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 Tags: autogynephilia, Eliezer Yudkowsky, epistemic horror, my robot cult, personal, sex differences
 Status: draft
 
-> _Well this is the one that I had to write, it's like a  
-> A letter of love with no love left out_
+> _I'll write my way out  
+> Write everything down, far as I can see  
+> I'll write my way out  
+> Overwhelm them with honesty  
+> This is the eye of the hurricane  
+> This is the only way I can protect my legacy_
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-> —"Dying to Begin" by Stretch Princess
+> —"Hurricane", _Hamilton_
 
 So, as I sometimes allude to, I've spent basically my entire adult life in this insular intellectual subculture that was founded in the late 'aughts to promulgate an ideal of _systematically correct reasoning_—general methods of thought that result in true beliefs and successful plans—and, incidentally, to use these methods of systematically correct reasoning to prevent superintelligent machines from [destroying all value in the universe](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GNnHHmm8EzePmKzPk/value-is-fragile). Lately I've been calling it my "robot cult" (a phrase [due to Dale Carrico](https://amormundi.blogspot.com/2011/08/ten-reasons-to-take-seriously.html))—the pejorative is partially [ironically affectionate](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gBma88LH3CLQsqyfS/cultish-countercultishness), and partially an expression of grief and resentment and white-hot rage acquired from that time almost everyone I [used to trust](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wustx45CPL5rZenuo/no-safe-defense-not-even-science) insisted on, on ...
 
@@ -99,3 +103,6 @@ In the comments, [I wrote](https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/QZs4vkC7cbyjL9XA9/
 > Is it cheating if you deliberately define your personal identity such that the answer is _No_?
 
 (To which I now realize the correct answer is: Yes, it's fucking cheating! The map is not the territory! You can't change the current _referent_ of "personal identity" with the semantic mind game of declaring that "personal identity" now refers to something else! How dumb do you think we are?! But more on this later.)
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+people like me being incentivized to identify as part of a political pressure group that attempts to leverage claims of victimhood into claims on power
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