memoir: outlining prep for Eliezerfic fight

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@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ _ Michael Vassar and the Theory of Optimal Gossip
 _ psychiatric disaster 
 
 With internet available—
+_ tag giving full name of Keepers
+_ 2014 April Fool's Day confession
+_ Keltham's masochism insight
 _ archive.is Nov. 2016 Scott Tumblr pushback
 _ check summary of Nov. 2016 link
 _ Smallpox Eradication Day
@@ -1776,8 +1779,6 @@ What's the difference? Are there _generalizable reasons_ why fraud isn't worth i
 
 What is "It would be OK in dath ilan, but it's not OK on Earth" even supposed to _mean_, if it's not just, "It's OK for people who genetically resemble Eliezer Yudkowsky to deceive the world as long as they have a clever story for why it's all for the greater good, but it's not OK for you, because you're genetically inferior to him"?
 
-(I was fine with the arrogance in the Sequences, when it seemed like a harmless stylistic affectation during some really valuable lessons, but if "Eliezer Yudkowsky is smarter than you" now just _is the lesson_, it seems like a very different lesson)
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 https://discord.com/channels/936151692041400361/1022006828718104617/1047374488645402684
 
 A. J. Vermillion seems to be complaining that by not uncritically taking the author assertions at face value, I'm breaking the rules of the literary-criticism game—that if the narrator _says_ Civilization was designed to be trustworthy, I have no license to doubt that is "actually" is.
@@ -1866,10 +1867,6 @@ The standard I'm appealing to is, "It's intellectually dishonest to make argumen
 
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-https://discord.com/channels/936151692041400361/1022006828718104617/1054235592961048609
-> rather than, as is more often the case in dath ilan stories, a depiction of a better institution you could build if people were eliezera
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-(eliezera racial supremacy _is_ the lesson)
 
 Fool! There is no Equilibrium