From d7f40ed660d0ccd1b59f7932f4d7c936e82d7e42 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 11:02:02 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] check in --- ...ant-insufficiently-multivariate-experiment.md | 16 ++++++++++++++++ notes/friendship_divorce.md | 5 +++++ notes/notes.txt | 7 +++++++ notes/post_ideas.txt | 14 +++++++++----- notes/trans-kids-on-the-margin-notes.md | 2 ++ 5 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) create mode 100644 content/drafts/taxometrics-and-the-fallacy-of-the-insufficiently-relevant-insufficiently-multivariate-experiment.md create mode 100644 notes/friendship_divorce.md diff --git a/content/drafts/taxometrics-and-the-fallacy-of-the-insufficiently-relevant-insufficiently-multivariate-experiment.md b/content/drafts/taxometrics-and-the-fallacy-of-the-insufficiently-relevant-insufficiently-multivariate-experiment.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2648018 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/drafts/taxometrics-and-the-fallacy-of-the-insufficiently-relevant-insufficiently-multivariate-experiment.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +Title: Taxometrics and the Fallacy of the Insufficiently Relevant, Insufficiently Multivariate Measurement +Date: 2021-01-31 +Category: commentary +Tags: categorization, epistemology, sex differences, Scott Alexander +Status: draft + +"Ontology Of Psychiatric Conditions: Taxometrics" +https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ontology-of-psychiatric-conditions + +> They also have a category called "gender". They say they included measures like "femininity" and "sex-stereotyped activities" in there–I can't find more specifics. It has a CCFI of 0.42 with confidence interval including 0.5, so looks slightly more dimensional, but can't quite rule out it being slightly more categorical. + +> If anyone ever demands you have an opinion on the question "is binary gender real?", I think the most scientifically-supported answer would be "it has a Comparative Curve Fit Index of 0.42 plus or minus 0.1, which means it trends towards dimensionality but taxonicity cannot be ruled out". + +https://slatestarscratchpad.tumblr.com/post/630034077642358784/i-think-ive-been-looking-for-something-like +https://archive.is/GOSJW +https://web.archive.org/web/20201005072121/https://slatestarscratchpad.tumblr.com/post/630034077642358784/i-think-ive-been-looking-for-something-like diff --git a/notes/friendship_divorce.md b/notes/friendship_divorce.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..74c119e --- /dev/null +++ b/notes/friendship_divorce.md @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +It seems to me that it's important sense in which this isn't true. The impression that I get—I would be delighted to be wrong about this—is that I'm welcome _conditional_ on observing the local speech rules. + +(There isn't an _official_ speech code, but there is a set of utterances that would provoke hostility and ostracism from everyone. As it should be: in an extreme case, someone who habitually shouted racial slurs and graphic descriptions of violence would not be welcome. An extreme case suffices to show that there _are_ rules, that there _is_ a line.) + +One could argue that this observation is trivial: when we say that someone is welcome to a place, there's always _some_ implicit condition. [TODO]'s status as a valued member of [TODO] is _conditional_ on [TODO] not being a murderer. diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt index 0a6e0c1..2a12206 100644 --- a/notes/notes.txt +++ b/notes/notes.txt @@ -2351,3 +2351,10 @@ trans outcome bibliogrpahy comment https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/kq https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-deplatforming/ https://www.praile.net/post/kathleen-stock-obe + +"Sleep Deprivation Disrupts Prepulse Inhibition and Induces Psychosis-Like Symptoms in Healthy Humans" +https://www.jneurosci.org/content/34/27/9134.short +"Severe Sleep Deprivation Causes Hallucinations and a Gradual Progression Toward Psychosis With Increasing Time Awake" +https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6048360/ + +"Cultural Components of Sex Differences in Color Preference" Davis et al. 2021 (shared on SEXNET) says that girl preference for pink was d=1.3 in a city, but not in trad cultures diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt index 94c2614..bc9c591 100644 --- a/notes/post_ideas.txt +++ b/notes/post_ideas.txt @@ -1,19 +1,23 @@ +_ Taxometrics and the Fallacy of the Insufficiently Relevant, Insufficiently Multivariate Experiment +_ The Sense in Which Scott Alexander's Claim About Binary Gender Is Intellectually Dishonest + - Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to _ You Are Right and I Was Wrong: Reply to Tailcalled on Causality - The Causality of Ethnic Differences in COVID-19 Outcomes Is an Open +_ The Sense in Which Sex Can't Be Changed +_ Beyond the Binary - LW— - And the Wisdom to Know the Difference _ importance of getting the direction of causality right - +philosophy-of-language replies, Marketing channels— -_ Twitter/Facebook _ Reddit: /r/philosophy, /r/TheMotte, /r/theschism, /r/SneerClub _ tags: "The SF Bay Area", "Criticisms of the Rationalist Movement", "Postmortems & Retrospectives" - + + _ https://www.facebook.com/duncan.sabien/posts/3936528276381860 "Natural does not always mean good." — natural does not always mean good, but at our current tech level, that's actually a really good prior _ Novemember 2020 Political Notes; Or, Sen. Kelly Loeffler Is Mostly Living in a Simulation Now _ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture @@ -21,7 +25,7 @@ _ crimestopped about L.B. _ I, Too, Dislike It _ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels _ Yardstick abolition pessimism https://culturallyboundgender.wordpress.com/2018/11/13/gender-identity-isnt-a-box-its-a-yardstick/ -_ Beyond the Binary + _ reductionist rebuttal to "so you think lesbians aren't women" _ Student Dysphoria, and a Previous Life's War _ Principles (transhumanism, and sanity) diff --git a/notes/trans-kids-on-the-margin-notes.md b/notes/trans-kids-on-the-margin-notes.md index 23f34e3..3541c4f 100644 --- a/notes/trans-kids-on-the-margin-notes.md +++ b/notes/trans-kids-on-the-margin-notes.md @@ -38,3 +38,5 @@ https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2002-18663-003 https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/01/trans-kid-test-psychology.html https://kathleenstock.com/highlights-of-trans-policies-in-uk-universities/ + +Symmetry: trans-booster parent thinks child is too young to know about TERFism (but isn't opposed to the idea of the child thinking for themselves when they're old enough to think critically); skeptic thinks child is too young to consent to transition (but wouldn't refuse to recognize an AGP teenager going in with open eyes) -- 2.17.1