I guess I feel pretty naïve now, but—I _actually believed our own propoganda_. I _actually thought_ we were doing something new and special of historical and possibly even _cosmological_ significance.
-And so, when I moved to "Portland" (which is actually Berkeley) in 2016,
+And so when I moved to "Portland" (which is actually Berkeley) in 2016, and met some people who gave me reason to reëvaluate
-if you're doing systematically correct reasoning, you should be able to get the right answer even on things that don't matter
+I confess that I _may have overreacted somewhat_
+
+because people weren't converging (or even engaging) with me on the two-types/autogynephilia thing. Psychology is a genuinely difficult empirical science
+
+I would _never_ write someone off for disagreeing with me about a complicated empirical thing, because complicated empirical things are complicated enough that I have to take the Outside View seriously: no matter how "obvious" I think my view is, I might still be wrong for real in real life. So, while I was pretty upset for my own idiosyncratic personal reasons, it wasn't cause to _give up entirely on the dream of a rationality community_.
+https://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/07/beware-the-insi.html
-guided by the beauty of our weapons
+http://unremediatedgender.space/2017/Jun/memoirs-of-my-recent-madness-part-i-the-unanswerable-words/
+https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wustx45CPL5rZenuo/no-safe-defense-not-even-science
+http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/24/guided-by-the-beauty-of-our-weapons/
+/2017/Jan/im-sick-of-being-lied-to/
+/2017/Feb/a-beacon-through-the-darkness-or-getting-it-right-the-first-time/
+ we live in a world where reason doesn't work
+
+if you're doing systematically correct reasoning, you should be able to get the right answer even on things that don't matter
-Blanchard ... categories
cognitive dissonance
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