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


@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ 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
 


@@ -110,3 +110,25 @@ 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://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