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=84d12c32034becc34e0ad6e6ddb0a4b62a71e9e2;hp=570c8b1d466e01074a6db3fc4c4ce6cc5e762b51;hb=51ac7b414ae60681ebfca63f355a0ffd27189c13;hpb=801be3339452abad36a23edc8e7e143130ac444e diff --git a/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md b/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md index 570c8b1..84d12c3 100644 --- a/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md +++ b/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ Harder— * 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. @@ -150,6 +151,7 @@ people like me being incentivized to identify as part of a political pressure gr Yudkowsky says trans rights! +This doesn't pass the smell test. This doesn't pass the _laugh_ test. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jMTbQj9XB5ah2maup/similarity-clusters https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cFzC996D7Jjds3vS9/arguing-by-definition @@ -167,3 +169,8 @@ https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hJPh8XyJ3fTK2hLFJ/three-dialogues-on-identity "I'm not from around here; I'm from another dimension" activity group selecting on T ... + +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). + +[the direction of causality](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/07/concerns/) +http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/09/concerns-ii/ \ No newline at end of file