post-facto edits to published posts

"Hormones Day 156": A commenter on /r/slatestarcodex the other month seemed to
interpret the "Editor's note: yes" remark in a gender-identitarian sense of me
realizing that I'm not actually trans; it's worth expanding on what I actually
meant.

Turing Test: As I discovered with "Found in University Library Copy of ...", it
looks like we can include italics in Pelican post titles after all!

"What's My Motivation?": the reason I'm not nonbinary is more ideological than
symptom-driven. If d were really 6 for voice, I would expect not being able to
sex someone's voice to essentially never happen. It's rare, of course, but it
doesn't seem like it's in "never happens" territory. (Remember the "Fast Car"
song?)

"Blegg Mode": misplaced hyphen (hypo?)

diff --git a/content/2017/hormones-day-156-developments-doubts-and-pulling-the-plug-or-putting-the-cis-in-decision.md b/content/2017/hormones-day-156-developments-doubts-and-pulling-the-plug-or-putting-the-cis-in-decision.md
index 4b77424..c7bcc32 100644 (file)
--- a/content/2017/hormones-day-156-developments-doubts-and-pulling-the-plug-or-putting-the-cis-in-decision.md
+++ b/content/2017/hormones-day-156-developments-doubts-and-pulling-the-plug-or-putting-the-cis-in-decision.md
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ For all the ambiguity I've expressed in this post, I want to emphasize how much
 
 > If it makes sense to speak of stripping away my autogynephila and my explicitly egalitarian-individualist ideology, would my very soul be revealed as male? 
 
-(Editor's note: _yes_.)
+(Editor's note: _yes_. Because I have a male brain, and sufficiently-advanced soul science would be able to notice. It doesn't manifest as a _consciously-felt_ explicit "gender identity"—but [why should it?](/2016/Sep/psychology-is-about-invalidating-peoples-identities/))
 
 > And if so, what can I do about it? What violence could I inflict upon me to make me my _self_?
 >

diff --git a/content/2017/thing-of-things-transgender-intellectual-turing-test-predictions-and-commentary.md b/content/2017/thing-of-things-transgender-intellectual-turing-test-predictions-and-commentary.md
index 7a204c6..7fba3c4 100644 (file)
--- a/content/2017/thing-of-things-transgender-intellectual-turing-test-predictions-and-commentary.md
+++ b/content/2017/thing-of-things-transgender-intellectual-turing-test-predictions-and-commentary.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Title: Thing of Things Transgender Intellectual Turing Test Predictions and Commentary
+Title: <em>Thing of Things</em> Transgender Intellectual Turing Test Predictions and Commentary
 Date: 2017-03-29 19:26
 Category: commentary
 Tags: Ozy, two-type taxonomy

diff --git a/content/2017/whats-my-motivation-or-hormones-day-89.md b/content/2017/whats-my-motivation-or-hormones-day-89.md
index 95e6f00..53ec095 100644 (file)
--- a/content/2017/whats-my-motivation-or-hormones-day-89.md
+++ b/content/2017/whats-my-motivation-or-hormones-day-89.md
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ Tags: HRT diary, not-a-transition
 
 Why am I doing this again?
 
-I'm not trans. At any rate, I'm not _transitioning_. It _should_ be a trivial corollary of "Don't take other people's medicines": if you're transitioning to live as a woman, get on HRT. If you're not, _don't_. How could anyone get this wrong? Maybe the nonbinary folks would support me, but it would seem a bit duplicitous to appeal to their authority given our differences. A reader of this blog on 8chan says that my hormones expermient is "five steps beyond 'playing with fire' and more like 'directly throwing yourself on a fire.'"
+I'm not trans. At any rate, I'm not _transitioning_. It _should_ be a trivial corollary of "Don't take other people's medicines": if you're transitioning to live as a woman, get on HRT. If you're not, _don't_. How could anyone get this wrong? Maybe the nonbinary folks would support me, but it would seem a bit duplicitous to appeal to their authority given our differences in outlook. A reader of this blog on 8chan says that my hormones expermient is "five steps beyond 'playing with fire' and more like 'directly throwing yourself on a fire.'"
 
-_But you only live once_. Transitioning is absolutely out of the question for me: backwards-compatibility of social identity turns out to be really important to me (remind me to tell you later about the emotional trauma from the time I tried to switch to an ostensibly gender-neutral nickname and it didn't take), and anyway, in the absence of full-body transplants, I don't think I could expect anyone to take that seriously. (Passing in the transfeminine direction is _hard_! Our doctors do their best, but there's _so much_ sexually-dimorphic _stuff_ that we _don't know_ how to fix. Everyone loves [Janet Hyde's meta-analysis showing that](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16173891) most psychological sex differences are pretty small, often in the range of Cohen's _d_ (the difference of the means of the female and male distributions, in standard-deviation units) being around 0.2 or 0.3ish. Vocal pitch [is _d_≈6](https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/880344518251261952). _Six!_)
+_But you only live once_. Transitioning is absolutely out of the question for me: backwards-compatibility of social identity turns out to be really important to me (remind me to tell you later about the emotional trauma from the time I tried to switch to an ostensibly gender-neutral nickname and it didn't take), and anyway, in the absence of full-body transplants, I don't think I could expect anyone to take that seriously. (Passing in the transfeminine direction is _hard_! Our doctors do their best, but there's _so much_ sexually-dimorphic _stuff_ that we _don't know_ how to fix. Everyone loves [Janet Hyde's meta-analysis showing that](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16173891) most psychological sex differences are pretty small, often in the range of Cohen's _d_ (the difference of the means of the female and male distributions, in standard-deviation units) being around 0.2 or 0.3ish. Vocal pitch [is allegedly _d_≈6](https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/880344518251261952). _Six!_)
 
 But this—_obsession_ with sex differences and genderbending has been a _thing_ for me for a really long time. It's not going away. If I can't jump the gender chasm—because I don't expect to land successfully on the other side, because I have too much to lose, because I've been ideologically corrupted by lurking [/r/GenderCritical](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenderCritical/)—don't I at least deserve a _taste_ of what my trans sisters who are braver than me are getting?
 

diff --git a/content/2018/blegg-mode.md b/content/2018/blegg-mode.md
index 9eb7cdd..8cd6b49 100644 (file)
--- a/content/2018/blegg-mode.md
+++ b/content/2018/blegg-mode.md
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ You ponder what this matter has taught you about the nature of categorization: w
 
 After some thought, you conjecture that it probably has something to do with having cheap-to-detect features that correlate with more-expensive-to-detect features that are decision-relevant with respect to the agent's goals—
 
-A few (non-adapted) bleggs are purple rather than blue, but are very nearly like ordinary bleggs in all other aspects, so it feels more intuitive to think of them as oddly-colored bleggs rather than their own category of object: their easily-observed deviant color doesn't let you make significant inferences about anything you care about. (While "only" 95% of purple bleggs contain vanadium ore, as compared to 98% of standard-color bleggs, the three-percentage points difference doesn't seem like a big deal.)
+A few (non-adapted) bleggs are purple rather than blue, but are very nearly like ordinary bleggs in all other aspects, so it feels more intuitive to think of them as oddly-colored bleggs rather than their own category of object: their easily-observed deviant color doesn't let you make significant inferences about anything you care about. (While "only" 95% of purple bleggs contain vanadium ore, as compared to 98% of standard-color bleggs, the three percentage-points difference doesn't seem like a big deal.)
 
 Likewise, 2% of otherwise-entirely-ordinary bleggs contain palladium, but you have no way of knowing this without taking them to the sorting scanner (which is finicky to start up and takes a minute to run): their metal content is of great practical interest, but seems like a rare, unpredictable fluke, unrelated to any other feature that you might hope to use to distinguish a new category of sortable object.