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@@ -254,6 +254,8 @@ On a phone call, Michael made an analogy between EA and Catholicism. The Pope wa
 
 [TODO: State of Steven]
 
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 I still wanted to finish the memoir-post mourning the "rationalists", but I still felt psychologically constrained; I was still bound by internal silencing-chains. So instead, I mostly turned to a combination of writing bitter and insulting comments whenever I saw someone praise the "rationalists" collectively, and—more philosophy blogging!
 
 In August 2019's ["Schelling Categories, and Simple Membership Tests"](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/edEXi4SpkXfvaX42j/schelling-categories-and-simple-membership-tests), I explained a nuance that had only merited a passion mention in "... Boundaries?": sometimes you might want categories for different agents to _coordinate_ on, even at the cost of some statistical "fit." (This was of course generalized from a "pro-trans" argument that had occured to me, [that self-identity is an easy Schelling point when different people disagree about what "gender" they perceive someone as](/2019/Oct/self-identity-is-a-schelling-point/).)
@@ -396,12 +398,10 @@ I said I would bite that bullet: yes! Yes, I was trying to figure out whether I
 
 (This seemed correlated with the recurring stalemated disagreement within our coordination group, where Michael/Ben/Jessica would say, "Fraud, if that word _ever_ meant anything", and while I agreed that they were pointing to an important way in which things were messed up, I was still sympathetic to the Caliphate-defender's reply that this usage of "fraud" was motte-and-baileying between vastly different senses of _fraud_; I wanted to do _more work_ to formulate a _more precise theory_ of the psychology of deception to describe exactly how things are messed up a way that wouldn't be susceptible to the motte-and-bailey charge.)
 
-[TODO: Ziz's protest;
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 [TODO: Somni? ("peek behind the fog of war" 6 Feb)]
 
-[TODO: rude maps]
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 [TODO: a culture that has gone off the rails; my warning points to Vaniver]
 
 [TODO: complicity and friendship]
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 Michael asks for me to acknowledge that my sense of opportunity is driven by politics
 discussion of what is "political"
 mention to Anna that I was postponing in order to make it non-salesy
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