2 X Peering Through Reverent Fingers
3 _ Book Review: Charles Murray's Human Diversity
7 Main path (important posts)—
8 _ Intrumental Categories, Wireheading, and War (LW)
9 _ Elision _vs_. Choice (working title)
10 _ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
11 _ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems
12 _ "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity ... (UUT)
13 _ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
18 _ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
19 _ The Feeling Is Mutual
20 _ I, Too, Dislike It (Captions)
21 _ Travis's Trilemma: Creepy, Crazy, or Protected-Class (working title)
22 _ Reply to Ozymandias on Lesbians and on Single-Sex Spaces
23 _ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
24 _ Answers on Great Divides: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/08/questions-for-great-divides.html
25 _ Challenges of Mounting an Ideological Crusade
28 _ Algorithmic Intent: A Hansonian Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle (LW)
30 _ Comment on "Endogenous Epistemic Factionalization"
32 _ Contra Scott Alexander on Mental Illness; Or, Oh God, Please Don't (aAL/LW)
33 _ Selective Reporting and Clustering
34 _ Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization—marginally neglected truths are more
36 _ Social Construction is an Embedded Agency Problem
38 it's important to have language for psychology because you can't point to pictures
40 Training Data—"get used" to the new definitions, in time
43 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
46 Vocabulary as Capital Investment
48 B.F. being smart-but-dense
50 how taxonomy/typology emerges from Bayesian networks
52 _ On Being Stereotyped Badly (working title)
56 Memetics vs. Discourse
59 The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
61 The Wisdom of Nature (I like the idea of transhumanism, but in practice, biology is just too complicated) https://nickbostrom.com/evolution.pdf
64 _ Product Review: FaceApp
66 _ The Strategy of "Apartment Patty" — the outrage strategy only works if you have a coalition to back you up
68 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/
70 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."
72 address accusation that I conflate "passing" and biosex
76 Positioning (don't want to prematurely alienate people you're trying to rescue)
78 conservatives complain about low-time preference ppl having too many kids—but from a evolutionary perspective, they're more evolutionarily fit
80 A Science Fiction Story Idea I'm Not Skilled Enough to Write
82 Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous
84 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalmatophilia didn't make it into Lawrence's erotic target location paper, did it?
88 Anne Lawrence on AGP Teen Transition
89 Anne Lawrence on Unapologetic Autogynephilic Transsexualism
91 Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization
95 explain my blunder in https://twitter.com/jessi_cata/status/1188567229987577856
97 reply to https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/the-mathematical-consequences-of-a-toy-model-of-gender-transition/
99 testimony on trans girl periods: http://www.onwednesdays.net/trans-girl-periods/
104 Reading Comprehension Is Rape Culture
106 Reply to David R. MacIver on Gendering
108 Trying to Be Explicit
110 Instrumental Categories, and War
112 (lit-search strategy: go through the del Guidice "Multivariate Misgivings" article and its citations; the Archer paper also mentioned this)
114 Commentary on "Blegg Mode"
116 Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition)
118 (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode)
120 karaoke, celebrity, cognitive load; I don't want people to do that for me
122 Option<String>?! https://web.archive.org/web/20160731010249/https://qntm.org/gay
125 _ "Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
126 _ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
129 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words : well, that explains the TWAW mantra
131 The Parable of the Good Witch
133 First-Offender Models and the Unilateralist's Blessing
134 The Parable of the Faithful Man and the Cowardly Priest
136 Game Theory of "Apartment Patty"
138 Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
139 (in response to Kosoy's objection)
141 Servants of the Egregore (write-up of egregore theory as told by "Wilhelm")
143 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).
145 Research Question: Complicity
148 Where to Segment a Conversation When There's Stuff You Won't Touch, Without Violating the Virtue of Evenness
149 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)
151 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)
153 In the Presence of Mimickry, Extension and Intension Simplicity Trade-Off
155 Objectivity as a Rhetorical Strategy: probability, words, morality
156 Focus on the Simple Case (accurate maps can have bad effects, but that's a weird second-order analysis)
157 Self-Identity as Focal Point; Or, Schelf-Identity
160 A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words
164 in a world where we _actually had_ sex change technology, self-identity doctrine _wouldn't even occur to anyone_
166 Operationalization of Bad Faith: if people make reasoning errors that they wouldn't make with another topic having the same underlying structure
170 The Charity Convergence Trap
178 a big essay about Batesian mimickry
181 _ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More
182 _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
183 _ "I Will Fight [...]": LGBT Patriotism and the Moral Fine-Tuning Objection
190 _ The View From Nowhere
194 _ 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/ )
195 _ Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History ...
197 Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
201 ✓ Interlude XVII (not all men)
203 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"
205 Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ...
208 _ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition: Beyond Maximum-Entropy Psychology
209 Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean
210 Q The Gender Czar's Compromise
214 Q Book Review: Nevada
215 Product Review: Oculus Go
217 All You Had to Say https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8xa97t/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_july_09_2018/e228vyj/
223 Q Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman
224 _ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
225 Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model
226 Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See
228 Q The Hand I Was Dealt
229 "diagonalize" http://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/ by running the research paper it was based on through it
230 Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals
231 Threnody for the Transhumanism of My Youth
232 of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point
233 People Really Don't Know Why They Do Things
234 Q I Want to See You Be Brave
235 Passing Is Legitimacy, Legitimacy Is Passing
236 All Men Benefit From Patriarchy
237 (the story about my name)
238 Review of Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic
239 on the poor literary quality of TG captions
240 "Another Me I Haven't Met" (SacAnime cosplay review)
241 go back to east bay tg club night?
242 Product Review: Glamour Boutique's Vee-String Bladder
243 Q This Is Worth a Fight
244 "Trans Women Are Women" is a Positive-Affect Instance of the Noncentral Fallacy
248 story of Gina and Vern selected for GNC
249 story about women engineers and male businesspeople
250 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
251 fix fic for that one episode of _The Orville_