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@@ -508,3 +508,12 @@ The _original_ meaning of the word "woman" points to a cluster in
 
 No one is actually surprised in System 1; it's just that the parts of us that talk aren't supposed to believe in psychological sex differences (since before my time—and I still prefer not to believe) or physical sex (since 2015).
 
+Slate Star-power: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/11/28/ssc-meetups-everywhere-retrospective/  1,476 people attended SSC meetups,
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+not-lying is most usefully constraining when a situation is suspected to be adversarial (if you're trying to hurt someone with your speech, not being allowed to outright make shit up constrains you quite a lot)
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+to which my attitude is: if your behavior is optimized to respond to political threats, but _not_ optimized to respond to carefully reasoned arguments from your friends, at some point your friends have to stop being your friends and start threatening you politically because you've made it clear from your behavior that _that's all you'll respond to_
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+I think if the so-called "rationality" community is going to not be FRAUDULENT, we should at LEAST be able to publicly clear up the philosophy-of-language mistake (I DON'T expect a community consensus on gender politics; that would be crazy! I JUST expect public consensus on "You can't define a word any way you want", which was not controversial when Eliezer taught us in 2008)
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+I'm grateful to Ben H./Michael V./Jessica/Sarah for actually helping me, but I feel incredibly betrayed that Scott is playing dumb about philosophy (and doesn't want to talk to our coalition anymore), Eliezer will PRIVATELY admit that he has no objections to my philosophy arguments but is playing dumb about how the things he said in public were incredibly misleading (and doesn't want to talk to our coalition anymore). I have more conversation-bandwidth with Anna because I've been friends with her for 10 years, but Anna doesn't believe in free speech; she'll privately sympathize that it's bad that we're in a situation where political factors are interfering with being able to have an honest public conversation about philosophy, but

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 [univariate fallacy; I'm a weird guy; I would like to believe there could be a cis woman like me. Not obvious that I acutally know any. My sister is a natural experiment; hands vs. finger; "felt sense"]
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 https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/transwomen-in-my-ptsd-group-and-performing-femininity.1004483/
 
+Damore new job: https://twitter.com/JamesADamore/status/1034623633174478849
 
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+https://www.reddit.com/r/itsafetish/comments/d54b7x/thank_you_and_goodbye/

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@@ -8,7 +8,11 @@ Game Theory of Stigmatization (need better title)
 
 [TERFs complain](https://archive.is/N1kM5) that AGP males body-modding to become facsimiles of women is appropriation. They're obviously correct, but the claim doesn't seem strong enough to override the right to bodily autonomy. The law, in its majestic equality, comes up with a compromise solution: compulsory licensing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_license)! A small tax is administered on transition services (HRT, FFS, &c.), the proceeds of which are distributed equally amongst all natal females
 
-Schelling on "legislative control of the clock"
+Schelling on "legislative control of the clock"—mediators can create focal points—
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+> The principle is beautifully illustrated by the daylight-saving-time controversy; a majority that want to do everything an hour earlier just cannot organize to do it unless it gets legislative control of the clock. And when it does, a well-organized minority that opposed the change is usually quite unable to offset the change in clock time by any organized effort to change the nominalo hour at which it gets up, eats, and does business.
+>
+> —Thomas Schelling, _Strategy of Conflict_, Ch. 5, "Enforcement, Communication, and Strategic Moves"
 
 Book Review: Human Diversity
 Book Review: The Origins of Inequality 

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-**Backstory to:** [Where to Draw the Boundaries?](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/esRZaPXSHgWzyB2NL/where-to-draw-the-boundaries), [The Univariate Fallacy](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cu7YY7WdgJBs3DpmJ/the-univariate-fallacy), [Schelling Categories, and Simple Membership Tests](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/edEXi4SpkXfvaX42j/schelling-categories-and-simple-membership-tests), [Heads I Win, Tails?—Never Heard of Her](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DoPo4PDjgSySquHX8/heads-i-win-tails-never-heard-of-her-or-selective-reporting), [Maybe Lying Doesn't Exist](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bSmgPNS6MTJsunTzS/maybe-lying-doesn-t-exist)
+**Backstory to:** [Where to Draw the Boundaries?](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/esRZaPXSHgWzyB2NL/where-to-draw-the-boundaries), [The Univariate Fallacy](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cu7YY7WdgJBs3DpmJ/the-univariate-fallacy), [Schelling Categories, and Simple Membership Tests](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/edEXi4SpkXfvaX42j/schelling-categories-and-simple-membership-tests), [Heads I Win, Tails?—Never Heard of Her](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DoPo4PDjgSySquHX8/heads-i-win-tails-never-heard-of-her-or-selective-reporting), [Maybe Lying Doesn't Exist](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bSmgPNS6MTJsunTzS/maybe-lying-doesn-t-exist), [Relevance Norms](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Linguistic_universal)
 
-Oh, in case anyone was wondering why I did so much philosophy-of-language blogging this year, I wrote up the (long, personal) backstory on my secret ("secret") blog, about how everyone I [used to trust](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wustx45CPL5rZenuo/no-safe-defense-not-even-science) is insistent on playing dumb about philosophy in a way that's clearly optimized to _confuse me into cutting my dick off_ (independently of the empirical facts that determine whether or not cutting my dick off is actually a good idea) and won't cut it out even after I spent five months of my life explaining the mistake in exhaustive detail.
+Oh, in case anyone was wondering why I did so much philosophy-of-language blogging last year, I wrote up the (long, personal) backstory on my secret ("secret") blog, about how everyone I [used to trust](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wustx45CPL5rZenuo/no-safe-defense-not-even-science) is insistent on playing dumb about philosophy in a way that's clearly optimized to _confuse me into cutting my dick off_ (independently of the empirical facts that determine whether or not cutting my dick off is actually a good idea)