1 Self-Identity Is a Schelling Point
2 On the Argumentative Form "Super-proton Things Tend to Come in Varieties"
3 ✓ Reply to Ozymandias on Fully Consensual Gender (add link back to Schelling pt)
4 "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning
8 Anne Lawrence on Unapologetic Autogynephilic Transsexualism
12 Reading Comprehension Is Rape Culture
14 Reply to David R. MacIver on Gendering
18 Instrumental Categories, and War
19 A Science Fiction Story Idea I'm Not Skilled Enough to Write
21 (lit-search strategy: go through the del Guidice "Multivariate Misgivings" article and its citations; the Archer paper also mentioned this)
23 Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
25 Commentary on "Blegg Mode"
27 Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition)
29 (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode)
31 karaoke, celebrity, cognitive load; I don't want people to do that for me
33 Option<String>?! https://web.archive.org/web/20160731010249/https://qntm.org/gay
36 _ "Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
37 _ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
40 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words : well, that explains the TWAW mantra
42 The Parable of the Good Witch
44 First-Offender Models and the Unilateralist's Blessing
45 The Parable of the Faithful Man and the Cowardly Priest
47 Game Theory of "Apartment Patty"
49 Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
50 (in response to Kosoy's objection)
52 _ Tue: Social Strategy Notes, July 2019
54 Servants of the Egregore (write-up of egregore theory as told by "Wilhelm")
56 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).
58 Research Question: Complicity
59 The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
62 Where to Segment a Conversation When There's Stuff You Won't Touch, Without Violating the Virtue of Evenness
63 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)
66 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)
68 In the Presence of Mimickry, Extension and Intension Simplicity Trade-Off
70 Objectivity as a Rhetorical Strategy: probability, words, morality
71 Focus on the Simple Case (accurate maps can have bad effects, but that's a weird second-order analysis)
72 Self-Identity as Focal Point; Or, Schelf-Identity
74 Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous
76 A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words
80 in a world where we _actually had_ sex change technology, self-identity doctrine _wouldn't even occur to anyone_
82 Operationalization of Bad Faith: if people make reasoning errors that they wouldn't make with another topic having the same underlying structure
86 The Charity Convergence Trap
94 a big essay about Batesian mimickry
96 _ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
97 _ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More
98 _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
99 _ "I Will Fight [...]": LGBT Patriotism and the Moral Fine-Tuning Objection
104 _ "I Want to Be the One"
106 _ The View From Nowhere
110 _ 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/ )
111 _ Friendship Practices of ...
112 _ Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History ...
114 Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
118 ✓ Interlude XVII (not all men)
120 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"
122 Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ...
125 _ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition: Beyond Maximum-Entropy Psychology
126 Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean
127 Q The Gender Czar's Compromise
130 Product Review: FaceApp
132 Q Book Review: Nevada
133 Product Review: Oculus Go
135 All You Had to Say https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8xa97t/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_july_09_2018/e228vyj/
141 Q Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman
142 _ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
143 Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model
144 Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See
146 Q The Hand I Was Dealt
147 "diagonalize" http://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/ by running the research paper it was based on through it
148 Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals
149 Threnody for the Transhumanism of My Youth
150 of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point
151 People Really Don't Know Why They Do Things
152 Q I Want to See You Be Brave
153 Passing Is Legitimacy, Legitimacy Is Passing
154 All Men Benefit From Patriarchy
155 (the story about my name)
156 Review of Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic
157 on the poor literary quality of TG captions
158 "Another Me I Haven't Met" (SacAnime cosplay review)
159 go back to east bay tg club night?
160 Product Review: Glamour Boutique's Vee-String Bladder
161 Q This Is Worth a Fight
162 "Trans Women Are Women" is a Positive-Affect Instance of the Noncentral Fallacy
166 story of Gina and Vern selected for GNC
167 story about women engineers and male businesspeople
168 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
169 fix fic for that one episode of _The Orville_