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diff --git a/content/drafts/i-tell-myself-to-let-the-story-end-or-a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md b/content/drafts/i-tell-myself-to-let-the-story-end-or-a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md
index 556ee9e..2d452f8 100644 (file)
--- a/content/drafts/i-tell-myself-to-let-the-story-end-or-a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md
+++ b/content/drafts/i-tell-myself-to-let-the-story-end-or-a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md
@@ -78,3 +78,5 @@ actively manufacture _fake rationality lessons_ that have been optimized to conf
 The "I can define the word 'woman' any way I want" argument is bullshit. All the actually-smart people know that it's bullshit at _some_ level, perhaps semi-consciously buried under a lot of cognitive dissonance. But it's _socially load-bearing_ bullshit that _not only_ does almost no one have an incentive to correct—
 
 But no one has the incentive to correct the mistake in public. 
+
+"Some people don't have penises" ... can you be a little more specific?!
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diff --git a/notes/deflation.py b/notes/deflation.py
index 72d0927..686ef80 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/deflation.py
+++ b/notes/deflation.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ seed(1)
 
 def cohens_d(X, Y):
     return (
-        (mean(X) + mean(Y)) /
+        (mean(X) - mean(Y)) /
         sqrt(
             (len(X)*variance(X) + len(Y)*variance(Y)) /
             (len(X) + len(Y))
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ true_d = cohens_d(true_f, true_m)
 print(true_d)  # 1.0193773432617055 — d≈1.0, as expected!
 
 naïve_d = cohens_d(measured_f, measured_m)
-print(naïve_d)  # 0.8953395386313235
+print(naïve_d)  # 0.8953395386313235 — deflated!
 
 
 def performance(μ_g, σ_g, s, n):
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ matched_f = performance(0, 0, 1, 10000)
 matched_m = performance(0, 0, 0, 10000)
 
 population_d = cohens_d(population_f, population_m)
-print(population_d)  # 0.7287587808164793
+print(population_d)  # 0.7287587808164793 — deflated!
 
 matched_d = cohens_d(matched_f, matched_m)
-print(matched_d)  # 1.018362581243161
+print(matched_d)  # 1.018362581243161 — as you would expect

diff --git a/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt b/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt
index 1420adb..e382b38 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt
+++ b/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt
@@ -279,3 +279,10 @@ Lying or gerrymandering an individual object-level category boundary is forgivab
 
 Another kind of asymmetric weapon: whether this narrative "looks worse" for me or my subjects depends on the audience (you can read it as a tale of betrayal of sacred principles, or a tale of personal mental illness)
 
+https://fanlore.org/wiki/The_Lurkers_Support_Me_in_Email
+
+still cited: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/d178n2/the_categories_were_made_for_man_not_man_for_the/
+
+transitioning has _costs_; maybe you think some of those costs are illigitimate and should be game-theoretically resisted (Society's transphobia is a terrorirst who you shouldn't negotiate), but first of all, "People are good at noticing each other's sex" isn't transphobia, and second, even if you're doing game-theoretic defiance, you should make that explicit
+
+double-perceception of bad faith: I don't believe "categories are arbitrary" is intellectually honest (and I'm right); my interlocutors don't believe that I'm really this upset about the philosophy of language

diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt
index 578c712..2c69321 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/post_ideas.txt
+++ b/notes/post_ideas.txt
@@ -4,8 +4,11 @@ On the Argumentative Form "Super-proton Things Tend to Come in Varieties"
 Reply to Ozymandias on Fully Consensual Gender
 "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning
 
+
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+Reading Comprehension Is Rape Culture
+
 Reply to David R. MacIver on Gendering
 
 Trying to Be Explicit