1 _ If in Some Smothering Dreams You Too Could Pace (UTT)
2 _ Placeholder, February 2020 (UUT)
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 conservatives complain about low-time preference ppl having too many kids—but from a evolutionary perspective, they're more evolutionarily fit
22 creepy, crazy, or protected-class
26 The Wisdom of Nature (I like the idea of transhumanism, but in practice, biology is just too complicated)
28 The Strategy of "Apartment Patty"
30 A Science Fiction Story Idea I'm Not Skilled Enough to Write
32 Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous
34 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalmatophilia didn't make it into Lawrence's erotic target location paper, did it?
38 Anne Lawrence on AGP Teen Transition
39 Anne Lawrence on Unapologetic Autogynephilic Transsexualism
41 Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization
45 explain my blunder in https://twitter.com/jessi_cata/status/1188567229987577856
47 reply to https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/the-mathematical-consequences-of-a-toy-model-of-gender-transition/
49 testimony on trans girl periods: http://www.onwednesdays.net/trans-girl-periods/
54 Reading Comprehension Is Rape Culture
56 Reply to David R. MacIver on Gendering
60 Instrumental Categories, and War
62 (lit-search strategy: go through the del Guidice "Multivariate Misgivings" article and its citations; the Archer paper also mentioned this)
64 Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
66 Commentary on "Blegg Mode"
68 Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition)
70 (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode)
72 karaoke, celebrity, cognitive load; I don't want people to do that for me
74 Option<String>?! https://web.archive.org/web/20160731010249/https://qntm.org/gay
77 _ "Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
78 _ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
81 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words : well, that explains the TWAW mantra
83 The Parable of the Good Witch
85 First-Offender Models and the Unilateralist's Blessing
86 The Parable of the Faithful Man and the Cowardly Priest
88 Game Theory of "Apartment Patty"
90 Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
91 (in response to Kosoy's objection)
93 Servants of the Egregore (write-up of egregore theory as told by "Wilhelm")
95 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).
97 Research Question: Complicity
98 The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
100 Where to Segment a Conversation When There's Stuff You Won't Touch, Without Violating the Virtue of Evenness
101 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)
103 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)
105 In the Presence of Mimickry, Extension and Intension Simplicity Trade-Off
107 Objectivity as a Rhetorical Strategy: probability, words, morality
108 Focus on the Simple Case (accurate maps can have bad effects, but that's a weird second-order analysis)
109 Self-Identity as Focal Point; Or, Schelf-Identity
112 A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words
116 in a world where we _actually had_ sex change technology, self-identity doctrine _wouldn't even occur to anyone_
118 Operationalization of Bad Faith: if people make reasoning errors that they wouldn't make with another topic having the same underlying structure
122 The Charity Convergence Trap
130 a big essay about Batesian mimickry
132 _ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
133 _ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More
134 _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
135 _ "I Will Fight [...]": LGBT Patriotism and the Moral Fine-Tuning Objection
142 _ The View From Nowhere
146 _ 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/ )
147 _ Friendship Practices of ...
148 _ Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History ...
150 Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
154 ✓ Interlude XVII (not all men)
156 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"
158 Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ...
161 _ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition: Beyond Maximum-Entropy Psychology
162 Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean
163 Q The Gender Czar's Compromise
166 Product Review: FaceApp
168 Q Book Review: Nevada
169 Product Review: Oculus Go
171 All You Had to Say https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8xa97t/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_july_09_2018/e228vyj/
177 Q Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman
178 _ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
179 Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model
180 Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See
182 Q The Hand I Was Dealt
183 "diagonalize" http://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/ by running the research paper it was based on through it
184 Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals
185 Threnody for the Transhumanism of My Youth
186 of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point
187 People Really Don't Know Why They Do Things
188 Q I Want to See You Be Brave
189 Passing Is Legitimacy, Legitimacy Is Passing
190 All Men Benefit From Patriarchy
191 (the story about my name)
192 Review of Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic
193 on the poor literary quality of TG captions
194 "Another Me I Haven't Met" (SacAnime cosplay review)
195 go back to east bay tg club night?
196 Product Review: Glamour Boutique's Vee-String Bladder
197 Q This Is Worth a Fight
198 "Trans Women Are Women" is a Positive-Affect Instance of the Noncentral Fallacy
202 story of Gina and Vern selected for GNC
203 story about women engineers and male businesspeople
204 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
205 fix fic for that one episode of _The Orville_