From 6c18418d025e82cf1a6e7a50f22d3df8865823d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2019 08:06:38 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] check in --- ...ory-end-or-a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md | 2 ++ notes/deflation.py | 8 ++++---- notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt | 7 +++++++ notes/post_ideas.txt | 3 +++ 4 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) 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 --- 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?! \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/notes/deflation.py b/notes/deflation.py index 72d0927..686ef80 100644 --- 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 --- 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 --- 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 + ----- +Reading Comprehension Is Rape Culture + Reply to David R. MacIver on Gendering Trying to Be Explicit -- 2.17.1