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-_ Eliezerfic fight conclusion
+- Eliezerfic fight conclusion
 _ Michael Vassar and the Theory of Optimal Gossip
 
 _ psych ward
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 With internet available—
+_ Keltham/Peranza exam answer should link specific tags
 _ Slate Star Codex on patient's rights being adversarial system
 _ was the "People are better at taking care of each other than institutions!" thing in the morning of Feb 17?? KP visit log might confirm?
 _ Kirutsugu spelling
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 _ Yudkowsky's LW moderation policy
 
 far editing tier—
+_ footnote to explain that when I'm summarizing a long Discord conversation to taste, I might move things around into "logical" time rather than "real time"; e.g. Yudkowsky's "powerfully relevant" and "but Superman" comments were actually one right after the other; and, e.g., I'm filling in more details that didn't make it into the chat, like innate kung fu; and that the fact that I can "enhance" the summaries of my part, but the people I'm talking to don't have the same privilege, should be taken into account—actually, this covers a lot of the memoir; maybe I should mention this earlier (and again in a footnote??)
 _ Ruby fight: "forces of blandness want me gone ... stand my ground" remark
 _ "Even our pollution is beneficial" [pt. 6]
 _ Scott Aaronson on the blockchain of science [pt. 6]
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 _ clarify Sarah dropping out of the coordination group
 _ somewhere in dath ilan discussion: putting a wrapper on graphic porn is fine, de-listing Wikipedia articles is not
 _ maybe current-year LW would be better if more marginal cases _had_ bounced off because of e.g. sexism
-_ footnote to explain that when I'm summarizing a long Discord conversation to taste, I might move things around into "logical" time rather than "real time"; e.g. Yudkowsky's "powerfully relevant" and "but Superman" comments were actually one right after the other; and, e.g., I'm filling in more details that didn't make it into the chat, like innate kung fu
 _ re "EY is a fraud": it's a _conditional_ that he can modus tollens if he wants
 _ NRx point about HBD being more than IQ, ties in with how I think the focus on IQ is distasteful, but I have political incentives to bring it up
 _ "arguing for a duty to self-censorship"—contrast to my "closing thoughts" email
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 https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1642908341327499264
 [re identifying as a "decision theorist"]
 > it's a place where it would be easiest to defend, to my own satisfaction, and without a sense that I was even slightly misleading anyone, that I made a big damn contribution on at least the PhD level.
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+Vanessa's comment about "I'm a woman in EA, and I don't get harrassed—maybe it's because I'm unattractive" deserves a "it's because you're not _female_" retort—not naming her and not linking the comment, but it does need to be said.
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+"I could protest that the prompt didn't do enough to steer me away"—that's evidence _for_ the ITT (in contrast to my planned argument that the ITT is niche). (But the fact that I can recognize this in my own voice is evidence for my original thesis??