two-types anchor in "... To Make Predictions"

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@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ I can accept a church community that disagrees on whether evolution is true. (Er
 _everyone else shot first_, and I'm _correct on the merits_
 
 competence forcing conclusions: http://www.sl4.org/archive/0602/13903.html
 _everyone else shot first_, and I'm _correct on the merits_
 
 competence forcing conclusions: http://www.sl4.org/archive/0602/13903.html

+https://archive.is/nb5rH

 
 analogy to school
 
 
 analogy to school
 


@@ -130,8 +131,6 @@ I _have_ to keep escalating, because I don't have a choice
 
 It shouldn't be a political demand; people should actually process my arguments because they're good arguments
 
 
 It shouldn't be a political demand; people should actually process my arguments because they're good arguments
 

-"Actually, we're Ashkenazi supremacists" 
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 James Watson 'aught-seven
 
 Arguing is not a punishment https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2018/12/15/argue-politics-with-your-best-friends/
 James Watson 'aught-seven
 
 Arguing is not a punishment https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2018/12/15/argue-politics-with-your-best-friends/


@@ -237,8 +236,6 @@ getting a reversal was improbable, but: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/st7DiQP2
 
 TWAW is a positive-valence instance of the worst-argument-in-the-world, but it's still the SAME THING; if you can't see that, you're dumb
 
 
 TWAW is a positive-valence instance of the worst-argument-in-the-world, but it's still the SAME THING; if you can't see that, you're dumb
 

-[I have seen the destiny of my neurotype, and am putting forth a convulsive effort to wrench it off its path. My weapon is clear writing.](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/i8q4vXestDkGTFwsc/human-evil-and-muddled-thinking)
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 I just don't _know how_ to tell the true tale of personal heartbreak without expressing some degree of disappointment in some people's characters. It is written that ["almost no one is evil; almost everything is broken."](https://blog.jaibot.com/). And [the _first_ step](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uHYYA32CKgKT3FagE/hold-off-on-proposing-solutions) towards fixing that which is broken, is _describing the problem_.)
 
 The "I can define the word 'woman' any way I want" argument is bullshit. All the actually-smart people know that it's bullshit at _some_ level, perhaps semi-consciously buried under a lot of cognitive dissonance. But it's _socially load-bearing_ bullshit that _not only_ does almost no one have an incentive to correct—
 I just don't _know how_ to tell the true tale of personal heartbreak without expressing some degree of disappointment in some people's characters. It is written that ["almost no one is evil; almost everything is broken."](https://blog.jaibot.com/). And [the _first_ step](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uHYYA32CKgKT3FagE/hold-off-on-proposing-solutions) towards fixing that which is broken, is _describing the problem_.)
 
 The "I can define the word 'woman' any way I want" argument is bullshit. All the actually-smart people know that it's bullshit at _some_ level, perhaps semi-consciously buried under a lot of cognitive dissonance. But it's _socially load-bearing_ bullshit that _not only_ does almost no one have an incentive to correct—


@@ -589,3 +586,10 @@ Discord arguments get _very_ repetitive; I wish there was a way to make progress
 my Culture War struggle is actually structurally similar to AI alignment: the economy/social-justice provides vast riches in the process of eating your soul. (I can have my hair long, I can get HRT and surgeries—but at the cost of not being able to explain why.)
 
 sneaking a copy of MTIMB into the MIRI library after visiting Eliezer (Jessica was outside), because it was what Harry would do (but notably, not Hermione)
 my Culture War struggle is actually structurally similar to AI alignment: the economy/social-justice provides vast riches in the process of eating your soul. (I can have my hair long, I can get HRT and surgeries—but at the cost of not being able to explain why.)
 
 sneaking a copy of MTIMB into the MIRI library after visiting Eliezer (Jessica was outside), because it was what Harry would do (but notably, not Hermione)

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+playing chess with a pigeon, what the tortise said to Achilles
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+[Discord comment about creating a space where no one questions whether someone deserves real woman status]
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+The "national borders" metaphor is particularly galling if—[unlike](https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/31/the-parable-of-the-talents/) [Arthur Blair](https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/06/30/the-lottery-of-fascinations/)—you _actually know the math_.