_ 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)
+_ "Assigned at Birth" Is a Schelling Point (If You Live in an Insane Dystopia Where the Concept of Sex Is Somehow Controversial) "It's not possible to know a person's gender identity at birth, and there is no consensus criteria for assigning sex at birth." https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/30/politics/south-dakota-transgender-sports-kristi-noem/index.html
_ 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
+_ Reply to Yudkowsky on Pronoun Reform and the Limits of Discussion
+_ "Cis" is like "gentile"
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)
+_ Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer
_ 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—
-_ Communication Requires Common Interest or Costly Signals
+_ Daniel C. Dennett on Near-Term Alignment Problems
+_ Angelic Irony
_ "You'll Never Persuade Anyone"
+_ 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
-_ Angelic Irony
+_ Memetics vs. Discourse
+_ Honesty Is Activism
+
+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)
_ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
_ 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"
_ Principles (transhumanism, and sanity)
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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