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 I haven't been doing so well for most of the past three-and-change months.
 
-This needs some context-setting. So, I've spent basically my entire adult life in this little intellectual subculture that was founded on an ideal of absolute truthseeking. Sure, anyone will _say_ that their beliefs are true, but you can tell most people aren't being very serious about it. _We_ were going to be serious: with a shared bedrock of knowledge of cognitive biases, reflectivity, and Bayesian probability theory bequeathed to us by our founders, _we_ were going to make serious collective intellectual progress in a way that had [never been](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Nu3wa6npK4Ry66vFp/a-sense-that-more-is-possible) [done before](https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/07/yes-we-have-noticed-the-skulls/), and possibly save our entire future light cone from the coming robot apocalypse!
 
 At least, that was the vision _I_ internalized in the late 'aughts. Others who were present may remember things slightly differently.
 
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 test case: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/12/clarification-to-sacred-principles-as-exhaustible-resources/
 
 https://www.gnxp.com/blog/2007/10/james-watson-tells-inconvenient-truth_296.php
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+stepping over the line in babyserver and #arabeth
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+most of the ill will is on my side
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+From the standpoint of a cultural minority, it feels like the dominant culture is constantly microaggressing against your interests, and sometimes you want to push back in self-defense, with the justification that they started it. But from the dominant culture's perspective, it was just being itself, and the "pushback" is the aggression, and the minority started it.
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+Tail didn't even want to Tweet me?!?