check in

A clean slate for getting back to memoir editing? (Maybe I should also
clean up the mess of unchecked local notes files that you thankfully
can't see while browsing the repository.)

I had the "Facing Reality" review coda in a not-checked-in file, I
think because I was planning on just pushing out the review without
the coda, but if the whole post is shelved for now, it can sit on the
shelf together.

diff --git a/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md b/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md
index 038cd0e..ced91ff 100644 (file)
--- a/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md
+++ b/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md
@@ -93,3 +93,208 @@ Murray wraps up with a chapter on "If We Don't Face Reality." The facts of IQ an
 As a child of the previous ideological regime, I'm strongly in favor of this! Unfortunately, I am not feeling optimistic about the American creed's prospects. Murray notes that the ideal of individualism is unnatural—we evolved to be loyal to our ingroup and distrust outsiders. A dominant group serving its own interests at the expense of others is the natural form of government; the American experiment—to the extent it was ever real—was the exception that required careful cultivation. But part of what made equality before the law such an effective marketing promise was the unstated premise that it would lead to, you know, _actual_ equality. If that's empirically not true—if people don't _believe_ that it's true—what happens to our Society?
 
 I don't know.
+
+... and that's the book review that I would _prefer_ to write. A social-science review of a social-science book, for social-science nerds, in a world that wasn't _about to end_. Let me explain.
+
+When scholars like Murray write about "intelligence", they're talking about a summary of the differences _between_ humans: we can measure how well different humans perform at various verbal or spatial or mathematical thinking-tasks, and it turns out that, on average, people who are good at one thinking-task also tend to be good at others. Graph all the test scores on an appropriately high-dimensional plot, and [the longest axis of the hyperellipsoid](/2020/Apr/book-review-human-diversity/#the-length-of-a-hyperellipsoid) represents "general intelligence"—the dimension of human variation that we recognize as "smart" _vs._ "dumb."
+
+But this particular dick-measuring contest takes place in the context of a human civilization; it doesn't tell us very much about "intelligence" as a natural phenomenon—the capacity of an agent to achieve goals across a variety of environments. Maybe some humans read better than others, but from the standpoint of eternity, reading itself is a _recent_ cultural practice [(invented only 3500 years ago)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy#Prehistoric_and_ancient_literacy) that piggybacks off of natural language capabilities that _all_ developmentally normal humans share. Cats and crows and octopuses _do_ have "intelligence"—various cognitive abilities that let them integrate sensory information into a model of their environment, allocate attention, execute motor plans to seek prey or avoid predators, _&c._, but you can't give them a [Stanford–Binet IQ test](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford%E2%80%93Binet_Intelligence_Scales), which was designed around the _specific_ set of abilties that humans have in common. But, in principle, humans aren't special.
+
+And yet—it seems like humans _are_ special, in some ways. Of all the creatures on [the tree of life](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_life_(biology)), our lineage "took over the world" in the sense that if humans want a resource that cats or crows or octopuses are using, the nonhuman side of the ensuing conflict is predictably going to lose. (To the extent that we don't usually think of ourselves as engaging in a "conflict". Animals aren't _enemies_; they're just in the way.) This is not because humans are stronger or have sharper teeth than other creatures, but because of something about our "intelligence" in the natural-phenomenon sense, not the IQ test variation sense. It's not even necessarily about _individual_ human intelligence being a particularly formidable force: given no tools and no friends, and confronted by a hungry lion at ten paces, it doesn't seem easy to survive by thinking of some incredibly clever plan. If you had a gun, you could shoot the lion, but [no one individual knows how to make a gun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Pencil) all by themselves, starting from nothing.
+
+Rather, the power of humanity over the rest of the biosphere has to do with our species having evolved a suite of cognitive capabilities adequate to support the accumulation of culture and technology. If you already had a spear, you might be able to think of of some incredibly clever plan to get a slightly sharper spear—which everyone in your tribe could imitate. And so on up the tech tree.
+
+[TODO: ↓ clunky prose probably needs a rewrite after better outlining]
+
+You can think of events on Earth before the rise of human civilization as mostly being shaped by evolution by natural selection: new complex ordered phenomena arose as the product of genetic mutations that allowed their bearers to survive and reproduce, thereby increasing the frequency of the mutation. Natural selection is a form of _optimization_: the accumulation of beneficial mutations creates functionality that looks "designed" for the purposes of reproduction, because they were selected for existence on that basis.
+
+But _after_ the rise of civilization, biological evolution stopped being the dominant force shaping planetary events, just because cultural evolution runs on a faster timescale. If some other species were on the evolutionary path towards developing the capabilities that would eventually result in them developing their own civilization, it basically "wouldn't matter".
+
+To the extent that our civilization is better for us to live in than the state of nature, it's because civilization is the product of the cumulative optimization of humans trying to acheive their goals: vast, complex infrastructure and economies look "designed" to cater to human needs—supermarkets to feed us, hospitals to heal us, cars and airplanes to take us where we want to go—because we selected them for existence on that basis.
+
+
+[What I actually care about: the intelligence explosion; the alignment problem might be solvable by von Neumann clones; a civilization at our tech level with a more functional state religion that wasn't afraid of genetics would be able to produce them faster than we will; this is really bad guys]
+
+[shut down tribalist thinking: it's not like white people (or even Jews) are the pinnicle of creation; imagine the space of possible minds and consider psychic unity and know how puny we all are]
+
+[amplifying ancestry differences
+https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2016/09/27/super-gaels/]
+
+
+group diff studies
+https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2019/01/what-you-cant-say-genetic-group-difference-edition/
+
+[the nutritional mismatch hypothesis]
+
+[Cognitive Creationism, Dodging Darwin, &c.]
+
+[the Georgetown law professor thing: "I end up having this angst every semester that a lot of my lower ones are Blacks."—this is actually a very straightforward consequence of affirmative action (even if you don't believe in a genetic gap); it should be possible to reason about
+https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/03/12/georgetown-terminates-law-professor-reprehensible-comments-about-black-students
+
+
+
+"rotation" of the class axis, as people sort by cognitive ability directly rather than race??
+
+Paul Christiano abstract story about what kind of agents steer the future
+https://rationalaltruist.com/2013/02/27/why-will-they-be-happy/
+
+https://www.persuasion.community/p/why-america-is-flunking-math-education
+
+https://www.unz.com/isteve/nature-tackling-systemic-racism-requires-the-system-of-science-to-change/
+
+https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-not-so-great-reset-rolls-on/
+
+I read everything I could about the James Watson affair in 2007
+
+The debate never advances; Arthur Jensen on the Phil Donahue show
+https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtoqK1gsmHI
+
+"Can You Ever Be Too Smart for Your Own Good?" (No!)
+https://www.gwern.net/docs/iq/2021-brown.pdf
+
+https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2017/3/13/21111588/it-s-official-new-york-s-prospective-teachers-will-no-longer-have-to-pass-controversial-literacy-exa
+
+For the Singularity https://www.overcomingbias.com/2021/05/the-artificial-life-taboo-in-biology.html
+
+eugenicists treated blindness as hereditary!!!!
+https://www.datasecretslox.com/index.php/topic,4082.0.html
+
+From my notebook circa November 2007—
+I think I'm coming to terms with the fact that I'm male all the way down, no matter what I say or do or even feel. This is hard to deal with because my <<policies are based on the fact that>> I'm special or the Difference is trivial. <<Whereas all the testing says not really.>> (But I've _always_ been <<inherently gloomy>>)
+
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalief_Browder
+
+https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/woke-institutions-is-just-civil-rights
+
+"No causal associations between childhood family income and subsequent psychiatric disorders, substance misuse and violent crime arrests"
+https://academic.oup.com/ije/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ije/dyab099/6288123
+
+https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/what-happens-when-doctors-cant-speak
+
+https://slate.com/technology/2021/05/sperm-counts-decline-fertility-science-white-nationalism.html
+
+https://dynomight.net/are-tests-irrelevant/
+
+https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/the-psychopathic-problem-of-the-white
+
+It's going to be the future soon; things aren't always going to be like this
+
+https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1229060502984306689
+> For those determined to miss the point, I deplore the idea of a eugenic policy. I simply said deploring it doesn’t mean it wouldn’t work. Just as we breed cows to yield more milk, we could breed humans to run faster or jump higher. But heaven forbid that we should do it.
+
+> While a limited form of selection in humans is acceptable—for example, preventing a couple who are carriers of a recessive genetic defect or disease from producing an offspring with that condition—the kind of wholesale and directed selective breeding of humans suggested by the word "eugenics" is immoral, and I don't favor it at all.
+https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2020/02/20/discovery-institute-makes-hay-of-dawkins-tweet-and-a-geneticist-mistakenly-says-that-artificial-selection-wont-work-in-humans/
+
+> I hold eugenics to be completely immoral and we should not attempt to implement it.
+https://twitter.com/SwipeWright/status/1229890352275955713
+
+https://www.edge.org/response-detail/23838/
+https://biohackinfo.com/news-china-gene-editing-criminal-law-article-336-march-2021/
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Jiankui_affair
+
+https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/even-during-a-reckoning-mind-reading
+
+https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/06/left-targets-testing-gifted-programs/619315/
+
+> I don't want to hear about black thugs raping white women, but I'm going to hear it soon if you don't stop talking about white cops killing black kids
+Glenn Loury on Tucker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuPdPKHG18k
+
+https://www.cold-takes.com/why-ai-alignment-could-be-hard-with-modern-deep-learning/
+
+https://johnmcwhorter.substack.com/p/why-charles-murrays-new-book-is-his
+
+Coleman Hughes: it's possible to push back against Kendism without
+https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE5QcD_12fQ
+
+printing IQ in the NYT in 1969!!!
+https://www.unz.com/isteve/news-that-used-to-be-fit-to-print/
+
+https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/X9Rk4rXSMnKfYLq5r/a-brief-review-of-current-and-near-future-methods-of-genetic
+
+http://web.archive.org/web/20201101001637/https://www.unz.com/isteve/fbi-murder-offender-ratio-for-blacks-nonblacks-ratio-for-males-females/
+
+https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-statistics-dont-capture-the-full-extent-of-the-systemic-bias-in-policing/
+
+https://quillette.com/2021/07/29/charles-murrays-facing-reality-a-review/
+
+"Reading Race: AI Recognises Patient's Racial Identity In Medical Images"
+https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.10356
+https://lukeoakdenrayner.wordpress.com/2021/08/02/ai-has-the-worst-superpower-medical-racism/
+https://www.wired.com/story/these-algorithms-look-x-rays-detect-your-race/
+
+https://www.unz.com/isteve/military-discovers-that-stripping-photos-from-promotion-evaluations-hurts-blacks/
+
+"Western Europe, State Formation, and Genetic Pacification"
+> mean heritable propensity for violence thus shifted 0.08 SD leftward with each passing generation
+> the most violent 1 to 2% should form a right-hand “tail” that begins 2.33–2.05
+SD to the right of the mean propensity for homicide. If we eliminate this right-hand tail and leave only the other 98-99% to survive and reproduce, we have a selection differential of 0.027 to 0.049 SD per generation.
+
+https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Rhg27MqkxJsnZwoYg/the-codex-skeptic-faq
+
+https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/is-the-conventional-wisdom-on-educational
+
+https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/tetlock-and-the-taliban
+
+Mob Justice Is Trampling Democratic Discourse
+https://archive.is/aVTpr
+
+https://aeolipera.wordpress.com/2014/10/15/observations-on-smarter-african-americans/
+
+https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354010004_Genetic_Ancestry_and_General_Cognitive_Ability_in_a_Sample_of_American_Youths
+
+only 14% approval for IQ enhancement https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2020/12/10/biotechnology-research-viewed-with-caution-globally-but-most-support-gene-editing-for-babies-to-treat-disease/
+
+"Human capital mediates natural selection in contemporary humans"
+https://ueaeco.github.io/working-papers/papers/ueaeco/UEA-ECO-21-02_Updated.pdf
+
+[TODO: Scott Alexander on "involuntary": "This sounds super Orwellian, but it really is done with the patient's best interest at heart." https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/03/22/navigating-and-or-avoiding-the-inpatient-mental-health-system/ ]
+
+[TODO: https://archive.is/HUkzY public defender
+
+The racist magazine _American Renaissance_ once published [an article by a public defender](https://archive.is/HUkzY) complaining about the behavior of his black clients.
+
+The lawyer
+
+> If you tell a black man that the evidence is very harmful to his case, he will blame _you_. "You ain't workin' fo' me." "It like you workin' with da State." Every public defender hears this. The more you try to explain the evidence to a black man, the angrier he gets.
+
+I feel a lot of sympathy for the defendant 
+
+]
+
+[TODO: compare Great Oxidization Event and its timescale to the Industrial Revolution??]
+
+"Genetic and environmental contributions to IQ in adoptive and biological families with 30-year-old offspring"
+https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289621000635
+
+Modernity selects against those capable of maintaining it
+https://twitter.com/CovfefeAnon/status/1441997339309314049
+
+https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/08/nyregion/gifted-talented-nyc-schools.html
+
+https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2021/10/09/the-art-institute-of-chicago-fires-all-122-of-its-unpaid-and-volunteer-docents-because-they-arent-sufficiently-diverse/
+
+NCAA Task Force Recommends Students No Longer Submit SAT, ACT Scores To Promote 'Racial Equity'
+https://archive.ph/QerlW
+
+> The American Medical Association has just released "Advancing Health Equity: A Guide to Language, Narrative and Concepts," a strange document that calls for doctors to insert progressive politics into even plain statements of fact.
+https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1454468272011743239
+https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/ama-aamc-equity-guide.pdf
+
+https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-11-18/uc-slams-door-on-sat-and-all-standardized-admissions-tests
+
+https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/11/overstepping-auntie-relationship-parenting-advice.html
+
+> AMY WAX: I'm not sure that Murray and Taylor are that far apart in what they percieve to be the outcomes from the American creed. So why is Murray condemning him?
+https://youtu.be/h1vQFMxPk54?t=4138
+
+small town police department very blatantly makes shit up in order to collect fines; on the one hand, a clue about police stats reliability; on the other hand, imagine how much worse this could get with AI
+https://www.al.com/news/2022/01/police-in-this-tiny-alabama-town-suck-drivers-into-legal-black-hole.html
+
+Prof under investigation after making comments about race and IQ in class
+https://archive.ph/d5Hks
+
+https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/inconvenient-truths/?utm_source=pocket_mylist
+
+https://www.metaculus.com/notebooks/10292/predicting-polygenic-selection-for-iq/
+
+https://www.unz.com/isteve/justice-sotomayor-intelligent-well-informed-reasonable-minded-people-must-be-banned-from-capital-case-juries/

diff --git a/content/drafts/on-the-public-anti-epistemology-of-dath-ilan.md b/content/drafts/on-the-public-anti-epistemology-of-dath-ilan.md
index 52792ca..6e76e2b 100644 (file)
--- a/content/drafts/on-the-public-anti-epistemology-of-dath-ilan.md
+++ b/content/drafts/on-the-public-anti-epistemology-of-dath-ilan.md
@@ -5,6 +5,12 @@ Category: commentary
 Tags: autogynephilia, bullet-biting, cathartic, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Scott Alexander, epistemic horror, my robot cult, personal, sex differences, two-type taxonomy, whale metaphors
 Status: draft
 
+> When all its work is done, the lie shall rot;
+> The truth is great, and shall prevail,
+> When none cares whether it prevail or not.
+>
+> —[Coventry Patmore](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9M3ynNuBsRCDfmEsZ/less-wrong-poetry-corner-coventry-patmore-s-magna-est)
+
 Perhaps for lack of any world-saving research to do, Yudkowsky started writing fiction again, largely in the form of Glowfic (a genre of collaborative storytelling pioneered by Alicorn) featuring the world of dath ilan (capitalization _sic_). Dath ilan had originally been introduced in a [2014 April Fool's Day post](https://yudkowsky.tumblr.com/post/81447230971/my-april-fools-day-confession), in which Yudkowsky "confessed" that the explanation for his seemingly implausible genius is that he's "actually" an ordinary person from a smarter, saner alternate version of Earth where the ideas he presented to this world as his own were common knowledge.
 
 The bulk of the dath ilan Glowfic canon was an epic titled [_Planecrash_](https://www.glowfic.com/boards/215)[^planecrash-title] coauthored with Lintamande, in which Keltham, an unusually selfish teenage boy from dath ilan, apparently dies in a freak aviation accident, and [wakes up in the world of](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isekai) Golarion, setting of the _Dungeons-&-Dragons_–alike _Pathfinder_ role-playing game. A [couple](https://www.glowfic.com/posts/4508) of [other](https://glowfic.com/posts/6263) Glowfic stories with different coauthors further flesh out the setting of dath ilan, which inspired a new worldbuilding trope, the [_medianworld_](https://www.glowfic.com/replies/1619639#reply-1619639), a setting where the average person is like the author along important dimensions.[^medianworlds]

diff --git a/content/drafts/on-the-run.md b/content/drafts/start-over.md
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rename from content/drafts/on-the-run.md
rename to content/drafts/start-over.md
index b07e811..77655d7 100644 (file)
--- a/content/drafts/on-the-run.md
+++ b/content/drafts/start-over.md
@@ -1,17 +1,18 @@
-Title: On the Run (working title)
-Date: 2023-08-21 12:00
+Title: Start Over
+Date: 2023-09-18 12:00
 Category: other
 Tags: anecdotal
 Status: draft
 
-> _I don't care about what all the others say  
-> Well, I guess there are some things that will just never go away, I  
-> Wish that I could say that there's no better place than home  
-> But home's a place that I have never known_
+> _Can we all start over  
+> After the final chapter's end?  
+> When it all starts over  
+> How do these scars begin to mend?_
 >
-> —"On The Run", _Steven Universe_
+> —_Centaurworld_
+
+I moved apartments last week, on some philosopher's birthday or the anniversary of a national tragedy, to a studio back on the correct side of the Caldecott Tunnel ([now that I've learned my lesson about](/2023/Jul/blanchards-dangerous-idea-and-the-plight-of-the-lucid-crossdreamer/#correct-side-of-the-tunnel) which side of the tunnel is correct).
 
-I'll be moving the week after next, on some philosopher's birthday or the anniversary of a national tragedy, to a studio back on the correct side of the Caldecott Tunnel ([now that I've learned my lesson about](/2023/Jul/blanchards-dangerous-idea-and-the-plight-of-the-lucid-crossdreamer/#correct-side-of-the-tunnel) which side of the tunnel is correct).
 
 Here in the part of Berkeley that's secretly Oakland, there used to be a "free store" on the corner—shelves for people to leave unwanted consumer goods and to take them to a good home. It's gone now, due to some combination of adverse attention from city municipal code inspectors and a fire, which means I need to find some other place to dump my spare junk in the next week and a half.
 

diff --git a/notes/epigraph_quotes.md b/notes/epigraph_quotes.md
index b542d58..05b452a 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/epigraph_quotes.md
+++ b/notes/epigraph_quotes.md
@@ -295,12 +295,6 @@ https://xkcd.com/1942/
 
 (post for leaving Berkeley)
 
-> When all its work is done, the lie shall rot;
-> The truth is great, and shall prevail,
-> When none cares whether it prevail or not.
->
-> —Coventry Patmore
-
 > I said: "Sophie, I'm sorry things got heated last night. I understand your point of view. A lot of it used to be mine, too. Like I said, I went to U.C. Santa Cruz and Berkeley back in the 1970s, when everything was about socialism. But 40 years of life and reporting in 60 countries has taught me that life is more nuanced than that. These issues aren't that simple. They're more complicated."
 >
 > She replied, sounding a little distressed and a little bitter, I thought: "When did you begin thinking like that?"
@@ -334,14 +328,6 @@ https://xkcd.com/1942/
 >
 > —"The Husband I Bought" by Ayn Rand
 
-> _Can we all start over  
-> After the final chapter's end?  
-> When it all starts over  
-> How do these scars begin to mend?_
->
-> —_Centaurworld_
-
-
 > Because life is a gradual series of revelations
 > that occur over a period of time
 > It's not some carefully crafted story
@@ -363,3 +349,10 @@ https://xkcd.com/1942/
 > In desperation he quoted André Gide's remark: "It has all been said before, but you must say it again, since nobody listens." Unfortunately, judging by the quotations given here, Gide's remark is still relevant even today.
 >
 > —Neven Sesardic, _Making Sense of Heritability_
+
+> _I don't care about what all the others say  
+> Well, I guess there are some things that will just never go away, I  
+> Wish that I could say that there's no better place than home  
+> But home's a place that I have never known_
+>
+> —"On The Run", _Steven Universe_

diff --git a/notes/memoir-sections.md b/notes/memoir-sections.md
index a980f0d..e84e571 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/memoir-sections.md
+++ b/notes/memoir-sections.md
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ _ recap of crimes, cont'd
 _ lead-in to Sept. 2021 Twitter altercation
 _ Dolphin War finish
 _ "Agreeing With Stalin" intro recap
+_ Tail vs. Bailey / Davis vs. Yudkowsky analogy 
 
 ------
 
@@ -2744,7 +2745,7 @@ I thought I should have avoided the 2022 Valinor party to avoid running into him
 https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1684947017502433281
 > Keir Starmer agrees that a woman is an adult human female. Will Ed Davey also rejoin the real world, science & the English language by reversing his view that a woman can "quite clearly" have a penis? Inability to face reality in small things bodes ill for more serious matters.
 
-Analysis of my writing mistake (show this to Jackie!!)
+Analysis of my writing mistake
 https://twitter.com/shroomwaview/status/1681742799052341249
 
 ------
@@ -2790,3 +2791,22 @@ https://jdpressman.com/2023/08/28/agi-ruin-and-the-road-to-iconoclasm.html
 
 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BahoNzY2pzSeM2Dtk/beware-of-stephen-j-gould
 > there comes a point in self-deception where it becomes morally indistinguishable from lying.  Consistently self-serving scientific "error", in the face of repeated correction and without informing others of the criticism, blends over into scientific fraud.
+
+https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/6309037/eliezer-yudkowsky/
+> "I expected to be a tiny voice shouting into the void, and people listened instead. So I doubled down on that."
+
+-----
+
+resisted from posting in Eliezerfic, left an eyeroll emoji instead—
+
+I mean, it's worth noting that their concept of a "good reason" literally includes "prediction markets think people will be happier this way". This is not a Society that gives a shit (as a terminal value) about non-Keepers having accurate information (or they wouldn't, _e.g._, gaslight Merrin about how famous she is).
+
+_Of course_ a Society that prizes freedom-from-infohazards as a core value is going to have lots of "good reasons" for the systematically-misleading-representations they make, that will seem genuinely compelling to the people of that Society who are in on it!
+
+One might have hoped that dath ilani would be self-aware enough to notice that things that seem like a "good reason" for a conspiracy _to dath ilani_, would not seem like a "good reason" to people from a Society that prizes freedom-of-speech? But if they've screened off their history (for the greater good, of course), they might not have a concept of what other Societies are like ...
+
+(Yes, I know we've been informed by authorial fiat that dath ilan has a lot of internal diversity, but there are necessarily limits to that if you're going to be a human Society specifically rather than a Solomonff inductor, and it seems clear that any faction that thinks gaslighting Merrin is morally wrong is on the losing end of the counterfactual warfare of democracy.)
+
+-------
+
+

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diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt
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@@ -3335,3 +3335,13 @@ https://woodfromeden.substack.com/p/men-consume-relationships-women-produce
 
 https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/escalating-signals-cut-fertility
 > and more respect young adults who shape themselves alone, and then once they’ve achieved more distinctive personal styles and interests, search among vast numbers of potential partners for the few who most closely match what they have become
+
+https://www.reddit.com/r/askAGP/comments/16g0s67/textbook_agp_as_an_afab/
+
+https://www.reddit.com/r/asktransgender/comments/16i82vh/is_it_ever_just_a_fetish/
+
+A Discord anecdote (https://discord.com/channels/401181628015050773/458329253595840522/1151404259460517918); I wasn't going to point out that this was gaslighting—
+> one of my parents' friends when I was a kid was a trans woman, though I didn't know that at the time (I knew she was a woman I just didn't know she was trans)
+> I remember being like nine years old and thinking something along the lines of 'hmm, [name] looks like a woman, and has a girl name, but she sounds like a guy?? what's up with that??' before ultimately concluding that Presumably my parents knew what gender she was and they were using a girl name and female pronouns for her, so therefore she was a girl
+
+https://www.reddit.com/r/ftm/comments/16ko1jj/i_dont_get_along_with_guys/

diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt
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-_ Fake Deeply
+_ Start Over
+
+- Fake Deeply
 
 _ Reply to Scott Alexander on Autogenderphilia
 _ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
 
-
-
 _ If Clarity Seems Like Death to Them (April 2019–January 2021)
+_ On the Public Anti-Epistemology of dath ilan
 _ Agreeing With Stalin in Ways that Exhibit Generally Rationalist Principles (February 2021)
 _ Standing Under the Same Sky  (April 2021–December 2022)