* if part of the resistacne to an honest cost/benefit analysis is
+* reasonable vs. unreasonable misunderstandings
+
+
* what did I expect, taking on an egregore so much bigger than me?
* if I agree that people should be allowed to transition, why am I freaking out? Because I _actually care about getting the theory correct_
* culture matters: if you're surrounded by crazy people
-https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FaJaCgqBKphrDzDSj/37-ways-that-words-can-be-wrong
+
chapter and verse
+I will try to be less silly about "my thing is actually important for the world" claims, when what I really mean is that I'm just not a consequentialist about speech
+
+"Outside the Laboratory" dumbness could be selection rather than causal
+
+I don't expect anyone to take a stand for a taboo topic that they don't care about
+I would have expected Scott and/or Eliezer to help clarify the philosophy-of-language mistake, because that's core sequences material
+but I was wrong
+
+I was imagining that it should be safe to endorse my "... Boundaries?" post, because the post is about philosophy, and surely it should be possible to endorse a specific article without that being taken as an endorsement of the author
+but ... I guess that's not how politics works
+
+They can't _trust_ me not to leverage consensus on the categories-aren't-arbitrary for my object-level thing, in a way that would go on RationalWiki and SneerClub
+
+The counterargument that Dark Side Epistemology isn't that recursive
+
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+I would _never_ write someone off for disagreeing with me about a complicated empirical question in psychology. Psychology is _really complicated_—and psychology questions that impinge on hot-button culture war issues are subject to additional biasing pressures. In this domain, no matter how "obvious" I think something is, I have to [take the Outside View seriously](http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/07/beware-the-insi.html) and
+
+https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/08/15/my-id-on-defensiveness/
+https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/12/weak-men-are-superweapons/
+https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/22/rip-culture-war-thread/ Popular Author is very tired
+https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/07/04/some-clarifications-on-rationalist-blogging/
+
+Savvy people have an incentive to stonewall me until I give up and go away, and on any other subject where I didn't have Something to Protect, it would have _worked_
+
+Lying or gerrymandering an individual object-level category boundary is forgivable; constructing a clever philosophical argument that lying is OK, is not
+
+Another kind of asymmetric weapon: whether this narrative "looks worse" for me or my subjects depends on the audience (you can read it as a tale of betrayal of sacred principles, or a tale of personal mental illness)
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