-Agenda to 10 January—
-(10 January) Unnatural Categories Are Optimized for Deception (LW)
- - get feedback from A.D.+ReductiveSoteriology,TurnTrout
-_ link as Review on "Where to Draw the Boundaries?"
-- Containment thread: reply to Villiam and Pattern
+_ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to
+_ Amulet
+_ "Assigned at Birth" Is a Schelling Point
+_ Link: "AGPs! GROW A PAIR AND POLICE YOUR OWN COMMUNITY!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_qFxtJ7pxw Karen Davis
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-- Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to
-_ "epilogue, thank you, theory of C., goodbye, &c." email to S.A.
+2021+ significant posts—
+_ Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data (April?)
+_ A River in Egypt
+_ Annals of the Category War; Or, A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning
+_ Book Review: Kathleen Stock's Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism (May?)
+_ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America (June?)
LW—
+_ Overlapping Distributions and Cancellable Stereotypes; Or, The Information Theory of Adjectives
- And the Wisdom to Know the Difference
_ importance of getting the direction of causality right
+_ Multi-Level Moloch; Or, Technically, the Holocaust Was a Coordination Success
+_ Reasons to Go On
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+_ 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)
+philosophy-of-language replies,
+
Marketing channels—
-_ Twitter/Facebook
_ Reddit: /r/philosophy, /r/TheMotte, /r/theschism, /r/SneerClub
_ tags: "The SF Bay Area", "Criticisms of the Rationalist Movement", "Postmortems & Retrospectives"
-_ You Are Right and I Was Wrong: Reply to Tailcalled on Causality
+_ Elision _vs_. Choice (working title)
+_ Stereotypes are weak probabilistic inferences (Agreeableness d~0.5), category-membership is strong inference, the same word/signal hits both, but stereotypes are (or should be) easy to cancel; shifting default meaning onto stereotypes in order to suit trans (while still having the word attach to something) is a bad trade
+_ Taxometrics and the Fallacy of the Insufficiently Relevant, Insufficiently Multivariate Experiment
+_ Beyond the Binary
_ https://www.facebook.com/duncan.sabien/posts/3936528276381860 "Natural does not always mean good." — natural does not always mean good, but at our current tech level, that's actually a really good prior
_ Novemember 2020 Political Notes; Or, Sen. Kelly Loeffler Is Mostly Living in a Simulation Now
_ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
_ I, Too, Dislike It
_ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
_ Yardstick abolition pessimism https://culturallyboundgender.wordpress.com/2018/11/13/gender-identity-isnt-a-box-its-a-yardstick/
-_ Beyond the Binary
_ reductionist rebuttal to "so you think lesbians aren't women"
_ Student Dysphoria, and a Previous Life's War
_ Principles (transhumanism, and sanity)
_ reply on psych prison https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/io1iih/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_september_07/g4uvgb4/?context=3
_ Irreversible Damage review
_ Jessica/wiz AGP defense
-_ Elision _vs_. Choice (working title)
_ Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data prior: https://sillyolme.wordpress.com/2019/07/19/how-many-trans-folk-are-there-really/ https://sillyolme.wordpress.com/2017/04/16/getting-lost-in-the-crowd/
_ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and the Conjunction of Small Effect Sizes
_ Comment on "Towards decolonising computational sciences" https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.14258
_ the scapegoating dynamic
_ review of "What's the Big Secret?" (acknowledges gender-role conventions which are more salient when people are wearing clothes, but then tells the real answer)
_ reply to https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2020/11/16/hermeneutical-injustice-not-gaslighting/
-_ four clusters
-_ Comment on "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots" https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/k77sxz/d_timnit_gebru_and_google_megathread/gepcliq/
+_ Comment on "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots" https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/k77sxz/d_timnit_gebru_and_google_megathread/gepcliq/ https://doxa.substack.com/p/googles-colosseum
- Amy Wax linkpost
- - The Causality of Ethnic Differences in COVID-19 Outcomes Is an Open
+- The Causality of Ethnic Differences in COVID-19 Outcomes Is an Open
+_ follow to "Point Man": prosletyzing religion
+strict scrutiny
+
+This is the same mechanism as "Unnatural Categories Are Optimized for Deception"!!
+> journalism is usually trustworthy because trustworthiness is the carrier vehicle. It's occasionally corrupt, because corruption is the payload.
+https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/lje3nu/statement_on_new_york_times_article/gnfrprx/?context=3
optimized to confuse and intimidate people trying to use language to reason about the concept of biological sex, even if your conscious verbal narrative never says 'and now I will confuse and intimidate people who want to use language to reason about the concept of biological sex'!"
(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.
(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
invariant under the cultural coding
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_ Eugenics Is Actually Good, You Worthless Cowards
_ The One Where I Try to Be A Little More Explicit About What 'Autogynephilia' Actually Entails
_ No One Actually Wants to Change "Gender"
_ Film Review: Your Name
_ World of Masks https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1228093035042541569
_ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
-_ "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity ... (UUT)
_ glomerular filtration rate https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/gq50mo/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_may_25_2020/frvrhwg/
_ I Am Very Bad at Keeping Secrets and Am Therefore Very Reluctant to Offer Confidentiality Promises
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