-2021 significant posts—
+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.)
-_ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America (June)
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+Urgent/needed for healing—
+_ I Am Not Great With Secrets (aAL)
+_ Reply to Scott Alexander on Autogenderphilia
_ Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer
-_ Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data
_ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning
-Minor queue—
-_ I Don't Do Policy
-_ Student Dysphoria, and a Previous Life's War
-_ Subspatial Distribution Overlap and Cancellable Stereotypes; Or,
-_ Elision _vs_. Choice
+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—
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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"
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+_ Unicode adopt-a-character?? (would it be wrong to adopt "♀"?)
+_ https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WikzbCsFjpLTRQmXn/declustering-reclustering-and-filling-in-thingspace
+_ Subspatial Distribution Overlap and Cancellable Stereotypes
_ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
+_ Four Clusters
+_ Elision _vs_. Choice
+_ Karnofsky's presentism
+_ motivation for positing meta-attraction
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+_ Joint Book Review: Kathleen Stock's Material Girls and Kathryn Paige Harden's The Genetic Lottery
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+Minor queue—
+_ FaceApp tips
+_ Model-Free Happiness
+_ Sticks and Stones
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_ "Assigned at Birth" Is a Schelling Point (If You Live in an Insane Dystopia Where the Concept of Sex Is Somehow Controversial)
+_ Multi-Book Review: Various Sex-Ed Books for Children
+_ "Why the Hell It Means So Much to Me"
-More minor or Needs Development—
+More minor or Needs Development—
_ Correct Diagnosis as Common Interest: ideological detrans as a mirror of ideological trans: https://reclaimingtrans.wordpress.com/
_ "Your Politics Are Interesting" as Worst Compliment
_ I Wish You Well
-_ Gaydar Jamming (L.B. and R.H.)
-_ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
-_ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
-_ Book Review: Kathleen Stock's Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism (May)
-_ Book Review: Kathryn Paige Harden's The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality (September)
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Filler links—
_ Link: Halifax Pride: https://www.halifaxpride.com/news/2021/5/28/halifax-public-library-response
_ Link: Quillette on Sons Becoming Daughters
_ Link: Babylon Bee "It's a Good Life" parody https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20ALZgd6_Ek
-LW—
-_ Feature Selection
-_ Angelic Irony
-_ "You'll Never Persuade Anyone"
-_ 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
-_ Simulationist Headcanon for Ontologically Basic Train Show
-_ "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?
+* Objection: but then shouldn't we pick different words for the convergent and phylo clusters? Uncomfortable with wavering lines around "berry"
+* Reply: story for how we end up with multiple senses attached to the same word
+https://jsmp.dk/posts/2021-01-24-fruits/
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Trading Political Favors Doesn't Build True Maps, But Correcting Errors Your Yourself Made, Does
(Rationalists don't exist)
_ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning / Casuistry Is Unbecoming: Replies to Eliezer Yudkowsky (I don't know how to do this)
-_ E.Y. as case study on unconscious-lying and self-report ("their verbal theories contradict their own datapoints" https://www.facebook.com/yudkowsky/posts/10159408250519228?comment_id=10159411435619228&reply_comment_id=10159411567794228)
+_ E.Y. as case study on unconscious-lying and self-report ("their verbal theories contradict their own datapoints" https://www.facebook.com/yudkowsky/posts/10159408250519228?comment_id=10159411435619228&reply_comment_id=10159411567794228 )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zersetzung and the GPT-3 neuron about Trump: imagine a short story, where you suddenly become more villainous in the eyes of the narrative, and it's because a greater fraction of your measure is in simulations written based on an unfavorable view of your legacy (you're only aware of this because the GPT-descendant is smart enough to try to correct for it)
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!
(for Elision vs. Choice)
Speakers of my generation are more likely to say "person" when sex isn't relevant, whereas older works (pre-second wave feminism?) would actually say "man" (or "woman"—see how anachronistic it feels to put the female option second and in parentheses?), presumably not because human nature has changed that much, but because of shifting cultural priorities about when sex is "relevant." (Modern speakers similarly frown on mentioning race (https://agentultra.com/blog/the-black-man-stopped-me/) when it's not relevant.)
-This is completely discrediting!!!
-https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/11/12/book-review-the-body-keeps-the-score/
-> they're not necessarily rejecting the seriousness of child abuse, only saying it’s not the kind of thing they build their categories around.
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(My Identity Has a Better Brier Score)
I'm skeptical of "ace"—I think it's just an identity label that can be successfully marketed to otherwise-ordinary people in the bottom-quartile of libido, by an ideology that wants to sell people identity labels to get them to join the coalition of sexual minorities
You might reply: "But you identify as AGP, and attach emotional weight to that—isn't that just another identity label?"
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