+_ 1 July "A Love That Is Out of Anyone's Control"
+✓ 2 July The Source of Our Power
+_ 3 July 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"
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+"I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"
+Social Strategy Notes
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+"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
-It Was a Complement!
+Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
+commentary on "Blegg Mode" (in response to Kosoy's objection)
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+Terminology Gap: "Biological vs. Natal"
+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)
+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)
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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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+In the Presence of Mimickry, Extension and Intension Simplicity Trade-Off
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+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)
Self-Identity as Focal Point; Or, Schelf-Identity
-Dragon in Garage
+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
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"But It Doesn't Matter"
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One-Way Trolls
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+in a world where we _actually had_ sex change technology, self-identity doctrine _wouldn't even occur to anyone_
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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
All Men Benefit From Patriarchy
-Servants of the Egregore; Or, the Joy of Static Analysis
(the story about my name)
Review of Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic
on the poor literary quality of TG captions
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