"game theory of stigmatization" rough draft from SEXNET

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+Actually—maybe I _do_ want to keep this narrowly scoped to the Category War, where I have a very strong case, rather than telling my whole gender/rationalism story!
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 * I haven't been doing so well, and I need to tell the story for my own sanity
 * I spent my entire adult life in "rationality", and I actually believed
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 (Contrary to popular belief, it's not exactly ignorance that's bliss, but more generally lack of game-theoretic common knowledge: if they know, and I know that they know, but they don't know that I know that they know, that's often close enough.)
 
 For example, I seem to remember my first pair of breastforms mysteriously disappearing just after the time my mother unilaterally cleaned out my closet. (And a friend not long thereafter reported overhearing her telling his parents that she was pretty sure I wasn't gay.)
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+my history of email exchanges with the Popular Author being demanding
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+posting on LW because it's the conversational locus https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8rYxw9xZfwy86jkpG/on-the-importance-of-less-wrong-or-another-single
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+M.L. Morris "Vocational Interests in the United States" d=1.7 on occupational preferences
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+playing for scraps vs. playing for keeps https://twitter.com/DarrenJBeattie/status/1151902363059392512
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+You can't optimize your group's culture for not-talking-about-atheism without also optimizing against understanding Occam's razor; you can't optimize for not questioning gender self-identity without also optimizing against understanding "A Human's Guide to Words."