-The Social Construction of Reality and the Sheer Goddamned
+Social Strategy Notes
+Objectivity as a Rhetorical Strategy: probability, words, morality
+Focus on the Simple Case (accurate maps can have bad effects, but that's a weird second-order analysis)
+LW Question: How might one unwind one's "rationalist" social identity?
+Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
+How Dumb Do You Think We Are?
+Research Question: Complicity
Dragon in Garage
+I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
+The Social Construction of Reality and the Sheer Goddamned
+The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artefact
+Trying to Be Explicit
+Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
+In the Presence of Mimickry, Extension and Intension Simplicity Trade-Off
+Terminology Gap: "Biological vs. Natal"
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+Sex Differences and Commonsense Priors (I have parsimony intuitions that make "AGP is caused by pollution" or "AGP is normal in cis women" or "hormone receptors distributions are the same" seem not worth considering)
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+Self-Identity as Focal Point; Or, Schelf-Identity
+It Was a Complement!
Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous
Willie McCovington
A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words
-Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
-Trying to Be Explicit
-I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
"But It Doesn't Matter"
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One-Way Trolls
+"Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
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+in a world where we _actually had_ sex change technology, self-identity doctrine _wouldn't even occur to anyone_
Operationalization of Bad Faith: if people make reasoning errors that they wouldn't make with another topic having the same underlying structure
-"The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artefact": there's a problem where if what you actually believe is extremely nuanced, and in some contexts you say something shorter and "punchier" (that's pushing back against a local majority: see "All Debates Are Bravery Debates"), people will ever-so-slightly misinterpret the punchier version and say, "Ah-ha!" like, I'm not _intending_ to motte-and-bailey, but _something_ has to get lost between the 5000-word nuanced version and the version that fits in a Tweet, and I'm sorry that the Tweet version is bailey-like
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The Charity Convergence Trap
Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals
Threnody for the Transhumanism of My Youth
of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point
-Lies to Cis People Are, Unfortunately, Still Lies
People Really Don't Know Why They Do Things
Q I Want to See You Be Brave
Passing Is Legitimacy, Legitimacy Is Passing
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