Title: Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer
Date: 2020-10-01 05:00
Category: commentary
-Tags: autogynephilia, bullet-biting, cathartic, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Scott Alexander, epistemic horror, my robot cult, personal, sex differences, Star Trek, Julia Serano, two-type taxonomy
+Tags: autogynephilia, bullet-biting, cathartic, horror, personal, sex differences, Star Trek, Julia Serano, two-type taxonomy
Status: draft
> I'm beginning to wonder if he's constructed an entire system of moral philosophy around the effects of the loyalty mod—a prospect that makes me distinctly uneasy. It would hardly be the first time a victim of mental illness has responded to their affliction that way—but it would certainly be the first time I've found myself in the vulnerable position of sharing the brain-damaged prophet's impairment, down to the last neuron.
* The lie will rot, maybe ppl will be honest after the convention has set in??
Robert Heinlein
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+xkcd assumes furries are sexual https://xkcd.com/471/
+xkcd implies AGP is common https://xkcd.com/535/
Tags: categorization, sex differences, feminism, review (book)
Status: draft
-_Material Girls_ puts me in the awkward position of not knowing how to divide my emotional energy between praising the book, and condemning the state of a world that made this book necessary. The subtitle _sounds_ unduly condescending, the kind of thing that makes you suspect the author of being a blinkered partisan in need of exercising the principle of charity. "Why Reality Matters for Feminism"—oh, so your ideological opponents _don't think reality matters_, huh?
+This is an extremely important book—but most of the time when people say that, they mean it as high praise of the book, whereas
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+_Material Girls_ puts me in the awkward position of not knowing how to divide my emotional energy between praising the book, and condemning the state of a world that made this book necessary.
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+The subtitle _sounds_ unduly condescending, the kind of thing that makes you suspect the author of being a blinkered partisan in need of exercising the principle of charity. "Why Reality Matters for Feminism"—oh, so your ideological opponents _don't think reality matters_, huh?
But, well—in this case ... yes! They actually don't! It's really creepy! You get the sense that Kathleen Stock would rather be somewhere else—in some other world, doing some other kind of philosophy for lower stakes, like extending her [intentionalist theory of fictional content](https://www.amazon.com/Only-Imagine-Fiction-Interpretation-Imagination-ebook/dp/B0758FWTBL/).
just like I would rather be blogging in some other world without [Something to Protect](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SGR4GxFK7KmW7ckCB/something-to-protect)
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+https://lilymaynard.com/kathleen-stock-material-girls-review/
Re normalization of poly and LGBT, I'm skeptical that "political" vs. "not-political" is a useful distinction here; everything that you and your friends happen to agree on looks "non-political". (Indeed, the contingencies of political coalition-formation would seem to be the only reason to lump "LGBT" together into one term/concept; if it weren't for having social conservatives as a commmon enemy, it's not obvious what (e.g.) androphilic males (G) and gynephilic-males-who-wish-they-were-females (part of the T) would have to do with each other, and the coalition may already be starting to fray.) The underlying psychological variations (towards homosexuality, or towards higher levels of sociosexuality) probably exist everywhere, but our culture's particular reification of "poly" or "LGBT" as sexual orientations is setting up an implicit cultural filter (a "political choice") that may be more visible to [...] than others.
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+_not_ as a gender-role self-fulfilling-prophecy enforcement attempt (bulldozing the territory to fit a preconceivedly sexist map would be really bad!!)
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+but as a neutral scientific claim that _could_ be false (like any falsifiable claim), but which I think is true and which I have citations for (attempting to map features of the territory that would probably still be there independently of whether or not they appear on the map, where sexist self-fulfilling prophecies are potentially a real concern, but I'm not that worried about them on the current cultural margin in Berkeley 2021, even though I would worry in other cities and years)
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+walking animation carry angle: https://www.biomotionlab.ca/html5-bml-walker/
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+### Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer
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+### Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data
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+### A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning
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2021 significant posts—
_ Book Review: Kathleen Stock's Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism (May)
-_ Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data
_ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America (June)
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_ Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer
+_ Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data
_ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning
+_ Elision _vs_. Choice (working title)
_ Overlapping Distributions and Cancellable Stereotypes (the standard GC argument about trans = stereotypes but with more math, why lesbians are women)
_ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology
_ "Assigned at Birth" Is a Schelling Point (If You Live in an Insane Dystopia Where the Concept of Sex Is Somehow Controversial)
_ Book Review: Kathryn Paige Harden's The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality (September)
-Special—
-_ trapped priors—at home! or, theory of C.
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Minor or Needs Development—
- Amulet
_ Student Dysphoria, and a Previous Life's War
_ Feature Selection
_ Angelic Irony
_ "You'll Never Persuade Anyone"
+_ Good Bad Faith
_ Cromwell's Rule Is About Physical Symmetry, Not Fairness
_ The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
_ The Kolmogorov Option Is Incompatible with Rationality as the Common Interest of Many Causes
_ The Sex/Gender Distinction Was a Mistake
_ Complicity (how do reasonable people cooperate with each other instead of dumb people in their own coalition)
_ reinterpretting all of Hannah Montana album lyrics as an AGP narrative
-_ Elision _vs_. Choice (working title)
_ Stereotypes are weak probabilistic inferences (Agreeableness d~0.5), category-membership is strong inference, the same word/signal hits both, but stereotypes are (or should be) easy to cancel; shifting default meaning onto stereotypes in order to suit trans (while still having the word attach to something) is a bad trade
_ Taxometrics and the Fallacy of the Insufficiently Relevant, Insufficiently Multivariate Experiment
_ Beyond the Binary
-Resolved: publish "Sexual Dimorphism" soon as just the first part, the political coda is too hard to finish in a timely manner and will have to be a separate post
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-TODO for "Sexual Dimorphism"—
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-Or there was the time I responded to [paraphrase P.G.'s comment] with [my comment] and Michael Vassar threated to get me banned, which
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-_ Vassar clapback anecdote
-https://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/06/why-do-psychopa.html#comment-518267438
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-I need a single paragraph that quickly hits these points:
-* not understanding the difference between reasoned argument and demonizing the outgroup
-* what G. said
-* what I said
-* Michael Vassar threatened to ban me: https://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/06/why-do-psychopa.html#comment-518267438
-* this ruined my day crossdressing in front of Seanan and Katie
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_ more empathic inference: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qCsxiojX7BSLuuBgQ/the-super-happy-people-3-8
-* Scott Alexander Understands Language
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-Terminology/vocab to explain before use—
-* Singularity/paperclip/Methods/existential risk
-* "non-exclusively androphilic" / nonhomosexual
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-"A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning" (need to use it somewhere, and this is my capstone)
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* everyone who wants to talk about AGP to call us predators
* I need to put this behind me
+undo the Slate Starchive links
roll my own pingbacks? (I didn't like the Pelican plugin) http://blog.mlindgren.ca/entry/2015/01/17/how-to-manually-send-a-pingback/
worddiff for gitweb?! https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1518178/how-do-i-change-the-gitweb-default-diff-format-to-color-words
whole blog RSS? https://posativ.org/isso/docs/configuration/server/#rss
projects / Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git / commitdiff