From: M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2021 20:49:46 +0000 (-0700) Subject: check in X-Git-Url: http://534655.efjtl6rk.asia/source?a=commitdiff_plain;h=72dddd182060cd0119dba6dc3e8e4f729ca7966f;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git check in --- diff --git a/content/drafts/assigned-at-birth-is-a-schelling-point.md b/content/drafts/assigned-at-birth-is-a-schelling-point.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cdef78e --- /dev/null +++ b/content/drafts/assigned-at-birth-is-a-schelling-point.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Title: "Assigned at Birth" Is a Schelling Point (If You Live in an Insane Dystopia Where the Concept of Sex Is Somehow Controversial) +Date: 2020-01-01 +Category: commentary +Tags: game theory, convention +Status: draft + +"It's not possible to know a person's gender identity at birth, and there is no consensus criteria for assigning sex at birth." https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/30/politics/south-dakota-transgender-sports-kristi-noem/index.html diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt index f2571cb..c20147f 100644 --- a/notes/notes.txt +++ b/notes/notes.txt @@ -2568,3 +2568,15 @@ https://quillette.com/2021/04/02/when-sons-become-daughters-parents-of-transitio https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/04/01/trans-neo-nazi-group-taylor-parker-dipeppe-atomwaffen-division-florida-crime-jail/ https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2021/04/the-claim-of-substantial-difference-in-mean-is-currently-not-based-on-strong-evidence/ + +"free in my ontology and costly in another" +https://twitter.com/acesounderglass/status/1380383145623580676 + +"Considering Sex as a Biological Variable" +https://academic.oup.com/edrv/advance-article/doi/10.1210/endrev/bnaa034/6159361 + +https://www.reddit.com/r/honesttransgender/comments/mnkgha/dont_say_trans_community_if_youre_just_talking/ + +https://www.womenarehuman.com/transgender-inmates-are-raping-female-prisons-at-a-shocking-rate-ministry-of-justice-reveals/ + +https://www.reddit.com/r/honesttransgender/comments/ec2kfd/unsure_if_or_how_i_can_find_my_place_in_the_trans/ diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt index 57f0e38..19670b5 100644 --- a/notes/post_ideas.txt +++ b/notes/post_ideas.txt @@ -1,13 +1,12 @@ _ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to - Amulet -_ "Assigned at Birth" Is a Schelling Point (If You Live in an Insane Dystopia Where the Concept of Sex Is Somehow Controversial) "It's not possible to know a person's gender identity at birth, and there is no consensus criteria for assigning sex at birth." https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/30/politics/south-dakota-transgender-sports-kristi-noem/index.html _ Student Dysphoria, and a Previous Life's War _ Gaydar Jamming (L.B. and R.H.) _ Overlapping Distributions and Cancellable Stereotypes (the standard GC argument about trans = stereotypes but with more math) _ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels -_ Reply to Yudkowsky on Pronoun Reform and the Limits of Discussion -_ "Cis" is like "gentile" +_ "Assigned at Birth" Is a Schelling Point (If You Live in an Insane Dystopia Where the Concept of Sex Is Somehow Controversial) +_ Reply to Eliezer Yudkowsky on Gendered Pronouns 2021 significant posts— @@ -19,11 +18,13 @@ _ Book Review: Kathryn Paige Harden's The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for S LW— +_ How do unwind one's "rationalist" social identity? _ Daniel C. Dennett on Near-Term Alignment Problems _ Angelic Irony _ "You'll Never Persuade Anyone" _ 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 _ "Rationalists" Don't Exist (But Rationality Does) - And the Wisdom to Know the Difference _ agents with different learning algorithms would find it hard to agree on words? @@ -36,6 +37,7 @@ _ Honesty Is Activism Trading Political Favors Doesn't Build True Maps, But Correcting Errors Your Yourself Made, Does +_ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning / Casuistry Is Unbecoming: Replies to Eliezer Yudkowsky (I don't know how to do this) _ E.Y. as case study on unconscious-lying and self-report ("their verbal theories contradict their own datapoints" https://www.facebook.com/yudkowsky/posts/10159408250519228?comment_id=10159411435619228&reply_comment_id=10159411567794228) @@ -48,6 +50,7 @@ Marketing channels— _ Reddit: /r/philosophy, /r/TheMotte, /r/theschism, /r/SneerClub _ tags: "The SF Bay Area", "Criticisms of the Rationalist Movement", "Postmortems & Retrospectives" +_ "Cis" is like "gentile" _ An Draft Email I Did Not Send to Jesse Singal _ 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 diff --git a/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md b/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md index 50297ca..87b4f78 100644 --- a/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md +++ b/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ In this way, autogynephilia is _intrinsically self-undermining_ in a way that fa ----- -Another clue comes in the form of the following conjunction of observations. One, I'm not particularly repulsed by my own body in real life. ("Vague disappointment, sometimes" isn't the same thing as "repulsion".) Two, my fantasies about having a female body aren't _that_ discriminating—on the contrary, if I had magical BodyApp tech, I would want to experiment with being different ages/races/builds. Three, the thought being transformed in a _different_ male body, other than my own, _is_ kind of repulsive— +Another clue comes in the form of the following conjunction of observations. One, I'm not particularly repulsed by my own body in real life. ("Vague disappointment, sometimes" isn't the same thing as "repulsion".) Two, my fantasies about having a female body aren't particularly, um, discriminating? On the contrary, if I had magical BodyApp tech, I would want to experiment with being different ages/races/builds. Three, the thought being transformed in a _different_ male body, other than my own, _is_ kind of repulsive— -----