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@@ -415,3 +415,13 @@ https://stefanfschubert.com/blog/2020/12/22/legitimate-epistocracy
 prevaricate
 
 back in 'aught-nine, Anna commented that no one in our circle was that old, as if you had to be of a particular generation to understand the ideas—that could apply in both directions (the next generation's culture does not look promising to me; midwits say that elders have always said that, but maybe the elders were always right, by the standard preference-stability argument)
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+> [Anna] seemed to disapprove of our putting pressure on Scott, because the fact that Scott has done a lot of great work is exactly what made him a target for our pressure.
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+> Those who are savvy in high-corruption equilibria maintain the delusion that high corruption is common knowledge, to justify expropriating those who naively don't play along, by narratizing them as already knowing and therefore intentionally attacking people, rather than being lied to and confused
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+> I told Anna about Michael's "enemy combatants" metaphor, and how I originally misunderstood the point of the analogy. War metaphors sound Scary and Mean—I don't want to shoot my friends! But the point of the analogy (which Michael had explained at the time, but I wasn't ready to hear until I did a few more weeks of emotional processing) was specifically that soliders on the other side of a war aren't particularly morally blameworthy as individuals: their actions are just being controlled by the Power they're embedded in. And Anna was like, "But you could still be friends with someone on an animal level, like with a dog", and I was like, "Yeah, that's basically what Michael said."
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+> He says he likes "monastic rationalism vs. lay rationalism" as a frame for the schism Ben is proposing.
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+> I suspect Scott is calling the wrong side monastic, though - we basically believe it can be done by lay people, he doesn't. I'll be pleasantly surprised if he gets the sides right, though.

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@@ -1882,6 +1882,10 @@ Still citing it (20 October 21): https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/qagt
 
 Still citing it (21 October 21): https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/qcrhc4/can_someone_provide_an_overview_ofintroduction_to/hhkf6kk/
 
+Still citing it (15 July 21) in a way that suggests it's ratsphere canon: https://twitter.com/NLRG_/status/1415754203293757445
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+Still citing it (14 November 21): https://twitter.com/captain_mrs/status/1459846336845697028
+
 The correctness of this post has been disputed at length: [object-level reply](http://unremediatedgender.space/2018/Feb/the-categories-were-made-for-man-to-make-predictions/), [meta-level reply (part 1)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/esRZaPXSHgWzyB2NL/where-to-draw-the-boundaries), [meta-level reply (part 2)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/onwgTH6n8wxRSo2BJ/unnatural-categories-are-optimized-for-deception), [supplementary material on dolphins/whales](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vhp2sW6iBhNJwqcwP/blood-is-thicker-than-water)
 
 

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+Post later (can't afford to spend more Twitter time now)—
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+https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1436039564032823313
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+@davidxu90, you said the other month you were curious about what would count as a crux for me, and I supplied one (↑). Any thoughts?
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+(I generated the dictator analogy while consciously trying to play the double-crux game, but I confess my actual reaction is "Harmful inferences?! What the fuck is wrong with you?!" [link "Choosing to Be Biased"])
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+-----
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 the Blue Tribe/Gray Tribe color schema is really unfortunate given how enthusiastic the Blues are about Civil War analogies
 
 Funny coincidence to come across @SeriesTangled lyrics extensively referenced in a cognitive-science-of-gender blog post (looks like a really cool paper about language and color perception from [...], too)
@@ -20,20 +30,18 @@ KQED answered: "In California, life already has been better."
 KQED was asked: "Why does Walnut Creek have a yacht club (http://wcyc.net/)?—they're not on the Bay."
 KQED answered: "To spite Berkeley: they have a Free Speech Café."
 
-In the NRx production of Hairspray, "You Can't Stop the Beat" is re-keyed to a chilling C minor
+✓ In the NRx production of Hairspray, "You Can't Stop the Beat" is re-keyed to a chilling C minor
 
 On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
 A man and woman liked to shake it on a Saturday night
 
-No justice, no peace (where "justice" means "maximizing the logarithm of the probability assigned by the shared map to the observed outcome")
+✓ No justice, no peace (where "justice" means "maximizing the probability assigned by the shared map to the observed outcome")
 
 Hey. What if we arrested the cops who killed Breonna Taylor, AND had genuine freedom of inquiry into biological causes of human behavior? We could just do both! They're not actually contradicting each other!
 
 "Well, actually, we're ASHKENAZI supremacists" may not be as convincing a defense as you think :cold_sweat:
 
-A more innocent world in which "HSTS" stands for "HTTP strict transport security", and "MAP" stands for "maximum a posteriori"
-
-I've heard that politics ruins everything, but this is ridiculous https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Tr7tAyt5zZpdTwTQK/the-solomonoff-prior-is-malign
+✓ A more innocent world in which "HSTS" stands for "HTTP strict transport security", and "MAP" stands for "maximum a posteriori"
 
 I never expected to become a polarizing figure 1/5
 
@@ -58,9 +66,9 @@ You know who else believed that "biological sex" was a useful concept? Hitler!
 
 Only losing coalitions have an incentive to support free-speech norms. You don't want to be a LOSER, do you??
 
-Men are trash! (With respect to the definition of "trash" as "of or relating to the sex that typically produces sperm.")
+✓ Men are trash! (With respect to the definition of "trash" as "of or relating to the sex that typically produces sperm.")
 
-"Bayesian reasoning" is a TERF dogwhistle
+✓ "Bayesian reasoning" is a TERF dogwhistle
 
 Taylor Swift's "Speak Now" is an allegory about how a single dissenter's courage can shatter preference-falsification equilibria https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ6O785wx8c