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@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ pt. 4 edit tier—
 ✓ make sure I'm summarizing "policy debates" moral from "Challenges"
 ✓ revise "too good a writer" to be more explicit "someone could be that naive"
 ✓ footnote about how I could be blamed for being too credulous?
-_ Stephen Jay Gould
+✓ Stephen Jay Gould
+_ emphasize that the philosophy-of-language thing is much worse
 _ edit post to clarify "nudging the cognition"
 _ Tail's objection to FFS example
 _ Brennan "everyone else should participate" needs more wording adjustments
@@ -13,15 +14,13 @@ _ emphasize that the philosophy-of-language thing was MUCH worse
 _ note the "larger than protons" concession
 _ look for a place to link http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/discursive-warfare-and-faction-formation/
 _ parenthetical defending literal fraud?
-_ link https://thingofthings.substack.com/p/why-callout-posts-often-include-trivial
 _ the mailing list post noted it as a "common sexual fantasy"
 _ Feynman, "pretend that the master truthseekers of any age of history"
 _ Dawkins (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/apr/20/richard-dawkins-loses-humanist-of-the-year-trans-comments) and Jerry Coyne (https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2023/08/27/on-helen-joyces-trans/) and Hooven (https://www.thefp.com/p/carole-hooven-why-i-left-harvard)
-_ emphasize that the philosophy-of-language thing is much worse
 _ it's gotten worse in the past 10–20 years
 _ social gender, hair color, and "believing in"
 _ cite more sneers; use a footnote to pack in as many as possible
-_ "if he decided after all that" exact clause
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 time-sensitive globals TODOs—
 ✓ consult Said
@@ -2868,5 +2867,8 @@ https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1356494399945854976
 > Anyone who's worked with me on public comms knows that among my first instructions is "We only use valid arguments here."  (Which makes hiring writers difficult; they have to know the difference.)  I've never called for lying to the public.  Label the shit you make up as made-up.
 https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1760133310024671583
 
-https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BahoNzY2pzSeM2Dtk/beware-of-stephen-j-gould
-> there comes a point in self-deception where it becomes morally indistinguishable from lying.  Consistently self-serving scientific "error", in the face of repeated correction and without informing others of the criticism, blends over into scientific fraud.
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+> there comes a point in self-deception where it becomes morally indistinguishable from lying.
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