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_Seemingly_ hazardous but actually careful and humane thoughts about gender, social science, and epistemology, by a man who aspires to something more. Featuring a special focus on the phenomenon of _autogynephilia_ ("love of oneself as a woman") in males, and the project of reformulating liberal-feminist and queer-theoretic goals for a universe where evolution actually happened, introspection doesn't work, and Bayesian reasoning continues to work even when some of the hypotheses are about people.
+A selection of some favorite posts—
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+ * on the cognitive function of categorization in relation to sex and "gender":
+ * ["The Categories Were Made for Man to Make Predictions"](/2018/Feb/the-categories-were-made-for-man-to-make-predictions/)
+ * ["Reply on Adult Human Females"](/2018/Apr/reply-to-the-unit-of-caring-on-adult-human-females/)
+ * ["Self-Identity Is a Schelling Point"](/2019/Oct/self-identity-is-a-schelling-point/)
+ * ["Reply on Fully Consensual Gender"](/2019/Dec/reply-to-ozymandias-on-fully-consensual-gender/)
+ * on political distortions of our collective understanding of human psychology:
+ * ["Psychology Is About Invalidating People's Identities"](/2016/Sep/psychology-is-about-invalidating-peoples-identities/)
+ * ["Don't Negotiate With Terrorist Memeplexes"](/2018/Jan/dont-negotiate-with-terrorist-memeplexes/)
+ * ["The Social Construction of Reality and the Sheer Goddamned Pointlessness of Reason"](/2019/Aug/the-social-construction-of-reality-and-the-sheer-goddamned-pointlessness-of-reason/)
+ * ["Book Review: Charles Murray's _Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class_"](/2020/Apr/book-review-human-diversity/)
+ * on the personal experience of autogynephilic gender dysphoria:
+ * ["A Beacon Through the Darkness; Or, Getting It Right the First Time"](/2017/Feb/a-beacon-through-the-darkness-or-getting-it-right-the-first-time/)
+
This is a pseudonym for branding and market-segmentation purposes, because it seems like it's instrumentally useful for my gender blogging to take place under a different flag than my personal life and other work, but my real name probably isn't that hard to find.
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