marked TODO blocks—
-_ "Agreeing with Stalin" recap intro [pt. 5]
-_ confronting Olivia [pt. 2]
+✓ AlphaGo seemed deeper [pt. 5]
+- "Agreeing with Stalin" recap intro [pt. 5]
+- social justice and defying threats [pt. 5]
+_ last email and not bothering him [pt. 5]
_ scuffle on "Yes Requires the Possibility" [pt. 4]
-_ AlphaGo seemed deeper [pt. 5]
-_ social justice and defying threats [pt. 5]
+_ confronting Olivia [pt. 2]
_ "Lesswrong.com is dead to me" [pt. 4]
_ AI timelines scam [pt. 4]
_ secret thread with Ruby [pt. 4]
With internet available—
+_ "When you strike at a king"
+_ real-name blog post: jr. member of save/destroy/take-over the world conspiracy
+_ Sequences post making fun of "just make a really big neural net"
+_ DeepMind June 2022 Twitter archive?
+_ January 2021 Capitol riot
+_ No Fire Alarm
_ "not hard to find": link to more /r/itsafetish-like anecdotes
_ Keltham's masochism insight
_ stats of SIAI vs. SingInst hits (for ^siai footnote)
_ D. also acknowledged AGP
_ "no one else would have spoken" should have been a call-to-action to read more widely
_ explain who Kay Brown is
+_ "Great Common Task" is probably capitalized
_ mention Will MacAskill's gimped "longtermism" somehow
_ re-read a DALL-E explanation and decide if I think it's less scary now
_ Scott Aaronson on the blockchain of science https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6821
_ better introduction of S.K.
_ risk of people bouncing off progressivism
_ an AGP teen boy could at least consent to transition, and make plans based on knowing what the thing is (you'd actually want to go through a little bit of male puberty)
+_ "tossed in a bucket" is ignoring advice from Sept. 2022 clarification to be clear about the type distinction
+_ explicitly explain "Hill of Validity" title inversion
_ figure out full timeline of which of my Less Wrong posts to mention
_ update "80,000 words" refs with the near-final wordcount
_ the "outright bad faith" clause in "Your Price for Joining"
I hate that my religion is bottlenecked on one guy
-https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/fStCX6RXmgxkTBe73/towards-a-weaker-longtermism?commentId=Kga3KGx6WAhkNM3qY
-> I am broadly fine with people devoting 50%, 25% or 75% of themselves to longtermism, in that case, as opposed to tearing themselves apart with guilt and ending up doing nothing much, which seems to be the main alternative.
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https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1405032189708816385
> Egregore psychology is much easier and more knowable than individual human psychology, for the same reason macroscopic matter is more predictable than individual particles. But trying to tell people what the egregore is doing doesn't work because they don't believe in egregores!!
-https://glowfic.com/replies/1882395#reply-1882395
-> the stranger from dath ilan never pretended to be anyone's friend after he stopped being their friend.
-Similarly, you should stop pretending to be a rationality teacher if you're going to be corrupted by politics
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20 June 2021, "The egregore doesn't care about the past", thematic moments at Valinor
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You don't want to have a reputation that isn't true; I've screwed up confidentiality before, so I don't want a "good at keeping secrets" reputation; if Yudkowsky doesn't want to live up to the standard of "not being a partisan hack", then ...
Extended analogy between "Scott Alexander is always right" and "Trying to trick me into cutting my dick off"—in neither case would any sane person take it literally, but it's pointing at something important (Scott and EY are trusted intellectual authorities, rats are shameless about transition cheerleading)
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