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diff --git a/content/drafts/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems.md b/content/drafts/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems.md
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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Category: commentary
 Tags: autogynephilia, Eliezer Yudkowsky, epistemic horror, my robot cult, personal, sex differences
 Status: draft
 
-So, as I sometimes allude to, I've spent basically my entire adult life in this insular intellectual subculture that was founded in the late 'aughts to promulgate an ideal of _systematically correct reasoning_—general methods of thought that result in true beliefs and successful plans—and, incidentally, to use these methods of systematically correct reasoning to prevent superintelligent machines from [destroying all value in the universe](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GNnHHmm8EzePmKzPk/value-is-fragile). Lately I've been calling it my "robot cult" (a phrase [due to Dale Carrico](https://amormundi.blogspot.com/2011/08/ten-reasons-to-take-seriously.html))—the pejorative is partially ironically affectionate, and partially an expression of bitter contempt and white-hot rage acquired from that time almost everyone I [used to trust](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wustx45CPL5rZenuo/no-safe-defense-not-even-science) insisted on selectively playing dumb about our _own_ philosophy of language in a way that [was optimized for](TODO: linky "Algorithmic Intent") tricking me into cutting my dick off (independently of the empirical facts that [determine whether or not](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9f5EXt8KNNxTAihtZ/a-rational-argument) cutting my dick off is actually a good idea).
+So, as I sometimes allude to, I've spent basically my entire adult life in this insular intellectual subculture that was founded in the late 'aughts to promulgate an ideal of _systematically correct reasoning_—general methods of thought that result in true beliefs and successful plans—and, incidentally, to use these methods of systematically correct reasoning to prevent superintelligent machines from [destroying all value in the universe](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GNnHHmm8EzePmKzPk/value-is-fragile). Lately I've been calling it my "robot cult" (a phrase [due to Dale Carrico](https://amormundi.blogspot.com/2011/08/ten-reasons-to-take-seriously.html))—the pejorative is partially ironically affectionate, and partially an expression of bitter contempt and white-hot rage acquired from that time almost everyone I [used to trust](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wustx45CPL5rZenuo/no-safe-defense-not-even-science) insisted on selectively playing dumb about our _own_ philosophy of language in a way that [was optimized for](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sXHQ9R5tahiaXEZhR/algorithmic-intent-a-hansonian-generalized-anti-zombie) tricking me into cutting my dick off (independently of the empirical facts that [determine whether or not](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9f5EXt8KNNxTAihtZ/a-rational-argument) cutting my dick off is actually a good idea).
 
 But that's a _long story_—for another time, perhaps. (Working title: "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End; Or, [A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning](https://archive.is/3epp2); Or, We Had [an Entire Sequence About This](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FaJaCgqBKphrDzDSj/37-ways-that-words-can-be-wrong), You Lying Motherfuckers.")
 

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@@ -1905,6 +1905,7 @@ Two mentions in https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/hhy2yc/what_wou
 Another "Made for Man" cite: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/hhtwxi/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_june_29_2020/fwwxycr/
 
 More damage control: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/hpohy5/what_are_some_of_scotts_posts_that_challenge_the/fxsu8p0/
+(Comment was deleted. Was I over the line in commenting at all, or just because of the "transparently political reasons" side-swipe? The fact that it got ~18 points suggests the readership was OK with it, even if the moderators weren't)
 
 "Sex Does Not Mean Gender. Equating Them Erases Trans Lives." https://archive.is/Mmlmi
 
@@ -1939,3 +1940,18 @@ https://medium.com/@mary.leng/harry-potter-and-the-reverse-voltaire-4c7f3a07241
 
 https://www.patheos.com/blogs/rolltodisbelieve/2020/07/07/j-k-rowling-and-the-measuring-of-a-woman/
 > I've noticed that authoritarian people love to define manhood and womanhood: to lay down the law about who qualifies for each particular label.
+
+https://www.outfrontmagazine.com/trending/facial-recognition-bias/
+https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/7/21128236/gender-app-giggle-women-ai-screen-trans-social
+> A new, female-only social media platform—Giggle—is being marketed as a safe space for women. The app uses a 3D scan of the users' faces in order to verify them as females. But there’s one problem: it doesn't work if you’re trans.
+> That’s problematic on a number of fronts, not least of which is that bone structure is clearly a poor indicator of gender identity.
+
+"The facts that need to be explained" http://archive.is/rjs7R
+
+https://www.facebook.com/aboyd.boyd/posts/4167291901694
+
+
+https://old.reddit.com/r/CultureWarRoundup/comments/hq9emh/offtopic_and_loweffort_cw_thread_for_the_week_of/fy6ymq1/
+> For many black people in particular, white societies are suffocating with their demands of restraint and industriousness; much like the worst stereotypes of Asian societies are suffocating from White point of view. Remember that article Scott reposted, on a Chinese school where children are forced to follow extremely precise and meaningless instructions for hours on end, suppressing their every impulse? That's how the world looks when you have poor impulse control.
+
+https://saidit.net/s/thisneverhappens/

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@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 Main path (important posts)—
 
-_ Algorithmic Intent: A Hansonian Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle (LW)
 _ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems
 _ Unnatural Categories Are Optimized for Deception (LW)
+_ Motivation and Political Context for My Philosophy of Language Agenda
 
 _ Irreversible Damage review
 _ Jessica/wiz AGP defense
 _ Elision _vs_. Choice (working title)
 _ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
-_ Trans Kids on the Margin (working title)
+_ Trans Kids on the Margin (working title) prior: https://sillyolme.wordpress.com/2019/07/19/how-many-trans-folk-are-there-really/ https://sillyolme.wordpress.com/2017/04/16/getting-lost-in-the-crowd/
 
 
 UUT—
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ _ No One Actually Wants to Change "Gender"
 _ The Feeling Is Mutual
 _ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
 _ Ideology Is the General Case (working title)
-
+_ Boundary Violations and Territory
 _ three views on partisanship: "Hierarchy and Wings" "Bioleninism" "Democracy Cis and Trans"
 
 _ Gay + Trans = Straight