2021 significant posts—
-- Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to
_ Book Review: Kathleen Stock's Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism (May)
_ Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data
_ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America (June)
_ Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer
_ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning
+_ Overlapping Distributions and Cancellable Stereotypes (the standard GC argument about trans = stereotypes but with more math, why lesbians are women)
_ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
_ "Assigned at Birth" Is a Schelling Point (If You Live in an Insane Dystopia Where the Concept of Sex Is Somehow Controversial)
-_ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture (working title)
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_ Book Review: Kathryn Paige Harden's The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality (September)
Special—
- Amulet
_ Student Dysphoria, and a Previous Life's War
_ Gaydar Jamming (L.B. and R.H.)
-_ Overlapping Distributions and Cancellable Stereotypes (the standard GC argument about trans = stereotypes but with more math, why lesbians are women)
_ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
_ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
_ 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
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+_ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture (working title)
_ How do unwind one's "rationalist" social identity?
_ Daniel C. Dennett on Near-Term Alignment Problems