1 Main path (important posts)—
3 _ Feedback on Unnatural Categories (working group + TurnTrout + Tetra + Steven + Said + Elizabeth (https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/rhZge5qmZKwJ8BMDM/open-and-welcome-thread-march-2020#comment-XG44nfNcpq3BXj7hB) + editor)
6 _ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems
7 _ Unnatural Categories Are Optimized for Deception (LW)
9 Ancillary documents and marketing channels for milestone—
10 _ Motivation and Political Context for My Philosophy of Language Agenda
12 _ comment to V."C."S. on "Maybe Lying Can't Exist?!"
14 _ comment to S.A. on motivatedly playing dumb
18 _ Reddit submissions: /r/philosophy and /r/TheMotte
21 _ Irreversible Damage review
22 _ Jessica/wiz AGP defense
23 _ Elision _vs_. Choice (working title)
24 _ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
25 _ Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data prior: https://sillyolme.wordpress.com/2019/07/19/how-many-trans-folk-are-there-really/ https://sillyolme.wordpress.com/2017/04/16/getting-lost-in-the-crowd/
26 _ I Am Very Bad at Keeping Secrets and Am Therefore Very Reluctant to Offer Confidentiality Promises
28 (This needs to go into my "Motivations and Political Context")
29 Transitioning is easy if you project into the subspace spanned by "given name" and "preferred pronouns" and "frequency of wearing dresses." The problem is that it's not psychologically realistic to expect everyone else to just throw away all the other dimensions—people were using those dimensions!
31 (for Elision vs. Choice)
32 Speakers of my generation are more likely to say "person" when sex isn't relevant, whereas older works (pre-second wave feminism?) would actually say "man" (or "woman"—see how anachronistic it feels to put the female option second and in parentheses?), presumably not because human nature has changed that much, but because of shifting cultural priorities about when sex is "relevant." (Modern speakers similarly frown on mentioning race (https://agentultra.com/blog/the-black-man-stopped-me/) when it's not relevant.)
36 _ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
38 _ A Previous Life's War
39 _ The Feeling Is Mutual
40 _ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
41 _ reply to https://azdoine.tumblr.com/post/173995599942/a-reply-to-unremediatedgenderspace-on-reply-to http://archive.is/JSSNi
42 _ reply to https://deathisbadblog.com/the-real-transphobes-are-the-ones-we-made-along-the-way/
43 _ Beckett Mariner Is Trans https://www.reddit.com/r/DaystromInstitute/comments/in3g92/was_mariner_a_teenager_on_the_enterprised/
44 _ Cynical Theories review
47 _ Eugenics Is Actually Good, You Worthless Cowards
48 _ The One Where I Try to Be A Little More Explicit About What 'Autogynephilia' Actually Entails
49 _ No One Actually Wants to Change "Gender"
50 _ Ideology Is the General Case (working title)
51 _ Boundary Violations and Territory
52 _ three views on partisanship: "Hierarchy and Wings" "Bioleninism" "Democracy Cis and Trans"
54 _ Gay + Trans = Straight
57 _ Walker correspondence
58 _ 30 Years of the Blank Slate (Cosmides-Tooby/Pinker/Murray)
59 _ "I Hope You're Happy, California"
60 _ Travis's Trilemma: Creepy, Crazy, or Protected-Class (working title)
61 _ Reply to Ozymandias on Lesbians and on Single-Sex Spaces
62 _ Answers on Great Divides: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/08/questions-for-great-divides.html
63 _ Film Review: Your Name
64 _ World of Masks https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1228093035042541569
65 _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
66 _ "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity ... (UUT)
67 _ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
68 _ glomerular filtration rate https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/gq50mo/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_may_25_2020/frvrhwg/
70 "You're conflating sex and gender"—the problem is, Does anyone actually want to change "gender"?—they're bundled for a reason
74 _ COVID life-years (rather than deaths)
75 _ Signals, Deception, and the Precession of Simulacra (LW)
76 _ Contra Scott Alexander on Mental Illness; Or, Oh God, Please Don't (aAL/LW)
77 _ Comment on Wireheading /r/rational
78 _ Second Derivative (Paul Christiano on growth timelines)
79 _ Selective Reporting and Clustering
80 _ Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization—marginally neglected truths are more
81 _ Explicit Disjunction vs. Contradictory Arguments from a Bottom Line
82 _ How they Pin It Down: Equal Environments Assumption Edition https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cXzTpSiCrNGzeoRAz/conjunction-controversy-or-how-they-nail-it-down
83 _ Social Construction is an Embedded Agency Problem
85 it's important to have language for psychology because you can't point to pictures
87 Training Data—"get used" to the new definitions, in time
89 "You can follow people you disagree with!" makes sense if you think of
93 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
95 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
97 Vocabulary as Capital Investment
99 _ Challenges of Mounting an Ideological Crusade
101 B.F. being smart-but-dense
103 how taxonomy/typology emerges from Bayesian networks
105 _ On Being Stereotyped Badly (working title)
108 Memetics vs. Discourse
109 Being Willing to Change Your Mind Is About Symmetry, Not Fairness
111 The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
112 Trading Political Favors Doesn't Build True Maps, But Correcting Errors Your Yourself Made, Does
114 The Wisdom of Nature (I like the idea of transhumanism, but in practice, biology is just too complicated) https://nickbostrom.com/evolution.pdf
117 _ Product Review: FaceApp
119 _ The Strategy of "Apartment Patty" — the outrage strategy only works if you have a coalition to back you up. Deterrent: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/05/case-social-media-mobs/612202/ Another example: https://twitter.com/jaimetoons/status/1271300265170186240
121 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/
123 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."
125 address accusation that I conflate "passing" and biosex
129 Positioning (don't want to prematurely alienate people you're trying to rescue)
131 conservatives complain about low-time preference ppl having too many kids—but from a evolutionary perspective, they're more evolutionarily fit
133 A Science Fiction Story Idea I'm Not Skilled Enough to Write
135 Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous
137 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalmatophilia didn't make it into Lawrence's erotic target location paper, did it?
141 Anne Lawrence on AGP Teen Transition
142 Anne Lawrence on Unapologetic Autogynephilic Transsexualism
144 Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization
148 explain my blunder in https://twitter.com/jessi_cata/status/1188567229987577856
150 reply to https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/the-mathematical-consequences-of-a-toy-model-of-gender-transition/
152 testimony on trans girl periods: http://www.onwednesdays.net/trans-girl-periods/
157 Reading Comprehension Is Rape Culture
159 Reply to David R. MacIver on Gendering
161 Trying to Be Explicit
163 Instrumental Categories, and War
165 (lit-search strategy: go through the del Guidice "Multivariate Misgivings" article and its citations; the Archer paper also mentioned this)
167 Commentary on "Blegg Mode"
169 Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition)
171 (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode)
173 karaoke, celebrity, cognitive load; I don't want people to do that for me
175 Option<String>?! https://web.archive.org/web/20160731010249/https://qntm.org/gay
178 _ "Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
179 _ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
182 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words : well, that explains the TWAW mantra
184 The Parable of the Good Witch
186 First-Offender Models and the Unilateralist's Blessing
187 The Parable of the Faithful Man and the Cowardly Priest
189 Game Theory of "Apartment Patty"
191 Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
192 (in response to Kosoy's objection)
194 Servants of the Egregore (write-up of egregore theory as told by "Wilhelm")
196 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).
198 Research Question: Complicity
201 Where to Segment a Conversation When There's Stuff You Won't Touch, Without Violating the Virtue of Evenness
202 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)
204 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)
206 In the Presence of Mimickry, Extension and Intension Simplicity Trade-Off
208 Objectivity as a Rhetorical Strategy: probability, words, morality
209 Focus on the Simple Case (accurate maps can have bad effects, but that's a weird second-order analysis)
210 Self-Identity as Focal Point; Or, Schelf-Identity
213 A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words
217 in a world where we _actually had_ sex change technology, self-identity doctrine _wouldn't even occur to anyone_
219 Operationalization of Bad Faith: if people make reasoning errors that they wouldn't make with another topic having the same underlying structure
223 The Charity Convergence Trap
231 a big essay about Batesian mimickry
234 _ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More
236 _ "I Will Fight [...]": LGBT Patriotism and the Moral Fine-Tuning Objection
243 _ The View From Nowhere
247 _ 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/ )
248 _ Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History ...
250 Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
254 ✓ Interlude XVII (not all men)
256 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"
258 Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ...
261 _ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition: Beyond Maximum-Entropy Psychology
262 Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean
263 Q The Gender Czar's Compromise
267 Q Book Review: Nevada
268 Product Review: Oculus Go
270 All You Had to Say https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8xa97t/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_july_09_2018/e228vyj/
276 Q Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman
277 _ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
278 Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model
279 Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See
281 Q The Hand I Was Dealt
282 "diagonalize" http://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/ by running the research paper it was based on through it
283 Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals
284 Threnody for the Transhumanism of My Youth
285 of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point
286 People Really Don't Know Why They Do Things
287 Q I Want to See You Be Brave
288 Passing Is Legitimacy, Legitimacy Is Passing
289 All Men Benefit From Patriarchy
290 (the story about my name)
291 Review of Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic
292 on the poor literary quality of TG captions
293 "Another Me I Haven't Met" (SacAnime cosplay review)
294 go back to east bay tg club night?
295 Product Review: Glamour Boutique's Vee-String Bladder
296 Q This Is Worth a Fight
297 "Trans Women Are Women" is a Positive-Affect Instance of the Noncentral Fallacy
301 story of Gina and Vern selected for GNC
302 story about women engineers and male businesspeople
303 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
304 fix fic for that one episode of _The Orville_