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@@ -3148,3 +3148,12 @@ Surrender on sports: https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/15366911172650803
 
 https://twitter.com/mherreshoff/status/1537427374676922369 
 > Maybe there's a bunch of ways to end up with the way-more-interested-in-things-than-people trait.  I imagine being handed an ill-fitting/dysphoric gender role would push one towards interested-in-things pretty hard.
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+A: so my household talks about planecrash a whole fuck of a lot and we have noted that eliezer doesn't act sexist to live human beings, this is exclusively a thing in his writing
+Z: I think our culture's concept of "sexism" is conflating things that are different in the territory; the So Different evopsych-sight in the writing is, in fact, compatible with not being an Evil Misogynist and treating women like people 
+A: I think they would by default be in tension, so if they're not in his case, I think something else might be going on
+Z: I don't think I told you about how I had a drink with my NRx Twitter mutual when a visited New York, who is totally an Evil Misogynist
+I would guess that me and Yudkowsky and Evil Reactionary Twitter Friend actually have broadly similar beliefs/predictions about human nature; the difference between us and Evil Reactionary Twitter Friend is mostly ideological, cultural
+and basically the thing I'm trying to do with my blog is that I like our culture and I want to fight for its (renormalized) values, but it's kind of pathetic that no one can jump up a meta level and see it _as_ a culture, _as_ an ideology
+as _contingent_
+as contingent but in a way that it's OK to reason about out loud, rather than being wordlessly afraid that talking will break everything