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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. 
 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 (
 
 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))
         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(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):
 
 
 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)
 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)
 
 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)
 
 
 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
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+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
 
 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
 Reply to David R. MacIver on Gendering
 
 Trying to Be Explicit