+Enqueue—
+_ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
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+Comment: The Dunbar reference on the definition of "personality" is actually real! (_Primate Social Systems_, Ch. 11, "Mechanics of Exploitation")
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+Really?
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+(It's great if I'm actually managing to pull it off! With "Blame Me for Trying", most commenters seemed to take the story at face value, but I wasn't sure how much of that was politeness.)
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Urgent/needed for healing—
-_ Reply to Scott Alexander on Autogenderphilia
-_ The Two-Type Taxonomy Is a Useful Approximation for ...
_ I Am Not Great With Secrets (aAL)
+_ Reply to Scott Alexander on Autogenderphilia
+_ Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer
_ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning
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Big posts—
_ Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data
_ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America
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Minor—
-_ Consilent Worldbuilding
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+_ Timelines
+_ Xpression Camera Is the Uniquely Best Piece of Software in the World
+_ ASL Is Not a Language
+_ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
+_ Book Review: Johnny the Walrus
_ my medianworld: https://www.glowfic.com/replies/1619639#reply-1619639
_ Happy Meal
+_ Rebecca Romijin
_ Link: "On Transitions, Freedom of Form, [...]"
_ Interlude XXII
_ Excerpt from _Redefining Realness_
+_ "Reducing" Bias and Improving "Safety"
_ Unicode adopt-a-character?? (would it be wrong to adopt "♀"?)
_ https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WikzbCsFjpLTRQmXn/declustering-reclustering-and-filling-in-thingspace
_ Karnofsky's presentism
_ motivation for positing meta-attraction
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-_ Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer
_ Joint Book Review: Kathleen Stock's Material Girls and Kathryn Paige Harden's The Genetic Lottery
Minor queue—
_ Sticks and Stones
_ "Assigned at Birth" Is a Schelling Point (If You Live in an Insane Dystopia Where the Concept of Sex Is Somehow Controversial)
-_ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
-_ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
_ Multi-Book Review: Various Sex-Ed Books for Children
-_ Timelines
_ "Why the Hell It Means So Much to Me"
_ Link: Quillette on Sons Becoming Daughters
_ Link: Babylon Bee "It's a Good Life" parody https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20ALZgd6_Ek
-LW—
-_ reply to David Silver on AI motivations: https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/SbAgRYo8tkHwhd9Qx/deepmind-the-podcast-excerpts-on-agi#David_Silver_on_it_being_okay_to_have_AGIs_with_different_goals_____
-_ Charles Goodhart Elementary School (story about Reflection Sentences, and the afterschool grader being wrong
-_ Steering Towards Agreement Is Like Discouraging Betting
-_ (not really for LW) mediation with Duncan: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SWxnP5LZeJzuT3ccd/?commentId=KMoFiGMzxWkWJLWcN
-_ Conflict Theory of Bounded Distrust: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/bounded-distrust
-_ Generic Consequentialists Are Liars
-_ Comment on "The Logic of Indirect Speech" (multi-receivers vs. uncertainty about a single recieiver)
-_ There's No Such Thing as Unmotivated Reasoning
-_ "You'll Never Persuade Anyone"
-_ Longtermism + Hinge of History = Shorttermism (not my original idea, but don't remember whose blog I read this on, so I'll write my own version)
-_ Point of No Return is Relative to a Class of Interventions
-_ Simulationist Headcanon for Ontologically Basic Train Show
-_ Existential Risk Science Fiction Book Club: Rainbows End
-_ Existential Risk Science Fiction Book Club: The Gods Themselves
-_ Angelic Irony
-_ Good Bad Faith
-_ Cromwell's Rule Is About Physical Symmetry, Not Fairness
-_ The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
-_ The Kolmogorov Option Is Incompatible with Rationality as the Common Interest of Many Causes
-_ "Rationalists" Don't Exist (But Rationality Does)
-- And the Wisdom to Know the Difference
-_ importance of getting the direction of causality right
-_ Memetics vs. Discourse
-_ Multi-Level Moloch; Or, Technically, the Holocaust Was a Coordination Success
-_ Reasons to Go On
-_ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture (working title)
-_ How do unwind one's "rationalist" social identity?
-_ Daniel C. Dennett on Near-Term Alignment Problems
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_ Honesty Is Activism
_ agents with different learning algorithms would find it hard to agree on words?
reverse Wason selection task: https://twitter.com/ThetaGrunberg/status/1305296703088545792
-I'm not usually—at least, not always—so much of a scrub as to play chess with a pigeon (which shits on the board and then struts around like it's won), or wrestle with a pig (which gets you both dirty, and the pig likes it), or dispute what the Tortise said to Achilles
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(This needs to go into my "Motivations and Political Context")
Transitioning is easy if you project into the subspace spanned by "given name" and "preferred pronouns" and "frequency of wearing dresses." The problem is that it's not psychologically realistic to expect everyone else to just throw away all the other dimensions—people were using those dimensions!
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