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diff --git a/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md b/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md
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@@ -1299,6 +1299,8 @@ I don't doubt Yudkowsky could come up with some clever casuistry why, _technical
 
 [TODO: if he's reading this, win back respect— reply, motherfucker]
 
+[TODO: I've given up talking to the guy (nearest unblocked strategy sniping in Eliezerfic doesn't count)]
+
 [TODO: the Death With Dignity era
 
 "Death With Dignity" isn't really an update; he used to refuse to give a probability, and now he says the probability is ~0

diff --git a/content/drafts/pseudonym-misgivings.md b/content/drafts/pseudonym-misgivings.md
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@@ -11,3 +11,9 @@ Status: draft
 > If you think, speak, write, and sign, then don't be surprised.
 >
 > —Soviet proverb
+
+
+Rowling
+Carey Callahan
+Posie Parker
+James Tiptree, Jr. / Racoona Sheldon
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diff --git a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md
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@@ -1307,3 +1307,11 @@ I don't, actually, know how to prevent the world from ending. Probably we were n
 and that this is a _problem_ for the future of humanity, to the extent that there is a future of humanity.
 
 Is that a mean thing to say about someone to whom I owe so much? Probably. But he didn't create me to not say mean things. If it helps—as far as _I_ can tell, I'm only doing what he taught me to do in 2007–9: [carve reality at the joints](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/esRZaPXSHgWzyB2NL/where-to-draw-the-boundaries), [speak the truth even if your voice trembles](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pZSpbxPrftSndTdSf/honesty-beyond-internal-truth), and [make an extraordinary effort](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GuEsfTpSDSbXFiseH/make-an-extraordinary-effort) when you've got [Something to Protect](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SGR4GxFK7KmW7ckCB/something-to-protect).
+
+ReACT seems similar to Visible Thoughts Project: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03629
+
+
+https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jAToJHtg39AMTAuJo/evolutions-are-stupid-but-work-anyway?commentId=HvGxrASYAyfbiPwQt#HvGxrASYAyfbiPwQt
+> I've noticed that none of my heroes, not even Douglas Hofstadter or Eric Drexler, seem to live up to my standard of perfection. Always sooner or later they fall short. It's annoying, you know, because it means _I_ have to do it.
+
+But he got it right in 2009; he only started to fall short _later_ for political reasons
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@@ -3175,3 +3175,10 @@ On Fri, May 3, 2019, 6:55 PM Zack M. Davis <main@zackmdavis.net> wrote:
 Michael's comment—
 > Not excited by this approach. 
 > Idea of mainstream credibility us very specifically an idea about credibility as a political identity, and thus against credibility as a proposition. Flat Earth movement, as non-credible as it is, is more politically promising then "round Earth movement"
+
+https://ovarit.com/o/Cancelled/176585/october-11-2022-actual-female-wikipedia-admin-goes-out-with-a-bang
+
+https://www.takimag.com/article/invasion-of-the-nasty-nerds/
+
+https://tehswitcherscaptions.blogspot.com/2019/07/impending-shift.html links to https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/MAY190456 as "a mainstream comic that had 
+used the idea of basically an 'impending Great Shift' as a villain's plot for making a more egalitarian society." I totally had the same idea independently!!