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@@ -684,6 +684,8 @@ Given these political realities, you'd think that I _should_ be sympathetic to t
 
 And, historically, it would have been harder for the robot cult to recruit _me_ (or those like me) back in the 'aughts, if they had been less politically correct. (Recall that I was already turned off, then, by what I thought of as _sexism_; I stayed because the philosophy-of-science blogging was _too good_.)
 
+[TODO: but on the margin, other people like me would have bounced depending on the science-blogging/orthodoxy blend ...]
+
 Ultimately, if the people with influence over the trajectory of the systematically correct reasoning "community" aren't interested in getting the right answers in public, then I think we need to give up on the idea of there _being_ a "community", which, you know, might have been a dumb idea to begin with. No one owns _reasoning itself_. Yudkowsky had written that rationality is the ["common interest of many causes"](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4PPE6D635iBcGPGRy/rationality-common-interest-of-many-causes): [TODO]
 
 [TODO:
@@ -718,10 +720,12 @@ In a world where we don't _have_ magical perfect sex-change technology, but we _
 
 Something I have trouble reliably communicating about what I'm trying to do with this blog is that "I don't do policy." Almost everything I write is _at least_ one meta level up from any actual decisions. I'm _not_ trying to tell other people in detail how they should live their lives, because obviously I'm not smart enough to do that and get the right answer. I'm _not_ telling anyone to detransition. I'm _not_ trying to set government policy about locker rooms or medical treatments.
 
-The thing I'm objecting to is this _culture of narcissistic Orwellian mind games_ that thinks people have the right to _dictate other people's model of reality_. I don't know what the _right_ culture is, but I'm pretty sure that _this isn't it_.
+The thing I'm objecting to is this _culture of narcissistic Orwellian mind games_ that thinks people have the right to _dictate other people's model of reality_. I don't know what the _right_ culture is, but I'm pretty sure that _this ain't it, chief_.
 
 [TODO: my friends should exist, but this culture is nuts
 
+The utility function is not up for grabs
+
 anecdote about someone complaining that a receptionist compared them to a male celebrity, and being offended, "I look like this [photo], how could anyone think that was an acceptable thing to say"
 
 _It was a complement!_ (That poor receptionist was thinking of David Bowie or Eddie Izzard, rather than trying to be hateful)