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diff --git a/content/drafts/dont-negotiate-with-terrorist-memeplexes-or-why-i-dont-care-about-your-feelings.md b/content/drafts/dont-negotiate-with-terrorist-memeplexes-or-why-i-dont-care-about-your-feelings.md
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@@ -68,6 +68,8 @@ Obviously I'm totally in favor of trans _people_ having access to the hormones a
 
 I understand that for people who have _already_ built up a self-image around the idea that they are literally women and always have been, the idea that their female gender identity arose out of a misinterpretation of misdirected male sexuality could be extremely disturbing. 
 
+I'm happy to shut up about, um, enpvny qvssreraprf va VD, but this, _this_ is _personal_
+
 But people dealing with gender dysphoria who haven't already transitioned deserve accurate information! This is _personal_ to me. If being a good person means submitting to social pressure aimed at getting me to _shut up and stop thinking_ about the true nature of the beautiful feeling at the center of my life for _twenty-five fucking years_ (!?), then I have _no interest_ in being a good person.
 
 I'm certainly not _trying_ to say things that will hurt people—_least_ of all people who are mostly just like me but read different books in a different order and are living out a pretty decent approximation of _my wildest fantasy_.

diff --git a/content/drafts/faster-than-science-transgender-edition.md b/content/drafts/faster-than-science-transgender-edition.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+Title: Faster Than Science, Transgender Edition
+Date: 2020-01-01 
+Category: commentary
+Tags: two-type taxonomy
+Status: draft
+
+(An entry in [the Yudkowskian school](http://lesswrong.com/lw/qi/faster_than_science/) of applied epistemology.)
+
+It's important to distinguish between the _social_ process of science and the cognitive process of rationality.
+
+http://lesswrong.com/lw/qi/faster_than_science/

diff --git a/content/drafts/pretending-not-to-notice.md b/content/drafts/pretending-not-to-notice.md
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--- a/content/drafts/pretending-not-to-notice.md
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@@ -2,4 +2,11 @@ Title: Pretending Not to Notice
 Date: 2020-01-01
 Status: draft
 
-The "M." in my byline stands for _Mark_. (Well, actually it's a pseudonym.)
\ No newline at end of file
+> And I look the other way  
+> As they are kissing their hellos  
+> I'm pretending not to see them  
+> And instead I pour the milk  
+>
+> —"Tom's Diner" by Susanne Vega
+
+The "M." in my byline stands for _Mark_. (Well, actually it's a pseudonym.)

diff --git a/post_ideas.txt b/post_ideas.txt
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--- a/post_ideas.txt
+++ b/post_ideas.txt
@@ -2,21 +2,22 @@ fiction—
 Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
 Blame Me for Trying
 
-core commentary—
-Don't Negotiate With Terrorist Memeplexes; Or, Why I Don't Care About Your Feelings
-Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
-High-Dimensional Social Science and the Cluster Concept of Concepts
-Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition
-Mary's Room (we have calibration to know that we're probably mostly seeing the same colors up to colorblindness and tetrachromacy, but ppl probably don't mean the same thing by "gender dysphoria" or "identity", or "sexual orientation" (ref pseudobisexuality))
-The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
-Using Simple But Flawed Models Is Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model
-Survey of a Crossdreamscape and Why This Is Pretty Obviously Not What Cis Women Feel About Themselves
-Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals ("trans" vs. "cis" only makes sense if the gradient between full-transition intervention and no intervention is sufficiently sharp)
-My Story
-Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer
+core sequence—
+* Faster Than Science (if not super-femme, there must be some other reason ...)
+* Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman (critique of https://medium.com/@jencoates/i-am-a-transwoman-i-am-in-the-closet-i-am-not-coming-out-4c2dd1907e42#.5dlc2qog6) 
+* Review of Nevada
+* Don't Negotiate With Terrorist Memeplexes; Or, Why I Don't Care About Your Feelings
+* Survey of a Crossdreamscape and Why This Is Pretty Obviously Not What Cis Women Feel About Themselves
+* "Love Like You"
+* Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
+* High-Dimensional Social Science and the Cluster Concept of Concepts
+* Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition
+* Mary's Room (we have calibration to know that we're probably mostly seeing the same colors up to colorblindness and tetrachromacy, but ppl probably don't mean the same thing by "gender dysphoria" or "identity", or "sexual orientation" (ref pseudobisexuality))
+* The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
+* Using a Simple But Flawed Model Is Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model
+* Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals ("trans" vs. "cis" only makes sense if the gradient between full-transition intervention and no intervention is sufficiently sharp)
 
 other commentary—
-Faster Than Science (if not super-femme, there must be some other reason ...)
 psychological sex differences aren't real, but gender identity is?? always nurture except when politically convenient
 Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See (this is important for the Bayes crowd)
 Bucketing (go through Wikipedia list of trans women, categorize everyone)
@@ -25,11 +26,10 @@ God, I hope it's just a coincidence that Steven Goldberg gets the fact/value thi
 horror story about trans activists being pro-porn, &c. indicating how aliens would analyze them as a subtype of males
 Engineering possibilities (Anne Lawrence identitfy early)
 rachet effect (http://transblog.grieve-smith.com/the-slippery-slope/) (I can't imagine self with short hair)
+My Story
 
 criticism—
-Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman (critique of https://medium.com/@jencoates/i-am-a-transwoman-i-am-in-the-closet-i-am-not-coming-out-4c2dd1907e42#.5dlc2qog6) 
 Gender of the Gaps (you can always propose an essence when people knock down your ludicrous rationalization)
-Review of Nevada
 Time Travel Isn't Real
 Lesser-Known Demand Curves
 
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Lesser-Known Demand Curves
 cathartic—
 Napoleon
 70s denialists had it right
-"Love Like You"
+
 
 pages—
 compile papers
@@ -56,10 +56,12 @@ Getting It Right the First Time
 Psychological Theories Predict Behavior, Not Just Self-Reports
 My Delusional Paraphilia Is the Best Delusional Paraphilia in the World
 Dual-Role Transvestism for the 21st Century
-Passing Is Legitimacy, Legitimacy Is Passing
+Passing Is Legitimacy, Legitimacy Is Passing (I pass as college educated)
 All Men Benefit From Patriarchy
 game-theory; you can't take away transition technology; if you say it can only be used for dysphoria and not fetish, that creates an enormous incentive for self-delusion; maybe _after_ the trans rights movement has won, _then_ suddenly people will feel free to be non-delusional
  
-I'm happy to shut up about, um, enpvny qvssreraprf va VD, but this, _this_ is _personal_
+
+> If you want to make your stupid dream real, you need to have a realistic picture of the world. If you want a society in which men and women have the same brain, or one in which feminism actually works, you would have to make it so, with advanced biological engineering. John Varley writes fiction: so did Joanna Russ. 
+https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2015/12/12/internal-contradictions/
 
 my upsetness at trans activists not respecting _my_ lived experience as AGP is reminicent of narcisstic rage in ppl hwo