-(Attention conservation notice: Diary-like navel-gazing today and tomorrow. If you're here for the insight porn, come back Wednesday. If you're here for Actual Philosophy, come back next week.)
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_ Mon: "A Love That Is Out of Anyone's Control"
-_ Tue: "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"
-_ Wed: The Social Construction of Reality and the Sheer Goddamned
+_ Tue: The Social Construction of Reality and the Sheer Goddamned
+Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
+"I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"
_ Mon: Commentary on "Blegg Mode" (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode)
_ Tue: On the Argumentative Form "Super-proton Things Tend to Come in Varieties"
_ Terminology Gap: "Biological vs. Natal" (solution: "Developmental")
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+_ Link: "The Univariate Fallacy"
karaoke, celebrity, cognitive load; I don't want people to do that for me
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words : well, that explains the TWAW mantra
+First-Offender Models and the Unilateralist's Blessing
+The Parable of the Faithful Man and the Cowardly Priest
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+Game Theory of "Apartment Patty"
Virtue Signaling Is Costly and Honest
(in response to Kosoy's objection)
_ Tue: Social Strategy Notes, July 2019
Servants of the Egregore (write-up of egregore theory as told by "Wilhelm")
-Kolmogorov's Iron Triangle; Or, the Not-Being-a-Worthless-Coward Option (epigraph quote: Raleigh's "The Lie")—(include analogy: the fear that atheism would lead to immortality given that ppl don't have to fear Hell, wouldn't have seemed obviously absurd at the time)
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+Kolmogorov's Iron Triangle; Or, the Not-Being-a-Worthless-Coward Option (epigraph quote: Raleigh's "The Lie")—(include analogy: the fear that atheism would lead to immortality given that ppl don't have to fear Hell, wouldn't have seemed obviously absurd at the time) — honesty, ability to think, and mainstream credibility. The Kolmogorov option sacrifices a lot of honesty in exchange for mainstream credibility. This might seem like a good trade until you consider that "honesty" and "ability to think" aren't independent (because people are bad at compartmentalization and we need to talk to each other to think together).
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Research Question: Complicity
The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
Trying to Be Explicit
-Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
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Where to Segment a Conversation When There's Stuff You Won't Touch, Without Violating the Virtue of Evenness
In Praise of Cartesianism (you need to _really_ understand "A Human's Guide to Words" before you can do high-grade good-faith social constructionism)
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