memoir: hair surgery does not propogate backwards in time

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@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 noncontiguous on deck—
-X reluctance to write a memoir during 2019
-X pinging Ben about memoir reluctance
-X actually good criticism from Abram
-_ let's recap / being put in a box
+_ being put in a box (hair)
+_ being put in a box (school)
 _ "duly appreciated"
+_ let's recap 
 _ if he's reading this
 _ tie off reply to Xu
 _ help from Jessica for "Unnatural Categories"
 _ bridge to "Challenges"
 _ Christmas party 2019 and state of Church leadership
+_ look at email log again for outlining 2019
 _ Anna vs. Michael factional conflict
 _ "fraud" as deception that moves resources
 
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ _ "fraud" as deception that moves resources
 
 with internet available—
 _ woke filter bubble thinking, stopped talking to Michael when he went that way https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1435619618052214787
-_ "praise Ba'al" language from "Rationalist Blogging"
+_ "praise Ba'al" language from "Rationalist Blogging" (both on first ref to that post, and Feelings vs. Truth speech)
 _ disclaimer on "Categories Were Made"
 _ update "Argue Politics" link to Sarah's static site
 _ link simulacrum posts: Zvi (he has a category), Elizabeth, at least one more from Ben
@@ -539,8 +539,6 @@ It would be nice if children in rationalist Berkeley could grow up correctly
 
 congrats after Whale and Sawyer chimed in: https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1435706946158432258
 
-https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1404700330927923206
-> That is: there's a story here where not just particular people hounding Zack as a responsive target, but a whole larger group, are engaged in a dark conspiracy that is all about doing damage on issues legible to Zack and important to Zack.  This is merely implausible on priors.
 
 the "It is sometimes personally prudent to be seen to agree with Stalin" attitude behaves like a conspiracy, even if 
 
@@ -1081,3 +1079,9 @@ there needs to be _some_ way for _someone_ to invest a _finite_ amount of effort
 
 https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1404698587175350275
 > That Zack now imagines this to be a great trend [...] does seem like an avoidable error and a failure to take perspective on how much most people's lives are not about ourselves
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+I have a _seflish_ interest in people making and sharing accurate probabilistic inferences about how sex and gender and transgenderedness work in reality, for many reasons, but in part because _I need the correct answer in order to decide whether or not to cut my dick off_.
+
+[TODO: in the context of elite Anglosphere culture in 2016–2022; it should be clear that defenders of reason need to be able to push back and assert that biological sex is real; other science communicators like 
+
+[Dawkins can see it.](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/apr/20/richard-dawkins-loses-humanist-of-the-year-trans-comments) [Jerry Coyne can see it.](https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2018/12/11/once-again-why-sex-is-binary/)]