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=a5692450c622546193f3481a087f6ad56da6326b;hp=6c4bec37c050a863901fe7db1c158ee48921cb98;hb=12553242d203469f79e6c4ebc4fcf406ee93c966;hpb=81846ce003b127ef6d0f3d7a3a7fff3eba0ddefe diff --git a/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md b/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md index 6c4bec3..a569245 100644 --- a/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md +++ b/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md @@ -23,10 +23,14 @@ Harder— * Faster Than Science, Transgender Edition (prior draft) * "I often wish some men/women would appreciate" * empathic inference: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NLMo5FZWFFq652MNe/sympathetic-minds https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Zkzzjg3h7hW5Z36hK/humans-in-funny-suits https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9fpWoXpNv83BAHJdc/the-comedy-of-behaviorism + +"different thing that I don't understand" /2019/Jan/interlude-xvi/ + * wipe culturally defined values * 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. @@ -87,7 +91,7 @@ _(content warning transphobia)_ _(content warning too much information about weird fetishes)_ _(content warning WTF did I just read)_ -(October 2020, [TODO] words) +(November 2020, [TODO] words) ----- @@ -145,9 +149,9 @@ people like me being incentivized to identify as part of a political pressure gr [TODO: are we getting new recruits? A lot of the names I see are old] - 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 @@ -158,23 +162,17 @@ https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9QxnfMYccz9QRgZ5z/the-costly-coordination-mechan https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/L22jhyY9ocXQNLqyE/science-as-curiosity-stopper +Personal identity— +https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MkKcnPdTZ3pQ9F5yC/cryonics-without-freezers-resurrection-possibilities-in-a +https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hJPh8XyJ3fTK2hLFJ/three-dialogues-on-identity +"I'm not from around here; I'm from another dimension" -(Note that we can already basically do this for _images_ of female and male faces, using the [latent spaces found by generative adversarial networks]() and [autoencoders](), - -Doing it for _actual whole people in the real world_ and not just flat images is a task for future superintelligences, not present-day GANs, but some of same basic principles should apply.) - -[TODO: Mathematically, -Joel et al. and response—maybe in next paragraph -Beyond the Binary: https://www.pnas.org/content/112/50/15468 -http://cogprints.org/10046/1/Delgiudice_etal_critique_joel_2015.pdf - +activity group selecting on T ... -> once you draw a boundary around a group, the mind starts trying to harvest similarities from the group. And unfortunately the human pattern-detectors seem to operate in such overdrive that we see patterns whether they're there or not; a weakly negative correlation can be mistaken for a strong positive one with a bit of selective memory. -https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/veN86cBhoe7mBxXLk/categorizing-has-consequences +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). -96.8% classification from MRI https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6374327/ -] -[the wrists: http://unremediatedgender.space/papers/yune_et_al-beyond_human_perception_sexual_dimorphism_in_hand_and_wrist_radiographs.pdf] +[the direction of causality](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/07/concerns/) +http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/09/concerns-ii/ -activity group selecting on T ... +address GI->AGP direction