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+Title: A Previous Life's War
+Date: 2020-01-01
+Category: commentary
+Tags: schooling
+Status: draft
+
+There was a brief, beautiful moment from 2014, the first year of my life (that I feel comfortable admitting to), until mid-2016—a year-and-a-half long moment when I _didn't_ have to fight a desperate and obviously hopeless [ideological war](/2020/Feb/if-in-some-smothering-dreams-you-too-could-pace/) of survival against a Society that's _trying to kill me_.
+
+(Technically, trying to impose the use of [gerrymandered concepts](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/esRZaPXSHgWzyB2NL/where-to-draw-the-boundaries) that raise the [message length](TODO: linky "Beyond the Binary") of my existence in social reality. Like I said, _trying to kill me_.)
+
+Peacetime was _amazing_. I was so happy—not ecstatic, but happy in the ordinary way of moral patient, someone whose life is valuable simply in the experience of living of it, rather than for its effects on some grand Cause. I [wrote a _chess engine_](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2019/05/minimax-search-and-the-structure-of-cognition/); I [gave money to _charity_](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/12/philanthropy-scorecard-through-2016/); I [drank _pumpkin spice_](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2014/09/pumpkin-spice/) and played that tower defense game where the bad ponies are the good ponies and the good ponies are the bad ponies.
+
+That carefree selfishness is gone now, subordinated to the war effort. And so soon after the last war, too.
+
+The first shots of the last war came in December 2007. I was a schoolstudent at the University in Santa Cruz. Coming into that quarter, I had been excited to take the famous Introduction to Feminisms course, only to find, as the quarter wore on, that it seemed to be taught in a dialect of English I could not speak.
Well, maybe.
+Curtis Yarvin, a computer programmer perhaps most famous as the principal author of the Urbit decentralized server platform
+
https://graymirror.substack.com/p/2b-negative-causes-are-frivolous
+++ /dev/null
-Title: A Previous Life's War
-Date: 2020-01-01
-Category: commentary
-Tags: schooling
-Status: draft
-
-There was a brief, beautiful moment from 2014, the first year of my life (that I feel comfortable admitting to), until mid-2016—a year-and-a-half long moment when I _didn't_ have to fight a desperate and obviously hopeless [ideological war](/2020/Feb/if-in-some-smothering-dreams-you-too-could-pace/) of survival against a Society that's _trying to kill me_.
-
-(Technically, trying to impose the use of [gerrymandered concepts](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/esRZaPXSHgWzyB2NL/where-to-draw-the-boundaries) that raise the [message length](TODO: linky "Beyond the Binary") of my existence in social reality. Like I said, _trying to kill me_.)
-
-Peacetime was _amazing_. I was so happy—not ecstatic, but happy in the ordinary way of moral patient, someone whose life is valuable simply in the experience of living of it, rather than for its effects on some grand Cause. I [wrote a _chess engine_](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2019/05/minimax-search-and-the-structure-of-cognition/); I [gave money to _charity_](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/12/philanthropy-scorecard-through-2016/); I [drank _pumpkin spice_](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2014/09/pumpkin-spice/) and played that tower defense game where the bad ponies are the good ponies and the good ponies are the bad ponies.
-
-That carefree selfishness is gone now, subordinated to the war effort. And so soon after the last war, too.
-
-The first shots of the last war came in December 2007. I was a schoolstudent at the University in Santa Cruz. Coming into that quarter, I had been excited to take the famous Introduction to Feminisms course, only to find, as the quarter wore on, that it seemed to be taught in a dialect of English I could not speak.
More damage control: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/hpohy5/what_are_some_of_scotts_posts_that_challenge_the/fxsu8p0/
(Comment was deleted. Was I over the line in commenting at all, or just because of the "transparently political reasons" side-swipe? The fact that it got ~18 points suggests the readership was OK with it, even if the moderators weren't)
+People are still citing it! https://twitter.com/churrundo/status/1283578666425806851
+
"Sex Does Not Mean Gender. Equating Them Erases Trans Lives." https://archive.is/Mmlmi
smart-fascist on trans programmers: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/hhtwxi/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_june_29_2020/fwf86ju/
Main path (important posts)—
-
+Milestone—
_ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems
_ Unnatural Categories Are Optimized for Deception (LW)
+
+Ancillary documents for milestone—
_ Motivation and Political Context for My Philosophy of Language Agenda
+_ FUEY
+
_ Irreversible Damage review
_ Jessica/wiz AGP defense
_ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
_ reply to https://azdoine.tumblr.com/post/173995599942/a-reply-to-unremediatedgenderspace-on-reply-to http://archive.is/JSSNi
+_ Eugenics Is Actually Good, You Worthless Cowards
_ The One Where I Try to Be A Little More Explicit About What 'Autogynephilia' Actually Entails
_ No One Actually Wants to Change "Gender"
_ Ideology Is the General Case (working title)
('On the Science of Changing Sex', "https://sillyolme.wordpress.com/"),
('Survey Anon\'s Gender Blog', "https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/"),
('Crossdreamers', "http://www.crossdreamers.com/"),
- ('Miranda Yardley', "http://mirandayardley.com/en/"),
('Trans Blog', "http://transblog.grieve-smith.com/"),
- ('Thing of Things', "http://thingofthings.wordpress.com/"),
- ('Paula Wright', "https://porlawright.com/"),
+ ('The New Thoughtcrime', "https://newthoughtcrime.com/"),
('Culturally Bound Gender', "https://culturallyboundgender.wordpress.com/"),
('The Trans Widow', "http://thetranswidow.com/"),
('Sex and Gender: A Beginner\'s Guide', "https://sexandgenderintro.com/"),
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