> At least, I have a MASSIVE home territory advantage because I can appeal to Eliezer's writings from 10 years ago, and ppl can't say "Eliezer who? He's probably a bad man"
> Makes sense... just don't be shocked if the next frontier is grudging concessions that get compartmentalized
+
+> Stopping reading your Tweets is the correct move for them IF you construe them as only optimizing for their personal hedonics
+https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1224433237679722500
Tags: autogynephilia, bullet-biting, cathartic, Eliezer Yudkowsky, epistemic horror, my robot cult, personal, sex differences, Star Trek
Status: draft
-_(Part 1 of 3)_
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> _I'll write my way out
> Write everything down, far as I can see
> I'll write my way out
Anyway, that—briefly (I mean it)—is the story about my weird sexual obsession about being a woman and how I used to think that it was morally wrong to believe in psychological sex differences, but then I gradually changed my mind and decided that psychological sex differences are probably real after being deeply influenced by this robot-cult blog about the logic of Science.
-It's probably not that interesting? If we were still living in the socio-political environment of 2009, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be blogging about my weird sexual obsessions (as evidenced by the fact that, in 2009, I wasn't blogging about them).
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-It would take some unfathomably bizarre twist of circumstances to induce me to write publicly about such deeply private and sensitive matters—circumstances like my weird sexual obsession ending up at the center of [one of the _defining political issues of our time_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_rights), and everyone I used to trust telling _blatant pants-on-fire lies_ about their _own_ philosophy of language that were clearly optimized to _trick me into cutting my dick off_ (independently of the empirical cost–benefit trade-off which determines whether or not I should cut my dick off).
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-But such an absurd scenario couldn't actually happen, right? Um, to be continued.
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-_([Please subscribe](/feeds/all.atom.xml) for Part 2, "Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer" (coming someday), and Part 3, "A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning" (coming—someday later))_
+It's probably not that interesting? If we were still living in the socio-political environment of 2009, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be blogging about my weird sexual obsessions (as evidenced by the fact that, in 2009, I wasn't blogging about them). It would take some unfathomably bizarre twist of circumstances to induce me to write publicly about such deeply private and sensitive matters—circumstances like my weird sexual obsession ending up at the center of [one of the _defining political issues of our time_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_rights) But such an absurd scenario couldn't actually happen ... right?
Everyone wants to think they're an agent that's made an informed choice. And when the one comes to them and points out that they're the victim of a hostile memetic environment that's been conceptually gerrymandered to game them into making CRAZY choices for someone else's benefit, they take it personally. [...] From the inside, you have free choice in the sense that you don't know what you're going to do until you've finished computing it. From the outside, you're a system that can be gamed. You're always going to be dominated by _someone's_ memeplex. The question is, if you knew more and thought faster, which parts of your current ideology would extrapolated-you construe as parasites, and which as symbiotes? You should, of course, be very suspicious of anyone who thinks they already know the answer. But perhaps it should not be seen as such a incursion to suggest that the answer may surprise you!
https://medium.com/@transphilosophr/t4t-and-the-micropolitics-of-trans-liberation-357df39df017
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+https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.632784/full
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+https://twitter.com/sinxoveretothex/status/1376923898386780163
+> Because if race is a proxy for something, that something is a proxy for race too.[...] You can't prove the causative direction you intended.
+
+relates to—
+
+> oh look, the Georgia voting law appears to be a set of facially neutral reforms that curtail voting in the most populous and Democratic areas in the state, which also happen to have the largest black populations.
+https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/1377999458269548546
+https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/02/us/politics/georgia-voting-law-annotated.html
+
+https://quillette.com/2021/04/02/when-sons-become-daughters-parents-of-transitioning-boys-speak-out-on-their-own-suffering/
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+https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/04/01/trans-neo-nazi-group-taylor-parker-dipeppe-atomwaffen-division-florida-crime-jail/
+
+https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2021/04/the-claim-of-substantial-difference-in-mean-is-currently-not-based-on-strong-evidence/
_ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to
- Amulet
-_ "Assigned at Birth" Is a Schelling Point (If You Live in an Insane Dystopia Where the Concept of Sex Is Somehow Controversial)
+_ "Assigned at Birth" Is a Schelling Point (If You Live in an Insane Dystopia Where the Concept of Sex Is Somehow Controversial) "It's not possible to know a person's gender identity at birth, and there is no consensus criteria for assigning sex at birth." https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/30/politics/south-dakota-transgender-sports-kristi-noem/index.html
_ Student Dysphoria, and a Previous Life's War
_ Gaydar Jamming (L.B. and R.H.)
_ Overlapping Distributions and Cancellable Stereotypes (the standard GC argument about trans = stereotypes but with more math)
_ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
-_ What Are Pronouns For?
+_ Reply to Yudkowsky on Pronoun Reform and the Limits of Discussion
+_ "Cis" is like "gentile"
2021 significant posts—
_ Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data
-_ Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer (part 2)
-_ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning (part 3)
+_ Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer
_ Book Review: Kathleen Stock's Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism (May)
_ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America (June)
_ Book Review: Kathryn Paige Harden's The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality (September)
> until men start thinking of themselves as _men_ they will tend to regard women as defective humans.
-When I read the ["systematizing–empathizing"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathising%E2%80%93systemising_theory)/"men are interested in things, women are interested in people" line of research—which, to be clear, is [only a statistical difference at Cohen's _d_ ≈ 0.93](http://unremediatedgender.space/papers/su_et_al-men_and_things_women_and_people.pdf)—my instinctive reaction is, "But, but that's not _fair_. People _are_ systems, because _everything_ is a system. [What kind of a lame power is empathy, anyway?](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway)"
+When I read the [systematizing–empathizing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathising%E2%80%93systemising_theory)/"men are interested in things, women are interested in people" line of research—which, to be clear, is [only a statistical difference at Cohen's _d_ ≈ 0.93](http://unremediatedgender.space/papers/su_et_al-men_and_things_women_and_people.pdf)—my instinctive reaction is, "But, but that's not _fair_. People _are_ systems, because _everything_ is a system. [What kind of a lame power is empathy, anyway?](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway)"
"Everything is a system" to "I _think_ everything is a system."
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+[TODO: my pseudobisexual moments (it's California in the year 2015)
+our analogues would make a good couple in a nearby alternate universe where at least one of us is female. "Exactly one," he said. "It's California in the year 2015," I said.]
+
+---------
+
_ AGPs dating each other is the analogue of "Failed Utopia 4-2" (but phrased in a way that's agnostic about
_ more empathic inference: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qCsxiojX7BSLuuBgQ/the-super-happy-people-3-8
* Superhappies empathic inference for not wanting to believe girls were different
-[TODO: my pseudobisexual moments (it's California in the year 2015)
-our analogues would make a good couple in a nearby alternate universe where at least one of us is female. "Exactly one," he said. "It's California in the year 2015," I said.]
+
https://fairplayforwomen.com/pronouns/
https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/when-your-epistemic-bubble-pops-unlocked
-Shrier says, "It is not uncommon for young children periodically to express the desire to be the opposite sex" footnote goes to: Zucker Bradley Sanikhani "Sex Differences in Referral Rates of Children With Gender Identity Disorder: Some Hypotheses"
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+Shrier says, "It is not uncommon for young children periodically to express the desire to be the opposite sex" footnote goes to: Zucker Bradley Sanikhani "Sex Differences in Referral Rates of Children With Gender Identity Disorder: Some Hypotheses"
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+new Zucker article!
+https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.632784/full
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+https://www.bbc.com/news/health-56601386
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+https://segm.org/NICE_gender_medicine_systematic_review_finds_poor_quality_evidence
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+https://acesounderglass.com/2021/04/02/antidepressants-and-medical-uncertainty/
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+"The Magnitude of Children’s Gender-Related Toy Interests Has Remained Stable Over 50 Years of Research"
+https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-021-01989-8
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