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https://8ch.net/ratanon/res/9669.html#9726 —

> There are AGPs in the 'pro-trans' Blanchardian cluster, but the 'anti-trans' ones are pretty universally AGP. Davis is ... doing a very good job of making himself hard to stick labels on, which I admire, but posts like Smart show his hand enough to make it clear that he's closer to anti- than pro-, and the fact that people on this board have described his blog as 'being about how trans is bullshit' doesn't help. His hormones experiment is also five steps beyond 'playing with fire' and more like 'directly throwing yourself on a fire', but he still insists it isn't transitioning.
 
> Davis is certainly hormonally transitioning, but he's convinced himself he can avoid the social aspect, and that's what he rails against AGPs doing. Dude's not going to pull that off. Having watched other anti-trans type Blanchardian 'eggs' hatch and immediately turn on their former belief system, I'm concerned about the implications of this.

http://boards.4chan.org/lgbt/thread/8933421 —

> wow, an actual candidate for "autistic gender fixation"

Trent—

> I like how you disclaimed the need for trigger/content warnings in discussions of anything regarding sex/gender/the intersection, then put a 'tw school' on your latest post -- it's not _wrong_, per se, but it's _fascinating_

/u/ralf_ (https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/787dqd/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_october_23/dozclsu/)—

> I am still sometimes baffled by you folks. You are clearly clever, can write essays about arcane topics and put a lot of thought and energy in a consistent world view, cite academic sources pro and contra to it, and take on a whim for half a year sex hormones, even though it can make you sterile and messes with your body, just to see how it makes you feel. (Fricking Hormones!)
> 
> And then in the middle I read a sentence which brings me right back to Earth after being among aliens:
> 
>     (I am still a virgin, due to—performance difficulties on my part.)
> 
> Excelling on a higher order, even daring to defy everything sacred and even nature itself, and then totally sucking at a basic human experience.... That may seem harsh, it is not meant that way, but ... dude. Dude! How can one undertake complicated research project to fullfill vain ideas about autogynophilia, instead of working a plan out to get laid?

from Twitter—

https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/949755960234397696
"Best thing I've ever read on trans issues" https://twitter.com/MetaHumean/status/969071451612397568
https://twitter.com/claireOT/status/966637235121598464
"Gorgeous post, lots of interesting links" https://twitter.com/CherryAnnAustin/status/965596306931580935
"Pointing out reality is not a problematic" https://twitter.com/jessicazoeb/status/965199820947443712
https://twitter.com/patutiva/status/960949935767244800
https://twitter.com/MadamBiro/status/958704725968465922
"staying strong and true when your very existence offends the common narrative" https://twitter.com/PsychoSchmitt/status/957000409805213697
"what a fantastic read" (re "Blame Me") https://twitter.com/Zvorygin/status/949809680653545473
https://twitter.com/MrsMeadowsweet/status/957999008168886272
https://twitter.com/MadamBiro/status/958704725968465922
https://twitter.com/STILLTish/status/958651530290319360
https://twitter.com/pitiklinov/status/964063638700085248 (¡en español!)
https://twitter.com/0_hipotezi/status/1501632268305113094 (in Turkish)

From SBCC:
Lilly: is his dysphoria management plan just to be really, really mad until he dies?
Tail: I think so
Lilly: brutal
Lilly: one of the worst cases of trutrans obsession i have ever seen

http://antropofagi.blogspot.se/2018/03/blandat-om-memetisk-evolution.html

(Silent influence!) "(to crib an expression) she sounds less like a person than she does like an AI trying to maximize the number of gay and trans people" https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8l0kdk/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_may_21_2018/dzloeuv/

(Silent influence maybe?) "it's quite possible the people claiming this harm have actually psyched themselves up to actually be emotionally harmed (I think there's an SSC article on this phenomenon)" https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8ryoo8/culture_war_roundup_for_june_18/e11m79c/ (The concept isn't original to "Terrorist Memeplexes", but I don't think this is Scott's line, and I think it's more likely that the commenter got it from me than Devin Helton)

(Silent influence!) "Don't negotiate with terrorist memeplexes, just cave in to their demands!" https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/akk8nc/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_january_28/efhz21i/

In Rod Dreher's comment section: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/resisting-trans-tyranny-science-not-religion/comment-page-4/#comment-8870177

In the Hacker News comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16901682

https://twitter.com/ShadiiRAT/status/1070775821432995842 "I just spent half the day reading the blog of some dude whose day job is trying to stop a hostile AI takeover and spent six months on estrogen just to see what it felt like / What the fuck is going on in the rationalist scene"

explicit link: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/bytvw2/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_june_10_2019/er2trnc/  "they seem more interested in 'redefining top-20 nouns than biomedical research'"

"although I would probably avoid developing B cups while still presenting as a man, like he did" —https://www.reddit.com/r/itsafetish/comments/do2w66/does_agp_lead_to_a_lonely_life/f5zi4kr/

https://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3155881-Lily-Madigan-has-published-an-article?pg=2

https://twitter.com/TomChivers/status/1204715688759365633

https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/a6wmk3/a_request_for_new_blogs_to_read_some_sharing_of_a/ebyo45f/

"often seem to have a fixation with categorization common among those on the autism spectrum." https://www.transgendermap.com/politics/sexology/autogynephilia/activists/

People liked the _Origins of Unfairness_ review—
https://twitter.com/cailinmeister/status/1220087579225145344
https://twitter.com/DRMacIver/status/1228233783045787648
https://twitter.com/conmccashin/status/1226170284308344833
https://twitter.com/hgetson/status/1226068206349144065
https://twitter.com/KSpeicher/status/1225535875880300544
https://twitter.com/linton7119/status/1223621246304366594

Sneer Club!
https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/fw9cng/the_lgbt_activist_machinery_instead_adapted/
https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/fw9cng/the_lgbt_activist_machinery_instead_adapted/fmpao3e/?context=3
https://archive.is/bPPyk

https://www.queermajority.com/essays-all/questioning-sexual-identities

Lex talking about me—
> he chatted with me on facebook abt it before his psychotic break but he was kinda bad at communication before that and had a trust in The Literature i found to be fundametally-epistemically-flawed
> but then he had a psychotic break about how he is Being Lied To????? and now he is So Good at communication

Someone's livestream had a big segment of him just reading my Murray review?! Weird https://altcensored.com/watch?v=GHZ53bx4Ayc

> Every once in awhile, on this vast Internet, you come across something that is old and brilliant. This is an example. Psychology is about invalidating people's identities. This explains SO many controversies and so much of people's behavior.
https://twitter.com/dilanesper/status/1369376852226306056

https://twitter.com/biocompound/status/1370964356830142467

Glad the podcast transcript has been useful
https://twitter.com/Bioliberalism/status/1371782242339524614

My self-submission was rejected, but—
https://old.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/n44drl/sexual_dimorphism_in_yudkowskys_sequences_in/
Someone else's got 36 points—before even the /r/SneerClub mods thought it was too mean!!
https://old.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/nt37j1/the_rationalist_subcultures_resident_blanchardian/

https://twitter.com/RayHarwick/status/1390404433247227905
> This essay it breathtaking, vivid, introspective, laugh out-loud funny, entertaining, and oh so personal and tender, deeply honest, and the author has the most amazing mind most people will ever witness. Thank you for pointing it out.

> I guess you'd call him an abnormally self-aware person with AGP
https://twitter.com/Aurinkoinen6/status/1455143130655862786

> AGP truthers publish latest 30k word essay to rapt audience of five people
https://twitter.com/deepfates/status/1489058985722318848

> some exceptions
https://www.reddit.com/r/gendertransformation/comments/nk3nev/how_do_i_tell_the_difference_between_having_a_tf/gzhjtzx/

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

Friend of the blog Ninety-Three writes—
> An acquaintance I respect is writing an essay on "what is a woman?" centered around the "what is a sandwich?" comparison, I sent him a couple of your posts and today he complained:
>> around this time is when the thought "why write anything? someone said it already" is most potent
>> especially seeing Zach Davis' stuff

https://twitter.com/Kenku_Allaryi/status/1523335240093212672

https://twitter.com/0_hipotezi/status/1526681261670023171

Haskell survey repoting got picked up
https://twitter.com/BarneyFlames/status/1516637367821639680

> wow, this site is extremely sch1z0
https://twitter.com/typedfemale/status/1516642775764115458

https://axrp.net/episode/2022/05/23/episode-15-natural-abstractions-john-wentworth.html


13 results in the Slate Star Codex Discord server
> smorc — 08/19/2022
> this seems like some terf blog
> complete with quotes of terfs complaining about transwomen in bathrooms
> B_ (halloween edition) — 08/19/2022
> As someone that reads terf blogs, it's weak shit lol
> Theo DIE dactus — 08/19/2022
> Really great post, which I love
> If I were to do a rationalism and law series I'd include that in like the very beginning along with that old post from what's her name about the great amphibian

(on "Blame Me for Trying")
> I'm 100 words into this and I love it already
https://discord.com/channels/289207224075812864/289207289930448897/399039618458058753

https://twitter.com/RichardHakania/status/1628384239224750086
> one of the best things I've read about the sexed-brain claims of trans ideology

"Blame Me for Trying" retweeted by Riley Goodside
https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1642435862410457089

> one of the most insane things i've ever read
https://twitter.com/typedfemale/status/1670205820221665281

https://twitter.com/randomstring729/status/1672307146724089867

https://twitter.com/randomstring729/status/1672284217856720896

https://twitter.com/CasaubonZ/status/1672106657047015424
> honestly one of the many reasons why Eliezer Yudkowsky will burn is for the way that rationalist brainworms seriously fuck with ppl questioning their gender.

https://twitter.com/typedfemale/status/1680409277952065537
>> my long con is contributing patches to rust so i can later shill blanchard's transsexualism typology on my personal twitter account, all to piss off the rust community as punishment for their suffocating wokeness
>
>lesswrong is hitting so different these days 😳
(13 retweets / 298 Likes / 45.2K views)

https://twitter.com/mutual_ayyde/status/1680444686169960448
> this is shit i'd rather commit suicide over admitting oh my god

https://twitter.com/vansianism/status/1680447935371436032
> There's being a repressor in denial and there's being this. Okay it's not as bad as ted k but still lmao

https://twitter.com/mutual_ayyde/status/1680448722222841859
> i've tried to rationalize my self hate many a time but never this rigorously

https://twitter.com/mutual_ayyde/status/1680445977109626881
> lesswrong is like a particle accelerator for posting, this is some pathos on par with tolsoi, thank you for this

https://twitter.com/pawnofcthulhu/status/1680457016773595137
> man
> at the end of the day i can't help but have any reaction to zack-m-davisism other than "this is an exotic flower of an ideology that can't grow anywhere else but this greenhouse we've built"


https://twitter.com/radgendervibes/status/1680457834591588355
> Get over yourself, get over your misogyny, and get back on hormones before you fucking kill yourself from the despair we all feel. This shit isn't a fucking game, I hope you have a good life <3

https://twitter.com/Lavender_2115/status/1681490996528398337
> I didn't read the whole thing but this might be the saddest eggpost I've ever read.

https://twitter.com/alyssamvance/status/1681441114384109568
> I'm pretty moderate, but I really disagree with LessWrong that trans people are universally sexual predators who should be burned at the stake
(2 retweets / 140 Likes / 21.3K views)

https://awful.systems/post/130

https://twitter.com/adrusi/status/1681782160984883201
> sure. i just dont know if that means he's necessarily self-hating
>
> like, obviously it's not a good sign, but I don't know him well enough on a personal level to be willing to say that
>
> where 2017-zack... was on a different level

https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/10w6r33/sequel_to_a_beloved_siskind_classic_from_a/

> The one guy in the Cthulhu cult who's sincerely devoted to resurrecting the dark god and ending the world, and is constantly angry and disappointed that the rest of the cult is just in it for the blood orgies and professional networking.
>
> Freddie deBoer.
> ----
> I thought this was a tweet about Zack M Davis
https://twitter.com/Sesquame/status/1746360508482027853

https://twitter.com/halcyon_hazel/status/1747347608417267906
> i have happened across a subgroup that would properly be termed as “male agp rationalists” and i want to  claw my eyes out. can y’all be normal for five minutes??
> do NOT tag him

https://twitter.com/Ida_Clemens/status/1747347899116147017
> oh no, that guy with the insane blog is just a *type* of guy???

https://twitter.com/halcyon_hazel/status/1747445721081495787
> i’ll compliment him here!! that’s why i  enjoy reading his stuff more than the other examples — he’s excruciatingly honest

https://twitter.com/adrusi/status/1747390956159037508
> idk. at one point, with the particular character i have in mind, i think it's pretty clear there was a lot of envy going on, but i think that's mostly in the past and now he's just like "eh ok, im cool w this"
> though i suspect there's something subtle going on where he's reluctant to believe when trans women tell him they differ from how how he describes his agp. a "it wouldn't be fair if it were so" playing out underneath the "i was so tempted to lie just like that and im demonstrably a better rationalist than they are"
> and i do think zd is a better rationalist than 95% of the transfems i know. at the hard parts, like having a reflexive aversion to self-deceit, evidenced by stuff unrelated to all this, even
> and a distinct level of care in his thought. i think he's wrong about some important things, but never bc of oversights

https://twitter.com/sesquimundist/status/1750889751807131731
> it's guys like zack m davis that deserve to have a high religious role