✓ complicity and friendship
✓ plan to reach out to "Ethan"
✓ Michael on creepy men/crazy men
+✓ repair pt. 5 dath ilan transition
_ State of Steven
_ reaction to Ziz
-_ repair pt. 5 dath ilan transition
- Eliezerfic fight conclusion
blocks to fit somewhere—
_ mention Nick Bostrom email scandal (and his not appearing on the one-sentence CAIS statement)
_ revise and cut words from "bad faith" section since can link to "Assume Bad Faith"
_ cut words from January 2020 Twitter exchange (after war criminal defenses)
-_ revise reply to Xu
_ everyone *who matters* prefers to stay on the good side
pt. 5 edit tier—
_ probably cut the vaccine polarization paragraphs? (overheard at a party is not great sourcing, even if technically admissible)
_ elaborate on how 2007!Yudkowsky and 2021!Xu are saying the opposite things if you just take a plain-language reading and consider, not whether individual sentences can be interpreted as "true", but what kind of _optimization_ the text is doing to the behavior of receptive readers
_ Scott got comas right in the same year as "Categories"
+_ revise reply to Xu
_ cite Earthling/postrat sneers
_ cite postYud Tweet
_ when EY put a checkmark on my Discord message characterizing his strategy as giving up on intellectual honesty
_ cut lots of words from Scotts comments on Jessica's MIRI post (keep: "attempting to erase the agency", Scott blaming my troubles on Michael being absurd)
_ sucking Scott's dick is helpful because he's now the main gateway instead of HPMOR
_ Sarah's point that Scott gets a lot of undeserved deference, too: https://twitter.com/s_r_constantin/status/1435609950303162370
+_ clarify that Keltham infers there are no mascochists, vs. Word of God
+_ "Doublethink" ref in Xu discussion should mention that Word of God Eliezerfic clarification that it's not about telling others
dath ilan ancillary tier—
_ Who are the 9 most important legislators called?
_ collect Earth people sneers
_ psyops don't require people taking them seriously, only that they make people think the govenment is doing psyops
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+_ the reason "truth is better than lies; knowledge is better than ignorance" is general; can assert by authorial fiat whatever details are needed to make it all turn out for the greater good, but _that's not how anything works in real life_.
things to discuss with Michael/Ben/Jessica—
_ Anna on Paul Graham
_ Michael's SLAPP against REACH
_ Michael on creepy and crazy men
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