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 Title: Don't Negotiate With Terrorist Memeplexes
 Date: 2018-01-23 09:30
 Category: commentary
-Tags: cathartic, discourse, epistemic horror
+Tags: cathartic, discourse, epistemic horror, game theory
 
 > It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,  
 >  For fear they should succumb and go astray;  
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ The friends care about the human. The forces of memetic evolution do not.
 
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-So, there's a thing about me, possibly even _the_ thing about me, where there is this beautiful feeling at the center of my life that has shaped me more than almost anything else, where obviously I know that I am in fact male, but I don't want to _identify_ with that fact; I [want to believe](/2017/Dec/theres-a-land-that-i-see-or-the-spirit-of-intervention/) that I could be female and still be the same person in all the ways that matter, and this sentiment feels tied to my sexuality, as if my brain just doesn't draw that much of a distinction between people I want to be _with_ and people I want to be _like_.
+<a id="a-thing-about-me"></a>So, there's a thing about me, possibly even _the_ thing about me, where there is this beautiful feeling at the center of my life that has shaped me more than almost anything else, where obviously I know that I am in fact male, but I don't want to _identify_ with that fact; I [want to believe](/2017/Dec/theres-a-land-that-i-see-or-the-spirit-of-intervention/) that I could be female and still be the same person in all the ways that matter, and this sentiment feels tied to my sexuality, as if my brain just doesn't draw that much of a distinction between people I want to be _with_ and people I want to be _like_.
 
 ... the scintillating but ultimately untrue thought.
 
@@ -89,11 +89,11 @@ But _my life_ is not hate speech. If being a good person means submitting to soc
 
 I'm certainly not _trying_ to say things that will hurt people—_least_ of all people who are mostly just like me but read different books in a different order and are living out a pretty decent approximation of _my wildest fantasy_.
 
-But if you try _not_ to say things that will hurt people, [you](https://devinhelton.com/2015/03/23/standing-up-to-offense-bullying/) [end](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/22/ot9-the-thread-pirate-roberts/#comment-160689) [up](http://lesswrong.com/lw/59i/offense_versus_harm_minimization/3y0k) conceding the entire future history of world to people on the basis of their being colonized by mind-viruses that make them the _easiest to hurt_.
+But if you try _not_ to say things that will hurt people, [you](https://devinhelton.com/2015/03/23/standing-up-to-offense-bullying/) [end](http://web.archive.org/web/20200524145209/https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/22/ot9-the-thread-pirate-roberts/#comment-160689) [up](http://lesswrong.com/lw/59i/offense_versus_harm_minimization/3y0k) conceding the entire future history of the world to people on the basis of their being colonized by mind-viruses that make them the _easiest to hurt_.
 
 I don't want to live in that world.
 
-So here is my policy, I, Taylor Saotome-Westlake, at least on this blog, at least under this name—
+So here is my policy, at least on this blog—
 
 If I say something that is later shown to me to be _factually incorrect_, that's something I take _very_ seriously, and I will do everything in my power to make it right.