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-Title: Social Strategy Notes, February 2019
+Title: Social Strategy Notes, March 2019

 Date: 2020-01-01
 Category: commentary
 Tags: personal, software industry
 Status: draft
 
 Date: 2020-01-01
 Category: commentary
 Tags: personal, software industry
 Status: draft
 

-_(Attention conservation notice: petulant navel-gazing is boring. [Please subscribe](/feeds/all.atom.xml) for actual content later, I double-dog promise!)_
+_(Attention conservation notice: petulant Diarly-like navel-gazing is boring. [Please subscribe](/feeds/all.atom.xml) for actual content later, I double-dog promise!)_
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+So much for the rationalists (previous posts)
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+At least, that was the vision _I_ internalized in the late 'aughts. Others who were present may remember things slightly differently.
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+And so, as I previously blogged, it was _kind of a shock_ in 2016 when I moved to "Portland" (which is actually Berkeley), noticed that 
+

 
 February has been a pretty exciting month for me in terms of advancing in my chosen profession!
 
 
 February has been a pretty exciting month for me in terms of advancing in my chosen profession!
 


@@ -28,6 +36,8 @@ I remember being at the University in 'aught-six or 'aught-seven, reading a libr
 
 karaoke: "Reflection" as trans anthem, I said "It permits many interpretations"
 
 
 karaoke: "Reflection" as trans anthem, I said "It permits many interpretations"
 

+telling the woman in our karaoke group that she should sing the female part, but I wouldn't have if there had been a trans woman present
+

 ReductRS tweet, I probably looked annoyed rather than mirthful
 
 it's not actually engaging with the 
 ReductRS tweet, I probably looked annoyed rather than mirthful
 
 it's not actually engaging with the 


@@ -73,6 +83,10 @@ tempted to escalate to misgendering just as a protest against mind control (even
 
 How strong is the hypothesized "if you ever gerrymander a category, then parsimony is ever after your enemy" effect?
 
 
 How strong is the hypothesized "if you ever gerrymander a category, then parsimony is ever after your enemy" effect?
 

+—the hypothesis that it's a big effect, is just a hypothesis; maybe compartmentalization is safe. If I think I'm doing rationality better than everyone else, then that should _show up_ in me making progress on other subjects!
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+"categories are arbitrary" is _generalized anti-epistemology_ that wouldn't have even _occured_ to anyone if they weren't trying to protect a broken belief
+

 clickthrough rates are bad, which is a point against the bundling strategy of writing good non-gender-war content under the same pseudonym
 
 lack of a positive vision
 clickthrough rates are bad, which is a point against the bundling strategy of writing good non-gender-war content under the same pseudonym
 
 lack of a positive vision


@@ -95,7 +109,7 @@ my obsessive personality (being angry about school felt _just_ like this)
 
 B.'s advice about the unwarranted assumption of good faith
 
 
 B.'s advice about the unwarranted assumption of good faith
 

-summing over three conversations, don't want to get into details because don't want to relitigate object-level points addressed in prev. (and future) posts, and because I don't want to leak too much info about private conversations
+summing over three conversations, don't want to get into details because don't want to relitigate object-level points addressed in prev. (and future) posts, and because I don't want to leak too much info about non-public conversations

 
 part of the reason I've been slow to finish my draft to Ozy is the sense that it doesn't really matter
 
 
 part of the reason I've been slow to finish my draft to Ozy is the sense that it doesn't really matter
 


@@ -106,3 +120,38 @@ at first I was upset about two-types in 2016/17, but that may have been prematur
 "Wilhelm" told me to give up, but I have a _massive_ homefield advantage that doesn't port; that's an incentive to stand my ground and fight a culture war, unpleasant as that is
 
 trans women who I love and admire and don't want to hurt—but who are a _different thing_ from actual women—_sufficiently_ different in a way that deserves either a separate noun, _or_ at least https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markedness ("women"/cis-women as the central thing, and "trans" as a wierd version); the "women, cis or trans; neither kind more central than the other" is not going to fly. Which isn't to say that "cis" is a bad word to have (I don't mind having words for "straight" or "heterosexual") (this could be its own post)
 "Wilhelm" told me to give up, but I have a _massive_ homefield advantage that doesn't port; that's an incentive to stand my ground and fight a culture war, unpleasant as that is
 
 trans women who I love and admire and don't want to hurt—but who are a _different thing_ from actual women—_sufficiently_ different in a way that deserves either a separate noun, _or_ at least https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markedness ("women"/cis-women as the central thing, and "trans" as a wierd version); the "women, cis or trans; neither kind more central than the other" is not going to fly. Which isn't to say that "cis" is a bad word to have (I don't mind having words for "straight" or "heterosexual") (this could be its own post)

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+"We're not actually doing the bad reasoning you're accusing us of" dodge is not credible; we had a whole goddamned sequence on this
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+https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2018/12/15/argue-politics-with-your-best-friends/
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+pulling my punches somewhat "Why can't we define 'woman' that way?" I was trying to be conciliatory with, "You can, but sometimes I want to use the word in other ways", but maybe that just got read as a sign of weakness; a more aggressive stance would have been "Because [37 Ways Words Can Be Wrong], that's fucking why"
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+https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2018/12/15/argue-politics-with-your-best-friends/
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+"Beatrice"'s disavowal
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+embarrassing myself
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+rationalists are _really good_ at free speech norms
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+progressive virtue signaling—but when I say it, it's not just a sneer; it's a
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+https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1084628483748184064
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+test case: http://web.archive.org/web/20200111125910/https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/12/clarification-to-sacred-principles-as-exhaustible-resources/
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+https://www.gnxp.com/blog/2007/10/james-watson-tells-inconvenient-truth_296.php
+—
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+stepping over the line in babyserver and #arabeth
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+most of the ill will is on my side
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+From the standpoint of a cultural minority, it feels like the dominant culture is constantly microaggressing against your interests, and sometimes you want to push back in self-defense, with the justification that they started it. But from the dominant culture's perspective, it was just being itself, and the "pushback" is the aggression, and the minority started it.
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+Tail didn't even want to Tweet me?!?
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+the oragnaizer of the Quillette meetup wanted to talk about black dysfunction, and I felt the discomfort of "Why are you interested in this topic?"
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+the pain of being values-aligned but not ideology-aligned