drafting "More Schelling"; ambitions to post

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+Title: More Schelling
+Date: 2020-01-01 
+Category: other
+Tags: categorization, game theory
+Status: draft
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+[(Previously.)](/2019/Oct/self-identity-is-a-schelling-point/)
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+> [A mediator] can influence the other players' expectations on his own initiative, in a manner that both parties cannot help mutually recognizing. When there is no apparent focal point for agreement, he can create one by his power to make a dramatic suggestion. [...]
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+> The white line down the center of the road is a mediator, and very likely it can err substantially toward one side or the other before the disadvantaged side finds advantage in denying its authority. The principle is beautifully illustrated by the daylight-saving-time controversy; a majority that want to do everything an hour earlier just cannot organize to do it unless it gets legislative control of the clock. And when it does, a well-organized minority that opposed the change is usually quite unable to offset the change in clock time by any organized effort to change the nominal hour at which it gets up, eats, and does business.
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+> —Thomas Schelling, _Strategy of Conflict_, Ch. 5, "Enforcement, Communication, and Strategic Moves"
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+This explains why the trans-rights fight ends up focusing on language, rather than any particular policy where "gender" is used to make a decision. "What's the harm in calling people what they really want to be called?" goes the argument. "You can still say _cis woman_ when you want to be more specific."
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+It doesn't work like that. When you [change the category associated with](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/soQX8yXLbKy7cFvy8/entropy-and-short-codes) a [short codeword](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/soQX8yXLbKy7cFvy8/entropy-and-short-codes), you're imposing on all the downstream predictions and decisions people were already using that category/word for (which no one has catalogued in advance).

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-On the Argumentative Form "Super-proton Things Tend to Come in Varieties"
+✓ Political Science Epigrams
+✓ On the Argumentative Form "Super-proton Things Tend to Come in Varieties"
+✓ Promises I Can Keep
+_ More Schelling
+_ Compensation
 ✓ Reply to Ozymandias on Fully Consensual Gender
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+
 "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning
 
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 Game Theory of Stigmatization (need better title)
 
-[TERFs complain](https://archive.is/N1kM5) that AGP males body-modding to become facsimiles of women is appropriation. They're obviously correct, but the claim doesn't seem strong enough to override the right to bodily autonomy. The law, in its majestic equality, comes up with a compromise solution: [compulsory licensing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_license)! A small tax is administered on transition services (HRT, FFS, _&c_.), the proceeds of which are distributed equally amongst all natal females.
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-Schelling on "legislative control of the clock"—mediators can create focal points—
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-> The principle is beautifully illustrated by the daylight-saving-time controversy; a majority that want to do everything an hour earlier just cannot organize to do it unless it gets legislative control of the clock. And when it does, a well-organized minority that opposed the change is usually quite unable to offset the change in clock time by any organized effort to change the nominal hour at which it gets up, eats, and does business.
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-> —Thomas Schelling, _Strategy of Conflict_, Ch. 5, "Enforcement, Communication, and Strategic Moves"
+[Some radical feminists complain](https://archive.is/N1kM5) that AGP males body-modding to become facsimiles of women is appropriation. They're obviously correct, but the claim doesn't seem strong enough to override the right to bodily autonomy. The law, in its majestic equality, comes up with a compromise solution: [compulsory licensing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_license)! A small tax is administered on transition services (HRT, FFS, _&c_.), the proceeds of which are distributed equally amongst all natal females.
 
 Book Review: Human Diversity
 Book Review: The Origins of Inequality