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@@ -75,8 +75,6 @@ but if my expectations (about the community) were wrong, that's a problem with m
 
 it's naive to think you can win against an egregore 1000 times bigger than you
 
-MASSIVE cognitive dissonance, "What? What???"
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 the Church
 
 won't you be embarrassed to leave if we create utopia
@@ -126,12 +124,6 @@ _everyone else shot first_, and I'm _correct on the merits_
 
 competence forcing conclusions: http://www.sl4.org/archive/0602/13903.html
 
-language as an AI capability
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-https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NnohDYHNnKDtbiMyp/fake-utility-functions
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-"the love of a man for a woman, and the love of a woman for a man, have not been cognitively derived from each other or from any other value. [...]  There are many such shards of desire, all different values."
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 analogy to school
 
 (["_Perhaps_, replied the cold logic. _If the world were at stake_. _Perhaps_, echoed the other part of himself, _but that is not what was actually happening_."](http://yudkowsky.net/other/fiction/the-sword-of-good))
@@ -409,15 +401,12 @@ https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2018/12/24/contrite-strategies-and-the-need-f
 
 If an Outer Party member in the world of George Orwell's 1984 says, "Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia," even though they clearly remember events from last week, when Oceania was at war with Eurasia instead [...] even if it's not really their fault
 
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 > but not worth starting over over
 
 I mean, this is the part where I do a very not Effective Altruist-themed thing, and stop talking as if I do anything for the good of the lightcone. (Maybe see Ben on "Against Responsibility" and "The Humility Argument for Honesty".) I internalized a particular vision [...] of what conduct is appropriate to a "rationalist"; I'm didn't that standard upheld with respect to my Something to Protect; so I am doing a halt–melt–catch-fire on "the community." It's worth starting over over _for me_. If my actions (implausibly) represent a PR risk to someone else's Singularity strategy, then they're welcome to try to persuade or negotiate with me.
 
 the appeal to arbitrariness technically extends in both directions (if there's no rule saying you can't use the word to talk about self-identity, there's no rule saying I can't use the word to talk about sex), but systematically favors one side—sex is a pretty robust abstraction, and there's no reason to deny the appeal of robustness
 
-https://wnww.reddit.com/r/MtF/comments/89nw0w/did_you_have_a_genderbody_swaptransformation/
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 Inadequate Equilibria!
 
 I'm expressing the same kind of frustration as the Great Teacher complaining about cryo not being standard—my personal benchmark of "sanity" isn't realistic
@@ -428,8 +417,6 @@ there's a sense in which everyone is behaving reasonably given their incentives,
 
 Julia Serano 
 
-You "can't" define a word any way you want, or you "can"—what actually matters is the math
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 words don't have intrinsic definitions, but the only reason you would want to repurpose an _existing_ word is either becasuse you think you can carve the joints better, or mindfucking
 
 cat/dog gaslighting; even if you don't particularly need that particular classification for a practical purpose, even so ...