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@@ -28,10 +28,12 @@ At this point, I was _disappointed_ with my impact, but not to the point of bear
 
 ... and, really, that _should_ have been the end of the story. Not much of a story at all. If I hadn't been further provoked, I would have still kept up this blog, and I still would have ended up arguing about gender with people occasionally, but my personal obsession wouldn't have been the occasion of a full-on religious civil war.
 
-[TODO: I was at the company offsite browsing Twitter (which I had recently joined with fantasies of self-cancelling) when I saw the "Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning"]
+[TODO: I was at the company offsite browsing Twitter (which I had recently joined with fantasies of self-cancelling) after already having just spent a lot of time arguing with people about gender on Twitter, when I saw the "Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning"]
 
 This is the moment where I _flipped the fuck out_.
 
+[TODO: if everyone else did it, fine; if Yudkowsky did it ...]
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 > ["It is a common misconception that you can define a word any way you like. [...] If you believe that you can 'define a word any way you like', without realizing that your brain goes on categorizing without your conscious oversight, then you won't take the effort to choose your definitions wisely."](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3nxs2WYDGzJbzcLMp/words-as-hidden-inferences)
 
 > ["So that's another reason you can't 'define a word any way you like': You can't directly program concepts into someone else's brain."](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HsznWM9A7NiuGsp28/extensions-and-intensions)