**Backstory to:** [Where to Draw the Boundaries?](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/esRZaPXSHgWzyB2NL/where-to-draw-the-boundaries), [The Univariate Fallacy](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cu7YY7WdgJBs3DpmJ/the-univariate-fallacy), [Schelling Categories, and Simple Membership Tests](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/edEXi4SpkXfvaX42j/schelling-categories-and-simple-membership-tests), [Heads I Win, Tails?—Never Heard of Her](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DoPo4PDjgSySquHX8/heads-i-win-tails-never-heard-of-her-or-selective-reporting), [Maybe Lying Doesn't Exist](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bSmgPNS6MTJsunTzS/maybe-lying-doesn-t-exist), [Relevance Norms](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Linguistic_universal) Oh, in case anyone was wondering why I did so much philosophy-of-language blogging last year, I wrote up the (long, personal) backstory on my secret ("secret") blog, about how everyone I [used to trust](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wustx45CPL5rZenuo/no-safe-defense-not-even-science) is insistent on playing dumb about philosophy in a way that's clearly optimized to _confuse me into cutting my dick off_ (independently of the empirical facts that determine whether or not cutting my dick off is actually a good idea)