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 As an atheist, I'm not really a fan of religions, but I'll give them one thing: at least their packages of delusions are _stable_. The experience of losing your religion is a painful one, but once you've overcome the trauma of finding out that everything you believed was a lie, the process of figuring out how to live among the still-faithful now that you are no longer one of them, is something you only have to do _once_; it's not like everyone will have adopted a new Jesus Two while you were off having your crisis of faith. And the first Jesus was invisible anyway; you won't be able to pray sincerely, and that does set you apart from your—the—community, but your day-to-day life will be mostly unaffected.
 
-The progressive _Zeitgeist_ does not even offer this respite. Getting over psychological-sex-differences denialism was painful, but after many years of study and meditation, I think I've finally come to accept the horrible truth: women and men really are psychologically different. This sets me apart from the community, but not very much. The original lie wasn't _invisible_ exactly, but it never caused too many problems, because it's easy to doublethink around. Most of the functional use of sex categories in Society is handled by seamless subconscious reference-classing, without anyone needing to consciously, verbally reason about sex differences: no one _actually_ makes the same predictions or decisions about women and men, but since you don't have direct introspective access to what computations your brain used to cough up a prediction or decision, you can just _assume_ that you're treating everyone equally, and only rarely does the course of ordinary events force you to acknowledge or even notice the lie.
+The progressive _Zeitgeist_ does not even offer this respite. Getting over psychological-sex-differences denialism was painful, but after many years of study and meditation, I think I've finally come to accept the horrible truth: women and men really are psychologically different. This sets me apart from the community, but not very much. The original lie wasn't _invisible_ exactly, but it never caused too many problems, because it's easy to doublethink around. Most of the functional use of sex categories in Society is handled by seamless subconscious reference-classing, without anyone needing to consciously, verbally reason about sex differences: no one _actually_ makes the same predictions or decisions about women and men—that would be crazy—but since you don't have direct introspective access to what computations your brain used to cough up a prediction or decision, you can just _assume_ that you're treating everyone equally, and only rarely does the course of ordinary events force you to acknowledge or even notice the lie.
 
 But in the decade I had my back turned reading science books, my former quasi-religion somehow came up with _new_ lies: now, it's not enough to believe that women and men are mentally the same, you're _also_ supposed to accept that those categories refer to some atomic mental property that can only be known by verbal self-report. But this actually breaks the mechanism that made the first lie so harmless: the shear stress of your prediction-and-decision classifier _disagreeing_ with the punishment signals that [the intelligent social web](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/AqbWna2S85pFTsHH4/the-intelligent-social-web) is using to train your pronoun-selection classifier throws the previously-backgrounded existence of the former into sharp relief. You really are expected to believe in Jesus Two! And it's _far_ more ridiculous than the first one! I'm never going to get over this!

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 20 Apr: "Honestly this is super unsurprising in hindsight / She likes trucks and power tools and children's TV"
 
+22 Apr: and she buried her face in her arms and was like "but I'm your son" in this pathetically squeaky voice.  (I don't think she's updated to "daughter"?)
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 smart fascism—

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 _ Beyond the Binary
 _ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
 _ The Feeling Is Mutual
-_ Captions
+_ I, Too, Dislike It (Captions)
 _ Travis's Trilemma: Creepy, Crazy, or Protected-Class (working title)
 _ Reply to Ozymandias on Lesbians and on Single-Sex Spaces
 _ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
 _ Answers on Great Divides: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/08/questions-for-great-divides.html
+_ Challenges of Mounting an Ideological Crusade
 
 LW/aAL—
 _ Algorithmic Intent: A Hansonian Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle (LW)
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 Training Data—"get used" to the new definitions, in time
 
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+if pro-reality trans people are allied with more numerous anti-reality trans people, that incentivizes me to join an anti-trans coalition, when what I actually (should) want is to cherry-pick the pro-reality people
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+
 Vocabulary as Capital Investment
 
 B.F. being smart-but-dense