check in

diff --git a/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md b/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md
index 8f745f0..df7face 100644 (file)
--- a/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md
+++ b/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md
@@ -333,3 +333,10 @@ https://www.jefftk.com/p/an-update-on-gendered-pronouns
 https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1356535300986523648
 
 If you were actually HONESTLY tring to narrow it, you would have said, "By the way, this is just about pronouns, I'm not taking a position on whether trans women are women"
 https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1356535300986523648
 
 If you were actually HONESTLY tring to narrow it, you would have said, "By the way, this is just about pronouns, I'm not taking a position on whether trans women are women"

+
+https://www.gingersoftware.com/content/grammar-rules/adjectives/order-of-adjectives/
+
+https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2008/01/how-to-actually-defeat-us-government/
+> propagate a credible alternate reality that outcompetes the official information network.
+
+https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2007/12/explanation-of-democratic-centrism/

diff --git a/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md b/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md
index 98643e8..9fd50d7 100644 (file)
--- a/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md
+++ b/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md
@@ -71,3 +71,11 @@ https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/woke-institutions-is-just-civil-rights
 https://academic.oup.com/ije/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ije/dyab099/6288123
 
 https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/what-happens-when-doctors-cant-speak
 https://academic.oup.com/ije/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ije/dyab099/6288123
 
 https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/what-happens-when-doctors-cant-speak

+
+https://slate.com/technology/2021/05/sperm-counts-decline-fertility-science-white-nationalism.html
+
+https://dynomight.net/are-tests-irrelevant/
+
+https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/the-psychopathic-problem-of-the-white
+
+It's going to be the future soon; things aren't always going to be like this

diff --git a/content/drafts/subspatial-distribution-overlap-and-cancellable-stereotypes.md b/content/drafts/subspatial-distribution-overlap-and-cancellable-stereotypes.md
index 4cbdb8f..db8723d 100644 (file)
--- a/content/drafts/subspatial-distribution-overlap-and-cancellable-stereotypes.md
+++ b/content/drafts/subspatial-distribution-overlap-and-cancellable-stereotypes.md
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Defining sex in terms of gamete size or genitals or chromosomes is like the usin
 
 It's that that these are _discrete_ features that are entangled with everything _else_ that differs between females and males, including many [correlated](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cu7YY7WdgJBs3DpmJ/the-univariate-fallacy-1) statistical differences of various [effect sizes](/2019/Sep/does-general-intelligence-deflate-standardized-effect-sizes-of-cognitive-sex-differences/), and differences that are harder to articulate or measure, and differences that haven't even been discovered yet (as gametes and chromosomes hadn't respectively been discovered yet in the 16th and 20th centuries) but can be theorized to exist because _sex_ is a very robust abstraction that you need in order to understand the design of evolved biological creatures.
 
 
 It's that that these are _discrete_ features that are entangled with everything _else_ that differs between females and males, including many [correlated](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cu7YY7WdgJBs3DpmJ/the-univariate-fallacy-1) statistical differences of various [effect sizes](/2019/Sep/does-general-intelligence-deflate-standardized-effect-sizes-of-cognitive-sex-differences/), and differences that are harder to articulate or measure, and differences that haven't even been discovered yet (as gametes and chromosomes hadn't respectively been discovered yet in the 16th and 20th centuries) but can be theorized to exist because _sex_ is a very robust abstraction that you need in order to understand the design of evolved biological creatures.
 

-Discrete features make for better word _definitions_ than high-dimensional statistical regularities, even if most of the everyday inferential utility of _using_ the word comes from the high-dimensional statistical stuff. A dictionary definition is just a helpful pointer to help people pick out "the same" concept in their _own_ world-model: in teaching a young child about sex (or "gender"), you only have to say "boys and men are the ones with a penis, examples include your Dad and Uncle Frank, non-examples include your Mom and Grandma Mary" and the child's brain's pattern-matching faculties will soak up the rest, [...]
+Discrete features make for better word _definitions_ than high-dimensional statistical regularities, even if most of the everyday inferential utility of _using_ the word comes from the high-dimensional statistical stuff. A dictionary definition is just a helpful pointer to help people pick out "the same" [natural abstraction](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cy3BhHrGinZCp3LXE/testing-the-natural-abstraction-hypothesis-project-intro) in their _own_ world-model. In teaching a young child about sex (or "gender"), you only have to say "boys and men are the ones with a penis, examples include your Dad and Uncle Frank, non-examples include your Mom and Grandma Mary" and the child's brain's pattern-matching faculties [...]

 
 (Gamete size is a particularly good definition for the natural category of _sex_ because the concept of [anisogamy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anisogamy) generalizes across species that have different sex determination systems or configurations of sexual anatomy. In birds, [the presence or absence of a _W_ chromosome determines whether an animal is _female_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZW_sex-determination_system), in contrast [the _Y_ chromosome's determination of maleness in mammals](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_sex-determination_system), and some reptiles' sex is determined by [the temperature of an lain egg while it develops](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature-dependent_sex_determination) (!). And let's not get started on the [cloaca](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaca).)
 
 
 (Gamete size is a particularly good definition for the natural category of _sex_ because the concept of [anisogamy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anisogamy) generalizes across species that have different sex determination systems or configurations of sexual anatomy. In birds, [the presence or absence of a _W_ chromosome determines whether an animal is _female_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZW_sex-determination_system), in contrast [the _Y_ chromosome's determination of maleness in mammals](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_sex-determination_system), and some reptiles' sex is determined by [the temperature of an lain egg while it develops](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature-dependent_sex_determination) (!). And let's not get started on the [cloaca](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaca).)
 

diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt
index 09e621d..b4636c3 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/notes.txt
+++ b/notes/notes.txt
@@ -2692,3 +2692,9 @@ https://nypost.com/2017/11/17/apples-diversity-chief-lasts-just-six-months/
 https://ovarit.com/o/GenderCritical/32969/cisgender-questionnaire-given-ahead-of-zen-center-meeting
 
 https://www.nytimes.com/1974/04/14/archives/conundrum-by-jan-morris-a-helen-and-kurt-wolff-book-174-pp-new-york.html
 https://ovarit.com/o/GenderCritical/32969/cisgender-questionnaire-given-ahead-of-zen-center-meeting
 
 https://www.nytimes.com/1974/04/14/archives/conundrum-by-jan-morris-a-helen-and-kurt-wolff-book-174-pp-new-york.html

+
+https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/nqm85g/review_of_i_was_born_in_slavery_aka_the_past_is_a/h0dbcua/
+> Arguably every generation lives in a completely different world than the one before it. The social milieu of one's teens and twenties is formative on a deep, visceral level as to what "the issues" are, and what's important in the grand scheme of things.
+
+https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/nowgdg/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_may_31_2021/h0nxdb2/
+> America developed its race blind ideology when it was 90% white and had been a deeply religious country. The race blind ideology is like a fit person eating cake

diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt
index 54ccfe8..729decd 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/post_ideas.txt
+++ b/notes/post_ideas.txt
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ _ Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data
 _ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning
 
 Minor queue—
 _ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning
 
 Minor queue—

+_ Multi-Book Review: Various Sex-Ed Books for Children

 _ I Don't Do Policy
 _ Student Dysphoria, and a Previous Life's War
 _ Subspatial Distribution Overlap and Cancellable Stereotypes
 _ I Don't Do Policy
 _ Student Dysphoria, and a Previous Life's War
 _ Subspatial Distribution Overlap and Cancellable Stereotypes


@@ -13,6 +14,9 @@ _ Subspatial Distribution Overlap and Cancellable Stereotypes
 _ Elision _vs_. Choice
 _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
 _ "Assigned at Birth" Is a Schelling Point (If You Live in an Insane Dystopia Where the Concept of Sex Is Somehow Controversial) 
 _ Elision _vs_. Choice
 _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
 _ "Assigned at Birth" Is a Schelling Point (If You Live in an Insane Dystopia Where the Concept of Sex Is Somehow Controversial) 

+_ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
+_ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
+

 
 More minor or Needs Development—
 
 
 More minor or Needs Development—
 


@@ -20,8 +24,6 @@ _ Correct Diagnosis as Common Interest: ideological detrans as a mirror of ideol
 _ "Your Politics Are Interesting" as Worst Compliment
 _ I Wish You Well
 _ Gaydar Jamming (L.B. and R.H.)
 _ "Your Politics Are Interesting" as Worst Compliment
 _ I Wish You Well
 _ Gaydar Jamming (L.B. and R.H.)

-_ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
-_ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress

 _ Book Review: Kathleen Stock's Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism  (May)
 _ Book Review: Kathryn Paige Harden's The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality (September)
 
 _ Book Review: Kathleen Stock's Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism  (May)
 _ Book Review: Kathryn Paige Harden's The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality (September)
 

diff --git a/notes/sexual-dimorphism-marketing.md b/notes/sexual-dimorphism-marketing.md
index c240457..c7f7cf2 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/sexual-dimorphism-marketing.md
+++ b/notes/sexual-dimorphism-marketing.md
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+The conclusion of my mostly-unsuccessful five-year campaign to (uncharitable paraphrase) get @ESYudkowsky's so-called "rationalists" to stop trying to trick me into cutting my dick off: [link] (sorry, the charitable nuanced version doesn't git in a Tweet)
+
+

 To LW—
 
 _(content warning sexism)_  
 To LW—
 
 _(content warning sexism)_  

diff --git a/notes/trans-kids-on-the-margin-notes.md b/notes/trans-kids-on-the-margin-notes.md
index b00e0a4..adf2c48 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/trans-kids-on-the-margin-notes.md
+++ b/notes/trans-kids-on-the-margin-notes.md
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 >
 > —_What's the Big Secret? Talking About Sex With Girls and Boys_, Laurie Krasny Brown, Ed.D., and Marc Brown (published 1997)
 
 >
 > —_What's the Big Secret? Talking About Sex With Girls and Boys_, Laurie Krasny Brown, Ed.D., and Marc Brown (published 1997)
 

+child more eager to do grammar lesson after Mad Libs made it relevant—child would predictably be interested in girls at puberty, if getting a chance to go through puberty
+

 https://www.reddit.com/r/Parenting/comments/ij4npe/mommy_im_actually_a_girl/
 
 https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/before-2
 https://www.reddit.com/r/Parenting/comments/ij4npe/mommy_im_actually_a_girl/
 
 https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/before-2


@@ -109,6 +111,8 @@ Goy, R. W., Bercovitch, F. B., & McBrair, M. C. (1988). Behavioral masculinizati
 
 Lamminmäki, A., Hines, M., Kuiri-Hänninen, T., Kilpeläinen, L., Dunkel, L., & Sankilampi, U. (2012). Testosterone measured in infancy predicts subsequent sex-typed behavior in boys and in girls. Hormones and Behavior, 61(4), 611–616. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2012.02.013.
 
 
 Lamminmäki, A., Hines, M., Kuiri-Hänninen, T., Kilpeläinen, L., Dunkel, L., & Sankilampi, U. (2012). Testosterone measured in infancy predicts subsequent sex-typed behavior in boys and in girls. Hormones and Behavior, 61(4), 611–616. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2012.02.013.
 

+Munson, B., *Crocker, L., Pierrehumbert, J., Owen-Anderson, A., & Zucker, K. (2015). Gender Typicality in Children's Speech: A comparison of the Speech of Boys with and without Gender Identity Disorder. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 
+

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 notes from The Pre-School Activities Inventory: A Standardized Assessment of Gender Role in Children by Golombok and Rust
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 notes from The Pre-School Activities Inventory: A Standardized Assessment of Gender Role in Children by Golombok and Rust


@@ -206,9 +210,23 @@ In less artificial contexts (actually photograph a classmate), 3-5 year olds get
 
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+"Gender differences in children’s singing voices: Acoustic analyses and results of a listening test"
+https://asa.scitation.org/doi/10.1121/1.3372730
+> The listeners correctly identified the gender of the singer in 66.0% of the cases, i.e., far better than chance.
+
+"Listeners' Identification Of Gender Differences In Children's Singing"
+https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1321103X050240010301
+> 71.57% of identifications were positive
+
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+

 notes from Gender Development textbook—
 
 p. 6
 > Although there is some debate about whether this relatively rare condition should be considered a disorder at all (Bartlett, Vasey, & Bukowski, 2000), there are certainly some children who, from a very young age, show discomfort with their gender category.
 citation goes to Bartlett, N. H., Vasey, P. L., & Bukowski, W. M. (2000). Is gender identity disorder in children a mental disorder? Sex Roles, 43, 753–785.
 
 notes from Gender Development textbook—
 
 p. 6
 > Although there is some debate about whether this relatively rare condition should be considered a disorder at all (Bartlett, Vasey, & Bukowski, 2000), there are certainly some children who, from a very young age, show discomfort with their gender category.
 citation goes to Bartlett, N. H., Vasey, P. L., & Bukowski, W. M. (2000). Is gender identity disorder in children a mental disorder? Sex Roles, 43, 753–785.
 

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