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
11 _ comment to S.A.O.-C. on motivatedly playing dumb
16 _ Irreversible Damage review
17 _ Jessica/wiz AGP defense
18 _ Elision _vs_. Choice (working title)
19 _ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
20 _ 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/
21 _ I Am Very Bad at Keeping Secrets and Am Therefore Very Reluctant to Offer Confidentiality Promises
26 _ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
28 _ A Previous Life's War
29 _ The Feeling Is Mutual
30 _ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
31 _ reply to https://azdoine.tumblr.com/post/173995599942/a-reply-to-unremediatedgenderspace-on-reply-to http://archive.is/JSSNi
32 _ reply to https://deathisbadblog.com/the-real-transphobes-are-the-ones-we-made-along-the-way/
33 _ Beckett Mariner Is Trans
34 _ Cynical Theories review
37 _ Eugenics Is Actually Good, You Worthless Cowards
38 _ The One Where I Try to Be A Little More Explicit About What 'Autogynephilia' Actually Entails
39 _ No One Actually Wants to Change "Gender"
40 _ Ideology Is the General Case (working title)
41 _ Boundary Violations and Territory
42 _ three views on partisanship: "Hierarchy and Wings" "Bioleninism" "Democracy Cis and Trans"
44 _ Gay + Trans = Straight
47 _ Walker correspondence
48 _ 30 Years of the Blank Slate (Cosmides-Tooby/Pinker/Murray)
49 _ "I Hope You're Happy, California"
50 _ Travis's Trilemma: Creepy, Crazy, or Protected-Class (working title)
51 _ Reply to Ozymandias on Lesbians and on Single-Sex Spaces
52 _ Answers on Great Divides: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/08/questions-for-great-divides.html
53 _ Film Review: Your Name
54 _ World of Masks https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1228093035042541569
55 _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
56 _ "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity ... (UUT)
57 _ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
58 _ glomerular filtration rate https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/gq50mo/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_may_25_2020/frvrhwg/
60 "You're conflating sex and gender"—the problem is, Does anyone actually want to change "gender"?—they're bundled for a reason
64 _ COVID life-years (rather than deaths)
65 _ Signals, Deception, and the Precession of Simulacra (LW)
66 _ Contra Scott Alexander on Mental Illness; Or, Oh God, Please Don't (aAL/LW)
67 _ Comment on Wireheading /r/rational
68 _ Second Derivative (Paul Christiano on growth timelines)
69 _ Selective Reporting and Clustering
70 _ Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization—marginally neglected truths are more
71 _ Explicit Disjunction vs. Contradictory Arguments from a Bottom Line
72 _ How they Pin It Down: Equal Environments Assumption Edition https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cXzTpSiCrNGzeoRAz/conjunction-controversy-or-how-they-nail-it-down
73 _ Social Construction is an Embedded Agency Problem
75 it's important to have language for psychology because you can't point to pictures
77 Training Data—"get used" to the new definitions, in time
79 "You can follow people you disagree with!" makes sense if you think of
83 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
85 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
87 Vocabulary as Capital Investment
89 _ Challenges of Mounting an Ideological Crusade
91 B.F. being smart-but-dense
93 how taxonomy/typology emerges from Bayesian networks
95 _ On Being Stereotyped Badly (working title)
98 Memetics vs. Discourse
99 Being Willing to Change Your Mind Is About Symmetry, Not Fairness
101 The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
102 Trading Political Favors Doesn't Build True Maps, But Correcting Errors Your Yourself Made, Does
104 The Wisdom of Nature (I like the idea of transhumanism, but in practice, biology is just too complicated) https://nickbostrom.com/evolution.pdf
107 _ Product Review: FaceApp
109 _ 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
111 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/
113 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."
115 address accusation that I conflate "passing" and biosex
119 Positioning (don't want to prematurely alienate people you're trying to rescue)
121 conservatives complain about low-time preference ppl having too many kids—but from a evolutionary perspective, they're more evolutionarily fit
123 A Science Fiction Story Idea I'm Not Skilled Enough to Write
125 Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous
127 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalmatophilia didn't make it into Lawrence's erotic target location paper, did it?
131 Anne Lawrence on AGP Teen Transition
132 Anne Lawrence on Unapologetic Autogynephilic Transsexualism
134 Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization
138 explain my blunder in https://twitter.com/jessi_cata/status/1188567229987577856
140 reply to https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/the-mathematical-consequences-of-a-toy-model-of-gender-transition/
142 testimony on trans girl periods: http://www.onwednesdays.net/trans-girl-periods/
147 Reading Comprehension Is Rape Culture
149 Reply to David R. MacIver on Gendering
151 Trying to Be Explicit
153 Instrumental Categories, and War
155 (lit-search strategy: go through the del Guidice "Multivariate Misgivings" article and its citations; the Archer paper also mentioned this)
157 Commentary on "Blegg Mode"
159 Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition)
161 (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode)
163 karaoke, celebrity, cognitive load; I don't want people to do that for me
165 Option<String>?! https://web.archive.org/web/20160731010249/https://qntm.org/gay
168 _ "Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
169 _ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
172 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words : well, that explains the TWAW mantra
174 The Parable of the Good Witch
176 First-Offender Models and the Unilateralist's Blessing
177 The Parable of the Faithful Man and the Cowardly Priest
179 Game Theory of "Apartment Patty"
181 Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
182 (in response to Kosoy's objection)
184 Servants of the Egregore (write-up of egregore theory as told by "Wilhelm")
186 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).
188 Research Question: Complicity
191 Where to Segment a Conversation When There's Stuff You Won't Touch, Without Violating the Virtue of Evenness
192 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)
194 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)
196 In the Presence of Mimickry, Extension and Intension Simplicity Trade-Off
198 Objectivity as a Rhetorical Strategy: probability, words, morality
199 Focus on the Simple Case (accurate maps can have bad effects, but that's a weird second-order analysis)
200 Self-Identity as Focal Point; Or, Schelf-Identity
203 A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words
207 in a world where we _actually had_ sex change technology, self-identity doctrine _wouldn't even occur to anyone_
209 Operationalization of Bad Faith: if people make reasoning errors that they wouldn't make with another topic having the same underlying structure
213 The Charity Convergence Trap
221 a big essay about Batesian mimickry
224 _ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More
226 _ "I Will Fight [...]": LGBT Patriotism and the Moral Fine-Tuning Objection
233 _ The View From Nowhere
237 _ 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/ )
238 _ Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History ...
240 Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
244 ✓ Interlude XVII (not all men)
246 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"
248 Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ...
251 _ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition: Beyond Maximum-Entropy Psychology
252 Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean
253 Q The Gender Czar's Compromise
257 Q Book Review: Nevada
258 Product Review: Oculus Go
260 All You Had to Say https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8xa97t/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_july_09_2018/e228vyj/
266 Q Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman
267 _ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
268 Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model
269 Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See
271 Q The Hand I Was Dealt
272 "diagonalize" http://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/ by running the research paper it was based on through it
273 Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals
274 Threnody for the Transhumanism of My Youth
275 of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point
276 People Really Don't Know Why They Do Things
277 Q I Want to See You Be Brave
278 Passing Is Legitimacy, Legitimacy Is Passing
279 All Men Benefit From Patriarchy
280 (the story about my name)
281 Review of Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic
282 on the poor literary quality of TG captions
283 "Another Me I Haven't Met" (SacAnime cosplay review)
284 go back to east bay tg club night?
285 Product Review: Glamour Boutique's Vee-String Bladder
286 Q This Is Worth a Fight
287 "Trans Women Are Women" is a Positive-Affect Instance of the Noncentral Fallacy
291 story of Gina and Vern selected for GNC
292 story about women engineers and male businesspeople
293 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
294 fix fic for that one episode of _The Orville_