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 Title: Interlude X
 Date: 2017-11-27 05:00
 Category: fiction
-Tags: cathartic, interlude
+Tags: cathartic, interlude, probability
 
 "Likelihood ratios are good! Likelihood ratios are the only good thing!"
 

diff --git a/content/drafts/friendship-practices-of-the-secret-sharing-plain-speech-valley-squirrels.md b/content/drafts/friendship-practices-of-the-secret-sharing-plain-speech-valley-squirrels.md
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@@ -4,10 +4,22 @@ Category: fiction
 Tags: deniably allegorical
 Status: draft
 
-In the days of auld lang syne on Earth-that-was, in the Valley of of Plain Speech in the hinterlands beyond the Lake of Ambiguous Fortune, there lived a population of pre-intelligent squirrels. Historical mammologists have classified them into two main subspecies: the west valley ground squirrels and the east valley tree squirrels: numbers 9792 and 9794 in Umi's grand encyclopædia of Plain Speech creatures, but not necessarily respectively—I remember the numbers, but I can never remember which one is which.
+In the days of auld lang syne on Earth-that-was, in the Valley of of Plain Speech in the hinterlands beyond the Lake of Ambiguous Fortune, there lived a population of pre-intelligent squirrels. Historical mammologists have classified them into two main subspecies: the west-valley ground squirrels and the east-valley tree squirrels—numbers 9792 and 9794 in Umi's grand encyclopædia of Plain Speech creatures, but not necessarily respectively: I remember the numbers, but I can never remember which one is which.
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+Like many pre-intelligent creatures, both subspecies of Plain Speech Valley squirrels were highly social animals. Much of their social lives 
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+(well, there's a reason the ascension of Earth-than-was would be sparked by the _H. sapiens_ line of hominids some millions of years later, rather than by the Plain Speech species 9792 and 9794.)
 
 
 sharing secrets
 
 
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+"I wish I had a special friend. Someone who understood me. Someone to share my secrets with."
+
+And beside them, a friend or a mate 
+
+"_I'm_ your friend. _I_ understand you. You can share your secrets with _me_."
+
 "That's not what I meant."

diff --git a/content/drafts/lies-to-cis-people-are-unfortunately-still-lies.md b/content/drafts/lies-to-cis-people-are-unfortunately-still-lies.md
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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Category: commentary
 Tags: epistemology, Ozy
 Status: draft
 
-This post is a response to Ozymandias's ["Lies to Cis People"](https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2015/01/27/lies-to-cis-people/), and is part of my [continuing attempt](/tag/ozy/) to overthrow them as _de facto_ Gender Czar of the _Less Wrong_ diaspora. (Nothing personal, Ozy!—it's just that the people deserve more cold-hearted cosmic horror–inducing reductionism than they're currently getting.)
+This post is a response to Ozymandias's ["Lies to Cis People"](https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2015/01/27/lies-to-cis-people/), and is part of my [continuing attempt](/tag/ozy/) to overthrow them as _de facto_ Gender Czar of the _Less Wrong_ diaspora. (Nothing personal, Ozy! We're still friends, right?)
 
 Ozymandias appeals to the concept of _lies-to-children_: simple models that fail to , but which are worth teaching and diseminating on the grounds of their practical utility. Lies-to-children 
 

diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt
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@@ -286,3 +286,5 @@ transition didn't change crime rate: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id
 http://neat-dyke.tumblr.com/post/162258180487/on-being-a-young-butch-lesbian-at-pride-2017
 
 http://neat-dyke.tumblr.com/post/154578646192/negative-social-effects-of-my-mastectomy
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+productivity lifehacks: do excellent work in an extremely low-status field that you'd be mortified to be primarily known for, thus forcing yourself to also do excellent work in another area in order to rescue your reputation

diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt
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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ A Common Misunderstanding; Or, The Spirit of the Staircase (24 January 2009)
 Don't Negotiate With Terrorist Memeplexes; Or, ... 
 The View From Nowhere
 
-MAIN SEQUENCE (12)—
+MAIN SEQUENCE (13)—
 Q Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman
 Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ...
 Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History ...
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ Q This Is Worth a Fight
 _ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition
 _ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
 Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model 
+Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See
 
 * Mary's Room
 Q The Hand I Was Dealt
@@ -52,3 +53,4 @@ Blame Me for Trying
 "Love Like You"
 Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
 story of Gina and Vern selected for GNC
+"I'm a traitor to my people," Mark thinks, as ...