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 Tags: categorization, epistemology, linkpost
 
 Sorry for the off-topic linkpost, but I want to point to a fascinating [new mathematical philosophy-of-language post](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/onwgTH6n8wxRSo2BJ/unnatural-categories-are-optimized-for-deception) on _Less Wrong_ [(alternative viewer)](https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/onwgTH6n8wxRSo2BJ/unnatural-categories-are-optimized-for-deception)! You really have to admire thinkers who can devote so much energy to probing the intricacies of such abstract topics without having any kind of pragmatic ulterior motive.
 Tags: categorization, epistemology, linkpost
 
 Sorry for the off-topic linkpost, but I want to point to a fascinating [new mathematical philosophy-of-language post](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/onwgTH6n8wxRSo2BJ/unnatural-categories-are-optimized-for-deception) on _Less Wrong_ [(alternative viewer)](https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/onwgTH6n8wxRSo2BJ/unnatural-categories-are-optimized-for-deception)! You really have to admire thinkers who can devote so much energy to probing the intricacies of such abstract topics without having any kind of pragmatic ulterior motive.

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diff --git a/content/drafts/the-causality-of-ethnic-differences-in-covid-19-outcomes-is-an-open-empirical-question.md b/content/drafts/the-causality-of-ethnic-differences-in-covid-19-outcomes-is-an-open-empirical-question.md
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@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ But how does Samuel _know_ this? I agree that an accumulation of factors from ce
 In the case of people of African descent, I think we _do_ have a specific candidate for a biological difference affecting COVID-19 outcomes. A randomized clinical trial found that 
 
 
 In the case of people of African descent, I think we _do_ have a specific candidate for a biological difference affecting COVID-19 outcomes. A randomized clinical trial found that 
 
 

+"Autumn COVID-19 surge dates in Europe correlated to latitudes, not to temperature-humidity, pointing to vitamin D as contributing factor"
+https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-81419-w
+

 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960076020302764
 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16549493/
 
 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960076020302764
 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16549493/
 

diff --git a/content/drafts/you-are-right-and-i-was-wrong-reply-to-tailcalled-on-causality.md b/content/drafts/you-are-right-and-i-was-wrong-reply-to-tailcalled-on-causality.md
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+Title: You Are Right and I Was Wrong: Reply to Tailcalled on Causality
+Date: 2021-02-01
+Category: commentary
+Tags: causality, Tailcalled
+Status: draft
+
+https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2021/01/01/causality-is-essential-reply-to-mtsw-on-autogynephilia/

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-Agenda to 10 January—
-(10 January) Unnatural Categories Are Optimized for Deception (LW)
-    - get feedback from A.D.+ReductiveSoteriology,TurnTrout
-_ link as Review on "Where to Draw the Boundaries?"
-- Containment thread: reply to Villiam and Pattern
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 - Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to
 - Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to

-_ "epilogue, thank you, theory of C., goodbye, &c." email to S.A.
-
+_ You Are Right and I Was Wrong: Reply to Tailcalled on Causality
+ - The Causality of Ethnic Differences in COVID-19 Outcomes Is an Open

 
 

+ 

 LW—
 - And the Wisdom to Know the Difference
 _ importance of getting the direction of causality right
 LW—
 - And the Wisdom to Know the Difference
 _ importance of getting the direction of causality right


@@ -21,7 +13,7 @@ _ Twitter/Facebook
 _ Reddit: /r/philosophy, /r/TheMotte, /r/theschism, /r/SneerClub
 _ tags: "The SF Bay Area", "Criticisms of the Rationalist Movement", "Postmortems & Retrospectives"
 
 _ Reddit: /r/philosophy, /r/TheMotte, /r/theschism, /r/SneerClub
 _ tags: "The SF Bay Area", "Criticisms of the Rationalist Movement", "Postmortems & Retrospectives"
 

-_ You Are Right and I Was Wrong: Reply to Tailcalled on Causality
+ 

 _ https://www.facebook.com/duncan.sabien/posts/3936528276381860 "Natural does not always mean good." — natural does not always mean good, but at our current tech level, that's actually a really good prior
 _ Novemember 2020 Political Notes; Or, Sen. Kelly Loeffler Is Mostly Living in a Simulation Now
 _ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
 _ https://www.facebook.com/duncan.sabien/posts/3936528276381860 "Natural does not always mean good." — natural does not always mean good, but at our current tech level, that's actually a really good prior
 _ Novemember 2020 Political Notes; Or, Sen. Kelly Loeffler Is Mostly Living in a Simulation Now
 _ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture


@@ -55,7 +47,7 @@ _ reply to https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2020/11/16/hermeneutical-injustic
 _ four clusters
 _ Comment on "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots" https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/k77sxz/d_timnit_gebru_and_google_megathread/gepcliq/
  - Amy Wax linkpost
 _ four clusters
 _ Comment on "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots" https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/k77sxz/d_timnit_gebru_and_google_megathread/gepcliq/
  - Amy Wax linkpost

- - The Causality of Ethnic Differences in COVID-19 Outcomes Is an Open
+

 
 
 optimized to confuse and intimidate people trying to use language to reason about the concept of biological sex, even if your conscious verbal narrative never says 'and now I will confuse and intimidate people who want to use language to reason about the concept of biological sex'!"
 
 
 optimized to confuse and intimidate people trying to use language to reason about the concept of biological sex, even if your conscious verbal narrative never says 'and now I will confuse and intimidate people who want to use language to reason about the concept of biological sex'!"

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@@ -7,10 +7,7 @@ _(content warning transphobia)_
 _(content warning too much information about weird fetishes)_  
 _(content warning WTF did I just read)_  
 
 _(content warning too much information about weird fetishes)_  
 _(content warning WTF did I just read)_  
 

-(December 2020, [TODO] words)
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-(You can also think of this as psychological context-setting for my philosophy-of-language Sequence's forthcoming two-post conclusion, "Unnatural Categories Are Optimized for Deception" and "Motivation and Political Context for my Philosophy-of-Language Agenda")
+(February 2021, [TODO] words)

 
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@@ -81,6 +78,8 @@ https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2015.1351
 > I'm just a spirit  
 > Floting in air, floating in air, floating in air!_
 
 > I'm just a spirit  
 > Floting in air, floating in air, floating in air!_
 

+the [Sara Bareilles tune I chose as the breakup song](https://genius.com/Sara-bareilles-gonna-get-over-you-lyrics) is probably etched deeper into my auditory cortex than my mother's voice
+

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