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-Fanime
-"I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"
-Social Strategy Notes
-on the argumentative form, "super-proton things come in varieties"—I think the moral here is wrong; you might ask why I'm criticizing it even though it supports my position, but I care about REASONING, which means REJECTING BAD ARGUMENTS even if they're on "your side"
-"Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
-The Social Construction of Reality and the Sheer Goddamned
-I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
+Self-Identity Is a Schelling Point
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+On the Argumentative Form "Super-proton Things Tend to Come in Varieties"
+Reply to Ozymandias on Fully Consensual Gender
+"I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning
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+Trying to Be Explicit
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+Terminology Gap: "Biological vs. Natal" (solution: "Developmental")
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+Instrumental Categories, and War
+A Science Fiction Story Idea I'm Not Skilled Enough to Write
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+(lit-search strategy: go through the del Guidice "Multivariate Misgivings" article and its citations; the Archer paper also mentioned this)
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+Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
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+Link: "The Univariate Fallacy" 
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+Commentary on "Blegg Mode" 
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+Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition)
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+(https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode)
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+karaoke, celebrity, cognitive load; I don't want people to do that for me
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+Option<String>?! https://web.archive.org/web/20160731010249/https://qntm.org/gay
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+_ "Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
+_ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
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+https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words : well, that explains the TWAW mantra
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+The Parable of the Good Witch
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+First-Offender Models and the Unilateralist's Blessing
+The Parable of the Faithful Man and the Cowardly Priest
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+Game Theory of "Apartment Patty"
+
 Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
-commentary on "Blegg Mode" (in response to Kosoy's objection)
-Orc-ham's Razor
-LW Question: How to unwind one's "rationalist" social identity? (as prereading, give "Keep Your Identity Small", "Craft Is Not the Community", Vassar's comment on Zvi's reply)
-Terminology Gap: "Biological vs. Natal"
+ (in response to Kosoy's objection)
+
+_ Tue: Social Strategy Notes, July 2019
+
 Servants of the Egregore (write-up of egregore theory as told by "Wilhelm")
-Kolmogorov's Iron Triangle; Or, the Not-Being-a-Worthless-Coward Option (epigraph quote: Raleigh's "The Lie")—(include analogy: the fear that atheism would lead to immortality given that ppl don't have to fear Hell, wouldn't have seemed obviously absurd at the time)
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+Kolmogorov's Iron Triangle; Or, the Not-Being-a-Worthless-Coward Option (epigraph quote: Raleigh's "The Lie")—(include analogy: the fear that atheism would lead to immortality given that ppl don't have to fear Hell, wouldn't have seemed obviously absurd at the time) — honesty, ability to think, and mainstream credibility. The Kolmogorov option sacrifices a lot of honesty in exchange for mainstream credibility. This might seem like a good trade until you consider that "honesty" and "ability to think" aren't independent (because people are bad at compartmentalization and we need to talk to each other to think together).
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 Research Question: Complicity
 The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
-Trying to Be Explicit
-Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
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 Where to Segment a Conversation When There's Stuff You Won't Touch, Without Violating the Virtue of Evenness
 In Praise of Cartesianism (you need to _really_ understand "A Human's Guide to Words" before you can do high-grade good-faith social constructionism)
 
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 Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous
 Willie McCovington
 A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words
-"But It Doesn't Matter"
 One-Way Trolls
 
 
@@ -51,7 +92,7 @@ Laser 13
 
 a big essay about Batesian mimickry
 
-_ High-Dimensional Social Science and the Conjunction of Small Effect Sizes
+_ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
 _ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More
 _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
 _ "I Will Fight [...]": LGBT Patriotism and the Moral Fine-Tuning Objection
@@ -88,7 +129,7 @@ Q The Gender Czar's Compromise
 "Love Like You"
 Blindspot
 Product Review: FaceApp
-Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition)
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 Q Book Review: Nevada
 Product Review: Oculus Go