-Topical—
-_ The Causality of Ethnic Differences in COVID-19 Outcomes Is an Open Empirical Question
+Aspiration runup—
+18 Nov - Nixon on Forbidden Hypotheses
+19 Nov ✓ Interlude XX
+20 Nov ✓ The Feeling Is Mutual
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+23 Nov - Survey Data on Cis and Trans Women Among Haskell Programmers
+27 Nov - Comment on "The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and Probabilistic Inference"
+28 Nov - Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to
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+_ Principles (transhumanism, and sanity)
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+Iffy—
+ - Amy Wax linkpost
+ - The Causality of Ethnic Differences in COVID-19 Outcomes Is an Open
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+_ Novemember 2020 Political Notes; Or, Sen. Kelly Loeffler Is Mostly Living in a Simulation Now
Main path (important posts)—
_ Beyond the Binary
_ reductionist rebuttal to "so you think lesbians aren't women"
_ A Previous Life's War
-_ The Feeling Is Mutual
_ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
_ reply to https://azdoine.tumblr.com/post/173995599942/a-reply-to-unremediatedgenderspace-on-reply-to http://archive.is/JSSNi
_ reply to https://deathisbadblog.com/the-real-transphobes-are-the-ones-we-made-along-the-way/
_ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and the Conjunction of Small Effect Sizes
_ Comment on "Towards decolonising computational sciences" https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.14258
_ My Identity Has a Better Brier Score Than Your Identity
+_ TV Review: "The Trouble With Edward"
+_ Comment on "One Size Does Not Fit All: In Support of Psychotherapy for Gender Dysphoria" https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-020-01844-2 (tag: `review (paper)`)
+_ the scapegoating dynamic
+_ review of "What's the Big Secret?" (acknowledges gender-role conventions which are more salient when people are wearing clothes, but then tells the real answer)
+optimized to confuse and intimidate people trying to use language to reason about the concept of biological sex, even if your conscious verbal narrative never says 'and now I will confuse and intimidate people who want to use language to reason about the concept of biological sex'!"
I should email caption bliggers and ask if they know about AGP
https://www.imagefap.com/profile/rickbennett
_ glomerular filtration rate https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/gq50mo/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_may_25_2020/frvrhwg/
_ I Am Very Bad at Keeping Secrets and Am Therefore Very Reluctant to Offer Confidentiality Promises
+_ starting to lose sympathy for my crazy past-self
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"You're conflating sex and gender"—the problem is, Does anyone actually want to change "gender"?—they're bundled for a reason
LW/aAL—
+_ different ways of factoring a Bayes net of the same data make different predictions about interventions
_ COVID life-years (rather than deaths)
_ Signals, Deception, and the Precession of Simulacra (LW)
_ Contra Scott Alexander on Mental Illness; Or, Oh God, Please Don't (aAL/LW)
_ On Being Stereotyped Badly (working title)
Angelic Irony
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+https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/trvFowBfiKiYi7spb/open-thread-july-2019/comment/RYhKrKAxiQxY3FcHa
+> I think sometimes I talk in a way that makes me seem more politically naïve than I actually am, because I feel as if the “naïve” attitude is in some way normative? (“You really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?”)
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Memetics vs. Discourse
Cromwell's Rule Is About Symmetry, Not Fairness
Honesty Is Activism
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!
Willie McCovington
A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words