-_ Point Man
-_ Link: "See Color"
-- Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to
+_ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to
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+- 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)
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+2021 significant posts—
+_ Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data
+_ A River in Egypt (part 2)
+_ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning (part 3)
+_ 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)
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LW—
+_ Communication Requires Common Interest or Costly Signals
+_ "You'll Never Persuade Anyone"
- And the Wisdom to Know the Difference
_ importance of getting the direction of causality right
_ Multi-Level Moloch; Or, Technically, the Holocaust Was a Coordination Success
+_ Reasons to Go On
+_ Angelic Irony
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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)
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+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)
philosophy-of-language replies,
_ 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)
+_ 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
_ 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
_ 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.
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.
+> 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
_ 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
_ 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
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