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=e8acdad857fdeaf4f23065c466069b1ed17872fb;hp=e6aab685e5887da2ecc76d6fe708be1555880556;hb=980fbb08fe4073bff279e5be227ceafa3e1d9e05;hpb=315d215397af37a9ee588b6dab2b8f50d28f765e diff --git a/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md b/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md index e6aab68..e8acdad 100644 --- a/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md +++ b/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qCsxiojX7BSLuuBgQ/the-super-happy-people-3-8 * https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FBgozHEv7J72NCEPB/my-way https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xsyG7PkMekHud2DMK/of-gender-and-rationality * make sure the late-onset/AGP terminology is introduced in a coherent order rather than being inserted willy-nilly * the message length of my existence -* Ranma!!! + ----- Outline for remaining Coda— @@ -71,6 +71,9 @@ Anne Lawrence described autogynephiles as ["men who love women and want to becom ----- +(This attempted nickname-change turned out to be a terrible idea for several reasons: first, my particular pair of real-life initials never really "felt like a name" even to me (as contrasted to something like "C.J.", which feels like a name because it has a _J_ in it); second, I found it incredibly psychologically stressful for some people to know me by one name, and people I knew before to know me by another, and I didn't have the guts to nag people in the latter group to switch for something that didn't feel like a name even to me; third, the "gender-neutral byline" rationale almost certainly didn't hold up in practice because my real first initial (not _M._; this blog is under a pen name) is a high-Scrabble-score letter that begins one high-frequency boy name (top 200 in the [1990 Census list](https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/1990_census/1990_census_namefiles.html)), and no high-frequency girl names (the most popular candidates trailing my ugly boy-name in frequency by an order of magnitude). But it was the _principle!_) + + "different thing that I don't understand" /2019/Jan/interlude-xvi/ @@ -244,3 +247,15 @@ Anyway, four years later, it turns out that this whole "rationality" subculture But in the _process_ of trying to _talk about_ this late-onset-gender-dysphoria-in-males-is-not-an-intersex-condition thesis, I noticed that my conversations kept getting _derailed_ on some variation of "The word _woman_ doesn't necessarily mean that." _That_ part of the debate, I knew I could win. [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/) + + +cosplay— +/2019/Aug/a-love-that-is-out-of-anyones-control/ +/2017/Oct/a-leaf-in-the-crosswind/ +/2016/Dec/joined/ + +It Might Be Cool https://xkcd.com/535/