Main path (important posts)—
+_ The Evolution of Meaning: Basics
+_ Algorithmic Intent: A Hansonian Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle (LW)
_ theory of MMB's transition
_ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems
-_ Algorithmic Intent: A Hansonian Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle (LW)
+_ Signals, Deception, and the Precession of Simulacra (LW)
_ Intrumental Categories, Wireheading, and War (LW)
_ Elision _vs_. Choice (working title)
UUT—
-_ Student Dysphoria; Or, Comparing This to a Previous Life's War
+_ explain pseudo-androphilia and ETLE to Jessica
+_ glomerular filtration rate https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/gq50mo/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_may_25_2020/frvrhwg/
_ Beyond the Binary
+_ A Previous Life's War
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+_ 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"
LW/aAL—
-_ Comment on "Endogenous Epistemic Factionalization"
-_ Signals, Deception, and the Precession of Simulacra
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_ COVID life-years (rather than deaths)
_ Contra Scott Alexander on Mental Illness; Or, Oh God, Please Don't (aAL/LW)
_ 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/
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/