From bb9203e102e4456df500e11d1766aff6badac098 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 13:13:48 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] check in --- content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md | 6 ++++++ notes/a-hill-of-meaning-sections.md | 4 +++- notes/notes.txt | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ notes/post_ideas.txt | 2 ++ notes/trans-kids-on-the-margin-notes.md | 6 ++++++ 5 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md b/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md index d2af58d..ad89f94 100644 --- a/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md +++ b/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md @@ -166,3 +166,9 @@ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE5QcD_12fQ printing IQ in the NYT in 1969!!! https://www.unz.com/isteve/news-that-used-to-be-fit-to-print/ + +https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/X9Rk4rXSMnKfYLq5r/a-brief-review-of-current-and-near-future-methods-of-genetic + +http://web.archive.org/web/20201101001637/https://www.unz.com/isteve/fbi-murder-offender-ratio-for-blacks-nonblacks-ratio-for-males-females/ + +https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-statistics-dont-capture-the-full-extent-of-the-systemic-bias-in-policing/ diff --git a/notes/a-hill-of-meaning-sections.md b/notes/a-hill-of-meaning-sections.md index 3478963..844dbe5 100644 --- a/notes/a-hill-of-meaning-sections.md +++ b/notes/a-hill-of-meaning-sections.md @@ -374,4 +374,6 @@ https://archive.is/Ecsca my rationalist community has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my community's name cite to "Not Especially Related to Transgender" -https://twitter.com/fortenforge/status/1402057829142302721 \ No newline at end of file +https://twitter.com/fortenforge/status/1402057829142302721 + +"Hero Licensing": to provide an earnest-token of all the techniques I couldn't show diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt index ded97e2..74c7ad0 100644 --- a/notes/notes.txt +++ b/notes/notes.txt @@ -2703,3 +2703,23 @@ https://transsubstantiation.com/a-letter-to-anne-lawrence-709fac0af75e > Someone recently likened AGP to the movie Get Out https://ovarit.com/o/ItsAFetish/35359/silicone-female-body-suit-links-to-amazon/fc473510-7d4a-4e11-af9c-7b7fadfdb551#comment-fc473510-7d4a-4e11-af9c-7b7fadfdb551 + +------ + +Can ... can I ask you a question about your beliefs? (Not to argue, but to understand; I wouldn't spend bandwidth asking if my Intellectual Turing Test procedure could predict what your reply, but I can't predict it.) + +I thought your position was (my attempted paraphrase—) "Gender is a social category; it's better to let people choose it freely rather than tying it to assigned sex at birth." + +But I'm having trouble reconciling that with the language of "now they think they might be a girl [...] Some people who think they might be a girl are really sure, and some aren't sure", which suggests there's a pre-existing underlying fact of the matter. + +If you believe it's a social category that people should be able to self-designate into, wouldn't you use language that describes it as a choice or preference rather than an underlying fact? That is, you'd say "aren't sure whether they _prefer_ to be a girl" rather than "aren't sure whether they _are_ a girl". + +------ + +"How Mainstream Trans Narratives are Harmful" +https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2RqxAasmH4 + +https://scarlettphoenix.substack.com/p/detransition-diary-1 + +"When Selves Have Sex: What the Phenomenology of Trans Sexuality Can Teach About Sexual Orientation" +https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00918369.2014.865472 diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt index 59388a9..7b767b8 100644 --- a/notes/post_ideas.txt +++ b/notes/post_ideas.txt @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ Active— +_ "Why the Hell It Means So Much to Me" _ Blood Is Thicker Than Water _ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America _ There Should Be a Closetspace/Lease Bound Crossover Fic @@ -6,6 +7,7 @@ _ There Should Be a Closetspace/Lease Bound Crossover Fic 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 +_ Challenges to Yudkowsky's Pronoun Reform Proposal _ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning Minor queue— diff --git a/notes/trans-kids-on-the-margin-notes.md b/notes/trans-kids-on-the-margin-notes.md index 1419693..d99ee5f 100644 --- a/notes/trans-kids-on-the-margin-notes.md +++ b/notes/trans-kids-on-the-margin-notes.md @@ -437,3 +437,9 @@ Well, yes ----- https://www.fatherly.com/health-science/what-age-do-transgender-kids-know-trans/ + +https://www.facebook.com/groups/2264685517005985/posts/3513322952142229/ +> The kind of thing I find when cleaning Lily's room. The other day she made a petition to "save animals" but neither Jeff nor I would sign I unless she made it more specific. +> [image, drawing] SAVE OUR PLANIT FRUM GRENHEWS GASIS + +You -- 2.17.1