... Scott still didn't get it. But I _did_ soon end up in more conversation with Michael Vassar, Ben Hoffman, and Sarah Constantin, who were game to help me with reaching out to Yudkowsky again to explain the problem in more detail—and to appeal to the conscience of someone who built their career on [higher standards](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DoLQN5ryZ9XkZjq5h/tsuyoku-naritai-i-want-to-become-stronger).
-Yudkowsky probably didn't think much of _Atlas Shrugged_ (judging by [an offhand remark by our protagonist in _Harry Potter and the Methods_](http://www.hpmor.com/chapter/20)), but I kept thinking of the scene[^atlas-shrugged] where our heroine Dagny Taggart entreats the great Dr. Robert Stadler to denounce [an egregiously deceptive but technically-not-lying statement](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MN4NRkMw7ggt9587K/firming-up-not-lying-around-its-edge-cases-is-less-broadly) by the State Science Institute, whose legitimacy derives from its association with his name. Stadler has become cynical in his old age and demurs, disclaiming all responsibility: "I can't help what people think—if they think at all!" ... "How can one deal in truth when one deals with the public?"
+Yudkowsky probably didn't think much of _Atlas Shrugged_ (judging by [an offhand remark by our protagonist in _Harry Potter and the Methods_](http://www.hpmor.com/chapter/20)), but I kept thinking of the scene[^atlas-shrugged-ref] where our heroine Dagny Taggart entreats the great Dr. Robert Stadler to denounce [an egregiously deceptive but technically-not-lying statement](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MN4NRkMw7ggt9587K/firming-up-not-lying-around-its-edge-cases-is-less-broadly) by the State Science Institute, whose legitimacy derives from its association with his name. Stadler has become cynical in his old age and demurs, disclaiming all responsibility: "I can't help what people think—if they think at all!" ... "How can one deal in truth when one deals with the public?"
-[^atlas-shrugged]: In Part One, Chapter VII, "The Exploiters and the Exploited".
+[^atlas-shrugged-ref]: In Part One, Chapter VII, "The Exploiters and the Exploited".
At this point, I still trusted Yudkowsky to do better than an Ayn Rand villain; I had faith that _Eliezer Yudkowsky_ could deal in truth when he deals with the public.
marked TODO blocks—
-✓ Boston [pt. 6]
-✓ Jessica's experience at MIRI and CfAR [pt. 6]
-✓ pandemic starts [pt. 4]
-✓ autogenderphilia (in-line section) [pt. 4]
-✓ last email and not bothering him [pt. 6]
-✓ the Death With Dignity era [pt. 6]
-✓ New York [pt. 6]
-✓ scuffle on "Yes Requires the Possibility" [pt. 4]
-✓ "Unnatural Categories Are Optimized for Deception" [pt. 4]
-✓ Eliezerfic fight: will-to-Truth vs. will-to-happiness [pt. 6]
-✓ Eliezerfic fight: Ayn Rand and children's morals [pt. 6]
-✓ AI timelines scam [pt. 4]
-✓ "Helen" crash [pt. 2]
-✓ confronting "Helen" [pt. 2]
-✓ Sophia [pt. 2]
-✓ Sophia correspondence details [pt. 2]
-✓ plans to visit Sophia [pt. 2]
-✓ technical discussion with Sophia
-✓ Rob's thread, first contact with Ben [pt. 2]
-✓ A/a alumna consult details [pt. 2]
-✓ touch up Persongen explanation
-✓ touch up "Helen" key photo explanation
-✓ "Dear Totally Excellent Rationalist Friends"
-✓ explain date with "Noreen"
-✓ Lawrence language-policing
-✓ emails from Michael
-✓ October 11th post
-✓ commments on "Dear Totally Excellent Rationalist Friends"
-✓ Daphne Koller and the Methods post
-✓ comments on nice, mean versions [pt. 2]
-✓ mental state and visiting Divia [pt. 2]
-✓ Sept. 2016 back-and-forth to explain the concept [pt. 2]
-✓ "Lesswrong.com is dead to me" [pt. 4]
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- sleepless Valentine's Day [pt. 2]
_ "arrogance is offputting" (1:51 p.m. 13 Feb, 88 comments)
_ fully off the rails 15–17 February [pt. 2]
_ Eliezerfic fight: derail with lintamande [pt. 6]
_ Eliezerfic fight: knives, and showing myself out [pt. 6]
-- "Casual vs. Social Reality" [pt. 4]
-_ secret thread with Ruby [pt. 4]
-_ progress towards discussing the real thing [pt. 4]
+- progress towards discussing the real thing [pt. 4]
_ epistemic defense meeting [pt. 4]
-- Jan. discussion with "Wilhelm" (should also include Sep. discussion?) [pt. 2]
+- NRx education with "Wilhelm" [pt. 2]
_ "model clicked"/Feb. discussion with "Wilhelm" [pt. 2]
_ psych ward [pt. 2]
- regrets, wasted time, conclusion [pt. 6]
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- December 2019 winter blogging vacation [pt. 4]
_ plan to reach out to Rick [pt. 4]
_ Anna's heel–face turn
_ "counterfactual boyfriend"/It's California in the year 2016
_ not talking about pivotal acts, downstream of not believing in Speech?
+_ Alyssa lying about me [pt. 4]
it was actually "wander onto the AGI mailing list wanting to build a really big semantic net" (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9HGR5qatMGoz4GhKj/above-average-ai-scientists)
With internet available—
+_ IQ 143 cite
+_ double-check "the mood I thought dath ilan was missing" link target
+_ double-check "the power that could not be removed" quote
+_ "give special consent to access "Ill Advised" products"—link to OB banned goods post
+_ click through to the case study in "Self-Consciousness"
_ click-to-reveal spoiler block image
_ more Discord italics-correction
_ "around plot relevant sentences" ... only revealing, which, specifically?
_ Yudkowsky's LW moderation policy
far editing tier—
+_ explain MOPs better
_ also had back-and-forth with "Noreen" on 8 Feb in Rob's thread!!
_ Motta-Mena and Puts probability-of-gynephilia-by-intersex-condition graph, re trans kids on the margin
_ what exactly goes in the December 2019 blogging spree §?
_ Buck? (get the story about Michael being escorted from events)
_ A/a alumna??
_ Sarah (name mention, whether to name conversation)
+_ Ray
+_ Ruby
marketing—
_ Twitter
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> And furthermore - as is so obvious as to hardly need stating after the original proverb - having all the true books be written in a nonfiction voice, while all the untrue books are written in a fiction voice, would be introducing an oversimplified hyperplanar separator that would prevent a simple statistical algorithm from learning subtler features.)
+(I remarked to "Wilhelm": I'd rather not get into fights on _Less Wrong_, but at least I'm 2–0–1.)
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