-(Attention conservation notice: Diary-like rambling. More Diary-like rambling tomorrow. If you're here for the insight porn, come back Wednesday. If you're here for the Actual Philosophy, come back Thursday and Friday.)
+Self-Identity Is a Schelling Point
-_ Mon: "A Love That Is Out of Anyone's Control"
-_ Tue: Social Strategy Notes
-_ Wed: The Social Construction of Reality and the Sheer Goddamned
-_ Thu: Commentary on "Blegg Mode" (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode)
-_ Fri: On the Argumentative Form "Super-proton Things Tend to Come in Varieties"
+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
-_ Terminology Gap: "Biological vs. Natal" (solution: "Developmental")
+-----
+Trying to Be Explicit
+
+Terminology Gap: "Biological vs. Natal" (solution: "Developmental")
+
+Instrumental Categories, and War
+A Science Fiction Story Idea I'm Not Skilled Enough to Write
+
+(lit-search strategy: go through the del Guidice "Multivariate Misgivings" article and its citations; the Archer paper also mentioned this)
+
+Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
+
+Link: "The Univariate Fallacy"
+
+Commentary on "Blegg Mode"
+
+Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition)
+
+(https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode)
+
+karaoke, celebrity, cognitive load; I don't want people to do that for me
+
+Option<String>?! https://web.archive.org/web/20160731010249/https://qntm.org/gay
_ "Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
_ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
-_ How Dumb Do You Think We Are?
+
+
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words : well, that explains the TWAW mantra
+The Parable of the Good Witch
+First-Offender Models and the Unilateralist's Blessing
+The Parable of the Faithful Man and the Cowardly Priest
+
+Game Theory of "Apartment Patty"
Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
(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)
+
+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).
+
Research Question: Complicity
The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
-Trying to Be Explicit
-Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
+
+
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)
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
"Love Like You"
Blindspot
Product Review: FaceApp
-Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition)
+
Q Book Review: Nevada
Product Review: Oculus Go
projects / Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git / blobdiff