Main path (important posts)—
-_ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems
-_ Intrumental Categories, Wireheading, and War (LW)
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+Milestone—
+_ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems (possibly skippable? I just want this to be over)
+_ Unnatural Categories Are Optimized for Deception (LW)
+_ Motivation and Political Context for My Philosophy of Language Agenda
+_ Feedback on Unnatural Categories (working group + TurnTrout + Rich + Tetra + Steven + Said + Elizabeth (https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/rhZge5qmZKwJ8BMDM/open-and-welcome-thread-march-2020#comment-XG44nfNcpq3BXj7hB) + paid-editor)
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+Marketing channels—
+_ FUEY
+_ comment to V."C."S. on "Maybe Lying Can't Exist?!"
+_ comment on W.D. on "Maybe Lying Doesn't Exist"
+_ comment to V.K. on May thread
+_ epilogue email to S.A.
+_ explain "algorthimic" playing dumb to S.A.
+_ comment to G.J.M.??
+_ message to P."O."L.
+_ Twitter
+_ Facebook tag R.B.
+_ Reddit submissions: /r/philosophy and /r/TheMotte
+_ S. Finley share
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+_ Irreversible Damage review
+_ Jessica/wiz AGP defense
_ Elision _vs_. Choice (working title)
_ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
-_ "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity ... (UUT)
-_ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
+_ 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/
+_ I Am Very Bad at Keeping Secrets and Am Therefore Very Reluctant to Offer Confidentiality Promises
-Special—
-_ theory of MMB's transition
+(This needs to go into my "Motivations and Political Context")
+Transitioning is easy if you project into the subspace spanned by "given name" and "preferred pronouns" and "frequency of wearing dresses." The problem is that it's not psychologically realistic to expect everyone else to just throw away all the other dimensions—people were using those dimensions!
+(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.)
UUT—
-_ "I Hope You're Happy, California"
-_ Student Dysphoria; Or, Comparing This to a Previous Life's War
+_ I, Too, Dislike It
+_ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
_ Beyond the Binary
+_ A Previous Life's War
_ The Feeling Is Mutual
_ 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 to https://deathisbadblog.com/the-real-transphobes-are-the-ones-we-made-along-the-way/
+_ Beckett Mariner Is Trans https://www.reddit.com/r/DaystromInstitute/comments/in3g92/was_mariner_a_teenager_on_the_enterprised/
+_ Cynical Theories review
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+_ Eugenics Is Actually Good, You Worthless Cowards
+_ The One Where I Try to Be A Little More Explicit About What 'Autogynephilia' Actually Entails
+_ No One Actually Wants to Change "Gender"
+_ 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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+_ Gay + Trans = Straight
+_ Too Big to Fail
+_ Orc-ham's Razor
_ Walker correspondence
_ 30 Years of the Blank Slate (Cosmides-Tooby/Pinker/Murray)
-_ Reply to Thirty-Three on "religion" terminology
-_ I, Too, Dislike It (Captions): sexuality stays with the body— http://theinsomniactg.blogspot.com/2019/07/knocked-out-of-my-body.html long term job interview: http://tgswappingcaps.blogspot.com/2020/05/join-fun-explicit.html?zx=cfb49b0a1e868cdc
+_ "I Hope You're Happy, California"
_ Travis's Trilemma: Creepy, Crazy, or Protected-Class (working title)
_ Reply to Ozymandias on Lesbians and on Single-Sex Spaces
-_ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
_ Answers on Great Divides: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/08/questions-for-great-divides.html
_ 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)
+_ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
+_ glomerular filtration rate https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/gq50mo/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_may_25_2020/frvrhwg/
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+"You're conflating sex and gender"—the problem is, Does anyone actually want to change "gender"?—they're bundled for a reason
LW/aAL—
-_ Algorithmic Intent: A Hansonian Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle (LW)
-_ Zoom vs. EMH (LW)
-_ Comment on "Endogenous Epistemic Factionalization"
-_ Signals, Deception, and the Precession of Simulacra
-_ Comment on Wireheading /r/rational
+_ COVID life-years (rather than deaths)
+_ Signals, Deception, and the Precession of Simulacra (LW)
_ Contra Scott Alexander on Mental Illness; Or, Oh God, Please Don't (aAL/LW)
+_ Comment on Wireheading /r/rational
+_ Second Derivative (Paul Christiano on growth timelines)
_ Selective Reporting and Clustering
_ Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization—marginally neglected truths are more
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+_ Explicit Disjunction vs. Contradictory Arguments from a Bottom Line
_ How they Pin It Down: Equal Environments Assumption Edition https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cXzTpSiCrNGzeoRAz/conjunction-controversy-or-how-they-nail-it-down
_ Social Construction is an Embedded Agency Problem
Training Data—"get used" to the new definitions, in time
+"You can follow people you disagree with!" makes sense if you think of
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+"gay and trans"
if pro-reality trans people are allied with more numerous anti-reality trans people, that incentivizes me to join an anti-trans coalition, when what I actually (should) want is to cherry-pick the pro-reality people
_ On Being Stereotyped Badly (working title)
Angelic Irony
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Memetics vs. Discourse
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+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
_ Product Review: FaceApp
-_ The Strategy of "Apartment Patty" — the outrage strategy only works if you have a coalition to back you up
+_ The Strategy of "Apartment Patty" — the outrage strategy only works if you have a coalition to back you up. Deterrent: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/05/case-social-media-mobs/612202/ Another example: https://twitter.com/jaimetoons/status/1271300265170186240
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+Psychiatrist's response to me is kind of case-in-point https://old.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/io1iih/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_september_07/g4valma/
you regress to your group's mean—but that depends on how you draw the category boundaries around group membership! This could be a good math post!! https://humanvarieties.org/2017/07/01/measurement-error-regression-to-the-mean-and-group-differences/
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