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-> I said, "The truth is whatever you can get away with."
->
-> "No, that's journalism. The truth is whatever you can't escape."
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-> —_Distress_ by Greg Egan
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 OUTLINE OF POINTS TO HIT—
@@ -37,36 +31,5 @@ POINTS FROM MY EMAIL TO BBL—
    norms of who should transition should be, who should pay for it,
    &c. "Infovism" rather than activism.
 
+work in my "the arc of the moral universe bends towards maximum entropy" quip: https://www.facebook.com/zmdavis/posts/10154841793275199
 
-NRx-inspired (sigh ... yes, unfortunately) points—
-
-(most of this should probably be split into a separate post even if I'm happening to do some outlining in this file; evil speculation shouldn't contaminate the solid "Infovism" idea/slogan)—
-
- * democracy is government by whichever memes happen to be the most virulent
- * outcomes of the long run of a one-dimensional conflict can be classified, roughly something like: Left total victory, right total victory, mutually assured destruction, and program equilibrium
-    * program equilibrium isn't easy/possible for humans
-    * the key point here is that "grant this demand, deny all others" isn't a
-      defensible Schelling point; if you yield here, the _same algorithm_ is
-      going to be running the next time
- * "Berkeley 2009 morality was just right, but this Berkeley 2017 bullshit has
-   gone _too far_!"
-    * If I were dictator, (Berkeley, 2009) could be made to work, but everyone has her own (city, year) pair
-       * for some reason I thought this was analogous to something from the
-         Coherent Extrapolated Volition document: Dennis thinks he should own
-         the world, but fairness requires that Dennis's name be erased from any
-         such request, and "some X should own the world" is underspecified"
- * remember my conversation with a certain female bio-/psychologist studying at
-   Harvard who told me that "Trans women are men with a mental illness" made
-   more sense, but that she was afraid to even think that within the privacy of
-   her own head
-    * fucking _Harvard_
- * Moldbug, "The True Meaning of Diversity": "Certainly not every party member
-   is an [X]. Most of them, in fact, are not. Nor is it absolutely guaranteed
-   that every single [X] will be a party member. But most of them, in fact,
-   are"—thus, requiring representaiton of Xes benefits the party
- * practice of deferring to designated-victim trans women _makes the trans
-   women worse people_: if you know that you can win a dispute by playing the
-   transphobia card, that incentive shapes your life (Moldbug: discussion of
-   "ignoble privilege" in "Gentle Introduction" pt. 3)
-    * kind of like how _the right to be sued_ is an important part of legal
-      personhood: the possibility of recourse is necessary for trust