From ad9f835b70707d46a8438c188a0e45ffd8289342 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Sun, 10 May 2020 22:27:59 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] check in --- content/2017/select.md | 2 +- content/2020/book-review-human-diversity.md | 2 +- content/drafts/i-too-dislike-it.md | 2 ++ ...equences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems.md | 2 +- notes/epigraph_quotes.md | 4 ++++ notes/notes.txt | 2 ++ notes/post_ideas.txt | 16 ++++++++-------- .../sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md | 3 ++- 8 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/2017/select.md b/content/2017/select.md index a797577..71d4a30 100644 --- a/content/2017/select.md +++ b/content/2017/select.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Title: Select Date: 2017-10-07 22:18 Category: commentary -Tags: deniably allegorical +Tags: schooling, deniably allegorical _(Trigger warning: school.)_ diff --git a/content/2020/book-review-human-diversity.md b/content/2020/book-review-human-diversity.md index a881ee2..20d5b07 100644 --- a/content/2020/book-review-human-diversity.md +++ b/content/2020/book-review-human-diversity.md @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ It's important not to overinterpret the _g_ factor as some unitary essence of in Anyway, so Murray and Herrnstein talk about this "intelligence" construct, and how it's heritable, and how it predicts income, school success, not being a criminal, _&c._, and how Society is becoming increasingly stratified by cognitive abilities, as school credentials become the ticket to the new upper class. -This _should_ just be more social-science nerd stuff, the sort of thing that would only draw your attention if, like me, you feel bad about not being smart enough to do algebraic topology and want to console yourself by at least knowing about the Science of not being smart enough to do algebraic topology. The reason everyone _and her dog_ is still mad at Charles Murray a quarter of a century later is Chapter 13, "Ethnic Differences in Cognitive Ability", and Chapter 14, "Ethnic Inequalities in Relation to IQ". So, _apparently_, different ethnic/"racial" groups have different average scores on IQ tests. [Ashkenazi Jews do the best](https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the-atomic-bomb-considered-as-hungarian-high-school-science-fair-project/), which is why I sometimes privately joke that the fact that I'm [only 85% Ashkenazi (according to 23andMe)](/images/ancestry_report.png) explains my low IQ. ([I got a 131](/images/wisc-iii_result.jpg) on the [WISC-III](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wechsler_Intelligence_Scale_for_Children) at age 10, but that's pretty dumb compared to some of my [robot-cult](/tag/my-robot-cult/) friends.) East Asians do a little better than Europeans/"whites". And—this is the part that no one is happy about—the difference between U.S. whites and U.S. blacks is about Cohen's _d_ ≈ 1. (If two groups differ by _d_ = 1 on some measurement that's normally distributed within each group, that means that the mean of the group with the lower average measurement is at the 16th percentile of the group with the higher average measurement, or that a uniformly-randomly selected member of the group with the higher average measurement has a probability of about 0.76 of having a higher measurement than a uniformly-randomly selected member of the group with the lower average measurement.) +This _should_ just be more social-science nerd stuff, the sort of thing that would only draw your attention if, like me, you feel bad about not being smart enough to do algebraic topology and want to console yourself by at least knowing about the Science of not being smart enough to do algebraic topology. The reason everyone _and her dog_ is still mad at Charles Murray a quarter of a century later is Chapter 13, "Ethnic Differences in Cognitive Ability", and Chapter 14, "Ethnic Inequalities in Relation to IQ". So, _apparently_, different ethnic/"racial" groups have different average scores on IQ tests. [Ashkenazi Jews do the best](https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the-atomic-bomb-considered-as-hungarian-high-school-science-fair-project/), which is why I sometimes privately joke that the fact that I'm [only 85% Ashkenazi (according to 23andMe)](/images/ancestry_report.png) explains my low IQ. ([I got a 131](/images/wisc-iii_result.jpg) on the [WISC-III](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wechsler_Intelligence_Scale_for_Children) at age 10, but that's pretty dumb [compared to](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/06/the-view-from-below/) some of my [robot-cult](/tag/my-robot-cult/) friends.) East Asians do a little better than Europeans/"whites". And—this is the part that no one is happy about—the difference between U.S. whites and U.S. blacks is about Cohen's _d_ ≈ 1. (If two groups differ by _d_ = 1 on some measurement that's normally distributed within each group, that means that the mean of the group with the lower average measurement is at the 16th percentile of the group with the higher average measurement, or that a uniformly-randomly selected member of the group with the higher average measurement has a probability of about 0.76 of having a higher measurement than a uniformly-randomly selected member of the group with the lower average measurement.) Given the tendency for people to distort shared maps for political reasons, you can see why this is a hotly contentious line of research. Even if you take the test numbers at face value, racists trying to secure unjust privileges for groups that score well, have an incentive to "play up" group IQ differences in bad faith even when they shouldn't be [relevant](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GSz8SrKFfW7fJK2wN/relevance-norms-or-gricean-implicature-queers-the-decoupling). As economist Glenn C. Loury points out in _The Anatomy of Racial Inequality_, cognitive abilities decline with _age_, and yet we don't see a moral panic about the consequences of an aging workforce, because older people are construed by the white majority as an "us"—our mothers and fathers—rather than an outgroup. _Individual_ differences in intelligence are also presumably less politically threatening because "smart people" as a group aren't construed as a natural political coalition—although Murray's work on cognitive class stratification would seem to suggest this intuition is mistaken. diff --git a/content/drafts/i-too-dislike-it.md b/content/drafts/i-too-dislike-it.md index 8d42bcd..6cd3f6a 100644 --- a/content/drafts/i-too-dislike-it.md +++ b/content/drafts/i-too-dislike-it.md @@ -26,3 +26,5 @@ all these phenomena are important above isolence and triviality In the meantime, if you demand on the one hand, the raw material of pornography in all its rawness, and that which is on the other hand genuine—then I don't know, man, you might just be shit out of luck. + +sexuality stays with the body— http://theinsomniactg.blogspot.com/2019/07/knocked-out-of-my-body.html long term job interview: http://tgswappingcaps.blogspot.com/2020/05/join-fun-explicit.html?zx=cfb49b0a1e868cdc \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/drafts/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems.md b/content/drafts/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems.md index 7ba3f1b..91e73dc 100644 --- a/content/drafts/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems.md +++ b/content/drafts/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Title: Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems Date: 2021-01-01 -Category: other +Category: commentary Tags: autogynephilia, Eliezer Yudkowsky, epistemic horror, my robot cult, personal, sex differences Status: draft diff --git a/notes/epigraph_quotes.md b/notes/epigraph_quotes.md index c65abab..b7164b0 100644 --- a/notes/epigraph_quotes.md +++ b/notes/epigraph_quotes.md @@ -342,3 +342,7 @@ https://xkcd.com/1942/ > Odeen was selfishly pleased with his own flow and thought it graceful and impressive. He had mention that once to Losten, to whom as his Hard-teacher, he confessed everything, and Losten had said, "But don't you think an Emotional or a Parental feels the same about his own flow-pattern. If each of you think differently and act differently, ought you not to be pleased differently?" > > —_The Gods Themselves_ by Isaac Asimov + +> In desperation he quoted André Gide’s remark: "It has all been said before, but you must say it again, since nobody listens." Unfortunately, judging by the quotations given here, Gide’s remark is still relevant even today. +> +> —_Making Sense of Heritability_ diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt index 0d073c1..5736f5d 100644 --- a/notes/notes.txt +++ b/notes/notes.txt @@ -1569,6 +1569,8 @@ reply: "I'm not sure she's old enough to understand the implications of naming y growth chart +to keep the proselytizer attached to the religion by training them on interactions with outsiders being unpleasant + ----- smart fascism— diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt index 244be5a..a4f1eb3 100644 --- a/notes/post_ideas.txt +++ b/notes/post_ideas.txt @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ Main path (important posts)— +_ theory of MMB's transition _ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems _ Intrumental Categories, Wireheading, and War (LW) _ Elision _vs_. Choice (working title) @@ -6,20 +7,18 @@ _ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture _ "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity ... (UUT) _ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ... -Special— -_ theory of MMB's transition - UUT— -_ "I Hope You're Happy, California" _ Student Dysphoria; Or, Comparing This to a Previous Life's War _ Beyond the Binary _ The Feeling Is Mutual _ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress +_ Ideology Is the General Case (working title) +_ I, Too, Dislike It + _ Walker correspondence _ 30 Years of the Blank Slate (Cosmides-Tooby/Pinker/Murray) -_ Reply to Thirty-Three on "religion" terminology -_ I, Too, Dislike It (Captions): sexuality stays with the body— http://theinsomniactg.blogspot.com/2019/07/knocked-out-of-my-body.html long term job interview: http://tgswappingcaps.blogspot.com/2020/05/join-fun-explicit.html?zx=cfb49b0a1e868cdc +_ "I Hope You're Happy, California" _ Travis's Trilemma: Creepy, Crazy, or Protected-Class (working title) _ Reply to Ozymandias on Lesbians and on Single-Sex Spaces _ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels @@ -29,13 +28,14 @@ _ World of Masks https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1228093035042541569 _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology LW/aAL— +✓ Zoom vs. EMH (LW) _ Algorithmic Intent: A Hansonian Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle (LW) -_ Zoom vs. EMH (LW) _ Comment on "Endogenous Epistemic Factionalization" _ Signals, Deception, and the Precession of Simulacra -_ Comment on Wireheading /r/rational _ Contra Scott Alexander on Mental Illness; Or, Oh God, Please Don't (aAL/LW) +_ Comment on Wireheading /r/rational +_ Second Derivative (Paul Christiano on growth timelines) _ Selective Reporting and Clustering _ Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization—marginally neglected truths are more diff --git a/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md b/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md index 27d7404..a5439d0 100644 --- a/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md +++ b/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Easy— * love of a man for a woman, and vice versa as separate fragments of value * Psychological Unity of Humankind is only up to sex * Superhappies empathic inference for not wanting to believe girls were different +* Faster Than Science, Transgender Edition (prior draft) Harder— * "I often wish some men/women would appreciate" @@ -15,7 +16,7 @@ Harder— * EY was right about "men need to think about themselves _as men_" (find cite) * wipe culturally defined values * finding things in the refrigerator -* Faster Than Science, Transgender Edition + My ideological committment to psychological-sex-differences denialism made me uncomfortable when the topic of sex differences happened to come up on the blog—which wasn't particularly often, but in such a vast, sprawling body of work as the Sequences, it occasionally turned out to be relevant in a discussion of evolution or human values. -- 2.17.1