marked TODO blocks—
-✓ Slate Star Codex went down [pt. 4]
-✓ revise pseudonymity graf [pt. 2]
-✓ Transgender Map mis-doxxed me [pt. 2]
-✓ last day at SwiftStack, alt-right quip [pt. 2]
-✓ "If Clarity" recap intro [pt. 4]
-✓ Steven's gravity objection [pt. 4]
-✓ "Some Clarifications on Rationalist Blogging" [pt. 4]
-✓ more philosophy of language blogging [pt. 4]
-_ "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]
+_ confronting Olivia [pt. 2]
_ "Lesswrong.com is dead to me" [pt. 4]
_ AI timelines scam [pt. 4]
_ secret thread with Ruby [pt. 4]
_ out of patience email [pt. 4]
_ "Unnatural Categories Are Optimized for Deception" [pt. 4]
_ recap of crimes, cont'd [pt. 5]
-_ AlphaGo seemed deeper [pt. 5]
-_ social justice and defying threats [pt. 5]
_ lead-in to Sept. 2021 Twitter altercation [pt. 5]
_ Jessica's experience at MIRI and CfAR [pt. 5]
_ the Death With Dignity era [pt. 5]
With internet available—
-✓ HEXACO model
-✓ archive.is misdoxxing
-✓ negative utilitarian Planecrash tag
-✓ my Tweet about upgrading to a block
-✓ archive.is Nov. 2016 Scott Tumblr pushback (already done)
-✓ tag giving full name of Keepers
-✓ 2014 April Fool's Day confession
-✓ Smallpox Eradication Day
-✓ privacy ask
-✓ a poem I wrote in the _Less Wrong_ comments in 2011
-✓ May 2019 thread vs. Vanessa
-✓ Sword of Good
-✓ Yudkowsky on AlphaGo
-✓ tags on Ordinary Merrin
-✓ check summary of Nov. 2016 link
+_ "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)
> This is Keltham desperately pretending not to be at all starstruck, because he was not previously way into the Merrin fandom but even he has heard of the Ordinary Merrin Conspiracy, wherein Merrin has some weird psychological hangup about believing she is a totally normal and ordinary person or even something of a struggling low achiever, and everybody in Civilization is coordinating to pretend around her that ordinary normal people totally get their weird Exception Handling training scenarios televised to a million watchers on a weekly basis.
> It makes her - simultaneously an ultra-high-achieving role model who's much more famous than you are, and also, somebody who's committing this very large cognitive error where you know better than her about it. Which is not usually something you can say about a major public figure, you would not usually expect to be in a position where you would ever know about a cognitive error a public figure was committing, because they'd already have advisors much much smarter than you. But if you screw Merrin, you're not, like, just some strictly vastly inferior being that she's allowed into her cuddleroom. There is at least one topic you could totally win an argument with her about, as judged by impartial judges: namely, is she in fact a fairly ordinary person really. But you must never ever mention it in front of her.
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+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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+for normal people, when your favorite author gets worse, you just shrug and accept it and enjoy the classics, but when your favorite author is also the Pope of your religion and also in several Discord servers with you, you end up wasting a lot of time scrutinizing their emoji-reacts
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