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@@ -1425,3 +1425,17 @@ https://www.reddit.com/r/itsafetish/comments/d54b7x/thank_you_and_goodbye/
 "Genuine question: Are there any straight transitioned women out there? Who weren’t previously gay?" https://twitter.com/IndiaWilloughby/status/1204773053986725889
 
 https://twitter.com/LaraAdamsMille1/status/1199132705478381568
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+If someone wants to rewrite this post because they can do a better job of it (perhaps, as Jim suggests, because the post has objective flaws that are causually related to the author's crimes), that's great.
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+If someone wants to re-write the post because we want to use the idea but it would be embarrassing to give the author credit for it, that's just PR-driven plagiarism. And I don't think it would even work.
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+Suppose we include "Affordance Widths" in the Best-of-2018 collection as-is. If /r/SneerClub gets word of it, they'll point and sneer and say, "Look, the robot cult blog just canonized a post by a rapist! What terrible people they are!"
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+Suppose we get someone to re-write the post because of the reputational risk. If /r/SneerClub gets word of it, they'll point to this discussion and sneer and say, "The robot cult blog rewrote a post because they're worried about reputational risks. But the fact that their rationale was 'reputational risks' suggests that they don't know that rape is wrong. What terrible people they are!"
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+And they would kind of have a point? The function of "bad reputation" is to correspond to things that are actually bad.
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 11 Dec ✓ Political Science Epigrams
 12 Dec ✓ The Strategy of Stigmatization
 13 Dec ✓ On the Argumentative Form "Super-proton Things Tend to Come in Varieties"
-14 Dec ✓ "A Practical Ambition; Or, I Want to Be the One"
+14 Dec ✓ "I Want to Be the One"
 16 Dec ✓ Promises I Can Keep
 18 Dec ✓ Comp
 20 Dec ✓ Reply to Ozymandias on Fully Consensual Gender
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 Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous
 
+PR-driven plagiarism
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 Anne Lawrence on AGP Teen Transition
 Anne Lawrence on Unapologetic Autogynephilic Transsexualism