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@@ -19,8 +19,6 @@ marked TODO blocks—
 ✓ technical discussion with Sophia
 ✓ Rob's thread, first contact with Ben [pt. 2]
 ✓ A/a alumna consult details [pt. 2]
-
-[pt. 2]
 ✓ touch up Persongen explanation 
 ✓ touch up "Helen" key photo explanation
 ✓ "Dear Totally Excellent Rationalist Friends"
@@ -29,21 +27,20 @@ marked TODO blocks—
 ✓ emails from Michael
 ✓ October 11th post
 ✓ commments on "Dear Totally Excellent Rationalist Friends"
-_ Daphne Koller and the Methods post
-_ comments on nice, mean versions
-_ mental state and visiting Divia
-_ sleepless Valentine's Day
-_ fully off the rails 15–17 February
-_ Sept. 2016 conversation with S.C.
-
-[pt. 6]
+✓ Daphne Koller and the Methods post
+✓ comments on nice, mean versions [pt. 2]
+✓ mental state and visiting Divia [pt. 2]
+
+- sleepless Valentine's Day [pt. 2]
+_ Sept. 2016 conversation with S.C. [pt. 2]
+_ fully off the rails 15–17 February [pt. 2]
+
 - Eliezerfic fight: Big Yud tests me [pt. 6]
 _ Eliezerfic fight: derail with lintamande [pt. 6]
 _ Eliezerfic fight: knives, and showing myself out [pt. 6]
 
-[pt. 2]
-_ Jan. discussion with "Wilhelm" (should also include Sep. discussion?)
-_ "model clicked"/Feb. discussion with "Wilhelm"
+_ Jan. discussion with "Wilhelm" (should also include Sep. discussion?) [pt. 2]
+_ "model clicked"/Feb. discussion with "Wilhelm" [pt. 2]
 
 _ psych ward [pt. 2]
 _ emailing Blanchard/Bailey/Hsu/Lawrence [pt. 2]
@@ -58,7 +55,6 @@ _ epistemic defense meeting [pt. 4]
 - December 2019 winter blogging vacation [pt. 4]
 _ plan to reach out to Rick [pt. 4]
 
-
 _ reaction to Ziz [pt. 4]
 _ State of Steven [pt. 4]
 _ Somni [pt. 4]
@@ -74,7 +70,7 @@ bigger blocks—
 _ the story of my Feb./Apr. 2017 recent madness [pt. 2]
 _ Dolphin War finish
 _ Michael Vassar and the Theory of Optimal Gossip
-_ psychiatric disaster 
+_ psychiatric disaster
 
 not even blocked—
 _ "Even our pollution is beneficial" [pt. 6]
@@ -85,17 +81,21 @@ _ include Wilhelm "Gender Czar" conversation? [pt. 2]
 _ "EA" brand ate the "rationalism" brand—even visible in MIRI dialogues
 _ Anna's heel–face turn
 _ "counterfactual boyfriend"/It's California in the year 2016
-  
+_ not talking about pivotal acts, downstream of not believing in Speech?
+
 it was actually "wander onto the AGI mailing list wanting to build a really big semantic net" (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9HGR5qatMGoz4GhKj/above-average-ai-scientists)
 
 With internet available—
-_ 
-_ Avatar state
+_ T4T
+_ recent EY tweet about not talking about Pivotal acts for fear of being misinterpreted
+_ someone's (Accelia's?) comment about needing a crisis in order to speak
+_ "locate it in the space of possibilities" pt. 2 (locating the hypothesis)
+_ https://avatar.fandom.com/wiki/Avatar_state ?
 _ occasions when it was genuinely on-topic (link to "Changing Emotions" comments)
 _ patterns of refactored agency
 _ check timing of comments on nice/mean versions??
 _ Castro Theatre name/spelling
-_ look back at more of the Facebook posts from meltdown
+_ look at more of the later posts from Facebook meltdown
 _ "Totally Excellent" root of the disagreement
 _ check that "Totally Excellent" comments with Noreen were all before movie date?
 _ Ben "put a Like on my comments", plural?
@@ -138,6 +138,8 @@ _ Anna's claim that Scott was a target specifically because he was good, my coun
 _ Yudkowsky's LW moderation policy
 
 far editing tier—
+_ "Noreen" discussion needs to cover the part where I'd cause less disruption if I transitioned
+_ "Noreen"'s girlfriend definitely needs to be mentioned
 _ get exact dates and correct Sequencing on late 2016 conversations
 _ mention Michael's influence and South Park recs in late 2016?
 _ probably give Amelia as pseudonym?
@@ -2372,3 +2374,8 @@ is this way currently\"",
       "timestamp_ms": 1530601116141,
       "content": "there was a NRx whose take [...] was so disagreeable that he got downvoted into oblivion on /r/slatestarcodex (and remember, /r/slatestarcodex is already pretty right-wing by San Francisco standards) who also had a post on the \"feminism appeals to masculine-of-center women\" hypothesis http://www.ericwulff.com/blog/?p=1861 which deserves more credit than it gets (it acknowledges within-group variation!)",
       "type": "Generic"
+
+
+----
+
+He doesn't want to talk about pivotal acts because because anything he says in public might be misinterpreted—but, how does the disutility of being misinterpreted plausibly outweigh the utility of someone having something useful to say?? I feel like his modern answer is some variation of "Everyone but me is retarded", but—that's not what he thought about decision theory back in 2010, when he validated/honored Wei Dai and Vladimir Nesov's contributions! (find cite) And now, he says he wish he hadn't talked about decision theory ...