X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fsexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md;h=2d17ac69194f4b97a461e5e8f7263e4b7f6fd926;hp=cf36682a005d49ba4e9a172f2db70a541c7df0fe;hb=d99756a76cce9b20f844a1e5dffbf28186384490;hpb=039908d1d13ccf6e70b95acd6a3f51a2060e162c diff --git a/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md b/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md index cf36682..2d17ac6 100644 --- a/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md +++ b/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md @@ -5,9 +5,15 @@ Points to work in— * the moment in October 2016 when I switched sides http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/10/late-onset/ http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2017/03/brand-rust/ https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jNAAZ9XNyt82CXosr/mirrors-and-paintings +* the literature talks about crossdressing a lot, but I mostly just fantasize; dress-up isn't really convincing + +(Picture me playing Hermione Granger in a post-Singularity [holonovel](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Holo-novel_program) adaptation of _Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality_ (Emma Watson having charged me [the standard licensing fee](/2019/Dec/comp/) to use a copy of her body for the occasion): "[We can do anything if we](https://www.hpmor.com/chapter/30) exert arbitrarily large amounts of [interpretive labor](https://acesounderglass.com/2015/06/09/interpretive-labor/)!") * aren't all those transwomen going to be _embarrrassed_ after the Singularity, when telepathy tech makes everything obvious +* the time I snuck a copy of MTiMB into the MIRI library (In my defense, it seemed like something HPEV would do—and noticeably not like something Hermione would do) + +What happens when every sensitive bookish males who thinks [it might be cool to be a woman](https://xkcd.com/535/) gets subjected to this aggressive recruitment campaign? Autogynephilia, as a phenomenon, is _absurdly common_ relative to the amount of awareness of it _as_ a phenomenon. ([An analogy someone made on /r/GenderCriticalGuys just before it got banned](https://web.archive.org/web/20200705203105if_/https://reddit.com/r/GenderCriticalGuys/comments/hhcs34/autogynephilic_male_here_big_rant_about_denial_of/): imagine living in a Society where people _were_ gay at the same rates as in our own, but the _concept_ of homosexuality didn't exist—and was [actively suppressed whenever someone tried to point it out](/2017/Jan/if-the-gay-community-were-like-the-trans-community/).) Surveys of college students found that 13% (Table 3 in [Person _et al._](/papers/person_et_al-gender_differences_in_sexual_behaviors.pdf)) or 5.6% (Table 5 in the replication [Hsu _et al._](/papers/hsu_et_al-gender_differences_in_sexual_fantasy.pdf)) of males have fantasized about being the opposite sex in the last 3 months. @@ -257,7 +263,9 @@ But in the _process_ of trying to _talk about_ this late-onset-gender-dysphoria- [dark side epistemology, what the math actually means in the real world from "Reply to Holden"] -(Picture me playing Hermione Granger in a post-Singularity [holonovel](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Holo-novel_program) adaptation of _Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality_ (Emma Watson having charged me [the standard licensing fee](/2019/Dec/comp/) to use a copy of her body for the occasion): "[We can do anything if we](https://www.hpmor.com/chapter/30) exert arbitrarily large amounts of [interpretive labor](https://acesounderglass.com/2015/06/09/interpretive-labor/)!") + + + This is the eye of the hurricane; this is the only way I can [protect](/2019/Jul/the-source-of-our-power/) @@ -267,7 +275,7 @@ cosplay— /2017/Oct/a-leaf-in-the-crosswind/ /2016/Dec/joined/ -It Might Be Cool https://xkcd.com/535/ + even after taking into account that the phrase "once you know what to look for" is a 20-meter fire-truck-red flag for [confirmation bias](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rmAbiEKQDpDnZzcRf/positive-bias-look-into-the-dark).