From: M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake Date: Sun, 10 May 2020 07:00:30 +0000 (-0700) Subject: check in X-Git-Url: http://232903.hjopswx29.asia/source?a=commitdiff_plain;h=af0e9feb454b1b9df2c5627ac345a26f2c02a383;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git check in --- diff --git a/content/2020/book-review-human-diversity.md b/content/2020/book-review-human-diversity.md index fea43ad..a881ee2 100644 --- a/content/2020/book-review-human-diversity.md +++ b/content/2020/book-review-human-diversity.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Title: Book Review: Charles Murray's Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class Date: 2020-04-28 10:22 Category: commentary -Tags: Charles Murray, review (book), epistemic horror, game theory, intelligence, ideology, race, sex differences, Emacs, politics, probability, stigma, topology, COVID-19 +Tags: Charles Murray, review (book), bullet-biting, epistemic horror, game theory, intelligence, ideology, race, sex differences, Emacs, politics, probability, stigma, topology, COVID-19 [This is a pretty good book](https://www.twelvebooks.com/titles/charles-murray/human-diversity/9781538744000/) about things we know about some ways in which people are different from each other, particularly differences in _cognitive repertoires_ (Murray's choice of phrase for shaving nine syllables off "personality, abilities, and social behavior"). In [my last book review](/2020/Jan/book-review-the-origins-of-unfairness/), I mentioned that I had been thinking about broadening the topic scope of this blog, and this book review seems like an okay place to start! diff --git a/content/images/cooperate_note.jpg b/content/images/cooperate_note.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a7e2574 Binary files /dev/null and b/content/images/cooperate_note.jpg differ diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt index 63e7af3..0d073c1 100644 --- a/notes/notes.txt +++ b/notes/notes.txt @@ -1799,3 +1799,6 @@ https://www.reddit.com/r/GenderCritical/comments/gc6iye/im_a_lesbian_and_a_lefti https://newthoughtcrime.com/ https://www.reddit.com/r/GenderCritical/comments/dy7241/peak_trans_x_tell_your_story_here/fp37ft6/ + +https://web.archive.org/web/20180418215634/https://www.pride.com/viral/2018/4/17/internet-head-over-heels-adorable-openly-gay-3-year-old + diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt index 88d57ad..244be5a 100644 --- a/notes/post_ideas.txt +++ b/notes/post_ideas.txt @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ _ Reply to Ozymandias on Lesbians and on Single-Sex Spaces _ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels _ Answers on Great Divides: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/08/questions-for-great-divides.html _ Film Review: Your Name +_ World of Masks https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1228093035042541569 _ "But I'm Not Quite Sure What That Means": Costs of Nonbinary Gender as a Social Technology LW/aAL— @@ -38,6 +39,7 @@ _ Contra Scott Alexander on Mental Illness; Or, Oh God, Please Don't (aAL/LW) _ Selective Reporting and Clustering _ Butting Heads; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of Cause Prioritization—marginally neglected truths are more +_ How they Pin It Down: Equal Environments Assumption Edition https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cXzTpSiCrNGzeoRAz/conjunction-controversy-or-how-they-nail-it-down _ Social Construction is an Embedded Agency Problem it's important to have language for psychology because you can't point to pictures diff --git a/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md b/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md index 139f957..27d7404 100644 --- a/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md +++ b/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md @@ -15,10 +15,12 @@ Harder— * EY was right about "men need to think about themselves _as men_" (find cite) * wipe culturally defined values * finding things in the refrigerator - +* Faster Than Science, Transgender Edition My ideological committment to psychological-sex-differences denialism made me uncomfortable when the topic of sex differences happened to come up on the blog—which wasn't particularly often, but in such a vast, sprawling body of work as the Sequences, it occasionally turned out to be relevant in a discussion of evolution or human values. For example, "the love of a man for a woman, and the love of a woman for a man, have not been cognitively derived from each other or from any other value." + +https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NnohDYHNnKDtbiMyp/fake-utility-functions \ No newline at end of file