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+Title: Oceans Rise, Empires Fall
+Date: 2021-01-01 
+Category: commentary
+Tags: news, COVID-19
+Status: draft
+
+https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/nooses-oakland-park-exercise-aids-man-71314468
+https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/hbk52q/psa_apparently_a_nyt_reporter_is_writing_a_piece/
+Tucker
+https://www.vulture.com/2020/06/national-book-critics-circle-resignations.html
+http://archive.is/ffcPm
+"You ain't black"
+Golang
+Amazon picks
+Robin Hanson
+Yale ideological coordination at Yale
+I feel less safe with cops around
+Hsu
+R. A. Fisher lecture
+Cade Metz
+Fond of Beetles quoting Vox Day: http://web.archive.org/web/20200515120901/https:/twitter.com/FondOfBeetles/status/1260999211404886017
+blacklist/blocklist whitelist/allowlist  master
+https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/jun/19/ucl-renames-three-facilities-that-honoured-prominent-eugenicists
+talking about variance at a Christmas party

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 In all philosophical strictness, a [physicalist](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/physicalism/) universe such as our own isn't going to have some objective morality that all agents are compelled to obey, but even if there is necessarily _some_ element of subjectivity in that we value (say) sentient life rather than (say) [tiling the universe with diamonds](https://arbital.greaterwrong.com/p/diamond_maximizer/), we usually expect morality to at least not be completely arbitrary: we want to _argue_ that a villain is in the _wrong_ because of _reasons_, rather than simply observing that she has her values, and we have ours, and we label ours "good" and hers "evil" because we're us, even though she places those labels the other way around because she's her.
 
 If good and evil aren't arbitrary, but our _understanding_ of good and evil depends on which books we read in what order, and which books we read in what order _does_ seem like an arbitrary historical contingency, then how do we _know_ our sequence of books led us to actually being in the right, when we would have predictably thought otherwise had we encountered the villain's books instead?—how do we break the symmetry? If the villain is at all smart, she should be asking herself the same question.
+
+[We each see the other as bulldozing the territory to fit a preconcieved map]
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 https://medium.com/@dave_45588/response-to-andrew-carter-re-j-k-rowling-pt-2-556d9b9113b1
 
-https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/nooses-oakland-park-exercise-aids-man-71314468
 
-https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/hbk52q/psa_apparently_a_nyt_reporter_is_writing_a_piece/
-Tucker
+
 

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 _ "More Than We Can Say": High-Dimensional Social Science and ...
 _ glomerular filtration rate https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/gq50mo/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_may_25_2020/frvrhwg/
 
+"You're conflating sex and gender"—the problem is, Does anyone actually want to change "gender"?—they're bundled for a reason
+
 LW/aAL—
 
 _ COVID life-years (rather than deaths)