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+Actually—maybe I _do_ want to keep this narrowly scoped to the Category War, where I have a very strong case, rather than telling my whole gender/rationalism story!
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 * I haven't been doing so well, and I need to tell the story for my own sanity
 * I spent my entire adult life in "rationality", and I actually believed
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 M.L. Morris "Vocational Interests in the United States" d=1.7 on occupational preferences
 
 playing for scraps vs. playing for keeps https://twitter.com/DarrenJBeattie/status/1151902363059392512
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+You can't optimize your group's culture for not-talking-about-atheism without also optimizing against understanding Occam's razor; you can't optimize for not questioning gender self-identity without also optimizing against understanding "A Human's Guide to Words."