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
7 _ Feedback on Unnatural Categories (working group + TurnTrout + Rich + Tetra + Steven + Said + Elizabeth (https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/rhZge5qmZKwJ8BMDM/open-and-welcome-thread-march-2020#comment-XG44nfNcpq3BXj7hB) + paid-editor)
10 _ comment to V."C."S. on "Maybe Lying Can't Exist?!"
11 _ comment on W.D. on "Maybe Lying Doesn't Exist"
12 _ comment to V.K. on May thread
13 _ epilogue email to S.A.
14 _ explain "algorthimic" playing dumb to S.A.
17 _ Reddit submissions: /r/philosophy and /r/TheMotte
21 _ reply on psych prison https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/io1iih/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_september_07/g4uvgb4/?context=3
22 _ Irreversible Damage review
23 _ Jessica/wiz AGP defense
24 _ Elision _vs_. Choice (working title)
25 _ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
26 _ Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data 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/
29 (This needs to go into my "Motivations and Political Context")
30 Transitioning is easy if you project into the subspace spanned by "given name" and "preferred pronouns" and "frequency of wearing dresses." The problem is that it's not psychologically realistic to expect everyone else to just throw away all the other dimensions—people were using those dimensions!
32 (for Elision vs. Choice)
33 Speakers of my generation are more likely to say "person" when sex isn't relevant, whereas older works (pre-second wave feminism?) would actually say "man" (or "woman"—see how anachronistic it feels to put the female option second and in parentheses?), presumably not because human nature has changed that much, but because of shifting cultural priorities about when sex is "relevant." (Modern speakers similarly frown on mentioning race (https://agentultra.com/blog/the-black-man-stopped-me/) when it's not relevant.)
37 _ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
39 _ A Previous Life's War
40 _ The Feeling Is Mutual
41 _ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
42 _ reply to https://azdoine.tumblr.com/post/173995599942/a-reply-to-unremediatedgenderspace-on-reply-to http://archive.is/JSSNi
43 _ reply to https://deathisbadblog.com/the-real-transphobes-are-the-ones-we-made-along-the-way/
44 _ Beckett Mariner Is Trans https://www.reddit.com/r/DaystromInstitute/comments/in3g92/was_mariner_a_teenager_on_the_enterprised/
45 _ Cynical Theories review
48 _ Eugenics Is Actually Good, You Worthless Cowards
49 _ The One Where I Try to Be A Little More Explicit About What 'Autogynephilia' Actually Entails
50 _ No One Actually Wants to Change "Gender"
51 _ Ideology Is the General Case (working title)
52 _ Boundary Violations and Territory
53 _ three views on partisanship: "Hierarchy and Wings" "Bioleninism" "Democracy Cis and Trans"
55 _ Gay + Trans = Straight
58 _ Walker correspondence
59 _ 30 Years of the Blank Slate (Cosmides-Tooby/Pinker/Murray)
60 _ "I Hope You're Happy, California"
61 _ Travis's Trilemma: Creepy, Crazy, or Protected-Class (working title)
62 _ Reply to Ozymandias on Lesbians and on Single-Sex Spaces
63 _ Answers on Great Divides: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/08/questions-for-great-divides.html
64 _ Film Review: Your Name
65 _ World of Masks https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1228093035042541569
66 _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
67 _ "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity ... (UUT)
68 _ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
69 _ glomerular filtration rate https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/gq50mo/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_may_25_2020/frvrhwg/
70 _ I Am Very Bad at Keeping Secrets and Am Therefore Very Reluctant to Offer Confidentiality Promises
72 "You're conflating sex and gender"—the problem is, Does anyone actually want to change "gender"?—they're bundled for a reason
76 _ COVID life-years (rather than deaths)
77 _ Signals, Deception, and the Precession of Simulacra (LW)
78 _ Contra Scott Alexander on Mental Illness; Or, Oh God, Please Don't (aAL/LW)
79 _ Comment on Wireheading /r/rational
80 _ Second Derivative (Paul Christiano on growth timelines)
81 _ Selective Reporting and Clustering
82 _ Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization—marginally neglected truths are more
83 _ Explicit Disjunction vs. Contradictory Arguments from a Bottom Line
84 _ How they Pin It Down: Equal Environments Assumption Edition https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cXzTpSiCrNGzeoRAz/conjunction-controversy-or-how-they-nail-it-down
85 _ Social Construction is an Embedded Agency Problem
87 it's important to have language for psychology because you can't point to pictures
89 Training Data—"get used" to the new definitions, in time
91 "You can follow people you disagree with!" makes sense if you think of
95 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
97 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
99 Vocabulary as Capital Investment
101 _ Challenges of Mounting an Ideological Crusade
103 B.F. being smart-but-dense
105 how taxonomy/typology emerges from Bayesian networks
107 _ On Being Stereotyped Badly (working title)
110 Memetics vs. Discourse
111 Cromwell's Rule Is About Symmetry, Not Fairness
113 The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
114 Trading Political Favors Doesn't Build True Maps, But Correcting Errors Your Yourself Made, Does
116 The Wisdom of Nature (I like the idea of transhumanism, but in practice, biology is just too complicated) https://nickbostrom.com/evolution.pdf
119 _ Product Review: FaceApp
121 _ 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
123 Psychiatrist's response to me is kind of case-in-point https://old.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/io1iih/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_september_07/g4valma/
125 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/
127 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."
129 address accusation that I conflate "passing" and biosex
133 Positioning (don't want to prematurely alienate people you're trying to rescue)
135 conservatives complain about low-time preference ppl having too many kids—but from a evolutionary perspective, they're more evolutionarily fit
137 A Science Fiction Story Idea I'm Not Skilled Enough to Write
139 Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous
141 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalmatophilia didn't make it into Lawrence's erotic target location paper, did it?
145 Anne Lawrence on AGP Teen Transition
146 Anne Lawrence on Unapologetic Autogynephilic Transsexualism
148 Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization
152 explain my blunder in https://twitter.com/jessi_cata/status/1188567229987577856
154 reply to https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/the-mathematical-consequences-of-a-toy-model-of-gender-transition/
156 testimony on trans girl periods: http://www.onwednesdays.net/trans-girl-periods/
161 Reading Comprehension Is Rape Culture
163 Reply to David R. MacIver on Gendering
165 Trying to Be Explicit
167 Instrumental Categories, and War
169 (lit-search strategy: go through the del Guidice "Multivariate Misgivings" article and its citations; the Archer paper also mentioned this)
171 Commentary on "Blegg Mode"
173 Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition)
175 (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode)
177 karaoke, celebrity, cognitive load; I don't want people to do that for me
179 Option<String>?! https://web.archive.org/web/20160731010249/https://qntm.org/gay
182 _ "Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
183 _ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
186 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words : well, that explains the TWAW mantra
188 The Parable of the Good Witch
190 First-Offender Models and the Unilateralist's Blessing
191 The Parable of the Faithful Man and the Cowardly Priest
193 Game Theory of "Apartment Patty"
195 Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
196 (in response to Kosoy's objection)
198 Servants of the Egregore (write-up of egregore theory as told by "Wilhelm")
200 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).
202 Research Question: Complicity
205 Where to Segment a Conversation When There's Stuff You Won't Touch, Without Violating the Virtue of Evenness
206 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)
208 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)
210 In the Presence of Mimickry, Extension and Intension Simplicity Trade-Off
212 Objectivity as a Rhetorical Strategy: probability, words, morality
213 Focus on the Simple Case (accurate maps can have bad effects, but that's a weird second-order analysis)
214 Self-Identity as Focal Point; Or, Schelf-Identity
217 A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words
221 in a world where we _actually had_ sex change technology, self-identity doctrine _wouldn't even occur to anyone_
223 Operationalization of Bad Faith: if people make reasoning errors that they wouldn't make with another topic having the same underlying structure
227 The Charity Convergence Trap
235 a big essay about Batesian mimickry
238 _ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More
240 _ "I Will Fight [...]": LGBT Patriotism and the Moral Fine-Tuning Objection
247 _ The View From Nowhere
251 _ 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/ )
252 _ Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History ...
254 Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
258 ✓ Interlude XVII (not all men)
260 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"
262 Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ...
265 _ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition: Beyond Maximum-Entropy Psychology
266 Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean
267 Q The Gender Czar's Compromise
271 Q Book Review: Nevada
272 Product Review: Oculus Go
274 All You Had to Say https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8xa97t/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_july_09_2018/e228vyj/
280 Q Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman
281 _ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
282 Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model
283 Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See
285 Q The Hand I Was Dealt
286 "diagonalize" http://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/ by running the research paper it was based on through it
287 Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals
288 Threnody for the Transhumanism of My Youth
289 of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point
290 People Really Don't Know Why They Do Things
291 Q I Want to See You Be Brave
292 Passing Is Legitimacy, Legitimacy Is Passing
293 All Men Benefit From Patriarchy
294 (the story about my name)
295 Review of Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic
296 on the poor literary quality of TG captions
297 "Another Me I Haven't Met" (SacAnime cosplay review)
298 go back to east bay tg club night?
299 Product Review: Glamour Boutique's Vee-String Bladder
300 Q This Is Worth a Fight
301 "Trans Women Are Women" is a Positive-Affect Instance of the Noncentral Fallacy
305 story of Gina and Vern selected for GNC
306 story about women engineers and male businesspeople
307 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
308 fix fic for that one episode of _The Orville_