-Laser 12
-Social Strategy Notes, late January 2019
-The Social Construction of Reality and the Sheer Goddamned
-A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words
-Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
+(Attention conservation notice: Diary-like navel-gazing today and tomorrow. If you're here for the insight porn, come back Wednesday. If you're here for Actual Philosophy, come back next week.)
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+_ Mon: "A Love That Is Out of Anyone's Control"
+_ Tue: "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"
+_ Wed: The Social Construction of Reality and the Sheer Goddamned
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+_ Mon: Commentary on "Blegg Mode" (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode)
+_ Tue: On the Argumentative Form "Super-proton Things Tend to Come in Varieties"
+_ Terminology Gap: "Biological vs. Natal" (solution: "Developmental")
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+karaoke, celebrity, cognitive load; I don't want people to do that for me
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+Option<String>?! https://web.archive.org/web/20160731010249/https://qntm.org/gay
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+_ "Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
+_ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
+_ How Dumb Do You Think We Are?
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+https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words : well, that explains the TWAW mantra
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+Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
+ (in response to Kosoy's objection)
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+_ Tue: Social Strategy Notes, July 2019
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+Servants of the Egregore (write-up of egregore theory as told by "Wilhelm")
+Kolmogorov's Iron Triangle; Or, the Not-Being-a-Worthless-Coward Option (epigraph quote: Raleigh's "The Lie")—(include analogy: the fear that atheism would lead to immortality given that ppl don't have to fear Hell, wouldn't have seemed obviously absurd at the time)
+Research Question: Complicity
+The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
Trying to Be Explicit
-I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
-"But It Doesn't Matter"
+Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
+Where to Segment a Conversation When There's Stuff You Won't Touch, Without Violating the Virtue of Evenness
+In Praise of Cartesianism (you need to _really_ understand "A Human's Guide to Words" before you can do high-grade good-faith social constructionism)
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+Sex Differences and Commonsense Priors (I have parsimony intuitions that make "AGP is caused by pollution" or "AGP is normal in cis women" or "hormone receptors distributions are the same" seem not worth considering)
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+In the Presence of Mimickry, Extension and Intension Simplicity Trade-Off
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+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!
+Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous
+Willie McCovington
+A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words
One-Way Trolls
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+in a world where we _actually had_ sex change technology, self-identity doctrine _wouldn't even occur to anyone_
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+Operationalization of Bad Faith: if people make reasoning errors that they wouldn't make with another topic having the same underlying structure
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+The Charity Convergence Trap
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+butterflies
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the thing to deny
+Laser 13
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+a big essay about Batesian mimickry
_ High-Dimensional Social Science and the Conjunction of Small Effect Sizes
_ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More
Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals
Threnody for the Transhumanism of My Youth
of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point
-Lies to Cis People Are, Unfortunately, Still Lies
People Really Don't Know Why They Do Things
Q I Want to See You Be Brave
Passing Is Legitimacy, Legitimacy Is Passing
All Men Benefit From Patriarchy
-Servants of the Egregore; Or, the Joy of Static Analysis
(the story about my name)
Review of Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic
on the poor literary quality of TG captions
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