Satur-day memoir redemption session

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+on deck—
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+_ quote second out of patience email
+_ giving up on him, don't want to waste any more time, last email
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 With internet available—
 _ me remarking to "Wilhelm" that I think I met Vanessa at Solstice once, commented on Greg Egan
 _ debate with Benquo and Jessicata
+_ more Yudkowsky Facebook comment screenshots
+_ "20% of the ones with penises" someone in the comments saying, "It is a woman's body", and Yudkowsky saying "duly corrected"
+_ that neuroscience paper backing the 
 _ Prudentbot § from "Robust Cooperation" paper
+_ JDP on warrant and standing
 _ compile Categories references from the Dolphin War Twitter thread
 _ tussle with Ruby on "Causal vs. Social Reality"
 _ when did I ask Leon about getting easier tasks?
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 far editing tier—
+_ make sure to quote Yudkowsky's LW moderation policy before calling back to it
 _ tie off Anna's plot arc?
 _ quote one more "Hill of Meaning" Tweet emphasizing fact/policy distinction
 _ conversation with Ben about physical injuries (this is important because it explains where the "cut my dick off rhetoric" came from)
@@ -1423,9 +1434,9 @@ Kathryn Paige Harden, _The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality_
 
 ("Fake Optimization Critiera")
 
-John Snygg, _A New Approach to Differential Geometry Using Clifford's Geometric Algebra_ recounts the Arabic mathematician al-Biruni (973–1048). 
+John Snygg, _A New Approach to Differential Geometry Using Clifford's Geometric Algebra_ (§4.7.3) recounts the Arabic mathematician al-Biruni (973–1048). 
 
-> More is known about al-Briruni than most Islamic mathematicians because he included bits of autobiographical writings in some of his academic publications. In one of these, _Shadows_, he relates an encounter with a hard-line orthodox cleric. THe cleric admonished al-Biruni because he had used an astronomical instrument with Byzantine months engraved on it to determine the time of prayers. Al-Briuni replied:
+> More is known about al-Briruni than most Islamic mathematicians because he included bits of autobiographical writings in some of his academic publications. In one of these, _Shadows_, he relates an encounter with a hard-line orthodox cleric. The cleric admonished al-Biruni because he had used an astronomical instrument with Byzantine months engraved on it to determine the time of prayers. Al-Briuni replied:
 >> "The Byzantines also eat food. Then do not imitate them in this!"
 
 (Reversed Stupidity Is Not Intelligence)