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 > —_Steven Universe_, "Lion 3: Straight to Video"
 
-I cosplayed [Rose Quartz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Steven_Universe_characters#Rose_Quartz) at FanimeCon this year! It was fun, I think! I guess?
+I cosplayed [Rose Quartz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Steven_Universe_characters#Rose_Quartz) at [FanimeCon](https://www.fanime.com/) the other month! It was fun, I think! I guess?
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+I'm not really sure what other people get out of fandom conventions. 
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+For me, it's my one socially-acceptable excuse for crossdressing in public.
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+[thousand-dollar ultra-realistic mask](https://www.creafx.com/en/special-make-up-effects/taylor-silicone-mask/)
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+That I don't feel comfortable cross-dressing is important to notice
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+https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGTKL9LokHg (wait for the reveal at 0:44!)
+
 
-I'm not really sure what other people get out of conventions. For me, it's my one
 
 
 (_I will fight for the place where I'm free!_)
@@ -19,4 +29,4 @@ I'm not really sure what other people get out of conventions. For me, it's my on
 
 (previously: as Ens. Silvia Tilly at San Francisco Comic-Con 2018, as _Equestria Girls_ Twilight Sparkle at BABSCon 2018, [as Korra at San Francisco Comic-Con 2017](/2017/Oct/a-leaf-in-the-crosswind/), [as Pearl at FanimeCon 2017](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2017/05/gems-will-be-gems/), as [Lt. Jadzia Dax (circa 2369) at the _Star Trek_ 50 Year Mission Tour San Francisco 2016](/2016/Dec/joined/), [as Pearl as San Francsico Comic-Con 2016](/2016/Sep/is-there-affirmative-action-for-incompetent-crossplay/))
 
-Raven is cosplayed more than any other Teen Titan
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+Raven is cosplayed more than any other Teen Titan

diff --git a/content/drafts/the-social-construction-of-reality-and-the-sheer-goddamned-pointlessness-of-reason.md b/content/drafts/the-social-construction-of-reality-and-the-sheer-goddamned-pointlessness-of-reason.md
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@@ -22,11 +22,15 @@ Thus, trans women are women, where by 'women' I mean people who identify as wome
 
 If you can't win the argument (because the motte is genuinely a great motte) and therefore gain status by appealing to reality, and our minds are better at [tracking](https://www.overcomingbias.com/2014/01/advice-isnt-about-info.html) [status](https://www.overcomingbias.com/2014/12/forged-by-status.html) than [reality](https://www.overcomingbias.com/2015/06/doing-good-being-good.html), then eventually dissidents either accept [the narrative](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/12/resisting-the-narrative/) or destroy themselves.
 
-[Autogynephilic males](http://www.annelawrence.com/autogynephilia_&_MtF_typology.html) are better at large-scale coalitional politics than actual lesbians for basically the same reasons that men-in-general are better at coalitional politics than women-in-general (as evidenced by [the patriarchy](https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2017/09/12/patriarchy-is-the-problem/)), so once a political conflict arose between AGPs' right to choose their "gender", and women's/lesbians' right to [have a goddamned _word_](/2018/Apr/reply-to-the-unit-of-caring-on-adult-human-females/) to describe themselves, it was a _fait accompli_ that the group sampled from the male region in psychological configuration space would win: male psychology is [_designed_ to win costly intergroup conflicts](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3260849/). And in winning, they _create their own reality_.
+[Autogynephilic males](http://www.annelawrence.com/autogynephilia_&_MtF_typology.html) are better at large-scale coalitional politics than actual lesbians for basically the same reasons that men-in-general are better at coalitional politics than women-in-general (as evidenced by [the patriarchy](https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2017/09/12/patriarchy-is-the-problem/)), so once a political conflict arose between AGPs' right to choose their "gender", and women's/lesbians' right to [have a goddamned _word_](/2018/Apr/reply-to-the-unit-of-caring-on-adult-human-females/) to describe themselves, it was a _fait accompli_ that the group sampled from the male region in psychological [configuration space](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WBw8dDkAWohFjWQSk/the-cluster-structure-of-thingspace) would win: male psychology is [_designed_ to win costly intergroup conflicts](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3260849/). And in winning, they _create their own reality_.
 
 Again, probably not literally: there probably really are biochemical facts of the matter as to what traits hormone replacement therapy does and does not change, and the biochemical facts aren't going to vary depending on the outcome of a political conflict—as far as I know. (I've never _seen_ an estrogen molecule, have you?)
 
-What _does_ vary depending on the outcome of a political conflict are which facts you can _talk_ about—and thus, [in the long run](https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2013/08/31/it-must-be-said/), which facts you can even _notice_. If you successfully mindfuck everyone into believing that AGPs are really women, that actually _does_ make it easier to transition.
+What _does_ vary depending on the outcome of a political conflict are which facts you can _talk_ about—and thus, [in the long run](https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2013/08/31/it-must-be-said/), which facts you can even _notice_. If you successfully mindfuck everyone into believing that AGPs are really women, then they _really are_. I mean, you can't say they're not.
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+Once, perhaps, in the hateful and bigoted days of our ancestors, 
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+
 
 I have a recurring dream
 

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  thanks for the marketing advice! I should _definitely_ take that into account if I ever decide to put more effort into \"persuading people\", which sounds like something that an aspiring instrumental rationalist would care about. Perhaps unfortunately, however, I'm an aspiring epistemic rationalist: all I can do is try to communicate what I actually think and feel using clear language (and standard rhetorical techniques like sarcasm, satire, &c. that people know how to interpret even if they wouldn't be clear if someone na\u00c3\u00afvely took the words literally). If other people aren't persuaded by this ... maybe they _shouldn't_ be! Maybe I can live with that!"
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+I _really, really_ don't want to participate in an oppression Olympics; I think it would be _really really bad_ to try to settle social-norms disputes with a competition to see which coalition can rack up more probabilistic suicides. (Just think about what incentives that creates!) But for the people who _are_ going to make decisions on the basis of probabilistic suicides _anyway_, surely my suffering deserves to be counted, too?
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+True male side/true female side: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FBgozHEv7J72NCEPB/my-way#AEZaakdcqySmKMJYj
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-(Attention conservation notice: Diary-like rambling. More Diary-like rambling tomorrow. If you're here for the insight porn, come back Wednesday. If you're here for the Actual Philosophy, come back Thursday and Friday.)
+(Attention conservation notice: Diary-like navel-gazing. If you're here for the insight porn, come back tomorrow. If you're here for Actual Philosophy, come back next week.)
 
 _ Mon: "A Love That Is Out of Anyone's Control"
-_ Tue: Social Strategy Notes
-_ Wed: The Social Construction of Reality and the Sheer Goddamned
-_ Thu: Commentary on "Blegg Mode" (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode)
-_ Fri: On the Argumentative Form "Super-proton Things Tend to Come in Varieties"
+_ Tue: The Social Construction of Reality and the Sheer Goddamned
+
+
+_ Commentary on "Blegg Mode" (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode)
+_ On the Argumentative Form "Super-proton Things Tend to Come in Varieties"
 
 _ Terminology Gap: "Biological vs. Natal" (solution: "Developmental")
 
@@ -22,6 +23,7 @@ https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words : we
 Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
  (in response to Kosoy's objection)
 
+_ Tue: Social Strategy Notes, July 2019
 
 Servants of the Egregore (write-up of egregore theory as told by "Wilhelm")
 Kolmogorov's Iron Triangle; Or, the Not-Being-a-Worthless-Coward Option (epigraph quote: Raleigh's "The Lie")—(include analogy: the fear that atheism would lead to immortality given that ppl don't have to fear Hell, wouldn't have seemed obviously absurd at the time)

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+Then offer her a job at the salary of an 8x engineer. (Get it? It's an efficient markets joke: if companies really behaved like this, they would compete to equilibrium & there would be no pay gap in the 1st place. But real-world markets aren't efficient for many reasons 😰)
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 You know who else believed that "biological sex" was a useful concept? Hitler!
 
 Only losing coalitions have an incentive to support free-speech norms. You don't want to be a LOSER, do you??