From b8f6d9b2a313c4d62329ed0fbc5e819fc9fafba2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 18:56:18 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] check in Hopefully checking in the notes for "Social Strategy Notes" for some future contiguous writing day will help me stop obsessing and let me focus for the next week, which is supposed to be about code. --- ...d-the-conjunction-of-small-effect-sizes.md | 8 ++- ...hould-allocate-some-more-categories-but.md | 2 + .../social-strategy-notes-february-2019.md | 53 +++++++++++++++---- notes/notes.txt | 17 ++++++ notes/post_ideas.txt | 5 +- 5 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/drafts/high-dimensional-social-science-and-the-conjunction-of-small-effect-sizes.md b/content/drafts/high-dimensional-social-science-and-the-conjunction-of-small-effect-sizes.md index 3f5acef..5cf4e92 100644 --- a/content/drafts/high-dimensional-social-science-and-the-conjunction-of-small-effect-sizes.md +++ b/content/drafts/high-dimensional-social-science-and-the-conjunction-of-small-effect-sizes.md @@ -17,4 +17,10 @@ Status: draft -https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Cyj6wQLW6SeF6aGLy/the-psychological-unity-of-humankind \ No newline at end of file +https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Cyj6wQLW6SeF6aGLy/the-psychological-unity-of-humankind + +neural networks are famously uninterpretable + +it's easier to recognize an accent than say exactly what vowels are pronounced differently, easier to recognize face sex than say on the basis of what features + +del Guidice on interpretability diff --git a/content/drafts/i-mean-yes-i-agree-that-man-should-allocate-some-more-categories-but.md b/content/drafts/i-mean-yes-i-agree-that-man-should-allocate-some-more-categories-but.md index 8dc6947..5f54935 100644 --- a/content/drafts/i-mean-yes-i-agree-that-man-should-allocate-some-more-categories-but.md +++ b/content/drafts/i-mean-yes-i-agree-that-man-should-allocate-some-more-categories-but.md @@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ I don't want to _define_ gender based on psychology. ([Definitions are overrated [TODO: rephrase along the lines of, there might be situation where you might be quantitatively less surprised to see trans women behave in a way that is more common in males, than to see the same behavior in cis women, even if behavior never defines anyone's sex, because sex categories are attributed based on genetalia, secondary sex characteristics, &c.] +[TODO: mention the rhetorical problem where I bring up psychology in discussions, because I can predict that if I said "You're not a woman because of your penis", ppl will say, "Oh, that's not what we meant"] + That categories are clusters in a _high-dimensional_ space is relevant because of a statistical phenomenon perhaps most famously elucidated in [A. W. F. Edwards's critique of Richard Lewontin's critique of the concept of _race_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Genetic_Diversity:_Lewontin's_Fallacy): groups that overlap along any _one_ particular measurement might be much more clearly distinguishable when you look at the conjunction of many different measurements. [TODO: the standard diagram] diff --git a/content/drafts/social-strategy-notes-february-2019.md b/content/drafts/social-strategy-notes-february-2019.md index 2db179a..7cbc944 100644 --- a/content/drafts/social-strategy-notes-february-2019.md +++ b/content/drafts/social-strategy-notes-february-2019.md @@ -4,16 +4,6 @@ Category: commentary Tags: personal, software industry Status: draft -> _There's a heart that must be free -> To fly -> That burns with the need to know -> The reason why -> Why must we all conceal -> What we think, how we feel? -> Must there be a secret me I'm forced to hide?_ -> -> —"Reflection", _Mulan_ (as performed by Christina Aguilera) - _(Attention conservation notice: petulant navel-gazing is boring. [Please subscribe](/feeds/all.atom.xml) for actual content later, I double-dog promise!)_ February has been a pretty exciting month for me in terms of advancing in my chosen profession! @@ -73,3 +63,46 @@ you don't even hanged for your actual crimes, just the flashiest thing that can bundling and marketing channels, negotiation for space; I can keep quiet in a particular venue, but "not in X space" becomes "shut up and die" if X encompasses all spaces +psychological hazards of embracing the "evil" label + +people just like me who read different books in a different order + +"Everyone is entitled to her religion/belief" is a peace treaty + +tempted to escalate to misgendering just as a protest against mind control (even though I wouldn't be inclined to fight about pronouns if I could get people to agree about the theory), but that's not a winning move + +How strong is the hypothesized "if you ever gerrymander a category, then parsimony is ever after your enemy" effect? + +clickthrough rates are bad, which is a point against the bundling strategy of writing good non-gender-war content under the same pseudonym + +lack of a positive vision + +so tempting to endlessly relitigate every minor point of conversation, when I should just let it go + +the "rationalist" banner is a source of huge cognitive dissonance if the majority gets it wrong + +cis women also get surgery / "seems fake" / 13th century word meanings + +I can't be friends with people who are going to gaslight me this hard + +important to notice that the ideological repression narrative is one of microaggressions/exclusion: should be a source of empathy! + +reach for condescending rhetoric: "pretending to be stupid" is emotionally satisfying rhetoric that does point to a real problem, but it's not a precise formulation, and the meta-level "you're irrational" dicussion is already so fraught that it needs all the precision it can get (ridicule might help as a violent appeal to shared values, but you need a coalition for that) + +the relevance of AGP is to provide a non-intersex mechanism for why males might want to be female; it's not "autoerotic people can't be female", to which claim "cis women are AGP too" would be a counterexample + +my obsessive personality (being angry about school felt _just_ like this) + +B.'s advice about the unwarranted assumption of good faith + +summing over three conversations, don't want to get into details because don't want to relitigate object-level points addressed in prev. (and future) posts, and because I don't want to leak too much info about private conversations + +part of the reason I've been slow to finish my draft to Ozy is the sense that it doesn't really matter + +I didn't explain the Schelling point thing + +at first I was upset about two-types in 2016/17, but that may have been premature; but now a recent flurry of activity about the hidden-Bayesian-structure-of-cognition thing + +"Wilhelm" told me to give up, but I have a _massive_ homefield advantage that doesn't port; that's an incentive to stand my ground and fight a culture war, unpleasant as that is + +trans women who I love and admire and don't want to hurt—but who are a _different thing_ from actual women—_sufficiently_ different in a way that deserves either a separate noun, _or_ at least https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markedness ("women"/cis-women as the central thing, and "trans" as a wierd version); the "women, cis or trans; neither kind more central than the other" is not going to fly. Which isn't to say that "cis" is a bad word to have (I don't mind having words for "straight" or "heterosexual") (this could be its own post) diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt index 9ba3ccb..35fe90d 100644 --- a/notes/notes.txt +++ b/notes/notes.txt @@ -1162,3 +1162,20 @@ there's a problem where if what you actually believe is extremely nuanced, and i one woman's precautions against men: https://twitter.com/editingemily/status/1095853582346141697 telling the only woman in a karoke group: you're our only female vocalist, you should sing this part. I wouldn't say that if there was a trans woman in the room; it's a trivial example, but life is composed of these little things + +https://www.clearerthinking.org/single-post/2019/02/13/Is-language-influencing-your-beliefs-in-ways-you-dont-realize + +re "All Debates Are Bravery Debates": the G. Mitchell "Human Sex Differences" book phrases things in a weird way + +https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/fife/819644/mum-of-supermarket-toilet-sex-assault-victim-warns-freed-attacker-could-strike-again/ + +Falsehood implies anything! https://twitter.com/Nespresso821/status/1097295455170555904 + +https://twitter.com/every_lesbian/status/1097649372752461824 + +http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2019/02/the-vagina-monologues-a-feminist-production-with-a-necessary-asterisk + +https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2019-02-18/transgender-hormone-therapy-could-pose-heart-dangers I'm glad they at least named the journal (Circulation, Feb 18), but I wish they also included the article title for quick search + +https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/transgender-insanity-police-now-jailing-people-for-laughing-at-men-in-women + diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt index 79239b5..cd143b1 100644 --- a/notes/post_ideas.txt +++ b/notes/post_ideas.txt @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ The Social Construction of Reality and the Sheer Goddamned The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artefact + Self-Identity as Focal Point; Or, Schelf-Identity Dragon in Garage It Was a Complement! @@ -14,6 +15,9 @@ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture Trying to Be Explicit "But It Doesn't Matter" One-Way Trolls +"Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies" + +in a world where we _actually had_ sex change technology, self-identity doctrine _wouldn't even occur to anyone_ Operationalization of Bad Faith: if people make reasoning errors that they wouldn't make with another topic having the same underlying structure @@ -86,7 +90,6 @@ Q The Hand I Was Dealt Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals 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 People Really Don't Know Why They Do Things Q I Want to See You Be Brave Passing Is Legitimacy, Legitimacy Is Passing -- 2.17.1