_ the exchange on old OB where I said to acknowledge that not all men _want_ to be masculine
_ screenshot Rob's Facebook comment which I link
_ compile Categories references from the Dolphin War
+_ dates of subsequent philosophy-of-language posts
far editing tier—
_ clarify why Michael thought Scott was "gaslighting" me, include "beeseech bowels of Christ"
https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1436025983522381827
> Well, Zack hopefully shouldn't see this, but I do happen to endorse everything you just said, for your own personal information.
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+[SECTION about monastaries (with Ben and Anna in April 2019)
+I complained to Anna: "Getting the right answer in public on topic _X_ would be too expensive, so we won't do it" is _less damaging_ when the set of such <em>X</em>es is _small_. It looked to me like we added a new forbidden topic in the last ten years, without rolling back any of the old ones.
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+"Reasoning in public is too expensive; reasoning in private is good enough" is _less damaging_ when there's some sort of _recruiting pipeline_ from the public into the monasteries: lure young smart people in with entertaining writing and shiny math, _then_ gradually undo their political brainwashing once they've already joined your cult. (It had [worked on me](/2021/May/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems/)!)
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+I would be sympathetic to "rationalist" leaders like Anna or Yudkowsky playing that strategy if there were some sort of indication that they had _thought_, at all, about the pipeline problem—or even an indication that there _was_ an intact monastery somewhere.
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