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@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Ideas from the December 2018 list that got published/finished in some form—
 
  * the last part of my planned reply to [Ozy's reply](https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2018/06/18/man-should-allocate-some-more-categories/) to [my reply](http://unremediatedgender.space/2018/Feb/the-categories-were-made-for-man-to-make-predictions/) to [Scott Alexander](https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-made-for-man-not-man-for-the-categories/) got finished in December 2019 as ["Reply to Ozymandias on Fully Consensual Gender"](/2019/Dec/reply-to-ozymandias-on-fully-consensual-gender/)
  * the overlap-along-one-dimension-does-not-imply-overlap-in-the-entire-configuration-space thing got briefly [covered on _Less Wrong_ as "The Univariate Fallacy"](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cu7YY7WdgJBs3DpmJ/the-univariate-fallacy) in June 2019
- * the point about how [regression to the mean](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean) unfortunately undermines the standard "But group differences to apply to individuals" moral got [covered as part of the coda to my April 2020 [review of the new Charles Murray book](/2020/Apr/book-review-human-diversity/#everyday-base-rates)
+ * the point about how [regression to the mean](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean) unfortunately undermines the standard "But group differences to apply to individuals" moral got [covered as part of the coda to my April 2020 review of the new Charles Murray book](/2020/Apr/book-review-human-diversity/#everyday-base-rates)
  * the thing about minimalist "activism" focused on giving people more accurate information rather than lobbying for particular object-level decisions got mostly covered in September 2021's ["I Don't Do Policy"](/2021/Sep/i-dont-do-policy/)
  * what my autogynephilic fantasy life looks like in detail got covered in May 2021's ["Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems"](/2021/May/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems/)
 
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ Book reviews I'm relatively unlikely to get around to finishing—
  * Multi-Book Review: Various Sex-Ed Books for Children
      * comparing and contrasting mainstream (for now) selections ([_What's the Big Secret? Talk about Sex with Girls and Boys_](https://www.amazon.com/Whats-Big-Secret-Talking-about/dp/0316101834), [_Amazing You! Getting Smart About Your Private Parts_](https://www.amazon.com/Amazing-You-Getting-Smart-Private/dp/0142410586), and [_It's Not the Stork! A Book About Girls, Boys, Babies, Bodies, Families, and Friends_](https://www.amazon.com/Its-Not-Stork-Families-Friends/dp/0763633313)), to a genderist alternative ([_Who Are You? The Kid's Guide to Gender Identity_](https://www.amazon.com/Who-Are-You-Gender-Identity/dp/1785927280)) and a Christian alternative ([the _God's Design for Sex_ series](https://www.amazon.com/Full-Set-Design-Revised-Paperback/dp/B00O5DIVTU))
      * The ideological books are what you would expect and impossible to parody, but I would be [more comfortable reading the Christian book](/2020/Apr/peering-through-reverent-fingers/) to a child, because at least it explains the facts ("I have a penis. That makes me a boy like Daddy") in the course of attributing everything to God, whereas _Who Are You?_ is trying to set up [a world where facts aren't a thing](/2019/Aug/the-social-construction-of-reality-and-the-sheer-goddamned-pointlessness-of-reason/) ("Babies can't talk, so grown-ups make a guess by looking at their bodies").
+         * the Christians also believe in beauty and have much more competent illustrations
      * You can also see a propaganda gradient in the mainstream books over time. _What's the Big Secret?_ (1997) acknowledges sex stereotypes as having a grain of truth, but is firm about them not being normative or definitive ("Girls and boys do play in different ways. Sometimes, but not always"), whereas _It's Not the Stork_ (2006) bizarrely tries to rebut psychological-sex-difference claims without even acknowledging what they claims are ("Girls catch fish and worms and bugs!" "So do boys!") and has more racially diverse illustrations.
 
 New list of more ideas I want to finish—

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@@ -119,3 +119,6 @@ https://www.reddit.com/r/gendertransformation/comments/nk3nev/how_do_i_tell_the_
 
 https://old.reddit.com/r/BlockedAndReported/comments/td1rki/weekly_random_discussion_thread_for_31322_31922/i0kpotn/
 https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/tdqqtx/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_march_14_2022/i0pn1c4/
+
+> What's the longest post you've ever read?
+https://twitter.com/panchromaticity/status/1519469995486441472
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 https://www.heterodorx.com/podcast/episode-53-autogynephilia-michael-bailey/
 
 Aella's cateogry exposition is very good: https://aella.substack.com/p/what-a-woman-is
+
+CovfefeAnon points out the microfoundations of "egregores": it solves the common knowledge problem! You can't compute I-know-that-he-knows-that-I-know, so you simply try to comply with the collective lowest-common-denominator.
+
+https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/jen-psaki-groomers-spokeswoman-transgender-children/
+
+https://cutdowntree.substack.com/p/purification-rites