1 _ 1 July "A Love That Is Out of Anyone's Control"
2 ✓ 2 July The Source of Our Power
3 _ 3 July on the argumentative form, "super-proton things come in varieties"—I think the moral here is wrong; you might ask why I'm criticizing it even though it supports my position, but I care about REASONING, which means REJECTING BAD ARGUMENTS even if they're on "your side"
5 "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"
8 "Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
9 The Social Construction of Reality and the Sheer Goddamned
10 I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
11 Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
12 commentary on "Blegg Mode" (in response to Kosoy's objection)
14 Terminology Gap: "Biological vs. Natal"
15 Servants of the Egregore (write-up of egregore theory as told by "Wilhelm")
16 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)
17 Research Question: Complicity
18 The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
20 Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
21 Where to Segment a Conversation When There's Stuff You Won't Touch, Without Violating the Virtue of Evenness
22 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)
25 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)
27 In the Presence of Mimickry, Extension and Intension Simplicity Trade-Off
29 Objectivity as a Rhetorical Strategy: probability, words, morality
30 Focus on the Simple Case (accurate maps can have bad effects, but that's a weird second-order analysis)
31 Self-Identity as Focal Point; Or, Schelf-Identity
33 Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous
35 A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words
36 "But It Doesn't Matter"
40 in a world where we _actually had_ sex change technology, self-identity doctrine _wouldn't even occur to anyone_
42 Operationalization of Bad Faith: if people make reasoning errors that they wouldn't make with another topic having the same underlying structure
46 The Charity Convergence Trap
54 a big essay about Batesian mimickry
56 _ High-Dimensional Social Science and the Conjunction of Small Effect Sizes
57 _ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More
58 _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
59 _ "I Will Fight [...]": LGBT Patriotism and the Moral Fine-Tuning Objection
61 _ Interlude XVI (egg promises) (working title)
66 _ "I Want to Be the One"
68 _ The View From Nowhere
72 _ 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/ )
73 _ Friendship Practices of ...
74 _ Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History ...
76 Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
80 ✓ Interlude XVII (not all men)
82 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"
84 Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ...
87 _ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition: Beyond Maximum-Entropy Psychology
88 Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean
89 Q The Gender Czar's Compromise
92 Product Review: FaceApp
93 Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition)
95 Product Review: Oculus Go
97 All You Had to Say https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8xa97t/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_july_09_2018/e228vyj/
103 Q Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman
104 _ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
105 Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model
106 Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See
108 Q The Hand I Was Dealt
109 "diagonalize" http://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/ by running the research paper it was based on through it
110 Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals
111 Threnody for the Transhumanism of My Youth
112 of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point
113 People Really Don't Know Why They Do Things
114 Q I Want to See You Be Brave
115 Passing Is Legitimacy, Legitimacy Is Passing
116 All Men Benefit From Patriarchy
117 (the story about my name)
118 Review of Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic
119 on the poor literary quality of TG captions
120 "Another Me I Haven't Met" (SacAnime cosplay review)
121 go back to east bay tg club night?
122 Product Review: Glamour Boutique's Vee-String Bladder
123 Q This Is Worth a Fight
124 "Trans Women Are Women" is a Positive-Affect Instance of the Noncentral Fallacy
128 story of Gina and Vern selected for GNC
129 story about women engineers and male businesspeople
130 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
131 fix fic for that one episode of _The Orville_