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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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--- a/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md
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@@ -683,7 +683,8 @@ I replied: but when forming the original let's-be-apolitical vision in 2008, we
 
 Fundamentally, I was skeptical that you _could_ do consisently high-grade reasoning as a group without committing heresy, because of the mechanism that Yudkowsky described in  ["Entangled Truths, Contagious Lies"](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wyyfFfaRar2jEdeQK/entangled-truths-contagious-lies) and ["Dark Side Epistemology"](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/XTWkjCJScy2GFAgDt/dark-side-epistemology). Anna in particular was unusually good at thinking things without saying them; I thought most people facing similar speech restrictions just get worse at thinking (plausibly including Yudkowsky), and the problem gets worse as the group effort scales. (It's easier to recommend ["What You Can't Say"](http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html) to your housemates than to put it on a canonical reading list, for obvious reasons.) You _can't_ optimize your group's culture for not-talking-about-atheism without also optimizing against understanding Occam's razor; you can't optimize for not questioning gender self-identity without also optimizing against understanding the [37 ways that words can be wrong](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FaJaCgqBKphrDzDSj/37-ways-that-words-can-be-wrong).
 
 
 Fundamentally, I was skeptical that you _could_ do consisently high-grade reasoning as a group without committing heresy, because of the mechanism that Yudkowsky described in  ["Entangled Truths, Contagious Lies"](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wyyfFfaRar2jEdeQK/entangled-truths-contagious-lies) and ["Dark Side Epistemology"](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/XTWkjCJScy2GFAgDt/dark-side-epistemology). Anna in particular was unusually good at thinking things without saying them; I thought most people facing similar speech restrictions just get worse at thinking (plausibly including Yudkowsky), and the problem gets worse as the group effort scales. (It's easier to recommend ["What You Can't Say"](http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html) to your housemates than to put it on a canonical reading list, for obvious reasons.) You _can't_ optimize your group's culture for not-talking-about-atheism without also optimizing against understanding Occam's razor; you can't optimize for not questioning gender self-identity without also optimizing against understanding the [37 ways that words can be wrong](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FaJaCgqBKphrDzDSj/37-ways-that-words-can-be-wrong).
 

-[TODO: tussle on "Yes Implies the Possibility of No" https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WwTPSkNwC89g3Afnd/comment-section-from-05-19-2019  viaWeb was different from CfAR ]
+[TODO: tussle on "Yes Implies the Possibility of No" https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WwTPSkNwC89g3Afnd/comment-section-from-05-19-2019 
+viaWeb was different from CfAR ]

 
 [TODO: tussle on new _Less Wrong_ FAQ 31 May https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MqrzczdGhQCRePgqN/feedback-requested-draft-of-a-new-about-welcome-page-for#iqEEme6M2JmZEXYAk ]
 
 
 [TODO: tussle on new _Less Wrong_ FAQ 31 May https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MqrzczdGhQCRePgqN/feedback-requested-draft-of-a-new-about-welcome-page-for#iqEEme6M2JmZEXYAk ]
 

diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt
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--- a/notes/post_ideas.txt
+++ b/notes/post_ideas.txt
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ _ Book Review: Johnny the Walrus
 _ Comments on the Conspiracies of dath ilan
 _ Beckett Mariner Is Trans https://www.reddit.com/r/DaystromInstitute/comments/in3g92/was_mariner_a_teenager_on_the_enterprised/
 _ Link: "On Transitions, Freedom of Form, [...]"
 _ Comments on the Conspiracies of dath ilan
 _ Beckett Mariner Is Trans https://www.reddit.com/r/DaystromInstitute/comments/in3g92/was_mariner_a_teenager_on_the_enterprised/
 _ Link: "On Transitions, Freedom of Form, [...]"

+_ Biological Sex Actually Exists

 
 _ Never Going to Find You Faking
 _ Body Anxiety Posting, Month Year
 
 _ Never Going to Find You Faking
 _ Body Anxiety Posting, Month Year

diff --git a/notes/wordcounts.txt b/notes/wordcounts.txt
index 1050a2b..4528fa7 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/wordcounts.txt
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@@ -15,17 +15,18 @@ wc -w 2022/* 2021/* 2020/* 2019/* 2018/* 2017/* 2016/* | sort -n -s -k1,1
   1968 2016/joined.md
   1977 2018/dont-negotiate-with-terrorist-memeplexes.md
   2059 2020/book-review-the-origins-of-unfairness.md
   1968 2016/joined.md
   1977 2018/dont-negotiate-with-terrorist-memeplexes.md
   2059 2020/book-review-the-origins-of-unfairness.md

-  2067 2018/untitled-metablogging-26-december-2018.md
+  2068 2018/untitled-metablogging-26-december-2018.md

   2107 2022/backlog-metablogging-april-2022.md
   2144 2019/reply-to-ozymandias-on-fully-consensual-gender.md
   2107 2022/backlog-metablogging-april-2022.md
   2144 2019/reply-to-ozymandias-on-fully-consensual-gender.md

+  2322 2022/the-two-type-taxonomy-is-a-useful-approximation-for-a-more-detailed-causal-model.md

   2774 2017/memoirs-of-my-recent-madness-part-i-the-unanswerable-words.md
   3682 2022/comment-on-a-scene-from-planecrash-crisis-of-faith.md
   3760 2018/reply-to-the-unit-of-caring-on-adult-human-females.md
   6523 2018/the-categories-were-made-for-man-to-make-predictions.md
  11013 2020/book-review-human-diversity.md
  12011 2022/challenges-to-yudkowskys-pronoun-reform-proposal.md
   2774 2017/memoirs-of-my-recent-madness-part-i-the-unanswerable-words.md
   3682 2022/comment-on-a-scene-from-planecrash-crisis-of-faith.md
   3760 2018/reply-to-the-unit-of-caring-on-adult-human-females.md
   6523 2018/the-categories-were-made-for-man-to-make-predictions.md
  11013 2020/book-review-human-diversity.md
  12011 2022/challenges-to-yudkowskys-pronoun-reform-proposal.md

- 15735 2021/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems.md
-123216 total
+ 15736 2021/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems.md
+127236 total

 
 
   1491 algorithms_of_deception.md
 
 
   1491 algorithms_of_deception.md