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@@ -10,3 +10,4 @@ Status: draft
 >
 > —_What's the Big Secret? Talking About Sex With Girls and Boys_, Laurie Krasny Brown, Ed.D., and Marc Brown (published 1997)
 
+https://www.reddit.com/r/Parenting/comments/ij4npe/mommy_im_actually_a_girl/
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@@ -349,4 +349,9 @@ https://xkcd.com/1942/
 
 > If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
 >
-> —Zora Neale Hurston
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+> —Zora Neale Hurston
+
+> PEARL: Well it wasn't really a "test", per se. Not in the traditional sense. We just wanted to see if you were ready to go on missions.
+> STEVEN: That's exactly what a test is!
+>
+> —_Steven Universe_, "The Test"

diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt
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@@ -2021,3 +2021,9 @@ https://www.jbhe.com/features/49_college_admissions-test.html
 Andrew Sullivan profile https://archive.is/qviCi
 
 "Fluidity of gender identity induced by illusory body-sex change" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-71467-z 
+
+I want to be careful not to fall into the trap of being a generic social conservative. My gender crusade becomes much less interesting insofar as it can be explained simply by me being born too early and not getting "kids these days." It's not that cultural change is necessarily bad; it's that I want culture to innovate in the direction of "achieving godlike understanding of objective reality and optimizing the hell out of it" rather than "playing mind games on each other to make it artificially harder to notice that we don't actually live in a Total Morphological Freedom tech regime."
+
+Doctoral thesis on TG/TF fantasy!
+https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/io1iih/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_september_07/g4codai/
+https://researchbank.swinburne.edu.au/file/065cf404-3114-4a42-a433-558eec179159/1/richard%20pilbeam%20thesis.pdf

diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt
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@@ -1,16 +1,21 @@
 Main path (important posts)—
 
+_ Feedback on Unnatural Categories (working group + TurnTrout + Tetra + Steven + Said + Elizabeth (https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/rhZge5qmZKwJ8BMDM/open-and-welcome-thread-march-2020#comment-XG44nfNcpq3BXj7hB) + editor)
+
 Milestone—
 _ Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems
 _ Unnatural Categories Are Optimized for Deception (LW)
 
-Ancillary documents for milestone—
+Ancillary documents and marketing channels for milestone—
 _ Motivation and Political Context for My Philosophy of Language Agenda
 _ FUEY
+_ comment to V."C."S. on "Maybe Lying Can't Exist?!"
 _ comment to V.K.
-_ comment to S.A.O.-C. on motivatedly playing dumb
-_ email to S.A.O.-C.
+_ comment to S.A. on motivatedly playing dumb
 _ comment to G.J.M.??
+_ message to P."O."L.
+_ Twitter
+_ Reddit submissions: /r/philosophy and /r/TheMotte 
 
 
 _ Irreversible Damage review
@@ -20,6 +25,11 @@ _ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
 _ Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data 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/
 _ I Am Very Bad at Keeping Secrets and Am Therefore Very Reluctant to Offer Confidentiality Promises
 
+(This needs to go into my "Motivations and Political Context")
+Transitioning is easy if you project into the subspace spanned by "given name" and "preferred pronouns" and "frequency of wearing dresses." The problem is that it's not psychologically realistic to expect everyone else to just throw away all the other dimensions—people were using those dimensions!
+
+(for Elision vs. Choice)
+Speakers of my generation are more likely to say "person" when sex isn't relevant, whereas older works (pre-second wave feminism?) would actually say "man" (or "woman"—see how anachronistic it feels to put the female option second and in parentheses?), presumably not because human nature has changed that much, but because of shifting cultural priorities about when sex is "relevant." (Modern speakers similarly frown on mentioning race (https://agentultra.com/blog/the-black-man-stopped-me/) when it's not relevant.)
 
 UUT—
 _ I, Too, Dislike It
@@ -30,7 +40,7 @@ _ The Feeling Is Mutual
 _ Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
 _ reply to https://azdoine.tumblr.com/post/173995599942/a-reply-to-unremediatedgenderspace-on-reply-to http://archive.is/JSSNi
 _ reply to https://deathisbadblog.com/the-real-transphobes-are-the-ones-we-made-along-the-way/
-_ Beckett Mariner Is Trans
+_ Beckett Mariner Is Trans https://www.reddit.com/r/DaystromInstitute/comments/in3g92/was_mariner_a_teenager_on_the_enterprised/
 _ Cynical Theories review
 
 

diff --git a/notes/wordcounts.txt b/notes/wordcounts.txt
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--- a/notes/wordcounts.txt
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@@ -1,27 +1,31 @@
- wc -w 2018/* 2017/* 2016/* | sort -n -s -k1,1
+wc -w 2020/* 2019/* 2018/* 2017/* 2016/* | sort -n -s -k1,1
 
-   751 2017/im-sick-of-being-lied-to.md
-   786 2017/thing-of-things-transgender-intellectual-turing-test-predictions-and-commentary.md
-   790 2018/blegg-mode.md
-   795 2017/from-what-ive-tasted-of-desire.md
-   823 2016/reply-to-ozy-on-agp.md
-   847 2017/grim-trigger-or-the-parable-of-the-honest-man-and-the-god-of-marketing.md
-   868 2018/sticker-prices.md
-   928 2016/reply-to-ozy-on-two-type-mtf-taxonomy.md
-   946 2017/whats-my-motivation-or-hormones-day-89.md
   1004 2017/the-line-in-the-sand-or-my-slippery-slope-anchoring-action-plan.md
   1044 2017/lesser-known-demand-curves.md
+  1099 2020/cloud-vision.md
+  1221 2020/memento-mori.md
+  1456 2019/self-identity-is-a-schelling-point.md
   1521 2018/blame-me-for-trying.md
+  1703 2019/the-social-construction-of-reality-and-the-sheer-goddamned-pointlessness-of-reason.md
   1927 2017/hormones-day-156-developments-doubts-and-pulling-the-plug-or-putting-the-cis-in-decision.md
   1960 2016/joined.md
-  1974 2018/dont-negotiate-with-terrorist-memeplexes.md
-  2064 2018/untitled-metablogging-26-december-2018.md
+  1977 2018/dont-negotiate-with-terrorist-memeplexes.md
+  2059 2020/book-review-the-origins-of-unfairness.md
+  2066 2018/untitled-metablogging-26-december-2018.md
+  2144 2019/reply-to-ozymandias-on-fully-consensual-gender.md
   2773 2017/memoirs-of-my-recent-madness-part-i-the-unanswerable-words.md
   3759 2018/reply-to-the-unit-of-caring-on-adult-human-females.md
   6522 2018/the-categories-were-made-for-man-to-make-predictions.md
+ 11006 2020/book-review-human-diversity.md
 
   1491 algorithms_of_deception.md
+  1552 endogenous_epistemic_factionalization.md
+  1619 maybe_lying_cant_exist.md
   2263 schelling_categories_and_simple_membership_tests.md
   2357 maybe_lying_doesnt_exist.md
   2493 heads_i_win.md
+  2544 firming_up_not-lying_around_its_edge-cases.md
+  3652 algorithmic_intent.md
+  3783 evolution_of_meaning_basics.md
   3917 where_to_draw_the_boundaries.md
+  6594 unnatural_categories_are_optimized_for_deception.md (W.I.P.)