2 27 Apr Peering Through Reverent Fingers
3 28 Apr Book Review: Charles Murray's Human Diversity
7 Main path (important posts)—
8 _ Intrumental Categories, Wireheading, and War (LW)
9 _ Elision _vs_. Choice (working title)
10 _ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
11 _ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems
12 _ "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity ... (UUT)
13 _ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
18 _ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
19 _ Walker correspondence
20 _ The Feeling Is Mutual
21 _ I, Too, Dislike It (Captions): sexuality stays with the body— http://theinsomniactg.blogspot.com/2019/07/knocked-out-of-my-body.html
22 _ Travis's Trilemma: Creepy, Crazy, or Protected-Class (working title)
23 _ Reply to Ozymandias on Lesbians and on Single-Sex Spaces
24 _ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
25 _ Answers on Great Divides: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/08/questions-for-great-divides.html
26 _ Challenges of Mounting an Ideological Crusade
29 _ Algorithmic Intent: A Hansonian Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle (LW)
31 _ Comment on "Endogenous Epistemic Factionalization"
34 _ Contra Scott Alexander on Mental Illness; Or, Oh God, Please Don't (aAL/LW)
35 _ Selective Reporting and Clustering
36 _ Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization—marginally neglected truths are more
38 _ Social Construction is an Embedded Agency Problem
40 it's important to have language for psychology because you can't point to pictures
42 Training Data—"get used" to the new definitions, in time
45 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
47 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
49 Vocabulary as Capital Investment
51 B.F. being smart-but-dense
53 how taxonomy/typology emerges from Bayesian networks
55 _ On Being Stereotyped Badly (working title)
59 Memetics vs. Discourse
62 The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
64 The Wisdom of Nature (I like the idea of transhumanism, but in practice, biology is just too complicated) https://nickbostrom.com/evolution.pdf
67 _ Product Review: FaceApp
69 _ The Strategy of "Apartment Patty" — the outrage strategy only works if you have a coalition to back you up
71 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/
73 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."
75 address accusation that I conflate "passing" and biosex
79 Positioning (don't want to prematurely alienate people you're trying to rescue)
81 conservatives complain about low-time preference ppl having too many kids—but from a evolutionary perspective, they're more evolutionarily fit
83 A Science Fiction Story Idea I'm Not Skilled Enough to Write
85 Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous
87 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalmatophilia didn't make it into Lawrence's erotic target location paper, did it?
91 Anne Lawrence on AGP Teen Transition
92 Anne Lawrence on Unapologetic Autogynephilic Transsexualism
94 Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization
98 explain my blunder in https://twitter.com/jessi_cata/status/1188567229987577856
100 reply to https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/the-mathematical-consequences-of-a-toy-model-of-gender-transition/
102 testimony on trans girl periods: http://www.onwednesdays.net/trans-girl-periods/
107 Reading Comprehension Is Rape Culture
109 Reply to David R. MacIver on Gendering
111 Trying to Be Explicit
113 Instrumental Categories, and War
115 (lit-search strategy: go through the del Guidice "Multivariate Misgivings" article and its citations; the Archer paper also mentioned this)
117 Commentary on "Blegg Mode"
119 Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition)
121 (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode)
123 karaoke, celebrity, cognitive load; I don't want people to do that for me
125 Option<String>?! https://web.archive.org/web/20160731010249/https://qntm.org/gay
128 _ "Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
129 _ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
132 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words : well, that explains the TWAW mantra
134 The Parable of the Good Witch
136 First-Offender Models and the Unilateralist's Blessing
137 The Parable of the Faithful Man and the Cowardly Priest
139 Game Theory of "Apartment Patty"
141 Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
142 (in response to Kosoy's objection)
144 Servants of the Egregore (write-up of egregore theory as told by "Wilhelm")
146 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).
148 Research Question: Complicity
151 Where to Segment a Conversation When There's Stuff You Won't Touch, Without Violating the Virtue of Evenness
152 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)
154 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)
156 In the Presence of Mimickry, Extension and Intension Simplicity Trade-Off
158 Objectivity as a Rhetorical Strategy: probability, words, morality
159 Focus on the Simple Case (accurate maps can have bad effects, but that's a weird second-order analysis)
160 Self-Identity as Focal Point; Or, Schelf-Identity
163 A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words
167 in a world where we _actually had_ sex change technology, self-identity doctrine _wouldn't even occur to anyone_
169 Operationalization of Bad Faith: if people make reasoning errors that they wouldn't make with another topic having the same underlying structure
173 The Charity Convergence Trap
181 a big essay about Batesian mimickry
184 _ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More
185 _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
186 _ "I Will Fight [...]": LGBT Patriotism and the Moral Fine-Tuning Objection
193 _ The View From Nowhere
197 _ 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/ )
198 _ Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History ...
200 Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
204 ✓ Interlude XVII (not all men)
206 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"
208 Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ...
211 _ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition: Beyond Maximum-Entropy Psychology
212 Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean
213 Q The Gender Czar's Compromise
217 Q Book Review: Nevada
218 Product Review: Oculus Go
220 All You Had to Say https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8xa97t/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_july_09_2018/e228vyj/
226 Q Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman
227 _ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
228 Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model
229 Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See
231 Q The Hand I Was Dealt
232 "diagonalize" http://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/ by running the research paper it was based on through it
233 Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals
234 Threnody for the Transhumanism of My Youth
235 of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point
236 People Really Don't Know Why They Do Things
237 Q I Want to See You Be Brave
238 Passing Is Legitimacy, Legitimacy Is Passing
239 All Men Benefit From Patriarchy
240 (the story about my name)
241 Review of Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic
242 on the poor literary quality of TG captions
243 "Another Me I Haven't Met" (SacAnime cosplay review)
244 go back to east bay tg club night?
245 Product Review: Glamour Boutique's Vee-String Bladder
246 Q This Is Worth a Fight
247 "Trans Women Are Women" is a Positive-Affect Instance of the Noncentral Fallacy
251 story of Gina and Vern selected for GNC
252 story about women engineers and male businesspeople
253 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
254 fix fic for that one episode of _The Orville_