1 _ Mon: "A Love That Is Out of Anyone's Control"
2 _ Tue: The Social Construction of Reality and the Sheer Goddamned
4 Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
5 "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"
7 _ Mon: Commentary on "Blegg Mode" (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode)
8 _ Tue: On the Argumentative Form "Super-proton Things Tend to Come in Varieties"
9 _ Terminology Gap: "Biological vs. Natal" (solution: "Developmental")
10 _ Link: "The Univariate Fallacy"
12 karaoke, celebrity, cognitive load; I don't want people to do that for me
14 Option<String>?! https://web.archive.org/web/20160731010249/https://qntm.org/gay
17 _ "Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
18 _ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
19 _ How Dumb Do You Think We Are?
23 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words : well, that explains the TWAW mantra
26 First-Offender Models and the Unilateralist's Blessing
27 The Parable of the Faithful Man and the Cowardly Priest
29 Game Theory of "Apartment Patty"
31 Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
32 (in response to Kosoy's objection)
34 _ Tue: Social Strategy Notes, July 2019
36 Servants of the Egregore (write-up of egregore theory as told by "Wilhelm")
38 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).
40 Research Question: Complicity
41 The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
44 Where to Segment a Conversation When There's Stuff You Won't Touch, Without Violating the Virtue of Evenness
45 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)
48 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)
50 In the Presence of Mimickry, Extension and Intension Simplicity Trade-Off
52 Objectivity as a Rhetorical Strategy: probability, words, morality
53 Focus on the Simple Case (accurate maps can have bad effects, but that's a weird second-order analysis)
54 Self-Identity as Focal Point; Or, Schelf-Identity
56 Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous
58 A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words
62 in a world where we _actually had_ sex change technology, self-identity doctrine _wouldn't even occur to anyone_
64 Operationalization of Bad Faith: if people make reasoning errors that they wouldn't make with another topic having the same underlying structure
68 The Charity Convergence Trap
76 a big essay about Batesian mimickry
78 _ High-Dimensional Social Science and the Conjunction of Small Effect Sizes
79 _ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More
80 _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
81 _ "I Will Fight [...]": LGBT Patriotism and the Moral Fine-Tuning Objection
83 _ Interlude XVI (egg promises) (working title)
88 _ "I Want to Be the One"
90 _ The View From Nowhere
94 _ 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/ )
95 _ Friendship Practices of ...
96 _ Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History ...
98 Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
102 ✓ Interlude XVII (not all men)
104 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"
106 Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ...
109 _ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition: Beyond Maximum-Entropy Psychology
110 Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean
111 Q The Gender Czar's Compromise
114 Product Review: FaceApp
115 Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition)
116 Q Book Review: Nevada
117 Product Review: Oculus Go
119 All You Had to Say https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8xa97t/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_july_09_2018/e228vyj/
125 Q Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman
126 _ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
127 Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model
128 Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See
130 Q The Hand I Was Dealt
131 "diagonalize" http://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/ by running the research paper it was based on through it
132 Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals
133 Threnody for the Transhumanism of My Youth
134 of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point
135 People Really Don't Know Why They Do Things
136 Q I Want to See You Be Brave
137 Passing Is Legitimacy, Legitimacy Is Passing
138 All Men Benefit From Patriarchy
139 (the story about my name)
140 Review of Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic
141 on the poor literary quality of TG captions
142 "Another Me I Haven't Met" (SacAnime cosplay review)
143 go back to east bay tg club night?
144 Product Review: Glamour Boutique's Vee-String Bladder
145 Q This Is Worth a Fight
146 "Trans Women Are Women" is a Positive-Affect Instance of the Noncentral Fallacy
150 story of Gina and Vern selected for GNC
151 story about women engineers and male businesspeople
152 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
153 fix fic for that one episode of _The Orville_