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diff --git a/content/drafts/a-love-that-is-out-of-anyones-control.md b/content/drafts/a-love-that-is-out-of-anyones-control.md
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 > —_Steven Universe_, "Lion 3: Straight to Video"
 
-I cosplayed [Rose Quartz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Steven_Universe_characters#Rose_Quartz) on Saturday at [FanimeCon](https://www.fanime.com/) the other month! It was fun, I think! I guess?
+I cosplayed [Rose Quartz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Steven_Universe_characters#Rose_Quartz) on Saturday at [FanimeCon](https://www.fanime.com/) the other month! (Okay, it was May. I'm [not a very productive writer](/2017/Nov/the-blockhead/).) It was fun, I think! I guess?
 
 I'm not really sure what other people get out of fandom conventions. There are panels, but pop-culture analysis is better in blog form than live discussion. There are autographs, but there are only so many celebrities I want to pay forty dollars in order to meet for forty seconds. There's the vendor hall, but I don't need more useless material possessions: my life is about bits, not atoms.
 
@@ -45,3 +45,5 @@ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGTKL9LokHg (wait for the reveal at 0:44!)
 (previously: as Ens. Silvia Tilly at San Francisco Comic-Con 2018, as _Equestria Girls_ Twilight Sparkle at BABSCon 2018, [as Korra at San Francisco Comic-Con 2017](/2017/Oct/a-leaf-in-the-crosswind/), [as Pearl at FanimeCon 2017](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2017/05/gems-will-be-gems/), as [Lt. Jadzia Dax (circa 2369) at the _Star Trek_ 50 Year Mission Tour San Francisco 2016](/2016/Dec/joined/), [as Pearl as San Francsico Comic-Con 2016](/2016/Sep/is-there-affirmative-action-for-incompetent-crossplay/))
 
 Raven is cosplayed more than any other Teen Titan
+
+Amazon authored my costome; I'm kind of a low-effort cosplayer
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diff --git a/content/drafts/i-tell-myself-to-let-the-story-end.md b/content/drafts/i-tell-myself-to-let-the-story-end.md
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@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ this is _really basic shit_
 
 
 
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+
 The way this is supposed to work is that you just make your arguments and trust that good arguments will outcompete bad ones; emailing people begging for a clarification is kind of rude and I want to acknowledge the frame in which I'm the bad guy (or pitably mentally ill)—but I was taught that arguing with people when they're doing something wrong is actually doing them a _favor_—I was taught that it's virtuous to make an extraordinary effort
 
 bad-faith nitpicker—I would be annoyed if someone repeatedly begged me to correct a mistake I made in a blog post from five years ago or a Tweet from November
@@ -130,4 +132,12 @@ Berkeley "rationalists" are very good at free speech norms and deserve credit fo
 
 I can accept a church community that disagrees on whether evolution is true. (Er, on the terms of this allegory.) I can accept a church community that disagrees on what the implications are conditional on the hypothesis that evolution is true. I cannot accept a church in which the canonical response to "Evolution is true! God isn't real!" is "Well, it depends on how you choose to draw the 'God' category boundary." I mean, I agree that words can be used in many ways, and that the answer to questions about God does depend on how the asker and answerer are choosing to draw the category boundary corresponding to the English language word 'God'. That observation can legitimately be part of the counterargument to "God isn't real!" But if the entire counterargument is just, "Well, it depends on how you define the word 'God', and a lot of people would be very sad if we defined 'God' in a way such that it turned out to not exist" ... unacceptable! Absolutely unacceptable! If this is the peak of publicly acceptable intellectual discourse in Berkeley, CA, and our AI alignment research group is based out of Berkeley (where they will inevitably be shaped by the local culture), and we can't even notice that there is a problem, then we're dead! We're just fucking dead! Right? Right?? I can't be the only one who sees this, am I? What is Toronto??????
 
+_everyone else shot first_, and I'm _correct on the merits_
+
+competence forcing conclusions: http://www.sl4.org/archive/0602/13903.html
+
+language as an AI capability
+
+https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NnohDYHNnKDtbiMyp/fake-utility-functions
 
+"the love of a man for a woman, and the love of a woman for a man, have not been cognitively derived from each other or from any other value. [...]  There are many such shards of desire, all different values."
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diff --git a/notes/epigraph_quotes.md b/notes/epigraph_quotes.md
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 > Do not at the outset of your career make the all too common error of mistaking names for things. Names are only conventional signs for identifying things. Things are the reality that counts. If a thing is despised, either because of ignorance or because it is despicable, you will not alter matters by changing its name.
 >
-> —W. E. B. duBois (http://www.virginia.edu/woodson/courses/aas102%20%28spring%2001%29/articles/names/dubois.htm)
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+> —W. E. B. duBois (http://www.virginia.edu/woodson/courses/aas102%20%28spring%2001%29/articles/names/dubois.htm)
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+
+> "Any evolutionary advantage must come from a feature affecting our behavior. Thus, there is no evolutionary advantage to simply having a belief about our identity. Self-identity can matter and could have mattered only if it affects behavior, in which case it is really a _process_ of self-identification. Moreover, it is not a matter of affirming a self-identity that we possess. For a belief that needs to be affirmed is not a belief at all."
+>
+> Joseph M. Whitmeyer, "How Evolutionary Psychology Can Contribute to Group Process Research", in <em>The Oxford Handbook of Evolution, Biology, and Society</em>
+
+
+> Stuck, in the middle of fear and shame
+> Everybody's looking for someone to blame
+> Like it's a game, like it's a game
+>
+> And now, I am better than win or lose
+> There's a new direction that I like to choose
+> It's called the truth, it's called the truth
+>
+> —"True Kinda Love"

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@@ -1329,3 +1329,8 @@ older works (pre-second wave feminism?) would actually say "man" (or "woman"—s
 
 My gender crusade becomes much less interesting insofar as it can be explained simply by me being born too early and not getting "kids these days." It's not that cultural change is necessarily bad; it's that I want culture to innovate in the direction of "achieving godlike understanding of objective reality and optimizing the hell out of it" rather than "playing mind games on each other to make it artificially harder to notice that we don't actually live in a Total Morphological Freedom tech regime."
 
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+"Had I not transitioned, I would fear the power you have over me, and remain silent." https://aria.dog/support-all-your-friends/
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+https://www.reddit.com/r/ftm/comments/cqplrh/how_do_yall_cope_in_mixed_trans_spaces/

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-_ Mon: "A Love That Is Out of Anyone's Control"
-_ Tue: The Social Construction of Reality and the Sheer Goddamned
 
-Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
+"A Love That Is Out of Anyone's Control"
+Link: "Schelling Categories, and Simple Membership Tests"
+_ Reply to Ozymandias on Fully Consensual Gender
 "I Tell Myself to Let the Story End"
 
+Link: Schelling Categories
+
+Link: "The Univariate Fallacy" (lit-search strategy: go through the del Guidice "Multivariate Misgivings" article and its citations; the Archer paper also mentioned this)
+
+Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
+
+
 _ Mon: Commentary on "Blegg Mode" (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GEJzPwY8JedcNX2qz/blegg-mode)
 _ Tue: On the Argumentative Form "Super-proton Things Tend to Come in Varieties"
 _ Terminology Gap: "Biological vs. Natal" (solution: "Developmental")
-_ Link: "The Univariate Fallacy"
+
 
 karaoke, celebrity, cognitive load; I don't want people to do that for me
 
@@ -16,7 +23,7 @@ Option<String>?! https://web.archive.org/web/20160731010249/https://qntm.org/gay
 
 _ "Lies to Cis People", a.k.a., "Lies"
 _ I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
-_ How Dumb Do You Think We Are?
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