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diff --git a/notes/memoir-sections.md b/notes/memoir-sections.md
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--- a/notes/memoir-sections.md
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@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ _ the hill he wants to die on
 _ recap of crimes, cont'd
 _ lead-in to Sept. 2021 Twitter altercation
 _ Dolphin War finish
+_ Michael on creepy men/crazy men
 
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@@ -76,6 +77,7 @@ _ Caliphate / craft and the community
 _ colony ship happiness lie in https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/AWaJvBMb9HGBwtNqd/qualitative-strategies-of-friendliness
 _ re being fair to abusers: thinking about what behavior pattern you would like to see, generally, by people in your situation, instead of privileging the perspective and feelings of people who've made themselves vulnerable to you by transgressing against you
 _ body odors comment
+_ worry about hyperbole/jumps-to-evaluation; it destroys credibility
 _ "Density in Thingspace" comment
 _ Christmas with Scott: mention the destruction of "voluntary"?
 _ Christmas with Scott: mention the grid of points?
@@ -2722,3 +2724,15 @@ At dinner, there was a moment when Koios bit into a lemon and made a funny face,
 It was very striking to me how, in the case of the baby biting a lemon, Alicorn _immediately_ formulated the hypothesis that what-the-grownups-thought-was-cute was affecting the baby's behavior, and everyone _immediately just got it_. I was tempted to say something caustic about how no one seemed to think a similar mechanism could have accounted for some of the older child's verbal behavior the previous year, but I kept silent; that was clearly outside the purview of my double-dog promise.
 
 There was another moment when Mike made a remark about how weekends are socially constructed. I had a lot of genuinely on-topic cached witty philosophy banter about [how the social construction of concepts works](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/edEXi4SpkXfvaX42j/schelling-categories-and-simple-membership-tests), that would have been completely innocuous if anyone _else_ had said it, but I kept silent because I wasn't sure if it was within my double-dog margin of error if _I_ said it. 
+
+> even making a baby ML dude who's about to write a terrible paper hesitate for 10 seconds and _think of the reader's reaction_ seems like a disimprovement over status quo ante.
+https://discord.com/channels/401181628015050773/458329253595840522/1006685798227267736
+
+Also, the part where I said it amounted to giving up on intellectual honesty, and he put a check mark on it
+
+The third LW bookset is called "The Carving of Reality"? Did I have counterfactual influence on that (by making that part of the sequences more memetically salient, as opposed to the "categories are made for man" strain)?
+
+Yudkowsky on EA criticism contest
+https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/HyHCkK3aDsfY95MoD/cea-ev-op-rp-should-engage-an-independent-investigator-to?commentId=kgHyydoX5jT5zKqqa
+
+Yudkowsky says "we" are not to blame for FTX, but wasn't early Alameda (the Japan bitcoint arbitrage) founded as an earn-to-give scheme, and recrutied from EA?

diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt
index 71d665a..71e67e6 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/notes.txt
+++ b/notes/notes.txt
@@ -3313,3 +3313,19 @@ Everybody knows! https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/06/third-of-britons-do
 
 Alex Byrne podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/956725/13282940-gender-pronouns-and-linguistic-negotiation
 
+"Intersexual and Intrasexual Differences in Mate Selection Preferences Among Lesbian Women, Gay Men, and Bisexual Women and Men"
+https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-023-02665-9
+
+https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/13/queer-couple-co-parents-raise-child
+> In our experience, co-parenting seems to overwhelmingly appeal to cis women, trans men and non-binary people assigned female at birth. Without any exhaustive studies on this, I can only guess why.
+
+The Problem With Centering Blackness in Everyday Conversations
+https://archive.is/FzxYB
+
+https://www.reddit.com/r/askAGP/comments/15wcdlg/am_i_the_only_woman_with_puretrue_autoandrophilia/?share_id=yOEg_HYP-oUW0MUhVGa5M
+
+Amazing comment—
+https://www.themotte.org/post/640/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/132334?context=8#context
+> The fascinating thing to me, is that despite being a quite gender conforming (and non-AGP) straight guy, when I read his description of his underlying desires it resonated. I could have written the exact same thing with one minor and meaning preserving word swap.
+(swapping "mine" for "me" in "wanting the soul behind those eyes to be me)
+> The most obvious way to fulfil this desire isn't "become a woman", but to own a woman [...] And if "owning" a woman is too unthinkable, you might come up with creative solutions.

diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt
index 6511235..aca1463 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/post_ideas.txt
+++ b/notes/post_ideas.txt
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ _ The Last Indictment (January 2023–July 2023)
 
 
 Minor—
+_ horror of gender
 _ subspace
 _ newer Haskell surveys?
 _ Book Review: Imogen Binnie's Nevada

diff --git a/notes/wordcounts.txt b/notes/wordcounts.txt
index b69fa45..358744c 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/wordcounts.txt
+++ b/notes/wordcounts.txt
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ $ wc content/drafts/blanchards-dangerous-idea-and-the-plight-of-the-lucid-crossd
   2447  73940 501961 total
 
 words per year—
+2023 (through 1 Aug): 61800 (total); 45719 (UUT), 16132 (LW)
 2022: 31900 (total); 29600 (UUT),  2300 (LW),   100 (aAL)
 2021: 43300 (total); 21600 (UUT), 21700 (LW),   400 (aAL)
 2020: 42400 (total); 23900 (UUT), 18500 (LW),  1800 (aAL)