+2021 significant posts—
- Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to
-_ You Are Right and I Was Wrong: Reply to Tailcalled on Causality
- - The Causality of Ethnic Differences in COVID-19 Outcomes Is an Open
+_ Book Review: Kathleen Stock's Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism (May)
+_ Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data
+_ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America (June)
+_ Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer
+_ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
+_ "Assigned at Birth" Is a Schelling Point (If You Live in an Insane Dystopia Where the Concept of Sex Is Somehow Controversial)
+_ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning
+_ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture (working title)
+_ Book Review: Kathryn Paige Harden's The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality (September)
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+Special—
+_ trapped priors—at home! or, theory of C.
+
+Minor or Needs Development—
+- Amulet
+_ Student Dysphoria, and a Previous Life's War
+_ Gaydar Jamming (L.B. and R.H.)
+_ Overlapping Distributions and Cancellable Stereotypes (the standard GC argument about trans = stereotypes but with more math, why lesbians are women)
+_ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
+_ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
+
+Filler links—
+_ Link: You're Kidding, Right?
+_ Link: Lease Bound comic
+_ Link: Quillette on Sons Becoming Daughters
+_ Link: Babylon Bee "It's a Good Life" parody https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20ALZgd6_Ek
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LW—
+_ Feature Selection
+_ Angelic Irony
+_ "You'll Never Persuade Anyone"
+_ 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
+_ "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
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+_ How do unwind one's "rationalist" social identity?
+_ Daniel C. Dennett on Near-Term Alignment Problems
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+_ Honesty Is Activism
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+_ agents with different learning algorithms would find it hard to agree on words?
+
+Trading Political Favors Doesn't Build True Maps, But Correcting Errors Your Yourself Made, Does
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+(Rationalists don't exist)
+> how to be a strong rationalist
+https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/4thPHxgBCvteQjLv6/against-context-free-integrity
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+_ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning / Casuistry Is Unbecoming: Replies to Eliezer Yudkowsky (I don't know how to do this)
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+_ 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)
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+philosophy-of-language replies,
+
Marketing channels—
-_ Twitter/Facebook
_ Reddit: /r/philosophy, /r/TheMotte, /r/theschism, /r/SneerClub
_ tags: "The SF Bay Area", "Criticisms of the Rationalist Movement", "Postmortems & Retrospectives"
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+_ "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
+_ Elision _vs_. Choice (working title)
+_ 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
_ https://www.facebook.com/duncan.sabien/posts/3936528276381860 "Natural does not always mean good." — natural does not always mean good, but at our current tech level, that's actually a really good prior
_ Novemember 2020 Political Notes; Or, Sen. Kelly Loeffler Is Mostly Living in a Simulation Now
_ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
-_ crimestopped about L.B.
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_ I, Too, Dislike It
-_ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
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_ Yardstick abolition pessimism https://culturallyboundgender.wordpress.com/2018/11/13/gender-identity-isnt-a-box-its-a-yardstick/
-_ Beyond the Binary
_ reductionist rebuttal to "so you think lesbians aren't women"
-_ Student Dysphoria, and a Previous Life's War
_ Principles (transhumanism, and sanity)
-_ 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/
_ Beckett Mariner Is Trans https://www.reddit.com/r/DaystromInstitute/comments/in3g92/was_mariner_a_teenager_on_the_enterprised/
_ reply on psych prison https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/io1iih/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_september_07/g4uvgb4/?context=3
_ Irreversible Damage review
_ Jessica/wiz AGP defense
-_ Elision _vs_. Choice (working title)
_ Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data prior: https://sillyolme.wordpress.com/2019/07/19/how-many-trans-folk-are-there-really/ https://sillyolme.wordpress.com/2017/04/16/getting-lost-in-the-crowd/
_ "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
_ 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/
-_ four clusters
-_ Comment on "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots" https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/k77sxz/d_timnit_gebru_and_google_megathread/gepcliq/
+_ 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
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'!"
(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.
(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
invariant under the cultural coding
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_ Eugenics Is Actually Good, You Worthless Cowards
_ The One Where I Try to Be A Little More Explicit About What 'Autogynephilia' Actually Entails
_ No One Actually Wants to Change "Gender"
_ Ideology Is the General Case (working title)
_ Boundary Violations and Territory
_ three views on partisanship: "Hierarchy and Wings" "Bioleninism" "Democracy Cis and Trans"
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+_ Link: "AGPs! GROW A PAIR AND POLICE YOUR OWN COMMUNITY!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_qFxtJ7pxw Karen Davis
_ Gay + Trans = Straight
_ Too Big to Fail
_ Orc-ham's Razor
_ Answers on Great Divides: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/08/questions-for-great-divides.html
_ Film Review: Your Name
_ 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
-_ "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity ... (UUT)
_ 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
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?”)
-Memetics vs. Discourse
-Cromwell's Rule Is About Symmetry, Not Fairness
-Honesty Is Activism
-The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
-Trading Political Favors Doesn't Build True Maps, But Correcting Errors Your Yourself Made, Does
The Wisdom of Nature (I like the idea of transhumanism, but in practice, biology is just too complicated) https://nickbostrom.com/evolution.pdf
_ 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/ )
_ 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??
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