X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fsexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md;fp=notes%2Fsexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md;h=759e02a89f8e52d54ff310278d1f82599c8d5da2;hp=ff9c00189d4564635018733ecad3462a6f903a91;hb=42705dccab022816e109e3f017132fb4a32524ee;hpb=c7c494fd312152b00e1a8b6a6d657a2305245c4e diff --git a/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md b/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md index ff9c001..759e02a 100644 --- a/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md +++ b/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md @@ -2,24 +2,16 @@ Resolved: publish "Sexual Dimorphism" soon as just the first part, the political TODO for "Sexual Dimorphism"— -https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vjmw8tW6wZAtNJMKo/which-parts-are-me -------- -Like when someone in the _Overcoming Bias_ comment section addressed me as "Mr.", and I - -_ playing dumb initials anecdote -Me pretending to be dumb about someone not pretending to be dumb about my initials https://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/04/inhuman-rationa.html ; contrast that incident (it's not an accident that he guessed right) to Yudkowsky: "I try to avoid criticizing people when they are right. If they genuinely deserve criticism, I will not need to wait long for an occasion where they are wrong." (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MwQRucYo6BZZwjKE7/einstein-s-arrogance) - --------- +Or there was the time I responded to [paraphrase P.G.'s comment] with [my comment] and Michael Vassar threated to get me banned, which _ Vassar clapback anecdote https://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/06/why-do-psychopa.html#comment-518267438 ------------ - - -------END OF NEEDED SCENES------- _ more empathic inference: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qCsxiojX7BSLuuBgQ/the-super-happy-people-3-8 @@ -486,7 +478,21 @@ A common trope in female transformation erotica (search for _tg caption blog_ if Intuitively, when I imagine how I want transformation technology to work, I imagine speaking accents "going with the body". Native speakers of a language are more likely to confuse homophones, because https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/wAW4ENCSEHwYbrwtn/other-people-s-procedural-knowledge-gaps/comment/yTdJm7JjPJPynwS3a +Or there was the time I took issue with someone in the _Overcoming Bias_ comment section addressed me as "Mr.": + +Depending on the cost you assign to a misclassification, you could argue that he _shouldn't_ have assumed—high Scabble-score letters notwithstanding—but in retrospect, I'm _embarrassed_ at my prickliness: he assumed _correctly_. (Yudkowsky: ["I try to avoid criticizing people when they are right. If they genuinely deserve criticism, I will not need to wait long for an occasion where they are wrong."](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MwQRucYo6BZZwjKE7/einstein-s-arrogance)) + +("only because of the demographics of this community") + + +My question was sufficiently mild that I'm not sure the anecdote is worth including—or I can't figure out how to make it fit + +> Did you have any specific evidence that I in particular am male, or were you just relying on your priors, knowing the demographics of our community? + +_ playing dumb initials anecdote +Me pretending to be dumb about someone not pretending to be dumb about my initials https://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/04/inhuman-rationa.html ; contrast that incident (it's not an accident that he guessed right) to Yudkowsky: +, something you should be able to ["consider [...] open-mindedly and then steal only the good parts"](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YicoiQurNBxSp7a65/is-clickbait-destroying-our-general-intelligence). -, something you should be able to ["consider [...] open-mindedly and then steal only the good parts"](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YicoiQurNBxSp7a65/is-clickbait-destroying-our-general-intelligence). \ No newline at end of file +linking to the Twitter thread about chromosomes actually isn't fair; that wasn't the point EY was making (https://archive.is/y5V9i) \ No newline at end of file