1 Main path (important posts)—
2 _ theory of MMB's transition
3 _ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems
4 _ Algorithmic Intent: A Hansonian Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle (LW)
5 _ Intrumental Categories, Wireheading, and War (LW)
6 _ Elision _vs_. Choice (working title)
9 _ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
10 _ "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity ... (UUT)
11 _ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
15 _ Student Dysphoria; Or, Comparing This to a Previous Life's War
17 _ The Feeling Is Mutual
18 _ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
19 _ Ideology Is the General Case (working title)
22 _ Walker correspondence
23 _ 30 Years of the Blank Slate (Cosmides-Tooby/Pinker/Murray)
24 _ "I Hope You're Happy, California"
25 _ Travis's Trilemma: Creepy, Crazy, or Protected-Class (working title)
26 _ Reply to Ozymandias on Lesbians and on Single-Sex Spaces
27 _ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
28 _ Answers on Great Divides: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/08/questions-for-great-divides.html
29 _ Film Review: Your Name
30 _ World of Masks https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1228093035042541569
31 _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
35 _ Comment on "Endogenous Epistemic Factionalization"
36 _ Signals, Deception, and the Precession of Simulacra
37 _ COVID life-years (rather than deaths)
39 _ Contra Scott Alexander on Mental Illness; Or, Oh God, Please Don't (aAL/LW)
40 _ Comment on Wireheading /r/rational
41 _ Second Derivative (Paul Christiano on growth timelines)
42 _ Selective Reporting and Clustering
43 _ Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization—marginally neglected truths are more
44 _ Explicit Disjunction vs. Contradictory Arguments from a Bottom Line
45 _ How they Pin It Down: Equal Environments Assumption Edition https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cXzTpSiCrNGzeoRAz/conjunction-controversy-or-how-they-nail-it-down
46 _ Social Construction is an Embedded Agency Problem
48 it's important to have language for psychology because you can't point to pictures
50 Training Data—"get used" to the new definitions, in time
55 if pro-reality trans people are allied with more numerous anti-reality trans people, that incentivizes me to join an anti-trans coalition, when what I actually (should) want is to cherry-pick the pro-reality people
57 another thing keeping me from trans-IDing: trans is "marked"; choosing it would mean associating with the crazy. Normal Society (with men named Zack) has its own madnesses and crimes, but
59 Vocabulary as Capital Investment
61 _ Challenges of Mounting an Ideological Crusade
63 B.F. being smart-but-dense
65 how taxonomy/typology emerges from Bayesian networks
67 _ On Being Stereotyped Badly (working title)
71 Memetics vs. Discourse
74 The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
76 The Wisdom of Nature (I like the idea of transhumanism, but in practice, biology is just too complicated) https://nickbostrom.com/evolution.pdf
79 _ Product Review: FaceApp
81 _ The Strategy of "Apartment Patty" — the outrage strategy only works if you have a coalition to back you up
83 you regress to your group's mean—but that depends on how you draw the category boundaries around group membership! This could be a good math post!! https://humanvarieties.org/2017/07/01/measurement-error-regression-to-the-mean-and-group-differences/
85 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalmatophilia "An important fantasy for some individuals is being transformed into the preferred object (such as a statue) and experiencing an associated state of immobility or paralysis."
87 address accusation that I conflate "passing" and biosex
91 Positioning (don't want to prematurely alienate people you're trying to rescue)
93 conservatives complain about low-time preference ppl having too many kids—but from a evolutionary perspective, they're more evolutionarily fit
95 A Science Fiction Story Idea I'm Not Skilled Enough to Write
97 Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous
99 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalmatophilia didn't make it into Lawrence's erotic target location paper, did it?
103 Anne Lawrence on AGP Teen Transition
104 Anne Lawrence on Unapologetic Autogynephilic Transsexualism
106 Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization
110 explain my blunder in https://twitter.com/jessi_cata/status/1188567229987577856
112 reply to https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/the-mathematical-consequences-of-a-toy-model-of-gender-transition/
114 testimony on trans girl periods: http://www.onwednesdays.net/trans-girl-periods/
119 Reading Comprehension Is Rape Culture
121 Reply to David R. MacIver on Gendering
123 Trying to Be Explicit
125 Instrumental Categories, and War
127 (lit-search strategy: go through the del Guidice "Multivariate Misgivings" article and its citations; the Archer paper also mentioned this)
129 Commentary on "Blegg Mode"
131 Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition)
133 (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode)
135 karaoke, celebrity, cognitive load; I don't want people to do that for me
137 Option<String>?! https://web.archive.org/web/20160731010249/https://qntm.org/gay
140 _ "Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
141 _ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
144 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words : well, that explains the TWAW mantra
146 The Parable of the Good Witch
148 First-Offender Models and the Unilateralist's Blessing
149 The Parable of the Faithful Man and the Cowardly Priest
151 Game Theory of "Apartment Patty"
153 Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
154 (in response to Kosoy's objection)
156 Servants of the Egregore (write-up of egregore theory as told by "Wilhelm")
158 Kolmogorov's Iron Triangle; Or, the Not-Being-a-Worthless-Coward Option (epigraph quote: Raleigh's "The Lie")—(include analogy: the fear that atheism would lead to immortality given that ppl don't have to fear Hell, wouldn't have seemed obviously absurd at the time) — honesty, ability to think, and mainstream credibility. The Kolmogorov option sacrifices a lot of honesty in exchange for mainstream credibility. This might seem like a good trade until you consider that "honesty" and "ability to think" aren't independent (because people are bad at compartmentalization and we need to talk to each other to think together).
160 Research Question: Complicity
163 Where to Segment a Conversation When There's Stuff You Won't Touch, Without Violating the Virtue of Evenness
164 In Praise of Cartesianism (you need to _really_ understand "A Human's Guide to Words" before you can do high-grade good-faith social constructionism)
166 Sex Differences and Commonsense Priors (I have parsimony intuitions that make "AGP is caused by pollution" or "AGP is normal in cis women" or "hormone receptors distributions are the same" seem not worth considering)
168 In the Presence of Mimickry, Extension and Intension Simplicity Trade-Off
170 Objectivity as a Rhetorical Strategy: probability, words, morality
171 Focus on the Simple Case (accurate maps can have bad effects, but that's a weird second-order analysis)
172 Self-Identity as Focal Point; Or, Schelf-Identity
175 A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words
179 in a world where we _actually had_ sex change technology, self-identity doctrine _wouldn't even occur to anyone_
181 Operationalization of Bad Faith: if people make reasoning errors that they wouldn't make with another topic having the same underlying structure
185 The Charity Convergence Trap
193 a big essay about Batesian mimickry
196 _ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More
198 _ "I Will Fight [...]": LGBT Patriotism and the Moral Fine-Tuning Objection
205 _ The View From Nowhere
209 _ reply to Ozy on https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2017/08/03/rapid-onset-gender-dysphoria-is-bad-science/ (when marketing in Culture War thread, maybe hat tip https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9cir3w/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_september_03/e5c1h2c/ )
210 _ Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History ...
212 Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
216 ✓ Interlude XVII (not all men)
218 can the comment on "Bit Players" actually fit on this blog (I didn't empathize with offense at fake physics, but I can take offense at maximum-entropy psychology): epigraph quote, "It's Only a Paper Moon"
220 Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ...
223 _ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition: Beyond Maximum-Entropy Psychology
224 Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean
225 Q The Gender Czar's Compromise
229 Q Book Review: Nevada
230 Product Review: Oculus Go
232 All You Had to Say https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8xa97t/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_july_09_2018/e228vyj/
238 Q Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman
239 _ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
240 Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model
241 Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See
243 Q The Hand I Was Dealt
244 "diagonalize" http://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/ by running the research paper it was based on through it
245 Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals
246 Threnody for the Transhumanism of My Youth
247 of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point
248 People Really Don't Know Why They Do Things
249 Q I Want to See You Be Brave
250 Passing Is Legitimacy, Legitimacy Is Passing
251 All Men Benefit From Patriarchy
252 (the story about my name)
253 Review of Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic
254 on the poor literary quality of TG captions
255 "Another Me I Haven't Met" (SacAnime cosplay review)
256 go back to east bay tg club night?
257 Product Review: Glamour Boutique's Vee-String Bladder
258 Q This Is Worth a Fight
259 "Trans Women Are Women" is a Positive-Affect Instance of the Noncentral Fallacy
263 story of Gina and Vern selected for GNC
264 story about women engineers and male businesspeople
265 story about race of humans who have a "sneaky" camoflauge form and someone with their analogue of AGP tries to deliberately lower his status to get it
266 fix fic for that one episode of _The Orville_