1 Main path (important posts)—
4 _ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems
5 _ Unnatural Categories Are Optimized for Deception (LW)
7 Ancillary documents for milestone—
8 _ Motivation and Political Context for My Philosophy of Language Agenda
12 _ Irreversible Damage review
13 _ Jessica/wiz AGP defense
14 _ Elision _vs_. Choice (working title)
15 _ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
16 _ Trans Kids on the Margin (working title) 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/
21 _ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
23 _ A Previous Life's War
25 _ The Feeling Is Mutual
26 _ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
27 _ reply to https://azdoine.tumblr.com/post/173995599942/a-reply-to-unremediatedgenderspace-on-reply-to http://archive.is/JSSNi
29 _ Eugenics Is Actually Good, You Worthless Cowards
30 _ The One Where I Try to Be A Little More Explicit About What 'Autogynephilia' Actually Entails
31 _ No One Actually Wants to Change "Gender"
32 _ Ideology Is the General Case (working title)
33 _ Boundary Violations and Territory
34 _ three views on partisanship: "Hierarchy and Wings" "Bioleninism" "Democracy Cis and Trans"
36 _ Gay + Trans = Straight
39 _ Walker correspondence
40 _ 30 Years of the Blank Slate (Cosmides-Tooby/Pinker/Murray)
41 _ "I Hope You're Happy, California"
42 _ Travis's Trilemma: Creepy, Crazy, or Protected-Class (working title)
43 _ Reply to Ozymandias on Lesbians and on Single-Sex Spaces
44 _ Answers on Great Divides: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/08/questions-for-great-divides.html
45 _ Film Review: Your Name
46 _ World of Masks https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1228093035042541569
47 _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
48 _ "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity ... (UUT)
49 _ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
50 _ glomerular filtration rate https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/gq50mo/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_may_25_2020/frvrhwg/
52 "You're conflating sex and gender"—the problem is, Does anyone actually want to change "gender"?—they're bundled for a reason
56 _ COVID life-years (rather than deaths)
57 _ Signals, Deception, and the Precession of Simulacra (LW)
58 _ Contra Scott Alexander on Mental Illness; Or, Oh God, Please Don't (aAL/LW)
59 _ Comment on Wireheading /r/rational
60 _ Second Derivative (Paul Christiano on growth timelines)
61 _ Selective Reporting and Clustering
62 _ Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization—marginally neglected truths are more
63 _ Explicit Disjunction vs. Contradictory Arguments from a Bottom Line
64 _ How they Pin It Down: Equal Environments Assumption Edition https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cXzTpSiCrNGzeoRAz/conjunction-controversy-or-how-they-nail-it-down
65 _ Social Construction is an Embedded Agency Problem
67 it's important to have language for psychology because you can't point to pictures
69 Training Data—"get used" to the new definitions, in time
71 "You can follow people you disagree with!" makes sense if you think of
75 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
77 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
79 Vocabulary as Capital Investment
81 _ Challenges of Mounting an Ideological Crusade
83 B.F. being smart-but-dense
85 how taxonomy/typology emerges from Bayesian networks
87 _ On Being Stereotyped Badly (working title)
91 Memetics vs. Discourse
94 The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
96 The Wisdom of Nature (I like the idea of transhumanism, but in practice, biology is just too complicated) https://nickbostrom.com/evolution.pdf
99 _ Product Review: FaceApp
101 _ 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
103 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/
105 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."
107 address accusation that I conflate "passing" and biosex
111 Positioning (don't want to prematurely alienate people you're trying to rescue)
113 conservatives complain about low-time preference ppl having too many kids—but from a evolutionary perspective, they're more evolutionarily fit
115 A Science Fiction Story Idea I'm Not Skilled Enough to Write
117 Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous
119 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalmatophilia didn't make it into Lawrence's erotic target location paper, did it?
123 Anne Lawrence on AGP Teen Transition
124 Anne Lawrence on Unapologetic Autogynephilic Transsexualism
126 Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization
130 explain my blunder in https://twitter.com/jessi_cata/status/1188567229987577856
132 reply to https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/the-mathematical-consequences-of-a-toy-model-of-gender-transition/
134 testimony on trans girl periods: http://www.onwednesdays.net/trans-girl-periods/
139 Reading Comprehension Is Rape Culture
141 Reply to David R. MacIver on Gendering
143 Trying to Be Explicit
145 Instrumental Categories, and War
147 (lit-search strategy: go through the del Guidice "Multivariate Misgivings" article and its citations; the Archer paper also mentioned this)
149 Commentary on "Blegg Mode"
151 Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition)
153 (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode)
155 karaoke, celebrity, cognitive load; I don't want people to do that for me
157 Option<String>?! https://web.archive.org/web/20160731010249/https://qntm.org/gay
160 _ "Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
161 _ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
164 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words : well, that explains the TWAW mantra
166 The Parable of the Good Witch
168 First-Offender Models and the Unilateralist's Blessing
169 The Parable of the Faithful Man and the Cowardly Priest
171 Game Theory of "Apartment Patty"
173 Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
174 (in response to Kosoy's objection)
176 Servants of the Egregore (write-up of egregore theory as told by "Wilhelm")
178 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).
180 Research Question: Complicity
183 Where to Segment a Conversation When There's Stuff You Won't Touch, Without Violating the Virtue of Evenness
184 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)
186 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)
188 In the Presence of Mimickry, Extension and Intension Simplicity Trade-Off
190 Objectivity as a Rhetorical Strategy: probability, words, morality
191 Focus on the Simple Case (accurate maps can have bad effects, but that's a weird second-order analysis)
192 Self-Identity as Focal Point; Or, Schelf-Identity
195 A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words
199 in a world where we _actually had_ sex change technology, self-identity doctrine _wouldn't even occur to anyone_
201 Operationalization of Bad Faith: if people make reasoning errors that they wouldn't make with another topic having the same underlying structure
205 The Charity Convergence Trap
213 a big essay about Batesian mimickry
216 _ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More
218 _ "I Will Fight [...]": LGBT Patriotism and the Moral Fine-Tuning Objection
225 _ The View From Nowhere
229 _ 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/ )
230 _ Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History ...
232 Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
236 ✓ Interlude XVII (not all men)
238 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"
240 Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ...
243 _ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition: Beyond Maximum-Entropy Psychology
244 Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean
245 Q The Gender Czar's Compromise
249 Q Book Review: Nevada
250 Product Review: Oculus Go
252 All You Had to Say https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8xa97t/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_july_09_2018/e228vyj/
258 Q Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman
259 _ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
260 Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model
261 Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See
263 Q The Hand I Was Dealt
264 "diagonalize" http://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/ by running the research paper it was based on through it
265 Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals
266 Threnody for the Transhumanism of My Youth
267 of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point
268 People Really Don't Know Why They Do Things
269 Q I Want to See You Be Brave
270 Passing Is Legitimacy, Legitimacy Is Passing
271 All Men Benefit From Patriarchy
272 (the story about my name)
273 Review of Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic
274 on the poor literary quality of TG captions
275 "Another Me I Haven't Met" (SacAnime cosplay review)
276 go back to east bay tg club night?
277 Product Review: Glamour Boutique's Vee-String Bladder
278 Q This Is Worth a Fight
279 "Trans Women Are Women" is a Positive-Affect Instance of the Noncentral Fallacy
283 story of Gina and Vern selected for GNC
284 story about women engineers and male businesspeople
285 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
286 fix fic for that one episode of _The Orville_