1 26 Feb _ Teleology (UUT)
2 28 Feb _ Book Review: Charles Murray's Human Diversity (UUT)
4 _ Sexual Dimorphism, Yudkowsky's Sequences, and Me
5 _ "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity ... (UUT)
6 _ Intrumental Categories, Wireheading, and War (LW)
8 _ Algorithmic Intent: A Hansonian Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle (LW)
9 _ Contra Scott Alexander on Mental Illness; Or, Oh God, Please Don't (aAL/LW)
13 The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
15 The Wisdom of Nature (I like the idea of transhumanism, but in practice, biology is just too complicated)
16 The Strategy of "Apartment Patty"
19 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."
21 address accusation that I conflate "passing" and biosex
25 _ Placeholder, February 2020 (UUT)
29 Positioning (don't want to prematurely alienate people you're trying to rescue)
31 conservatives complain about low-time preference ppl having too many kids—but from a evolutionary perspective, they're more evolutionarily fit
33 creepy, crazy, or protected-class
36 A Science Fiction Story Idea I'm Not Skilled Enough to Write
38 Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous
40 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalmatophilia didn't make it into Lawrence's erotic target location paper, did it?
44 Anne Lawrence on AGP Teen Transition
45 Anne Lawrence on Unapologetic Autogynephilic Transsexualism
47 Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization
51 explain my blunder in https://twitter.com/jessi_cata/status/1188567229987577856
53 reply to https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/the-mathematical-consequences-of-a-toy-model-of-gender-transition/
55 testimony on trans girl periods: http://www.onwednesdays.net/trans-girl-periods/
60 Reading Comprehension Is Rape Culture
62 Reply to David R. MacIver on Gendering
66 Instrumental Categories, and War
68 (lit-search strategy: go through the del Guidice "Multivariate Misgivings" article and its citations; the Archer paper also mentioned this)
70 Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
72 Commentary on "Blegg Mode"
74 Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition)
76 (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode)
78 karaoke, celebrity, cognitive load; I don't want people to do that for me
80 Option<String>?! https://web.archive.org/web/20160731010249/https://qntm.org/gay
83 _ "Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
84 _ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
87 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words : well, that explains the TWAW mantra
89 The Parable of the Good Witch
91 First-Offender Models and the Unilateralist's Blessing
92 The Parable of the Faithful Man and the Cowardly Priest
94 Game Theory of "Apartment Patty"
96 Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
97 (in response to Kosoy's objection)
99 Servants of the Egregore (write-up of egregore theory as told by "Wilhelm")
101 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).
103 Research Question: Complicity
106 Where to Segment a Conversation When There's Stuff You Won't Touch, Without Violating the Virtue of Evenness
107 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)
109 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)
111 In the Presence of Mimickry, Extension and Intension Simplicity Trade-Off
113 Objectivity as a Rhetorical Strategy: probability, words, morality
114 Focus on the Simple Case (accurate maps can have bad effects, but that's a weird second-order analysis)
115 Self-Identity as Focal Point; Or, Schelf-Identity
118 A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words
122 in a world where we _actually had_ sex change technology, self-identity doctrine _wouldn't even occur to anyone_
124 Operationalization of Bad Faith: if people make reasoning errors that they wouldn't make with another topic having the same underlying structure
128 The Charity Convergence Trap
136 a big essay about Batesian mimickry
138 _ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
139 _ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More
140 _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
141 _ "I Will Fight [...]": LGBT Patriotism and the Moral Fine-Tuning Objection
148 _ The View From Nowhere
152 _ 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/ )
153 _ Friendship Practices of ...
154 _ Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History ...
156 Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
160 ✓ Interlude XVII (not all men)
162 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"
164 Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ...
167 _ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition: Beyond Maximum-Entropy Psychology
168 Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean
169 Q The Gender Czar's Compromise
172 Product Review: FaceApp
174 Q Book Review: Nevada
175 Product Review: Oculus Go
177 All You Had to Say https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8xa97t/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_july_09_2018/e228vyj/
183 Q Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman
184 _ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
185 Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model
186 Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See
188 Q The Hand I Was Dealt
189 "diagonalize" http://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/ by running the research paper it was based on through it
190 Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals
191 Threnody for the Transhumanism of My Youth
192 of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point
193 People Really Don't Know Why They Do Things
194 Q I Want to See You Be Brave
195 Passing Is Legitimacy, Legitimacy Is Passing
196 All Men Benefit From Patriarchy
197 (the story about my name)
198 Review of Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic
199 on the poor literary quality of TG captions
200 "Another Me I Haven't Met" (SacAnime cosplay review)
201 go back to east bay tg club night?
202 Product Review: Glamour Boutique's Vee-String Bladder
203 Q This Is Worth a Fight
204 "Trans Women Are Women" is a Positive-Affect Instance of the Noncentral Fallacy
208 story of Gina and Vern selected for GNC
209 story about women engineers and male businesspeople
210 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
211 fix fic for that one episode of _The Orville_