X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fblanchards-dangerous-idea-and-the-plight-of-the-lucid-crossdreamer.md;h=5762a7bd19550d3240f3803ad8bef90ee3717f27;hb=1519b2911b147b64079b7d2a0924eb351542b735;hp=6e4927963dc03ff878793bf6fbdcd7188eb58c36;hpb=4f0c258a05b09c572ed4c63decf70d006ef9768e;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/content/drafts/blanchards-dangerous-idea-and-the-plight-of-the-lucid-crossdreamer.md b/content/drafts/blanchards-dangerous-idea-and-the-plight-of-the-lucid-crossdreamer.md index 6e49279..5762a7b 100644 --- a/content/drafts/blanchards-dangerous-idea-and-the-plight-of-the-lucid-crossdreamer.md +++ b/content/drafts/blanchards-dangerous-idea-and-the-plight-of-the-lucid-crossdreamer.md @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ After complimenting me on my comment on Yudkowsky's post on the twenty-sixth, "T > > So when I see Eliezer trying to convince nerdy men that they are actually women, I see the hand of Moloch.[^moloch] -[^moloch]: The references to "Moloch" are presumably an allusion to Scott Alexander's ["Meditations on Moloch"](https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/), in which Alexander personifies coordination failures as Moloch, the god of Carthagean myth. +[^moloch]: The references to "Moloch" are presumably an allusion to Scott Alexander's ["Meditations on Moloch"](https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/), in which Alexander personifies coordination failures as the pagan deity [Moloch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moloch). We chatted for a few more minutes. I noted [Samo Burja's comment](/images/burja-shape_of_the_moral_panic.png) on Yudkowsky's post as a "terrible thought" that had also occurred to me: Burja had written that the predicted moral panic may not be along the expected lines, if an explosion of MtFs were to result in trans women dominating previously sex-reserved spheres of social competition. "[F]or signaling reasons, I will not give [the comment] a Like", I added parenthetically.[^signaling-reasons]