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+_ Point Man
+_ Link: "See Color"
 - Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to
 
-_ You Are Right and I Was Wrong: Reply to Tailcalled on Causality
- - The Causality of Ethnic Differences in COVID-19 Outcomes Is an Open
-_ Highlights From the Linkpost Comments (working title)
-_ Taxometrics and the Fallacy of the Insufficiently Relevant, Insufficiently Multivariate Experiment
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 LW—
 - And the Wisdom to Know the Difference
 _ importance of getting the direction of causality right
+_ Multi-Level Moloch; Or, Technically, the Holocaust Was a Coordination Success
+
 philosophy-of-language replies, 
 
 Marketing channels—
 _ Reddit: /r/philosophy, /r/TheMotte, /r/theschism, /r/SneerClub
 _ tags: "The SF Bay Area", "Criticisms of the Rationalist Movement", "Postmortems & Retrospectives"
 
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+_ Taxometrics and the Fallacy of the Insufficiently Relevant, Insufficiently Multivariate Experiment
 _ Beyond the Binary
 _ https://www.facebook.com/duncan.sabien/posts/3936528276381860 "Natural does not always mean good." — natural does not always mean good, but at our current tech level, that's actually a really good prior
 _ Novemember 2020 Political Notes; Or, Sen. Kelly Loeffler Is Mostly Living in a Simulation Now
@@ -49,8 +47,12 @@ _ reply to https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2020/11/16/hermeneutical-injustic
 _ four clusters
 _ Comment on "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots" https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/k77sxz/d_timnit_gebru_and_google_megathread/gepcliq/
  - Amy Wax linkpost
+- The Causality of Ethnic Differences in COVID-19 Outcomes Is an Open
 
 
+This is the same mechanism as "Unnatural Categories Are Optimized for Deception"!!
+> journalism is usually trustworthy because trustworthiness is the carrier vehicle. It's occasionally corrupt, because corruption is the payload.
+https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/lje3nu/statement_on_new_york_times_article/gnfrprx/?context=3
 
 optimized to confuse and intimidate people trying to use language to reason about the concept of biological sex, even if your conscious verbal narrative never says 'and now I will confuse and intimidate people who want to use language to reason about the concept of biological sex'!"
 
@@ -69,6 +71,9 @@ Transitioning is easy if you project into the subspace spanned by "given name" a
 (for Elision vs. Choice)
 Speakers of my generation are more likely to say "person" when sex isn't relevant, whereas older works (pre-second wave feminism?) would actually say "man" (or "woman"—see how anachronistic it feels to put the female option second and in parentheses?), presumably not because human nature has changed that much, but because of shifting cultural priorities about when sex is "relevant." (Modern speakers similarly frown on mentioning race (https://agentultra.com/blog/the-black-man-stopped-me/) when it's not relevant.)
 
+This is completely discrediting!!!
+https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/11/12/book-review-the-body-keeps-the-score/
+> they’re not necessarily rejecting the seriousness of child abuse, only saying it’s not the kind of thing they build their categories around.
 
 (My Identity Has a Better Brier Score)
 I'm skeptical of "ace"—I think it's just an identity label that can be successfully marketed to otherwise-ordinary people in the bottom-quartile of libido, by an ideology that wants to sell people identity labels to get them to join the coalition of sexual minorities
@@ -78,7 +83,6 @@ it's an expression of the theory that trans women (left-coded) and the subjects
 invariant under the cultural coding
 
 
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 _ Eugenics Is Actually Good, You Worthless Cowards
 _ The One Where I Try to Be A Little More Explicit About What 'Autogynephilia' Actually Entails
 _ No One Actually Wants to Change "Gender"