organizing immediate TODOs ...

diff --git a/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md b/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md
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@@ -1017,11 +1017,17 @@ Given that I spent so many hours on this little research/writing project in earl
 
 [TODO: "Autogenderphilia Is Common" https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/02/10/autogenderphilia-is-common-and-not-especially-related-to-transgender/]
 
+
+
 [TODO: help from Jessica for "Unnatural Categories"]
 
-[TODO: 2 June, I send an email to Cade Metz, who had DMed me on Twitter
-https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/09/11/update-on-my-situation/
-]
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+
+On 1 June 2020, I received a Twitter DM from _New York Times_ reporter Cade Metz, who said he was "exploring a story about the intersection of the rationality community and Silicon Valley". I sent him an email saying that I would be happy to talk, but that I'd actually been pretty disappointed with the community lately: I was worried that the social pressures of trying to _be_ a "community" and protect the group's status (_e.g._, from New York Times reporters who might portray us in an unflattering light??) incentivize people to compromise on the ideals of _systematically correct reasoning_ that made the community valuable in the first place.
+
+He never got back to me.
+
+[TODO: three weeks later, Slate Star Codex went down]
 
 [TODO: "out of patience" email]
 

diff --git a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md b/notes/memoir-sections.md
similarity index 99%
rename from notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md
rename to notes/memoir-sections.md
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@@ -1,16 +1,23 @@
-sections—
-_ Yes Requires the Possibility of No scuffle
+waypoints—
+_ Jessica help with "Unnatural Categories"
 _ wireheading his fiction subreddit
+_ discrediting to the community
+_ let's recap
+_ people-I-usually-respect footnote
+_ Yudkowsky is trying to be a religious leader
+
+medium section now—
+_ existential risk interlude; social justice game theory; I could forgive him
+
+big sections later—
 _ Michael Vassar and the Theory of Optimal Gossip
 _ September 2020 Category War victory
 _ Sasha disaster 
 _ the dolphin war
 
-
 With phone—
 _ Signal history with Anna and Michael
 
-
 With internet available—
 _ "20% of the ones with penises" someone in the comments saying, "It is a woman's body", and Yudkowsky saying "duly corrected"
 _ "not taking into account considerations" → rephrase to quote "God's dictionary"
@@ -69,7 +76,6 @@ _ erasing agency of Michael's friends, construed as a pawn
 _ mention the fact that Anna had always taken a "What You Can't Say" strategy
 _ when to use first _vs. last names
 _ explain why I'm not being charitable in 2018 thread analysis, that at the time, I thought it had to be a mistake
-_ January 2019 meeting with Ziz and Gwen
 _ better summary of Littman
 _ explain Rob
 _ edit the child transition section in a way that Kay Brown would be OK with, have a few sentences about Clever Hans before the wrap-up
@@ -1552,15 +1558,6 @@ As I was wrapping up the call, I mentioned that the reason it was a bad week was
 
 Thanks, Mom. I'm so lucky to have a mother that's _less retarded than the leadership of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute_.
 
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-On 1 June 2020, I received a Twitter DM from _New York Times_ reporter Cade Metz, who said he was "exploring a story about the intersection of the rationality community and Silicon Valley". I sent him an email saying that I would be happy to talk, but that I'd actually been pretty disappointed with the community lately: I was worried that the social pressures of trying to _be_ a "community" and protect the group's status (_e.g._, from New York Times reporters who might portray us in an unflattering light??) incentivize people to compromise on the ideals of _systematically correct reasoning_ that made the community valuable in the first place.
-
-He never got back to me.
-
-[TODO: three weeks later, Slate Star Codex went down]
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 [TODO: Yudkowsky wireheading his fiction subreddit

diff --git a/notes/tech_tasks.txt b/notes/tech_tasks.txt
index d425e1e..f43f3c0 100644 (file)
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@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+make Markdown native footnote CSS match the plugin-based footnotes
 undo the Slate Starchive links
 roll my own pingbacks? (I didn't like the Pelican plugin) http://blog.mlindgren.ca/entry/2015/01/17/how-to-manually-send-a-pingback/
 worddiff for gitweb?! https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1518178/how-do-i-change-the-gitweb-default-diff-format-to-color-words