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 Sections I should be able to easily make progress-per-minute on—
-* Ideology is not the Movement
 * Dr. Will Powers
 * I Don't Do Policy
 * Cara's Egregore
@@ -15,9 +14,17 @@ Points to work in—
 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jNAAZ9XNyt82CXosr/mirrors-and-paintings
 
 Terminology to explain before use—
-* Singularity/paperclip
+* Singularity/paperclip/Methods
 * "non-exclusively androphilic" / nonhomosexual
 
+* everyone who wants to talk about AGP to call us predators
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+* too big to fail
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+* claims to victimhood are leveraged into claims to power
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+* I need to put this behind me
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 * not a theory of trans men
 
 * [the autogynephilic analogue of romantic love](/papers/lawrence-becoming_what_we_love.pdf)
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 Normal straight men also have positive-valence thoughts about women when they're not immediately horny.
 
-NYT hit piece https://archive.is/0Ghdl
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+it's that I want culture to innovate in the direction of "achieving godlike understanding of objective reality and optimizing the hell out of it" rather than "playing mind games on each other to make it artificially harder to notice that we don't actually live in a Total Morphological Freedom tech regime."
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+(write script to extract links, with useful argparse, incl. dropping into a Python shell)
 
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@@ -441,3 +452,10 @@ It _follows logically_ that, in particular, if _N_ := "woman", you can't define
 
 > Michael fucking Vassar. Shit!
 
+I'm worried about the failure mode where bright young minds [lured in](http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/construction-beacons/) by the beautiful propaganda about _systematically correct reasoning_, are instead recruited into what is, effectively, the Eliezer-Yudkowsky-and-Scott-Alexander fan club.
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+>  I'm not trying to get Eliezer or "the community" to take a public stance on gender politics; I'm trying to get us to take a stance in favor of the kind of epistemology that we were doing in 2008. It turns out that epistemology has implications for gender politics which are unsafe, but that's more inferential steps, and ... I guess I just don't expect the sort of people who would punish good epistemology to follow the inferential steps? Maybe I'm living in the should-universe a bit here, but I don't think it "should" be hard for Eliezer to publicly say, "Yep, categories aren't arbitrary because you need them to carve reality at the joints in order to make probabilistic inferences, just like I said in 2008; this is obvious."
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+https://twitter.com/caraesten/status/1092472430465929216
+> damn one extremely bad way to start my day is having the receptionist at slack say I look like a male celebrity
+> I'm so mad. wow. like. I look like this right now, how could anyone ever think that was an okay thing to say???