-- Amulet
-_ "Assigned at Birth" Is a Schelling Point
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_ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to
+- Amulet
+_ "Assigned at Birth" Is a Schelling Point (If You Live in an Insane Dystopia Where the Concept of Sex Is Somehow Controversial)
+_ 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)
+_ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
+_ What Are Pronouns For?
-2021+ significant posts—
+2021 significant posts—
_ Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data
-_ A River in Egypt (part 2)
+_ Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer (part 2)
_ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning (part 3)
-_ Book Review: Kathleen Stock's Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism
-_ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America
+_ Book Review: Kathleen Stock's Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism (May)
+_ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America (June)
+_ Book Review: Kathryn Paige Harden's The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality (September)
LW—
+_ Daniel C. Dennett on Near-Term Alignment Problems
_ Angelic Irony
_ "You'll Never Persuade Anyone"
-_ Overlapping Distributions and Cancellable Stereotypes; Or, The Information Theory of Adjectives
+_ Cromwell's Rule Is About Physical Symmetry, Not Fairness
+_ The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
+_ "Rationalists" Don't Exist (But Rationality Does)
- And the Wisdom to Know the Difference
+_ agents with different learning algorithms would find it hard to agree on words?
_ importance of getting the direction of causality right
_ Multi-Level Moloch; Or, Technically, the Holocaust Was a Coordination Success
_ Reasons to Go On
+_ Memetics vs. Discourse
+_ Honesty Is Activism
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+Trading Political Favors Doesn't Build True Maps, But Correcting Errors Your Yourself Made, Does
_ 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—
_ Reddit: /r/philosophy, /r/TheMotte, /r/theschism, /r/SneerClub
_ tags: "The SF Bay Area", "Criticisms of the Rationalist Movement", "Postmortems & Retrospectives"
+_ An Draft Email I Did Not Send to Jesse Singal
_ 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)
_ 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/
_ 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
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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