Main path (important posts)—
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+_ Algorithmic Intent: A Hansonian Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle (LW)
+_ Intrumental Categories, Wireheading, and War (LW)
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_ theory of MMB's transition
+_ Jessica/wiz AGP defense
_ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems
-_ Intrumental Categories, Wireheading, and War (LW)
_ Elision _vs_. Choice (working title)
_ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
-_ "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity ... (UUT)
-_ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
UUT—
-_ Student Dysphoria; Or, Comparing This to a Previous Life's War
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_ Beyond the Binary
+_ A Previous Life's War
+_ I, Too, Dislike It
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_ The Feeling Is Mutual
_ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
_ Ideology Is the General Case (working title)
-_ I, Too, Dislike It
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+_ 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"
_ 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)
+_ "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/
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+"You're conflating sex and gender"—the problem is, Does anyone actually want to change "gender"?—they're bundled for a reason
LW/aAL—
-✓ Zoom vs. EMH (LW)
-_ Algorithmic Intent: A Hansonian Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle (LW)
-_ Comment on "Endogenous Epistemic Factionalization"
-_ Signals, Deception, and the Precession of Simulacra
+_ 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)
_ Comment on Wireheading /r/rational
_ Second Derivative (Paul Christiano on growth timelines)
_ Selective Reporting and Clustering
_ Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization—marginally neglected truths are more
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+_ 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
Training Data—"get used" to the new definitions, in time
+"You can follow people you disagree with!" makes sense if you think of
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+"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
_ Product Review: FaceApp
-_ The Strategy of "Apartment Patty" — the outrage strategy only works if you have a coalition to back you up
+_ 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/
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