Title: Crossing the Line
-Date: 2020-11-23 05:00
+Date: 2020-12-26 05:00
Category: commentary
Tags: categorization, convention, social construction, review (paper), Julia Serano
Status: draft
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yLcuygFfMfrfK8KjF/mutual-information-and-density-in-thingspace
If there were much more probability-mass just on either side of a line people are using to make predictions and decisions, then _the line wouldn't be there_.
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+[TODO research—
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias%E2%80%93variance_tradeoff
+> Gerd Gigerenzer and co-workers [...] that the human brain resolves the dilemma in the case of the typically sparse, poorly-characterised training-sets provided by experience by adopting high-bias/low variance heuristic
+]
People who are concerned with social justice tend to be rightfully skeptical when privileged straight white men like me complain about identity politics. That's why, when the topic is misogyny or racism, I generally _shut up_—even if I might occasionally privately _think_ I might have something true and relevant to say about the costs of the culture of the political left teaching people to model themselves as helpless victims of a kyriarchical society, I also realize that _my opinion doesn't matter_. I'm not a woman or a racial minority; I don't have their lived experience; I _don't know what it's like_ to face the challenges they face. I don't have standing to speak.
+All the best people are getting socialized to think of the mind-virus as part of themselves; if the egregore succeeds at capturing everyone, then you can't be pro-woman without being pro-feminist
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I conflated "feminist" with the kind of woman I want
https://bloodyshovel.wordpress.com/2017/11/14/biological-leninism/
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-insanity-oath/
https://amgreatness.com/2020/12/10/play-the-game-or-be-played/
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+https://shylockholmes.blogspot.com/2020/12/last-thoughts-on-voter-fraud.html
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+https://archive.md/AnNdn
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+https://hereticalupdate.substack.com/p/the-use-and-misuse-of-social-consensus
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+* the moment in October 2016 when I switched sides http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/10/late-onset/
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+fishing expedition
+https://graymirror.substack.com/p/vae-victis
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Another new cite: https://applieddivinitystudies.com/2020/09/05/rationality-winning/
+Another new cite: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/kdxbyd/this_blog_is_incredible/gg04f8c/ "My personal favorites among these are [ ], [... Not Man for the Categories], 10, and 2 in that order."
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darwin2500 "Women's leagues are for women, trans women are women. That's all the justification needed" https://old.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/hym5xb/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_july_27_2020/fzvfres/
another "Categories Were Made" cite, just as an example post: https://old.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/i10p4m/survey_on_moving_ssc_to_substack/fzwkfqk/
https://impossiblehq.com/well-see/
https://harvardpress.typepad.com/hup_publicity/2020/06/black-lives-matter.html
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+https://fairplayforwomen.com/transgender-male-criminality-sex-offences/
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+social pressure on judges
+https://shylockholmes.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-thorny-problem-of-inconstant-judges.html
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+"The part is subordinate to the whole: female outliers"
+https://archive.is/UKNjx
-_ crimestopped about L.B.
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_ Dr. Will Powers on Autogynephilia
- Crossing the Line
- Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to
_ tag "Motivation and Political Context": "The SF Bay Area", "Criticisms of the Rationalist Movement", "Postmortems & Retrospectives"
+_ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
+_ crimestopped about L.B.
_ I, Too, Dislike It
_ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
_ Yardstick abolition pessimism https://culturallyboundgender.wordpress.com/2018/11/13/gender-identity-isnt-a-box-its-a-yardstick/
_ Irreversible Damage review
_ Jessica/wiz AGP defense
_ Elision _vs_. Choice (working title)
-_ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
_ Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data prior: https://sillyolme.wordpress.com/2019/07/19/how-many-trans-folk-are-there-really/ https://sillyolme.wordpress.com/2017/04/16/getting-lost-in-the-crowd/
_ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and the Conjunction of Small Effect Sizes
_ Comment on "Towards decolonising computational sciences" https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.14258
_ the scapegoating dynamic
_ review of "What's the Big Secret?" (acknowledges gender-role conventions which are more salient when people are wearing clothes, but then tells the real answer)
_ reply to https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2020/11/16/hermeneutical-injustice-not-gaslighting/
+_ four clusters
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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'!"
* study evidence that this is actually common
* AGPs dating each other is the analogue of "Failed Utopia 4-2"!!—the guys in "Conservative Men in Conservative Dresses" are doing better in some ways. Tri-S was explicitly not for transsexuals
> The vast majority of men are not what the vast majority of women would most prefer, or vice versa. I don’t know if anyone has ever actually done this study, but I bet that both gay and lesbian couples are happier on average with their relationship than heterosexual couples. (Googles… yep, looks like it.) <https://news.softpedia.com/news/Gay-and-Lesbian-Families-Are-Happier-than-Heterosexual-Ones-77094.shtml>
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+* Amy Alkon song
* finding things in the refrigerator
* https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FBgozHEv7J72NCEPB/my-way https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xsyG7PkMekHud2DMK/of-gender-and-rationality
* make sure the late-onset/AGP terminology is introduced in a coherent order rather than being inserted willy-nilly
-* the message length of my existence (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mB95aqTSJLNR9YyjH/message-length)
+* the message length of my existence (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mB95aqTSJLNR9YyjH/message-length) http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2019/10/hobbyhorse-apology/
[TODO: "expecting women to be defective men"]
* aren't all those transwomen going to be _embarrrassed_ after the Singularity, when telepathy tech makes everything obvious
* stress fracture vs. sprain: psychology is more complicated, but the basic moral holds
* "I don't care" "It sounds like you do care"
* pronouns do have truth conditions
* The text of this blog post is not something a woman could have written
- * as a programmer, I have learned to fear dependencies
* wipe culturally defined values: https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/BkkwXtaTf5LvbA6HB/moral-error-and-moral-disagreement (this might have to go after Failed-Utopia #4-2)
+* https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LRKXuxLrnxx3nSESv/should-ethicists-be-inside-or-outside-a-profession "Anyone who gives a part of themselves to a profession discovers a sense of beauty in it." same thing with an ideology; http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2017/03/dreaming-of-political-bayescraft/
+http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2017/03/brand-rust/
+* the moment in October 2016 when I switched sides http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/10/late-onset/
* detachable
* If I want to stay aligned with women, then figuring out how to do that depends on the facts about actual sex differences; if I want to do the value-exchange suggested in
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/r3NHPD3dLFNk9QE2Y/search-versus-design-1
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JBFHzfPkXHB2XfDGj/evolution-of-modularity
+> _Look in the mirror
+> What's a white guy doing there?
+> I'm just a spirit
+> I'm just a spirit
+> Floting in air, floating in air, floating in air!_
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Outline for remaining Coda—
https://www.overcomingbias.com/2020/12/social-proof-but-of-what.html
cooperate with men who cooperate with women
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+Cross-gender identity is a virtually sustained or intermittently occurring wishful fantasy about being a person of the opposite sex.” Freund, K., Steiner, B.W. & Chan, S. Two types of cross-gender identity. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 11, 49–63 (1982). DOI: 10.1007/BF01541365
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-55282113
Tavistock study https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.01.20241653v1.full.pdf
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+path-dependent preferences: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3xF66BNSC5caZuKyC/why-subagents
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