1 _ If in Some Smothering Dreams You Too Could Pace (UTT)
3 _ Book Review: Charles Murray's Human Diversity (UUT)
5 _ "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity ... (UUT)
6 _ Intrumental Categories, Wireheading, and War (LW)
8 _ Algorithmic Intent: A Hansonian Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle (LW)
9 _ Contra Scott Alexander on Mental Illness; Or, Oh God, Please Don't (aAL/LW)
14 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."
16 address accusation that I conflate "passing" and biosex
20 _ Placeholder, February 2020 (UUT)
22 The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
24 conservatives complain about low-time preference ppl having too many kids—but from a evolutionary perspective, they're more evolutionarily fit
26 creepy, crazy, or protected-class
30 The Wisdom of Nature (I like the idea of transhumanism, but in practice, biology is just too complicated)
32 The Strategy of "Apartment Patty"
34 A Science Fiction Story Idea I'm Not Skilled Enough to Write
36 Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous
38 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalmatophilia didn't make it into Lawrence's erotic target location paper, did it?
42 Anne Lawrence on AGP Teen Transition
43 Anne Lawrence on Unapologetic Autogynephilic Transsexualism
45 Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization
49 explain my blunder in https://twitter.com/jessi_cata/status/1188567229987577856
51 reply to https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/the-mathematical-consequences-of-a-toy-model-of-gender-transition/
53 testimony on trans girl periods: http://www.onwednesdays.net/trans-girl-periods/
58 Reading Comprehension Is Rape Culture
60 Reply to David R. MacIver on Gendering
64 Instrumental Categories, and War
66 (lit-search strategy: go through the del Guidice "Multivariate Misgivings" article and its citations; the Archer paper also mentioned this)
68 Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
70 Commentary on "Blegg Mode"
72 Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition)
74 (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode)
76 karaoke, celebrity, cognitive load; I don't want people to do that for me
78 Option<String>?! https://web.archive.org/web/20160731010249/https://qntm.org/gay
81 _ "Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
82 _ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
85 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words : well, that explains the TWAW mantra
87 The Parable of the Good Witch
89 First-Offender Models and the Unilateralist's Blessing
90 The Parable of the Faithful Man and the Cowardly Priest
92 Game Theory of "Apartment Patty"
94 Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
95 (in response to Kosoy's objection)
97 Servants of the Egregore (write-up of egregore theory as told by "Wilhelm")
99 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).
101 Research Question: Complicity
104 Where to Segment a Conversation When There's Stuff You Won't Touch, Without Violating the Virtue of Evenness
105 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)
107 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)
109 In the Presence of Mimickry, Extension and Intension Simplicity Trade-Off
111 Objectivity as a Rhetorical Strategy: probability, words, morality
112 Focus on the Simple Case (accurate maps can have bad effects, but that's a weird second-order analysis)
113 Self-Identity as Focal Point; Or, Schelf-Identity
116 A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words
120 in a world where we _actually had_ sex change technology, self-identity doctrine _wouldn't even occur to anyone_
122 Operationalization of Bad Faith: if people make reasoning errors that they wouldn't make with another topic having the same underlying structure
126 The Charity Convergence Trap
134 a big essay about Batesian mimickry
136 _ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
137 _ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More
138 _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
139 _ "I Will Fight [...]": LGBT Patriotism and the Moral Fine-Tuning Objection
146 _ The View From Nowhere
150 _ 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/ )
151 _ Friendship Practices of ...
152 _ Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History ...
154 Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
158 ✓ Interlude XVII (not all men)
160 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"
162 Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ...
165 _ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition: Beyond Maximum-Entropy Psychology
166 Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean
167 Q The Gender Czar's Compromise
170 Product Review: FaceApp
172 Q Book Review: Nevada
173 Product Review: Oculus Go
175 All You Had to Say https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8xa97t/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_july_09_2018/e228vyj/
181 Q Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman
182 _ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
183 Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model
184 Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See
186 Q The Hand I Was Dealt
187 "diagonalize" http://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/ by running the research paper it was based on through it
188 Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals
189 Threnody for the Transhumanism of My Youth
190 of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point
191 People Really Don't Know Why They Do Things
192 Q I Want to See You Be Brave
193 Passing Is Legitimacy, Legitimacy Is Passing
194 All Men Benefit From Patriarchy
195 (the story about my name)
196 Review of Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic
197 on the poor literary quality of TG captions
198 "Another Me I Haven't Met" (SacAnime cosplay review)
199 go back to east bay tg club night?
200 Product Review: Glamour Boutique's Vee-String Bladder
201 Q This Is Worth a Fight
202 "Trans Women Are Women" is a Positive-Affect Instance of the Noncentral Fallacy
206 story of Gina and Vern selected for GNC
207 story about women engineers and male businesspeople
208 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
209 fix fic for that one episode of _The Orville_