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diff --git a/content/drafts/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems.md b/content/drafts/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems.md
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@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ Category: commentary
 Tags: autogynephilia, bullet-biting, cathartic, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Scott Alexander, epistemic horror, my robot cult, personal, sex differences, Star Trek, Julia Serano
 Status: draft
 
+_(Part 1 of 3)_
+
 > _I'll write my way out  
 > Write everything down, far as I can see  
 > I'll write my way out  
@@ -415,3 +417,5 @@ It's probably not that interesting? If we were still living in the socio-politic
 It would take some unfathomably bizarre twist of circumstances to induce me to write publicly about such deeply private matters—like my weird sexual obsession ending up at the center of [one of the _defining political issues of our time_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_rights), and everyone I used to trust telling blatant pants-on-fire lies about their _own_ philosophy of language that were clearly optimized to trick me into cutting my dick off (independently of the empirical cost–benefit trade-off which determines whether or not I should cut my dick off).
 
 But such an absurd scenario couldn't actually happen, right? Um, to be continued.
+
+_([Please subscribe](/feeds/all.atom.xml) for Part 2, "A River in Egypt" (coming someday), and Part 3, "A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning" (coming—someday later))_

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@@ -2466,3 +2466,21 @@ If the normative high-status response in your culture is to say, "How do you kno
 I'm _not happy_ about the fact that this belief puts me in conflict with everyone in Berkeley and _especially_ the people who are _exactly like me_ except born five years later but I'm not sure what else I'm supposed to do?
 
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+
+Everest brain regression
+https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763421000804
+
+https://www.city-journal.org/the-miseducation-of-americas-elites
+
+---
+
+Scott Alexander—
+> It's hard to explain to people that yes, "we" have several billion dollars, but they still need to donate themselves.
+https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/m0vob7/why_hasnt_effective_altruism_grown_since_2015/gqhvuop/?context=3
+
+Maybe that's a sign that they shouldn't? Don't we want people to be making decisions on the basis of explanations?
+
+----
+
+Pre-emptive dismissal as "unrepresenative" is incoherent: if it's not representative, how are you guessing what about I'm say?
+https://the-grey-tribe.tumblr.com/post/644563577202704384/your-experiences-are-not-universal-theory-of

diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt
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@@ -1,17 +1,25 @@
 _ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to
+_ Amulet
+_ "Assigned at Birth" Is a Schelling Point
+_ Link: "AGPs! GROW A PAIR AND POLICE YOUR OWN COMMUNITY!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_qFxtJ7pxw   Karen Davis
+
+
+
 
 2021+ significant posts—
 _ Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data (April?)
-_ Annals of the Category War (working title)
+_ A River in Egypt
+_ Annals of the Category War; Or, A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning
 _ Book Review: Kathleen Stock's Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism (May?)
 _ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America (June?)
 
 
 LW—
-_ Overlapping Distributions and Cancellable Stereotypes
+_ Overlapping Distributions and Cancellable Stereotypes; Or, The Information Theory of Adjectives
 - And the Wisdom to Know the Difference
 _ importance of getting the direction of causality right
 _ Multi-Level Moloch; Or, Technically, the Holocaust Was a Coordination Success
+_ Reasons to Go On
 
 _ E.Y. as case study on unconscious-lying and self-report ("their verbal theories contradict their own datapoints" https://www.facebook.com/yudkowsky/posts/10159408250519228?comment_id=10159411435619228&reply_comment_id=10159411567794228)
 
@@ -57,6 +65,7 @@ _ reply to https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2020/11/16/hermeneutical-injustic
 _ Comment on "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots" https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/k77sxz/d_timnit_gebru_and_google_megathread/gepcliq/ https://doxa.substack.com/p/googles-colosseum
  - Amy Wax linkpost
 - The Causality of Ethnic Differences in COVID-19 Outcomes Is an Open
+_ follow to "Point Man": prosletyzing religion
 
 strict scrutiny
 

diff --git a/notes/trans-kids-on-the-margin-notes.md b/notes/trans-kids-on-the-margin-notes.md
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@@ -61,3 +61,10 @@ https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2015.1351 claims:
 Those cites are:
  * "A longitudinal cephalometric study of transverse and vertical craniofacial growth" https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8237899/ 
  * "Ontogeny of facial dimorphism and patterns of individual development within one human population" https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16596605/
+
+"Puberty blockers do not alleviate negative thoughts in children with gender dysphoria, finds study"
+https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n356
+
+https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/trapped-priors-as-a-basic-problem
+
+https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/when-your-epistemic-bubble-pops-unlocked