+UUT working queue—
+_ There Should Be a Closetspace/Lease Bound Crossover Fic
+_ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America
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+LW working queue—
+_ Blood Is Thicker Than Water
+_ There's No Such Thing as Unmotivated Reasoning
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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)
_ Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer
_ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning
+Minor queue—
+_ I Don't Do Policy
+_ Student Dysphoria, and a Previous Life's War
+_ Subspatial Distribution Overlap and Cancellable Stereotypes
+_ 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)
-_ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture (working title)
-_ Book Review: Kathryn Paige Harden's The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality (September)
+_ 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
-Special—
-_ trapped priors—at home! or, theory of C.
-Minor or Needs Development—
-- Amulet
-_ Student Dysphoria, and a Previous Life's War
+More minor or Needs Development—
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+_ Episode Review: Star Trek: Voyager S7EX "Body and Soul"
+_ 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.)
-_ 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
+_ 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
(for Elision vs. Choice)
Speakers of my generation are more likely to say "person" when sex isn't relevant, whereas older works (pre-second wave feminism?) would actually say "man" (or "woman"—see how anachronistic it feels to put the female option second and in parentheses?), presumably not because human nature has changed that much, but because of shifting cultural priorities about when sex is "relevant." (Modern speakers similarly frown on mentioning race (https://agentultra.com/blog/the-black-man-stopped-me/) when it's not relevant.)
-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.
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(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
You might reply: "But you identify as AGP, and attach emotional weight to that—isn't that just another identity label?"
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