✓ log2 with an 'o'
✓ yank note about LW comment policy to top-level
✓ "Common Interest of Many Causes" and "Kolmogorov Complicity" offer directly contradictory strategies
-_ re-check wording of trans-kids-on-the-margin section
+✓ re-check wording of trans-kids-on-the-margin section
_ briefly speculate on causes of brain damage in footnote?
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_ Ruby fight included ban threat, "forces of blandness want me gone ... stand my ground" remark
✓ rephrase "gamete size" discussion to make it clearer that Yudkowsky's proposal also implicitly requires people to be agree about the clustering thing
✓ honesty and humility, HEXACO
✓ GreaterWrong over Less Wrong for comment links
+✓ ending qualifications on "fraud" and whether it might be a good idea
+✓ selective argumentation that's clearly labeled as such would be fine
-- ending qualifications on "fraud" and whether it might be a good idea
+- if you only say good things about Republican candidates
+- he used to be worthy of trust
-_ if you only say good things about Republican candidates
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-_ Litany Against Gurus, not sure humans can think and trust at the same time; High Status and Stupidity
-_ body odors comment
-_ when EY put a checkmark on my Discord message characterizing his strategy as giving up on intellectual honesty
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-_ selective argumentation that's clearly labeled as such would be fine
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_ emphasize that 2018 thread was policing TERF-like pronoun usage, not just disapproving of gender-based pronouns
_ https://cognition.cafe/p/on-lies-and-liars
_ cite more sneers; use a footnote to pack in as many as possible
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pt. 5 edit tier—
_ sucking Scott's dick is helpful because he's now the main gateway instead of HPMOR
_ Previously-on summary
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-> I've informed a number of male college students that they have large, clearly detectable body odors. In every single case so far, they say nobody has ever told them that before.
-https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/kLR5H4pbaBjzZxLv6/polyhacking/comment/rYKwptdgLgD2dBnHY
The thing about our crowd is that we have a lamentably low proportion of women (13.3% cis women in the last community survey) and—I don't know when this happened; it certainly didn't feel like this back in 'aught-nine—an enormous number of trans women relative to population base rates (2.7%, for a cis-to-trans ratio of 4.9!!), the vast majority of whom I expect to be AGP
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-https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wustx45CPL5rZenuo/no-safe-defense-not-even-science
-> I'm not sure that human beings realistically _can_ trust and think at the same time.
"Why Quantum" has another reference to "doesn't seem possible to think and trust"
Bostrom's apology for an old email—who is this written for?? Why get ahead, when you could just not comment?
-[TODO:
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-https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1404697716689489921
-> I have never in my own life tried to persuade anyone to go trans (or not go trans)—I don't imagine myself to understand others that much.
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-If you think it "sometimes personally prudent and not community-harmful" to go out of your way to say positive things about Republican candidates and never, ever say positive things about Democratic candidates (because you "don't see what the alternative is besides getting shot"), you can see why people might regard you as a Republican shill—even if all the things you said were true, and even if you never told any specific individual, "You should vote Republican."
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-https://www.facebook.com/yudkowsky/posts/10154110278349228
-> Just checked my filtered messages on Facebook and saw, "Your post last night was kind of the final thing I needed to realize that I'm a girl."
-> ==DOES ALL OF THE HAPPY DANCE FOREVER==
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-https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1404821285276774403
-> It is not trans-specific. When people tell me I helped them, I mostly believe them and am happy.
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the rats were supposed to be an alternative to academic orthodoxy (such that we could just jump to the correct decision theory without the political fighting needing to dethrone CDT), but we're still under the authority of the egregore
(from October 2016 email to Scott)
I miss this Yudkowsky—
-https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cgrvvp9QzjiFuYwLi/high-status-and-stupidity-why
-> I try in general to avoid sending my brain signals which tell it that I am high-status, just in case that causes my brain to decide it is no longer necessary. In fact I try to avoid sending my brain signals which tell it that I have achieved acceptance in my tribe. When my brain begins thinking something that generates a sense of high status within the tribe, I stop thinking that thought.
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-I don't, actually, expect people to spontaneously blurt out everything they believe to be true, that Stalin would find offensive. "No comment" would be fine. Even selective argumentation that's clearly labeled as such would be fine. (There's no shame in being an honest specialist who says, "I've mostly thought about these issues though the lens of ideology _X_, and therefore can't claim to be comprehensive; if you want other perspectives, you'll have to read other authors and think it through for yourself.")
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-The problem is with selective argumentation that falsely claims to be complete.
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+I don't, actually, expect people to spontaneously blurt out everything they believe to be true, that Stalin would find offensive. "No comment" would be fine. Even selective argumentation that's clearly labeled as such would be fine.
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