I ineffectually tell myself to write

I really need to step it up into actually-writing every day in
November so that I can have closure

diff --git a/content/drafts/i-tell-myself-to-let-the-story-end-or-a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md b/content/drafts/i-tell-myself-to-let-the-story-end-or-a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md
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@@ -46,6 +46,11 @@ So, there was that erotic thing, which I was pretty ashamed of at the time, and
 
 But within a couple years, I also developed this beautiful pure sacred self-identity thing, where I was also having a lot of non-sexual thoughts about being a girl. Just—little day-to-day thoughts. Like when I would write in my pocket notebook as my female analogue. Or when I would practice swirling the descenders on all the lowercase letters that had descenders [(_g_, _j_, _p_, _y_, _z_)](/images/handwritten_phrase_jazzy_puppy.jpg) because I thought my handwriting look more feminine. [TODO: another anecdote]
 
+The beautiful pure sacred self-identity thing doesn't _feel_ explicitly erotic.
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+http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/07/concerns/
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+
 Now, of course I had _heard of_ there being such a thing as transsexualism. 
 
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@@ -58,3 +58,5 @@ In the Hacker News comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16901682
 https://twitter.com/ShadiiRAT/status/1070775821432995842 "I just spent half the day reading the blog of some dude whose day job is trying to stop a hostile AI takeover and spent six months on estrogen just to see what it felt like / What the fuck is going on in the rationalist scene"
 
 explicit link: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/bytvw2/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_june_10_2019/er2trnc/  "they seem more interested in 'redefining top-20 nouns than biomedical research'"
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+"although I would probably avoid developing B cups while still presenting as a man, like he did" —https://www.reddit.com/r/itsafetish/comments/do2w66/does_agp_lead_to_a_lonely_life/f5zi4kr/

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@@ -408,3 +408,18 @@ Strongly agree with this. I have some misgivings about the redpilly coalition-se
 "Moshe": "People rightly distrust disclaimers and nearly no one except me & Michael can say so instead of acting like it’s common knowledge with people who don’t fully know this."
 
 Standards! https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2018/12/24/contrite-strategies-and-the-need-for-standards/
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+https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1067490362225156096
+"The more technology advances, the further we can move people towards where they say they want to be in sexspace. Having said this we've said all the facts. Who competes in sports segregated around an Aristotelian binary is a policy question (that I personally find very humorous)."
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+https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1067300728572600320
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+https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1065666629155995648 "The only leaders in the current ecosystem who express any kind of controversial opinion, ever, are organisms that specialize in subsisting on the resource flows produced by expressing that kind of controversial opinion."
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+https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/06/14/cancer-research-removes-word-women-smear-campaign-amid-transgender/ "anyone who has a cervix"
+
+A rationality mistake is made that's useful for supporting political agenda X, now no one can ever correct the rationality mistake (even in the most abstract terms with examples about dolphins) for fear of being smeared as anti-X
+
+if THAT is now too politically contentious to affirm in public, we're DEAD
+
+http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/09/concerns-ii/ "you yourself admit that your model won't assign literally all of its probability mass to the exact outcome?!"

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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ On the Argumentative Form "Super-proton Things Tend to Come in Varieties"
 
 Game Theory of Stigmatization (need better title)
 
-TERFs complain 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
+[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
 
 explain my blunder in https://twitter.com/jessi_cata/status/1188567229987577856