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@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Status: draft
  * If you actually read the email, it doesn't look like Brennan made any promises—Scott confessed, and threatened. I don't think Scott did anything wrong—_because_ I don't think belief in hereditarianism is wrong. If you imagine someone confessing to a real crime and then threatening "Don't tell anyone this", we would regard the leaker as a valiant whistleblower, not a privacy breaker
  * Yudkowsky reopens the conversation?! Why?!
 
-https://www.facebook.com/yudkowsky/posts/10159408250519228
+https://www.facebook.com/yudkowsky/posts/10159408250519228 my comment at 10:37 a.m.
 
 https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1362514650089156608
 > Hypothesis:  People to whom self-awareness and introspection come naturally, put way too much moral exculpatory weight on "But what if they don't know they're lying?"  They don't know a lot of their internals!  And don't want to know!  That's just how they roll.

diff --git a/notes/memoir-sections.md b/notes/memoir-sections.md
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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ sections—
 - prelude to pronouns post
 
 dedicated day each?—
-_ the dolphin war (6 November?)
+_ the dolphin war
 _ Michael Vassar and the Theory of Optimal Gossip
 _ Sasha disaster 
 
@@ -40,9 +40,11 @@ _ tussle with Ruby on "Causal vs. Social Reality"
 _ examples of snarky comments about "the rationalists" 
 _ 13th century word meanings
 _ weirdly hostile comments on "... Boundaries?"
+_ Anna's claim that Scott was a target specifically because he was good, my counterclaim that payment can't be impunity
 
 
 far editing tier—
+_ https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yaCwW8nPQeJknbCgf/free-speech-and-triskaidekaphobic-calculators-a-reply-to as part of December 2019 blogging streak
 _ It's not clear anyone he usually respects was making this mistake; it seems likely that the original thread was subtweeting Eric Weinstein, who was not making this mistake
 _ "I Wish You Well" as breakup song
 _ the function of privacy norms is to protect you from people who want to selectively reveal information to hurt you, so it makes sense that I'm particularly careful about Yudkowsky's privacy and not Scott's, because I totally am trying to hurt Yudkowsky (this also protects me from the charge that by granting more privacy to Yudkowsky than Scott, I'm implying that Yudkowsky said something more incriminating; the difference in treatment is about _me_ and my expectations, rather than what they may or may not have said when I tried emailing them); I want it to be clear that I'm attacking him but not betraying him
@@ -1596,4 +1598,25 @@ You don't want to have a reputation that isn't true; I've screwed up confidentia
 
 Extended analogy between "Scott Alexander is always right" and "Trying to trick me into cutting my dick off"—in neither case would any sane person take it literally, but it's pointing at something important (Scott and EY are trusted intellectual authorities, rats are shameless about transition cheerleading)
 
-Scott's other 2014 work doesn't make the same mistake
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+Scott's other 2014 work doesn't make the same mistake
+
+"The Most Important Scarce Resource is Legitimacy"
+https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/03/23/legitimacy.html
+
+"English is fragile"
+
+https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1590460598869168128
+> I now see even foom-y equations as missing the point. 
+(!)
+
+----
+
+dialogue with a pre-reader on "Challenges"—
+
+> More to the point, there's a kind of anthropic futility in these paragraphs, anyone who needs to read them to understand won't read them, so they shouldn't exist.
+
+I think I'm trying to humiliate the people who are pretending not to understand in front of the people who do understand, and I think that humiliation benefits from proof-of-work? Is that ... not true??
+
+> No, because it makes you look clueless rather than them look clueless.
+
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@@ -3205,4 +3205,13 @@ https://discord.com/channels/401181628015050773/538097598008131594/1037807776065
 
 don't like it when science-fictional or fantasy characters are held up as trans icons (like Jadzia Dax, or when Janet in _The Good Place_ says "Not a girl") when the character has an in-universe rationale for holding beyond-the-binary status (if Trill symbionts have sexual dimorphism, it doesn't need to match their host; Janet is a heavenly robot-analogue), and real-life trans people and enbies do not
 
+https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/07/16/racist-robots-ai/
+> The scientists did not have blocks depicting nonbinary people due to the limitations of the facial image data set they used, which they acknowledged was a shortcoming in the study.
 
+http://theautogynephiliac.blogspot.com
+
+https://sugarandslugs.wordpress.com/
+
+https://firsttoilthenthegrave.substack.com/p/medium-sized-breasts-and-gaussian
+
+https://janhove.github.io/design/2015/03/16/standardised-es-revisited