On the Argumentative Form "Super-proton Things Tend to Come in Varieties" ✓ Reply to Ozymandias on Fully Consensual Gender "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning ----- Game Theory of Stigmatization (need better title) [TERFs complain](https://archive.is/N1kM5) that AGP males body-modding to become facsimiles of women is appropriation. They're obviously correct, but the claim doesn't seem strong enough to override the right to bodily autonomy. The law, in its majestic equality, comes up with a compromise solution: [compulsory licensing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_license)! A small tax is administered on transition services (HRT, FFS, _&c_.), the proceeds of which are distributed equally amongst all natal females. Schelling on "legislative control of the clock"—mediators can create focal points— > The principle is beautifully illustrated by the daylight-saving-time controversy; a majority that want to do everything an hour earlier just cannot organize to do it unless it gets legislative control of the clock. And when it does, a well-organized minority that opposed the change is usually quite unable to offset the change in clock time by any organized effort to change the nominal hour at which it gets up, eats, and does business. > > —Thomas Schelling, _Strategy of Conflict_, Ch. 5, "Enforcement, Communication, and Strategic Moves" Book Review: Human Diversity Book Review: The Origins of Inequality explain my blunder in https://twitter.com/jessi_cata/status/1188567229987577856 reply to https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/the-mathematical-consequences-of-a-toy-model-of-gender-transition/ testimony on trans girl periods: http://www.onwednesdays.net/trans-girl-periods/ Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization Anne Lawrence on AGP Teen Transition Unapologetic Autogynephilic Transsexualism Promises I Can Keep Reading Comprehension Is Rape Culture Reply to David R. MacIver on Gendering Trying to Be Explicit Instrumental Categories, and War A Science Fiction Story Idea I'm Not Skilled Enough to Write (lit-search strategy: go through the del Guidice "Multivariate Misgivings" article and its citations; the Archer paper also mentioned this) Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture Commentary on "Blegg Mode" Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition) (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode) karaoke, celebrity, cognitive load; I don't want people to do that for me Option?! https://web.archive.org/web/20160731010249/https://qntm.org/gay _ "Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies" _ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words : well, that explains the TWAW mantra The Parable of the Good Witch First-Offender Models and the Unilateralist's Blessing The Parable of the Faithful Man and the Cowardly Priest Game Theory of "Apartment Patty" Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest (in response to Kosoy's objection) _ Tue: Social Strategy Notes, July 2019 Servants of the Egregore (write-up of egregore theory as told by "Wilhelm") 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). Research Question: Complicity The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact Where to Segment a Conversation When There's Stuff You Won't Touch, Without Violating the Virtue of Evenness 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) 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) In the Presence of Mimickry, Extension and Intension Simplicity Trade-Off Objectivity as a Rhetorical Strategy: probability, words, morality Focus on the Simple Case (accurate maps can have bad effects, but that's a weird second-order analysis) Self-Identity as Focal Point; Or, Schelf-Identity It Was a Complement! Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous Willie McCovington A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words One-Way Trolls in a world where we _actually had_ sex change technology, self-identity doctrine _wouldn't even occur to anyone_ Operationalization of Bad Faith: if people make reasoning errors that they wouldn't make with another topic having the same underlying structure The Charity Convergence Trap butterflies the thing to deny Laser 13 a big essay about Batesian mimickry _ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ... _ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology _ "I Will Fight [...]": LGBT Patriotism and the Moral Fine-Tuning Objection _ ℝ40 _ "I Want to Be the One" _ The View From Nowhere game theory pain _ 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/ ) _ Friendship Practices of ... _ Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History ... _ 5150 Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong?? apartment patty ✓ Interlude XVII (not all men) 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" Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ... Demibuoy _ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition: Beyond Maximum-Entropy Psychology Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean Q The Gender Czar's Compromise "Love Like You" Blindspot Product Review: FaceApp Q Book Review: Nevada Product Review: Oculus Go All You Had to Say https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8xa97t/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_july_09_2018/e228vyj/ IDEAS STOCKPILE— AGP flags Q Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman _ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See * Mary's Room Q The Hand I Was Dealt "diagonalize" http://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/ by running the research paper it was based on through it Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals Threnody for the Transhumanism of My Youth of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point People Really Don't Know Why They Do Things Q I Want to See You Be Brave Passing Is Legitimacy, Legitimacy Is Passing All Men Benefit From Patriarchy (the story about my name) Review of Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic on the poor literary quality of TG captions "Another Me I Haven't Met" (SacAnime cosplay review) go back to east bay tg club night? Product Review: Glamour Boutique's Vee-String Bladder Q This Is Worth a Fight "Trans Women Are Women" is a Positive-Affect Instance of the Noncentral Fallacy FICTION QUEUE (6)— story of Gina and Vern selected for GNC story about women engineers and male businesspeople 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 fix fic for that one episode of _The Orville_