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+Main path (important posts)—
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+_ Algorithmic Intent: A Hansonian Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle (LW)
+_ Intrumental Categories, Wireheading, and War (LW)
+
+_ theory of MMB's transition
+_ Jessica/wiz AGP defense
+_ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems
+_ Elision _vs_. Choice (working title)
+_ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
+
+

 UUT—
 UUT—

-X The Reverse Murray Rule
-X Teleology
-_ Peering Through Reverent Fingers
-_ Book Review: Charles Murray's Human Diversity
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+_ Beyond the Binary
+_ A Previous Life's War
+_ I, Too, Dislike It
+
+_ The Feeling Is Mutual

 _ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
 _ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress

+_ Ideology Is the General Case (working title)
+

 
 

+_ Gay + Trans = Straight
+_ Too Big to Fail 
+_ Orc-ham's Razor
+_ Walker correspondence
+_ 30 Years of the Blank Slate (Cosmides-Tooby/Pinker/Murray)
+_ "I Hope You're Happy, California"
+_ Travis's Trilemma: Creepy, Crazy, or Protected-Class (working title)

 _ Reply to Ozymandias on Lesbians and on Single-Sex Spaces
 _ Reply to Ozymandias on Lesbians and on Single-Sex Spaces

-_ Elision _vs_. Choice (working title)
-_ Travis's Trilemma: Creepy, Crazy, or Protected-Class

 _ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
 _ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels

-_ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
-_ Sexual Dimorphism, Yudkowsky's Sequences, and Me
+_ Answers on Great Divides: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/08/questions-for-great-divides.html
+_ 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)
 _ "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity ... (UUT)

+_ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
+_ glomerular filtration rate https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/gq50mo/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_may_25_2020/frvrhwg/

 
 

+"You're conflating sex and gender"—the problem is, Does anyone actually want to change "gender"?—they're bundled for a reason

 
 LW/aAL—
 
 LW/aAL—

-_ Intrumental Categories, Wireheading, and War (LW)
-_ Algorithmic Intent: A Hansonian Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle (LW)
+
+_ COVID life-years (rather than deaths)
+_ Signals, Deception, and the Precession of Simulacra (LW)

 _ Contra Scott Alexander on Mental Illness; Or, Oh God, Please Don't (aAL/LW)
 _ Contra Scott Alexander on Mental Illness; Or, Oh God, Please Don't (aAL/LW)

-_ Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization—marginally neglected truths are more 
+_ Comment on Wireheading /r/rational
+_ Second Derivative (Paul Christiano on growth timelines)

 _ Selective Reporting and Clustering
 _ Selective Reporting and Clustering

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+_ Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization—marginally neglected truths are more 
+_ Explicit Disjunction vs. Contradictory Arguments from a Bottom Line
+_ How they Pin It Down: Equal Environments Assumption Edition https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cXzTpSiCrNGzeoRAz/conjunction-controversy-or-how-they-nail-it-down
+_ Social Construction is an Embedded Agency Problem

 
 it's important to have language for psychology because you can't point to pictures
 
 
 it's important to have language for psychology because you can't point to pictures
 

+Training Data—"get used" to the new definitions, in time
+
+"You can follow people you disagree with!" makes sense if you think of 
+
+"gay and trans"
+
+if pro-reality trans people are allied with more numerous anti-reality trans people, that incentivizes me to join an anti-trans coalition, when what I actually (should) want is to cherry-pick the pro-reality people
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+another thing keeping me from trans-IDing: trans is "marked"; choosing it would mean associating with the crazy. Normal Society (with men named Zack) has its own madnesses and crimes, but 
+
+Vocabulary as Capital Investment
+
+_ Challenges of Mounting an Ideological Crusade
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+B.F. being smart-but-dense
+
+how taxonomy/typology emerges from Bayesian networks
+

 _ On Being Stereotyped Badly (working title)
 
 Angelic Irony
 _ On Being Stereotyped Badly (working title)
 
 Angelic Irony


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 _ Product Review: FaceApp
 
 
 _ Product Review: FaceApp
 

-_ The Strategy of "Apartment Patty"
+_ The Strategy of "Apartment Patty" — the outrage strategy only works if you have a coalition to back you up. Deterrent: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/05/case-social-media-mobs/612202/  Another example: https://twitter.com/jaimetoons/status/1271300265170186240

 
 

+you regress to your group's mean—but that depends on how you draw the category boundaries around group membership! This could be a good math post!! https://humanvarieties.org/2017/07/01/measurement-error-regression-to-the-mean-and-group-differences/

 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalmatophilia "An important fantasy for some individuals is being transformed into the preferred object (such as a statue) and experiencing an associated state of immobility or paralysis."
 
 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalmatophilia "An important fantasy for some individuals is being transformed into the preferred object (such as a statue) and experiencing an associated state of immobility or paralysis."
 


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 a big essay about Batesian mimickry
 
 
 a big essay about Batesian mimickry
 

-_ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
+

 _ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More
 _ Codes of Convergence; Or, Smile More

-_ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
+

 _ "I Will Fight [...]": LGBT Patriotism and the Moral Fine-Tuning Objection
 
 _ ℝ40
 _ "I Will Fight [...]": LGBT Patriotism and the Moral Fine-Tuning Objection
 
 _ ℝ40