memoir: "peace be unto him" analogy, edit sports discussion

[Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git] / notes / a-hill-of-validity-sections.md

diff --git a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md
index c228458..7c89298 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md
+++ b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md
@@ -959,9 +959,10 @@ https://www.facebook.com/yudkowsky/posts/10154110278349228
 https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1404821285276774403
 > It is not trans-specific. When people tell me I helped them, I mostly believe them and am happy.
 
-[The claim that the "Hill of Validity" thread wasn't partisan, but was just neutrally trying to teach the difference between facts and policy decisions is not credible. Imagine if someone was complaining about being required to say "Peace Be Upon Him" before referencing the prophet Muhammad. "It's a speech act, there's nothing factually false about saying 'peace be unto him'"]
-unremediatedgender.space/2020/Aug/yarvin-on-less-wrong/
+[The claim that the "Hill of Validity" thread wasn't partisan, but was just neutrally trying to teach the difference between facts and policy decisions is not credible. 
 
+Imagine if someone was complaining about being required to say "Peace Be Upon Him" before referencing the prophet Muhammad. "It's a speech act, there's nothing factually false about saying 'peace be unto him'"]
+unremediatedgender.space/2020/Aug/yarvin-on-less-wrong/
 
 -----
 
@@ -1111,4 +1112,12 @@ Scott says, "It seems to me pretty obvious that the mental health benefits to tr
 What do think submitting to social pressure looks like, if it's not exactly this thing (carefully choosing your public statements to make sure no one confuses you with the Designated Ideological Bad Guy)?!? The credible threat of being labeled an Ideological Bad Guy is _the mechanism_ the "Good" Guys use to retard potentially-ideologically-inconvenient areas of inquiry.
 
 Kerry Vaughan on deferral
-https://twitter.com/KerryLVaughan/status/1552308109535858689
\ No newline at end of file
+https://twitter.com/KerryLVaughan/status/1552308109535858689
+
+It's not that females and males are exactly the same except males are 10% stronger on average (in which case, you might just shrug and accept unequal outcomes, the way we shrug and accept it that some athletes have better genes). Different traits have different relevance to different sports: women do better in ultraswimming _because_ that competition is sampling a 
+
+where body fat is an advantage. 
+
+It really is an apples-to-oranges comparison, rather than "two populations of apples with different mean weight".
+
+For example, the _function_ of sex-segrated bathrooms is to _protect females from males_, where "females" and "males" are natural clusters in configuration space that it makes sense to want words to refer to.