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@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@ The thing about our crowd is that we have a lamentably low proportion of women (
 
 https://slatestarscratchpad.tumblr.com/post/142995164286/i-was-at-a-slate-star-codex-meetup. "We are solving the gender ratio issue one transition at a time"
 
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 So, a striking thing about my series of increasingly frustrating private conversations and subsequent public Facebook meltdown (the stress from which soon landed me in psychiatric jail, but that's [another](/2017/Mar/fresh-princess/) [story](/2017/Jun/memoirs-of-my-recent-madness-part-i-the-unanswerable-words/)) was the tendency for some threads of conversation to get _derailed_ on some variation of, "Well, the word _woman_ doesn't necessarily mean that," often with a link to ["The Categories Were Made for Man, Not Man for the Categories"](https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-made-for-man-not-man-for-the-categories/), a 2014 post by Scott Alexander, the _second_ most prominent writer in our robot cult.
 
 So, this _really_ wasn't what I was trying to talk about; _I_ thought I was trying to talk about autogynephilia as an _empirical_ theory in psychology, the truth or falsity of which obviously cannot be altered by changing the meanings of words. Psychology is a complicated empirical science: no matter how "obvious" I might think something is, I have to admit that I could be wrong—not just as a formal profession of modesty, but _actually_ wrong in the real world.
@@ -683,8 +681,6 @@ https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=5310
 
 contrast to masochism being an infohazard in dath ilan: in real life, when your sexuality is considered an infrohazard, you don't take it lying down
 
-postyud
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 Scott has the power to set narratives, as evidenced by his attack on Michael hijacking Jessica's thread
 
 maybe he should have some sympathy for Stephen J. Gould's intellectual crimes
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 > When somebody stops coordinating with you, stop coordinating with them.  It's not 'punishment' to Defect against somebody who's Defecting against you, in a cooperation-defection dilemma; you're just withdrawing the Cooperation you were trying to coordinate with them
 https://www.glowfic.com/replies/1801374#reply-1801374
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+I joined the "Eliezerfic" server in spite of my enmity, and JoshTriplett is in there (contrary to my gut instinct that Rust peeps hate my rationalist peeps)
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+Tweet about "unvirtuous to just believe me"—well, YES
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+The cowardice is remarkable, coming from someone who otherwise
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+jbeshir
+> I have a writer/author friend, they had a problem a couple or so times with people who get really really into the work and community, then in their mind got disappointed in some way- and that investments converts at a surprisingly high exchange rate directly into investment in making your life worse. It... happens.
+—this makes a callout post or Twitter thread seem less appealing
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+
+[previously, I had felt guilty about being less successfully feminst than Robby https://nothingismere.com/2013/12/26/union-names-objections-and-replies/]
+[internet pharmacy]
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+Rubices—
+> whereas I could imagine reading almost the same post on sneerclub and turning into a prickle about it
+Lorelai—
+> me when other trans girls call themselves and me AGP vs when genuine Blanchardians do
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+https://www.clearerthinking.org/post/understanding-relationship-conflicts-clashing-trauma
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+postyud; Yudkowskyism without Yudkowsky
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+if you know Reality is red, blue, or green, and I know Reality is red but am trying to maximize the probability you assign to green, I can truthfully say "it's not blue"
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+Gell-Mann amnesia