"Dimorphism": edit/readthrough/ispell pass

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@@ -2,24 +2,16 @@ Resolved: publish "Sexual Dimorphism" soon as just the first part, the political
 
 TODO for "Sexual Dimorphism"—
 
-https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vjmw8tW6wZAtNJMKo/which-parts-are-me
 
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-Like when someone in the _Overcoming Bias_ comment section addressed me as "Mr.", and I 
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-_ playing dumb initials anecdote
-Me pretending to be dumb about someone not pretending to be dumb about my initials https://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/04/inhuman-rationa.html ; contrast that incident (it's not an accident that he guessed right) to Yudkowsky: "I try to avoid criticizing people when they are right. If they genuinely deserve criticism, I will not need to wait long for an occasion where they are wrong." (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MwQRucYo6BZZwjKE7/einstein-s-arrogance)
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+Or there was the time I responded to [paraphrase P.G.'s comment] with [my comment] and Michael Vassar threated to get me banned, which 
 
 _ Vassar clapback anecdote
 https://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/06/why-do-psychopa.html#comment-518267438
 
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 _ more empathic inference: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qCsxiojX7BSLuuBgQ/the-super-happy-people-3-8
@@ -486,7 +478,21 @@ A common trope in female transformation erotica (search for _tg caption blog_ if
 
 Intuitively, when I imagine how I want transformation technology to work, I imagine speaking accents "going with the body". Native speakers of a language are more likely to confuse homophones, because  https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/wAW4ENCSEHwYbrwtn/other-people-s-procedural-knowledge-gaps/comment/yTdJm7JjPJPynwS3a
 
+Or there was the time I took issue with someone in the _Overcoming Bias_ comment section addressed me as "Mr.": 
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+Depending on the cost you assign to a misclassification, you could argue that he _shouldn't_ have assumed—high Scabble-score letters notwithstanding—but in retrospect, I'm _embarrassed_ at my prickliness: he assumed _correctly_. (Yudkowsky: ["I try to avoid criticizing people when they are right. If they genuinely deserve criticism, I will not need to wait long for an occasion where they are wrong."](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MwQRucYo6BZZwjKE7/einstein-s-arrogance))
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+("only because of the demographics of this community")
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+My question was sufficiently mild that I'm not sure the anecdote is worth including—or I can't figure out how to make it fit
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+> Did you have any specific evidence that I in particular am male, or were you just relying on your priors, knowing the demographics of our community?
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+_ playing dumb initials anecdote
+Me pretending to be dumb about someone not pretending to be dumb about my initials https://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/04/inhuman-rationa.html ; contrast that incident (it's not an accident that he guessed right) to Yudkowsky:
 
+, something you should be able to ["consider [...] open-mindedly and then steal only the good parts"](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YicoiQurNBxSp7a65/is-clickbait-destroying-our-general-intelligence).
 
 
-, something you should be able to ["consider [...] open-mindedly and then steal only the good parts"](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YicoiQurNBxSp7a65/is-clickbait-destroying-our-general-intelligence).
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+linking to the Twitter thread about chromosomes actually isn't fair; that wasn't the point EY was making (https://archive.is/y5V9i)
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