check in

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 ]
 
 [TODO: "out of patience" email]
+
+
+
 [TODO: Sep 2020 categories clarification from EY—victory?!
 https://www.facebook.com/yudkowsky/posts/10158853851009228
 _ex cathedra_ statement that gender categories are not an exception to the rule, only 1 year and 8 months after asking for it

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+Title: Pseudonym Misgivings
+Date: 2022-12-01 11:00
+Category: commentary
+Tags: personal, meta
+Status: draft
+
+> Don't think.
+> If you think, then don't speak.
+> If you think and speak, then don't write.
+> If you think, speak, and write, then don't sign.
+> If you think, speak, write, and sign, then don't be surprised.
+>
+> —Soviet proverb

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+on deck—
+_ excerpt "out of patience" email <span style="color: #E00000;">
+_ finish and polish § on reaching out a fourth time
+_ § about privacy norms, and my secret research project
+_ talk about the 2019 Christmas party
+_ Let's recap
+_ If he's reading this ...
+_ Perhaps if the world were at stake
+
+
 with internet available—
 _ Gallileo "And yet it moves"
 _ Discord logs before Austin retreat
@@ -566,6 +576,8 @@ https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=5310
 
 contrast to masochism being an infohazard in dath ilan: in real life, when your sexuality is considered an infrohazard (supposedly for the benefit of people with your sexuality), you don't take it lying down
 
+Keltham contradicts himself inside of a single tag! Using the words "shape" and "covert" both times!!
+
 Scott has the power to set narratives, as evidenced by his attack on Michael hijacking Jessica's thread
 
 maybe he should have some sympathy for Stephen J. Gould's intellectual crimes

diff --git a/notes/epigraph_quotes.md b/notes/epigraph_quotes.md
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@@ -233,14 +233,6 @@ http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit/
 >
 > —old Soviet joke (paraphrased) 
 
-> Don't think.
-> If you think, then don't speak.
-> If you think and speak, then don't write.
-> If you think, speak, and write, then don't sign.
-> If you think, speak, write, and sign, then don't be surprised.
->
-> —Soviet proverb
-
 https://xkcd.com/1942/
 
 > A woman came up to me and said  
@@ -377,3 +369,7 @@ https://xkcd.com/1942/
 > When truth is buried underground it grows, it chokes, it gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it.
 >
 > –Emile Zola
+
+> And Durham—the software puppet, the lifeless shell animated by a being from another plane—looked him in the eye and said, "You have to let me show you what you are."
+>
+> —_Permutation City_ by Greg Egan

diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt
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 Minor ready or almost-ready—
 _ Interlude XXII
-_ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
-
-Comment: The Dunbar reference on the definition of "personality" is actually real! (_Primate Social Systems_, Ch. 11, "Mechanics of Exploitation")
-
 
 Urgent/needed for healing—
 _ Reply to Scott Alexander on Autogenderphilia
@@ -11,7 +7,6 @@ _ Pseudonym Misgivings
 _ Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer
 _ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning
 
-
 Big posts—
 _ Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data
 _ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America