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Interview with Kelsey Piper on Self-Censorship and the Vibe Shift

Link: "The Jenner Shift and Its Consequences"

Prediction Markets Are Not a Drop-In Replacement for Concepts

Transcript: "Autogynephilia and Epistemic Despair"

Agreeing With Stalin in Ways That Exhibit Generally Rationalist Principles

If Clarity Seems Like Death to Them

Reply to Scott Alexander on Autogenderphilia

Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress

Beyond the Binary

Proceduralist Sticker Graffiti

A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning

Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer

I'm Dropping the Pseudonym From This Blog

Book Endorsement: Phil Illy's Autoheterosexual: Attracted to Being the Other Sex

Janet Mock on Late Transitioners

Book Review: Matt Walsh's Johnny the Walrus

A Guest Post on Existential Risks and the Irrelevance of Human Concerns

Context Is For Queens

Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels

The Signaling Hazard Objection

The Two-Type Taxonomy Is a Useful Approximation for a More Detailed Causal Model

An Egoist Faith

Comment on a Scene from Planecrash: "Crisis of Faith"

Link: "Nonbinary Runners Have Been Here the Whole Time"

Backlog Metablogging, April 2022

Autogynephilia Should Be Recognized Openly

Student Dysphoria, and a Previous Life's War

Challenges to Yudkowsky's Pronoun Reform Proposal

Links: Amy Wax Bloggingheads Appearances

Link: "Never Smile at an Autogynephile"

Link: "Blood Is Thicker Than Water 🐬"

I Don't Do Policy

There Should Be a Closetspace/Lease Bound Crossover Fic

Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems

Link: "See Color"

You Are Right and I Was Wrong: Reply to Tailcalled on Causality

Link: "Unnatural Categories Are Optimized for Deception"

Crossing the Line

Survey Data on Cis and Trans Women Among Haskell Programmers

The Feeling Is Mutual

Nixon on Forbidden Hypotheses

Two Political Short Stories

Link: "Can WNBA Players Take Down a U.S. Senator?"

Link: "Wells for Boys"

Yarvin on Less Wrong

Oceans Rise, Empires Fall

Book Review: Charles Murray's Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class

Peering Through Reverent Fingers

The Reverse Murray Rule

Don't Read the Comments??

Relative Gratitude and the Great Plague of 2020

If in Some Smothering Dreams You Too Could Pace

Book Review: Cailin O'Connor's The Origins of Unfairness: Social Categories and Cultural Evolution

Reply to Ozymandias on Fully Consensual Gender

Promises I Can Keep

"I Want to Be the One"

On the Argumentative Form "Super-Proton Things Tend to Come In Varieties"

The Strategy of Stigmatization

Political Science Epigrams

Self-Identity Is a Schelling Point

Terminology Proposal: "Developmental Sex"

Does General Intelligence Deflate Standardized Effect Sizes of Cognitive Sex Differences?

"A Love That Is Out of Anyone's Control"

The Social Construction of Reality and the Sheer Goddamned Pointlessness of Reason

The Source of Our Power

Link: "Where to Draw the Boundaries?"

Interlude XVIII

Use It or Lose It

Untitled Metablogging, 26 December 2018

The Information Theory of Passing

Reply to The Unit of Caring on Adult Human Females

The Categories Were Made for Man to Make Predictions

Found in a University Library Copy of A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion

Don't Negotiate With Terrorist Memeplexes

Blame Me for Trying

There's a Land That I See; Or, The Spirit of Intervention

Lesser-Known Demand Curves

A Common Misunderstanding; Or, The Spirit of the Staircase (24 January 2009)

A Leaf in the Crosswind

Hormones Day 156: Developments, Doubts, and Pulling the Plug; Or, Putting the "Cis" in "Decision"

"Neither as Plea nor as Despair"

Grim Trigger; Or, The Parable of the Honest Man and the God of Marketing

The Nadir of Reading Comprehension

What's My Motivation? Or, Hormones Day 89

Memoirs of My Recent Madness, Part I: The Unanswerable Words

Questions Such as, What's Wrong With You People?

Surprise Reader Meetup

Thing of Things Transgender Intellectual Turing Test Predictions and Commentary

Hormones Reboot: Spironotacular!

Nothing New Under the Sun

If Other Fantasies Were Treated Like Crossdreaming

A Beacon Through the Darkness; Or, Getting It Right the First Time

You Probably Haven't Heard of Them

Hormones Day 33

Revised Taxonomy

And Yet None More Blameable

The Map Is Not the Territory

From What I've Tasted of Desire

I'm Sick of Being Lied To

The Line in the Sand; Or, My Slippery Slope Anchoring Action Plan

The Erotic Target Location Gift

Avatar: The Last Genderbender

Hormones Day 13

If the Gay Community Were Like the Trans Community

"Anne Lawrence Is the Only Honest Human" (work in progress)

Very Reassuring

Reply to Ozymandias on Two-Type MtF Taxonomy

Estranged Family

Editorial Process

Sexology's Sad Lexicon

Exactly What It Says on the Tin

Fashion-Forward

Reply to Ozymandias on Autogynephilia

The Real Answer to "Am I Trans or Is It Just a Fetish?"

Is There Affirmative Action for Incompetent Crossplay?

Psychology Is About Invalidating People's Identities