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
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+_ Reply to Nate Soares on the Classification of Dolphins; Also, Speculation on Psychological Motivations for Tweeting About the Classification of Dolphins
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_ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America (June)
+_ Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data
_ 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)
-Special—
-_ trapped priors—at home! or, theory of C.
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-Minor or Needs Development—
-- Amulet
+Minor queue—
+_ I Don't Do Policy
_ 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)
+_ Subspatial Distribution Overlap and Cancellable Stereotypes
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+_ Sticks and Stones
+_ Elision _vs_. Choice
+_ "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)
_ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
_ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
+_ Multi-Book Review: Various Sex-Ed Books for Children
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+More minor or Needs Development—
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+_ Correct Diagnosis as Common Interest: ideological detrans as a mirror of ideological trans: https://reclaimingtrans.wordpress.com/
+_ "Your Politics Are Interesting" as Worst Compliment
+_ I Wish You Well
+_ Gaydar Jamming (L.B. and R.H.)
+_ Book Review: Kathleen Stock's Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism (May)
+_ Book Review: Kathryn Paige Harden's The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality (September)
Filler links—
+_ Link: Halifax Pride: https://www.halifaxpride.com/news/2021/5/28/halifax-public-library-response
_ Link: You're Kidding, Right?
_ Link: Lease Bound comic
_ Link: Quillette on Sons Becoming Daughters
_ 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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