2021 significant posts—
-_ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to
_ 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)
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_ 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
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+_ Elision _vs_. Choice (working title)
+_ Overlapping Distributions and Cancellable Stereotypes (the standard GC argument about trans = stereotypes but with more math, why lesbians are women)
_ "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)
-Special—
-_ trapped priors—at home! or, theory of C.
+_ Book Review: Kathryn Paige Harden's The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality (September)
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
_ 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
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+_ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture (working title)
_ How do unwind one's "rationalist" social identity?
_ Daniel C. Dennett on Near-Term Alignment Problems
_ 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
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