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 ✓ last email and not bothering him [pt. 6]
 ✓ the Death With Dignity era [pt. 6]
 ✓ New York [pt. 6]
-_ scuffle on "Yes Requires the Possibility" [pt. 4]
+✓ scuffle on "Yes Requires the Possibility" [pt. 4]
 _ reaction to Ziz [pt. 4]
 _ "Unnatural Categories Are Optimized for Deception" [pt. 4]
 _ confronting Olivia [pt. 2]
@@ -48,21 +48,8 @@ _ the story of my Feb./Apr. 2017 recent madness [pt. 2]
 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—
-_ coveture
-_ find an anti-Asian racist joke for a change
-_ List of Lethalities
-_ new version of "not coming out" also archived?
-_ screenshot my last Facebook comment
-_ atrocious sample-efficiency
-_ date of longtermism EA forum comment
-_ hypernym
-_ Michael Bailey's new AGP in women study
-_ what does "pervue" mean
-_ archive.is https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1425334398484983813
-_ group yelling operation quotes
-_ "Vassarite" coinage
 _ Nate would later admit that this was a mistake
-_ indulgence
+_ Michael Bailey's new AGP in women study
 _ "gene drive" terminology
 _ double-check "All rates" language
 _ footnote "said that he wishes he'd never published"
@@ -70,7 +57,6 @@ _ hate-warp tag
 _ replace "Oh man oh jeez" Rick & Morty link
 _ Nevada bona fides
 _ Parfit's Hitchhiker
-_ Heinlein on "Get the facts!"
 _ double-check correctness of Keltham-on-paternalism link
 _ Arbital TDT explanation
 _ find Sequences cite "if you don't know how your AI works, that's bad"
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 /2017/Jan/from-what-ive-tasted-of-desire/
 
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+> Similarly, a rationalist isn't just somebody who respects the Truth.
+> All too many people respect the Truth.
+> [...]
+> A rationalist is somebody who respects the _processes of finding truth_.
+https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HcCpvYLoSFP4iAqSz/rationality-appreciating-cognitive-algorithms
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+> Why is school like a boner?
+> It’s long and hard unless you're Asian.
+
+Robert Heinlein
+> “What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what “the stars foretell,” avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable “verdict of history” – what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!”
+https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/38764-what-are-the-facts-again-and-again-and-again
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