1 Main path (important posts)—
2 _ theory of MMB's transition
3 _ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems
4 _ Algorithmic Intent: A Hansonian Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle (LW)
5 _ Intrumental Categories, Wireheading, and War (LW)
6 _ Elision _vs_. Choice (working title)
9 _ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
10 _ "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity ... (UUT)
11 _ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
16 _ A Previous Life's War
20 _ The Feeling Is Mutual
21 _ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
22 _ Ideology Is the General Case (working title)
25 _ Walker correspondence
26 _ 30 Years of the Blank Slate (Cosmides-Tooby/Pinker/Murray)
27 _ "I Hope You're Happy, California"
28 _ Travis's Trilemma: Creepy, Crazy, or Protected-Class (working title)
29 _ Reply to Ozymandias on Lesbians and on Single-Sex Spaces
30 _ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
31 _ Answers on Great Divides: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/08/questions-for-great-divides.html
32 _ Film Review: Your Name
33 _ World of Masks https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1228093035042541569
34 _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
38 _ Comment on "Endogenous Epistemic Factionalization"
39 _ Signals, Deception, and the Precession of Simulacra
40 _ COVID life-years (rather than deaths)
42 _ Contra Scott Alexander on Mental Illness; Or, Oh God, Please Don't (aAL/LW)
43 _ Comment on Wireheading /r/rational
44 _ Second Derivative (Paul Christiano on growth timelines)
45 _ Selective Reporting and Clustering
46 _ Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization—marginally neglected truths are more
47 _ Explicit Disjunction vs. Contradictory Arguments from a Bottom Line
48 _ How they Pin It Down: Equal Environments Assumption Edition https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cXzTpSiCrNGzeoRAz/conjunction-controversy-or-how-they-nail-it-down
49 _ Social Construction is an Embedded Agency Problem
51 it's important to have language for psychology because you can't point to pictures
53 Training Data—"get used" to the new definitions, in time
58 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
60 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
62 Vocabulary as Capital Investment
64 _ Challenges of Mounting an Ideological Crusade
66 B.F. being smart-but-dense
68 how taxonomy/typology emerges from Bayesian networks
70 _ On Being Stereotyped Badly (working title)
74 Memetics vs. Discourse
77 The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
79 The Wisdom of Nature (I like the idea of transhumanism, but in practice, biology is just too complicated) https://nickbostrom.com/evolution.pdf
82 _ Product Review: FaceApp
84 _ The Strategy of "Apartment Patty" — the outrage strategy only works if you have a coalition to back you up
86 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/
88 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."
90 address accusation that I conflate "passing" and biosex
94 Positioning (don't want to prematurely alienate people you're trying to rescue)
96 conservatives complain about low-time preference ppl having too many kids—but from a evolutionary perspective, they're more evolutionarily fit
98 A Science Fiction Story Idea I'm Not Skilled Enough to Write
100 Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous
102 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalmatophilia didn't make it into Lawrence's erotic target location paper, did it?
106 Anne Lawrence on AGP Teen Transition
107 Anne Lawrence on Unapologetic Autogynephilic Transsexualism
109 Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization
113 explain my blunder in https://twitter.com/jessi_cata/status/1188567229987577856
115 reply to https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/the-mathematical-consequences-of-a-toy-model-of-gender-transition/
117 testimony on trans girl periods: http://www.onwednesdays.net/trans-girl-periods/
122 Reading Comprehension Is Rape Culture
124 Reply to David R. MacIver on Gendering
126 Trying to Be Explicit
128 Instrumental Categories, and War
130 (lit-search strategy: go through the del Guidice "Multivariate Misgivings" article and its citations; the Archer paper also mentioned this)
132 Commentary on "Blegg Mode"
134 Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition)
136 (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode)
138 karaoke, celebrity, cognitive load; I don't want people to do that for me
140 Option<String>?! https://web.archive.org/web/20160731010249/https://qntm.org/gay
143 _ "Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
144 _ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
147 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words : well, that explains the TWAW mantra
149 The Parable of the Good Witch
151 First-Offender Models and the Unilateralist's Blessing
152 The Parable of the Faithful Man and the Cowardly Priest
154 Game Theory of "Apartment Patty"
156 Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
157 (in response to Kosoy's objection)
159 Servants of the Egregore (write-up of egregore theory as told by "Wilhelm")
161 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).
163 Research Question: Complicity
166 Where to Segment a Conversation When There's Stuff You Won't Touch, Without Violating the Virtue of Evenness
167 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)
169 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)
171 In the Presence of Mimickry, Extension and Intension Simplicity Trade-Off
173 Objectivity as a Rhetorical Strategy: probability, words, morality
174 Focus on the Simple Case (accurate maps can have bad effects, but that's a weird second-order analysis)
175 Self-Identity as Focal Point; Or, Schelf-Identity
178 A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words
182 in a world where we _actually had_ sex change technology, self-identity doctrine _wouldn't even occur to anyone_
184 Operationalization of Bad Faith: if people make reasoning errors that they wouldn't make with another topic having the same underlying structure
188 The Charity Convergence Trap
196 a big essay about Batesian mimickry
199 _ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More
201 _ "I Will Fight [...]": LGBT Patriotism and the Moral Fine-Tuning Objection
208 _ The View From Nowhere
212 _ 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/ )
213 _ Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History ...
215 Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
219 ✓ Interlude XVII (not all men)
221 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"
223 Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ...
226 _ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition: Beyond Maximum-Entropy Psychology
227 Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean
228 Q The Gender Czar's Compromise
232 Q Book Review: Nevada
233 Product Review: Oculus Go
235 All You Had to Say https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8xa97t/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_july_09_2018/e228vyj/
241 Q Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman
242 _ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
243 Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model
244 Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See
246 Q The Hand I Was Dealt
247 "diagonalize" http://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/ by running the research paper it was based on through it
248 Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals
249 Threnody for the Transhumanism of My Youth
250 of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point
251 People Really Don't Know Why They Do Things
252 Q I Want to See You Be Brave
253 Passing Is Legitimacy, Legitimacy Is Passing
254 All Men Benefit From Patriarchy
255 (the story about my name)
256 Review of Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic
257 on the poor literary quality of TG captions
258 "Another Me I Haven't Met" (SacAnime cosplay review)
259 go back to east bay tg club night?
260 Product Review: Glamour Boutique's Vee-String Bladder
261 Q This Is Worth a Fight
262 "Trans Women Are Women" is a Positive-Affect Instance of the Noncentral Fallacy
266 story of Gina and Vern selected for GNC
267 story about women engineers and male businesspeople
268 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
269 fix fic for that one episode of _The Orville_