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LW Women- Minimizing the Inferential Distance

Standard Intro The following section will be at the top of all posts in the LW Women series. About two months ago, I put out a call for anonymous submissions by the women on LW, with the idea that I would compile them into some kind of post. There is a LOT of material, so I am breaking them down into more manageable-sized themed posts. Seven women submitted, totaling about 18 pages. Crocker's Warning- Submitters were told to not hold back for politeness. You are allowed to disagree, but these are candid comments; if you consider candidness impolite, I suggest you not read this post To the submittrs- If you would like to respond anonymously to a comment (for example if there is a comment questioning something in your post, and you want to clarify), you can PM your message and I will post it for you. If this happens a lot, I might create a LW_Women sockpuppet account for the submitters to share. Standard Disclaimer- Women have many different viewpoints, and just because I am acting as an intermediary to allow for anonymous communication does NOT mean that I agree with everything that will be posted in this series. (It would be rather impossible to, since there are some posts arguing opposite sides!) Please do NOT break anonymity, because it lowers the anonymity of the rest of the submitters. Minimizing the Inferential Distance One problem that I think exists in discussions about gender issues between men and women, is that the inferential distance is much greater than either group realizes. Women might assume that men know what experiences women might face, and so not explicitly mention specific examples. Men might assume they know what the women are talking about, but have never really heard specific examples. Or they might assume that these types of things only happened in the past, or not to the types of females in their in-group So for the first post in this series, I thought it would be worthwhile to try to lower this inferential distance, by sharing

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LW Women- Minimizing the Inferential Distance

[Link] Can We Reverse The Stanford Prison Experiment?

Decision Auctions aka "How to fairly assign chores, or decide who gets the last cookie"

Transcription and Summary of Nick Bostrom's Q&A

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Decision Auctions aka "How to fairly assign chores, or decide who gets the last cookie"

Meetup : I moved to Portland! I want to meet you!

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Meetup : [Columbus] Upcoming Workshop Topics

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 22, chapter 93

LW Women- Female privilege

LW Women- Minimizing the Inferential Distance

[Link] Can We Reverse The Stanford Prison Experiment?

Decision Auctions aka "How to fairly assign chores, or decide who gets the last cookie"

Transcription and Summary of Nick Bostrom's Q&A

Items to Have In Case of Emergency...Maybe.

Decision Auctions aka "How to fairly assign chores, or decide who gets the last cookie"

Meetup : I moved to Portland! I want to meet you!

Meetup : Columbus, OH MEGA-MEETUP, Oct 11-13

Meetup : [Columbus] Upcoming Workshop Topics

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 22, chapter 93

LW Women- Female privilege