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diff --git a/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md b/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md
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@@ -28,9 +28,11 @@ At this point, I was _disappointed_ with the impact of my work, but not to the p
 
 ... and, really, that _should_ have been the end of the story. Not much of a story at all. If I hadn't been further provoked, I would have still kept up this blog, and I still would have ended up arguing about gender with people occasionally, but this personal obsession of mine wouldn't have been the occasion of a full-on robot-cult religious civil war.
 
-The _causis belli_ for the religious civil war happened on 28 November 2018.
+The _causis belli_ for the religious civil war happened on 28 November 2018. I was at my new dayjob's company offsite event in Austin.
+
+I had already spent much of the afternoon 
+
 
-I was at my new dayjob's company offsite event in Austin.
 
 
 

diff --git a/content/drafts/friendship-practices-of-the-secret-sharing-plain-speech-valley-squirrels.md b/content/drafts/friendship-practices-of-the-secret-sharing-plain-speech-valley-squirrels.md
index f18066a..d6de69f 100644 (file)
--- a/content/drafts/friendship-practices-of-the-secret-sharing-plain-speech-valley-squirrels.md
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@@ -10,11 +10,13 @@ Like many pre-intelligent creatures, both subspecies of Plain Speech Valley squi
 
 At this, some novice students of historical mammology inquire: why be secretive? Surely if the squirrels were to pool their knowledge together, and build on each other's successes, they could accumulate ever-greater mastery over their environment, and possibly even spark their world's ascension?!
 
-To which it is replied: evolution wouldn't necessarily select for that for that. Survival opportunities tend to be rivalrous: two squirrels can't both eat the same nut, or hide in the same one-squirrel-width hole. Or as it was put in a joke popular amongst the west-valley ground squirrels (according to Harrod's habilitation thesis on pre-intelligence in the days of auld lang syne): I don't need to outrun the _predator_, I just need to outrun my _conspecifics_.
+To which it is replied: evolution wouldn't necessarily select for that. Survival-relevant opportunities are often rivalrous: two squirrels can't both eat the same nut, or hide in the same one-squirrel-width hole. Or as it was put in a joke popular amongst the west-valley ground squirrels (according to Harrod's post-habilitation thesis on pre-intelligence in the days of auld lang syne): I don't need to outrun the _predator_, I just need to outrun my _conspecifics_. Thus, secrecy instincts turned out to be adaptive: a squirrel keeping a valuable secret to itself and its friends would gain more inclusive fitness than a squirrel who shared its knowledge freely with anysquirrel who could listen.
+
+A few students inquire further: but that's a _contingent_ fact about the distribution of squirrel-survival-relevant opportunities in the Valley of of Plain Speech in days of auld lang syne, right? A different distribution of adaptive problems might induce a less secretive psychology?
+
+To which it is replied: yes, well, there's a reason the ascension of Earth-that-was would be sparked by the _H. sapiens_ line of hominids some millions of years later, rather than by the Plain Speech species 9792 and 9794.
 
-[...]
 
-(well, there's a reason the ascension of Earth-that-was would be sparked by the _H. sapiens_ line of hominids some millions of years later, rather than by the Plain Speech species 9792 and 9794.)
 
 [TODO: novelty instincts about secrets make cross-species friends more desirable, but species differences also make them frustrating]
 

diff --git a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md
index 9aeb30a..d947fe7 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md
+++ b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md
@@ -1040,3 +1040,14 @@ You _can't_ optimize your group's culture for not-talking-about-atheism without
 "yeah in public we say 'cis women' but tran to tran we just say 'women,' we‘re not insane lol"
 no transsexual is like 'from a young age all i ever wanted was to be.. cis'
 https://twitter.com/theorygurl/status/1062451652836446208
+
+Keltham and Carissa's attitude towards Pharima mirrors my attitude towards Yudkowsky (I'm grateful for him having created me, but he can't be allowed to get away with this shit)
+https://www.glowfic.com/replies/1834769#reply-1834769
+
+sometimes I get a cite, too—
+https://putanumonit.com/2022/05/02/genders-discrimination/
+https://axrp.net/episode/2022/05/23/episode-15-natural-abstractions-john-wentworth.html
+
+People learn a lot from Godel Escher Bach, too, but they don't form an identity around Douglas Hofstadter being the most important person in the world
+
+and Keltham tells Carissa (null action pg 39) to keep the Light alive as long as possible, not do throw away your deontology too quickly.

diff --git a/notes/critical_acclaim.md b/notes/critical_acclaim.md
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--- a/notes/critical_acclaim.md
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@@ -136,4 +136,6 @@ Haskell survey repoting got picked up
 https://twitter.com/BarneyFlames/status/1516637367821639680
 
 > wow, this site is extremely sch1z0
-https://twitter.com/typedfemale/status/1516642775764115458
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+https://twitter.com/typedfemale/status/1516642775764115458
+
+https://axrp.net/episode/2022/05/23/episode-15-natural-abstractions-john-wentworth.html

diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt
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@@ -3175,3 +3175,10 @@ whereas a straight man needs to be (.68-.36 = 0.32) 0.32/0.12=2.67 more feminine
 In percentile terms, 1-norm.cdf(1) = 0.15 of gay men are as feminine as a woman
 whereas 1-norm.cdf(2.67) = 0.003 of straight men are
 that's a likelihood ratio of 50 ... but the prior is not that far from 50:1 in the other direction! They cancel out!!]
+
+https://ovarit.com/o/GenderCritical/115874/shirley-conran-s-lace-body-slammed-agp-back-in-1982
+
+https://pitt.substack.com/p/headline-when-a-quarter-of-the-class
+
+https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/vlopk0/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_june_27_2022/ieo2jzm/
+> Obsessive, pedantic, Talmudic talk of edge cases, cluster definitions, Bayesian filters or whatever else grey tribe weirdos might get fascinated with only gets in the way of an honest negotiation of a value handshake between majority groups. Not that I believe it would've taken place in a world with zero rationalists, but it's still annoying.