+.@LessWrong has the brains, @Quillette has the courage, social justice has the heart. What heroine or hero among us can unite these three virtues and shepherd us home to a Nice Place to Live??
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+Shared mass-blocklists might help here? Although that does, unfortunately, put the onus of the trivial inconvenience [TODO linky] on the reader. Not sure what else to suggest (in the face of disagreements on what Tweets constitute harm), sorry. [cold sweat]
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+Less-harsh rephrasing: passing (and especially passing-for-cis) has a large effect on social outcomes for "deep" structural reasons; unfortunately, more or better trans-rights political activism won't solve this problem [cold sweat] (but, e.g., cheaper facial feminization surgery might!)
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+There's a sense in which cis is the default—cis (non-trans) bodies are what you get in the absence of exogenous hormone replacement therapy. (There were some permanent effects after my 5-month 2017 HRT experiment, so I'm "less" cis than I would otherwise be in a way??)
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+Trans people are a sufficiently small minority that I wouldn't be surprised if medical science doesn't yet know what things are due to developmental sex and what to current hormone levels—it would be great to see more research to clear this up [female scientist emoji]
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+[to M.G.]
+Just realized why this kind of bad faith is so common: when dissent is socially punished, but ignorance is tolerated (conditional on continuing education), dissenters have an incentive to pretend (in bad faith) to be slow learners. 1/2
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+The naïve 'classical-liberal' response of, "Well, then just don't socially punish dissent, yaaay freeze peach" doesn't solve the problem if you actually DO want to crush dissent (of, e.g., literal Nazis). 2/2
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+I guess I'm not sure what the truth condition is for being nonbinary? ("NBs are people who say they're NB" seems too much like circular reasoning.) I could start to become a trans woman by getting back on HRT, but I'm not sure what the process is for being NB [include hormones photo]
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+I never expected to become a polarizing figure 1/5
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+like, compared to the ENTIRE REST OF SPACETIME, I'm yet another nice smart progressive Jewish trans girl, just like everyone else 2/5
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+It's ONLY in comparison to Berkeley 2019 that I might be easily confused with some kind of vicious right-wing edgelord (the likes of which I actually am not) 3/5
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+Can I be forgiven if, from my perspective, it looks like the problem is with Berkeley 2019 rather than me? 4/5
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+where this "Everything is socially constructed! Nothing correlates with anything else!" performance is the price of being Good, I'm willing to be Bad if that means I can say that SOME things aren't socially constructed, and use language to refer to correlations less than one 5/5
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+Then offer her a job at the salary of an 8x engineer. (Get it? It's an efficient markets joke: if companies really behaved like this, they would compete to equilibrium & there would be no pay gap in the 1st place. But real-world markets aren't efficient for many reasons 😰)
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You know who else believed that "biological sex" was a useful concept? Hitler!
Only losing coalitions have an incentive to support free-speech norms. You don't want to be a LOSER, do you??
"Bayesian reasoning" is a TERF dogwhistle
+Taylor Swift's "Speak Now" is an allegory about how a single dissenter's courage can shatter preference-falsification equilibria https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ6O785wx8c
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link to Tail: https://twitter.com/BlanchardPhD/status/1089172233300443136
+too emotionally exhausted: https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1112408859639898113
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+is this canon??? https://twitter.com/transscribe/status/1107153227257204737
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no one remembers pronouns: https://twitter.com/BlanchardPhD/status/1060563648027021314
Striesand effect: https://twitter.com/BlanchardPhD/status/1092768815623094274
real eugenics: https://twitter.com/AMK2934/status/1091571957378633728
+this but unironically (see Blanchard on "developmental competition") https://twitter.com/LoFiRepublican/status/1135632521029402626
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https://twitter.com/BennettJonah/status/1089421675433771008
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic S8E23 "Sounds of Silence" is an allegory about political correctness: "I could stay and live with them, or I could keep my voice" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAhqxvgQYn0 #mylittlepony #friendshipismagic #idw
AGP is well-described: https://twitter.com/will_malone/status/1121428353074880513
+dialogue with Grey: https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1138257464795602944
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Prewritten thread for if they do the stickers again this year—
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