X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fnotes.txt;h=b136d9096e76ade099028a9c095f0ef413dda4c7;hp=693e89c308196956977406aa3068cbf1d8484097;hb=cfc96d855d0288511c0deaa81912a2e306d5ca98;hpb=118f9ed5f56cec89f15caf9b30026fd42ccca392 diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt index 693e89c..b136d90 100644 --- a/notes/notes.txt +++ b/notes/notes.txt @@ -1912,6 +1912,8 @@ Another new cite: https://twitter.com/FollowSamir/status/1289168867831373825 Another new cite: https://applieddivinitystudies.com/2020/09/05/rationality-winning/ +Another new cite: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/kdxbyd/this_blog_is_incredible/gg04f8c/ "My personal favorites among these are [ ], [... Not Man for the Categories], 10, and 2 in that order." + darwin2500 "Women's leagues are for women, trans women are women. That's all the justification needed" https://old.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/hym5xb/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_july_27_2020/fzvfres/ another "Categories Were Made" cite, just as an example post: https://old.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/i10p4m/survey_on_moving_ssc_to_substack/fzwkfqk/ @@ -2247,3 +2249,67 @@ https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/jzbis2/culture_war_roundup_for_the_we https://eev.ee/blog/2020/06/11/rowling-is-dangerously-wrong/ https://medium.com/@notCursedE/7-things-trans-people-never-actually-said-1ab5e5ce11da + +https://twitter.com/jesstheunstill/status/1334942407897587712 +> This was impressive! I was just in an Software Engineering boot camp at a tech company, and it was lead by two women of color, and the attendees were appx 10 women, 4 men, one non-binary person, and at least half were not white. + +https://theprovince.com/news/national/hunter-trans-jailbird-accused-of-sexually-assaulting-female-con/wcm/83654fa7-ef24-475a-a725-c56420a15e46 + +The tragedy: we do want to help women and minorities, but not the ideological victimhood-identity mind-virus. But if the mind-virus captures all the smart women and minorities at our universities (which women and minorities feel even more pressure to go to than I did!—part of what made my autodidacticism feasible was my white male privilege, that autodidact male geniuses are more believable) + +recommended on /r/TheMotte about gestures https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/364 + +article about the Timnit Gebru paper: https://archive.is/6TX2Y + +"Smith College alumni demand 'further training' for white staffer who decried anti-white work environment": https://archive.vn/wzlZD + +---- + +> Do you agree with [people only act confused about biological sex when men wanted something] +> Do you think that, if you look at the history of biological sex problematization/denialism (in academia, social media, etc), there's more influence from DMAB people than DFAB people? + +To your first question: the Tweet says "only reason", which is usually false. (Nodes in a Bayesian network can have multiple parents!) If we amend to "a significant reason, plausibly the most significant reason", then yes, in the following sense. + +In the possible world where the parameters of male sexual psychology are such that autogynephilia doesn't exist "but everything else is the same", then I don't think you get the kind and scope of trans-activism movement that Saotome-Westlake's and Adams-Miller's writing is a reaction to. In this world, you still get Judith Butler (AFAB, Gender Trouble published 1990) and Anne Fausto-Sterling (AFAB, Sexing the Body published 2000), but I think you don't get pronoun stickers at conferences in 2018 and you don't get a "three-year-old Merlin Blume is a girl now; she verbally confirmed it!" social-reality enforcement campaign in 2020. + +To your second question, it might actually depend on how you operationalize "influence"! Notably, the campaign to trans Merlin (whose parents met on lesswrong.com) is being run predominantly by AFAB people; they're just combatants in the service of an ideology that I don't think would have been so memetically fit if it weren't such a convenient accommodation for AGP. (At least, that's my theory under the doctrine of "algorithmic intent"; the people involved don't think of themselves as combatants in the service of anything.) + +---- + +Two years ago, you wrote: "I wonder how would the rationalist movement (I meant the LessWrong cluster of folks) approach AGP if they could have a completely fresh start? Could there be a way to use the correlation between being intelligent/quantitative and being AGP to break the irrationalist trans ideology?" + +Well, I tried. I failed. I'm all out of cards. I blogged; I argued, many times, with everyone who would listen, including local celebrities (Yudkowsky, Scott Alexander). I still have a lot more writing to do for my own scholarly ambitions, but political/education efforts on my native subculture in particular are almost certainly saturated: if we were going to start a Zeitgeist change here, it would have already happened by now. + +There hasn't been no effect (people are aware of the typology as a hypothesis, with much thanks to Tailcalled and Ozy's Intellectual Turing Test), but I can't point to anyone doing anything meaningfully differently re impacts on women, our ability to think about sex. + +I'm still pretty horrified that the sticking point in discussions seems to have been not the AGP etiology itself (which is what I was focusing on in 2016/2017), but the category-boundaries-are-arbitrary "insight." So it's not just that we failed to break the irrationalist trans ideology: we actually invented something arguably worse! (Ordinary trans activists at least try to make (confused) truth claims; we invented a fully general counteragument against truth claims that's all the more dangerous thanks to the virtue of a very narrow kind of technical correctness.) + +----- + +https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/12/20691957/mastodon-decentralized-social-network-gab-migration-fediverse-app-blocking + +https://www.wired.com/story/science-journals-are-purging-racist-sexist-work-finally/ +https://archive.is/beD9M + +https://4w.pub/my-whole-conversation-with-kaitlyn-tiffany-for-the-atlantic/ +https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/12/reddit-ovarit-the-donald/617320/ +https://archive.is/lqKUe + +https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/keira-bell-s-victory-is-an-important-one-for-trans-teenagers + +https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9041725/Mum-called-trans-woman-Twitter-CLEARED-wrongdoing.html + +"Transgender Women in the Female Category of Sport: Perspectives on Testosterone Suppression and Performance Advantage" +https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40279-020-01389-3 + +https://impossiblehq.com/well-see/ + +https://harvardpress.typepad.com/hup_publicity/2020/06/black-lives-matter.html + +https://fairplayforwomen.com/transgender-male-criminality-sex-offences/ + +social pressure on judges +https://shylockholmes.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-thorny-problem-of-inconstant-judges.html + +"The part is subordinate to the whole: female outliers" +https://archive.is/UKNjx