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@@ -670,6 +670,8 @@ https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1501218503990431745
 
 playing on a different chessboard—I would be fine with it if he didn't shit on my chessboard. But my shitting on his chessboard
 
+I could forgive him for taking a shit on d4 of my chessboard ("at least 20% of the ones with penises are actually women"). I could even forgive him for subsequently taking a shit on e4 of my chessboard ("") as long as he wiped the shit off afterwards ([TODO linky-quotey clarification]), even though, really, I would have expected someone so smart to take a hint after the incident on d4.
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 Ben on Discursive Warfare and Faction Formation: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dou43_aX_h1lP7-wqU_5jJq62PuhotQaybe5H2HUmWc/edit
 > What's not wrong on purpose is persuasive but does not become a factional identity. What becomes a factional identity is wrong on purpose.
 
@@ -750,9 +752,6 @@ https://www.glowfic.com/replies/1801374#reply-1801374
 
 I joined the "Eliezerfic" server in spite of my enmity, and JoshTriplett is in there (contrary to my gut instinct that Rust peeps hate my rationalist peeps)
 
-> "too many people think it's unvirtuous to shut up and listen to [him]"
-https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1509944888376188929
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 The cowardice is remarkable, coming from someone who otherwise
 
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@@ -954,6 +953,9 @@ the Extropians post _explicitly_ says "may be a common sexual fantasy"
 
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+Dath ilan has a concept of "the Light"—the vector in policyspace perpendicular outwards from the Pareto curve, in which everyone's interests coincide.
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 In dath ilan they talk about the Light—the policy vector that everyone can agree on
 
 
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 It's as if the guy has just completely given up on the idea that public speech is useful, or that anyone besides he and his flunkies are capable of thought.
 
-> [TODO linky Tweet about "too many people think it's unvirtuous to shut up and listen to me"; I wish I had never written about LDT and just told people to vote]
+> "too many people think it's unvirtuous to shut up and listen to me" I wish I had never written about LDT and just told people to vote for reasons they understand when they're older
+https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1509944888376188929
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-What a _profoundly_ anti-intellectual statement! This is just not something you would say if you cared about having a rationality community that could process arguments and correct its own errors, rather than 
 
+What a _profoundly_ anti-intellectual statement! This is just not something you would say if you cared about having a rationality community that could process arguments and correct errors,
 
-To be clear, there _is_ such a thing as legitimately trusting an authority who knows better than you.
+rather than a robot cult 
 
 
+To be clear, there _is_ such a thing as legitimately trusting an authority who knows better than you.
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 That trust is a _finite resource_.
 
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