(Attention conservation notice: Diary-like navel-gazing today and tomorrow. If you're here for the insight porn, come back Wednesday. If you're here for Actual Philosophy, come back next week.) _ Mon: "A Love That Is Out of Anyone's Control" _ Tue: "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End" _ Wed: The Social Construction of Reality and the Sheer Goddamned _ Mon: Commentary on "Blegg Mode" (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode) _ Tue: On the Argumentative Form "Super-proton Things Tend to Come in Varieties" _ Terminology Gap: "Biological vs. Natal" (solution: "Developmental") 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 _ How Dumb Do You Think We Are? https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words : well, that explains the TWAW mantra 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) Research Question: Complicity The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact Trying to Be Explicit Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture 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 _ High-Dimensional Social Science and the Conjunction of Small Effect Sizes _ 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 _ Interlude XVI (egg promises) (working title) _ 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 Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition) 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_