+I'm trying to keep the rheotrical emphasis on "tale of personal heartbreak, plus careful analysis of the sociopolitical causes of said heartbreak" rather than "attacking my friends and heros"
+
+It shouldn't be a political demand; people should actually process my arguments because they're good arguments
+
+"Actually, we're Ashkenazi supremacists"
+
+James Watson 'aught-seven
+
+Arguing is not a punishment https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2018/12/15/argue-politics-with-your-best-friends/
+
+Brief group conversational silences are ostracism threats, but like, threats are great because you have the option of complying with them if you don't want a war.)
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+I do, however, think there's a subtler failure mode than "heretics get shouted down", namely, "heretics have to put up with spurious isolated demands for rigor, logical rudeness, conversation-halters, &c., such that the community doesn't update or updates slower than it could have."
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+This is, of course, a much harder problem to solve, because "Speaker gets shouted down" is easy for third parties to detect as a discourse-norm violation, whereas "Speaker's (polite!) interlocutors are engaging in motivated continuation" is a subtle judgment call that a lot of third-parties are going to get wrong. But if and to the extent that such a thing does happen in our community—and you shouldn't take my word for it—I think it's causally downstream of silencing going on elsewhere in the trash fire that is Society (which we're not isolated from).
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+http://www.sl4.org/archive/0602/13903.html
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+probably the strongest is "These people have ignored their own carefully gathered experimental evidence for decades in favor of stuff that sounds more intuitive." : https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9KvefburLia7ptEE3/the-correct-contrarian-cluster
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+power is weird: I feel a bit icky when I notice Sophia or Rachel or Tetra changing their description in a way that seemed influenced by me
+
+
+"audience capture" https://forward.com/opinion/431400/youtuber-pewdiepies-adl-boycott-shows-how-anti-semitism-goes-mainstream/
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+https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/12/weak-men-are-superweapons/
+https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/08/15/my-id-on-defensiveness/
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+_out of cards_
+
+"I" statements
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+chapter and verse
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+I will try to be less silly about "my thing is actually important for the world" claims, when what I really mean is that I'm just not a consequentialist about speech
+
+"Outside the Laboratory" dumbness could be selection rather than causal
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+I don't expect anyone to take a stand for a taboo topic that they don't care about
+I would have expected Scott and/or Eliezer to help clarify the philosophy-of-language mistake, because that's core sequences material
+but I was wrong
+
+I was imagining that it should be safe to endorse my "... Boundaries?" post, because the post is about philosophy, and surely it should be possible to endorse a specific article without that being taken as an endorsement of the author
+but ... I guess that's not how politics works
+
+They can't _trust_ me not to leverage consensus on the categories-aren't-arbitrary for my object-level thing, in a way that would go on RationalWiki and SneerClub
+
+The counterargument that Dark Side Epistemology isn't that recursive
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+I would _never_ write someone off for disagreeing with me about a complicated empirical question in psychology. Psychology is _really complicated_—and psychology questions that impinge on hot-button culture war issues are subject to additional biasing pressures. In this domain, no matter how "obvious" I think something is, I have to [take the Outside View seriously](http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/07/beware-the-insi.html) and
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+https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/08/15/my-id-on-defensiveness/
+https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/12/weak-men-are-superweapons/
+https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/22/rip-culture-war-thread/ Popular Author is very tired
+https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/07/04/some-clarifications-on-rationalist-blogging/
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+Savvy people have an incentive to stonewall me until I give up and go away, and on any other subject where I didn't have Something to Protect, it would have _worked_
+
+Lying or gerrymandering an individual object-level category boundary is forgivable; constructing a clever philosophical argument that lying is OK, is not
+
+Another kind of asymmetric weapon: whether this narrative "looks worse" for me or my subjects depends on the audience (you can read it as a tale of betrayal of sacred principles, or a tale of personal mental illness)
+