Main path (important posts)—
_ theory of MMB's transition
_ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems
+_ Algorithmic Intent: A Hansonian Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle (LW)
_ Intrumental Categories, Wireheading, and War (LW)
_ Elision _vs_. Choice (working title)
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_ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
_ "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity ... (UUT)
_ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
_ World of Masks https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1228093035042541569
_ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
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LW/aAL—
-✓ Zoom vs. EMH (LW)
-_ Algorithmic Intent: A Hansonian Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle (LW)
_ Comment on "Endogenous Epistemic Factionalization"
_ Signals, Deception, and the Precession of Simulacra
+_ COVID life-years (rather than deaths)
_ Contra Scott Alexander on Mental Illness; Or, Oh God, Please Don't (aAL/LW)
_ Comment on Wireheading /r/rational
_ Second Derivative (Paul Christiano on growth timelines)
_ Selective Reporting and Clustering
_ Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization—marginally neglected truths are more
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+_ Explicit Disjunction vs. Contradictory Arguments from a Bottom Line
_ How they Pin It Down: Equal Environments Assumption Edition https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cXzTpSiCrNGzeoRAz/conjunction-controversy-or-how-they-nail-it-down
_ Social Construction is an Embedded Agency Problem
Training Data—"get used" to the new definitions, in time
+"gay and trans"
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if pro-reality trans people are allied with more numerous anti-reality trans people, that incentivizes me to join an anti-trans coalition, when what I actually (should) want is to cherry-pick the pro-reality people
another thing keeping me from trans-IDing: trans is "marked"; choosing it would mean associating with the crazy. Normal Society (with men named Zack) has its own madnesses and crimes, but