-2021 significant posts—
+Minor ready or almost-ready—
+_ Interlude XXII
-_ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America (June)
+Urgent/needed for healing—
+_ Reply to Scott Alexander on Autogenderphilia
+_ Pseudonym Misgivings
_ Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer
-_ Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data
_ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning
-Minor queue—
-_ I Don't Do Policy
-_ Student Dysphoria, and a Previous Life's War
-_ Subspatial Distribution Overlap and Cancellable Stereotypes
+Big posts—
+_ Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data
+_ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America
+Minor—
+_ Beyond the Binary
+_ Happy Meal
_ Elision _vs_. Choice
-_ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
+_ Book Review: Johnny the Walrus
+_ Comments on the Conspiracies of dath ilan
+_ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
+_ Beckett Mariner Is Trans https://www.reddit.com/r/DaystromInstitute/comments/in3g92/was_mariner_a_teenager_on_the_enterprised/
+_ Link: "On Transitions, Freedom of Form, [...]"
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+_ Never Going to Find You Faking
+_ Body Anxiety Posting, Month Year
+_ Review of AGP Erotica Automation Tools, Month Year
+_ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means"
+_ Yardstick abolition pessimism https://culturallyboundgender.wordpress.com/2018/11/13/gender-identity-isnt-a-box-its-a-yardstick/
+_ ASL Is Not a Language
+_ Gaussian Gender Issues
+_ Timelines
+_ reinterpretting all of Hannah Montana album lyrics as an AGP narrative
+_ my medianworld: https://www.glowfic.com/replies/1619639#reply-1619639
+_ Rebecca Romijin
+_ Excerpt from _Redefining Realness_
+_ "Reducing" Bias and Improving "Safety"
+_ Unicode adopt-a-character?? (would it be wrong to adopt "♀"?)
+_ https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WikzbCsFjpLTRQmXn/declustering-reclustering-and-filling-in-thingspace
+_ Four Clusters
+_ Karnofsky's presentism
+_ motivation for positing meta-attraction
+_ Joint Book Review: Kathleen Stock's Material Girls and Kathryn Paige Harden's The Genetic Lottery
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+Minor queue—
+_ FaceApp tips
+_ Model-Free Happiness
+_ Sticks and Stones
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_ "Assigned at Birth" Is a Schelling Point (If You Live in an Insane Dystopia Where the Concept of Sex Is Somehow Controversial)
+_ Multi-Book Review: Various Sex-Ed Books for Children
+_ "Why the Hell It Means So Much to Me"
-More minor or Needs Development—
+More minor or Needs Development—
_ Correct Diagnosis as Common Interest: ideological detrans as a mirror of ideological trans: https://reclaimingtrans.wordpress.com/
_ "Your Politics Are Interesting" as Worst Compliment
_ I Wish You Well
-_ Gaydar Jamming (L.B. and R.H.)
-_ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
-_ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
-_ Book Review: Kathleen Stock's Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism (May)
-_ Book Review: Kathryn Paige Harden's The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality (September)
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Filler links—
_ Link: Halifax Pride: https://www.halifaxpride.com/news/2021/5/28/halifax-public-library-response
_ Link: Quillette on Sons Becoming Daughters
_ Link: Babylon Bee "It's a Good Life" parody https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20ALZgd6_Ek
-LW—
-_ Feature Selection
-_ Angelic Irony
-_ "You'll Never Persuade Anyone"
-_ Good Bad Faith
-_ Cromwell's Rule Is About Physical Symmetry, Not Fairness
-_ The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
-_ The Kolmogorov Option Is Incompatible with Rationality as the Common Interest of Many Causes
-_ Simulationist Headcanon for Ontologically Basic Train Show
-_ "Rationalists" Don't Exist (But Rationality Does)
-- And the Wisdom to Know the Difference
-_ importance of getting the direction of causality right
-_ Memetics vs. Discourse
-_ Multi-Level Moloch; Or, Technically, the Holocaust Was a Coordination Success
-_ Reasons to Go On
-_ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture (working title)
-_ How do unwind one's "rationalist" social identity?
-_ Daniel C. Dennett on Near-Term Alignment Problems
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_ Honesty Is Activism
_ agents with different learning algorithms would find it hard to agree on words?
+* Objection: but then shouldn't we pick different words for the convergent and phylo clusters? Uncomfortable with wavering lines around "berry"
+* Reply: story for how we end up with multiple senses attached to the same word
+https://jsmp.dk/posts/2021-01-24-fruits/
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Trading Political Favors Doesn't Build True Maps, But Correcting Errors Your Yourself Made, Does
(Rationalists don't exist)
_ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning / Casuistry Is Unbecoming: Replies to Eliezer Yudkowsky (I don't know how to do this)
-_ E.Y. as case study on unconscious-lying and self-report ("their verbal theories contradict their own datapoints" https://www.facebook.com/yudkowsky/posts/10159408250519228?comment_id=10159411435619228&reply_comment_id=10159411567794228)
+_ E.Y. as case study on unconscious-lying and self-report ("their verbal theories contradict their own datapoints" https://www.facebook.com/yudkowsky/posts/10159408250519228?comment_id=10159411435619228&reply_comment_id=10159411567794228 )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zersetzung and the GPT-3 neuron about Trump: imagine a short story, where you suddenly become more villainous in the eyes of the narrative, and it's because a greater fraction of your measure is in simulations written based on an unfavorable view of your legacy (you're only aware of this because the GPT-descendant is smart enough to try to correct for it)
_ "Cis" is like "gentile"
_ The Sex/Gender Distinction Was a Mistake
_ Complicity (how do reasonable people cooperate with each other instead of dumb people in their own coalition)
-_ reinterpretting all of Hannah Montana album lyrics as an AGP narrative
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_ Stereotypes are weak probabilistic inferences (Agreeableness d~0.5), category-membership is strong inference, the same word/signal hits both, but stereotypes are (or should be) easy to cancel; shifting default meaning onto stereotypes in order to suit trans (while still having the word attach to something) is a bad trade
_ Taxometrics and the Fallacy of the Insufficiently Relevant, Insufficiently Multivariate Experiment
_ Beyond the Binary
_ I, Too, Dislike It
-_ Yardstick abolition pessimism https://culturallyboundgender.wordpress.com/2018/11/13/gender-identity-isnt-a-box-its-a-yardstick/
-_ reductionist rebuttal to "so you think lesbians aren't women"
_ Principles (transhumanism, and sanity)
_ 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/
-_ Beckett Mariner Is Trans https://www.reddit.com/r/DaystromInstitute/comments/in3g92/was_mariner_a_teenager_on_the_enterprised/
_ Cynical Theories review
_ Persongen/univariate fallacy/typical set
_ reply on psych prison https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/io1iih/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_september_07/g4uvgb4/?context=3
_ "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)
_ reply to https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2020/11/16/hermeneutical-injustice-not-gaslighting/
_ Comment on "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots" https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/k77sxz/d_timnit_gebru_and_google_megathread/gepcliq/ https://doxa.substack.com/p/googles-colosseum
- - Amy Wax linkpost
- The Causality of Ethnic Differences in COVID-19 Outcomes Is an Open
_ follow to "Point Man": prosletyzing religion
_ Larmarckian Transmission of FtM?!
strict scrutiny
-This is the same mechanism as "Unnatural Categories Are Optimized for Deception"!!
-> journalism is usually trustworthy because trustworthiness is the carrier vehicle. It's occasionally corrupt, because corruption is the payload.
-https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/lje3nu/statement_on_new_york_times_article/gnfrprx/?context=3
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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
reverse Wason selection task: https://twitter.com/ThetaGrunberg/status/1305296703088545792
-I'm not usually—at least, not always—so much of a scrub as to play chess with a pigeon (which shits on the board and then struts around like it's won), or wrestle with a pig (which gets you both dirty, and the pig likes it), or dispute what the Tortise said to Achilles
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(This needs to go into my "Motivations and Political Context")
Transitioning is easy if you project into the subspace spanned by "given name" and "preferred pronouns" and "frequency of wearing dresses." The problem is that it's not psychologically realistic to expect everyone else to just throw away all the other dimensions—people were using those dimensions!
(for Elision vs. Choice)
Speakers of my generation are more likely to say "person" when sex isn't relevant, whereas older works (pre-second wave feminism?) would actually say "man" (or "woman"—see how anachronistic it feels to put the female option second and in parentheses?), presumably not because human nature has changed that much, but because of shifting cultural priorities about when sex is "relevant." (Modern speakers similarly frown on mentioning race (https://agentultra.com/blog/the-black-man-stopped-me/) when it's not relevant.)
-This is completely discrediting!!!
-https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/11/12/book-review-the-body-keeps-the-score/
-> they're not necessarily rejecting the seriousness of child abuse, only saying it’s not the kind of thing they build their categories around.
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(My Identity Has a Better Brier Score)
I'm skeptical of "ace"—I think it's just an identity label that can be successfully marketed to otherwise-ordinary people in the bottom-quartile of libido, by an ideology that wants to sell people identity labels to get them to join the coalition of sexual minorities
You might reply: "But you identify as AGP, and attach emotional weight to that—isn't that just another identity label?"
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