"Sexual Dimorphism" Monday evening poke

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@@ -23,10 +23,14 @@ Harder—
 * Faster Than Science, Transgender Edition (prior draft)
 * "I often wish some men/women would appreciate"
 * empathic inference: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NLMo5FZWFFq652MNe/sympathetic-minds https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Zkzzjg3h7hW5Z36hK/humans-in-funny-suits https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9fpWoXpNv83BAHJdc/the-comedy-of-behaviorism
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+"different thing that I don't understand" /2019/Jan/interlude-xvi/
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 * wipe culturally defined values
 * finding things in the refrigerator
 *  https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FBgozHEv7J72NCEPB/my-way https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xsyG7PkMekHud2DMK/of-gender-and-rationality
 
+Be careful to phrase the early part as about _me_, and only point fingers at trans women in the coda
 
 My ideological committment to psychological-sex-differences denialism made me uncomfortable when the topic of sex differences happened to come up on the blog—which wasn't particularly often, but in such a vast, sprawling body of work as the Sequences, it occasionally turned out to be relevant in a discussion of evolution or human values.
 
@@ -87,7 +91,7 @@ _(content warning transphobia)_
 _(content warning too much information about weird fetishes)_  
 _(content warning WTF did I just read)_  
 
-(October 2020, [TODO] words)
+(November 2020, [TODO] words)
 
 
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@@ -145,6 +149,30 @@ people like me being incentivized to identify as part of a political pressure gr
 
 [TODO: are we getting new recruits? A lot of the names I see are old]
 
-
 Yudkowsky says trans rights!
 
+This doesn't pass the smell test. This doesn't pass the _laugh_ test.
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+https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jMTbQj9XB5ah2maup/similarity-clusters
+https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cFzC996D7Jjds3vS9/arguing-by-definition
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+https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mB95aqTSJLNR9YyjH/message-length
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+https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9QxnfMYccz9QRgZ5z/the-costly-coordination-mechanism-of-common-knowledge
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+https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/L22jhyY9ocXQNLqyE/science-as-curiosity-stopper
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+Personal identity—
+https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MkKcnPdTZ3pQ9F5yC/cryonics-without-freezers-resurrection-possibilities-in-a
+https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hJPh8XyJ3fTK2hLFJ/three-dialogues-on-identity
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+"I'm not from around here; I'm from another dimension"
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+activity group selecting on T ...
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+But the angle between the line between me and my sister, and the line between me and my female analogue, is the [arctangent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse_trigonometric_functions) of the difference-between-same-sex-siblings and the difference-between-sexes, which is small if sex differences are a lot larger than same-sex sibling differences (with respect to whatever metric on personspace we're using).
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+[the direction of causality](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/07/concerns/)
+http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/09/concerns-ii/
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+address GI->AGP direction