memoir: TODO outlining in 2019 and to close

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@@ -236,6 +236,7 @@ me—call with Michael,  the Pope surely knows that he doesn't really have a dir
 18 Jul: my accusation of mis-citing Ozy was wrong
 20 Jul: me to Anna and Steven about LW mods colluding to protect feelings; "basically uninterested in the mounting evidence that your entire life's work is a critical failure?"
 20 Jul: Michael—Court language is the language that we have for "you don't have the ethical option of non-engagement with the complaints that are being made"
+> We *also* need to develop skill in the use of  SJW style blamey language, like the blamey language about feelings that was being used *on* us harder and to a great extent first, while we were acting under mistake theory assumptions.
 23 Jul: "epistemic defense" meeting
 24-25 Jul: Michael Vassar and the theory of optimal gossip
 Kelsey thinks "threatening schism is that it's fundamentally about Vassar threatening to stir shit up until people stop socially excluding him for his bad behavior"
@@ -1347,7 +1348,9 @@ there's this thing where some people are way more productive than others and eve
 
 (where I'm fond of the Ayn Rand æsthetic of "I earn my keep, and if the market were to decide that I don't deserve to live anymore, I guess it would be right and I should accept my fate with dignity" and I think the æsthetic is serving a useful function in my psychology even though it's also important to model how I would change my tune if the market actually decided that I don't deserve to live)
 
-> but the "Everyone knows that Zack feels guilty about underperforming, so they don't punish him, because he's already doing enough internalized-domination to punish himself" dynamic is unsustainable if it evolves (evolves is definitely the right word here) into a loop of "feeling gulit in exchange for not doing work" rather than the intended function of "feeling guilt in order to successfully incentivize work"
+> but the "Everyone knows that Zack feels guilty about underperforming, so they don't punish him, because he's already doing enough internalized-domination to punish himself" dynamic is unsustainable if it evolves (evolves is definitely the right word here) into
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+a loop of "feeling gulit in exchange for not doing work" rather than the intended function of "feeling guilt in order to successfully incentivize work"
 
 You've got to be strong to survive in the [O-ring sector](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-ring_theory_of_economic_development)