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 _(Attention conservation notice: petulant Diarly-like navel-gazing is boring. [Please subscribe](/feeds/all.atom.xml) for actual content later, I double-dog promise!)_
 
-I haven't been doing so well for most of the past three-and-change months.
+So much for the rationalists (previous posts)
 
-This needs some context-setting. So, I've spent basically my entire adult life in this little intellectual subculture that was founded on an ideal of absolute truthseeking. Sure, anyone will _say_ that their beliefs are true, but you can tell most people aren't being very serious about it. _We_ were going to be serious: with a shared bedrock of knowledge of cognitive biases, reflectivity, and Bayesian probability theory bequeathed to us by our founders, _we_ were going to make serious collective intellectual progress in a way that had [never been](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Nu3wa6npK4Ry66vFp/a-sense-that-more-is-possible) [done before](https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/07/yes-we-have-noticed-the-skulls/), and possibly save our entire future light cone from the coming robot apocalypse!
 
 At least, that was the vision _I_ internalized in the late 'aughts. Others who were present may remember things slightly differently.
 
@@ -37,6 +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"
 
+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 
@@ -138,7 +139,7 @@ progressive virtue signaling—but when I say it, it's not just a sneer; it's a
 
 https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1084628483748184064
 
-test case: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/12/clarification-to-sacred-principles-as-exhaustible-resources/
+test case: http://web.archive.org/web/20200111125910/https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/12/clarification-to-sacred-principles-as-exhaustible-resources/
 
 https://www.gnxp.com/blog/2007/10/james-watson-tells-inconvenient-truth_296.php
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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.
 
 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