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 https://www.hpmor.com/chapter/97
 > one technique was to look at what _ended up_ happening, assume it was the _intended_ result, and ask who benefited.
 
+> This about dath ilani, they are trained in a theory of social deception that says that people can arrange reasons, excuses, for anything, and so at the end of it all you look at what happened and try to build an explanation around that alone.
+https://www.glowfic.com/replies/1820866#reply-1820866
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 > At least, I have a MASSIVE home territory advantage because I can appeal to Eliezer's writings from 10 years ago, and ppl can't say "Eliezer who? He's probably a bad man"
 

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@@ -60,4 +60,4 @@ but you might know reasons my guess is wrong
 
 (I really appreciate the pushback earlier)
 
-I wrote a 4000-word post about how the "just test combat ability; you don't have to go by the presence of penises" conversation broke my suspension of disbelief in the cultural worldbuilding: [URL here] (Briefly: "the government isn't allowed to notice race or sex" is Earth-craziness that only makes sense as a reaction to other Earth-craziness—specifically, refusing to admit group differences into decision calculations is a Schelling point for preventing group conflicts when you don't trust people not to lie about the specific differences in a way that advantages their group; it's not something you would spontaneously invent or think was a good idea if you _actually_ grew up in a world with 140 average IQ that trained everyone in probability theory as normative reasoning.)
+I wrote a post about how the "just test combat ability; you don't have to go by the presence of penises" conversation back on page 34 broke my suspension of disbelief in the cultural worldbuilding: <http://unremediatedgender.space/2022/Jun/comment-on-a-scene-from-planecrash-crisis-of-faith/> (Briefly: "the government isn't allowed to notice race or sex" is Earth-craziness that only makes sense as a reaction to other Earth-craziness—specifically, that refusing to admit group differences into decision calculations is a Schelling point for preventing group conflicts when you don't trust people not to lie about the specific differences in a way that advantages their group; it's not something you would spontaneously invent or think was a good idea if you _actually_ grew up in a world with 140 average IQ that trained everyone in probability theory as normative reasoning.)

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@@ -3141,3 +3141,10 @@ I [want credit](https://arbital.com/p/6yv/) for calling it.
 https://twitter.com/OttoMller12/status/1533722820232060930
 
 Israelis have things to worry about from their neighbors; I would hope that American Jews are too busy counting our money from running the entertainment and finance industries to get caught up in victimhood politics
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+when Yudkowsky talks about teenage male edgelord tendencies, people complain about him being too gendery, but it seems like they're complaining about him _naming_ the behavior as male; pure simulacra
+
+Surrender on sports: https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1536691117265080321
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+https://twitter.com/mherreshoff/status/1537427374676922369 
+> Maybe there's a bunch of ways to end up with the way-more-interested-in-things-than-people trait.  I imagine being handed an ill-fitting/dysphoric gender role would push one towards interested-in-things pretty hard.