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-_ Book Review: Charles Murray's Human Diversity (UUT)
+24 Feb ✓ If in Some Smothering Dreams You Too Could Pace (UTT)
+25 Feb _ Cloud Vision (UUT)
+26 Feb _ Teleology (UUT)
+28 Feb _ Book Review: Charles Murray's Human Diversity (UUT)
 
+_ Sexual Dimorphism, Yudkowsky's Sequences, and Me
 _ "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"; Or, A Hill of Validity ... (UUT)
 _ Intrumental Categories, Wireheading, and War (LW)
 
@@ -8,6 +12,11 @@ _ Contra Scott Alexander on Mental Illness; Or, Oh God, Please Don't (aAL/LW)
 
 
 Honesty Is Activism
+The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
+Elision _vs_. Choice
+The Wisdom of Nature (I like the idea of transhumanism, but in practice, biology is just too complicated)
+The Strategy of "Apartment Patty"
+
 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalmatophilia "An important fantasy for some individuals is being transformed into the preferred object (such as a statue) and experiencing an associated state of immobility or paralysis."
 
@@ -15,15 +24,16 @@ address accusation that I conflate "passing" and biosex
 
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-conservatives complain about low-time preference ppl having too many kids—but from a evolutionary perspective, they're more evolutionarily fit
+_ Placeholder, February 2020 (UUT)
 
-creepy, crazy, or protected-class
 
-Elision _vs_. Choice
 
-The Wisdom of Nature (I like the idea of transhumanism, but in practice, biology is just too complicated)
+Positioning (don't want to prematurely alienate people you're trying to rescue)
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+conservatives complain about low-time preference ppl having too many kids—but from a evolutionary perspective, they're more evolutionarily fit
+
+creepy, crazy, or protected-class
 
-The Strategy of "Apartment Patty"
 
 A Science Fiction Story Idea I'm Not Skilled Enough to Write
 
@@ -93,7 +103,7 @@ 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) — 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).
 
 Research Question: Complicity
-The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artifact
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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)