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 Title: If Clarity Seems Like Death to Them
 Author: Zack M. Davis
-Date: 2023-01-01 11:00
+Date: 2023-07-01 11:00
 Category: commentary
 Tags: autogynephilia, bullet-biting, cathartic, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Scott Alexander, epistemic horror, my robot cult, personal, sex differences, two-type taxonomy, whale metaphors
 Status: draft
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-[TODO: Michael Vassar and the theory of optimal gossip; make sure to include the part about Michael threatening to sue]
+[TODO: Michael Vassar and the theory of optimal gossip
+  * Michael's "position" in the community, already not what it once was, was getting debased even further
+  * Berkeley REACH investigation; I asked what the charges were; they say it's not a court; I say _I_ don't feel safe in a place that bans Michael for no good reason
+  * Kelsey says in Discord that Michael is trying to get re-included
+  * I email her with quotes trying to argue that that's not his game
+  * She doesn't find the quotes convincing, because she thinks Vassar is a liar
+  * I call Ben to the stand, then Sarah ("You're a great prosecutor", I say in the channel)
+  * Kelsey in meatspace tells me that Vassar has a benefactor that she can't name; I'm retarded enough to not infer that it's him and she was obfuscating for compliance
+  ...
+]
 
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