memoir: zinger cap to Christmas 2019 §

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 Or, I pointed out, (c) I had ceded the territory of the interior of my own mind _to Eliezer Yudkowsky in particular_, and while I had made a lot of progress unwinding this, I was still, still not done, and seeing him at the Newtonmas party set me back a bit.
 
+Secret posse member reassured me that finishing the memoir privately would be clarifying and cathartic _for me_. If people in the Caliphate came to their senses, I could either not publish it, or give it a happy ending where everyone comes to their senses.
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+(It does not, actually, have a happy ending where everyone comes to their senses.)
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 There's another extremely important part of the story that _would_ fit around here chronologically, but I again find myself constrained by privacy norms: everyone's common sense of decency (this time, even including my own) screams that it's not my story to tell.

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 far editing tier—
-_ rewrite end of Christmas 2019 § with "optimistic about not needing to finish it", and then, "(It does not have a happy ending.)"
 _ post-Christmas conversation should do a better job of capturing the war, that Jessica thinks Scott is Bad for being a psychiatrist
 _ conversation with Scott should include the point where I'm trying to do AI theory
 _ Anna "everyone knows" we don't have free speech 2 Mar 2019, self-centeredness about which global goods matter