Scheduled—
-X Peering Through Reverent Fingers
-_ Book Review: Charles Murray's Human Diversity
-X Teleology
+27 Apr Peering Through Reverent Fingers
+28 Apr Book Review: Charles Murray's Human Diversity
+29 Apr Teleology
Main path (important posts)—
_ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
_ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems
_ "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity ... (UUT)
+_ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
UUT—
+_ Beyond the Binary
_ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
+_ Walker correspondence
_ The Feeling Is Mutual
-_ Captions
+_ I, Too, Dislike It (Captions): sexuality stays with the body— http://theinsomniactg.blogspot.com/2019/07/knocked-out-of-my-body.html
_ 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
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+_ Answers on Great Divides: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/08/questions-for-great-divides.html
+_ Challenges of Mounting an Ideological Crusade
LW/aAL—
_ Algorithmic Intent: A Hansonian Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle (LW)
_ Zoom vs. EMH (LW)
_ Comment on "Endogenous Epistemic Factionalization"
-_ Don't "Click Here"
+_ Skyrms on Deception
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_ Contra Scott Alexander on Mental Illness; Or, Oh God, Please Don't (aAL/LW)
-_ Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization—marginally neglected truths are more
_ Selective Reporting and Clustering
+_ Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization—marginally neglected truths are more
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_ Social Construction is an Embedded Agency Problem
it's important to have language for psychology because you can't point to pictures
+Training Data—"get used" to the new definitions, in time
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+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
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+another thing keeping me from trans-IDing: trans is "marked"; choosing it would mean associating with the crazy. Normal Society (with men named Zack) has its own madnesses and crimes, but
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Vocabulary as Capital Investment
B.F. being smart-but-dense
_ Product Review: FaceApp
-_ The Strategy of "Apartment Patty"
+_ The Strategy of "Apartment Patty" — the outrage strategy only works if you have a coalition to back you up
+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/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalmatophilia "An important fantasy for some individuals is being transformed into the preferred object (such as a statue) and experiencing an associated state of immobility or paralysis."
a big essay about Batesian mimickry
-_ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
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_ 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