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)
6 _ Motivation and Political Context for My Philosophy of Language Agenda
8 _ Irreversible Damage review
9 _ Jessica/wiz AGP defense
10 _ Elision _vs_. Choice (working title)
11 _ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
12 _ 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/
17 _ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
19 _ A Previous Life's War
21 _ The Feeling Is Mutual
22 _ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
23 _ reply to https://azdoine.tumblr.com/post/173995599942/a-reply-to-unremediatedgenderspace-on-reply-to http://archive.is/JSSNi
25 _ The One Where I Try to Be A Little More Explicit About What 'Autogynephilia' Actually Entails
26 _ No One Actually Wants to Change "Gender"
27 _ Ideology Is the General Case (working title)
28 _ Boundary Violations and Territory
29 _ three views on partisanship: "Hierarchy and Wings" "Bioleninism" "Democracy Cis and Trans"
31 _ Gay + Trans = Straight
34 _ Walker correspondence
35 _ 30 Years of the Blank Slate (Cosmides-Tooby/Pinker/Murray)
36 _ "I Hope You're Happy, California"
37 _ Travis's Trilemma: Creepy, Crazy, or Protected-Class (working title)
38 _ Reply to Ozymandias on Lesbians and on Single-Sex Spaces
39 _ Answers on Great Divides: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/08/questions-for-great-divides.html
40 _ Film Review: Your Name
41 _ World of Masks https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1228093035042541569
42 _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
43 _ "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity ... (UUT)
44 _ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
45 _ glomerular filtration rate https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/gq50mo/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_may_25_2020/frvrhwg/
47 "You're conflating sex and gender"—the problem is, Does anyone actually want to change "gender"?—they're bundled for a reason
51 _ COVID life-years (rather than deaths)
52 _ Signals, Deception, and the Precession of Simulacra (LW)
53 _ Contra Scott Alexander on Mental Illness; Or, Oh God, Please Don't (aAL/LW)
54 _ Comment on Wireheading /r/rational
55 _ Second Derivative (Paul Christiano on growth timelines)
56 _ Selective Reporting and Clustering
57 _ Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization—marginally neglected truths are more
58 _ Explicit Disjunction vs. Contradictory Arguments from a Bottom Line
59 _ How they Pin It Down: Equal Environments Assumption Edition https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cXzTpSiCrNGzeoRAz/conjunction-controversy-or-how-they-nail-it-down
60 _ Social Construction is an Embedded Agency Problem
62 it's important to have language for psychology because you can't point to pictures
64 Training Data—"get used" to the new definitions, in time
66 "You can follow people you disagree with!" makes sense if you think of
70 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
72 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
74 Vocabulary as Capital Investment
76 _ Challenges of Mounting an Ideological Crusade
78 B.F. being smart-but-dense
80 how taxonomy/typology emerges from Bayesian networks
82 _ On Being Stereotyped Badly (working title)
86 Memetics vs. Discourse
89 The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
91 The Wisdom of Nature (I like the idea of transhumanism, but in practice, biology is just too complicated) https://nickbostrom.com/evolution.pdf
94 _ Product Review: FaceApp
96 _ 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
98 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/
100 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."
102 address accusation that I conflate "passing" and biosex
106 Positioning (don't want to prematurely alienate people you're trying to rescue)
108 conservatives complain about low-time preference ppl having too many kids—but from a evolutionary perspective, they're more evolutionarily fit
110 A Science Fiction Story Idea I'm Not Skilled Enough to Write
112 Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous
114 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalmatophilia didn't make it into Lawrence's erotic target location paper, did it?
118 Anne Lawrence on AGP Teen Transition
119 Anne Lawrence on Unapologetic Autogynephilic Transsexualism
121 Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization
125 explain my blunder in https://twitter.com/jessi_cata/status/1188567229987577856
127 reply to https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/the-mathematical-consequences-of-a-toy-model-of-gender-transition/
129 testimony on trans girl periods: http://www.onwednesdays.net/trans-girl-periods/
134 Reading Comprehension Is Rape Culture
136 Reply to David R. MacIver on Gendering
138 Trying to Be Explicit
140 Instrumental Categories, and War
142 (lit-search strategy: go through the del Guidice "Multivariate Misgivings" article and its citations; the Archer paper also mentioned this)
144 Commentary on "Blegg Mode"
146 Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition)
148 (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode)
150 karaoke, celebrity, cognitive load; I don't want people to do that for me
152 Option<String>?! https://web.archive.org/web/20160731010249/https://qntm.org/gay
155 _ "Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
156 _ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
159 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words : well, that explains the TWAW mantra
161 The Parable of the Good Witch
163 First-Offender Models and the Unilateralist's Blessing
164 The Parable of the Faithful Man and the Cowardly Priest
166 Game Theory of "Apartment Patty"
168 Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
169 (in response to Kosoy's objection)
171 Servants of the Egregore (write-up of egregore theory as told by "Wilhelm")
173 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).
175 Research Question: Complicity
178 Where to Segment a Conversation When There's Stuff You Won't Touch, Without Violating the Virtue of Evenness
179 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)
181 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)
183 In the Presence of Mimickry, Extension and Intension Simplicity Trade-Off
185 Objectivity as a Rhetorical Strategy: probability, words, morality
186 Focus on the Simple Case (accurate maps can have bad effects, but that's a weird second-order analysis)
187 Self-Identity as Focal Point; Or, Schelf-Identity
190 A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words
194 in a world where we _actually had_ sex change technology, self-identity doctrine _wouldn't even occur to anyone_
196 Operationalization of Bad Faith: if people make reasoning errors that they wouldn't make with another topic having the same underlying structure
200 The Charity Convergence Trap
208 a big essay about Batesian mimickry
211 _ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More
213 _ "I Will Fight [...]": LGBT Patriotism and the Moral Fine-Tuning Objection
220 _ The View From Nowhere
224 _ 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/ )
225 _ Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History ...
227 Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
231 ✓ Interlude XVII (not all men)
233 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"
235 Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ...
238 _ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition: Beyond Maximum-Entropy Psychology
239 Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean
240 Q The Gender Czar's Compromise
244 Q Book Review: Nevada
245 Product Review: Oculus Go
247 All You Had to Say https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8xa97t/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_july_09_2018/e228vyj/
253 Q Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman
254 _ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
255 Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model
256 Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See
258 Q The Hand I Was Dealt
259 "diagonalize" http://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/ by running the research paper it was based on through it
260 Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals
261 Threnody for the Transhumanism of My Youth
262 of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point
263 People Really Don't Know Why They Do Things
264 Q I Want to See You Be Brave
265 Passing Is Legitimacy, Legitimacy Is Passing
266 All Men Benefit From Patriarchy
267 (the story about my name)
268 Review of Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic
269 on the poor literary quality of TG captions
270 "Another Me I Haven't Met" (SacAnime cosplay review)
271 go back to east bay tg club night?
272 Product Review: Glamour Boutique's Vee-String Bladder
273 Q This Is Worth a Fight
274 "Trans Women Are Women" is a Positive-Affect Instance of the Noncentral Fallacy
278 story of Gina and Vern selected for GNC
279 story about women engineers and male businesspeople
280 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
281 fix fic for that one episode of _The Orville_