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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Title: The Social Construction of Reality and the Sheer Goddamned Pointlessness of Reason
 Date: 2019-08-11 23:56
 Category: commentary
-Tags: cathartic, epistemic horror
+Tags: bullet-biting, cathartic, epistemic horror
 
 > The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do." 
 >

diff --git a/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt b/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt
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@@ -483,3 +483,5 @@ at some point, maybe tell my "leading intellectual figure of the alt-right" anec
 anyone else I thought was being dumb about philosophy, I would just shrug and write off rather than spend a _goddamned year_ prosecuting the mistake
 
 canary
+
+Scott being more sensible in a less-visible place: https://archive.is/In89y

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@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 
 ["Changing Emotions"]
 
+http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/2004-September/008924.html
+[it's hard to overstate the impact this one post had on me (I've already linked it 8 times on this blog)]
+
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 Men who wish they were women do not particularly resemble actual women! We just—don't? This seems kind of obvious, really?
@@ -17,7 +20,7 @@ An aside: being famous must _suck_. I haven't experienced this myself, but I'm s
 
 Oh, sure, it's nice to see your work get read and appreciated by people—I've experienced that much. (Shout-out to my loyal fans—all three of you![^fans]) But when you're _famous_, everybody wants a piece of you. The fact that your work influences _so many_ people, makes you a _target_ for anyone who wants to indirectly wield your power for their own ends. Every new author wants you to review their book; every ideologue wants you on their side ...
 
-And when someone in your robot cult thinks you've made a philosophy mistake that impinges on their interests, they might spend an _unreasonable_ amount of effort obsessively trying to argue with you about it.
+And when a crazy person in your robot cult thinks you've made a philosophy mistake that impinges on their interests, they might spend an _unreasonable_ amount of effort obsessively trying to argue with you about it.
 
 [^fans]: I'm specifically thinking of W.E., R.S., and [Sophia](http://unremediatedgender.space/author/sophia/).
 
@@ -29,4 +32,4 @@ And when someone in your robot cult thinks you've made a philosophy mistake that
 
 [if I agree that pronouns aren't lies, why was I so freaked out]
 
-[pronouns do have truth conditions, cruelty to ordinary people]
+[pronouns do have truth conditions, Weak Men recenter category boundaries, cruelty to ordinary people]

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@@ -1406,8 +1406,6 @@ https://humanvarieties.org/2017/07/01/measurement-error-regression-to-the-mean-a
 
 I'm imagining that there's some margin at which the shame and intimidation is counterbalanced by E pur si muove concerns. (Conditional on the hypothesis that, in fact, e pur si muove.)
 
-Scott being more sensible in a less-visible place: https://archive.is/In89y
-
 http://www.trans.cafe/posts/2016/6/27/17-signs-i-was-transgender-but-didnt-know-it
 
 https://medium.com/@transstyleguide/alternatives-to-afab-and-amab-d7cf8fe20a72
@@ -1419,3 +1417,6 @@ There are Facts About Males that neurotypicals probably don't explain in words?
 support group can't mention anatomy: https://www.reddit.com/r/GenderCritical/comments/bripts/peak_trans_ix_tell_your_story_here/f6wjry3/
 
 https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/transwomen-in-my-ptsd-group-and-performing-femininity.1004483/
+
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+

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@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+ wc -w 2018/* 2017/* 2016/* | sort -n -s -k1,1
+
+   751 2017/im-sick-of-being-lied-to.md
+   786 2017/thing-of-things-transgender-intellectual-turing-test-predictions-and-commentary.md
+   790 2018/blegg-mode.md
+   795 2017/from-what-ive-tasted-of-desire.md
+   823 2016/reply-to-ozy-on-agp.md
+   847 2017/grim-trigger-or-the-parable-of-the-honest-man-and-the-god-of-marketing.md
+   868 2018/sticker-prices.md
+   928 2016/reply-to-ozy-on-two-type-mtf-taxonomy.md
+   946 2017/whats-my-motivation-or-hormones-day-89.md
+  1004 2017/the-line-in-the-sand-or-my-slippery-slope-anchoring-action-plan.md
+  1044 2017/lesser-known-demand-curves.md
+  1521 2018/blame-me-for-trying.md
+  1927 2017/hormones-day-156-developments-doubts-and-pulling-the-plug-or-putting-the-cis-in-decision.md
+  1960 2016/joined.md
+  1974 2018/dont-negotiate-with-terrorist-memeplexes.md
+  2064 2018/untitled-metablogging-26-december-2018.md
+  2773 2017/memoirs-of-my-recent-madness-part-i-the-unanswerable-words.md
+  3759 2018/reply-to-the-unit-of-caring-on-adult-human-females.md
+  6522 2018/the-categories-were-made-for-man-to-make-predictions.md
+
+  1491 algorithms_of_deception.md
+  2263 schelling_categories_and_simple_membership_tests.md
+  2357 maybe_lying_doesnt_exist.md
+  2493 heads_i_win.md
+  3917 where_to_draw_the_boundaries.md