +1,30 @@ -Reply to the Unit of Caring on Adult Human Females +Laser 4 +Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ... Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong?? -_ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition +_ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition: Beyond Maximum-Entropy Psychology Nonbinary Possibilities (working title) +Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean +Q The Gender Czar's Compromise +Friendship Practices of ... +"Love Like You" +Blindspot IDEAS STOCKPILE— Q Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman -Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ... Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History ... - _ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See * Mary's Room Q The Hand I Was Dealt - "diagonalize" http://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/ by running the research paper it was based on through it - Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals Product Review: FaceApp ✓ Interlude XII (four lights) Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition) Q Book Review: Nevada Q Memoirs of My Recent Madness, Part II: Friendship Survived -Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean -Q The Gender Czar's Compromise Threnody for the Transhumanism of My Youth of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point Lies to Cis People Are, Unfortunately, Still Lies @@ -44,8 +44,5 @@ Q This Is Worth a Fight reply to https://theunitofcaring.tumblr.com/post/171986501376/your-post-on-definition-of-gender-and-woman-and (earlier in series: https://theunitofcaring.tumblr.com/post/171980730996) FICTION QUEUE (6)— -Friendship Practices of ... -"Love Like You" -Blindspot story of Gina and Vern selected for GNC story about women engineers and male businesspeople