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diff --git a/content/drafts/agreeing-with-stalin-in-ways-that-exhibit-generally-rationalist-principles.md b/content/drafts/agreeing-with-stalin-in-ways-that-exhibit-generally-rationalist-principles.md
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--- a/content/drafts/agreeing-with-stalin-in-ways-that-exhibit-generally-rationalist-principles.md
+++ b/content/drafts/agreeing-with-stalin-in-ways-that-exhibit-generally-rationalist-principles.md
@@ -736,7 +736,7 @@ I don't doubt Yudkowsky could come up with some clever casuistry why, _technical
 
 [TODO: elaborate on how 2007!Yudkowsky and 2021!Xu are saying the opposite things if you just take a plain-language reading and consider, not whether individual sentences can be interpreted as "true", but what kind of _optimization_ the text is doing to the behavior of receptive readers]
 
-[TODO: address Yudkowsky's clarification in Eliezerfic that it's a strictly first-person exercise]
+
 
 On the offhand chance that Eliezer Yudkowsky happens to be reading this—if someone _he_ trusts (MIRI employees?) genuinely thinks it would be good for the lightcone to bring this paragraph to his attention—he should know that if he _wanted_ to win back _some_ of the trust and respect he's lost from me and everyone I can influence—not _all_ of it, but _some_ of it[^some-of-it]—I think it would be really easy. All he would have to do is come clean about the things he's _already_ misled people about.
 
@@ -770,12 +770,14 @@ If Yudkowsky _wants_ to reply—if he _wants_ to try to win back some of the tru
   * like a crazy ex-girlfriend (["I have no underlying issues to address / I'm certifiably cute, and adorably obsessed"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMHz6FiRzS8))
 ]
 
-[TODO: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MnFqyPLqbiKL8nSR7/my-experience-at-and-around-miri-and-cfar-inspired-by-zoe 
+[TODO: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MnFqyPLqbiKL8nSR7/my-experience-at-and-around-miri-and-cfar-inspired-by-zoe  October 2021
+https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pQGFeKvjydztpgnsY/occupational-infohazards December 2021
  * when Jessica published her story, the karma took a nosedive when Scott commented blaming all of Jessica's problems on Michael, and Yudkowsky backed up Scott; to me, this looks like raw factional conflict: Jessica had some negative-valence things to say about the Calilphate, so Caliphate leaders move in to discredit her by association. 
  * (extract points from my conversation about Michael with Scott)
+
 ]
 
-[TODO: the Death With Dignity era
+[TODO: the Death With Dignity era April 2022
 
 "Death With Dignity" isn't really an update; he used to refuse to give a probability, and now he says the probability is ~0
 
@@ -789,6 +791,7 @@ If Yudkowsky _wants_ to reply—if he _wants_ to try to win back some of the tru
 ]
 
 [TODO:
+ * January 2022
  * I wrote to him asking if he cared if I said negative things about him, that it would be easier if he wouldn't hold it against me, and explained my understanding of the privacy norm
  * in retrospect, I was wrong to ask that. I _do_ hold it against him. And if I'm entitled to my feelings, isn't he entitled to his?
  * Is this the hill _he_ wants to die on? The pronouns post mentions "while you can still get away with disclaimers", referring to sanction from the outside world, as if he won't receive any sanction from his people, because he owns us. That's wrong. Yudkowsky as a person doesn't own me; the Sequences-algorithm does

diff --git a/notes/memoir-sections.md b/notes/memoir-sections.md
index 89c724d..9fa8e4f 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/memoir-sections.md
+++ b/notes/memoir-sections.md
@@ -586,8 +586,6 @@ https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PG8i7ZiqLxthACaBi/do-fandoms-need-awfulness
 
 https://graymirror.substack.com/p/the-journalist-rationalist-showdown?s=r
 
-contrast to masochism being an infohazard in dath ilan: in real life, when your sexuality is considered an infrohazard (supposedly for the benefit of people with your sexuality), you don't take it lying down
-
 Keltham contradicts himself inside of a single tag! Using the words "shape" and "covert" both times!!
 
 Scott has the power to set narratives, as evidenced by his attack on Michael hijacking Jessica's thread
@@ -1870,3 +1868,13 @@ and you'd think that people who are so obsessed with prediction markets (whose t
 
 > god i feel like writing this all out is explaining something that's always felt weird to me about the whole concept of stories and science fiction stories in particular. *i have been living inside a science fiction story written by eliezer yudkowsky*
 https://twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/status/1542781304621518848
+
+Said Achmiz on Eliezer's degeneration—
+https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pC74aJyCRgns6atzu/meta-discussion-from-circling-as-cousin-to-rationality?commentId=kS4BfYJuZ8ZcwuwfB
+https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pC74aJyCRgns6atzu/meta-discussion-from-circling-as-cousin-to-rationality?commentId=4kLTSanNyhn5H8bHv
+
+Namespace on standing and warrant—
+https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pC74aJyCRgns6atzu/meta-discussion-from-circling-as-cousin-to-rationality?commentId=c7Xt5AnHwhfgYY67K
+
+I've been playing a Dagny Taggart strategy
+https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1606718513267486721
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diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt
index 69f0b63..d824988 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/notes.txt
+++ b/notes/notes.txt
@@ -3236,3 +3236,8 @@ https://ovarit.com/o/GenderCritical/224699/always-at-target
 https://archive.ph/BlALB
 
 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cujpciCqNbawBihhQ/self-integrity-and-the-drowning-child
+
+https://www.thefp.com/p/an-existential-threat-to-doing-good
+
+https://www.thecut.com/article/hola-papi-feeling-phony-after-transitioning.html
+

diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt
index 40f40d5..6a15ba2 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/post_ideas.txt
+++ b/notes/post_ideas.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 Timely—
 _ Multi-Product Review: Various AGP Erotic Aids
-_ FanExpo review!
 
 pre-memoir—
 _ I'm Dropping the Pseudonym From This Blog
@@ -12,7 +11,7 @@ _ (pt. 2) Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer
 _ (pt. 3) A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning
 _ (pt. 4) If Clarity Seems Like Death to Them
 _ (pt. 5) Agreeing With Stalin in Ways that Exhibit Generally Rationalist Principles
-_ Why I Don't Trust Eliezer Yudkowsky's Intellectual Honesty
+_ (maybe) Why I Don't Trust Eliezer Yudkowsky's Intellectual Honesty
 
 
 Big posts—